Gratiola Officinalis

Hedge Hyssop

by William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory

(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 across the other classic books

Gratiola Officinalis appears in 8 of the 13 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.

Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“Gratiola officinalis, Linn. Natural order , Scrophulariaceæ. Common names (Germ.), Gnaden-kraut; (English) Hedge hyssop. Preparation , Tincture of the whole plant. Authorities.”
Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“FOAMY, frothy GUSHINGS (Comp. Swashing) 1 P.M.”
Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“Gastro - intestinal tract. Mind. Sexual organs. Eating. Drinking too much water. Summer. Motion. Coffee. Dinner. Atony. Paralytic pains. Coldness. .................... Weak will. Hypochondriasis. Emptiness after eating. As of cold water or a loose, heavy load in stomach. Profuse, gushing, watery or frothy, yellow …”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“officinalis. Hedge Hyssop. "The Herb of Grace." N. O. Scrophulariaceæ (grows in moist places). Tincture of fresh plant before flowering. Cholera / Coccygodynia / Constipation / Cramps / Diarrhœa / Dropsy / Eyes, affections of / Gastralgia / Gout / Hæmorrhoids / Headache / Hydrocephalus / Hypochondriasis / Hysteria /…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Hedge Hyssop. Scrophulariaceæ. A plant growing in moist places in Central and Southern Europe. The tincture is prepared from the fresh plant before flowering. Extensively proved by German provers ; also by Nicol and Spearman. See Allen's Encyclopædia., vol. 4, p. 491 . CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. Throbbing in temples …”
Kent — The mental and general picture — who the patient is, before what the remedy cures.
“It is a great remedy for nervous prostration; marked lassitude, with mental and bodily weakness. It is closely related to Coffea and Nux vomica and especially useful for the weakness of the will and neuralgic pains in coffee drinkers. In hypochondria and in the female it has melancholia and nymphomania. Convulsive…”
Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Serious, taciturn, absorbed in reverie. Irresolute, want of perseverance. Ill-humor, tired of life, apprehensive of the future. Vertigo, while reading; on rising from a seat. Intoxicated feeling during and after a meal. Pressure in the forehead, with vertigo. Sensation of heaviness in the forehead, as if the brain…”

Gratiola Officinalis in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Gratiola Officinalis in 1,040 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in HEAD (144), EXTREMITIES (133), STOMACH (114), ABDOMEN (110), MIND (62).

STOOL - STRINGY
STOOL - THIN,liquid - green
RECTUM - DIARRHOEA - dinner,after
VERTIGO - EATING, - while
STOOL - YELLOW - greenish
STOOL - SHOOTING out
STOOL - WATERY - green
VERTIGO - EATING, - after
MIND - NYMPHOMANIA
STOOL - WATERY - yellow
STOOL - FORCIBLE,sudden,gushing
FEMALE GENITALIA - DESIRE - increased
STOOL - GREEN
STOOL - YELLOW
STOOL - WATERY
URINE - SCANTY
STOMACH - EMPTINESS,weak feeling,faintness,goneness,hungry feeling - afternoon - 2 p.m.
MALE GENITALIA - PAIN - stitching - Spermatic cords - extending to - abdomen
BACK - PAIN - stitching - shooting - Dorsal region - scapulae - extending - to occiput
HEAD - SMALLER, - feels

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