Homoeopathy short name: GELSEMIUM
Mechanism of Action:
Nervous
system: Dizziness, drowsiness, dullness, and trembling.
Slow
pulse, tired feeling, mental apathy.
Motor paralysis and general prostration.
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 cold
and dampness is the main causative factor to bring many complaints.
In children, fear falling, grab nurse or crib. Decreased
circulation.
Nervous affections
of smokers and cigarmakers.
Causative factors:
Bad
effects from fright, fear, exciting news, may be good or bad. Stage fear. Child
starts and grasps the nurse, and screams as if afraid of falling.
Mind or mental Symptoms:
Want
to be quiet
Desire
to be left alone
Dullness,
indolence, listless
Delirium
while falling in to sleep
Emotional
excitement, fear, etc, leading to physical ailments
Vertigo
or dizziness spreading from occiput.
Occipital
headache: Dull, heavy ache, with heaviness of eyelids; bruised sensation all
over the head; Feels better by compression and lying with head high on pillow. Heaviness
of head; band-feeling around and occipital headache.
Pain
in temple, extending into ear and wing of nose, chin. Headache with muscular soreness of neck
and shoulders. Headache followed by blindness; Patient’s headache relieved by profuse
urination. Scalp sore to touch. Patient will be in delirious stage on falling
asleep.
Eye symptoms:
Ptosis; eyelids heavy; patient can hardly open them.
Blurred
and Double vision due to disturbed muscular apparatus. Gelsemium corrects
blurring and discomfort in eyes even after accurately adjusted glasses. Hysterical
amblyopia.
Nose or Nasal symptoms:
Acute coryza with watery,
excoriating discharge. Coryza associated with dull headache and fever. Sneezing
with fullness at root of nose. Swelling of turbinates.
Face symptoms:
Hot
heavy flushed, besotted looking. Facial neuralgia. Contraction of facial
muscles, especially around the mouth.
Gastrointestinal System: Mouth symptoms;
Tongue
is paralyzed, numb, thick, coated, yellowish, and tremble,.
Stomach symptoms:
No
thirst. Hiccough increase in the evening. Sensation of emptiness and weakness
at the pit of the stomach, or of an oppression, like a heavy load.
Stool symptoms: Partial
paralysis of rectum and sphincter. Diarrhœa due to emotional excitement, fright, bad news. Painless or
involuntary stools. Cream-colored, tea-green.
Urinary symptoms:
Dysuria.
Profuse, clear, watery, with chilliness and tremulousness.. Partial paralysis
of bladder; flow intermittent. Retention.
Female symptoms: Aphonia
and sore throat during menses. Vaginismus. False labor-pains; pains pass up
back. Dysmenorrhœa, with
scanty flow; menses retarded. Pain extends to back and hips. Sensation as if
uterus were squeezed .
Male symptoms:
Spermatorrhœa, without erections. Cold and relaxed
genitals. Gonorrhœa, first stage.
Respiratory symptoms:
Slowness of breathing, with great prostration. Oppression of chest. Aphonia;
acute bronchitis. Dry cough, with sore chest and fluent coryza. respiration quickened, spasmodic
affections of lungs and diaphragm.
Heart or cardiac symptoms:
Weak
and slow pulse. Palpitation; pulse soft, weak, full and flowing. Pulse slow
when quiet, but greatly increased on motion. A feeling as if it were necessary
to keep in motion, or else heart's action would cease.
Back symptoms:
Every
little exertion causes fatigue. Dull, heavy pain. Complete relaxation of the
whole muscular system. Dull heavy pain in neck, especially upper sterno-cleido
muscles. Dull aching in lumbar and sacral region, passing upward. Pain in
muscles of back, hips, and lower extremities, mostly deep-seated.
Extremities symptoms:
Writer's cramp. Loss of power of muscular control. Cramp in muscles of
forearm. Professional neuroses. Excessive trembling and weakness of all limbs. Hysteric convulsions.
Sleep symptoms:
Sleepless
from nervous irritation. Delirious on falling asleep. Insomnia from exhaustion;
from uncontrollable thinking.
Fever symptoms:
Slow pulse, full, soft, compressible. Chilliness
up and down back. Heat and sweat stages, long and exhausting. Muscular
soreness, great prostration, and violent headache. Nervous chills. Bilious remittent fever,
with stupor, dizziness, faintness; thirstless, prostrated. Chill, without
thirst, along spine; wave-like, extending upward from sacrum to occiput.
Skin symptoms:
Hot,
dry, itching, measle-like eruption. Erysipelas. Measles, catarrhal symptoms; aids in
bringing out eruption.
Modalities:
Aggravation
or Worse, from - damp weather, before a
thunderstorm, emotion, or excitement, bad news, tobacco-smoking, when thinking of his or her complaints;
Amelioration
or Better from - by
profuse urination, bending forward, open air, continued motion, stimulants.
