Gentiana Cruciata gent-c.

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

Kreutz-Enzian. Cross-leaved Gentian. N. O. Gentianaceæ. Tincture of root.

Clinical

Diarrhœa. Dyspepsia. Dysphagia. Hernia. Hoarseness. Stiff-neck. Stomach, affections of. Throat, sore.

Characteristics

" G. cruciata ," says the Treasury of Botany , "has been invested with imaginary virtues, because its leaves grow in the form of a cross; it has been recommended in hydrophobia." Its virtues are not all imaginary, and its reputation as a remedy for hydrophobia is partly justified in the provings. The proving of Gent. cruc . (by Watzke and ten others) developed a number of striking symptoms in the throat and digestive tract. Movings about in stomach and abdomen. Pressure in the stomach as if a stone was in it, with inclination to vomit. All the symptoms of right inguinal hernia occurred in one prover. A peculiar sense of apprehensiveness; faintness; uneasiness. One prover felt as if all the nerves were tense, so that walking was difficult. Creeping over the body as from fleas in the evening. The symptoms are < after eating. > From warm soup; from drinking fresh water; in open air.

Relations

Compare: Gent. lut.; Lyc. ( > from warm drink); Bry., Puls., Ab. n., &c. (pressure in stomach as from a stone); Kal. bi. (tenacious mucus in throat).

Mind

Weeping mood, with disinclination to talk. ─ Very peculiar apprehensiveness, and acceleration and difficulty of breathing, swelling of the temporal veins and feeling of pressure in the temporal region; on reading, print seemed indistinct and as if covered with a veil.

Head

Confusion and whirling. ─ Sensitiveness of whole head and whole brain after dinner, < by violent motion of head. ─ Swelling of temporal veins and feeling of pressure in temporal region. ─ Sudden stitch through l. temple. ─ Distressing tension, and at times transient jerking in region of vertex; tension soon became a very acute constant pressure, < by exerting eyes, or constant thought.

Eyes

Sensation as though eyes were lying deep in orbit; piercing inward sensation in r. eye. ─ Print indistinct as if covered with a veil.

Mouth

Two aphthous ulcers on margin of lower lip on either side of frenum. ─ Flow of saliva increased.

Throat

Slight redness and distressing sensation of constriction within the throat, so that swallowing is very difficult; constantly obliged to hawk up tenacious and firmly adherent mucus. ─ Rawness and scraping, causing frequent hawking; with constriction on swallowing. ─ Intermittent, deep redness of fauces. ─ Stitches in tonsils. ─ Swallowing difficult; with an anxious constrictive sensation; slight redness of fauces.

Stomach

Appetite increased; or lost. ─ Acid eructations; watery vomiting. ─ Great nausea, with inclination to lie down. ─ Vomiting, with some difficulty, a small quantity of mucus of an acid odour, intensely bitter, leaving a scraping and rawness in throat. ─ Movings about in stomach, and afterwards in abdomen, disappeared on walking. ─ Sensation in stomach and œsophagus as though he had swallowed a morsel of hot food followed by cold water; lasted the whole day, < by eating; > by drinking fresh water. ─ Burning; fulness; pressure in stomach. ─ Pressure in stomach as if a stone were in it, with inclination to vomit. ─ Sensation of pressing inward in pit of stomach.

Abdomen

Sensitive, griping, sore sensation in umbilical region, < after dinner, > sitting and lying, < standing, walking, and after" smoking, obliging him to bend forward; therewith umbilicus seemed to be drawn inward. ─ Movings about in intestines with slight headache, followed by copious pasty evacuation. ─ Distension; fulness; tightness; constriction in abdomen. ─ Dragging in r. inguinal region with feeling of protrusion, > sitting or lying; on violent sneezing actual protrusion occurred, size of hazel-nut, very sensitive.

Stool and Anus

Constant violent urging, followed by three watery evacuations. ─ Pasty diarrhœa. ─ Free pasty stools without the usual itching in anus.

Female Sexual Organs

Menstruation three days earlier than usual, during which there was a headache as if head too full, with feeling of distension in the skull, > during rest and < by motion, preventing sleep for a long time.

Respiratory Organs

Hoarseness; voice gave out in middle of speech. ─ Frequent attacks of hoarseness and sensitiveness of the throat.

Neck and Back

Drawing and jerking along r. side of neck, extending to shoulder. ─ Drawing in cervical muscles, extending to ears, < by turning head, an uneasiness so that he could not remain long in one position. ─ Repeated drawings in cervical muscles. ─ Tension in lumbar region.

Upper Limbs

Distressing drawing in r. shoulder lasting several minutes.

Lower Limbs

Cramp-like pains in soles of feet.