Genista

Genista tinctoria, Linn.

Natural order , Leguminosæ.

Common names , Dyer's Greenweld; (G.), Färbe-ginster; (Fr.), Genestrolle.

Preparation , Tincture of the whole plant.

Authorities.

Dr. Eugene B. Cushing, Mass. Hom. Med. Soc., vol. iii, p. 570; 1 , a prover, aged 23, took repeated doses of tincture; 2 , Rust Mag., 1825 (A. H. Z., 9, 287).

HEAD

• Vertigo.
• Vertigo on rising or shaking the head (half an hour after third dose, first day), 1.
• Vertigo on rising, in the afternoon; relieved in half an hour in the open air (third day), 1.
• Dizziness on walking fast or turning round (one hour after fifth dose, first day), 1.
• Dizziness approaching faintness, lasting a short time (one hour after fifth dose, first day), 1.
• General Head.
• Headache till dinner; none after eating, except on shaking the head; at 6 P.M. it came on suddenly, with vertigo on rising (second day), 1.
• Immediate headache, quite sharp in the forehead, which soon subsided into dull heavy pain; relieved by eating (after fourth dose, third day), 1.
• Slight headache, when turning quickly or shaking the head, in the afternoon (first day), 1.
• Severe headache, relieved by walking in the woods at 10 A.M. (third day), 1.
• Steady headache, which came on while exposed to the sun, in the forenoon (first day), 1. [10.]
• Dull heavy headache coming on after dinner, increasing after a dose of 5 drops (third day), 1.
• Headache worse on left side (two hours after fifth dose, first day), 1.
• Brain feels tender (sensitive), (one hour after fifth dose, first day), 1.
• On shaking the head, the brain feels tender (third day), 1.
• Sensation as though the brain was loose and very sensitive (half an hour after third dose, first day), 1.
• Forehead.
• Severe frontal headache, relieved by sitting in a cool room, in the forenoon (first day), 1.
• Slight pressing pain in centre of forehead at 9.10 A.M. (third day), 1.
• Temples.
• Frequent sharp pain in right temple, in the forenoon (first day), 1.
• Repeated sharp pain in right temple, from within outward, when walking, in the forenoon (first day), 1.
• Sharp piercing pain in left temple (two hours after fifth dose, first day), 1.

EYE. [20.]

• Eyes sensitive to the touch, in the forenoon (first day), 1.

EAR

• Once, a sensation in left ear, as though some sharp instrument was thrust into it, in the forenoon (first day), 1.

THROAT

• Dryness of the throat, in the forenoon (first day), 1.
• Throat dry and sensitive (third day), 1.

STOMACH

• During the night, waterbrash (second night), 1.
• Awoke several times during the night with waterbrash (first night), 1.
• Slight nausea (after sixth dose, first day), 1.

RECTUM AND ANUS

• Desire for stool, with violent sneezing, as from snuff, at 9 A.M. (third day), 1.
• Urgent desire for stool, lasting only a short time, soon (after second dose, third day), 1.

STOOL

• Stool soft and scanty, at 9.10 A.M. (third day), 1. [30.]
• Stool tinged with blood; the fæces, though large, were expelled like a wad from a popgun (forty minutes after third dose), 1.

SKIN

• Peculiar eruption, consisting of roundish, dark-red, confluent spots, scarcely elevated above the skin, which, itching very much, become scarlet red, then pale, and disappear within twenty-four hours; this eruption appears on the feet to the knees, and on the hands to the elbows, 2.

CONDITIONS

• Aggravation.
• ( Rising ), Vertigo.
• ( Shaking head ), Vertigo; headache.
• ( Turning quickly ), Headache.
• ( Walking ), Pain in temple.
• Amelioration.
• ( Open air ), Vertigo.
• ( Walking in open air ), Headache.
• ( Going to bed ), The symptoms.
• ( Sitting in cool room ), Frontal headache.
• ( Eating ), Headache.