Gentiana lutea, Linn.

Natural order , Gentianaceæ.

Common name , Yellow Gentian.

Preparation , Tincture of the root.

Authorities.

1 , Buchner, Hygea, 14, 1; "D.," a young man, took repeated doses of tincture, 150 drops, first day, 250 second day, 350 third day, 450 morning, and 200 at 2, 3, and 4 P.M., fifth day; 2 , "E." took repeated large doses of tincture, ibid.; 3 , S. T. took a tablespoonful of tincture, ibid.; 4 , Watzke, Oest. Zeit. f. Hom., 1, pt. 3, p. 140, took 12 drops of tincture, afterwards doses of 12 to 50 drops, afterwards one dose of 100 drops.

HEAD

Confusion and Vertigo.
Confusion and emptiness of the head, especially dull pressing outward in the frontal region (first day), 2.
Confusion and heaviness of the head, with tensive, pressive pain in the forehead (second day), 2.
Confusion in the forehead (second, fourth, and fifth days), 1.
Slight vertigo (fifth day), 1.
Some dizziness of the head (second day), 1.
General Head.
Head feels as after intoxication (second day), 1.
Head feels dull, heavy, and full, as if enlarged (fourth day), 2.
Heaviness and confusion of the head when writing (after two hours, first day), 1.
Heat and confusion of the head (fifth day), 1. [10.]
Fulness and dull pressure, like a heavy throbbing in the head, especially a pressure from within outward in the forehead (fourth day), 2.
Forehead.
Dragging and pressure in the forehead (fifth day), 1.
Pressure in the forehead after 12 o'clock (fourth day), 1.
Sticking in the middle of the forehead (fourth day), 1.
Temples.
Pressive pain in the temples, 4.
Occiput.
Pressive pain in the occiput in the afternoon (third day), 3.

EYE

Pressure in the eyes (fifth day), 1.
Sticking in the left upper lid (fourth day), 1.
Conjunctiva slightly red, with pain in the eyes, at 4 P.M. (fourth day), 1.
Pressure in the eyeballs (second day), 1. [20.]
Obscuration of the vision, so that he could not see the person with whom he was talking, disappearing after a few moments (after three hours), 3.

NOSE

Stoppage of the nose (fourth day), 2.
Irritability of the nostrils, as if he had been suffering from coryza, soon followed by watery discharge from the nose, which obliged him to sneeze (soon after 600 drops), 2.

MOUTH

Dryness of the mouth and fauces (fifth day), 1.
Saliva more consistent than usual (fourth day), 1.
Intensely bitter taste in the mouth, lasting early an hour, 4.
Earthy taste in the mouth (sixth day), 1.

THROAT

Swelling, fine sticking, and constriction in the throat, mostly noticed on the posterior portion of the palate, 4.
Frequent hawking on account of mucus, which is difficult to loosen (fourth day), 1.
Rawness in the throat, (fifth day), 1.

STOMACH

Appetite. [30.]
Ravenous hunger in the evening (fifth day), 1.
Diminished appetite, 3, 4.
Eructation.
Eructations (fifth day), 1.
Eructations and borborygmi (fifth day), 1.
Violent eructations several times, 4.
Eructations having and acid taste (fifth day), 1.
Nausea and Vomiting.
Nausea (fifth day), 1.
Nausea, at times provocation to vomit, 4.
Some nausea in the evening, almost with vomiting (second evening), 1.
Attacks of nausea after the simplest meal, as after an imprudent mixture of food, 4. [40.]
Inclination to vomit (fifth day), 1.
Feeling as though he should vomit, with watering of the eyes (fifth day), 1.
Stomach.
Wind in the stomach (third day), 1.
Stomach empty and faint (fifth day), 1.
Faintness in the stomach, 4.
Heaviness and pressure in the stomach, with anxiety and nausea, even to vomiting, and difficult, full respiration; the dragging and fulness in the stomach and chest were repeated after two hours (soon after 600 drops), 2.
Tension and fulness in the stomach (first day), 2.
Tension and distension of the stomach and external epigastric region; pressure upon it causes a sensation of nausea, as though it would cause vomiting, which speedily passes off, followed by dragging towards the anus (second day), 2.
Feeling of constriction in the stomach (after three hours), 3.
Pressure and tension in the epigastric region (first day), 2. [50.]
Anxious pressure in the stomach, with a sensation of nausea, as if he would vomit (first day), 2.

ABDOMEN

Hypochondria.
Discomfort and pressure in the left hypochondrium (second day), 1.
Umbilical.
Steady pain in the umbilicus, like a drawing inward (fourth day), 2.
Pressure in the umbilical region, 4.
Pressure and tension in the umbilical region (fourth day), 2.
Pressing inward in the umbilical region, 4.
Pressure inward at the umbilicus (first day), 2.
Umbilical region somewhat sensitive to touch and pressure (second day), 2.
The region below the umbilicus is very painful to touch (sixth day), 1.
General Abdomen.
Distension, tension, and fulness in the abdomen, with somewhat painful sensation in the lower abdomen, and especially about the umbilicus (first day), 2. [60.]
Rumbling and gurgling in the intestines (first day), 2.
Rumbling and gurgling in the abdomen, which is distended, with a sensation of heaviness and fulness (second day), 2.
Rumbling in the bowels; it seems as though bubbles were rising up (sixth day), 1.
General sick feeling in the whole abdomen, with dragging towards the anus (first day), 2.
Unusual fulness, tension, and distension of the abdomen, with offensive flatus (first day), 2.
Tension in the abdomen, increasing towards evening, with shortness of breath (fifth day), 1.
Tension and distension of the abdomen (first day), 2.
Some colic, with pressure in the umbilical region, and urging to stool (sixth day), 2.
Cutting colic so violent that he was obliged to bend up, soon followed by heat extending from the lumbar vertebræ, in the morning (sixth day), 1.
Twinging pain in the abdomen, followed by scanty, yellow, slimy diarrhœa twice in rapid succession, 4. [70.]
Painfulness in the abdomen (fifth day), 1.
General painfulness of the whole abdomen, with tension in the lower abdomen, especially an aggravated, tensive, pressive, painful sensation in the right side of the whole abdomen, though more towards the posterior portion (fourth day), .

RECTUM AND ANUS

Dragging towards the anus, with tenesmus (first day), 2.
Urging to stool, with frequent evacuations of a more consistent nature than usual (fourth day), 2.
Sudden urging to stool, in the evening, followed by a copious evacuation (fifth day), 1.

STOOL

Bilious diarrhœa in the afternoon (sixth day), 1.
Frequent pasty and very yellow stools, 3.
Two soft stools soon after rising (second day), 1.
Soft stool (third morning), 1. [80.]
A soft, light-yellow stool, preceded by cutting colic, at 9 A.M. (sixth day), 1.

URINARY ORGANS

Secretion of urine increased (fourth day), 2.

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

Some hoarseness (fifth day), 1.

CHEST

Fulness and pressure in the chest, with difficult breathing, in the morning (sixth day), 2.
Tightness of the chest (second day), 2.
Pressure in the middle of the chest, to the left side of the sternum (fifth day), 1.
Pressure upon the chest on moving (fourth day), 1.

HEART AND PULSE

Acceleration of the pulse in the evening (fifth day), 1.

BACK

Pains in the back and bowels, much aggravated by motion, relieved by sitting (sixth day), 1.
Pressure and heaviness in the small of the back (sixth day), 1.

EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL. [90.]

Prostration and tension in the limbs (first day), 2.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

(A sudden drawing, gouty pain in the right hand, with inflammatory redness of the skin of the knuckles of the index and middle fingers, with cramplike attacks and painfulness on moving the hand, especially the inflamed portions; this pain continued to increase till towards 9 P.M., when he rubbed the forearm, palm, and back of the hand with some drops of the tincture, which caused a sudden change in the condition; the redness and gouty pains disappeared, and the hand felt quite well; he had experienced this same pain two years previously, at which time the inflammation increased to complete swelling of the hand, with violent burning-sticking pains, which soon disappeared, but left a peculiar painful and weak sensation in the hand; on the next morning there was only a slight tensive pain in the affected knuckle; since which time the hand had been quite painless) (third day), 2.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

Hip.
Pressure in the right hip, near the sacrum (fourth day), 1.
Pressive pain in the hips and sacrum on stooping; it seems as though a girdle were about the hips (sixth day), 1.
Knee.
Pain in the left knee-joint, as if sprained (after one hour, fourth day); more confined to the patella (fifth day), 1.
Crawling sensation in the knees (fourth day), 2.
Foot.
Sticking and tearing in the soles of the feet, on bending the toes when walking (fifth day), 1.

GENERAL SYMPTOMS

Weakness and prostration (sixth day), 1.
A general diffused dulness of the whole body (fourth day), 2.
Dull feeling of the whole body and morose mood (first day), 2.

SLEEP. [100.]

Yawning (fifth day), 1.
Sleep uneasy (sixth day), 2 , for several days, 3.
After going to bed he was unable to sleep for a long time; awoke about midnight with aggravation of the heat, with tormenting-cutting pains in the abdomen and rapid respiration; constant pains prevented sleep and obliged him to toss about the bed; felt better when lying on the back with the feet drawn up; constant passage of wind upward and downward without relief; the abdomen remained full and distended even above the transverse colon, except the epigastric region, and painful to touch; after two 2 P.M. he was able to slumber, the pains in the abdomen alone disturbed the sleep; there was great weakness and exhaustion after the sleep; he was unable to sleep really, although he attempted it in every position; the next morning the abdomen was still painful, with cutting pains when touched, especially from the pubic region to the transverse colon; he was obliged to walk slowly because the abdomen was painful on motion or a hard step (sixth day), 1.

FEVER

Increased warmth over the whole body; immediately (third day), 1.
Increased warmth of the head, especially of the cheeks (fifth day), 1.
Febrile excitement, transient, starting from the back, like a shivering, and rapidly spreading over the whole back like an electric shock; this symptom was repeated three times at short intervals, followed by exhaustion (first day), 2.

CONDITIONS

Aggravation.
( Afternoon ), The symptoms; towards evening, tension in abdomen.
( After eating ), Attacks of nausea.
( Motion ), The symptoms; pressure upon chest; pains in back, etc.
( Stepping ), Pain in hips, etc.
( When writing ), Heaviness, etc., of head.
Amelioration.
Pains in back, etc.

Gentiana Lutea