Gelsemium sempervirens

Gelsemium sempervirens
(yellow 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 theeyes, 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 barometer; cold and dampness brings on many complaints.
* Children fear falling, grab nurse or crib.
* Sluggish circulation.
* Nervous affections of cigarmakers.
* Influenza.
* Measles.
* Pellagra.
Mind
- Desire to be quiet, to be left alone.
- Dullness, languor, listless.
- "discerning are lethargied.
- " Apathy regarding his illness.
- Absolute lack of fear.
- Delirious on falling to sleep.
- Emotional excitement, fear, etc., lead to bodilyailments.
- Bad effects from fright, fear, exciting news.
- Stage fright.
- Child starts and grasps the nurse, and screams as if afraid of falling. [Bor.]
Head
- Vertigo, spreading from occiput.
- Heaviness of head; band-feeling around and occipital headache.
- Dull, heavy ache, with heaviness of eyelids; bruised sensation; better, compression and
lying with head high.
- Pain in temple, extending into ear and wing of nose, chin.
- Headache, with muscular soreness of neck and shoulders.
- Headache preceded by blindness; better, profuse urination.
- Scalp sore to touch.
- Delirious on falling asleep.
- Wants to have head raised on pillow.
Eyes
- Ptosis; eyelids heavy; patient can hardly open them.
- Double vision.
- Disturbed muscular apparatus.
- Corrects blurring and discomfort in eyes even after accurately adjusted glasses.
- Vision blurred, smoky. [Cycl.; Phos.]
- Dim-sighted; pupils dilated and insensible to light.
- Orbital neuralgia, with contraction and twitching of muscles.
- Bruised pain back of the orbits.
- One pupil dilated, the other contracted.
- Deep inflammations, with haziness of vitreous.
- Serous inflammations.
- Albuminuric retinitis.
- Detached retina, glaucoma and descemetitis.
- Hysterical amblyopia.
Nose
- Sneezing; fullness at root of nose.
- Dryness of nasal fossae.
- Swelling of turbinates.
- Watery, excoriating discharge.
- Acute coryza, with dull headache and fever.
Face
- Hot heavy, flushed, besotted-looking. [Bapt.; Op.] Neuralgia of face.
- Dusky hue of face, with vertigo and dim vision.
- Facial muscles contracted, especially around themouth.
- Chin quivers.
- Lower jaw dropped.
Mouth
- Putrid taste and breath.
- Tongue numb, thick, coated, yellowish, tremble, paralyzed.
Throat
- Difficult swallowing, especially of warm food.
- Itching and tickling in soft palate and naso-pharynx.
- Pain in sterno-cleido-mastoid, back of parotid.
- Tonsils swollen.
- Throat feels rough, burning.
- Post-diphtheritic paralysis.
- Tonsillitis; shooting pain into ear.
- Feeling of a lump in throat that cannot be swallowed.
- Aphonia.
- Swallowing causes pain in ear. [Hep.; Nux.]
- Difficult swallowing.
- Pain from throat to ear.
Stomach
- As a rule, the Gelsemium patient has no thirst.
- Hiccough; worse in the evening.
- Sensation of emptiness and weakness at the pit of the stomach, or of an oppression, like a
heavy load.
Stool
- Diarrhoea from emotional excitement, fright, badnews. [Phos. ac.]
- Stool painless or involuntary.
- Cream-colored [Calc.], tea-green.
- Partial paralysis of rectum and sphincter.
Urine
- Profuse, clear, watery, with chilliness and tremulousness.
- Dysuria.
- Partial paralysis of bladder; flow intermittent.[Clematis.]
- Retention.
Female
- Rigid os. [Bell.]
- Vaginismus.
- False labor-pains; pains pass up back.
- Dysmenorrhoea, with scanty flow; menses retarded.
- Pain extends to back and hips.
- Aphonia and sore throat during menses.
- Sensation as if uterus were squeezed. [Cham.; Nux v.; Ustilago.]
Male
- Spermatorrhoea, without erections.
- Genitals cold and relaxed. [Phos. ac.]
- Scrotum continually sweating.
- Gonorrhoea, first stage; discharge scanty; tendency to corrode; little pain, but much heat;
smarting at meatus.
Respiratory
- Slowness of breathing, with great prostration.
- Oppression about chest.
- Dry cough, with sore chest and fluent coryza.
- Spasm of the glottis.
- Aphonia; acute bronchitis, respiration quickened, spasmodic affections of lungs and
diaphragm.
Heart
- A feeling as if it were necessary to keep in motion, or else heart's action would cease.
- Slow pulse. [Dig.; Kalm.; Apoc.; Can.]
- Palpitation; pulse soft, weak, full and flowing.
- Pulse slow when quiet, but greatly accelerated on motion.
- Weak, slow pulse of old age.
Back
- Dull, heavy pain.
- Complete relaxation of the whole muscular system.
- Languor; muscles feel bruised.
- Every little exertion causes fatigue.
- Pain in neck, especially upper sterno-cleido muscles.
- Dull aching in lumbar and sacral region, passingupward.
- Pain in muscles of back, hips, and lower extremities, mostly deep-seated.
Extremities
- Loss of power of muscular control.
- Cramp in muscles of forearm.
- Professional neuroses.
- Writer's cramp.
- Excessive trembling and weakness of all limbs.
- Hysteric convulsions.
- Fatigue after slight exercise.
Sleep
- Cannot get fully to sleep.
- Delirious on falling asleep.
- Insomnia from exhaustion; from uncontrollable thinking; tobacco.
- Yawning.
- Sleepless from nervous irritation. [Coffea.]
Fever
- Wants to be held, because he shakes so.
- Pulse slow, full, soft, compressible.
- Chilliness up and down back.
- Heat and sweat stages, long and exhausting.
- Dumb-ague, with much 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
- Hot, dry, itching, measle-like eruption.
- Erysipelas.
- Measles, catarrhal symptoms; aids in bringing out eruption.
- Retrocedent, with livid spots.
- Scarlet fever with stupor and flushed face.
Modalities
- Worse, damp weather, fog, before a thunderstorm,emotion, or excitement, bad news,
tobacco-smoking, when thinking of his ailments; at 10 a.m.
- Better, bending forward, by profuse urination, open air, continued motion, stimulants.
Relationship
- Compare : Ignatia (gastric affections of cigarmakers); Baptisa; Ipecac.; Acon.; Bell.;
Cimicif.; Magnes. phos. (Gelsem. contains some Magnes. phos.)
- Culex- (vertigo on blowing the nose with fullness of the ears.)
- Antidotes : China; Coffea; Dig.
- Alcoholic stimulants relieve all complaints where Gelsem. is useful.
Dose
- Tincture, to thirtieth attenuation; first to third most often used.