It is an unrivalled febrifuge, possessing relaxing and antispasmodic properties. It is efficacious in nervous and bilious headache, colds, pneumonia, haemorrhage, leucorrhoea, ague-cake, but especially in all kinds of fevers, quietening all nervous irritability and excitement, equalizing the circulation, promoting perspiration, and rectifying the various secretions, without causing nausea, vomiting and purging, and is adapted to any stage of the disease. Useful in inflammation of bowels, diarrhoea, dysentery, but with great success in neuralgia, toothache, insomnia, wherever a sedative is called for.
In pelvic disorders of women it is a favourite herb. It is also of great service in various cardiac diseases, spermatorrhoea and other genital diseases, but its use should be confined to persons understanding the pathology.
GELSEMIUM Gelsemium sempervirens( L.) Ait.( U. S. Agricultural Department, Appalachia, 1971)
Dose: The tincture is the form in which it is employed, the dose being from 10 – 15 drops in a wineglass half full of water; to be repeated every 2 hr. as long as required. In large doses it depresses the nervous system and gives rise to convulsions and toxic symptoms such as clouded vision, doublesightedness, or complete prostration, and inability to open the eyes. This, however, completely wears off in a few hours, leaving the patient refreshed and completely restored. When the effects are induced no more of the remedy is required. Homoeopathic Clinical: Tincture of the bark of the root— Amaurosis, Anterior crural neuralgia, Aphonia, Astigmatism, Bilious fever, Brain( affections of), Cerebro spinal meningitis, Choroiditis, Colds, Constipation, Convulsions, Deafness, Dengue fever, Diarrhoea, Diphtheria, Dupuytren’ s contraction, Dysentery, Dysmenia, Emotions( affects of), Epilepsy, Eyes( affections of), Fever, Fright, Gonorrhoea, Hay-fever, Headache, Heat( effects of), Heart( diseases of), Hydro-Salpingitis, Hysteria, Influenza, Intermittent fever, Jaundice, Labour, Liver( affections of), Locomotor ataxia, Mania, Measles, Meningitis, Menstruation( painful; suppressed), Metrorrhagia, Myalgia, Neuralgia, Nystagmus, Oesophagus( stricture of), Paralysis, Paralysis agitans, Paraplegia, Pregnancy( albuminuria of), Ptosis, Puerperal convulsions, Remittent fever, Retina( detachment of), Rheumatism, Sexual excess( effects of), Sleep( disordered), Spasms, Sun headache, Sunstroke, Teething, Tic-douloureux, Tobacco( effects of), Tongue( affections of), Toothache, Tremors, Uterus( affections of), Vertigo, Voice( loss of), Writer’ s cramp.
GILLENIA Gillenia trifoliata, Moench.( N. O.: Rosaceae)