Author:
Cyrus Boger
Book:
Synoptic key
Type:
Remedy
Chapter:
Gelsemiumn
Gelsemium
ACHING, TIRED, HEAVY, WEAK AND SORE; < limbs. Grippe. Overpowering aching. Heavy single parts, heart, liver, etc. Lies quietly, half reclining. Nerve exhaustion. Dull, drowsy and dizzy. TREMOR; or twitches of single muscles, face, chin, tongue, etc.; wants to be held. Chorea, of pregnancy. Paretic effects; eyes, throat, anus, bladder, etc. Inco-ordination. Fulness. Passive congestion. Symptoms accompanied by vertigo, eye or visual effects, drowsiness or polyuria.
CONFUSED, dazed, apathetic, torpid, dull, drowsy and dizzy, or indifferent; answers slowly. DREAD of falling; of ordeals, death, pains, etc. VERTIGO; drunken; in occiput. Headache; dull, HEAVY, band-like, occipital, to over eyes; < tight hat; swelled feeling; basilar. Meningitis. Apoplexy. Suffused, sore, aching eyes. HEAVY, DROOPING EYELIDS. VISION; double; swimming; blind spells; affected, then migraine. Face full, dusky-red; heavy, expressionless; besotted. Ciliary neuralgia; pains into ears on swallowing. Pains to occiput. Nose stuffed. Sneezing; thin, acrid coryza. Sensation as of hot water flowing from the nostrils. Heavy tongue; thick speech. THIRSTLESS. Griping in gall-bladder. Copious, yellow stools. Painless, nervous diarrhoea. Rectal pains after labor. Clear, watery urine, > headache. Alternate pelvic and head symptoms. Atonic seminal losses. Heavy, sore uterus; it feels grasped. Dysmenorrhoea. Labor pains go up, backward or down thighs. Rigid os. Deep yellow leucorrhoea. Hoarse, during menses. Tiresome breathing. Chest; as of a lump behind sternum; congestion. Heart sore; threatens to stop, must move. Spine, dull pains up and down, > walking; with occipital pain. Pains under scapulae. Hard ache in right humerus. Wants hands in cool water. Heavy lower limbs. Weak knees, < descending. Tottering gait; can't direct his legs. Moist, yellow skin. DROWSINESS; starts on dropping to sleep. Heavy, stupid sleep. Full, round, soft pulse. Blood rushes from occiput to forehead. Visual disturbances, then chill. Chilly and achy; with languor (Sil.); mingled or alternating with heat; up and down back. Cold hands and feet. Heat with sopor. ABSENCE OF THIRST, or trembling. Cold sweat on genitals. Fevers; bilious-remittent; malarial; cerebro-spinal. Measles. Ebullitions and heats. Sluggish fever. Shuddering chill.
Region: CIRCULATION; BRAIN CORD, OCCIPUT; Base; Neck; MOTOR NERVES, MUSCLES; Knees; EYESÂ (LIDS; VISION;: MUCOUS MEMBRANES, Nose; Gall-ducts; Right side.
Worse: EMOTIONS, DREAD; Surprise; Shock; Ordeals; Motion; Weather: SPRING; Foggy; HUMID; Muggy; Heat of summer; Periodically; Dentition; Tobacco; Gas.
Better: Profuse urination; Sweating; Shaking; Alcoholic drinks; Mental effort.