Gambogia

as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927

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General

Gummi Gutti Garcinia morella The use of this drug in Homeopathy has been confined to its action on the alimentary tract. It produces a diarrhœa very similar to Croton. >From its pathogenesis, it is very evident that it has very intense and definite action especially on the gastro-enteric tract.

Modalities

Worse, towards evening and at night.

Head

Heavy, with inertia, and drowsiness. Itching and burning in eyes; lids stick together, with sneezing. Gastro-enteric Symptoms.––Feeling of coldness at edge of teeth. Great irritability of the stomach; burning, smarting, and dryness of the tongue and throat. Pain in the stomach after food. Tenderness in epigastrium. Pain and distention of abdomen from flatulence, after stool. Rumbling and rolling. Dysentery, with retained scybala, with pain in sacral region. Diarrhœa, with sudden and forcible ejection of bilious stools. Tenesmus after, with burning at anus. Ileo-cæcal region sensitive to pressure. Profuse, watery diarrhœa in hot weather, particularly old people. Pain in coccyx.

Relationships

Compare: Croton; Aloes; Pod.

Dose

Third to thirtieth potency. Gamboge painted on the chest in lung tuberculosis is considered by Abrams specific and incipient cases are symptomatically cured in several weeks.

What the other books say about Gambogia

The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.

  • Gambogia in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.

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Cite this page. William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Gambogia — General. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/gambogia. Published 1927: public domain in the US (since 2023) and in India (author died 1929). Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.