Gelsemium

William Boericke 1922

Dysmenorrhoca, with scanty flow; menses retarded. Pain extends to back and hips. Aphonia and sore throat during menses. Sensation as if uterus were squeezed. [Cham.; Nux v.; Ustilago.]

William Boericke 1922

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

William Boericke 1922

Dull, heavy pain. Complete relaxation of the whole muscular system. Languor; muscles feel bruised. Kvery little exertion causes fatigue. Pain in neck, especially upper sterno-cleido muscles. Dull aching in lumbar and sacral region, passing upward. Pain in muscles of back, hips, and lower extremities, mostly ^eep-seated.

William Boericke 1922

Dry cough, with sore chest and fluent coryza. Spasm of the glottis. Aphonia ; acute bronchitis, respiration quickened, spasmodic affections of lungs and diaphragm.

William Boericke 1922

Ignatia (gastric affections of cigarmakers) ; Baptisa; Ipecac.; Aeon,: Bell.; Cimicif.; Magnes. phos. (Gelsem. contains some Magnes. phos.) jfi^f^otes: China; Coffea; Dig. — Tincture, to thirtieth attenuation; first to most often used. GENTIANA LUTEA — GERANIUM MACULATUM 351

Gentle Pills monograph

Low–medium potencies repeated during dull feverish states and anticipatory episodes.

William Boericke 1922

Feeling of a lump in throat that cannot be swallowed. Aphonia. Swallowing causes pain in ear. [Hep.; Nw.v.] Difficult swallowing. Pain from throat to ear.

William Boericke 1922

Loss of power of muscular control. Cramp in muscles of forearm. Professional neuroses. 350

William Boericke 1922

Ptosis ; eyelids heavy ; patient can hardly open them. Double vision. Vision blurred, smoky. [Cycl.; Phos.] Dim-sighted ; pupils dilated and insensible to 348

Gentle Pills monograph

Ptosis — heavy drooping lids; double vision from muscular weakness; pupils contracted; strabismus after frights.

William Boericke 1922

Dusky hue of face, with vertigo and dim vision. Facial muscles contracted, especially around the

William Boericke 1922

Hot heavy, flushed, besotted-looking. [Bapt.; Op.] Neuralgia of

William Boericke 1922

Rigid os. [Bell.] Vaginismus. False labor-pains; pains pass up

William Boericke 1922

Wants to be held, because he shakes so. Pulse slow, full, soft, compressible. Chilliness up and down

Gentle Pills monograph

Chill running up and down the back; typhoid-type dullness with tremulous weakness; thirstless or nearly; pulse slow then quickening.

Gentle Pills monograph

Muscular weakness with deep-seated trembling; paralysis of isolated muscle groups; complaints from fright, bad news, anticipation.

William Boericke 1922

light. Orbital neuralgia, with contraction and tzvitching 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.

William Boericke 1922

Centers its action upon the ndrvous system, causing various degrees of motor paralysis. General prostration. Dizziness, drowsiness, dullness, and trembling. Slow pulse, tired feeling, mental Jipathy. Paralysis of various groups of muscles about the eyes, throat, chest, larynx, sphincter, extremities, etc. Muscular weakness. Complete relaxation and prostration. Lack ot muscular co-ordination. General depression from heat of sun. Sensitive to a falling barometer; cold and damp*, ness brings on many complaints. Children fear falling, grab nurse or crib. Sluggish circulation. Nervous affections of cigarmakers.

William Boericke 1922

Writer’s cramp. Excessive trembling and weakness of all

William Boericke 1922

Urine. — Profuse, clear, ivatery, with chilliness and tremulousness. Dysuria. Partial paralysis of bladder; flow intermittent. [Clematis.]

William Boericke 1922

band-feeling around and occipital headache. Dull, heavy ache, with heaviness of eyelids; bruised sensation; better, compression and lying with head high. 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. Scalp sore to touch. Delirious on falling asleep. Wants lo have head raised on pillow.

William Boericke 1922

Vertigo, spreading from occiput. Heaviness of

Gentle Pills monograph

Vertigo spreading from the occiput; dull headache with heaviness of eyelids; band-sensation around the head.

William Boericke 1922

A feeling as if it were necessary to keep in motion, or else heart’s action would cease. Slow

Gentle Pills monograph

Anticipatory paralysis: dullness, dizziness, drooping eyelids, chills down the spine, and trembling from excitement — the flu remedy of tradition's dull type.

William Boericke 1922

Hysteric convulsions. Fatigue after slight exercise.

William Boericke 1922

Spermatorrhoea, without erections. Genitals cold and relaxed. [Phos. ac.] Scrotum continually sweating. Gonorrhoea, first stage; discharge scanty; tendency to corrode; little pain, but much heat; smarting at meatus.

William Boericke 1922

Desire to be quiet, to be left alone. Dullness, languor, listless. **Discernings are lethargied.” Delirious on falling to

Gentle Pills monograph

Stage-fright states — diarrhea and trembling before performances or examinations; dullness with inability to think; desire to be quiet and let alone; fears losing control.

William Boericke 1922

Worse, damp weather, fog, before a thunder-storm, emotion, or excitement, had news, tobacco-smoking, when thinking of his ailments; at 10 A. M. Better, bending forward, ‘by profuse urination, open air, continued motion, stimulants.

Gentle Pills monograph

Worse: anticipation, emotions, humid weather, 10 a.m., thought of ailments. Better: open air, stimulation, motion continued briefly.

William Boericke 1922

Chin quivers. Lower jaw dropped.

William Boericke 1922

Putrid taste and breath. Tongue numb, thick, coated, yellowish, trembles, paraylzed.

William Boericke 1922

Dryness of nasal fossae. Swelling of turbinates. Watery, excoriating discharge. Acute coryza, with dull headache and

William Boericke 1922

Sneezing ; fullness at root of

William Boericke 1922

\Dig.; Kahn.; Apoc. can.] Palpitation; pulse soft, weak, full and flowing. Pulse slow when quiet, but greatly accelerated on motion. Weak, slow pulse of old age.

Gentle Pills monograph

Compare Baptisia (stupor beyond Gels), Belladonna (the congestive opposite); complementary Ipecac, China.

William Boericke 1922

Slowness of breathing, with great prostration. Oppression about

William Boericke 1922

Hot, dry, itching, mcaslc like eruption. Erysipelas. Measles, catarrfial symptoms; aids in brings ing out eruption. Retrocedent, with livid spots. Scarlet fe\er with stupor and flushed

William Boericke 1922

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. [Bor.\

William Boericke 1922

Cannot get fully to

William Boericke 1922

Delirious on falling asleep. Insomnia from exhaustion; from uncontrollable thinking; tobacco. Yawning. Sleepless from nervous irritation. [Coffea.]

William Boericke 1922

wave-like, extending upward from sacrum t6 occiput.

William Boericke 1922

As a rule, the Gelsemium 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. Stool. — Diarrhoea from emotional excitement, fright, bad news. [Phos. ac.] St<iol painless ur involuntary. Qpeam-colored [Calc.], tea-green. Partial paralysis of ^tum and sphincter.

William Boericke 1922

Difficult swallowing, especially of warm food. Itching and tickling in soft palate and nasopharynx. Pain in sterno-cleido-mastoid, back of parotid. Tonsils swollen. Throat feels rough, burning. Postdiphtheritic paralysis. Tonsillitis ; shooting pain into