GELSEMIUM
Source indications
Kent's Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica
- Complaints are more insidious and come on with a degree of slowness
- Colds and fevers of a low, malarial type
- Congestive headaches
- Congestive complaints that do not come on suddenly
- Cerebral hyperaemia
- Determination of blood to the brain and to the spinal cord
- Extremities become cold
- Head becomes hot
- Back becomes hot
- Convulsions of the extremities
- Crampings of the fingers
- Crampings of the toes
- Crampings of the muscles of the back
- Coldness of the fingers
- Coldness of the toes
- Extremities are icy cold to the knees
- Face is purple
- Face is mottled
- Eyes are engorged
- Pupils dilated
- Eyes are in a state of marked congestion with lachrymation and twitching
- Feels dazed
- Talks as if he were delirious
- Incoherent
- Stupid
- Forgetful
- Great coldness running up the back from the lower part of the spine to the back of the head
- Shuddering, as if ice were rubbed up the back
- Pains extend up the back
- Very dark red countenance
- Glassy eyes
- Dilated pupils
- Neck drawn back
- Rigidity of the muscles of the back of the neck
- Neck cannot be straightened
- Violent pains up the back
- Coldness in the spine
- Pain in the base of the brain
- Pain in the back of the neck
- Very hot skin
- High temperature
- Violent chill
- Tongue begins to coat
- Nausea
- Vomiting of bile
- Continued fever extends from one paroxysm into another, with a higher temperature in the afternoon
- Chill practically subsides
- Typhoid appearance
- Dry tongue
- Not much thirst
- Marked head symptoms
- Dazed in mind
- Delirium
- Afternoon fevers without chill in infants and in children
- Remittent attacks
- Dark red face
- Duskiness
- Feeling of great weight and tiredness in the entire body and limbs
- Head cannot be lifted from the pillow
- Great weight in the limbs
- Heart is feeble
- Pulse is feeble
- Pulse is soft
- Pulse is irregular
- Palpitation during the febrile state
- Sense of weakness and goneness in the region of the heart
- Weakness and goneness often extend into the stomach
- Hysterical element
- Nervous hunger, or gnawing
- Most violent pain is in the occiput
- Hammering pain in occiput
- Every pulsation is felt like the blow of a hammer in the base of the skull
- Patient cannot stand up
- Paralyzed from the pain
- Occipital headache that compels walking or rolling the head
- Face is flushed
- Face is dusky
- Eyes glassy
- Pupils dilated
- Headaches of a neuralgic character in the temples and over the eyes
- Nausea and aggravation from vomiting
- Headache is relieved by passing a copious quantity of urine
- Much nervous excitement
- Complaints from fear
- Complaints from embarrassment
- Complaints from shock that is attended with fear
- Complaints from sudden surprises that are attended with fright
- Involuntary stool
- Involuntary discharges from fright
- Surprises accompanying fright
- Becomes faint
- Weak and exhausted
- Tired in all the limbs and unable to resist opposing circumstances
- Heart palpitates
- Paralytic affections of the sphincters
- Involuntary loss of stool
- Involuntary loss of urine
- Paralytic weakness of the extremities
- Paralytic weakness of the hands
- Aching along the spine
- Aching in the muscles of the back
- Drawing, cramping in the muscles of the back
- Aching under the left shoulder blade
- Double vision
- Dimness of vision
- Appearance as of gauze before the eyes
- Confusion of vision
- Blindness