Gelsemium sempervirens

Mental.--Bad effects from great fright or fear; threatened abortion from fright. (This Gelsem. fright is an awe-stricken feeling, a deep-seated fright or fear, that has made a deep impression.)

Eyes.--Loss of sight; eyes feel bruised: double vision; sensation of double vision controllable by the will, during pregnancy; appearance of smoke before the eyes, cannot see anything; pupils dilated.

Sensations.--Dull pain in back part of the head; headache with giddiness and faintness; pain in the neck, also in the limbs; drowsiness; sensation as though the skin at the middle of the forehead and about the face were contracted; also of contraction of the muscles of the face, particularly about the mouth, making it difficult to talk; spasmodic pains; bruised sensation all over the body, as if resulting from severe bodily exertion.

Generalities.--Does not wish to be spoken to; all exciting news cause diarrhœa; pulsations of the carotid arteries; sneezing; powerless condition of the lower extremities. Heat of the face with fulness of the head, and cold feet; putrid breath and fetid taste; frequent discharge of flatus with constipation. During parturition, when at every pain, with rigidity of the neck of the uterus, the pain strikes into the abdomen, above or below the navel, running from before, backward and upward; also, when the pain starts all right, then breaks and runs up the back, thus losing its efficacy. Respiration frequent and very unequal; coldness of the wrists and hands; hands dry and hot; especially the palms; delirium occurring soon as sleep comes on; waking from sleep with headache or colic; fevers, where muscular power is affected, patient feels so utterly without power.