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Gelsemium Sempervirens

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HPUS indication of Gelsemium Sempervirens: Lethargy
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Below are the main rubriks (i.e strongest indications or symptoms) of Gelsemium Sempervirens in traditional homeopathic usage, not approved by the FDA.

  GENERAL

General

Centers its action upon the nervous system, causing various degree of Motor paralysis. General prostration. Dizziness, drowsiness, dullness, and trembling. Slow pulse, tired feeling, mental apathy. Paralysis of various groups of muscles about the eyes, throat, chest, larynx, sphincter, extremities, etc. Post-diphtheritic paralysis. Muscular weakness. Complete relaxation and prostration. Lack of muscular coordination. General depression from heat of sun. Sensitive to a falling barometer; cold and dampness brings on many complaints. Children fear falling, grab nurse or crib. Sluggish circulation. Nervous affections of cigar makers. Influenza. Measles. Pellagra.

Dose

Tincture, to thirtieth attenuation; first to third most often used.

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  MODALITIES ETC

Worse

WORSE, damp weather, fog, before a thunderstorm, emotion, or excitement, Bad news, tobacco-smoking, when thinking of his ailments; at 10 A.m.

Better

BETTER, bending forward, by profuse urination, open air, continued motion, stimulants.

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  RELATIONSHIPS

Compare

Compare: Ignatia Ignatia (gastric affections of cigar makers); Baptisia Tinctoria Baptisa; Ipecacuanha Ipecac.; Aconite Acon.; Belladonna Bell.; Cimicifuga Racemosa Cimicif.; Manges. Phosphorus Phos ( Gelsemium Sempervirens contains some Magnes. phos.) Culex - (vertigo on blowing the nose with fullness of the ears.)

Antidotes

Antidotes: China China; Coffea Tosta Coffea; Digitalis Purpurea Dig. Alcoholic stimulants relieve all complaints where Gelsemium Sempervirens. Is useful.

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  MIND

Mind

Desire to be quiet, to be left alone

Dullness, languor, listless

“Discernings are lethargied.” Apathy regarding his illness

Absolute lack of fear

Delirious on falling to sleep

Emotional excitement, fear, etc., lead to bodily ailments

Bad effects from fright, fear, exciting news

Stage fright

Child starts and grasps the nurse, and screams as if afraid of falling ( Borax Bor.)

Aversions, dislikes; company

Desires, wants; desire for light (see dark)

Symptoms follow intense emotions; bad news

Excitement

after bad news

ailments from emotional excitement

Emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition

cowardice

sensitive, oversensitive

unhappy; sadness, mental depression

Hysteria

Intellectual faculties; impaired thinking; dull, sluggish

Insecure, uncertain, scared

fear; of public places

fear; of death

timidity

appearing in public

Quiet, peace (or lack of); wants to be quiet

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  VERTIGO, DIZZINESS

Vertigo

Vertigo, spreading from occiput

From head; at back of head (occiput)

While standing; with staggering

With obscuring of vision

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  HEAD

DULL, heavy ache, with heaviness of eyelids; bruised sensation; better, compression and lying with head high

Delirious on falling asleep

Wants to have head raised on pillow.

Cerebral haemorrhage

Congestion (see pulsation)

during convulsions

from suppressed period

Constriction, tension (see also pulling, pressing)

like band or hoop

as if by string

Movements of head; falling (see heaviness); unable to hold up head

Sensitive; brain

Headache

Heaviness of head; Band-feeling around and Occipital headache

Pain in temple, extending into ear and wing of nose, chin

Headache, with muscular soreness of neck and shoulders

Headache preceded by blindness; better, profuse urination

Heaviness (see pain

pressing)

pressing); profuse urination

Pain, headache

affected by certain foods and drinks (improved, brought on or aggravated); from wine

from emotions

nervous

maddening; pains

from certain movements; on moving head

with other pains; pain in neck

with other pains; pain in nape of neck

urination; profuse

back of head (occiput)

extending to other parts; forehead

extending to other parts; to head

extending to other parts; upward

dull pain; back of head (occiput)

sore bruised, sensitive to pressure

in brain

back of head (occiput)

Scalp

Scalp sore to touch

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  EYES

Eyes

Ptosis; EYELIDS heavy; patient can hardly open them

Double vision

Disturbed muscular apparatus

Corrects blurring and discomfort in eyes even after accurately adjusted glasses

Vision blurred, smoky ( Cyclamen Europaeum Cycl.; Phosphorus Phos.) Dim-sighted; pupils dilated and insensible to light

Orbital neuralgia, with contraction and twitching of muscles

Bruised pain back of the orbits

One pupil dilated, the other contracted

Deep inflammations, with haziness of vitreous

Serous inflammations

Albuminuric retinitis

Detached retina, glaucoma and descemetitis

Hysterical amblyopia.

Lids

falling of lids

opening eyes difficult

hard to keep open

eyes closed; hard to keep open

Discoloration; redness; lids

Heaviness; lids

Paralysis

lids; upper

of muscles of eyeball

optic nerve, total blindness, without eye damage (amaurosis)

Photomania (must be in light)

Pupils; dilated

Vision

Accommodation, movement of eyeball; slow

Blurred

Confused vision

Objects seem distorted; objects seem distant

Dim

during vertigo, dizziness

Double vision

Foggy

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  FACE

Face

Hot, heavy, flushed, besotted-looking ( Baptisia Tinctoria Bapt.; Op.) Neuralgia of face

Dusky hue of face, with vertigo and dim vision

Facial muscles contracted, especially around the mouth

Chin quivers

Lower jaw dropped.

Pain

profuse urination

wandering pain

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  NOSE

Nose

Dryness of nasal fossae

Swelling of turbinates

Watery, excoriating discharge

Discharge

Sneezing; fullness at root of nose

Acute coryza, with dull headache and fever.

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  MOUTH

Mouth

Speech

difficult

thick

Tongue

Tongue numb, thick, coated, yellowish, Tremble, paralyzed.

Numbness; tongue

Paralysis; tongue

Speech; difficult; heaviness of tongue

Tongue; tongue feels thick

Taste

Putrid taste and breath

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  THROAT

Throat

Difficult swallowing, especially of warm food

Itching and tickling in soft palate and nasopharynx

Pain in sternocleidomastoid, back of parotid

Tonsils swollen

Throat feels rough, burning

Post-diphtheritic paralysis

Tonsillitis; shooting pain into ears

Feeling of a lump in throat that cannot be swallowed

Aphonia

Swallowing causes pain in ear ( Hep Sulph Calc Hep.; Nux Vomica Nux.) Difficult swallowing

Pain from throat to ear.

Larynx (voice box); spasm in vocal cords, stopping breathing

Inflammation; larynx

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  CHEST

Chest

Heart; A feeling as if it were necessary to keep in motion, or else heartS action would cease

Slow pulse ( Digitalis Purpurea Dig.; Kalmia Latifolia Kalm.; Apocynum Cannabinum Apoc)

CAN.) Palpitation; pulse soft, weak, full and flowing

Pulse slow when quiet, but greatly accelerated on motion

Weak, slow pulse of old age.

Heart; fears unless constantly on the move the heart will cease

Pulse

Pulse slow, full, soft, compressible

Respiration

Slowness of breathing, with great prostration

Oppression about chest

Dry cough, with sore chest and fluent coryza

Spasm of the glottis

Aphonia; acute bronchitis, respiration quickened, spasmodic affections of lungs and diaphragm.

Accelerated

Shrill grating sound

Hiccup

Stomach; hiccup; convulsive

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  EXPECTORATION

Expectoration

Hawked up; bloody; water

Mucous; bloody

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  SKIN

Skin

Hot, dry, itching, measle-like eruption

Erysipelas

Measles, catarrhal symptoms; aids in bringing out eruption

Retrocedent, with livid spots

Scarlet fever with stupor and flushed face.

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  BACK AND NECK

Neck

Pain in neck, especially upper sternocleidomastoid muscles

Congestion, neck

Pain

neck

neck; extending to other parts; head; all over

neck; extending to other parts; head; back of head (occiput)

neck; extending to other parts; upward

neck; extending to other parts; top of head (vertex)

aching; neck

Back

Dull, heavy pain

Complete relaxation of the whole muscular system

Languor; muscles feel bruised

Every little exertion causes fatigue

Dull aching in lumbar and sacral region, passing upward

Pain in muscles of back, hips, and lower extremities, mostly deep-seated.

Coldness; travelling up and down the back

Inflammation; spinal cord

Pain

travels upwards

travels upwards; during labour

in women; during labour

dorsal (shoulder level); shoulder blades; left; under

sacrum (base of spine)

aching; lumbar (lower half of back)

aching; base of spine

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  ABDOMEN

Abdomen

Stomach; As a rule, the Gelsemium Sempervirens patient has no thirst

Hiccough; worse in the evening

Sensation of emptiness and weakness at the pit of the stomach, or of an oppression, like a heavy load.

Bladder

paralysis

urination; frequent; with headache

Stomach

without thirst

without thirst; during heat

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  RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Rectum

Diarrhoea

from emotions; on going into battle

from emotions; from exciting news

from emotions; after a fright

Dysentery

Stool

Diarrhoea From emotional excitement, fright, bad news ( Acid Phos Phos-ac.) Stool painless or involuntary

Cream-colored (Calc Carb Calc.), Tea-green

Partial paralysis of rectum and sphincter.

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  GENITALS ETC

Urine

Profuse, clear, watery, with chilliness and tremulousness

Dysuria

Partial paralysis of bladder; flow intermittent ( Clematis.) retention.

Colourless

Copious

Clear

Clear as water

Male

Genitals cold and relaxed ( Acid Phos Phos-ac.) Scrotum continually sweating

Womb

Sensation as if uterus were squeezed ( Chamomilla Cham.; Nux Vomica Nux-v.; Ustilago.)

Female

rigidity of neck of womb during labour

Genitals

Rigid os ( Belladonna Bell.) Vaginismus

False labor-pains; pains pass up back

Pain extends to back and hips

Male; Spermatorrhoea, Without erections

Gonorrhoea, first stage; discharge scanty; tendency to corrode; little pain, but much heat; smarting at meatus.

Female

miscarriage

miscarriage; from excitement

pain; labour-like

extending to back and hips

pain; labour pains; distressing

pain; labour pains; spasmodic

pain; labour pains; weak

Menses

Dysmenorrhoea, with scanty flow; menses retarded

Aphonia and sore throat during menses

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  EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Extremities, limbs

Loss of power of muscular control

Cramp in muscles of forearm

Professional neuroses

Writer’s cramp

Excessive Trembling and weakness of all limbs

Hysteric convulsions

Fatigue after slight exercise.

Coldness; lower limbs; foot; during headache

Heaviness

tired limbs

during fever

upper limbs

lower limbs

after exertion

while walking

leg; exertion

Movements and positions; trembling

Numbness (see tingling)

Pain; aching; lower limbs

Paralysis; painless

Weakness

lower limbs

after exertion

after walking

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  FEVER AND CHILL

Fever and chill

Wants to be held, because he shakes so

Chilliness up and down back

Heat and sweat stages, long and exhausting

Dumb-ague, with much muscular soreness, great prostration, and violent headache

Nervous chills

Bilious remittent fever, with stupor, dizziness, faintness; thirstless, prostrated

Chill, without thirst, along spine; wave-like, extending upward from sacrum to occiput.

Afternoon

Beginning in particular area

feet

hands

From emotions; from fright

After excitement

Dangerously cold

Afternoon

Localised; cerebro-spinal fever

Burning heat

Fever without chill

late morning

10 a.m.

Continued fever

Intense heat

Long lasting heat

No perspiration

Remittent

afternoon

infantile

With shivering

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  GENERALITIES

Fatigue

Lethargic, tired

Sleep and dreams

Cannot get fully to sleep

Delirious on falling asleep

Insomnia from exhaustion; from uncontrollable thinking; tobacco

Yawning

Sleepless from nervous irritation ( Coffea Tosta Coffea.)

Perspiration

Cold; afternoon

Other symptoms relieved while perspiring

Generalities

Extreme emotion

Physical exertion

Heaviness

externally

internally

Inflammation; internally

Lack of irritability

Numbness; internally

Pain; sore, bruised; internally

Paralysis; painless

Perspiration; after perspiration

Pulse

frequent, accelerated, elevated, exalted, fast, innumerable, rapid

full

imperceptible; almost

slow

weak

Lack of reaction

Relaxation of muscles

Symptoms from masturbation

Swelling; of affected parts

Trembling; externally

Weakness (see lethargic, weariness)

paralytic

Weariness (see weakness)

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