GAMBOGIA.
Garcinia morella, Desrousseux (var. pedicellata), (Hebradendron
gambogioides, Graham).
Natural order
, Guttiferæ. Common names, Gamboge, Gummi Gutti.
Preparation
, Tincture of the gum-resin.
Authorities. 1
, Noack and Trinck’s Mat.
Med. (from the MSS. of Dr. Cajetan Nenning), proving made with 30 drops
of tinct., 25 of 1st, 20 of 2d, 25 of 3d dils.; 2,
Kolbani, Gift,-Historie, Vienna, 1807 (from N. Arch. f. Hom., 1, part
1).
MIND.
►
Cheerful, talkative. ► Ill-humor and
vehemence on rising in the morning. ►
Ill-humor, vexed, anxious, with continued desire to work, although the
work does not advance as he would wish.
HEAD.
►
Vertigo. ► Vertigo
frequently, during rest and motion, in the morning on rising, or in the
forehead when spinning (succeeded by anxiety). ►
General Head. ► Heaviness
in the whole head, with inertia, drowsiness and pain in the small of the
back. ► Pain in the whole head and
beating in the forehead, towards the nose, in the forenoon. ► Frequent mounting of heat to the head,
with sweat. ► Compressive pains in
the head. ► Oppressive headache, with
heaviness in the forehead (in the afternoon, relieved in the open air),
or with heat in the head and whole body. ►
Forehead. [10.] ► Heaviness and beating in the forehead in
the forenoon. ► Temples. ► Feeling of great coldness in the left
temple, as if occasioned by a wet, cold cloth, for a quarter of an hour
in the afternoon. ► Transitory
tearing in the left temple in the afternoon. ►
Vertex. ► Headache in the
vertex, as if bruised, relieved in the open air, in the forenoon. ► Parietals. ►
Sharp stitches in the right side of the head and in the temples. ► Compressive pain in the head, from both
sides, in the forenoon.
EYE.
►
Dryness of the eyes, with yawning and sneezing. ►
Violent burning of the eyes and photophobia
in evening or afternoon, relieved by walking in the open air, but
returning on the following morning. ►
Violent itching of the eyes in the evening. ► Lids. ►
Nightly agglutination, burning in the morning, photophobia
through the day, and frequent stinging pain in the eyes. [20.] ►
Pressure in the internal canthus of the right eye, as from a foreign
body, obliging him to rub frequently. ►
Itching of the lower lid. ► Itching of
the inner canthi (and in the forehead) with discharge of
acrid, corrosive tears after rubbing; relieved in the open air. ► Vision. ►
Occasional dimsightedness of the right eye, as if looking through gauze.
EAR.
►
Painful drawing from the right ear to the vertex in the forenoon. ► Violent sticking in both ears. ► Violent tearing deep in the ears. ► Throbbing pain in the left ear, as from
an abscess. ► Hearing. ► Frequent noises in the ears in the
morning. ► Frequent buzzing in the
ear in the afternoon and evening, going off after a sensation as if a
leaflet was bursting in the ear.
NOSE.
►
Objective. [30.] ► Sneezing. ►
Violent chronic sneezing, only in the daytime, generally in the
forenoon; excited to an intense degree by strong smells, with irritation
in the right nostril above the wing of the nose; dryness of the right nostril; pressure in the
internal canthus of the right eye, as from a foreign body (obliging him
to rub frequently); occasional dimsightedness of the right eye, as if
looking through a gauze, without any catarrhal feeling, without stoppage
of the nose, without bleeding at the nose, or diminution of smell. [The
sneezing occasioned the following complaints; Violent tearing pain in
the forehead, acute stitches in the left side, heaviness of the lower
limbs, flushes of heart all over the body; this symptoms has been
observed on a lady florist, of nineteen years, and an exquisitely
lymphatic constitution, who had been suffering with this affection for a
year past, with scarcely any interruption, in consequence of pounding
half an ounce of Gamboge. Sil.
relieved her somewhat, but the lady gave up the treatment.] ► A quantity of mucus in the nose smelling
like pus. ► Catarrh, at first dry,
afterwards with discharge of offensive mucus. ►
Stopped coryza. ► Bleeding from the
right nostril in the evening. ►
Hæmorrhage from the nose, mouth, throat. ►
Subjective. ► Dryness of the
right nostril. ► Tearing
in the nasal bones. ► Ulceration of
the right nostril, with burning pain. [40.]
► Itching in both nostrils from
evening until morning.
FACE.
►
Tearing in the right malar bone for a quarter of an hour in the evening,
and in the right lower jaw frequently during the day. ► Burning vesicles on the inner surface of
the upper lip.
MOUTH.
►
Teeth. ► Feeling of coldness
in the points of the incisors. ►
Tearing in the right molars, also in the gums, with sensation as if the
gums were sore and swollen. ► Beating
in one of the right lower molars in cold air. ►
Tongue. ► Burning of the
anterior half of the tongue. ►
Burning of the tip of the tongue, which feels hard. ► General Mouth. ►
Dry Mouth. ► Extreme sensitiveness of
the palate, like a smarting or soreness, relieved by cold. ► Saliva. [50.]
► Accumulation of water in the mouth.
► Sweetish taste in the mouth and
throat, with subsequent expectoration of bright red blood. ► Sweetish taste in the throat and
expectoration of bloody mucus. ►
Bitter taste in the mouth.
THROAT.
►
Feeling of swelling in the throat. ►
Choking sensation in the throat, ascending from the chest, arresting the
breathing. ► Sticking in the throat,
always on swallowing, disappearing after eating. ► Violent stinging in the right side of
the throat, when swallowing, and when not. ►
Sore pain in the throat, which is felt on external touch. ► Roughness and burning in the throat,
obliging one to hawk constantly. ►
Fauces. [60.] ► Burning soreness low down in the fauces
when not swallowing. ► External Throat.
► Tearing in the tendons of the sides
of the throat, with choking sensation in the throat, lancinating tearing
in the left side of the throat under the ear, aggravated by external
pressure, thence descending to the region of the larynx, with stinging
in the throat during deglutition. ►
Stinging in the goitre.
STOMACH.
►
Appetite. ► Appetite much
increased, almost amounting to ravenous hunger, with much thirst (loss
of thirst during the first day of the proving). ►
Violent hunger. ► *Aversion to food. ► Thirst. ►
Thirst after dinner, and especially in the evening. ► *Violent thirst in the evening, also
at night, preventing falling asleep. ►
Eructation and Hiccough. ►
Frequent, violent, empty eructations. ►
Hiccough in the morning after rising. ►
Nausea and Vomiting. [70.]
► Nausea and aversion to food. ► Nausea, proceeding from the stomach
(as if the stomach would become everted) during a walk in the open air,
with accumulation of water in the mouth, gulping up of sour water and
movements in the stomach. ► Nausea,
inclination to vomit, ptyalism, roughness of the throat. ► Qualmishness on eating soup in the
morning, relieved after eating bread. ►
Slight qualmishness and frequent attacks of nausea. ► Inclination to vomit, followed by painful
twitching in the umbilical region, and diarrhœic stools. ► Constant heaving, going off after dinner.
► Violent vomiting, [2]. ► Horrid
vomiting and purging, with fainting. ►
Stomach. ► Weakness of the
stomach, as after long fasting, with accumulation of water in the mouth.
[80.] ►
Contractive and sore feeling in the stomach, with sensitiveness to the
touch. ► Painful feeling of
constriction of the stomach after dinner. ►
Aching in the stomach, with slight qualmishness. ► Gnawing in the stomach, with slight
moving of flatulence in the abdomen. ►
Pressure in the stomach and chest, arresting the breathing, in
paroxysms, going off after an eructation. ►
Dartings in the stomach, causing one to start. ► Constant pain in the innermost parts of
the stomach, as if sore, with sensitiveness of the integuments to the
touch. ► Ulcerative pain of
the stomach, going off after eating, succeeded by rumbling in the
abdomen during a walk in the open air, and papescent stool. ► Beating in the stomach, aggravated by
leaning against anything.
ABDOMEN.
►
Hypochondria. ► Extremely
painful burning in the region of the liver. ►
Umbilical. [90.] ► Extremely painful contraction, as with
pincers, in the umbilicus. ► Feeling
of constriction and twisting beneath the umbilicus, with urging to
stool. ► Pain gnawing in a small spot
beneath the umbilicus. ► General Abdomen.
► Inflammation of the intestines, [2]. ►
*Inflation and accumulation of flatulence. ►
Inflation and tension of
the abdomen, with pinching in the umbilical region. ► Rumbling in the bowels. ► Emission of fetid flatulence, preceded by
cutting in the bowels. ► Frequent
emission of flatulence, particularly in the evening and at
night. ► Empty feeling in the
abdomen and stomach. [100.] ►
Burning and moving of flatulence in the abdomen. ►
Pinching in the abdomen after eating. ►
Frequent violent pinching in the entire abdomen, without urging, or else
succeeded by diarrhœa and burning in the anus, after which the pinching
ceases. ► Immediately after eating,
twitching in the abdomen or sleep. ►
Sensation of flatulence in the hypogastrium, most painful in the small
of the back, succeeded by urging. ►
Tension in the groins. ► Tension in
the groins when standing. ►
Constrictive pain deep in the left inguinal region. ► Pinching in the groins, without
flatulence. ► Pinching, as with
nails, in the right groin. [110.] ► Sticking in the groins (as from
flatulence). ► Sudden dart in the
right groin, causing one to start, when sitting.
RECTUM AND ANUS.
►
Sticking in the anus before stool. ►
Frequent urging, with pinching around the umbilicus, from morning till
evening, and protrusion of the rectum (after ten drops of the eighteenth
potency).
STOOL.
►
Diarrhœa. ► Diarrhœa,
with cutting pains, [2]. ► *Diarrhœa, with burning pain and tenesmus of
the rectum, protrusion of the anus, and constant pinching around the
umbilicus, sometimes attended with discharge of mucus. ► Frequent diarrhœa, evacuated with great
force, with burning and tenesmus, without pain in the abdomen. ► Profuse watery diarrhœa, with colic and
tenesmus. ► *Fecal diarrhœa,
stools evacuated with great force, with long-continued
burning in the anus, preceded for half an hour by violent cutting in the
abdomen, waking him from sleep about midnight, and relieved by firmly
compressing the abdomen, which is small, as if eviscerated; after he had
fallen asleep again, he was awakened by a pain in the small of the back.
► *Repeated diarrhœic stools, with
discharge of green mucus, preceded by pinching in the bowels.
[120.] ►►
*Discharge of yellow and green diarrhœic fæces, mixed with mucus,
preceded by excessive cutting around the umbilicus. ► Frequent soft stools, with rumbling in
the bowels, or with pain about the umbilicus, succeeded by tenesmus. ► Repeated evacuations, rather hard than
soft; afterwards, first a hard, then a soft stool. ►
Stool late in the evening, with emission of a good deal of flatulence,
which seems to press upon the bladder, occasioning a stinging pain,
hardness and tightness in the region of the bladder, and shortness of
breath. ► Constipation. ► Constipation. ►
Soft, scanty stool, with sensation as if the passage of the fæces were
arrested by a hard body obstructing the anus. ►
Hard stool, succeeded by burning at the anus and passage of a
lumbricus, or with sticking in the groins and emissions of flatulence. ► Hard, insufficient stool, with violent urging,
pressing and protrusion of the rectum.
URINARY ORGANS.
►
Increased secretion of urine. ►
Frequent micturition, but little at a time. [130.]
► Micturition seldom. ► Scanty emission of urine. ► Emission of one or three drops of urine
at a time, then intermitting, and finally returning, with burning at the
orifice.
SEXUAL ORGANS.
►
Leucorrhœa. ► The menses
appear too soon and are too profuse. ►
The menses, which had been suppressed for six weeks, reappear.
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
►
Scraping in the region of the larynx, inducing a dry cough, at night. ► Cough, especially at night, with soreness
in the chest. ► Frequent dry and
hacking cough in the daytime. ► Very
dry cough at night, obliging him to sit up. [140.]
► Cough in the afternoon, with some
hoarseness and hawking of mucus. ►
Violent cough at night, with expectoration of loose mucus. ► The cough is most violent at night after
lying down.
CHEST.
►
Great tightness and heaviness in the chest, with stitches extending to
the back, especially in the lower costal regions. ►
Repeated digging or gnawing in both subcostal regions, in the evening. ► Pressure upon the chest (without
affecting respiration). ► Pressure in the
middle of the chest, and stitches going from both sides of
the chest towards each other. ►
Oppression and heaviness in the chest, with stitches in the back,
particularly in the subcostal regions. ►
Weight on the chest, at night, occasioning sleeplessness, two nights in
succession. ► Transient stitches in
the chest, axillæ. [150.] ► Pain in the chest, as if every part of it were
sore, even when not coughing. ►
Front. ► Stitches in the
forepart of the chest from time to time, in the afternoon and evening. ► Stitches deep in the forepart of the
chest, frequently alternating with stitches in the right mamma, in the
evening. ► Repeated extremely painful
stitches in the forepart of the sternum (in the afternoon and
evening). ► Sides. ► A painful stitch, arresting the
breathing, in the right side, extending from the ribs towards the axilla
(after carrying a heavy load). ► Mammæ.
► Stitch beneath the right mammary
region. ► Sharp stitches beneath the
breast (lasting five minutes), followed by pressure in the middle of the
chest, with want of breath (lasting an hour), after awhile disappearing,
in the evening.
NECK AND BACK.
►
Neck. ► Tearing in the
nape of the neck and in the left shoulder. ►
Lancinating tearing in the side of the neck. ►
Lumbar. ► Sharp sticking
in the region of the left kidney. [160.]
► Sudden painful stitches in the
small of the back, relieved by walking. ►
Pain as if bruised in the small of the back, as if sprained. ► Sacral. ►
Sticking in the right sacral region. ►
Repeated gnawing in the os coccygis.
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL.
► Violent burning stitch at times in the
fingers, at times in the hand, also in the malleoli, afterwards over the
whole body.
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Shoulder. ►
Stitch from time to time in the top of the right shoulder. ► Repeated very acute stitches under the
left axilla, disappearing on rubbing for a short time. ► Tearing in the shoulders, or in the
axilla, in the tendons of the extensor muscles of the fingers, in the
ball of the thumb and index finger, and between the metacarpal bones of
the index and middle fingers, so that the skin is thereby drawn
backward. ► Arm. ► Pinching in the right humerus. ► Hand. ►
Sharp sticking through the palm to the back of the hand, followed by
burning in the hand. ► Fingers.
[170.] ►
Sharp stitches in the last joint of the left index finger. ► Stinging and numb feeling in the ball of
the right thumb and middle finger, followed by stitches in the palm of
the hand going to the dorsum of the hand, and extending to the forearm,
attended with a feeling of heat.
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Spasmodic conditions of the lower limbs. ► Hip. ►
Violent tearing in the left hip. ► Thigh.
► Frequent drawing and tearing in the
bend of the left thigh. ► Sharp
stitches in the bend of the left thigh, lasting an hour. ► Knee. ►
Violent pain, as if bruised, below the left patella; the part is painful
to touch, as if ulcerated. ► Leg.
► Violent pain and feeling of
stiffness in the right leg along the tibia; the foot could only be
stretched out by great exertion, in the afternoon and evening, in bed. ► Cramp and tearing pain above the calf,
attended with contraction of the toes (going off by rubbing). ► Several stitches in the left calf. [180.] ►
Tearing in the bone from the middle of the right tibia, extending above
the knee. ► Tearing and drawing in
the tendo Achillis, as if too short. ►
Ankle. ► Painful spasmodic
constriction in the region of the right malleolus externus and great
toe, compelling him to limp, especially while walking. ► Pressure as with the hand above the left
malleolus externus, and sensation as if gone to sleep, going off when
pressing the foot to the ground. ► Foot.
► Great heaviness and languor of the
feet. ► Painful pinching in the
dorsum of the right foot towards the toes. ►
Violent sticking in the sole of the right foot, relieved by rubbing. ► Cramp in the right great toe (when
walking, and again in the evening, in bed). ►
Some stitches beneath the right great toe. ►
Spasmodic tearing in two smaller toes of the right foot.
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.
►
Objective. [190.] ► Congestions of the head, chest, uterus. ► Faintness, [2].
► Subjective. ► Feeling of ease, great lightness in all
his motions (primary effect). ► Burning
(eyes, tongue, fauces, abdomen, region of the liver, anus, hands). ► Constrictive or contractive pains
(stomach, umbilicus, foot). ► Pinching
(abdomen, groin, humerus, dorsum of the foot). ►
Drawing (head, bend of the thigh, leg). ► Gnawing (stomach, subcostal region,
umbilical region, os coccygis). ► The
sticking pains appear for the most part at night, or are then worst. ► Stitches resembling a slow fine pinching
over the whole body. [200.] ► Tearing, particularly in the bones
and tendons (head, ears, dorsum of the nose, malar bone, lower jaw,
teeth, cervical tendons, nape of the neck, shoulder, wrist, fingers,
hip, bend of the thigh, leg, toes). ►
Pricking (head, stomach, chest, region of the kidneys, hands,
fingers, bend of the thigh). ► Stinging
(ears, goitre, neck, groin, anus, chest, small of the back, shoulder,
thumb, middle finger, calves, toes). ►
Burning stinging (hand, malleolus). ►
Pain as from soreness (gums, neck, stomach, chest). ► Pain as if bruised (head, small of the
back). ► Beating or throbbing
(ear, teeth, stomach). ► The symptoms
of the right side predominate. ► The
symptoms are particularly apt to occur in the evening or night.
► The majority of the symptoms come on
while sitting and go off during motion in the open air.
SKIN.
►
Objective. [210.] ► Small pimples on the inner surface of
both forearms, with redness and itching, in the evening. ► A small pimple above the upper margin of
the orbit, with tensive pain. ►
Itching blisters on both hands, first pale, then red, for several days. ► Subjective. ►
Biting as from ants over the whole body, especially in the evening and
at night, even waking from sleep. ►
After scratching, a burning ulcerative pain generally remains, with
swelling and redness of the scratched part; the itching is generally
experienced in the evening and night. ►
Itching of the ball of the left thumb. ►
Intolerable itching here and there, head, left side of the forehead,
eyes, eyelids, canthi, face, upper surface of the lower arm below the
elbow-joint, ball of the thumb, index finger, bend of the foot, dorsum
of the hand. ► Violent, very
voluptuous itching here and there over the whole body, usually with
burning, at times followed by redness and swelling, especially in the
evening and at night, and then even waking from sleep.
SLEEP AND DREAMS.
►
Sleepiness, great inclination to sleep, the whole day; in the
morning sleepiness longer than usual. ►
Very uneasy sleep at night. [220.] ► Sleep disturbed by anxious dreams. ► Vexatious dreams, making him anxious.
► Dreams about dancing, lice, etc.
FEVER.
►
Chilliness. ► Chilliness
the whole day, or only in the forenoon, two days in succession. ► Sensation of chilliness and elongation of
all the anterior teeth, in the morning. ►
The chilliness is accompanied by empty eructations and yawning, thirst,
pain in the small of the back, and biting as of ants over the whole body
(at night), or by excessive stitches in the ears, at the commencement. ► Internal and external coldness,
appearing in evening about 6 to 8.15, and lasting from a quarter to two
hours, or the whole night to 5 A.M., sometimes with thirst. ► Chills for two hours, with chattering
of the teeth, the skin feeling warm to the touch, with violent thirst,
so that the lips stick together. ►
Shaking chills proceeding from the back, with external coldness, even of
the forehead; from 7 P.M., lasting the whole night till 4 A.M. ► Sudden shaking chill at night, waking him
from sleep, and disappearing after five minutes. ► Heat. [230.]
► Warmth, with frequent flushes of
heat. ► Increased warmth, with
anxiety and sweat, in the afternoon. ►
The fever is remittent or intermittent, quotidian or tertian, rather
postponing than anticipating. ► Sweat.
► Sweat all over in the morning
without known cause. ► Sweat over the
whole body, on waking at 4 A.M. ►
Slight nocturnal perspiration.
CONDITIONS.
►
Aggravation. ► (Morning), On rising, ill-humor, etc.; on
rising, vertigo; noise ear; after
rising, hiccough; on eating soup, qualmishness; chilliness, etc.; sweat.
► (Forenoon),
Pain in head, etc.; heaviness, etc., in forehead; drawing pain from ear
to vertex; sneezing. ► (Afternoon), Feeling of coldness in temple;
buzzing in ear; cough, etc.; stitches in forepart of chest; warmth, etc. ►
(Evening), Bleeding from nostril; thirst; emission of flatulence; digging in
subcostal region; stitches in forepart of chest; the symptoms; biting over body; itching. ►
(Night), Itching in nostrils; thirst; emission of flatulence; scraping in
larynx; after lying down, cough; weight on chest; sticking pains; the symptoms; biting over body; itching; chills. ►
(Cold air), Beating in molars. ► (After dinner),
Constriction of stomach. ► (Leaning against anything), Beating in
stomach. ► (Sitting),
Most symptoms. ►
(Spinning), Vertigo in forehead. ► (Standing),
Tension in groins. ► (Walking), Constriction in region of
malleolus. ► Amelioration. ► (Open air),
Headache, etc.; itching of inner canthi, etc. ►
(Walking in open air), Burning of eyes, etc.; most symptoms. ► (Cold),
Sensitiveness of palate. ► (After dinner), Heaving. ►
(Eating), Sticking in throat;
qualmishness; pain of stomach. ► (Walking), Stitches in small of back.® 2000
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