GENISTA.
Genista tinctoria, Linn.
Natural order
, Leguminosæ. Common names, Dyer’s Greenweld; (G.),
Färbe-ginster; (Fr.), Genestrolle.
Preparation
, Tincture of the whole plant.
Authorities.
Dr. Eugene B. Cushing, Mass.
Hom. Med. Soc., vol. iii, p. 570; 1,
a prover, aged 23, took repeated doses of tincture; 2, Rust Mag., 1825 (A. H. Z., 9, 287).
HEAD.
►
Vertigo. ► Vertigo on
rising or shaking the head (half an hour after third dose, first day), [1]. ►
Vertigo on rising, in the afternoon; relieved in half an hour in the
open air (third day), [1]. ► Dizziness on walking fast or turning
round (one hour after fifth dose, first day), [1]. ►
Dizziness approaching faintness, lasting a short time (one hour after
fifth dose, first day), [1]. ► General Head. ►
Headache till dinner; none after eating, except on shaking the head; at
6 P.M. it came on suddenly, with vertigo on rising (second day), [1]. ►
Immediate headache, quite sharp in the forehead, which soon subsided
into dull heavy pain; relieved by eating (after fourth dose, third day),
[1]. ►
Slight headache, when turning quickly or shaking the head, in the
afternoon (first day), [1]. ► Severe headache, relieved by walking in
the woods at 10 A.M. (third day), [1].
► Steady headache, which came on
while exposed to the sun, in the forenoon (first day), [1]. [10.] ► Dull heavy headache coming on after
dinner, increasing after a dose of 5 drops (third day), [1]. ►
Headache worse on left side (two hours after fifth dose, first day), [1]. ►
Brain feels tender (sensitive), (one hour after fifth dose, first day), [1]. ►
On shaking the head, the brain feels tender (third day), [1]. ►
Sensation as though the brain was loose and very sensitive (half an hour
after third dose, first day), [1].
► Forehead. ► Severe frontal headache, relieved by
sitting in a cool room, in the forenoon (first day), [1]. ► Slight
pressing pain in centre of forehead at 9.10 A.M. (third day), [1]. ►
Temples. ► Frequent sharp
pain in right temple, in the forenoon (first day), [1]. ►
Repeated sharp pain in right temple, from within outward, when walking,
in the forenoon (first day), [1]. ► Sharp piercing pain in left temple (two
hours after fifth dose, first day), [1].
EYE.
[20.]
► Eyes sensitive to the touch, in the
forenoon (first day), [1].
EAR.
►
Once, a sensation in left ear, as though some sharp instrument was
thrust into it, in the forenoon (first day), [1].
THROAT.
►
Dryness of the throat, in the forenoon (first day), [1]. ► Throat
dry and sensitive (third day), [1].
STOMACH.
►
During the night, waterbrash (second night), [1]. ► Awoke
several times during the night with waterbrash (first night), [1]. ►
Slight nausea (after sixth dose, first day), [1].
RECTUM AND ANUS.
►
Desire for stool, with violent sneezing, as from snuff, at 9 A.M. (third
day), [1]. ►
Urgent desire for stool, lasting only a short time, soon (after second
dose, third day), [1].
STOOL.
►
Stool soft and scanty, at 9.10 A.M. (third day), [1]. [30.] ► Stool tinged with blood; the fæces,
though large, were expelled like a wad from a popgun (forty minutes
after third dose), [1].
SKIN.
►
Peculiar eruption, consisting of roundish, dark-red, confluent spots,
scarcely elevated above the skin, which, itching very much, become
scarlet red, then pale, and disappear within twenty-four hours; this
eruption appears on the feet to the knees, and on the hands to the
elbows, [2].
CONDITIONS.
►
Aggravation. ► (Rising), Vertigo. ►
(Shaking head), Vertigo; headache. ► (Turning quickly),
Headache. ► (Walking),
Pain in temple. ► Amelioration.
► (Open air),
Vertigo. ► (Walking
in open air), Headache. ►
(Going to bed), The symptoms. ► (Sitting in cool
room), Frontal headache. ►
(Eating), Headache.® 2000
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