GINSENG
Source indications
Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica
- Appendicitis
- Debility
- Headache
- Lumbago
- Rheumatism
- Sciatica
- Sexual excitement
- Bruised pains in small of back and thighs
- Great languor
- Paralytic pains in lower limbs
- Rheumatic pains in lower limbs
- Arthritic swelling of the foot
- Violent pain in big toe
- Nightly digging in right lower limb from hip to big toe
- Cramp pains from right hip to toes
- Lancinating pain in right tarsal joint
- Frequent desire to urinate
- Feelings of fatigue
- Joyous sense of vigour
- Elasticity to the limbs
- Clearness of mind
- Malaise
- Yawning
- Drowsiness
- Extreme heat
- Intense coldness
- Longing to expose the body to cool air
- Pain in right side of hypogastrium extending into groin
- Dry mouth
- Dry tongue
- Dry lips
- Vertigo
- Mouth and throat sensitive to air
- Mood quiet and contented
- Good courage
- Impatient impulses
- Fear of accidents
- Thinking difficult
- Memory weak
- Disposition to weep
- Anxious about the future
- Vertigo cloudiness
- Vertigo confusion
- Vertigo giddiness
- Vertigo heaviness of the head
- Vertigo on going down winding stairs
- Ground seems to waver
- Reflection difficult
- Tendency to forgetfulness
- Reeling sensation in occiput
- Grey spots before eyes
- Head seems enlarged
- Head sways to one side
- Pressure in longitudinal sinuses
- Drawing in right side of frontal bone
- Drawing in muscles of neck
- Drawing in muscles of loins
- Drawing in occiput
- Head bends backward involuntarily
- Painful sensitiveness of the head
- Semilateral cephalalgia
- Lancinations from right side of the forehead to the orbit
- Heaviness of the eyelids
- Irrepressible inclination to sleep
- Heat of the head
- Heaviness in the temples
- Sudden shock in occiput
- Pain as of a bruise
- Pressure on the eyes forcing them inwards
- Upper eyelids fall
- Difficulty in opening the eyelids
- Heavy painful eyelids
- Itching of the eyelids
- Biting in margins of lids
- Itching in margins of lids
- Coldness on surface of eyeball
- Pupils alternately large and small
- Vision indistinct
- Sensation of fatigue when exposed to light
- Objects appear double
- Characters become confused
- Alternation of redness and paleness
- Burning erythematous redness on right cheek
- Burning erythematous redness on ala nasi
- Burning erythematous redness on the chin
- Eruption of small miliaria
- Tingling
- Mealy tetters on the skin
- Desquamation
- Lips red
- Lips rough
- Lips thick
- Lips cracked
- Lips bleeding
- Drawing in jaws
- Drawing in bones of face
- Tongue red and smarting
- Thirst
- Tongue white in the middle
- Tongue white
- Tongue completely dry
- Large glistening papillae
- Voice rough
- Voice scraping
- Swallowing of saliva very difficult
- Dry sensation in palate
- Accumulation of much saliva
- Green saliva
- Great appetite at unusual time
- Risings
- Empty risings
- Sour risings
- Nausea
- Inclination to vomit
- Eructations afford relief
- Pressure on the stomach
- Inflation
- Dull borborygmi
- Tension
- Feeling of inflation
- Emission of wind
- Uneasiness
- Oppression of stomach
- Pressure of clothing intolerable
- Painful drawings in the stomach as from hunger
- Shiverings
- Painful lancinations in the precordial region
- Violent colicky pains pervade the abdomen
- Swelling of the stomach
- Pulsation of the stomach
- Anguish
- Pain in left side at the heart
- Contractive pain in the stomach
- Difficulty of respiration
- Lancinations in right side stop respiration
- Pain in right side of lower region of abdomen
- Painful tingling extending to the foot
- Painful tingling extending to the great toe
- Violent aching in the groins
- Pressure towards the lower region of abdomen
- Colicky pains in the lower part of the abdomen
- Violent cutting pains from right coxo-femoral region to abdomen
- Writhing of the body
- Colic extends into the stomach
- Painful digging in right side of abdomen extending to the groins and stomach
- Cutting pains throughout the lower part of the abdomen
- Pain as of excoriation in right side below the ribs
- Pains as from a girdle
- Digging and starting in right hip
- Sharp pains from the precordial region
- Inability to bear tight clothes
- Borborygmi
- Lancinations like thrusts of a knife in the region of the stomach
- Painful inflation of the abdomen extending on right side below the ribs
- Tense painful abdomen
- Pain as of a fracture in the loins
- Bruise-like pain in the iliac region
- General uneasiness
- Pains pervade the abdomen and the chest
- Constraint from the clothes
- Evacuation difficult
- Hard stool
- Burning at the anus
- Slight sticking in rectum
- Tenesmus
- Lancinations in the rectum
- Four thin stools
- Short violent pain from within the pelvis to the thighs
- Liquid stools
- Colic precedes stool
- Sticking in navicular fossa
- Voluptuous twitching in navicular fossa
- Pruritus in urethra
- Burning in urethra
- Frequent urging to urinate
- Yellowish lemon-coloured urine
- Red sediment
- Great excitation of the genital organs
- Nocturnal erections without pollutions
- Painful erections while sitting
- Pressure in testicles
- Dreams vivid lascivious
- Voice rough
- Voice hoarse
- Dry cough in paroxysms
- Short anxious respiration
- Slow deep respiration with exertion
- Frequent deep inspiration
- Tightness of chest
- Contractive pain across lower thorax
- Aching and oppression in the chest
- Great difficulty of respiration
- Anxiety
- Lancinations in pit of stomach
- Lancinations in lumbar region
- Prostration of strength
- Lassitude in the limbs
- Severe pain in precordia
- Dagger-like lancinations
- Stitches in prcordia
- Violent beats while sitting
- Sensation of floundering of heart
- Rapid pulse
- Small pulse
- Indistinct pulse
- Pulse very irregular
- Frequent cracking in upper cervical vertebrae
- Heaviness in nape
- Stiffness in nape
- Drawings in cervical muscles
- Pulsation in vessels of right side of neck
- Painful lassitude along back
- Bruised feeling down to sacrum
- Stiffness in back
- Pressure in dorsal vertebrae
- Deep lancinations around loin
- Lancinations between the shoulder-blades extending to right shoulder
- Lancinations between the shoulder-blades extending along the dorsal spine to the sacrum
- Difficulty of respiration
- Weight in nape of neck
- Contusive pain along back of sacrum
- Much cracking in joints on moving
- Lightness vigour flexibility of limbs
- Painful lassitude in limbs
- Bruised pain in limbs alternating in different parts
- Pain in shoulders
- Cracking in shoulders
- Coldness in right elbow
- Crawling in right elbow
- Coldness in parietal eminence
- Crawling in parietal eminence
- Violent compressing pain in muscles of lower left forearm
- Object dropped from hands
- Hastiness in his movements
- Sensation as if hands swollen
- Skin tight
- Contraction of the fingers of right hand
- Stiffness in their joints
- Retraction of muscles of right leg
- Great weakness of right leg
- Staggering gait
- Sticking in right tibia
- Lancinating tearing in right ankle joint
- Lancinations alternately in both great toes
- Painful stiffness of left thigh from the hip to knee
- Heaviness of the lower limbs
- Contraction of the muscles of left leg
- Bruise-like pain in the coxo-femoral articulation
- Difficulty in walking
- Tingling and stiffness from the thigh to the foot
- Pain in the knee
- Violent incisive pain in the right hip
- Contusive pains in the thighs and loins
- Rheumatic and paralytic pains in the lower limbs
- Nocturnal digging pain in right leg from the hip to the great toe
- Violent lancinations in left great toe already suffering from arthritic swelling
- Alternate lancinations in one of the great toes
- Cramp-like pain extending from right hip along the leg to the points of the toes
- Lancinating tearing in the articulation of right foot
- Painful lassitude of the extremities
- Coldness trembling numbness of the hands
- Deadness of the fingers
- Tendency of the symptoms to show themselves more particularly on right side
- Uneasiness
- Internal shivering
- Heat externally
- Tingling in the fingers
- Stretching
- Trembling
- Shivering
- Thirst
- Weakness of the legs
- Great sensitiveness to cold
- Tendency to feel bruised all over
- After a walk inability to obtain warmth
- Itching pimples on the skin of the neck
- Itching pimples on the skin of the chest
- Itching below right foot
- Awakens with difficulty
- Awakens with a start
- Coldness numbness trembling of hands
- Fingers white
- Chilliness through the back extending into arms
- Coldness pierces into interior of occiput
- Coldness in back extending into bones of back
- Cold hands
- Blue nails
- Coldness in spine
- Heat of body
- Distended veins
- Violent burning heat in tips of fingers