Gratiola officinalis
as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927
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General
Hedge Hyssop Acts especially on gastro-intestinal tract. Chronic catarrhal conditions, leucorrhœa and gonorrhœa. Obstinate ulcers. Useful in mental troubles from overweening pride. Especially useful in females. Nux symptoms in females often met by Gratiola.
Modalities
Worse, drinking too much water.
Head
Sick headache. Rush of blood with vanishing of sight. Sensation as if brain was contracting and head became smaller. Tightness in forehead, with wrinkles in skin. Eyes dry, burn. Myopia.
Stomach
Vertigo during and after meals; hunger and feeling of emptiness after meals. Dyspepsia, with much distention of the stomach. Cramps and colic after supper and during night, with swelling of abdomen and constipation. Dysphagia for liquids.
Stool
Diarrhœa; green, frothy water, followed by anal burning, forcibly evacuated without pain. Constipation, with gouty acidity. Hæmorrhoids, with hypochondriasis. Rectum constricted.
Female
Nymphomania. Menses too profuse, premature, and too long. Leucorrhœa.
Sleep
Insomnia.
Relationships
Compare: Dig; Euph; Tab; Cham; Ammon pic; Nux vom.
Dose
Second to third potency.
What the other books say about Gratiola officinalis
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Gratiola officinalis in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
- Gratiola officinalis in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
- Gratiola officinalis in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.
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Create a free accountCite this page. William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Gratiola officinalis — General. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/gratiola-officinalis. 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 Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.