Gnaphalium

Gnaphalium polycephalum, Michx.

Natural order , Compositæ.

Common names , Everlasting; (G.) Ruhrkraut; (Fr.) le Cotonnière.

Preparation , Trituration of dried leaves and flowers of G. polyceph.; tincture of whole plant of G. uliginosum, Linn.

Authorities.

1 , Dr. William Banks, provings, N. Am. J. of Hom., 7, 383, 1st and 2d dec. trit. of leaves and flowers; 2 , W. J. A. Fuller, took 3d dec. trit. first, second, third, and fifth days; 3 , Dr. Woodbury's provings, Trans. Mass. Hom. Soc., 2, 15, took 15 drops of tinct. of

Gnaphal. uliginosum , first day; 25 drops, fourth day; 50 drops, seventh day; 4 , ibid., after last proving, took 1/2 ounce of

Gnaphal. polyceph .; 5 , Mrs. S., gave 15 drops to each of three children (aged 4, 6, and 8) on going to bed, ibid.; 6 , Mrs. S., took 10 drops, then 15 and 25 drops of tinct. of

G. uliginosum.

MIND

• Very irritable, for two or three days, after the diarrhœa (all three cases), 5.

HEAD

• Giddiness, especially felt immediately after rising from a recumbent position, 1.
• From 3 to 4 P.M., a slight headache, and muddiness of feeling, about my head, which I endeavored to dissipate by smoking, at 8 P.M., failed of success, and had a "night-sweat" and headache, which was somewhat relieved by bathing the head with bay rum (sixth day), 2.
• When I first awoke, felt a fulness about the temples, like the incipient threatenings of a nervous headache (which is periodic with me, usually occurring after excessive smoking, or severe mental effort or anxiety); removed by a thorough washing of the head with cold water (second morning), 2.
• Pain in the back of the head, of dull, continuous character, 1.

EYE

• Slight pains about right eye, after rising (fifth morning), 2.
• Shooting pain in the eyeballs, occasionally felt, 1.

FACE

• Dull, heavy expression of countenance, with appearance of slight bloatedness, 1.
• Neuralgic pains of an intermittent form of superior maxillary of both sides, 1.

MOUTH

• Tongue. [10.]
• Tongue furred, on rising, at 7 A.M. (third morning), 2.
• Tongue covered with long white fur, 1.
• Mouth.
• Mouth dry, on rising, at 7 A.M. (third morning), 2.
• Mouth parched and tasting badly, at 2.30 A.M. (second night), 2.
• When I first awoke, my mouth felt slightly "furry;" and tasted unpleasantly; removed by thorough washing with cold water (second and seventh morning), 2.
• Taste.
• Flat, sweetish, sickening taste in mouth, 1.
• Taste in the mouth like that after chewing slippery-elm bark, after the powder (second day), 2.

THROAT

• A sort of gurgitation in my throat, half sour, half bitter, not an unusual thing with me, at 5 P.M., it soon passed away (second day), 2.

STOMACH

• Diminished appetite, 1.
• Indifferent, almost to aversion, to food, for two or three days, after the diarrhœa (all three cases), 5. [20.]
• From time to time obstinate attack of hiccough, 1.
• The youngest had violent vomiting and purging, like cholera morbus, before morning; the purging continued through the next day, at intervals of increasing length, 5.
• Much flatus of stomach, with windy eructations and slight nausea, 1.

ABDOMEN

• Borborygmus, with frequent emission of flatus, 1.
• Unusual rumbling (borborygmus) in the bowels, with slight griping pains during the day; in the evening, a diarrhœic stool, with uneasiness in the bowels until falling asleep (first day), 3.
• Slight pain and flatulence in my bowels, at 7 A.M. (third morning), 2.
• Slight bellyache, on waking, at 6 A.M. (fourth day), 2.
• A slight bellyache when I first got up, which soon disappeared (fifth morning), 2.
• Colicky pains in various parts of the abdomen; abdomen sensitive to pressure, particularly in the region of the cæcum, 1.
• Sensation of weight in the pelvis, 1.

STOOL

• Diarrhœa. [30.]
• Some looseness of bowels, with passage of pale-colored fæces, 1.
• Three loose and watery discharges, with great pain and nausea, before morning (first night); profuse diarrhœa, attended with great pain in the abdomen all day (second day); discharges more natural, less pain (third day), 4.
• The two older children had diarrhœic discharges in the morning, and several times during the day following, attended with irascibility of temper, and pain in the bowels, 5.
• Diarrhœic stool, very copious and watery; before morning (seventh night), and two more before noon (eighth day); nausea and pain in the abdomen all night (seventh night); urine scanty as before; dark-colored, liquid offensive stool at the usual hour in the morning; the pain in the bowels continued nearly all day (ninth day), 3.
• Diarrhœic stool early in the morning, and a second before noon, with pain and rumbling in the abdomen, diminished urine, loss of appetite and taste (fifth day), 3.
• Copious diarrhœic discharge, preceded and attended with nausea, pain and rumbling in the bowels; the pain and borborygmus continued for two days, 6.
• After breakfast a good stool; in the afternoon another large stool (fourth day), 2.
• My rumbling bowels sent me to stool before breakfast (a most unusual thing for me); had a stool, neither very easy, very full, nor loose (third day), 2.
• Constipation.
• Constipation, continuing two or three days, succeeded the diarrhœa (all three cases), 5.
• Bowels constipated; no stool; (after diarrhœa), (sixth, tenth, and eleventh days), 3. [40.]
• Tried hard and long to effect a stool, but without success, at 7.45 A.M., after breakfast (second day), 2.

URINARY ORGANS

• Pain in the kidneys, 1.
• Sensation of fulness and tension in the bladder, even when it has just been emptied, 1.
• Very frequent, but slight evanescent pains in the region of the prostate gland, 1.
• Large quantity of pale, inodorous urine passed, which is remarkably free from sediment, 1.
• Urine scanty and red as before (second day), 4.

SEXUAL ORGANS

• Awoke during the night with an erection, and urgent desire for an embrace, a thing which never occurred before (third night); on waking about 6 A.M., had another erection (fourth day), 2.
• Another erection on waking up (a thing which has occurred each morning), (fifth morning), 2.
• Another erection, but less violent than the previous ones (sixth morning), 2.
• Had an erection, but not a violent one (seventh day), 2 . [These erections have never been accompanied by desire ; rather mechanical than passional.] [50.]
• Occasional stinging in the glans penis, 1.
• Increased of sexual passion, 1.

CHEST

• Pains in the chest, darting from side to side, 1.

BACK

• Numbness of lower part of back, with lumbago, 1.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Feeling of debility in the arms, as if incapable of raising the lightest weights, 1.
• Pains of a rheumatic character, in the elbows and shoulders, 1.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Feeling of numbness, occasionally taking the place of the sciatica, and then exercise on foot is excessively fatiguing, 1.
• Intense pain along the sciatic nerve , which is continued to its larger ramifications, 1.*
• The sciatica was produced only on myself; General Norris, who was suffering from an attack of that disease when we began our provings, was in a few days completely cured of it, 1.
• Rheumatic pains in the knee and ankle-joints, 1. [60.]
• Frequent cramps in the calves, 1.
• Cramps of the feet, especially when in bed, 1.
• Gouty pains in the great toes, 1.

GENERAL SYMPTOMS

• Great weakness and prostration as the result of the diarrhœa, 4.
• Felt languid all the morning (sixth day), 2.
• Felt exhausted and uneasy at night, perhaps from over mental and physical effort during the day (fourth night), 2.

SLEEP

• Waked up in the night by the sickness of my child; awoke again in the morning, tired and unrefreshed (sixth morning), 2.

FEVER

• "Night-sweat" (sixth night), 2.

CONDITIONS

• Aggravation.
• ( Morning ), Furred tongue; bad taste; bellyache; erections.
• ( Night ), Sweat.
• ( In bed ), Cramps of feet.
• Amelioration.
• ( Washing parts with cold water ), Fulness about temples; furry feeling in mouth; bad taste.
• ( Bathing head with bay rum ), Headache.