Gelsemium sempervirens
gels-semYellow Jasmine Centers its action upon the nervous system, causing various degrees of motor paralysis. General prostration. Dizziness, drowsiness, dullness, and trembling. Slow pulse, tired feeling, mental apathy. Paralysis of various groups of muscles about the eyes, throat, chest, larynx, sphincter, extremities, etc. Post-diphtheritic paralysis. Muscular weakness. Complete relaxation and prostration. Lack of muscular co-ordination. General depression from heat of sun. Sensitive to a falling b
Gelsemium sempervirens — Materia Medica
Gelsemium sempervirens — keynotes · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
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.
Gelsemium sempervirens — mind · H.C. Allen
Bad effects from fright, fear, exciting news and sudden emotions (Ign.— from pleasant surprise, Coff.). Fear of death (Ars.); utter lack of courage. The anticipation of any unusual ordeal preparing for church, theatre, or to meet an engagement, brings on diarrhea; stage fright, nervous dread of appearing in public (Arg-n.). Desire to be quiet, to be let alone; does not wish to speak or have any one near her, even in the person be silent (Ign.). Children: Fear of falling, grasp the crib or seize the nurse (Borx., Sanic.).
Gelsemium sempervirens — general · James Tyler Kent
Weather: If you will observe the weather conditions in sharp climates, such as Minnesota, Massachusetts and Canada, you will find that the cold spells are very intense and that people when exposed, come down with complaints very rapidly and violently. That is the way the Bell. and Acon. cases come on, but Gelsemium complaints do not come from, such causes nor appear that way. Its complaints are more insidious and come on with a degree of slowness. A Gels. cold develops as symptoms several days after the exposure, while the Acon. cold comes on a few hours after exposure. The Aconite child exposed during the day in dry, cold weather will have croup before midnight. But in the South diseases are very slow. Like the people themselves, their organs are very slow, and their reaction is slow. Their colds are not taken from the violent cold, but from getting overheated. Hence, they take colds and fevers of a low malarial type; they have congestive headaches and congestive complaints that do not come on suddenly. When we think of the climate, and consider the people, and the pace of remedies, we see that Gels. is a remedy for warm climates, while Acon. is a remedy for colder climates. Certain acute complaints in the North will be like Aconite, while similar complaints will have symptoms in the warmer climate like Gels. The colds and fevers of the mild winters will be more likely to run to this medicine, whereas the colds and fevers of a violent winter will be more likely to run to Bell. and Acon. It is true that Acon. has complaints in hot weather, fevers and dysentery of hot weather, but they are different from the complaints of winter. Gels. has been used mostly in acute troubles. In lingering acute troubles and in those resembling the chronic it is very useful, but in chronic miasms it is not the remedy.
Gelsemium sempervirens — black letter · Margaret Lucy Tyler
Well-known streets seem strange : way home too long. Disinclined to speak ; would hardly answer. A distinct feeling of pulse in head. Throbbing in front of head. Immediately a sensation as if head were too large. Head felt enormously large. Pressure and throbbing in temples. Pressure and pain from 'within out in both temples. Fullness in head, and throbbing without pain. Head very full : pulse full and quick. As if the blood were mounting to head. As if he were hanging with head downwards, and as if there were a great rush of blood into head in consequence. As if skull were too small ; and brain attempting to burst it. Afraid tó shake his head lest it drop to pieces. Holds head with both hands ; presses sinciput. Shocks in brain, synchronous with every pulsation of arteries. GLONOINE—NITRO-GL YCERINE Undulating sensation in head. Throbbing in head : in temples : in temporal arteries which were raised and felt like whipcords. Sensation of fullness, vertex and forehead. Shaking the head increases the headache. Headache on damp, rainy days ; after taking cold ; after much sitting, and mental exertion. Red injected hot eyes during headache, with wild expression. Throbbing pain in all the teeth. Throbbing in whole body. Intense congestion of brain induced in plethoric constitutions by sudden suppression o f menses, or appearing instead of menses. Headaches occurring after profuse uterine hœmorrhage. Rush of blood to head in pregnant women, with pale face and loss of consciousness. Violent palpitation of heart, with .throbbing carotids, pulsating headache in forehead and between temples. Blood seems to rush to heart and mount rapidly into head. Epileptic convulsions, with congestion to head and heart. Bad effects from being exposed immediately to sun’s rays. {In fever) flushes of heat : waves of heat upwards. Other, Italic, or Queer Symptoms Recognized no one. Raved ; screamed ; wishes to rush from house.
Gelsemium sempervirens — introduction · Margaret Lucy Tyler
3*3 ago ; tired, languid, heavy—can’t get well.” The temperature is found to be about 99 ; and there are chills .........Gels, soon restores all things. Gels, haß also proved prophylactic against 'flu. One remembe.s hearing how a big school was completely protected in a bad ’flu epidemic, which was working havoc in such institutions. But, to successfully use Gels, for ’flu, you must see its symptoms ; the heaviness—the weakness—the tremor, often—the chills—the terrible occipital headache, perhaps. Here no remedy is so entirely reliable as Gels. Gels, is one of the few drugs that has " fear of falling ”. {Borax has something like it ; but this is rather a fear of downward motion, as when a child, being laid down in its cot, clings in terror to its mother.) This is how the Gelsemiutn fear is expressed in the Materia Medica : “ Child dizzy, when carried seizes hold of nurse, fearing it will fall. ” Sensation of falling in children ; child starts and grasps nurse or crib, and screams out for fear of falling.” One remembers a hospital child, so in terror of falling (one was told) that it was not enough to cling to her mother, it had to be some solid piece of furniture. After Gels, the next report was, that the child was climbing trees. These cases teach one Materia Medica. Gelsemium is apt to be thirstless. Gelsemium is a great headache remedy. It has excruciating headache—nervous headache—sudden headache with dimness of sight, or double vision—and especially occipital headaches. We see little of measles at Hospital, and we desire to see less, because, in these days, measles cases are rushed away, while the wretched measles quarantine renders the children’s ward useless for weeks at a time. Why don’t we treat it, and cure it !
Gelsemium sempervirens — modalities · H.C. Allen
Aggravation: Damp weather; before a thunderstorm; mental emotion or excitement bad news; tobacco smoking; when thinking of his ailments; when spoken to of his loss.
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