Condensed Materia Medica

Gambogia gamb.

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Mind

Irritable mood.

Sensorium

Vertigo during rest or motion, morning when rising.
Heaviness in the whole head, with dulness, sleepiness and pain in the back.

Eyes

Violent burning of the eyes and photophobia, evening or afternoon, better from walking in the open air, but returning in the morning.
Violent itching of the eyes in the evening.
Itching at the inner canthi.
Nightly agglutination of lids, burning in morning, photophobia through the day, and frequent stitching pain in eyes.

Ears

Ringing in left ear all the time.

Nose

Violent chronic sneezing.
Dryness of the right nostril.

Teeth

Tearing in all the right molars.
Sensation of coldness at the edge of the incisors.

Mouth

Dryness of the mouth.

Throat

Violent stitches in the right side of the throat.
Pain as from soreness in the throat.
Rawness and burning in throat, causing constant hawking.

Desires and Aversions

Thirst after dinner, and especially evenings.

Eating and Drinking

After eating: 17, 19.

Nausea and Vomiting

Frequent violent empty eructations.
Nausea preceding from stomach, when walking in open air.
Nausea, inclination to vomit, accumulation of saliva in mouth.
Frightful vomiting and purging, with fainting.

Stomach

Empty feeling in the stomach and abdomen.
Gnawing in the stomach.
Constant sore pain in the stomach.
Ulcerative pain in the stomach, passing off after eating.
Acute stitches in the stomach.

Abdomen

Pinching in abdomen immediately after eating.
Frequent severe pinching in entire abdomen without urging; or, with diarrhœa and burning in anus, with relief of pain.
Rumbling and rolling in the bowels.
Inflation and tension of the abdomen, with pinching in the umbilical region.

Stool, etc

Profuse discharge of flatus, especially evening and nights.
Stools: watery, slimy, undigested, without smell; with pain in ileo-cœcal region, which is sensitive to touch; during stool bearing down and colicky pain; prolapsus ani and cold sweat on the limbs; copious, watery, yellow, or like curdled milk, of offensive, sickening smell, expelled forcibly; dark green mucus, offensive and corrosive, discharged with a single somewhat prolonged effort; great relief after stool, as though an irritating substance were removed from the bowels; profuse, watery, with colic and tenesmus; diarrhœa, with burning pain and tenesmus; bloody, dysenteric.
Hard, insufficient stool, with strong urging, pressing and protrusion of the rectum.

Urine

Stitches in the left kidney.
Infrequent urination.

Female Sexual Organs

Leucorrhœa.

Lungs

Pressure in the middle of the chest.
Pain in the chest as if it were all raw.

Outer Chest

Repeated extremely painful stitches in the sternum.
Weight on the chest, causing sleeplessness.

Neck and Back

Repeated gnawing in the os coccygis.

Upper Limbs

Pain in the shoulders.
Stitching pains in the upper limbs, come on or are worse in evenings.

Position, etc

Rest: 2. Motion: 2. Rising: 2. Walking in open air: 5, 16.
The majority of symptoms come on while sitting, and pass off during motion in the open air.

Sleep

Sleepiness, great inclination to sleep.
Sleep broken by anxious dreams.
Anxious, vexatious dreams.

Time

The conditions are especially apt to occur toward evening or at night.
Morning: 2, 5. Afternoon: 5. Evening: 5, 14, 20, 32, 46. Night: 5, 20, 46.

Chill, Fever and Sweat

Violent chill, beginning in the back.
Increased heat with anxiety.

Sides

Right: 7, 10, 13. Left: 6, 21.

Contact, Injuries, etc

Touch: 20. Scratching: 46.

Skin

Violent itching in various parts of the body, burning after scratching, worse evenings and nights.
After scratching, burning and ulcerative pain, with swelling and redness of the parts, worse evening and night.
Biting, like from ants, over the whole body, worse evening and night.