Gentiana Cruciata.
Kreutz-Enzian. Cross-leaved Gentian. N. O. Gentianaceć. Tincture of root.
Clinical.─
Diarrhśa. Dyspepsia. Dysphagia.
Hernia. Hoarseness. Stiff-neck. Stomach, affections of. Throat, sore.
Characteristics.─
“G.
cruciata,” says the Treasury of Botany,
“has been invested with imaginary virtues, because its leaves grow in the form of a
cross; it has been recommended in hydrophobia.” Its virtues are not all imaginary, and
its reputation as a remedy for hydrophobia is partly justified in the provings. The proving
of Gent. cruc. (by Watzke and ten others) developed a
number of striking symptoms in the throat and digestive tract. Movings about in stomach and
abdomen. Pressure in the stomach as if a stone was in it, with inclination to vomit. All the
symptoms of right inguinal hernia occurred in one prover. A peculiar sense of
apprehensiveness; faintness; uneasiness. One prover felt as if all the nerves were tense, so
that walking was difficult. Creeping over the body as from fleas in the evening. The
symptoms are < after eating. >
From warm soup; from drinking fresh water; in open air.
Relations.─
Compare:
Gent. lut.; Lyc. (> from warm drink); Bry., Puls.,
Ab. n., &c. (pressure in stomach as from a stone); Kal. bi. (tenacious mucus in throat).
SYMPTOMS.
1. Mind.─
Weeping mood, with disinclination to
talk.─Very peculiar apprehensiveness, and acceleration and difficulty of
breathing, swelling of the temporal veins and feeling of pressure in the temporal region; on
reading, print seemed indistinct and as if covered with a veil.
2. Head.─
Confusion and whirling.─Sensitiveness
of whole head and whole brain after dinner, < by
violent motion of head.─Swelling of temporal veins and feeling of
pressure in temporal region.─Sudden stitch through l. temple.─Distressing
tension, and at times transient jerking in region of vertex; tension soon became a very
acute constant pressure, < by exerting eyes, or
constant thought.
3. Eyes.─
Sensation as though eyes were lying deep
in orbit; piercing inward sensation in r. eye.─Print indistinct as if
covered with a veil.
8. Mouth.─
Two aphthous ulcers on margin of lower
lip on either side of frenum.─Flow of saliva increased.
9. Throat.─
Slight redness and distressing
sensation of constriction within the throat, so that swallowing is very difficult;
constantly obliged to hawk up tenacious and firmly adherent mucus.─Rawness
and scraping, causing frequent hawking; with constriction on swallowing.─Intermittent,
deep redness of fauces.─Stitches in tonsils.─Swallowing
difficult; with an anxious constrictive sensation; slight redness of fauces.
11. Stomach.─
Appetite increased; or lost.─Acid
eructations; watery vomiting.─Great nausea, with inclination to lie
down.─Vomiting, with some difficulty, a small quantity of mucus of an
acid odour, intensely bitter, leaving a scraping and rawness in throat.─Movings
about in stomach, and afterwards in abdomen, disappeared on walking.─Sensation
in stomach and śsophagus as though he had swallowed a morsel of hot food followed by cold
water; lasted the whole day, < by eating; > by drinking fresh water.─Burning;
fulness; pressure in stomach.─Pressure in stomach as if a stone were in
it, with inclination to vomit.─Sensation of pressing inward in pit of
stomach.
12. Abdomen.─
Sensitive, griping, sore sensation
in umbilical region, < after dinner, > sitting and lying, <
standing, walking, and after” smoking, obliging him to bend forward; therewith
umbilicus seemed to be drawn inward.─Movings about in intestines with
slight headache, followed by copious pasty evacuation.─Distension;
fulness; tightness; constriction in abdomen.─Dragging in r. inguinal
region with feeling of protrusion, > sitting or
lying; on violent sneezing actual protrusion occurred, size of hazel-nut, very sensitive.
13. Stool and Anus.─
Constant violent urging,
followed by three watery evacuations.─Pasty diarrhśa.─Free
pasty stools without the usual itching in anus.
16. Female Sexual Organs.─
Menstruation three days
earlier than usual, during which there was a headache as if head too full, with feeling of
distension in the skull, > during rest and < by motion, preventing sleep for a long time.
17. Respiratory Organs.─
Hoarseness; voice gave
out in middle of speech.─Frequent attacks of hoarseness and
sensitiveness of the throat.
20. Neck and Back.─
Drawing and jerking along r.
side of neck, extending to shoulder.─Drawing in cervical muscles,
extending to ears, < by turning head, an uneasiness
so that he could not remain long in one position.─Repeated drawings in
cervical muscles.─Tension in lumbar region.
22. Upper Limbs.─
Distressing drawing in r.
shoulder lasting several minutes.
23. Lower Limbs.─
Cramp-like pains in soles of
feet.® 2000
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