by C.M. Boger — A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica
Profuse secretions. .................... Suffocates on falling to sleep or on awaking. Asthma. Rattling breathing. Tenacious expectoration. Bronchorrhœa. Cutting soreness about spleen.
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Grindelia Robusta appears in 6 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.
“Grindelia squarrosa. Natural order , Compositæ. Authority. J. H. Bundy, M.D., Hom. Times, vol. iv, 1877, p. 125. I prepared a tincture of the dried plant, using 8 ounces to a pint of Alcohol 78°, by percolation. At 7 P.M. I took a teaspoonful of the tincture; repeated the dose in half an hour, at which time I began to…”
“Rosin-wood (GRINDELIA) Both Grindelia robusta and Grindelia squarrosa have been used for the symptoms here recorded. There is practically no difference in their action, although the G. Squarrosa is credited with more splenic symptoms, dull pains and fullness in left hypochondrium; chronic malaria; gastric pains…”
“robusta and Grindelia squarrosa. N. O. Compositæ. The Grindeliæ are a genus of asteroid composites growing on the Pacific coast and inland on the mountains. The terminal heads of yellow flowers and the leaves are usually covered with a viscid balsamic secretion, from which they have been called "gum plants." A…”
“Grindelia. Compositæ. A plant growing on the Pacific coast and inland on the mountains. Proving by Bundy (Not in Allen's Encyclopædia ) and by Hale, see N. A. J. H., vol. 25. CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. Iritis , Fiske, N. A. J. H., vol. 25, p. 204 ; Hay-fever, rose-cold, asthma , Steele, Times Retros., vol. 2, p. 12 …”
“When dropping off to sleep the breath stops, the patient awakens catching for it, with a gasp, cannot get to sleep on this account. Stops breathing when falling asleep; wakens with a start.”
Kent's Repertory lists Grindelia Robusta in 27 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in RESPIRATION (8), SKIN (6), EYE (3), GENERALITIES (3), EXTREMITIES (2).
