Gnaphalium polycephalum

Gnaphalium polycephalum
(cud-weed)-old balsam
* A remedy of unquestioned benefit in sciatica, when pain is associated with numbness of the
part affected.
* Rheumatism and morning diarrhoea.
* Polyuria.
Face
- Intermittent pains of superior maxillary of bothsides.
Abdomen
- Borborygmus.
- Colic; pain in various parts of the abdomen.
- Irritated prostate.
- First stage of cholera infantum; vomiting and purging.
Female
- Weight and fullness in pelvis.
- Dysmenorrhoea, with scanty and painful menses.
Back
- Chronic backache in lumbar region; better resting on back.
- Lumbago with numbness in lower part of back and weight in pelvis.
Extremities
- Cramps in calves of legs and feet when in bed.
- Rheumatic pain in ankle joints and legs.
- Intense pain along the sciatic nerve; numbness alternates with pain.
- Frequent pains in calves and feet.
- Gouty pains in big toes.
- Better, drawing limbs up, flexing thigh on abdomen.
- Gouty concretions. [Ammon. benz.]
- Anterior crural neuralgia. [Staph.]
- Pain in joints as if they lacked oil.
- Chronic muscular rheumatism of back and neck.
Relationship
- Compare : Xanthoxyl.; Chamom.; Pulsat.
Dose
- Third to thirtieth potency.