(GRATIOLA)

Acts especially on gastro-intestinal tract. Chronic catarrhal conditions, leucorrhœa and gonorrhœa. Obstinate ulcers. Useful in mental troubles from overweening pride. Especially useful in females. Nux symptoms in females often met by Gratiola.

Head

Sick headache. Rush of blood with vanishing of sight. Sensation as if brain was contracting and head became smaller. Tightness in forehead, with wrinkles in skin. Eyes dry, burn. Myopia.

Stomach

Vertigo during and after meals; hunger and feeling of emptiness after meals. Dyspepsia, with much distention of the stomach. Cramps and colic after supper and during night, with swelling of abdomen and constipation. Dysphagia for liquids.

Stool

Diarrhœa; green, frothy water , followed by anal burning, forcibly evacuated without pain. Constipation , with gouty acidity. Hæmorrhoids, with hypochondriasis. Rectum constricted.

Sleep

Insomnia.

Female

Nymphomania . Menses too profuse, premature, and too long. Leucorrhœa.

Modalities

Worse , drinking too much water.

Relationship

Compare: Dig; Euph; Tab; Cham; Ammon pic; Nux vom .

Dose

Second to third potency.

Gratiola Officinalis