GENTIANA LUTEA.
Gentiana lutea, Linn.
Natural order
, Gentianaceæ. Common name, Yellow Gentian.
Preparation
, Tincture of the root.
Authorities.
1,
Buchner, Hygea, 14, 1; “D.,” a young man, took repeated doses
of tincture, 150 drops, first day, 250 second day, 350 third day, 450
morning, and 200 at 2, 3, and 4 P.M., fifth day; 2, “E.” took repeated large doses
of tincture, ibid.; 3, S. T. took a
tablespoonful of tincture, ibid.; 4,
Watzke, Oest. Zeit. f. Hom., 1, pt. 3, p. 140, took 12 drops of
tincture, afterwards doses of 12 to 50 drops, afterwards one dose of 100
drops.
HEAD.
►
Confusion and Vertigo. ►
Confusion and emptiness of the head, especially dull pressing outward in
the frontal region (first day), [2].
► Confusion and heaviness of the
head, with tensive, pressive pain in the forehead (second day), [2]. ►
Confusion in the forehead (second, fourth, and fifth days), [1]. ►
Slight vertigo (fifth day), [1]. ► Some dizziness of the head (second day), [1]. ►
General Head. ► Head feels
as after intoxication (second day), [1].
► Head feels dull, heavy, and full,
as if enlarged (fourth day), [2]. ► Heaviness and confusion of the head when
writing (after two hours, first day), [1].
► Heat and confusion of the head
(fifth day), [1]. [10.] ►
Fulness and dull pressure, like a heavy throbbing in the head,
especially a pressure from within outward in the forehead (fourth day), [2]. ►
Forehead. ► Dragging and
pressure in the forehead (fifth day), [1].
► Pressure in the forehead after 12
o’clock (fourth day), [1]. ► Sticking in the middle of the forehead
(fourth day), [1]. ► Temples. ►
Pressive pain in the temples, [4].
► Occiput. ► Pressive pain in the occiput in the
afternoon (third day), [3].
EYE.
►
Pressure in the eyes (fifth day), [1].
► Sticking in the left upper lid
(fourth day), [1]. ► Conjunctiva slightly red, with pain in
the eyes, at 4 P.M. (fourth day), [1].
► Pressure in the eyeballs (second
day), [1]. [20.] ►
Obscuration of the vision, so that he could not see the person with whom
he was talking, disappearing after a few moments (after three hours), [3].
NOSE.
►
Stoppage of the nose (fourth day), [2].
► Irritability of the nostrils, as if
he had been suffering from coryza, soon followed by watery discharge
from the nose, which obliged him to sneeze (soon after 600 drops), [2].
MOUTH.
►
Dryness of the mouth and fauces (fifth day), [1]. ► Saliva
more consistent than usual (fourth day), [1].
► Intensely bitter taste in the
mouth, lasting early an hour, [4].
► Earthy taste in the mouth (sixth
day), [1].
THROAT.
►
Swelling, fine sticking, and constriction in the throat, mostly noticed
on the posterior portion of the palate, [4].
► Frequent hawking on account of
mucus, which is difficult to loosen (fourth day), [1]. ► Rawness
in the throat, (fifth day), [1].
STOMACH.
►
Appetite. [30.] ► Ravenous hunger in the evening (fifth
day), [1]. ►
Diminished appetite, [3], [4]. ►
Eructation. ► Eructations
(fifth day), [1]. ► Eructations and borborygmi (fifth day), [1]. ►
Violent eructations several times, [4].
► Eructations having and acid taste
(fifth day), [1]. ► Nausea and Vomiting. ► Nausea (fifth day), [1]. ► Nausea,
at times provocation to vomit, [4].
► Some nausea in the evening, almost
with vomiting (second evening), [1].
► Attacks of nausea after the
simplest meal, as after an imprudent mixture of food, [4]. [40.] ► Inclination to vomit (fifth day), [1]. ►
Feeling as though he should vomit, with watering of the eyes (fifth
day), [1]. ► Stomach. ►
Wind in the stomach (third day), [1].
► Stomach empty and faint (fifth
day), [1]. ►
Faintness in the stomach, [4]. ► Heaviness and pressure in the stomach,
with anxiety and nausea, even to vomiting, and difficult, full
respiration; the dragging and fulness in the stomach and chest were
repeated after two hours (soon after 600 drops), [2]. ► Tension
and fulness in the stomach (first day), [2].
► Tension and distension of the
stomach and external epigastric region; pressure upon it causes a
sensation of nausea, as though it would cause vomiting, which speedily
passes off, followed by dragging towards the anus (second day), [2]. ►
Feeling of constriction in the stomach (after three hours), [3]. ►
Pressure and tension in the epigastric region (first day), [2]. [50.]
► Anxious pressure in the stomach,
with a sensation of nausea, as if he would vomit (first day), [2].
ABDOMEN.
►
Hypochondria. ► Discomfort
and pressure in the left hypochondrium (second day), [1]. ► Umbilical.
► Steady pain in the umbilicus, like
a drawing inward (fourth day), [2].
► Pressure in the umbilical region, [4]. ►
Pressure and tension in the umbilical region (fourth day), [2]. ►
Pressing inward in the umbilical region, [4].
► Pressure inward at the umbilicus
(first day), [2]. ► Umbilical region somewhat sensitive to
touch and pressure (second day), [2].
► The region below the umbilicus is
very painful to touch (sixth day), [1].
► General Abdomen. ► Distension, tension, and fulness in the
abdomen, with somewhat painful sensation in the lower abdomen, and
especially about the umbilicus (first day), [2]. [60.] ► Rumbling and gurgling in the intestines
(first day), [2]. ► Rumbling and gurgling in the abdomen,
which is distended, with a sensation of heaviness and fulness (second
day), [2]. ►
Rumbling in the bowels; it seems as though bubbles were rising up (sixth
day), [1]. ►
General sick feeling in the whole abdomen, with dragging towards the
anus (first day), [2]. ► Unusual fulness, tension, and distension
of the abdomen, with offensive flatus (first day), [2]. ► Tension
in the abdomen, increasing towards evening, with shortness of breath
(fifth day), [1]. ► Tension and distension of the abdomen
(first day), [2]. ► Some colic, with pressure in the
umbilical region, and urging to stool (sixth day), [2]. ► Cutting
colic so violent that he was obliged to bend up, soon followed by heat
extending from the lumbar vertebræ, in the morning (sixth day), [1]. ►
Twinging pain in the abdomen, followed by scanty, yellow, slimy diarrhœa
twice in rapid succession, [4]. [70.] ►
Painfulness in the abdomen (fifth day), [1].
► General painfulness of the whole
abdomen, with tension in the lower abdomen, especially an aggravated,
tensive, pressive, painful sensation in the right side of the whole
abdomen, though more towards the posterior portion (fourth day), [2]. ►
General painfulness of the walls of the abdomen (first day), [2].
RECTUM AND ANUS.
►
Dragging towards the anus, with tenesmus (first day), [2]. ► Urging
to stool, with frequent evacuations of a more consistent nature than
usual (fourth day), [2]. ► Sudden urging to stool, in the evening,
followed by a copious evacuation (fifth day), [1].
STOOL.
►
Bilious diarrhœa in the afternoon (sixth day), [1]. ►
Frequent pasty and very yellow stools, [3].
► Two soft stools soon after rising
(second day), [1]. ► Soft stool (third morning), [1]. [80.]
► A soft, light-yellow stool,
preceded by cutting colic, at 9 A.M. (sixth day), [1].
URINARY ORGANS.
►
Secretion of urine increased (fourth day), [2].
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
►
Some hoarseness (fifth day), [1].
CHEST.
►
Fulness and pressure in the chest, with difficult breathing, in the
morning (sixth day), [2]. ► Tightness of the chest (second day), [2]. ►
Pressure in the middle of the chest, to the left side of the sternum
(fifth day), [1]. ► Pressure upon the chest on moving (fourth
day), [1].
HEART AND PULSE.
►
Acceleration of the pulse in the evening (fifth day), [1].
BACK.
►
Pains in the back and bowels, much aggravated by motion, relieved by
sitting (sixth day), [1]. ► Pressure and heaviness in the small of
the back (sixth day), [1].
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL.
[90.] ►
Prostration and tension in the limbs (first day), [2].
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► (A sudden drawing, gouty pain in the
right hand, with inflammatory redness of the skin of the knuckles of the
index and middle fingers, with cramplike attacks and painfulness on
moving the hand, especially the inflamed portions; this pain continued
to increase till towards 9 P.M., when he rubbed the forearm, palm, and
back of the hand with some drops of the tincture, which caused a sudden
change in the condition; the redness and gouty pains disappeared, and
the hand felt quite well; he had experienced this same pain two years
previously, at which time the inflammation increased to complete
swelling of the hand, with violent burning-sticking pains, which soon
disappeared, but left a peculiar painful and weak sensation in the hand;
on the next morning there was only a slight tensive pain in the affected
knuckle; since which time the hand had been quite painless) (third day),
[2].
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Hip. ►
Pressure in the right hip, near the sacrum (fourth day), [1]. ►
Pressive pain in the hips and sacrum on stooping; it seems as though a
girdle were about the hips (sixth day), [1].
► Knee. ►
Pain in the left knee-joint, as if sprained (after one hour, fourth
day); more confined to the patella (fifth day), [1]. ►
Crawling sensation in the knees (fourth day), [2]. ► Foot.
► Sticking and tearing in the soles
of the feet, on bending the toes when walking (fifth day), [1].
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.
►
Weakness and prostration (sixth day), [1].
► A general diffused dulness of the
whole body (fourth day), [2]. ► Dull feeling of the whole body and morose
mood (first day), [2].
SLEEP.
[100.]
► Yawning (fifth day), [1]. ► Sleep
uneasy (sixth day), [2], for
several days, [3]. ► After going to bed he was unable to sleep
for a long time; awoke about midnight with aggravation of the heat, with
tormenting-cutting pains in the abdomen and rapid respiration; constant
pains prevented sleep and obliged him to toss about the bed; felt better
when lying on the back with the feet drawn up; constant passage of wind
upward and downward without relief; the abdomen remained full and
distended even above the transverse colon, except the epigastric region,
and painful to touch; after two 2 P.M. he was able to slumber, the pains
in the abdomen alone disturbed the sleep; there was great weakness and
exhaustion after the sleep; he was unable to sleep really, although he
attempted it in every position; the next morning the abdomen was still
painful, with cutting pains when touched, especially from the pubic
region to the transverse colon; he was obliged to walk slowly because
the abdomen was painful on motion or a hard step (sixth day), [1].
FEVER.
►
Increased warmth over the whole body; immediately (third day), [1]. ►
Increased warmth of the head, especially of the cheeks (fifth day), [1]. ►
Febrile excitement, transient, starting from the back, like a shivering,
and rapidly spreading over the whole back like an electric shock; this
symptom was repeated three times at short intervals, followed by
exhaustion (first day), [2].
CONDITIONS.
►
Aggravation. ► (Afternoon), The symptoms; towards evening,
tension in abdomen. ► (After eating), Attacks of nausea. ► (Motion),
The symptoms; pressure upon chest; pains in back, etc. ► (Stepping),
Pain in hips, etc. ► (When writing), Heaviness, etc., of head. ► Amelioration. ►
Pains in back, etc.® 2000
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