GELSEMIUM

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Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

  • Amaurosis
  • Anterior crural neuralgia
  • Aphonia
  • Astigmatism
  • Bilious fever
  • Brain affections
  • Cerebro-spinal meningitis
  • Choroiditis
  • Colds
  • Constipation
  • Convulsions
  • Deafness
  • Dengue fever
  • Diarrhea
  • Diphtheria
  • Dupuytren's contraction
  • Dysentery
  • Dysmenia
  • Emotions effects
  • Epilepsy
  • Eyes affections
  • Fever
  • Fright
  • Gonorrhea
  • Hay-fever
  • Headache
  • Heat effects
  • Heart diseases
  • Hydro-salpingitis
  • Hysteria
  • Influenza
  • Intermittent fever
  • Jaundice
  • Labour
  • Liver affections
  • Locomotor ataxia
  • Mania
  • Measles
  • Meningitis
  • Menstruation painful
  • Menstruation suppressed
  • Metrorrhagia
  • Myalgia
  • Neuralgia
  • Nystagmus
  • Esophagus stricture
  • Paralysis
  • Paralysis agitans
  • Paraplegia
  • Pregnancy albuminuria
  • Ptosis
  • Puerperal convulsions
  • Remittent fever
  • Retina detachment
  • Rheumatism
  • Sexual excess effects
  • Sleep disordered
  • Spasms
  • Sun-headache
  • Sunstroke
  • Teething
  • Tic-douloureux
  • Tobacco effects
  • Tongue affections
  • Toothache
  • Tremors
  • Uterus affections
  • Vertigo
  • Voice loss
  • Writer's cramp
  • Sluggish mind
  • Muscular system relaxed
  • Heavy limbs
  • Lassitude
  • Eyelid paresis
  • Diplopia
  • Loss of swallowing power
  • Anus remains open
  • Diarrhea from depressing emotions
  • Relaxation of genital organs
  • Functional paralysis
  • Blurring of sight
  • Headache relieved by urination
  • Desire to urinate at night
  • Violent headache if urination delayed
  • Post-diphtheritic paralysis
  • Debility after pollutions
  • Prostration from seminal vesicles
  • Funk before examination
  • Stage fright
  • Effects of anger
  • Effects of grief
  • Effects of bad news
  • Drooping eyelids
  • Hysterical dysphagia
  • Eruptive disorders
  • Drowsiness
  • Stiff face
  • Quivering chin
  • Restlessness
  • Pain over right eye
  • Eyes feel like turning into head
  • Suicidal inclination
  • Want to throw self from height
  • Clenching hands
  • Nervous rigors
  • Dread of being alone
  • Back of head feels like turning to ice
  • Inclination to talk or write
  • Great exhilaration
  • Better opinion of mental capacity
  • Memory better
  • Frequent urination
  • Insanity
  • Brandishing a sword
  • Paralysis of legs
  • Excessive tremors
  • Vomiting
  • Violent and intermittent heart action
  • Affected eye muscles
  • Prolonged conversation causes lip paralysis
  • Somnolence
  • Good appetite
  • Vision not perfect
  • Double vision
  • Speechless
  • Total loss of power in tongue
  • Cannot articulate
  • Difficulty swallowing
  • Widely dilated pupils
  • Uncertain power over hand and arm
  • Trembling of the tongue
  • Tongue thinly coated
  • Flushed crimson face
  • Excessive weakness
  • Early morning sneezing
  • Streaming colds
  • Headache begins in occiput
  • Headache spreads over head
  • Headache settles over eyes
  • Dizziness rising from occiput
  • Headache with stiff neck
  • Headache relieved by urinating
  • Headache preceded by blur before eyes
  • Drowsiness with headache
  • Difficulty keeping eyes open
  • Dull headache over eyes to vertex and occiput
  • Irregular action of eye-muscles
  • Neurotic symptoms in cigar-makers
  • Impotence
  • Palpitation
  • Feeling of fullness and heaviness in uterine region
  • Cramp-like pains during menses
  • Sharp pains moving from uterus to back and hips
  • Languid aching in back and hips before menses
  • Great weakness in lower extremities
  • Little pain after menses begin
  • Lump in throat
  • Pains in back of head and spine after menses
  • Pains running up back of neck
  • Feeling of tightness in brain
  • Irritable
  • Easily angered
  • Fever in afternoon
  • Twitching of muscles
  • Menses last eight days
  • Menses light-colored
  • Epileptiform convulsions at menstrual period
  • Rigid os in labour
  • Chill beginning in hands
  • Chill beginning in feet
  • Itching of skin
  • Eruption like measles
  • Lightness of head
  • Lightness of body
  • Sensation as if head enlarged
  • Sensation as if tape around head
  • Sensation as if skin contracted in forehead
  • Sensation from throat to nostril like scalding water
  • Sensation as if lump in esophagus
  • Sensation of load in stomach
  • Sensation as if uterus squeezed by hand
  • Sensation as if he would die
  • Sensation as if blood ceased to circulate
  • Sensation as if heart would stop unless moving
  • Sensation as if knife thrust through from occiput to forehead
  • Sensation as if eyes jumping out of head
  • Yellow stools
  • Wants to lie down and rest
  • Wants to be held
  • Motion aggravates most symptoms
  • Motion improves muscular pains
  • Motion improves heart
  • Rising from seat causes pain in heart
  • Shaking head improves heaviness of head
  • Lifting arms causes trembling of hands
  • Playing piano causes tired sensation in arms
  • Apprehensive feeling at approach of thunderstorm
  • Heat of sun aggravates
  • Hot applications ameliorate pain back of head
  • Must be covered in all stages of paroxysm
  • Complaints from sudden change from hot or dry to damp air
  • Catarrh occurring in warm moist relaxing weather
  • Damp weather aggravates
  • Cold open air improves
  • Fog aggravates
  • Cold drinks are vomited
  • Stimulants improve
  • Great irritability
  • Incapacity to think
  • Incapacity to fix attention
  • Vivacity followed by depression
  • Unconnected ideas
  • Loss of memory
  • Unconsciousness
  • Delirium in sleep
  • Incoherent talk
  • Acts crazy
  • Stupor
  • Dulness of mental faculties
  • Sensation of intoxication
  • Cataleptic immobility
  • Confusion
  • Muscles refuse to obey will
  • Head giddy
  • Every exciting news causes diarrhea
  • Effects from fright and fear
  • Cowardice
  • Staggering as if intoxicated
  • Giddiness
  • Blurred vision
  • Loss of sight
  • Chilliness
  • Accelerated pulse
  • Intense pain over right eye
  • Sick headache
  • Neuralgic headache
  • Cerebro-spinal meningitis
  • Fulness in the head
  • Heat in the face
  • Great heaviness of the head
  • Pressure on vertex
  • Pain as from a tape around head
  • Dull pain in back part of head
  • Back part of head seems turning to ice
  • Sensation as if brain were bruised
  • Faintness
  • Pain in the neck
  • Pulsation of the carotid arteries
  • Pain in the limbs
  • Great drowsiness
  • Sneezing
  • Sensation of contraction of skin in forehead
  • Itching on the head
  • Itching on the face
  • Itching on the neck
  • Itching on the shoulders
  • Eyes feel bruised
  • Yellow color of the eyes
  • Fulness and congestion of the eyelids
  • Paralysis of the eyelids
  • Double vision controllable by will
  • Eyeballs oscillate laterally
  • Smoky appearance before eyes
  • Detached retina
  • Cannot see anything
  • Pupils dilated
  • Aversion to light
  • Thirst for light
  • Confusion of sight
  • Sudden loss of hearing
  • Rushing and roaring in ears
  • Catarrhal deafness
  • Pain from throat into middle ear
  • Earache from cold
  • Sneezing followed by tingling in nose
  • Streaming of water from nose
  • Profuse watery discharge excoriates nostrils
  • Sensation of fulness at root of nose
  • Heavy dull expression of countenance
  • Heavy besotted expression
  • Hot to the touch
  • Lips dry
  • Lips hot
  • Lips coated
  • Paleness and nausea
  • Erythema of face and neck
  • Muscles of face seem contracted
  • Orbital neuralgia
  • Contractions and twitching of muscles of face
  • Stiffness of jaws
  • Jaws are locked
  • Lower jaw dropped
  • Chin quivers incessantly
  • Lower jaw began wagging
  • Saliva colored yellow
  • Tongue is coated yellowish-white
  • Fetid breath
  • Putrid taste
  • Sticky feverish feeling in mouth
  • Tongue red
  • Tongue raw
  • Tongue painful
  • Tongue dry
  • Tongue inflamed
  • Numbness of tongue
  • Tongue feels thick
  • Partial paralysis of tongue
  • Dryness and burning in throat
  • Dry roughness in throat when coughing
  • Hoarseness with dryness of throat
  • Sensation of heat and constriction in throat
  • Burning in mouth extending to throat and stomach
  • Spasmodic sensations in gullet
  • Cramp-like pains in gullet
  • Sensation as if foreign body in throat
  • Difficult deglutition
  • Swallowing causes shooting into ear
  • Local tingling of the parts during fever
  • Incipient paralysis
  • Increased appetite
  • Sour eructations
  • Nausea with giddiness and headache
  • Sensation of emptiness in stomach
  • Feeling of emptiness and weakness in stomach and bowels
  • Oppression and fulness in stomach
  • Burning in the stomach extending to the mouth
  • Gnawing pain in transverse colon
  • Sudden spasmodic pains in abdomen
  • Compelling him to cry
  • Sensation of contraction
  • Sensation of soreness in abdominal walls
  • Tenderness in right iliac region
  • Rumbling in abdomen
  • Discharge of wind above and below
  • Periodic colic with diarrhea
  • Acute catarrhal enteritis
  • Frequent discharge of flatus
  • Soft stool passed with difficulty
  • Paralysis of sphincter ani
  • Disposition to prolapsus ani
  • Stools loose color of tea
  • Stools dark yellow
  • Stools fecal
  • Stools bilious
  • Stools cream-colored
  • Stools clay-colored
  • Stools green
  • Diarrhea with intermittent fever
  • Diarrhea after sudden emotions
  • Diarrhea after grief
  • Diarrhea after fright
  • Diarrhea after bad news
  • Diarrhea after anticipation
  • Frequent micturition relieves headache
  • Copious discharge of clear urine
  • Incontinence from paralysis of sphincter
  • Tenesmus of bladder
  • Irritable neck of bladder
  • Constant urination
  • Genitals cold and relaxed
  • Involuntary emission of semen
  • No erection
  • During stool
  • Excitable sexual desire
  • Sexual power exhausted
  • Slightest caress causes emission
  • Painful redness at urethra
  • Sensation of heaviness in uterus
  • Sensation as if uterus squeezed by a band
  • Suppressed menstruation with convulsions
  • Metrorrhagia almost continuous flow
  • Metrorrhagia without pain
  • Severe sharp labour-like pains
  • Pains extending to back and hips
  • Dizziness with amenorrhea
  • Headache with amenorrhea
  • Ailments from masturbation
  • Depression and languor
  • Rigidity of neck of uterus
  • Spasmodic dysmenorrhea
  • Neuralgic dysmenorrhea
  • Vaginismus
  • Leucorrhea white
  • Leucorrhea in gushes
  • Leucorrhea with backache
  • Spasmodic labour-pains
  • False labour-pains
  • Premature labour after fright
  • During pregnancy violent pains in uterus
  • During pregnancy drowsiness
  • During pregnancy double vision
  • During pregnancy obscuration of sight
  • During pregnancy giddiness
  • During pregnancy pulsation of carotid arteries
  • During pregnancy small slow pulse
  • Cramps in abdomen during pregnancy
  • Cramps in legs during pregnancy
  • Loss of muscular power during pregnancy
  • Inefficient labour-pains
  • Os widely dilated
  • Complete atony
  • Voice weak
  • Paralysis of glottis
  • Spasm of glottis
  • Threatening suffocation
  • Roughness of throat
  • Raw as if ulcerated in larynx
  • Bronchitis
  • Burning in larynx
  • Burning in trachea
  • Dry cough with soreness of chest
  • Fluent coryza
  • Breathing frequent
  • Heaviness in middle of chest
  • Sensation of constriction in lower thorax
  • Extreme difficulty of breathing
  • Threatened suffocation
  • Restlessness
  • Stitches in chest in region of heart
  • Paralysis of lungs
  • Irregular beating of the heart
  • Palpitation
  • Feeling as if heart would stop
  • Pain in the heart when rising from a seat
  • Pulse frequent
  • Pulse soft
  • Pulse weak
  • Pulse almost imperceptible
  • Pulsation of the carotid arteries during pregnancy
  • Muscles of neck feel bruised
  • Sensation of constriction in right side of neck
  • Pains in neck under left shoulder-blade
  • Myalgic pains in the neck
  • Pains from spine to head and shoulders
  • Congestion of spine
  • Prostration
  • Languor
  • Dull aching in lumbar and sacral regions
  • Cannot walk
  • Trembling in all the limbs
  • Deep-seated aching in muscles and joints
  • Neuralgic pains in extremities
  • Rheumatic pains in extremities
  • Pain in shoulders during the night
  • Arms weak
  • Arms numb
  • Sensation as if right elbow were sprained
  • Pain in elbow from draught of air
  • Cramps in forearm when writing
  • Pain as if sprained in right wrist
  • Trembling of hands when lifting them
  • Coldness of wrists and hands
  • Hot dry hands
  • Spasmodic contraction of fingers
  • Unsteady gait
  • Fatigue after slight exercise
  • Loss of voluntary motion
  • Violent lancinating pain in thigh
  • Obstinate sciatica
  • Burning pains in legs
  • Deep-seated muscular pains in legs
  • Paroxysmal shooting pains
  • Thighs sore to touch
  • Rheumatic pains during the night in knees
  • Sudden dislocation of the knee-pan
  • Calves of legs feel bruised
  • Spasmodic contraction of toes
  • Hyperesthesia
  • Excessive irritability
  • Paralytic affections
  • Complete relaxation of muscular system
  • Trembling and weakness
  • Listless and languid
  • Easily fatigued
  • Rheumatic pains wandering
  • Spasmodic contractive pains
  • Sensation as if bruised
  • Neuralgia acute sudden darting pains
  • Shooting tearing pains along tracks of nerves
  • Congestions arterial or venous
  • Sluggish circulation
  • Papulous eruptions resembling measles
  • Skin hot and dry
  • Sleepiness
  • Long-continued sleep
  • Delirious as soon as he goes to sleep
  • Yawning
  • Languid and drowsy
  • Cannot compose mind for sleep
  • Sleeplessness from nervous irritation
  • Restless sleep
  • Unpleasant dreams
  • Wakes from sleep with headache
  • Wakes from sleep with colic
  • Night-terrors
  • Dreamed of dying
  • Felt eyes sinking into sockets
  • Pulse slow
  • Limbs cold with oppressed breathing
  • Cold hands and feet
  • Thirst
  • Pain in back and loins
  • Pain in lower part of thighs
  • Chilliness in upper part of body and back
  • Chilliness every day at same hour
  • Chilliness in the morning
  • Languid aching in back and limbs
  • Sense of fatigue
  • Nervous chill
  • Chill with cold hands feet and headache
  • Chills begin in the hands running up the back
  • Chilliness along spine
  • Chill with weak pulse
  • Coldness of feet
  • Heat in head and face
  • Chill followed by heat and perspiration
  • Heat principally on head and face
  • Typhoid fever with nervous symptoms
  • Languid asthenic fever
  • Profuse perspiration relieving pains
  • Perspires freely from slight exertion
  • Intermittent fevers
  • Children's remittent fever