Genista tinctoria
by Timothy F. Allen — The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
Historical reference for practitioners and students.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.
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
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.