GELSEMIUM SEMPERVIRENS
Source indications
Boericke's Materia Medica
- motor paralysis
- general prostration
- dizziness
- drowsiness
- dullness
- trembling
- slow pulse
- tired feeling
- mental apathy
- paralysis of muscles about eyes, throat, chest, larynx, sphincter, extremities
- post-diphtheritic paralysis
- muscular weakness
- complete relaxation
- lack of muscular co-ordination
- general depression from heat of sun
- sensitive to falling barometer
- sluggish circulation
- nervous affections of cigarmakers
- influenza
- measles
- pellagra
- desire to be quiet
- languor
- listless
- apathy regarding illness
- lack of fear
- delirious on falling to sleep
- emotional excitement leading to bodily ailments
- bad effects from fright, fear, exciting news
- stage fright
- child starts and grasps nurse, screams as if afraid of falling
- vertigo spreading from occiput
- heaviness of head
- band-feeling around head
- occipital headache
- dull, heavy ache
- heaviness of eyelids
- bruised sensation in head
- pain in temple extending into ear and wing of nose, chin
- headache with muscular soreness of neck and shoulders
- headache preceded by blindness
- scalp sore to touch
- wants head raised on pillow
- ptosis
- eyelids heavy
- double vision
- disturbed muscular apparatus of eyes
- blurred vision
- smoky vision
- 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 of eyes
- haziness of vitreous
- serous inflammations of eyes
- albuminuric retinitis
- detached retina
- glaucoma
- descemetitis
- hysterical amblyopia
- sneezing
- fullness at root of nose
- dryness of nasal fossae
- swelling of turbinates
- watery, excoriating nasal discharge
- acute coryza with dull headache and fever
- hot, heavy, flushed face
- besotted-looking face
- neuralgia of face
- dusky hue of face with vertigo and dim vision
- facial muscles contracted
- chin quivers
- lower jaw dropped
- putrid taste
- putrid breath
- tongue numb, thick, coated, yellowish, trembling, paralyzed
- 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
- feeling of lump in throat
- aphonia
- swallowing causes pain in ear
- no thirst
- hiccough
- sensation of emptiness and weakness at pit of stomach
- sensation of oppression in stomach
- diarrhea from emotional excitement, fright, bad news
- stool painless or involuntary
- cream-colored stool
- tea-green stool
- partial paralysis of rectum and sphincter
- profuse, clear, watery urine
- chilliness and tremulousness with urination
- dysuria
- partial paralysis of bladder
- intermittent urine flow
- retention of urine
- rigid os
- vaginismus
- false labor-pains
- pains pass up back during labor
- dysmenorrhea with scanty flow
- menses retarded
- pain extends to back and hips during menses
- sore throat during menses
- sensation as if uterus were squeezed
- spermatorrhea without erections
- genitals cold and relaxed
- scrotum continually sweating
- gonorrhea, first stage
- scanty discharge in gonorrhea
- discharge tendency to corrode
- little pain in gonorrhea, but much heat
- smarting at meatus
- slowness of breathing
- oppression about chest
- dry cough with sore chest and fluent coryza
- spasm of the glottis
- acute bronchitis
- respiration quickened
- spasmodic affections of lungs and diaphragm
- feeling as if it were necessary to keep in motion
- slow pulse
- palpitation
- pulse soft, weak, full and flowing
- pulse greatly accelerated on motion
- weak, slow pulse of old age
- dull, heavy back pain
- complete relaxation of muscular system
- languor
- muscles feel bruised
- every little exertion causes fatigue
- pain in neck
- dull aching in lumbar and sacral region
- pain in muscles of back, hips, and lower extremities
- loss of power of muscular control
- cramp in muscles of forearm
- professional neuroses
- writer's cramp
- excessive trembling and weakness of limbs
- hysteric convulsions
- fatigue after slight exercise
- cannot get fully to sleep
- insomnia from exhaustion
- insomnia from uncontrollable thinking
- yawning
- sleepless from nervous irritation
- wants to be held
- pulse 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 chill extending upward from sacrum to occiput
- hot, dry, itching skin
- measle-like eruption
- erysipelas
- catarrhal symptoms with measles
- retrocedent measles with livid spots
- scarlet fever with stupor and flushed face