Gratiola officinalis

by C.M. Boger — A Synoptic Key of the 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Historical reference for practitioners and students.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.

REGION

Gastro - intestinal tract.
Mind.
Sexual organs.

WORSE

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 - green, exhausting stools, then relief (Gamb.). Nightly emissions, then erections. Nymphomania. Coccygeal pain. Limb gives way, with sciatic pain.

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Gratiola officinalis across the other classic books

Gratiola officinalis appears in 10 of the 21 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 — A compiled symptom record drawing on proving reports and other named observations.
“Gratiola officinalis, Linn. Natural order , Scrophulariaceæ. Common names (Germ.), Gnaden-kraut; (English) Hedge hyssop. Preparation , Tincture of the whole plant. Authorities.”
Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Hedge Hyssop (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. Sick headache. Rush of blood with vanishing of…”
Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“FOAMY, frothy GUSHINGS (Comp. Swashing) 1 P.M.”
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 /…”
Farrington — The differential diagnosis — remedy families narrowed through direct clinical comparison.
“Gratiola is useful in diarrhoea. It produces and cures a profuse yellowish, gushing, watery diarrhoea, as though it were rushing from the hydrant. This diarrhoea is very common in summer, and seems to have as its exciting cause excessive drinking of water, whether it be cold or not. You see that it is concordant with…”
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 …”
Hughes & Dake — The source evidence — provings and poisonings retained with their experimental context.
“GRATIOLA . Gratíola officinalis, L. Hedge hyssop. Nat. Ord., Scrophulariacea. I. Provings.-1. TRINKS. (No information.) Great ill-humour and desire for solitude (1st d.); fretful mood (do.); no desire to talk or move; earnest reflective mood; irresolution, no persistency in work; dizzy in head, he stands long looking…”
Kent — The mental and general picture — how Kent organizes the remedy’s historical symptom portrait.
“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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