Gambogia gamb.

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

C. M. Boger · Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica · A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1915 — the Materia Medica half

Region

Stomach and BOWELS. Liver.

Worse

AFTER STOOL. Motion in open air.

General

Burnings.

Particulars

Burning pains. Itching eye-lids; he rubs them (Ign.). Sneezing. Gurgling, pinching in bowels, then sudden yellow or green, THIN STOOLS COMING OUT IN PROLONGED GUSHES, with burning at anus and much relief.

Related

Related: Crot-t.

Key-Notes to the Materia Medica

Henry N. Guernsey · Key-Notes to the Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML text (Guernsey d. 1885; public domain)

General

The chief sphere of action of this remedy is found in the stools and rectum.

Eyes

Great burning and itching of the eyes, with dread of light; agglutination of lids.

Stool

Thin, yellow, fecal; coming all at once, at a single expulsion, with burning pain and tenesmus; pinching pain in bowels, or colic. Diarrhœa, acute or chronic, in children or in old people. Burning in the anus. Much distension by flatulence; emission of.

Worse

In the evening or night; while sitting.

Better

From motion in the open air. After stool, feels relieved of an irritating substance from the intestines.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Gummi Gutti (GAMBOGIA - GARCINIA MORELLA)

General

The use of this drug in Homeopathy has been confined to its action on the alimentary tract. It produces a diarrhœa very similar to Croton. >From its pathogenesis, it is very evident that it has very intense and definite action especially on the gastro-enteric tract.

Head

Heavy, with inertia, and drowsiness. Itching and burning in eyes; lids stick together, with sneezing.

Gastro-enteric Symptoms.--Feeling of coldness at edge of teeth. Great irritability of the stomach; burning, smarting, and dryness of the tongue and throat. Pain in the stomach after food. Tenderness in epigastrium. Pain and distention of abdomen from flatulence, after stool. Rumbling and rolling. Dysentery, with retained scybala, with pain in sacral region. Diarrhœa, with sudden and forcible ejection of bilious stools. Tenesmus after, with burning at anus. Ileo-cæcal region sensitive to pressure. Profuse, watery diarrhœa in hot weather, particularly old people. Pain in coccyx.

Modalities

Worse, towards evening and at night.

Relationship

Compare: Croton; Aloes; Pod.

Dose

Third to thirtieth potency. Gamboge painted on the chest in lung tuberculosis is considered by Abrams specific and incipient cases are symptomatically cured in several weeks.

Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics

E. B. Nash · Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics · homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML text (Nash d. 1917; public domain)

Leaders

Is a very valuable remedy for diarrhœa, though not so often used, I think, as it should be. It resembles Croton tiglium in the suddenness of the desire for stool, and in the all coming out at one gush. Again, it resembles it, in that it is sometimes watery and yellow, but Croton tig. is aggravated by the least food or drink, which is not the case with Gambogia. Again, Gambogia has all the way from yellow, watery, to almost formed stools, and in each case, the stool comes all at once in one prolonged effort, and there is a feeling of great relief after stool, as if an irritating substance were removed. Sometimes there is burning of the anus after the stool, similar to Arsenicum, Iris versicolor and Capsicum. It is curative in both acute and chronic forms of diarrhœa. There is often much rumbling in the bowels.

Gratiola officinalis is another remedy that has the yellow, watery diarrhœa, gushing out with great force. It is sometimes especially useful in the summer complaints of children, especially where they have been drinking too much cold water, which frequently happens. Gratiola resembles Aloes in some points, but has not the hæmorrhoids.

Oleander is one of our best remedies for diarrhœa of undigested food, and the best indication for it is involuntary stool when emitting flatus. The least passage of flatus is always accompanied with stool, so that the clothes are always liable to be soiled. I cured with the 200th of this remedy a case of three years' duration in a child. It was my own child, and I had tried many remedies (it was in the beginning of my practice) and was almost despairing that she would ever be well or strong, but after taking the Oleander she was cured, not only of the diarrhœa, but became perfectly strong and well and has always remained so, not having the slightest tendency to a return of the trouble.

Text Book of Materia Medica

Adolph Lippe · Text Book of Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML text (Lippe d. 1888; public domain)

Mind and Disposition

Cheerful, talkative, feeling of ease, great lightness of all his motions.

Head

Heaviness in the head with drowsiness and pain in the back. Heat rises to the head, with perspiration. Pain in the vertex, as if bruised, in the forenoon ; relieved in the open air.

Eyes

Itching of the inner canthi, with discharge of acrid, corrosive tears after rubbing ; relieved in the open air. Nightly agglutination. Itching of the eyes in the evening. Burning of the eyes, relieved by walking in the open air.

Ears

Lancination in the ears.

Nose

Ulceration of the right nostril, with burning pain. Dryness of the right nostril. Sneezing (in day-time). Much mucus in the nose, smelling like pus.

Mouth and Throat

Feeling, of coldness in the points of the incisors. Dry mouth. Burning of the anterior half or only of the tip of the tongue, which feels hard. Sore pain in the throat, which is felt when even touching the outer side of the neck. Stinging in the right side of the throat during and between the acts of deglutition. The throat feels swollen.

Stomach and Abdomen

Bitter taste in the mouth. Nausea, with accumulation of water in the mouth and gulping up of sour water. Violent empty eructations. Horrid vomiting and purging, with fainting. Empty feeling in the stomach and abdomen. Ulcerated pain in the stomach, relieved by eating. Dartings ; in the stomach, causing one to start. Inflation and tension in the abdomen. Burning in the region of the liver. Gnawing, in a small spot below the umbilicus. In the groins sticking, tension. Rumbling in the bowels.

Stool and Anus

Frequent emission of flatulence. Hard, insufficient stool, with violent urging pressing, and protrusion of the rectum. Hard stool, succeeded by burning at the anus. Diarrhœa, with burning pain and tenesmus, protrusion of the anus, pinching around the umbilicus. Watery diarrhœa with colic and tenesmus. Stools yellow or green, mixed with mucus.

Urinary Organs

Emission of a few drops at a time, then intermitting, and finally returning, with burning at the orifice.

Sexual Organs

Women. Menses too early and too profuse.

Respiratory Organs

Sensation of soreness in every art of the chest. Pressure in the middle of test. Stitches ; going from both sides of the chest towards each other.

Back

Pain in the small of the back ass if bruised or as if sprained. Gnawing in the os coccygis.

Extremities

Upper. Stitch on the top of the right shoulder. Stinging and numb feeling in the ball of the right thumb. Lower. Cramp in the calf, with contraction of the toes. Heaviness and languor of the feet.

Sleep

Drowsiness the whole day.

Generalities

Itching and formication in various parts. Pains, as if bruised. Burning-stinging pain. Gnawing.

Fever

Chill, proceeding from the back, with coldness of the whole body from evening till morning. Chilliness is accompanied by empty eructations, yawning, thirst, pain in the small of the back, biting as of ants over the whole body (by night), excessive stitches in the ears. Increased warmth, with anxiety and perspiration. Night-sweat all over. Violent thirst in the evening.

Skin

Intolerable itching and formication in various parts. After scratching, burning and ulcerative pain. Itching blisters on both hands, first pale, then red.

Conditions

The majority of ailments come on while sitting, and go off during motion in the open air. Aggravation in the evening and at night.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1st edition (1900-02, three volumes); homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML digitization

General

Gamboge. Gummi Gutti. N. O. Guttiferæ. Tincture of the resinous gum obtained from a tree ( Garcinia morella ) native to China.

Clinical

Anus, affections of . Backache. Blow, effects of. Coccygodynia. Colic. Diarrhœa. Eyes, inflammation of. Lienteria. Throat, sore. Typhlitis.

Characteristics

The chief reputation of Gamboge among homœopaths is as a remedy for diarrhœa. "Profuse watery diarrhœa, particularly with old people," is characteristic. Stool preceded by excessive cutting about navel; stool expelled all at once after considerable urging; and is followed by a feeling of great relief. Stools: yellow (the colour of the drug); green; bloody; lienteric. Burning in anus after stool; anus sore and excoriated. Frightful vomiting and purging, with fainting. But this action by no means exhausts the range of Gamb .; it has a number of symptoms in the eyes and throat; and also rheumatic symptoms. Pain in small of back, as if bruised or sprained. Pain in sacrum, resulting from a blow, was cured in one case of mine. Gnawing in coccyx. Burning pains are prominent. Burning in the liver. (Like many other yellow, bile-like drugs, Gamb . acts markedly on the liver.) Most symptoms are > by motion; cough > sitting up; > in open air; < towards evening or at night. There is periodicity in the symptoms. General soreness over the body.

Relations

Antidoted by: Camph., Coff., Coloc., Kali c., Op. Compare: Aloe, Podo., Puls. (cough > sitting up; > open air); Apocy. c. (stool expelled all once; but Gamb. has cutting before and > after stool); Crot. t. (Crot. has stool in one gush, but Gamb. is not < from least food or drink like Crot.).

Mind

Cheerful, talkative, feeling of case, great lightness of all his motions.

Head

Vertigo during rest or motion, in morning on rising. ─ Pain in the vertex, as if bruised, in the forenoon; > in open air. ─ Heaviness in the head, with drowsiness and pain in the back. ─ Heat rises to the head, with perspiration.

Eyes

Itching of the inner canthi, with discharge of acrid, corrosive tears after rubbing; > in open air. ─ Nightly agglutination of the lids; burning in the morning. ─ Violent itching of the eyes in the evening. ─ Burning of the eyes, > by walking in the open air. ─ Violent burning of the eyes and photophobia, in evening or afternoon, > from walking in the open air, but returning in the morning.

Ears

Lancination in the ears.

Nose

Sneezing (in daytime). ─ Violent chronic sneezing. ─ Ulceration of r. nostril, with burning pain. ─ Dryness of r. nostril. ─ Much mucus in the nose, smelling like pus.

Mouth

Feeling of coldness in the points of the incisors. ─ Dry mouth. ─ Burning of the anterior half, or only of the tip of the tongue, which feels hard.

Throat

Violent stinging in r. side of throat. ─ Stinging in the r. side of the throat during and between the acts of deglutition. ─ Sore pain in the throat, which is felt when even touching the outer side of the neck. ─ Roughness and burning in throat, causing constant hawking. ─ The throat feels swollen.

Stomach

Bitter taste in the mouth. ─ Nausea, with accumulation of water in the mouth and gulping up of sour water. ─ Nausea proceeding from the stomach. ─ Violent empty eructations. ─ Frightful vomiting and purging, with fainting. ─ Dartings in the stomach, causing one to start. ─ Acute darting, stitching pains in the stomach. ─ Gnawing in the stomach. ─ Aversion to food. ─ Violent thirst in the evening. ─ Ulcerative pain in the stomach, passing off after eating.

Abdomen

Empty feeling in the stomach and abdomen. ─ Inflation and tension in the abdomen. ─ Inflation and tension of the abdomen, with pinching in the umbilical region. ─ Gnawing in a small spot below the umbilicus. ─ Pinching in the abdomen and groins. ─ In the groins sticking, tension. ─ Burning in the region of the liver. ─ Rumbling in the bowels.

Stool and Anus

Frequent emission of flatulence; esp. evening and night. ─ Diarrhœa, with burning pain and tenesmus of the rectum, prolapsus ani, and constant pinching around the umbilicus, sometimes attended with discharge of mucus. ─ Watery diarrhœa, with colic and tenesmus. ─ Fæcal diarrhœa, stools evacuated with great force. ─ Yellow and green diarrhœic stool, mixed with mucus, preceded by excessive cutting around the umbilicus. ─ Hard, insufficient stool, with violent urging, pressing, and protrusion of the rectum. ─ Hard stool, succeeded by burning at the anus.

Urinary Organs

Infrequent urination. ─ Emission of a few drops at a time, then intermitting, and finally returning, with burning at the orifice.

Female Sexual Organs

Leucorrhœa. ─ Menses too early and too profuse.

Respiratory Organs

Sensation of soreness in every part of the chest. ─ Pressure in the middle of the chest. ─ Stitches going from both sides of the chest towards each other. ─ Repeated extremely painful stitches in the sternum.

Back

Pain in the small of the back, as if bruised or as if sprained. ─ Gnawing in the os coccygis.

Upper Limbs

Stitch on the top of r. shoulder. ─ Stinging and numb feeling in the ball of r. thumb.

Lower Limbs

Cramp in the calf, with contraction of the toes. ─ Heaviness and languor of the feet.

Generalities

Itching and formication in various parts. ─ Pains, as if bruised. ─ Tearing in the shoulders. ─ Burning sensation in various parts. ─ Burning-stinging pain. ─ Increased heat, with anxiety. ─ Gnawing.

Skin

Intolerable itching and formication in various parts. ─ After scratching, burning and ulcerative pain. ─ Itching blisters on both hands, first pale, then red.

Sleep

Drowsiness the whole day. ─ Sleepiness, great inclination to sleep. ─ Anxious, vexatious dreams.

Fever

Chill, proceeding from the back, with coldness of the whole body from evening till morning. ─ Chilliness is accompanied by empty eructations, yawning, thirst, pain in the small of the back, biting as of ants over the whole body (by night), excessive stitches in the ears. ─ Increased warmth, with anxiety and perspiration. ─ Night-sweat all over. Violent thirst in the evening.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Constantine Hering · The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica · 1879–91

Mind

Irritable mood.
Cheerful, talkative, feeling of ease, great lightness of all his motions.
Despondency ; sadness.

Sensorium

Vertigo during rest or motion ; morning when rising.
Confusion of head with a feeling of reeling or motion from side to side.
Heaviness in whole head, with dulness, sleepiness and pain in back.

Inner head

Pain in whole head and beating in forehead towards nose.
Oppressive headache with heaviness in forehead, > in open air, or with heat in whole head and body.
Transitory tearing in left temple.
Feeling of great coldness in left temple as from a wet cloth.
Sharp stitches in right side of head and in temples.
Compressive pain in head from both sides.
Pain in vertex, as if bruised, in forenoon ; > in open air.
Heaviness in whole head, with inertia, drowsiness, and pain in small of back.
Heat rises to head, with perspiration.
Gastric headaches.

Outer head

Pain in the coronal suture.

Sight and eyes

Violent burning of eyes and photophobia, evening or afternoon, > from walking in open air, but returning in morning.
Pain in left eye succeeded immediately by sickness of stomach, and dull, heavy aching and pain in tibia below insertion of tendon from patella, then by pain above patella on left side.
Violent itching of eyes in evening.
Itching of inner canthi, with discharge of acrid, corrosive tears after rubbing ; > in open air.
Smarting of eyes with increased flow of tears.
Pain in both eyes ; very severe in eyeballs ; sometimes < in one eye, with severe pain in adjoining temple, most in left.
Catarrhal affection of eyes.
Feeling of stickiness and dryness of eyes.
Nightly agglutination of lids, burning in morning, photophobia through day, and frequent stitching pain in eyes.
Frequent itching on skin over outer and lower edge of orbit of left eye.

Hearing and ears

Ringing in left ear all the time ; sometimes hissing.
Lancination in ears.
Pain in both ears, most in left ; also in left molars, afterwards in right and in region of articulation of jaw.

Smell and nose

Tendency to hemorrhages from nose and lungs.
Violent chronic sneezing in daytime only ; feeling of coldness in points of incisor teeth ; extremely painful burning in region of liver.
Dryness of right nostril.
Smarting as if a sore pimple existed immediately below r. nostril.
Ulceration of right nostril, with burning pain.
Much mucus in nose, smelling like pus.

Upper face

Smarting, itching on right cheek, chin and upper lip.
Swelling of face, especially of eyelids, nose and lips ; upper lip remained swollen for twelve hours.

Teeth and gums

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

Taste, speech, tongue

Bitter taste in mouth.
Tongue and gums sensitive.
Smarting of tongue ; raw, sore feeling.
Burning of tongue.
Burning of anterior half or only of tip of tongue, which feels hard.

Inner mouth

Dryness of mouth ; clammy, adhesive state of mouth.
Burning vesicles on inner side of lips.
Aphthæ ; deep ulcers in mouth, inner side of lips and cheek.
Raw, rough feeling in fauces and at root of tongue.

Palate and throat

Pain as from soreness in throat.
Sore pain in throat, which is felt when even touching outer side of neck.
Rawness and burning in throat, constant hawking.
Violent stitches in right side of throat.
Stinging in right side of throat during and between acts of deglutition.
The throat feels swollen.
Difficulty in swallowing.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Appetite good, but a little food satisfies.
Diminished appetite ; aversion to food.
Thirst after dinner, and especially evenings.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Frequent violent empty eructations.
Nausea from stomach, when walking in open air.
Nausea, inclination to vomit, accumulation of saliva in mouth ; gulping up of sour water.
Nausea and vomiting, after taking drink or food.
Frightful vomiting and purging, with fainting.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Empty feeling in stomach and abdomen.
Gnawing in stomach.
Constant sore pain in stomach.
Ulcerative pain in stomach, passing off after eating.
Acute stitches in stomach.
Cutting pain in stomach.
Dartings in stomach, causing one to start.
Sticking pains in region of and below cardiac orifice.
Sensation of heat in stomach and abdomen, also at times a feeling similar to a cool and refreshing wind blowing on face when overheated.

Hypochondria

Burning in region of liver.
Sharp cutting in left hypochondrium.

Abdomen and loins

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.
Gnawing in a small spot below umbilicus.
Feeling of fermentation in abdomen.
Rumbling and rolling in bowels.
Gurgling in abdomen, as of fluid running from a bottle.
Rushing sounds in abdomen as from motions of air and fluid feces, as occurs before diarrheic stools.
Inflation and tension of abdomen, with pinching in umbilical region.
Peculiar itching sensation in umbilicus.
Ileo-cecal region painful and sensitive to pressure.
In groins sticking, tension ; pinching.
Pressing pain at left inguinal ring.

Stools and rectum

Stool and Rectum
Profuse discharge of flatus, especially evening and night.
Yellow and green diarrheic stool, mixed with mucus, preceded by excessive cutting around umbilicus.
Diarrhœa of watery mucus, with colicky pains in umbilicus during stool.
Profuse watery diarrhœa, with colic and tenesmus.
Stool expelled all at once, with a single, somewhat prolonged effort.
Stools of dark green mucus, offensive, corrosive.
Stools very fetid, and come away with a gush all at once ; or mucus and blood, with great tenesmus.
Fecal diarrhœa, stools evacuated with great force.
Great relief after stool as though an irritating substance were removed from bowels.
Diarrhœa : < forenoon, or during day ; after drinking ale ; > from pressing abdomen (cutting pains).
Profuse yellow watery diarrhœa in hot weather, particularly old people.
Acute and chronic diarrhœa ; infantile diarrhœa ; dysentery.
Summer complaint.
Bloody stools in dysentery.
Lienteric stools.
Diarrhœa, with burning pain and tenesmus of rectum protrusion of anus and constant pinching around umbilicus, sometimes with mucous stools.
Burning in anus after stool ; anus sore and excoriated.
Diarrhœa alternating with constipation.
Hard, insufficient stool, with strong urging, pressing and protrusion of rectum.
Hard stool, succeeded by burning at anus.
Before stool : sudden urging, with hot pinching through-out abdomen ; darting stitches in anus ; sensation of fulness in abdomen.
During stool : strong urging, causing stool to pass quickly ; much flatus ; burning and heat in anus ; tenesmus ; prolapsus ani ; cutting about navel ; cold sweat on limbs.
After stool : great relief, thinks she is well, but is soon seized with urging again and stool.
Thin, watery, yellow stool, coming out all at once ; < morning and forenoon ; before and during stool some pain and urging ; after stool great relief. θ Diarrhœa.
Stools copious, watery, yellow, or like curdled milk, of offensive, sickening smell, expelled with much force ; vomits food undigested. θ Diarrhœa during
hot weather.
Soon after eating irresistible desire to evacuate bowels, which continued as long as there was anything to pass ; after these passages great pain in lower bowels, lasting an hour ; emaciation ; prostration ; stools consist of yellow mucus and undigested food. θ Chronic
diarrhœa.
Chronic diarrhœa consequent upon exposure ; evacuations occur principally at night, if they occur earlier they are preceded by colicky pains and much rumbling in abdomen ; finds relief only after four or five passages ; stools are of a chocolate-brown color, containing
lumps of mucus, often streaked with blood or mixed with undigested food ; great lassitude.
Constant urging to stool with colicky pains ; abdomen distended with flatus, and very painful and sensitive to pressure, particularly in ileo-cecal region ; food passes undigested, diarrhœa watery and often mucous ; fever towards evening ; night sweats ;
anorexia ; great thirst ; mind much depressed ; twelve to fifteen stools occur daily. θ Chronic diarrhœa.
Painful, muco-serous, odorless diarrhœa ; evacuations occur every hour, preceded and followed by severe pains, causing him to draw up limbs and cry out ; tenesmus during each stool causes rectum to protrude about one inch, which, however, returns again in ten or fifteen
minutes, after which he is free of pain for about twenty minutes and can sleep ; face pale, showing evidences of suffering ; skin cool ; meteorism ; hypogastrium sensitive to pressure ; during attack limbs are cool and covered with cold sweat, face red, head hot. θ Diarrhœa.
Diarrhœa coming on at night ; stools mixed with lumps of mucus and blood.
Watery, greenish stools mixed with mucus ; griping before forcible and profuse stool. θ Cholera infantum.
Lienteria for a month ; emaciated almost to a skeleton ; bowels seemed to hold nothing ; stools very fetid, and come away with a gush, nearly all of stool at a time ; often gurgling sounds are heard as if water were passing through a bunghole.
Dysentery with tar-like discharge ; dark blood with menses ; general weakness of whole body.
Itching, smarting, as from a pustule three-quarters of an inch from anus on left.

Urinary organs

Stitches in left kidney.
Increased secretion of urine, or diminished in dropsy, with emission of a few drops at a time.
Emission of a few drops of urine at a time, then intermitting, and finally returning, with burning at orifice.
Urine smells like onions, scenting the room.

Male sexual organs

Gleety discharge agglutinating orifice of urethra.

Female sexual organs

Menses too early and too profuse ; long lasting.
Leucorrhœa.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Tickling in larynx and trachea from epiglottis to pit of throat.
Sensation of scratching in larynx.

Cough

Dry cough, hoarseness and hawking of phlegm.
Severe cough at night, compelling him to sit up, with easy expectoration of mucus.

Inner chest and lungs

Pressure in middle of chest.
Sensation of pressure and weight in chest, dull pains or sharp stitches in chest, oppression of chest.
Repeated, extremely painful, stitches in sternum.
Feeling of fulness and soreness under upper third of sternum.
Stitches going from both sides of chest towards each other.
Pain in chest as if it were all raw.
Sensation of soreness in every part of chest.
Congestion of blood to chest ; expectoration of blood.

Outer chest

Pain in right clavicle.
Weight on chest, causing sleeplessness.
Repeated extremely painful stitches in sternum.
Painful stitch from ribs to axilla, arresting the breathing.
Pain cutting and heavy in right side, about the sixth rib, apparently in integuments.
Pain about fourth and tenth dorsal vertebræ and cutting pain in right side below edge of pectoralis major, before it leaves the thorax to pass to humerus, subsequently in nearly same situation on left side.

Neck and back

Pain down right side of neck.
Pain and itching between the shoulders.
Stitches in left kidney.
Pain in small of back, as if bruised or as if sprained.
Pain across lumbar vertebræ.
Cutting pain across top of sacrum and in left hip, also in muscles just above sacro-iliac symphysis on left side.
Repeated gnawing in coccyx. θ Coccyodynia.

Upper limbs

Pain in shoulders ; tearing.
Stitch on top of right shoulder.
Pain in right shoulder, clavicular junction.
Stitching pains in upper limbs, come on or are < in evening.
Aching of right arm and biceps flexor cubiti.
Stinging and numb feeling in ball of right thumb.
Severe aching pain in upper joint of little finger of left hand.
Papula on both hands, at first pale, afterwards red.

Lower limbs

Severe aching pain deep in hip, and severe cutting pain about trochanter major.
Aching in and about the knees.
Sharp cutting pain in right shin, midlength of tibia.
Pain in right fibula just above ankle-joint.
Cramp in calf, with contraction of toes.
Heaviness and languor of feet.
Pulsating pains in three middle toes at night in bed.
Sticking pains and soreness in integuments over large joint of great toe left side, and afterwards of skin on back of great toe, same side.

Rest. position. motion

Many symptoms come on while sitting, and pass off during motion in open air.
Rest : vertigo.
Cough compels him to sit up.
Pain causes him to draw up limbs.
Motion : vertigo.

Nerves

Much lassitude and debility ; emaciation.

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.
Day : photophobia ; chronic sneezing ; diarrhœa <.
Morning : vertigo when rising ; burning of eyes ; sharp cutting in hypochondrium : thin, watery stools <.
Forenoon : diarrhœa < ; thin, watery stools <.
Afternoon : burning of eyes.
From 6 to 8 P. M. : internal and external coldness lasting from a quarter to two hours.
At 7 P. M. : paroxysm of intermittent fever.
From 7 P. M. till 4 A. M. : violent shaking.
Evening : burning of eyes ; itching of eyes ; thirst ; profuse discharge of flatus towards evening ; fever ; stitching in limbs < ; violent itching.
Night : agglutination of lids ; profuse discharge of flatus ; evacuations ; sweats ; diarrhœa comes on at night ; severe cough ; pulsating pains in toes in bed ; biting as of ants ; coldness lasting all night ; shaking chill at
night ; paroxysm of fever ; violent itching.

Temperature and weather

Open air : headache > ; pain in vertex > ; burning in eyes > ; itching of inner canthi > ; nausea when walking.

Fever

Chilliness is accompanied by empty eructations, yawning, thirst, pain in small of back, biting as of ants over whole body (by night), excessive stitches in ears, sensation of elongation of incisors.
Internal and external coldness from 7 to 8 P. M., lasting from a quarter to two hours, or whole night to 5 A. M.
Violent chill, beginning in back.
Violent shaking at 7 P. M., beginning in back, with external coldness of whole body, continues till 4 A. M.
Sudden shaking chill at night, waking him from sleep, and as suddenly disappearing.
Chill for two hours with chattering of teeth and violent thirst ; skin in warm to touch.
Increased heat with anxiety, flushes and perspiration.
Heat always slight, often wanting. θ Intermittent fever.
Sweat over whole body on awaking at 4 A. M.
Night-sweat all over.
Intermittent occurs while diarrhœa is prevalent ; paroxysm consists almost wholly of cold stage ; the others being light or wanting.
Fevers of intermittent or remittent type, consisting of chill, fever and sweat.
Paroxysm 7 P. M. ; evening 6 to 8 P. M., lasting all night.
Type. -Quotidian ; tertian ; double tertian ; intermittent often becomes remittent ; postponing oftener than anticipating.

Attacks, periodicity

At times : feeling of cool wind blowing on face.
Every hour : evacuations.
Every day : twelve to fifteen stools.
For one hour : great pain in bowels, after stool.
For two hours : chill.
For twelve hours : upper lip swollen.
For one month : lienteria.

Locality and direction

Right : sharp stitches in temple and side of head ; pain in molars ; dryness of nostril ; smarting as of a pimple below nostril ; ulceration of nostril ; smarting, itching of cheek ; tearing in molars ; violent stitches in side of
throat ; stinging in side of throat ; pain in clavicle ; pain in side ; pain below pectoralis major ; pain down side of neck ; pain in muscles just above sacro-iliac symphysis ; stitch on shoulder ; pain in shoulder, clavicular junctures, aching of
arm ; cutting pain in shin ; pain in fibula.
Left : tearing in temple ; coldness in temple ; pain in eye ; pain above patella on left side ; itching of orbit of eye ; pain in eye and temple ; ringing in ear ; pain in ear ; pain in molars ; pressing pain in inguinal ring ;
stitches in kidney ; pain on side ; cutting pain in hip ; aching pain in upper joint of little finger ; sticking pains in joint of great toe.

Sensations

Feeling as of reeling ; vertex as if bruised ; coldness in temple as from a wet cloth ; as if a sore pimple existed immediately below nostril ; pain as from soreness in throat ; gurgling as of fluid running from a bottle ; rushing sounds in
abdomen as from motions of air and fluid feces ; as if chest were raw ; small of back as if bruised or sprained ; biting as of ants over whole body ; incisors as if elongated.
Pain : in back ; in whole head ; in vertex ; in coronal suture ; in left eye ; in tibia ; above patella on left side ; in both eyes ; in both ears ; in molars ; in region of articulation of jaw ; in throat ; in ileo-cecal
region ; in chest ; in right clavicle ; about fourth and tenth dorsal vertebræ ; down right side of neck ; between shoulders ; small of back ; across lumbar vertebræ ; in fibulæ.
Severe pain : in eyeballs ; in temple ; in bowels ; before and after evacuations.
Lancinating : in both ears.
Cutting pain : in stomach ; in left hypochondrium ; around umbilicus ; in right side ; across top of sacrum ; in left hip ; about trochanter.
Tearing : in temple ; in right molars ; in shoulders.
Pinching : in abdomen ; in groins ; around umbilicus.
Dartings : in stomach.
Sharp stitches : on side of head ; in temples ; in chest.
Stitches : in ears ; in right side of throat ; in stomach ; in anus ; in left kidney ; in sternum ; from both sides of chest towards each other ; from ribs to axilla ; on top of right shoulder.
Stitching pain : in eyes ; in mouth ; in upper limbs.
Sticking pains : in region of and below cardiac orifice ; in groins ; in integuments over great toe.
Stinging : in right side of throat ; in ball of thumb.
Gnawing in stomach : below umbilicus.
Colicky pains : in umbilicus ; before evacuations.
Griping : before stools.
Cramp : in calf.
Ulcerative pain : in stomach.
Violent burning : of eyes.
Burning : in eyes ; very painful in region of liver ; ulceration of right nostril ; of tongue ; of anterior half or only of tip of tongue ; in vesicles : on inner side of lips ; in region of liver ; in rectum ; in anus ; at orifice
of urethra when urinating.
Pressing pain : at left inguinal ring.
Dull pains : in chest.
Aching : in tibia ; in right arm ; upper joint of little finger ; deep in hip ; in and about knees.
Pulsating pains : in three middle toes.
Beating : in forehead.
Compressive pain : in head.
Smarting : of eyes ; below right nostril ; of right cheek ; of chin ; of upper lip ; of tongue ; on left of anus.
Sore feeling : of tongue ; in throat ; at stomach ; in anus ; under sternum ; in every part of chest.
Sensitiveness : of tongue ; of gums.
Heat : in whole head and body ; in stomach.
Raw feeling : in fauces ; at root of tongue.
Stickiness : of eyes.
Dryness : of eyes ; of nostril.
Ringing and hissing : in ears.
Pressure : in middle of chest ; in chest.
Weight : in chest.
Heaviness : in whole head ; in forehead ; of feet.
Oppression : of chest.
Fulness : under sternum.
Tension : of abdomen ; in groins.
Contraction : of toes.
Empty feeling : in stomach and abdomen.
Weakness : of whole body.
Numb feeling in ball of right thumb.
Tickling : in larynx ; in trachea, from epiglottis to pit of throat.
Biting as of ants : over whole body.
Scratching : in larynx.
Itching : on skin over outer and lower edge of orbit of left eye ; of eyes ; of inner canthi ; of cheek ; of chin ; upper lip ; in umbilicus ; on left of anus ; between shoulders.
Coldness : in temple ; in points of incisor teeth.

Tissues

Emaciation.
Feeling of soreness all over body ; rheumatism.
Pain as if bruised.
Congestion to head, lungs and female sexual organs.
Profuse watery diarrhœa, particularly with old people.
(OBS :) Anasarca, ascites.
Swelling and redness of affected parts.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Touch : outer neck sensitive ; abdomen sensitive.
Pressing abdomen : > cutting pains ; abdomen sensitive to pressure.
Gentle rubbing : > itching.

Skin

Itching on various parts of surface pleasantly > by gentle friction.
Violent itching on various parts of body ; burning after scratching, < evenings and nights.
Itching and formication here and there all night.
After scratching, burning and ulcerative pain, with swelling and redness of parts, < evening and night.
Biting like from ants over whole body < evening and night.
Itching blisters on both hands, first pale, then red.
Pemphigus.

Stage of life, constitution

Diarrhœa of old people.
Boy, æt. 14 months, suffering for four days ; diarrhœa.
Boy, æt. 2, has suffered 10 days ; diarrhœa.
Woman, æt. 30, slight build, has suffered 8 months ; diarrhœa.
Man, æt. 30, has suffered a years ; diarrhœa.
Fisherman, has suffered 1 1/2 years after being drenched in a storm ; diarrhœa.
Captain, æt. 46, strong, well built, after a long ride during which he caught cold ; chronic diarrhœa of six months' standing.

Relations

Antidoted by : Camphor., Coffea, Coloc., Kali carb., Opium .
Compare : Aloes, Podoph., Pulsat . (cough, > sitting up ; general symptoms, > open air).

The Therapeutics of Fevers

H. C. Allen · The Therapeutics of Fevers · 1902 Library of Congress printing (Allen d. 1909; public domain)

Characteristic

The conditions calling for Gambogia are apt to occur especially toward evening or night.

Frightful vomiting and purging with fainting (Elat., Ver.).

Stool: profuse, watery, with colic and tenesmus; dark green mucus, offensive, corrosive, discharged with a single, somewhat prolonged effort; great relief after stool as if an irritating substance were removed from the bowels.

Aggravation

Evening and night; while sitting.

Amelioration

During motion in the open air.

Type

Quotidian, tertian; double tertian; intermittent often becomes remittent. Postponing oftener than anticipating.

Time

7 P. M.; EVENING 6 TO 8 P. M., lasting all night (Lyc., Puls., Rhus, Sarac., last all night).

Chill

With thirst Violent shaking at 7 P. M., beginning in the back, with external coldness of whole body, continues till 4 A. M. (chill lasts 12 hours, Canth.—24 hours, Aran.). Internal and external coldness, at 6 to 8 P. M., lasting from a quarter to two hours, or the whole night to 5 A. M. Sensation of chilliness and elongation of incisor teeth. Chill for two hours with chattering of the teeth, with violent thirst; the skin is warm to the touch.

Sudden shaking chill at night, waking him from sleep, and as suddenly disappearing. Eructations; yawning.

Heat

Increased warmth, with anxiety and flushes of heat. Always slight, often wanting.

Sweat

Over whole body on waking at 4 A. M. Early morn-ing sweat.

Analysis

The fevers of Gambogia occur while diarrhœa is prevalent. The paroxysm consists almost wholly of the cold stage; the others being light or wanting. Frightful vomiting and purging (Elat., Ver.); evening paroxysm.