Gratiola Officinalis grat.

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

Gastro - intestinal tract. Mind. Sexual organs.

Worse

Eating. Drinking too much water. Summer. Motion. Coffee. Dinner.

General

Atony. Paralytic pains. Coldness.

Particulars

Weak will. Hypochondriasis. Emptiness after eating. As of cold water or a loose, heavy load in stomach. Profuse, gushing, watery or frothy, yellow - green, exhausting stools, then relief (Gamb.). Nightly emissions, then erections. Nymphomania. Coccygeal pain. Limb gives way, with sciatic pain.

Related

Related: Mag-c.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Hedge Hyssop (GRATIOLA)

General

Acts especially on gastro-intestinal tract. Chronic catarrhal conditions, leucorrhœa and gonorrhœa. Obstinate ulcers. Useful in mental troubles from overweening pride. Especially useful in females. Nux symptoms in females often met by Gratiola.

Head

Sick headache. Rush of blood with vanishing of sight. Sensation as if brain was contracting and head became smaller. Tightness in forehead, with wrinkles in skin. Eyes dry, burn. Myopia.

Stomach

Vertigo during and after meals; hunger and feeling of emptiness after meals. Dyspepsia, with much distention of the stomach. Cramps and colic after supper and during night, with swelling of abdomen and constipation. Dysphagia for liquids.

Stool

Diarrhœa; green, frothy water, followed by anal burning, forcibly evacuated without pain. Constipation, with gouty acidity. Hæmorrhoids, with hypochondriasis. Rectum constricted.

Sleep

Insomnia.

Female

Nymphomania. Menses too profuse, premature, and too long. Leucorrhœa.

Modalities

Worse, drinking too much water.

Relationship

Compare: Dig; Euph; Tab; Cham; Ammon pic; Nux vom.

Dose

Second to third potency.

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

Serious, taciturn, absorbed in reverie. Irresolute, want of perseverance. Ill-humor, tired of life, apprehensive of the future.

Head

Vertigo, while reading ; on rising from a seat. Intoxicated feeling during and after a meal. Pressure in the forehead, with vertigo. Sensation of heaviness in the forehead, as if the brain would fall forward, with stoppage of the nose. Heat in the head, on raising the head. Tightness in the forehead with wrinkles in the skin. The headache is aggravated by rising from the seat and by walking in the open air. The head is very sensitive to cold. Itching of the scalp. Eyes. Itching of the eyelashes. The eyes feel dry and as if sand were in them. Mist before the eyes, when reading or writing. Short-sightedness, with burning heat in the face.

Ears

Itching of the ears.

Nose

Smarting-itching in the left nostril. Pressure at the upper part of the nose.

Face

Burning heat in the face. Tingling-burning in the malar bones. Sensation of tension in the face ; it feels swollen. Swelling of the upper lip (every morning) (with stinging).

Mouth and Throat

Accumulation of clear water in the mouth. Tongue rough, coated with mucus. Fetid breath on waking. Pain in the throat obliging one to swallow constantly ; the swallowing is difficult, as if the throat were contracted ; worse during empty deglutition. Stinging in the throat (left side). Phlegm in the throat, with inability to throw it off.

Stomach and Abdomen

Hunger without appetite. Violent thirst. Hiccough. Gulping up of bitter substances. Paroxysms of inclination to vomit, relieved by eructations. Empty retching. Pressure in the stomach after every meal. Empty or cold feeling in the stomach. Gnawing, as from hunger after eating. In the left hypochondrium heating pain, burning. Pinching in the umbilical region, relieved by emission of flatulence. Cold feeling in the abdomen. Rumbling, with nausea, eructations, and vertigo.

Stool and Anus

Diarrhœa ; stools, watery yellow-green, succeeded by burning at the anus ; green frothy, coming out with great force. Stools with burning and protrusion of large, stinging-burning tumors. Passage of feces without being conscious of it. Discharge of ascarides. In the rectum soreness ; burning during and after stool. In the anus stinging, itching.

Urinary Organs

Scanty reddish urine, becoming turbid while standing. Floculent sediment in the urine. Burning in the urethra during and after micturition.

Genital Organs

Men. Stitches in the left spermatic cord, ascending through the abdomen up to the chest. Involuntary emission succeeded by a painful erection. Women. Menses too early and too profuse. Nymphomania. Dartings in the right mamma.

Respiratory Organs

Heat in the chest, then in the head and hands, with redness of the face. Violent palpitation of the heart, particularly immediately after stool, and with oppression of the chest.

Back and Neck

Sensation as if the neck were seized with the hand. Darting from the left scapula to the shoulder and mamma.

Extremities

Upper. Rheumatic pains in the shoulders, arms, fingers, particularly in the elbow and wrist joint. Itching in the palms of the (right) hand. Lower. Bruised pain in the thigh, after a short walk. Lancinating tearing in the tibia when sitting, disappearing when walking. Smarting-itching on the tibia.

Sleep

Irresistible drowsiness with yawning. Deep sleep, like stupor.

Fever

Pulse small, intermittent. Chilliness in a warm room, during sleep, after an evacuation ; with the hair standing on end. Heat, ascending to the face, with redness and increased external warmth. Constant vaporous exhalation from the body.

Generalities

Physical and mental depression. Great languor and prostration. Tetanic condition, without loss of consciousness, while lying down after a meal, followed by a deep sleep with emission of semen ; bruised feeling of the body, back and left arm on waking.

Skin

Itching, with burning after scratching.

Conditions

Aggravation on sitting, or on rising from a seat ; in the after noon ; after a meal. Amelioration by contact.

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

Gratiola officinalis. Hedge Hyssop. "The Herb of Grace." N. O. Scrophulariaceæ (grows in moist places). Tincture of fresh plant before flowering.

Clinical

Cholera. Coccygodynia. Constipation. Cramps. Diarrhœa. Dropsy. Eyes, affections of. Gastralgia. Gout. Hæmorrhoids. Headache. Hydrocephalus. Hypochondriasis. Hysteria. Mania. Masturbation. Mesenteric glands, affections of. Neuralgia. Nymphomania. Tetanus. Vision, disordered.

Characteristics

Gratiola is one of the most important members of the great Scrophularian group ─ Digit., Euphras., Tabac., Scroph . ─ and should be carefully studied with these. A large proportion of the effects of Gratiola are expended on the gastro-intestinal tract. It is an inodorous plant, of bitter taste, and very poisonous, causing violent colic, diarrhœa, bloody stools, enteritis, jaundice, trembling of extremities, convulsions, cramps, excitement and disordered condition of the sexual powers, and death. Symptoms of a fully developed, rapid attack of Asiatic cholera are produced. On the other hand, the mind is strongly affected. Peevishness, ill-humour; irresolute; hysterical; cerebral affections without fever. It is useful in mental troubles from overweening pride. Teste considers Gratiola the Chamom . of chronic diseases. There is < during and after eating: vertigo during and after a meal. Hunger after a meal with feeling of emptiness. The diarrhœa is yellowish, gushing, watery, as though rushing from a hydrant. There is also vomiting of yellowish fluid. Summer diarrhœa from excessive drinking of water whether cold or hot. Soreness, burning or irritation of anus follows the stools. Two excellent cures with Gratiola have been recorded by C. W. Sonnenschmidt ( H. R ., xi. 547). ( 1 ) Mrs. C., 53, attacked in June with diarrhœa; yellow, watery, frothy stools gushing out with force. Severe cutting pains in abdomen; rumbling of flatulence. Occasional nausea and vomiting. Coloc . and Ipec . failed to relieve; then on close inquiry it was elicited that "a cold feeling in the abdomen" had been a feature throughout. Grat. off . 3, cured promptly. ( 2 ) A three-weeks' old infant was attacked with diarrhœa and colic. There were two or three passages in quick succession, and then an interval of an hour or two. Passages green or yellow, watery, frothy , expelled suddenly; nausea, vomiting, severe pain before stools, relieved after, for a short time. Cham., Coloc., Verat . failed and Grat . rapidly cured. It also removed in this case "redness around anus, and on one side an abrasion of half an inch in extent, which caused some oozing of blood." E. E. Case ( Med. Adv ., xxix. 343) cured a woman, æt. 50, of hæmorrhoids with the following symptoms: ( 1 ) Constipation, difficult stools. ( 2 ) External piles from any exertion and after stool. ( 3 ) Biting, stinging tension in tumours. ( 4 ) During stool, a sensation as if the rectal membrane was torn. ( 5 ) After stool, all the nerves of the pelvis seem in a high state of tension; the flesh on the perineum feels as if torn from the bone. [Compare "Wrenching pain in coccyx."] Sleepless before midnight; peevish; melancholy. Grat . 200 cured. Cooper has used it with great success in a case of gouty acidity with great constipation; and in the constipation of cancer. He regards it as "the vegetable antacid." It is said to have formed the basis for a once famous nostrum for gout, "Eau Médicinale." Indications are: Constant sinking but cannot eat; bitter taste. The affection of the solar plexus is very marked; cramps beginning at pit of stomach, and pains radiating therefrom; anxiety; gnawing; empty feeling; rolling about in epigastric region. Urine is diminished, reddish, turbid. Buvier, says Teste, saw four cases of nymphomania in females to whom herb-doctors had given injections of a decoction of freshly gathered Gratiola . Burnett considers it specific in female masturbation and nymphomania. A number of pains are experienced in the coccyx. Chilly; shuddering on entering a warm room. Heat ascending to face, with redness and increased external warmth. Constant vaporous exhalation from body. Sensations: as if brain contracted; as if head grew smaller; as if brain would fall forward; as if sand in eyes; as if throat contracted; as if a stone rolling from side to side in stomach. The left side is more affected than the right. The head and eye symptoms are of the first importance. Rush of blood to head with vanishing of sight I consider a keynote. With Grat . 30. I cured this symptom in a patient: "Sometimes everything seems to assume a yellowish tint, and occasionally, when I have been taking notes, a rush of blood to my head seems to shut the book from my sight and for the moment I have been unable to follow the speaker by writing although I could by thought." Motion < ; rest > . > In open air; < in warm room (some headaches, and vertigo have the opposite modality). Coffee = neuralgia.

Relations

Antidoted by: Caust., Bell., Euphorb., Nux v. It antidotes: Iodum. Compare: Apis, Bell., Helleb., Cham., Nux v., Elat., Pod. Hunger after meals with feeling of emptiness, Lauro., Calc., Cascaril., Chi., Cin.; (emptiness after stool, Petrol.); vanishing of sight and headache, Gels.; botanical, Dig., Euphr., Scroph.

Causation

Abuse of coffee.

Mind

Serious, taciturn, absorbed in reverie. ─ Self-concentration. ─ Irresolute, want of perseverance. ─ Ill-humour, tired of life, apprehensive of the future; hysteria; hypochondriasis. ─ Loquacity and gaiety.

Head

Whirling vertigo on shutting the eyes. ─ Vertigo when reading, and when seated, as if the head were waving backwards and forwards. ─ Headache, with nausea and drowsiness. ─ Intoxicated feeling during and after a meal. ─ Rush of blood to the head and feeling as if intoxicated in whole brain. ─ Violent rush of blood to head, with throbbing in forehead amounting to vertigo, with blackness before the eyes; < by motion, esp. riding, increasing even to loss of consciousness, only disappearing after several hours' sleep. ─ Pressive headache, esp. in the forehead and occiput. ─ Lancinating and pulsative headache. ─ Sensation of heaviness in the forehead, as if the brain would fall forward, with stoppage of the nose. ─ Sensation as if the head were shrinking from contraction of the brain. ─ Sudden attack; sudden vibration in the head, which suspends the senses of sight and hearing. ─ The headache is < when rising from a seat, during movement, and while walking in the open air. ─ The head is very sensitive to cold. ─ Heat in the head, on raising the head. ─ Tightness in the forehead with wrinkles in the skin.

Eyes

Itching, quivering, and sensation of weakness in eyelids. ─ Itching of eyelashes. ─ The eyes feel dry and as if sand were in them. ─ Burning pain and pressure on the eyes. ─ Eyes watery and weak when reading. ─ Mist before eyes, when reading or writing. ─ Myopia on reading. ─ Sees distant objects better than near ones. ─ While writing, or looking at light objects, sight suddenly vanishes; > by closing eyes, but constantly returns. ─ All objects seem white on opening the eyes, even green trees and turf.

Ears

Tearing and shootings in ears. ─ Itching of the ears.

Nose

Frequent sneezings, with shootings in l. side of the chest and of the hypochondria. ─ Stoppage of the nose. ─ Smarting-itching in l. nostril. ─ Pressure at upper part of nose.

Face

Burning heat and redness of the face. ─ Tingling-burning in malar bones. ─ Sensation of tension in the face; it feels swollen. ─ Swelling of upper lip (every morning, with stinging). ─ Tearing on one side of face. ─ Painful crack in l. side of chin.

Teeth

Nocturnal tearing or piercing in the molars. ─ Sensation of cold in the teeth.

Mouth

Accumulation of much saliva in the mouth. ─ Accumulation of clear water in the mouth. ─ Mouth bitter or clammy. ─ Tongue rough, covered with mucus. ─ Fetid breath in the morning after waking.

Throat

Pressure in throat, as from thick mucus. ─ Accumulation of mucus in throat. ─ Pain in throat obliging one to swallow constantly; the swallowing is difficult, as if the throat were contracted; < during empty deglutition. ─ Stinging in throat (l. side). ─ Tingling, roughness, and scraping in throat. ─ Phlegm in throat, with inability to throw it off.

Appetite

Gnawing, as from hunger after eating. ─ Constant sinking at epigastrium, but cannot eat. ─ Hunger, sometimes with loathing and horror of all food. ─ Increased thirst.

Stomach

Bitter or sweetish risings. ─ Ineffectual efforts to eructate, with pressure from stomach to throat, which suspends respiration. ─ Empty or cold feeling in stomach. ─ Hiccough. ─ Regurgitation of bitter water. ─ Constant nausea, with retching. ─ Nausea, with cold in the abdomen. ─ Vomiting, with stoppage of the nose. ─ Bilious vomiting, or vomiting of acid or bitter substances. ─ Uneasiness, and sensation of fulness in stomach. ─ Pressure on the stomach after a meal, with nausea. ─ Searching and digging in the stomach, with inclination to vomit. ─ Pressure on the epigastrium after a meal, as from a stone; which moves back and forth. ─ The sufferings of the stomach and of the epigastrium are often accompanied by nausea, or ineffectual efforts at eructation. ─ Paroxysms of inclination to vomit, > by eructations. ─ Rolling about in epigastrium.

Abdomen

Shooting pains in the abdomen. ─ Beatings in l. hypochondrium (heating pain, burning). ─ Pressive pain in abdomen, with pinchings (in umbilical region), which force the patient to bend double ( > by the emission of flatulence). ─ Inflation of the abdomen. ─ Flatulent and pressive colic, with nausea and disagreeable risings. ─ Rumbling, with nausea, eructation, and vertigo. ─ Feeling of coldness in abdomen, lasting half all hour.

Stool and Anus

Urgent and fruitless want to evacuate. ─ Constipation. ─ Fæces, hard, scanty, and tenacious, expelled with great effort. ─ Nocturnal slimy diarrhœa, with tenesmus. ─ Diarrhœa: stools, watery yellow-green, succeeded by burning at the anus; green frothy, coming out with great force. ─ Stools with burning and protrusion of large stinging-burning tumours. ─ Passage of fæces without being conscious of it. ─ Discharge of ascarides. ─ Pain, as from excoriation in the rectum. ─ Burning pain in the rectum, during and after the evacuation. ─ Shootings, itching, smarting, and throbbing in the anus. ─ Blind hæmorrhoids.

Urinary Organs

Diminished secretion of urine. ─ Scanty and reddish urine, which becomes turbid on standing, with cloudy sediment. ─ Burning in the urethra during and after micturition.

Male Sexual Organs

Stitches in l. spermatic cord, ascending through the abdomen up to the chest. ─ Painful rigidity of the penis after pollutions. ─ Drawing pain in glans.

Female Sexual Organs

Catamenia premature, too profuse, and of too long duration. ─ Masturbation. ─ Nymphomania. ─ Irritable condition of sexual organs, with congestions. ─ Shootings in r. breast, < on rising, during menses.

Respiratory Organs

Dry cough, excited by a sensation of roughness in the chest, esp. in the morning or at night. ─ Nocturnal cough, with pain as from excoriation in the trachea, oppression of the chest and shivering. ─ Choking when ascending.

Chest

Heat in the chest, then the head and hands, with redness of the face. ─ Pressure on the chest. ─ Shootings in the chest on breathing. ─ Pimples on the chest, which burn after having been scratched.

Heart

Palpitation of the heart. ─ Violent palpitation, particularly immediately after a stool, and with oppression of the chest.

Neck and Back

Sensation as if the neck were seized with the hands. ─ Darting from the l. scapula to the shoulder and mamma. ─ Sticking pain in lower dorsal vertebræ; in r. kidney. ─ Bruised pain in loins. ─ Painful cramps in coccyx. ─ Pressive or wrenching pain in coccyx after stool.

Upper Limbs

Rheumatic pains in the shoulders, arms, fingers, particularly in elbow and wrist-joint. ─ Itching in the palm of the (r.) hand.

Lower Limbs

Bruised pain in the thigh, after a short walk. ─ Lancinating tearing in tibia when sitting, disappearing when walking. ─ Smarting itching on tibia. ─ Shootings in legs and feet.

Generalities

Tearing in the limbs. ─ Tetanus, with full consciousness while lying down after a meal, followed by a deep sleep with emission of semen; bruised feeling of the body, back and l. arm on waking. ─ The majority of symptoms appear at night, or when sitting, and after rising from a seat, or in the open air; contact > them. ─ Great languor and prostration. ─ Great loquacity and gaiety.

Skin

Itching with burning after scratching. ─ Running and corrosive eruptions, which resemble scabies.

Sleep

Irresistible drowsiness with yawning. ─ Great drowsiness, with frequent yawning and inclination to lie down, esp. in the afternoon. ─ Deep sleep, like stupor.

Fever

Pulse small, intermittent. ─ Great tendency to chilliness. ─ Chilliness in a warm room, during sleep, after an evacuation; with the hair standing on end. ─ Heat ascending to the face, with redness and increased external warmth. ─ Constant vaporous exhalation from the body.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

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

General

Hedge Hyssop. Scrophulariaceæ.
A plant growing in moist places in Central and Southern Europe.
The tincture is prepared from the fresh plant before flowering.
Extensively proved by German provers ; also by Nicol and Spearman. See Allen's Encyclopædia., vol. 4, p. 491 .
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.
- Throbbing in temples , Berridge, Raue's Rec., 1872, p. 24 ; Pain in occiput , Berridge, Hom. Clinics, vol. 4, p. 111 ; Hydrocephalus , Altdorfer, Raue's Rec., 1872, p. 63 ; Cardialgia , Raue's Rec., 1872, p. 134 ; Swelling of mesenteric glands , Hartung, Hom. Clinics, vol. 3, p. 35 ; Cholera , Würzler, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 475 ; Cholera infantum , Miller, Raue's Rec., 1873, p. 122.

Mind

Irresolute ; want of perseverance.
Serious, taciturn, absorbed in reverie.
Hypochondriacal affections ; melancholia.
Great depression and disinclination to do anything.
Peevish ; capricious ; constipation ; oppression of stomach after a meal, etc. θ Hypochondriasis.
Ill humor, tired of life, apprehensive of the future.
Delirium tremens, when the delirium assumes the character of anger rather than of anxiety, in subjects not yet greatly exhausted.
Hypochondriasis and hysteria arising from abdominal troubles.
(OBS :) Mental troubles from overweening pride.

Sensorium

Intoxicated feeling during and after a meal.
Vertigo : with heat in head ; on closing eyes ; while reading ; on rising from a seat.
Vertigo during and after a meal.
Violent rush of blood, with throbbing in forehead ; vertigo and blackness before eyes ; < by motion.
Determination of blood to head, heat and somnolence.
Fulness and congestion of blood to head with peculiar biting, burning in face and other parts ; languor ; nausea ; disgust for food and vertigo ; > in open air.

Inner head

Sensation as if brain contracted and as if head grew smaller.
Sensation of heaviness in forehead, as if brain would fall forward, with stoppage of nose.
Pressure in forehead, with vertigo.
Throbbing in temples.
Heat in head after rising from stooping.
Heaviness in head with nausea.
Headaches with peculiar biting and burning in face and other parts, languor in arms and legs, nausea, disgust for food, vertigo ; > in open air.
Pain in occiput on early waking, > by rising or lying prone.
Pain in left occiput on sneezing.
After several days' headache, weakness, loss of appetite, etc., convulsions, followed by sopor and occasional screaming ; unconsciousness ; lies upon back, with low respiration ; occasional sighing ; gnashing of teeth ; eyes shut ; pupils enlarged ; slow pulse ; unconscious discharge of feces and urine. θ Hydrocephalus.
Sick headache with mental depression ; nausea, disgust for food ; giddiness > in open air ; sensation of heaviness in head and constriction of forehead.

Outer head

Tightness in forehead with wrinkles in skin.
Itching of scalp.
Peculiar coldness in and about head.
Frequent feeling of coldness on vertex, painful, and changing to a feeling of warmth when moving head.
Head very sensitive to cold.

Sight and eyes

Objects, even green ones, appear white.
Mist before eyes, when reading or writing.
Short-sightedness, with burning heat in face.
Eyes shut ; pupils enlarged. θ Hydrocephalus.
Eyes feel dry as if sand were in them.
Itching about the eyelashes.

Hearing and ears

Itching of ears.

Smell and nose

Pressure at upper part of nose.
Smarting itching in left nostril.

Upper face

Redness of face.
Sensation of tension and tingling in face ; it feels swollen.
Tingling burning in malar bones.
Burning heat in face, while it feels cold to hand.
Every morning, for weeks, swelling of upper lip, disappearing after a few hours.

Teeth and gums

Teeth ache from cold.
Gnashing of teeth. θ Meningitis.

Taste, speech, tongue

Tongue rough, coated with mucus.

Inner mouth

Fetid breath on waking.
Accumulation of clear water in mouth, causing frequent spitting.

Palate and throat

Pain in throat obliging one to swallow constantly ; swallowing is difficult, as if throat were contracted ; < during empty deglutition.
Stinging in throat (l. side).
Phlegm in throat, with inability to throw it off.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Hunger after eating, with feeling of emptiness ; without appetite.
Appetite for nothing but bread.
Violent thirst.
Aversion to smoking.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Hiccough.
Gulping up of bitter substances ; empty retching.
Nausea : > after eating, and by eructations ; in afternoon.
Two attacks of vomiting in quick succession, of yellow, bitter, sour water.
Vomiting of mucous and bilious matter.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Feeling of anxiety in epigastrium and stomach.
Gnawing at pit of stomach after eating, as of hunger.
Pressure at pit of stomach, as from a stone rolling from side to side, with cramp-like drawing which mounts into chest ; at same time frequent urging to vomit and eructations ; < after food.
Pain in pit of stomach, spreads to upper abdomen, back, and especially kidneys ; nausea and vomiting ; peculiar sensation in abdomen and stomach.
Great distension of stomach after meals.
Pressure in stomach after every meal.
Cold feeling of stomach, as if full of water.
Empty or cold feeling in stomach.
Pain in stomach, with nausea and general discomfort.
Cramps in stomach.
Cardialgia ; pain commences in pit of stomach, and spreads to upper abdomen, back, and especially kidneys ; vomiting ; constipation ; urine scanty, reddish, turbid, and painful to discharge.
Gastralgia.

Hypochondria

Heating pain and burning in left hypochondrium.

Abdomen and loins

Distension of abdomen in afternoon and evening.
Rumbling, with nausea, eructations and vertigo ; much flatulence.
Cold feeling in abdomen.
Burning in abdomen.
Gnawing about umbilicus, as of worms.
Tingling in hypogastrium and around umbilicus.
Sticking pain about umbilicus.
Pinching in umbilical region, > by emission of flatus.
Colic, violent bellyache with nausea.
Blenorrhœa of the intestines with great depression and greatest disinclination to do anything.
Swelling of mesenteric glands after abuse of Iodine preparations.

Stools and rectum

Frequent discharge of yellow, watery feces.
Diarrhœa-like stools of thin, fluid, bright yellow feces, followed by chilliness.
Diarrhœa, consisting only of yellow-greenish water, followed by burning in anus.
Diarrhœa of green, frothy water, forcibly evacuated without pain.
Yellow, watery evacuations upwards and downwards, with much flatus.
Frequent stools, consisting of thin, watery feces, with soreness in anus.
Stools frequent, gushing out with force.
Brown fetid mucous stools.
Stools : watery ; yellow ; green ; frothy.
Diarrhœa : < in open air ; < after drinking too freely of water.
Cholera morbus from drinking excessive quantities of water of moderate coldness ; the quantity and not the coldness, being the cause.
Fully developed, rapid, Asiatic cholera.
Vomiting particularly severe, and often accompanied by pains in head ; cramps beginning in solar plexus and spreading thence over whole body ; the evacuations from above and below were always green, and gradually changed into a colorless fluid.
Unconscious passage of feces. θ Hydrocephalus.
Stools hard, scanty, tenacious, expelled with difficulty.
Before stool : nausea ; rumbling in abdomen ; cutting around umbilicus ; pressing and ineffectual desire ; repeated tenesmus and rumbling, as if diarrhœa would come on.
During stool : nausea ; burning pain in rectum ; straining.
After stool : burning pains in rectum ; tenesmus ; wrenching pain in coccyx ; creeping chills ; painful pressure in abdomen when walking, > by sitting down.
Pain not > by stool, but by escape of flatus.
Soreness in the rectum, burning during and after stool.
Stools with burning and protrusion of large, stinging-burning tumors ; varices of rectum.
Tearing in rectum, or prickling in anus.
Great rectal and anal irritation, with passage of fetid mucus.
Constriction of anus.
Itching of anus.
Discharge of ascarides.

Urinary organs

Burning in urethra during and after micturition.
Urine diminished.
Urine scant, reddish, becomes turbid on standing.
Unconscious discharge of urine. θ Hydrocephalus.
Flocculent sediment in urine.

Male sexual organs

Involuntary emission succeeded by a painful erection.
Stitches in left spermatic cord, ascending through abdomen up to chest.

Female sexual organs

Nymphomania.
Irritable condition of sexual organs with congestions.
Menses too early and too profuse.
Leucorrhœa with pain in small of back.
Darting in right mamma when stooping < on rising, during menses.

Respiration

Respiration feeble ; occasional sighing. θ Hydrocephalus.

Inner chest and lungs

Oppression of chest, right side.
Burning in left side of chest.
Heat in chest, then in head and hands, with redness of face.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Violent palpitation of heart, particularly immediately after stool, and with oppression of chest.
Pulse small, intermittent.

Outer chest

Darting in right mamma.

Neck and back

Sensation as if neck were seized with hand.
Darting from left scapula to shoulder and mamma.
Painful cramps in os coccygis.
Wrenching pain in coccyx after stool.

Upper limbs

Rheumatic pains in shoulders, arms, fingers, particularly in elbow and wrist-joint.
Itching in palm of right hand.

Lower limbs

Bruised pain in thigh, after a short walk.
Lancinating tearing in tibia when sitting, disappearing when walking.
Smarting itching on tibia.

Rest. position. motion

Lies upon back : with low respiration.
Lying prone : pain in occiput ; tetanic condition.
Sitting down : pressure in abdomen > ; lancinating tearing in tibia.
Stooping : darting in right mamma.
Rising from stooping : heat in head ; darting in right mamma <.
Rising from a seat : vertigo ; pain in occiput >.
Motion : < vertigo and blackness before eyes.
Walking : pressure in abdomen ; bruised pain in thigh ; lancinating tearing in tibia >.

Nerves

Physical and mental depression.
Great languor and prostration.
Tetanic condition, without loss of consciousness, while lying down after a meal, followed by deep sleep with emission of semen ; bruised feeling of body, back and left arm on waking.
Nervous diseases, such as mania, nymphomania, etc., and neuralgic affections caused by prolonged abuse of coffee.

Sleep

Irresistible drowsiness with yawning, and involuntary closing of eyes.
Great somnolence and lassitude after meals.
Deep sleep, like stupor.

Time

Afternoon : nausea > after eating and eructations ; distension of abdomen.
Evening : distension of abdomen.

Temperature and weather

Open air : > fulness and congestion of blood to head ; languor in arms and legs, nausea, disgust for food, vertigo > ; diarrhœa <.
Warm room : chilliness.
Cold : head sensitive to cold ; toothache.

Fever

Chilliness in a warm room, during sleep, after an evacuation ; with hair standing on end.
Coldness ; shuddering when entering a room. θ Diarrhœa.
Heat, ascending to face, with redness and increased external warmth.

Attacks, periodicity

Two attacks : of vomiting, in quick succession, of yellow, bitter, sour water.
After every meal : pressure in stomach.
Every morning : for several weeks swelling of upper lip disappearing after a few hours.

Locality and direction

Right : darting in mamma ; oppression in chest ; itching in palms.
Left : smarting, itching of nostril ; stinging in throat ; heating pain and burning in left hypochondrium ; stitches in spermatic cord ; burning in side of chest ; darting in scapula ; bruised feeling in arm ; itch-like pustules below buttock.

Sensations

As if brain contracted ; as if head grew smaller ; as if brain would fall forward ; eyes feel as if sand were in them ; as if throat were contracted ; as from a stone rolling from side to side in stomach ; as if stomach was full of water ; gnawing as from worms in abdomen ; rumbling and tenesmus as if diarrhœa would come on ; as if neck were seized with hand.
Pain : in occiput ; in throat ; in pit of stomach, spreads to upper abdomen ; in back ; in kidneys ; in stomach ; in head ; in small of back.
Lancinating tearing : in tibia.
Tearing : in rectum.
Cutting : around umbilicus.
Stitches : in left spermatic cord, extending through abdomen to chest.
Sticking pain : about umbilicus.
Darting : in right mamma ; from left scapula to shoulder and mamma.
Pinching : in umbilical region.
Painful cramps : in os coccygis.
Cramps : in stomach ; beginning in solar plexus and spreading thence over whole body.
Gnawing : at pit of stomach ; about umbilicus.
Wrenching pain : in coccyx.
Rheumatic pains : in shoulders, arms, fingers, particularly in elbow and wrist-joint.
Biting : in face.
Throbbing : in forehead ; in temples.
Stinging : in throat.
Burning pain : in rectum.
Bruised pain : in thigh ; in body, back and left arm.
Burning heat : in face.
Heating pain : in left hypochondrium.
Tingling, burning : in malar bones.
Tingling : in hypogastrium and about umbilicus.
Burning : in face ; in left hypochondrium ; in abdomen ; in anus ; in urethra during and after micturition ; in left side of chest.
Heat : in head.
Painful pressure : in abdomen.
Soreness : of anus ; in rectum.
Constriction : of forehead ; of anus.
Tightness : in forehead.
Pressure : in forehead ; at upper part of nose ; at pit of stomach ; in stomach.
Peculiar sensation : in abdomen and stomach.
Feeling of anxiety : in epigastrium ; in stomach.
Fulness : of head.
Oppression : of stomach.
Empty feeling : in stomach.
Languor : in arms and legs.
Tension and tingling : in face.
Heaviness : in forehead.
Smarting, itching : in left nostril ; on tibia.
Itching : of scalp ; about the eyelashes ; of ears ; of anus ; in palm of right hand.
Peculiar coldness : in and about head.
Painful coldness changing to feeling of warmth in moving head.

Tissues

Constant vaporous exhalation from body.
(OBS :) Dropsy and ascites.
Subacute or chronic inflammatory conditions of stomach and intestinal tract, with pains and spasmodic ailments.

Skin

Itching, with burning after scratching.
Acne punctata.
Running, corrosive eruption.
Scabies or herpes.
Small boils.
Itch-like pustule below left buttock.
Miliary pimples with yellow tips.

Stage of life, constitution

Boy, æt. 8 ; hydrocephalus.

Relations

Antidoted by : Caustic., Bellad., Euphorb., Nux vom .
It antidotes : Iodium .
Compare : Apis., Bellad., Helleb . (hydrocephalus) ; Chamom . (Teste considers it the Chamom. of chronic diseases) ; Nux vom . (neuralgia after coffee).

Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

James Tyler Kent · Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Séror HTML text (Kent d. 1916; public domain)

Lecture

It is a great remedy for nervous prostration; marked lassitude, with mental and bodily weakness. It is closely related to Coffea and Nux vomica and especially useful for the weakness of the will and neuralgic pains in coffee drinkers. In hypochondria and in the female it has melancholia and nymphomania. Convulsive conditions without loss of consciousness.

Complaints are better in the open air, but he is chilly in a warm room (like Pulsatilla); complaints predominate on the left side; constant vaporous exhalations from the body. Catarrhal conditions of the stomach and intestines with spasmodic ailments.

There is a lack of will power and aversion to work; mental depression and capriciousness; he is very irritable and hypochondriacal; fear of the future. Complaints from pride. Bad effects from coffee and alcohol; nervous complaints associated with stomach and bowel troubles.

Vertigo during and after eating; on closing the eyes; while reading; on rising from a seat; on motion; vertigo with cerebral hyperemia. Heat and fullness of the head; sensation as though the head grew smaller; pulsation in head; in temples; rush of blood to head, after rising from stooping.

The head symptoms are better in the open air and worse or come on in warm room. Pain in the occiput in the morning on waking, better rising or lying on the face. Sick headaches, nausea, vomiting or disgust for food, with vertigo, better in the open air.

Pain in occiput from sneezing. The head feels cold and is sensitive, to cold air. Cold sensation of vertex. Corrugated forehead during the headache. Itching of the scalp; itching of the eyes and ears. Mist before the eyes while reading and green objects appear white.

Pain in eyes as from sand; itching in the nose. There is a sensation of burning heat in the face, but it feels cold to the hand.

Swelling of the upper lip in the morning. There is a sensation of tension of the face and tingling and it feels swollen. The face is red; the teeth ache from cold things taken in the mouth. Grinding of teeth in brain affections.

Pain in the throat, compelling constant swallowing; much mucus in the throat, which he cannot eject. Violent thirst; emptiness in the stomach after eating; emptiness when he does not need or desire food. Craves nothing but bread.

Nausea better after eating and by eructations. Vomiting of bitter, sour water and mucus. A feeling of anxiety in the stomach. Cramping in the stomach after food and a heavy load that seems to go from side to side as he turns from side to side, with nausea and eructation. Distension after eating. Pressure in stomach, after eating. Marked coldness in stomach. Cramp and hard aching in stomach, pain grows rapidly worse and seems to extend to back and kidneys.

Cold feeling in abdomen. Cramping like colic with nausea. Rumbling in abdomen with distension in afternoon and evening. Swelling of mesenteric glands. Pinching in abdomen, better by passing flatus. Diarrhoea, with copious gushing, yellow or yellowish-green, frothy, watery stools; copious watery vomiting and purging, like. cholera morbus; copious green watery stools. The diarrhoea is brought on. from drinking large quantities of water, due to the violent thirst.

During the diarrhoea he is often sensitive to draft and open air which give him urging to stool. It has cured fully developed, rapid, Asiatic cholera. Green stools and green vomiting, unconscious stools.

Before stool, nausea; rumbling, cutting; tenesmus. During stool, nausea; burning in rectum straining. After stool, burning in rectum; tenesmus; pain in coccyx creeping chills; pain in abdomen.

Protrusion of stinging, burning hemorrhoids. Tearing and pricking in anus. Constriction in anus; itching anus. Ascarides. Burning in the urethra during and after urination; scanty urine becomes turbid on standing; unconscious discharge of urine. Stitching in left spermatic cord to abdomen and chest.

It is a most useful remedy in the female when there is marked irritability of the sexual organs, if the sexual desire is great excited; it is one of our best remedies for nymphomania. When the desire is so violent that it drives her to secret vice the remedies are Gelsemium, Gratiola, Origanum, Nux vomica, Phosphorus, Platina and Zincum.

The menses are too early and profuse; darting pain in right mamma when stooping and during menses worse on rising; leucorrhea with pains in sacrum.

Violent palpitation after stool ( Conium) with oppression of chest heat in chest, head, hands, with red face.

Rheumatic pains in upper limbs; sore bruised pains in lower limbs, after walking, tearing in the tibia while sitting, better while walking.

Sleepiness after eating; deep sleep, Itching and burning of the skin, after scratching.