Genista

Tinctoria. Dyer's Greenweld. N. O. Leguminosæ. Tincture of whole plant.

Clinical

Diarrhœa / Earache / Headache

Characteristics

Genista was proved by E. B. Cushing. Its principal effects are: Sharp piercing pains in the head and ear. Brain feels loose and sensitive. Sensitive feeling in brain, eye, and throat. Urgent desire for stool, which is expelled suddenly. A peculiar eruption of dark red confluent spots. < Rising; turning quickly; shaking head; walking. In the night, water-brash. > In open air; in cool rooms; by eating (headache).

Relations

Compare: (Brain feels loose) Cic. v., Nat. s., Bar. c., Rhus.

2. Head

Vertigo and headache on rising or shaking head, > after dinner. Sensation as if brain were loose and very sensitive. Frequent, sharp pain in r. temple from within outwards. Piercing pain in l. temple.

3. Eyes

Eyes sensitive to touch in forenoon.

4. Ears

Once a sensation in l. ear, as though some sharp instrument were thrust into it (forenoon).

9. Throat

Throat dry and sensitive.

11. Stomach

Awakened several times in the night with water-brash.

13. Stool and Anus

Desire for stool with violent sneezing as from snuff. Urgent desire for stool, lasting only a short time, soon after the dose. Stool soft and scanty. Stool tinged with blood; the fæces though large were expelled like a wad from a pop-gun (forty minutes after third dose).

25. Skin

Peculiar eruption, consisting of roundish, dark-red, confluent spots, scarcely elevated above the skin, which, itching very much, becomes scarlet-red, then pale, and disappears in twenty-four hours; it occurred on feet to knees, and hands to elbows.