Gossypium Herbaceum goss.

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

Uterus. Ovaries. Kidneys.

Worse

Motion.

General

Uterine reflexes.

Particulars

Flow of saliva. Nausea on awaking. Vomits on motion or raising up. Hyper-emesis. Sensitive stomach, with much gas. Ovarian pains extend toward uterus. Uterine torpor. Cervical pain. Sensitive womb. Menses late, scanty and watery.

Related

Related: Senec. Ustil.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Cotton-plant (GOSSYPIUM)

General

A powerful emmenagogue, used in physiological doses. Homeopathically, it corresponds to many reflex conditions, depending on disturbed uterine function and pregnancy. Gossypium will relieve tardy menses, especially with sensation that the flow is about to start and yet does not do so. Tall, bloodless patients, with nervous chills.

Head

Pain in cervical region with tendency for head to draw backward with nervousness.

Stomach

Nausea, with inclination to vomit before breakfast. Anorexia, with uneasy feeling at scrobiculum at time of menses.

Female

Labia swollen and itching. Intermittent pain in ovaries. Retained placenta. Tumor of the breast with swelling of axillary glands. Morning sickness, with sensitive uterine region. Suppressed menstruation. Menses too watery. Backache, weight and dragging in pelvis. Uterine sub-involution and fibroids, with gastric pain and debility.

Relationship

Compare: Action similar to Ergot when made from fresh green root. Lilium; Cimicif; Sabina.

Dose

Tincture, to sixth attenuation.

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

Cotton Plant. N. O. Malvaceæ. Tincture of fresh inner root bark, chopped and pounded to a pulp.

Clinical

Abortion. Amenorrhœa. Dysmenorrhœa. Labia, abscess of. Ovaries, pains in. Pregnancy, vomiting of. Sterility. Tumour. Uterus, bearing down in.

Characteristics

Gossyp . has been mainly used in affections of the female generative organs. It has been taken in the form of the extract to procure abortion. The symptoms of the external organs are strongly marked, and the ovaries are the seat of pains which come and go, and in the uterus are bearing-down pains. "Intermittent pains in the ovaries" is characteristic. The morning nausea and salivation indicate the remedy for morning sickness of pregnancy. The pains are of a stinging, drawing, tearing, and sometimes of a burning character, extending from one place to another, jumping from one place to another. Pains generally move from above downward. Pains are generally < by motion; > by rest. Sympathetic symptoms of stomach, heart, bowels, and nervous system arising from disturbance of uterine functions.

Relations

Compare: Act. r., Apis, Asar., Bell., Bry., Lil. t., Puls., Sabi., Sec., Sep., Ustil.

Head

Pain, first burning, then stinging, extending from both temporal bones to middle of frontal bone. ─ Drawing pain over eyes, with stinging pain in pupils.

Nose

Nostrils swollen and inflamed.

Throat

Tonsils swollen, r. < .

Stomach

Nausea, with accumulation of saliva in mouth; inclination to vomit before breakfast. ─ Rotating pain in pit of stomach. ─ Anorexia, with uneasy, depressed feeling at scrobiculum cordis at time of menses.

Urinary Organs

Frequent desire to urinate, with burning pains.

Female Sexual Organs

Stinging pain in both ovarian regions, and at the same time drawing towards uterus, lasting about ten minutes at a time. ─ Soreness between thigh and vulva, with a watery secretion. ─ Soft-tumour between l. thigh and vulva, first as large as pea, increasing to size of pigeon's egg, secreting a watery fluid with needle-like sticking pain, < at night. ─ Swelling of l. labium, outer part, with intolerable itching; some swelling in r. labium. ─ Outer skin of both labia studded with innumerable, full, somewhat reddish granules. ─ Amenorrhœa. ─ Menses scanty and painful or painless; last twenty-four hours and then become very sparse and painful; too watery; nineteen days late. ─ Sterility from uterine torpor. ─ Morning vomiting, followed by faintness; unable to rise from bed; great distress, weakness, and prostration.

Back

Pain in back.

Upper Limbs

Heavy feeling in both hands, > hanging them down, < in warmth of bed.

Sleep

Caused her to sleep a great part of the time.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

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

General

Cotton Plant. Malvaceæ.
The cotton producing plant of the South ; a native of Asia. The root possesses the medical virtues, and the tincture is prepared from the fresh inner root-bark, chopped and pounded to a pulp.
Proved by Williamson. See Allen's Encyclopædia, vol. 4, p. 458 .

Sensorium

Giddiness of head.

Inner head

Stinging pain in head, going from forehead to vertex.
Pain, first burning, then stinging, extending from both temporal bones to middle of frontal bone.
Drawing pain over eyes, with stinging pain in pupils.
Knocking pain in right parietal bone.

Smell and nose

Nostrils swollen and inflamed, left <.

Taste, speech, tongue

Taste of bad eggs, > after breakfast.

Inner mouth

Tonsils swollen, right <.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Nausea, with accumulation of saliva in mouth.
Nausea with inclination to vomit in morning before breakfast.
Morning sickness. θ Pregnancy.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Rotating sensation in pit of stomach, with uneasiness, anxiety and sighing.
Anorexia, with uneasy, depressed feeling at scrobiculum cordis, at time of menses.

Hypochondria

Stitching in right hypochondrium, lasting for a few minutes, and then drawing pain from both hypochondriac regions to pit of stomach.

Female sexual organs

Stinging pain in both ovarian regions, and at the same time drawing towards uterus, lasting about ten minutes at a time.
Soreness between thigh and vulva, with a watery secretion.
Soft tumor between left thigh and vulva, first as large as pea, and increasing to size of pigeon's egg, secreting a watery fluid, with sticking pain as if caused by a needle, < at night.
Swelling of outer part of left labium, accompanied by intolerable itching ; some swelling in right labium.
Outer skin of both labia studded with innumerable pale, somewhat reddish granules.
Amenorrhœa ; dysmenorrhœa ; menorrhagia.
Scanty and painful or painless menses.
Amenorrhœa, with anemia, and dyspeptic symptoms.
Menstrual flow lasts about twenty-four hours, and then becomes very sparse and painful.
Menses too watery and nineteen days too late.
Sterility, from uterine torpor.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

Morning sickness during early months of pregnancy ; sensitiveness over hypogastric region ; prostration of nervous system almost to syncope ; nausea from least motion in morning soon after waking, with distress in pit of stomach ; and immediately on raising head, retching and violent efforts to vomit ; at first very little comes up, except wind, with a loud noise ; soon after, saliva and some thick fluid is discharged, and, occasionally, after much retching, a little bilious matter, but rarely any ingesta ; wind is often discharged from bowels during efforts to vomit.
Morning vomiting, followed by faintness ; she was unable to rise from bed.
Great distress, weakness and prostration. θ Morning sickness.
Miscarriage.
In cases of lingering almost painless labors, where the uterine contractions are feeble or entirely inefficient. The case presents negative rather than positive symptoms.
Retained placenta.

Upper limbs

Tearing pains in right arm and hand, and jumping pain from one finger to another.
Pale, red, papular eruption on back of both hands, with intense itching and watery exudation.
Heavy feeling in both hands, > when hanging them down, < in warmth of bed.
Crawling sensation in all the fingers, as if from worms.

Lower limbs

Stinging, drawing, tearing, and burning pain in lower extremities.
Trembling, twitching, and weary sensation in legs.
Small, round, dark red spots, with pale red spots around patella, on skins and ankles, itching intensely.

Rest. position. motion

On raising head : retching and violent efforts to vomit.
Unable to rise from bed : from faintness and nausea.
When hanging hands down : heavy feeling >.
Motion : nausea from least motion.

Nerves

General lassitude, with pains as if beaten.

Time

Morning : nausea with inclination to vomit.
Night : sticking pain in tumor <.

Temperature and weather

Warmth of bed : < heavy feeling in hands.

Fever

General external chilliness, with internal heat.

Attacks, periodicity

The pains are wandering, come and go.
A few minutes : itching in hypochondrium.
About ten minutes at a time : drawing towards uterus.
Twenty-four hours : menstrual flow.
Menses nineteen days too late.
During early months of pregnancy : morning sickness.

Locality and direction

Right : knocking pain in parietal bone ; tonsil swollen ; itching in hypochondrium ; some swelling of labium ; tearing pains in arm and hand.
Left : soft tumor between thigh and vulva ; swelling of outer part of labium ; itching of labium.
Pains are generally from above downward ; < by motion ; > by rest.

Sensations

As if caused by a needle ; pain in soft tumor ; crawling sensation in fingers as if from worms ; as if beaten.
Painful menses : pains as if beaten.
Tearing pains : in right arm ; in hand ; in lower extremities.
Stinging pain : in head from forehead to vertex ; from both temporal bones to middle of frontal bone ; in pupils ; in both ovarian regions ; in lower extremities.
Sticking pain : in soft tumor between left thigh and vulva.
Burning pain : from both temporal bones to middle of frontal bone ; in lower extremities.
Jumping pain : from one finger to another.
Knocking pain : in right parietal bone.
Drawing pain : over eyes ; from both hypochondria regions to pit of stomach ; in lower extremities.
Soreness : between thighs and vulva.
Anxiety : in pit of stomach.
Sensitiveness : over hypogastric region.
Uneasiness : in pit of stomach.
Uneasy, depressed feeling at scrobiculum cordis at time of menses.
Drawing : towards uterus.
Twitching sensation : in legs.
Trembling sensation : in legs.
Rotating sensation : in pit of stomach.
Crawling sensation : in all fingers.
Distress : in pit of stomach.
Heavy feeling : in both hands.
Weary sensation : in legs.
Weakness.
Itching : in right hypochondrium ; in outer part of left labium ; intense on backs of both hands ; intense on red spots on shins and ankles ; of skin all over body.
Itching changes to burning after scratching.

Tissues

Sympathetic symptoms of stomach, heart, bowels and nervous system, arising from disturbance of uterine functions, connected with menstruation or pregnancy.

Skin

Itching of skin over whole body.
Itching changes to burning after scratching.

Relations

Compare : Act. rac., Apis, Asar., Bellad., Bryon., Lil. tig., Pulsat., Sabina, Secale, Sepia, Ustil .