Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Remedy
Chapter:
644.54.09
644.54.09 Gymnocladus dioica, Gymnocladus canadensis
Names: Guilandiana dioica.
English: Kentucky coffee tree; Coffee nut tree.
Use: wood, cabinet.
Mind
Feeling of having sold their soul, given all away, for love and tenderness.
Sexual desire increasing, long-continuing, erections at night.
Absent-minded, confusion, dull, <- work, ambition, apathy, indolence, careless, memory low, forgetful.
Aversion to motion; desires rest, quietness, to lean on something.
Feels badly.
Indifferent to what happens.
Cannot study, think quickly, compelled to gaze at an object some time to comprehend it.
General
Weather: < cold, cold draughts; > heat.
Aversion: food, no appetite.
Food: < cold drinks.
Physical: < walking, < motion; > rest; > leaning against something; > rubbing eyes.
Body
General: lividity; numbness.
Vertigo: dizziness, with dimness of sight.
Head: bound, full; headache, dull, bruised, bursting, tight, throbbing, forehead, temples, over eyes; swollen, as in erysipelas.
Eyes: burning, sore, throbbing, stinging, dull, heavy; pushing out; wants to rub them.
Nose: pain under brows and into nose; frequent, violent sneezing.
Face: crawling; erysipelatous swelling; as of flies crawling.
Mouth: ! tongue blue, bluish-white coating; teeth sensitive to cold air; taste bad, bitter.
Throat: dark livid red; pain sore, sticking; hawking mucus; tickling; smarting in the larynx.
Lungs: dry cough.
Chest: pain pressing, sharp, shooting, stitching, intercostal muscles, < walking.
Stomach: fullness; belching hot, sour, watery; belching, heartburn; pain, heat, burning spot; nausea, < eating.
Abdomen: gulping of wind; uneasiness of bowels; pain in left side; spleen was swollen; pain in umbilical region; flatulence, rumbling; pain sore, tender, piercing, pinching, lower abdomen, inguinal glands.
Rectum: aching fullness; diarrhoea; stool hard, last part softer; constipation.
Urinary: pain pressing, bladder; urge frequent; urine in small stream, brown, yellow, turbid.
Male: itching of gland and prepuce.
Back: pain in dorsal vertebrae, small of the back.
Limbs: dull pain in the left elbow-joint; pain violent, as crushed or broken, left forearm, in the radius; pain dull, ring finger of left hand; burning on the point of the left thumb; pain sticking, stinging, left knee, < walking, in the forenoon.
Skin: hives; erysipelas.
