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Gelsemium is a genus of flowering plants that contains three species of shrubs to straggling or twining climbers. Two species are native to North America, and one to China and Southeast Asia. The plant is poisonous, and all three species of this genus contain alkaloids, which are present in a concentration of about 0.5%. These consist primarily of gelsemine (a highly toxic compound related to strychnine), with lesser amounts of related compounds (gelsemicine, gelsedine, etc). Other compounds found in the plant include scopoletin (also called gelsemic acid), a small amount of volatile oil, fatty acid, and tannins.
As late as 1906, a drug called Gelsemium, made from the rhizome and rootlets of Gelsemium sempervirens, was used in the treatment of facial and other neuralgias. It also proved valuable in some cases of malarial fever and was occasionally used as a cardiac depressant and in spasmodic affections, but was inferior for this purpose to other remedies.
1. Young & children. 2. Women who are hysterical, nervous, plethoric and sensitive. 3. Anaemic girls and old people. 4. Miasmatic Background: Psora. 5. Temperament: Hysterical & nervous. 6. Thermal Relationship: Neither hot and chilly.
1. Young & children.
2. Women who are hysterical, nervous, plethoric and sensitive.
3. Anaemic girls and old people.
4. Miasmatic Background: Psora.
5. Temperament: Hysterical & nervous.
6. Thermal Relationship: Neither hot and chilly.
1. Intense pain over r. eye, as if the forehead would come right over the eyes and close them. 2. Sick headache, principally r. Temple, beginning in the morning and increasing during the day; after lying down; > by sleep or vomiting. 3. Neuralgic headache, beginning in the upper cervical spine; vRead more
1. Intense pain over r. eye, as if the forehead would come right over the eyes and close them.
2. Sick headache, principally r. Temple, beginning in the morning and increasing during the day; after lying down; > by sleep or vomiting.
3. Neuralgic headache, beginning in the upper cervical spine; vertebra prominens sensitive; numbness of occipital region; pains extend overhead, causing a bursting pain in forehead and eyeballs; < at 10 a.m., when lying; with nausea, vomiting, cold sweat, cold feet.
4Pain as from a tape around the head.
4. Dull pain in the back part of the head after breakfast, worse when moving and stooping.
5. Sensation as if the brain were bruised. With the headache giddiness, faintness, pain in the neck, pulsation of the carotid arteries, pain in the limbs great drowsiness, sneezing, double vision, and loss of sight.
6. Sensation of contraction of the skin in the middle of the forehead.
Modalities: 1. Worse, damp weather, fog, before a thunderstorm, emotion, excitement, bad news, tobacco-smoking, when thinking of his ailments; at 10 am. 2. Better, bending forward, by profuse urination, open air, continued motion, and stimulants.
Modalities:
1. Worse, damp weather, fog, before a thunderstorm, emotion, excitement, bad news, tobacco-smoking, when thinking of his ailments; at 10 am.
2. Better, bending forward, by profuse urination, open air, continued motion, and stimulants.
1. Great irritability, does not wish to be spoken to. 2. Irritable, sensitive; desires to be let alone. 3. Incapacity to think or fix the attention. 4. Vivacity, carelessness, followed by depression of spirits. 5. Unconnected ideas; cannot follow an idea for any length of time; if he attempts to thiRead more
1. Great irritability, does not wish to be spoken to.
2. Irritable, sensitive; desires to be let alone.
3. Incapacity to think or fix the attention.
4. Vivacity, carelessness, followed by depression of spirits.
5. Unconnected ideas; cannot follow an idea for any length of time; if he attempts to think consecutively he is attacked by a painful vacant feeling of the mind.
6. Loss of memory, with a headache.
7. Unconsciousness.
8. Delirium in sleep; half-waking, with incoherent talk.
9. Acts as if crazy, brandishes a sword in a threatening manner.
10. Stupor, cannot open the eyes.
11. Dulness of the mental faculties.
12. Sensation of intoxication, with diarrhśa.
13. Cataleptic immobility, with dilated pupils, closed eyes, but conscious.
14. Confusion; when attempting to move, the muscles refuse to obey the will; head giddy.
15. Strong inclination to suicide.
16. Want to throw myself from a height. Invariably think of going to the window. This is succeeded by an inclination to weep, and I generally have a good cry, and while the desire to throw myself from a height lasts, I clench my hands and nervous rigors run all over my body down to fingers and toes. It seems as if I should lose my senses.
17. Dread of being alone; afraid of what may happen; think I may lose self-control. These feelings are followed by a strong inclination to talk or write, increased sense of mental capacity and memory.
18. Every exciting news causes diarrhśa; bad effects from fright and fear.
19. Cowardice.
1. Pulse slow, accelerated by motion. 2. Limbs cold with oppressed breathing. 3. Cold hands and feet. 4. In the evening, when entering a warm room, thirst, pain in the back and loins, and in the lower part of the thighs. 5. Chilliness in the upper part of the body and back. 6. Chilliness every day aRead more
1. Pulse slow, accelerated by motion.
2. Limbs cold with oppressed breathing.
3. Cold hands and feet.
4. In the evening, when entering a warm room, thirst, pain in the back and loins, and in the lower part of the thighs.
5. Chilliness in the upper part of the body and back.
6. Chilliness every day at the same hour.
7. Chilliness esp. in the morning.
8. Chilliness, languid aching in back and limbs, sense of fatigue, every afternoon, 4 to 5 o’clock.
9. Nervous chill, the skin is warm; wants to be held that he may not shake so much.
10. Chill with cold hands, feet, and headache.
11. Chills begin in the hands; chills running up the back, hands, and feet cold.
12. Chilliness esp. along spine.
13. Chill with weak pulse.
14. Coldness of the feet as if they were in cold water, with heat in the head and face, and headache.
15. Chill followed by heat and later by perspiration.
16. Heat principally on the head and face.
17. Typhoid fever when so-called nervous symptoms predominate.
18. In eruptive and other fevers less restlessness than in Acon.; less violence and suddenness of aggravation than Bell.; languid asthenic fever.
19. Profuse perspiration relieving the pains.
20. Perspires freely from slight exertion.
21. Intermittent fevers.
22. Children’s remittent fever.
23. Cerebro-spinal meningitis.─Measles.
1. Complete relaxation and prostration of the whole muscular system with almost or entire motor paralysis, lack of muscular co-ordination. 2. 2. Numbness of tongue, nose, hands, fingers, skin, ear and toe. 3. Trembling of hands, tongue, legs etc. 4. Great heaviness of whole body and limbs feel heavyRead more
1. Complete relaxation and prostration of the whole muscular system with almost or entire motor paralysis, lack of muscular co-ordination.
See less2. 2. Numbness of tongue, nose, hands, fingers, skin, ear and toe.
3. Trembling of hands, tongue, legs etc.
4. Great heaviness of whole body and limbs feel heavy and tired, great heaviness of eyelids cannot keep them open, heaviness of single parts, uterus, heart etc.