GELSEMIUM SEMPERVIRENS
By C.M. Boger — A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica
REGION
- CIRCULATION.
- BRAIN CORD: OCCIPUT. Base. Neck.
- MOTOR NERVES: MUSCLES. Knees. EYES (LIDS. VISION.)
- MUCOUS MEMBRANES: Nose. Gall-ducts.
- Right side.
WORSE
- EMOTIONS; DREAD.
- Surprise.
- Shock.
- Ordeals.
- Motion.
- Weather: SPRING. Foggy. HUMID. Muggy.
- Heat of summer.
- Periodically.
- Dentition.
- Tobacco.
- Gas.
BETTER
- Profuse urination.
- Sweating.
- Shaking.
- Alcoholic drinks.
- Mental effort.
ACHING, TIRED, HEAVY, WEAK AND SORE; < limbs. Grippe. Overpowering aching. Heavy single parts, heart, liver, etc. Lies quietly, half reclining. Nerve exhaustion. Dull, drowsy and dizzy. TREMOR; or twitches of single muscles, face, chin, tongue, etc.; wants to be held. Chorea, of pregnancy. Paretic effects; eyes, throat, anus, bladder, etc. Inco-ordination. Fulness. Passive congestion. Symptoms accompanied by vertigo, eye or visual effects, drowsiness or polyuria. .................... CONFUSED, dazed, apathetic, torpid, dull, drowsy and dizzy, or indifferent; answers slowly. DREAD of falling; of ordeals, death, pains, etc. VERTIGO; drunken; in occiput. Headache; dull, HEAVY, band-like, occipital, to over eyes; < tight hat; swelled feeling; basilar. Meningitis. Apoplexy. Suffused, sore, aching eyes. HEAVY, DROOPING EYELIDS. VISION; double; swimming; blind spells; affected, then migraine. Face full, dusky - red; heavy, expressionless; besotted. Ciliary neuralgia; pains into ears on swallowing. Pains to occiput. Nose stuffed. Sneezing; thin, acrid coryza. Sensation as of hot water flowing from the nostrils. Heavy tongue; thick speech. . Griping in gall-bladder. Copious, yellow stools. Painless, nervous diarrhœa. Rectal pains after labor. Clear, watery urine, > headache. Alternate pelvic and head symptoms. Atonic seminal losses. , ; it feels grasped. Dysmenorrhœa. Labor pains go up, backward or down thighs. Rigid os. Deep yellow leucorrhœa. Hoarse, during menses. Tiresome breathing. Chest; as of a lump behind sternum; congestion. Heart sore; threatens to stop, must move. Spine, , > walking; with occipital pain. . Hard ache in r. humerus. Wants hands in cool water. Heavy lower limbs. , < descending. ; can't direct his legs. , . DROWSINESS; starts on dropping to sleep. Heavy, stupid sleep. , , . Blood rushes from occiput to forehead. Visual disturbances, then chill. ; (Sil.); ; . Cold hands and feet. . ABSENCE OF THIRST, or trembling. Cold sweat on genitals. Fevers; bilious-remittent; malarial; cerebro-spinal. . Ebullitions and heats. Sluggish fever. Shuddering chill.
Complementary: Arg-n. Sep.
Related: Con. Ign. Mur-ac. Nat-m. Sep. Ver-v.