(Yellow Jasmine)
Centers its action upon the nervous system,
causing various degree of motor paralysis. General prostration.
Dizziness, drowsiness, dullness, and trembling. Slow pulse, tired
feeling, mental apathy. Paralysis of various groups of muscles about
the eyes, throat, chest, larynx, sphincter, extremities, etc.
Postdiphtheritic paralysis. Muscular weakness. Complete relaxation
and prostration. Lack of muscular coordination. General depression from
heat of sun. Sensitive to a falling barometer; cold and dampness brings on
many complaints. Children fear falling, grab nurse or crib. Sluggish
circulation. Nervous affections of cigar makers. Influenza. Measles.
Pellagra. | ||
| Mind. Desire to
be quiet, to be left alone. Dullness, languor, listless.
"Discernings are lethargied." Apathy regarding his illness. Absolute
lack of fear. Delirious on falling to sleep. Emotional excitement, fear,
etc., lead to bodily ailments. Bad effects from fright, fear, exciting
news. Stage fright. Child starts and grasps the nurse, and screams as if
afraid of falling. [Bor.] | ||
| Head.
Vertigo, spreading from occiput. Heaviness of head; band
feeling around and occipital headache. Dull, heavy ache,
with heaviness of eyelids; bruised sensation; better, compression and lying
with head high. Pain in temple, extending into ear and wing of nose,
chin. Headache, with muscular soreness of neck and shoulders. Headache
preceded by blindness; better, profuse urination. Scalp sore to touch.
Delirious on falling asleep. Wants to have head raised on
pillow. | ||
| Eyes. Ptosis;
eyelids heavy; patient can hardly open them. Double vision.
Disturbed muscular apparatus. Corrects blurring and discomfort in eyes even
after accurately adjusted glasses. Vision blurred, smoky. [Phos.] Dim sighted; pupils dilated and insensible
to light. Orbital neuralgia, with contraction and twitching of
muscles. Bruised pain back of the orbits. One pupil dilated, the other
contracted. Deep inflammations, with haziness of vitreous. Serous
inflammations. Albuminuric retinitis. Detached retina, glaucoma and
descemetitis. Hysterical amblyopia. | ||
| Nose. Sneezing;
fullness at root of nose. Dryness of nasal fossae. Swelling of turbinates.
Watery, excoriating discharge. Acute coryza, with dull headache and
fever. | ||
| Face. Hot,
heavy, flushed, besotted-looking. [Bapt.; Op.] Neuralgia of face. Dusky hue of face, with vertigo
and dim vision. Facial muscles contracted, especially around the mouth.
Chin quivers. Lower jaw dropped. | ||
| Mouth. Putrid
taste and breath. Tongue numb, thick, coated, yellowish, tremble,
paralyzed. | ||
| Throat.
Difficult swallowing, especially of warm food. Itching and tickling in soft
palate and nasopharynx. Pain in sternocleidomastoid, back of parotid.
Tonsils swollen. Throat feels rough, burning. Postdiphtheritic
paralysis. Tonsillitis; shooting pain into ears. Feeling of a lump
in throat that cannot be swallowed. Aphonia. Swallowing causes pain in
ear. [Hep.; Nux-v.] Difficult
swallowing. Pain from throat to ear. | ||
| Stomach. As a
rule, the Gelsemium patient has no thirst. Hiccough; worse in the evening.
Sensation of emptiness and weakness at the pit of the stomach, or of an
oppression, like a heavy load. | ||
| Stool. Diarrhea
from emotional excitement, fright, bad news. [Ph-ac.] Stool painless or involuntary. Cream
colored [Calc.], tea-green. Partial
paralysis of rectum and sphincter. | ||
| Urine.
Profuse, clear, watery, with chilliness and tremulousness. Dysuria.
Partial paralysis of bladder; flow intermittent.
Retention. | ||
| Female. Rigid
os. [Bell.] Vaginismus. False laborpains; pains pass
up back. Dysmenorrhea, with scanty flow; menses retarded. Pain
extends to back and hips. Aphonia and sore throat during menses. Sensation
as if uterus were squeezed. [Cham.; Nux-v.] | ||
| Male.
Spermatorrhea, without erections. Genitals cold and relaxed. [Ph-ac.] Scrotum continually sweating. Gonorrhea, first
stage; discharge scanty; tendency to corrode; little pain, but much heat;
smarting at meatus. | ||
| Respiratory.
Slowness of breathing, with great prostration. Oppression about chest. Dry
cough, with sore chest and fluent coryza. Spasm of the glottis.
Aphonia; acute bronchitis, respiration quickened, spasmodic affections of
lungs and diaphragm. | ||
| Heart. A
feeling as if it were necessary to keep in motion, or else heart's action
would cease. Slow pulse. Palpitation; pulse soft, weak, full and
flowing. Pulse slow when quiet, but greatly accelerated on motion. Weak,
slow pulse of old age. | ||
| Back. Dull,
heavy pain. Complete relaxation of the whole muscular system. Languor;
muscles feel bruised. Every little exertion causes fatigue. Pain in neck,
especially upper sternocleido muscles. Dull aching in lumbar and sacral
region, passing upward. Pain in muscles of back, hips, and lower
extremities, mostly deep-seated. | ||
| Extremities.
Loss of power of muscular control. Cramp in muscles of forearm.
Professional neuroses. Writer's cramp. Excessive trembling and
weakness of all limbs. Hysteric convulsions. Fatigue after slight
exercise. | ||
| Sleep. Cannot
get fully to sleep. Delirious on falling asleep. Insomnia from exhaustion;
from uncontrollable thinking; tobacco. Yawning. Sleepless from nervous
irritation. [Coff.] | ||
| Fever. Wants
to be held, because he shakes so. Pulse slow, full, soft, compressible.
Chilliness up and down back. Heat and sweat stages, long and exhausting.
Dumb-ague, with much muscular soreness, great prostration, and violent
headache. Nervous chills. Bilious remittent fever, with stupor,
dizziness, faintness; thirstless, prostrated. Chill, without thirst, along
spine; wave-like, extending upward from sacrum to occiput. | ||
| Skin. Hot, dry,
itching, measle-like eruption. Erysipelas. Measles, catarrhal symptoms;
aids in bringing out eruption. Retrocedent, with livid spots. Scarlet
fever with stupor and flushed face. | ||
| Modalities.
Worse, damp weather, fog, before a thunderstorm, emotion, or
excitement, bad news, tobacco smoking, when thinking of his
ailments; at 10 a.m. Better, bending forward, by profuse urination,
open air, continued motion, stimulants. | ||
| Relationship.
Compare: Ign. (gastric affections of cigar makers);
Bapt.; Ip.; Acon.; Bell.; Cimic.; Mag-p. (Gelsemium contains
some Magnesia phosphorica.) Antidote: Chin.; Coff. Alcoholic stimulants relieve all complaints where Gelsemium is useful. | ||
| Dose. Tincture,
to thirtieth attenuation; first to third most often used. |