Grindelia robusta

by E. B. Nash — Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics

Historical reference for practitioners and students. The statements below reflect the named author’s homeopathic teaching and do not establish treatment effectiveness. This text is not medical advice and must not replace appropriate diagnosis or care.

When dropping off to sleep the breath stops, the patient awakens catching for it, with a gasp, cannot get to sleep on this account.

Stops breathing when falling asleep; wakens with a start.

Grindelia robusta across the other classic books

Grindelia robusta appears in 9 of the 27 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.

Allen TF — A compiled symptom record drawing on proving reports and other named observations.
“Grindelia squarrosa. Natural order , Compositæ. Authority. J. H. Bundy, M.D., Hom. Times, vol. iv, 1877, p. 125. I prepared a tincture of the dried plant, using 8 ounces to a pint of Alcohol 78°, by percolation. At 7 P.M. I took a teaspoonful of the tincture; repeated the dose in half an hour, at which time I began to…”
Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Rosin-wood (GRINDELIA) Both Grindelia robusta and Grindelia squarrosa have been used for the symptoms here recorded. There is practically no difference in their action, although the G. Squarrosa is credited with more splenic symptoms, dull pains and fullness in left hypochondrium; chronic malaria; gastric pains…”
Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“Pneumo-gastric nerve. Bronchiæ. Respiration. Falling to sleep. Profuse secretions. .................... Suffocates on falling to sleep or on awaking. Asthma. Rattling breathing. Tenacious expectoration. Bronchorrhœa. Cutting soreness about spleen. Related: Lach.”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“robusta and Grindelia squarrosa. N. O. Compositæ. The Grindeliæ are a genus of asteroid composites growing on the Pacific coast and inland on the mountains. The terminal heads of yellow flowers and the leaves are usually covered with a viscid balsamic secretion, from which they have been called "gum plants." A…”
Hale — The introduction story — early pathogenetic and clinical evidence for medicines new to Hale's generation.
“Description. — This is a small herbaceous plant, with perennial root. It belongs to the order Composites. This species and the Grindelia squarrosa, which is often mistaken for it by herb-gatherers and druggists, is found on the plains of the Pacific Slope. The whole plant, like the G. squarrosa, is permeated with a…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Grindelia. Compositæ. A plant growing on the Pacific coast and inland on the mountains. Proving by Bundy (Not in Allen's Encyclopædia ) and by Hale, see N. A. J. H., vol. 25. CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. Iritis , Fiske, N. A. J. H., vol. 25, p. 204 ; Hay-fever, rose-cold, asthma , Steele, Times Retros., vol. 2, p. 12 …”
Hughes & Dake — The source evidence — provings and poisonings retained with their experimental context.
“GRINDELIA. Gfimitlia iquarrota. Nat. Ord., CemptiUm. I, Provingi, — i. I commenced at 7 p.m. by taking one tea of the tincture. In half an h. 1 took another, at which time I feel a terrible fulness in my head. This continued 15 m., wh taken with pain in my 1. eye and r. knee-joint, precisely lil rheumatism. The pain…”
Roberts — Location, sensation, and modality — the three-fold basis Roberts used to separate remedies.
“Grindelia has marked action in rheumatic troubles of the eye resulting from exposure to cold or metastases from some other part, always with intense pain and high fever. Grindelia antidotes Rhus tox. RHEUMATIC IRITIS FROM EXPOSURE TO COLD OR METASTASIS OF RHEUMATISM; PAIN IS INTENSE, RUNNING DIRECTLY BACK TO THE…”

Grindelia robusta in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Grindelia robusta in 27 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in RESPIRATION (8), SKIN (6), EYE (3), GENERALITIES (3), EXTREMITIES (2).

RESPIRATION - ARRESTED - sleep, - on going to
RESPIRATION - ARRESTED - sleep, - during
RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT - sleep, - falling asleep,when
RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT - waking,with
RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT - expectoration - amel.
SKIN - ERUPTIONS - rhus poisoning
SKIN - ERUPTIONS - papular
RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT - sleep, - during
EYE - DISCHARGES - purulent
EXTREMITIES - ULCERS - Leg
EXTREMITIES - ULCERS - Lower Limbs
GENERALITIES - SLEEP - at beginning of,agg.
EYE - INFLAMMATION
RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT
MIND - LONGING - sunshine,light and society,for
SKIN - ULCERS - black
SKIN - ULCERS - varicose
FACE - DISCOLORATION - red - bluish red
EYE - PAIN - motion of eyes,on
SKIN - ULCERS - discharges albuminous - offensive

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Grindelia robusta across the other classic books

Grindelia robusta appears in 9 of the 27 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.

Allen TF — A compiled symptom record drawing on proving reports and other named observations.

“Grindelia squarrosa. Natural order , Compositæ. Authority. J. H. Bundy, M.D., Hom. Times, vol. iv, 1877, p. 125. I prepared a tincture of the dried plant, using 8 ounces to a pint of Alcohol 78°, by percolation. At 7 P.M. I took a teaspoonful of the tincture; repeated the dose in half an hour, at which time I began to…”

Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.

“Rosin-wood (GRINDELIA) Both Grindelia robusta and Grindelia squarrosa have been used for the symptoms here recorded. There is practically no difference in their action, although the G. Squarrosa is credited with more splenic symptoms, dull pains and fullness in left hypochondrium; chronic malaria; gastric pains…”

Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.

“Pneumo-gastric nerve. Bronchiæ. Respiration. Falling to sleep. Profuse secretions. .................... Suffocates on falling to sleep or on awaking. Asthma. Rattling breathing. Tenacious expectoration. Bronchorrhœa. Cutting soreness about spleen. Related: Lach.”

Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.

“robusta and Grindelia squarrosa. N. O. Compositæ. The Grindeliæ are a genus of asteroid composites growing on the Pacific coast and inland on the mountains. The terminal heads of yellow flowers and the leaves are usually covered with a viscid balsamic secretion, from which they have been called "gum plants." A…”

Hale — The introduction story — early pathogenetic and clinical evidence for medicines new to Hale's generation.

“Description. — This is a small herbaceous plant, with perennial root. It belongs to the order Composites. This species and the Grindelia squarrosa, which is often mistaken for it by herb-gatherers and druggists, is found on the plains of the Pacific Slope. The whole plant, like the G. squarrosa, is permeated with a…”

Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.

“Grindelia. Compositæ. A plant growing on the Pacific coast and inland on the mountains. Proving by Bundy (Not in Allen's Encyclopædia ) and by Hale, see N. A. J. H., vol. 25. CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. Iritis , Fiske, N. A. J. H., vol. 25, p. 204 ; Hay-fever, rose-cold, asthma , Steele, Times Retros., vol. 2, p. 12 …”

Hughes & Dake — The source evidence — provings and poisonings retained with their experimental context.

“GRINDELIA. Gfimitlia iquarrota. Nat. Ord., CemptiUm. I, Provingi, — i. I commenced at 7 p.m. by taking one tea of the tincture. In half an h. 1 took another, at which time I feel a terrible fulness in my head. This continued 15 m., wh taken with pain in my 1. eye and r. knee-joint, precisely lil rheumatism. The pain…”

Roberts — Location, sensation, and modality — the three-fold basis Roberts used to separate remedies.

“Grindelia has marked action in rheumatic troubles of the eye resulting from exposure to cold or metastases from some other part, always with intense pain and high fever. Grindelia antidotes Rhus tox. RHEUMATIC IRITIS FROM EXPOSURE TO COLD OR METASTASIS OF RHEUMATISM; PAIN IS INTENSE, RUNNING DIRECTLY BACK TO THE…”