Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Remedy
Chapter:
644.24.06
644.24.06 Garcinia hanburyi, Gambogia
Names: Gambogia, Garcinia cambogia; Garcinia gummi-gutti.
Mind
Inertia and drowsiness.
Friendly in contrast to working.
Cheerful, talkative, feeling of ease, great lightness of all his motions.
Ill-humour, vexed, anxious, with continued desire to work, although the work does not advance as he would wish.
Irritability in morning on waking; violent on rising.
Strong sex drive.
Sadness < diarrhoea.
Dreams: dancing; animals, lice, vermin; vexations; anxious.
Colour preference: 8C.
General
Sensation: pinching, twitching; burning, shooting; stinging, stitches, slow fine pinching; bruised; sore; constrictive, pinching, drawing, gnawing, tearing, pricking; numbness.
Weather: < cold; < in open air.
Time: < 5 to 7 pm; < summer.
Desire: drinks, violent thirst.
Aversion: meat, raw meat; food.
Food: < eating, < drinking; < beer, ale; < sweets, < sugar; < soup; > bread; > coffee.
Sleep: sleepiness, whole day.
Physical: < motion, >> stool.
Body
General: oedema.
Head: heavy, > open air, > motion; congestion.
Eyes: itching, burning, eye, inner canthi, eye-lids, > rubbing, > open air, < light, < evening, night; lids stick together.
Nose: dry, right; violent sneezing, < strong odours.
Mouth: cold teeth; dry tongue.
Throat: dry; violent stinging, sore, < touch; rough, burning, > hawking constantly.
Lungs: tuberculosis.
Chest: congestion; pressure in the middle of the chest; sore; stitches in the forepart of the sternum.
Stomach: irritability; burning, smarting, darting pain, < food, > eating; nausea, > bread, > coffee; horrid vomiting and purging, + fainting; sour belching.
Abdomen: gurgling, rumbling, rattling, rolling; tension, pinching in bowels; intestinal parasites; liver intoxication; tender epigastrium; distension, inflation, flatulence, < stool; empty; pain umbilical, > motion, > after stool; cutting about navel; burning in the liver.
Rectum: !! diarrhoea, sudden, forcible, gushing, prolonged, epidemical, < eating, < drinking, < beer, < sweets, < sugar, < hot weather, < summer, in old people, + faintness, + vomiting; stool yellow, green, green mucus, thin, bilious, bloody, undigested, retained; anus burning, excoriating, protrusion; constipation, hard, insufficient stool; dysentery; ineffectual straining.
Urinary: urination seldom.
Female: menses delayed, too early, too profuse; leucorrhoea; uterus congestion.
Back: pain bruised, sprained, gnawing, coccyx, lumbar, sacrum, < blow.
Limbs: tearing shoulders; cramp in calves; contraction of toes; pain, cold hands, finger tips, < cold; rheumatism; injury, nerves, punctured, smashed, penetrating wound.
Skin: itching, formication.