Gelsemium sempervirens

as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931

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Keynotes

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 diarrhœa. Rectal pains after labor. Clear, watery urine, > headache. Alternate pelvic and head symptoms. Atonic seminal losses. Heavy, sore uterus; it feels grasped. Dysmenorrhœa. Labor pains go up, backward or down thighs. Rigid os. Deep yellow leucorrhœa. 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 scapulæ. Hard ache in r. 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.

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. ACHING, TIRED, HEAVY, WEAK AND SORE; < limbs. Grippe. Overpowering aching.

Region

CIRCULATION. BRAIN CORD: OCCIPUT. Base. Neck. MOTOR NERVES: MUSCLES. Knees. EYES (LIDS. VISION.) MUCOUS MEMBRANES: Nose. Gall-ducts. Right side.

Relationships

Complementary: Arg-n. Sep. Related: Con. Ign. Mur-ac. Nat-m. Sep. Ver-v.

What the other books say about Gelsemium sempervirens

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

Gelsemium sempervirens in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
Gelsemium sempervirens in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
Gelsemium sempervirens in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
Gelsemium sempervirens in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.

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Cite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Gelsemium sempervirens — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/gelsemium-sempervirens. Author died 1935: public domain in India. The catalogue records 1931; a 1931 edition is public domain in the US from 1 Jan 2027 at the latest — the edition this transcription follows is not stated in the file. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.