GELSEMIUM SEMPERVIRENS
Gelsemium is a climbing, woody evergreen vine characterized by very fragrant, bright yellow flowers. Gelsemium is the state flower of South Carolina.
Gelsemium and its principle alkaloid gelsemine have been reported to exert central stimulant and analgesic effects, being able to potentiate the effects of aspirin and phenacetin.
As a homeopathic medicine it acts upon the nervous system that helps in the lack of coordination of various muscles in and around the eyes, throat, chest, larynx, sphincter, extremities, etc. They are universally recognized as yellow jasmine. This medicine is a deep acting remedy for patients suffering from anxiety related syndromes and lonesome problems. Gelsemium Sempervirens are recommended for patients having headaches with double vision or vertigo problems.
GELSEMIUM
The medicine centers its action upon the nervous system, causing various degrees 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. Post-diphtheritic paralysis. Muscular weakness. Complete relaxation and prostration. Lack of muscular co-ordination. 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 cigarmakers. Influenza. Measles. Pellagra.
Mind– Desire to be quiet, to be left alone. Dullness, languor, listless. 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.
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, pupils dilated and insensible to light.
Nose– Sneezing; fullness at root of nose. Dryness of nasal fossa. Swelling of turbinates. Watery, excoriating discharge. Acute coryza, with dull headache and fever. Face-Hot heavy, flushed, besotted-looking. Neuralgia of face. Dusky hue of face, with vertigo and dim
Vision. Facial muscles contracted, especially around the mouth.
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 naso-pharynx.Difficult swallowing. Pain from throat to ear.
Stomach-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. 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.
Female– Vaginismus. False labor-pains; pains pass up back. Dysmenorrhea, with scanty flow; menses retarded.Pain extends to back and hips. Aphonia and sore throat during menses.
Male– Spermatorrhea, without erections. Genitals cold and relaxed. Scrotum continually sweating. Gonorrhea, first stage: discharge scanty; tendency to corrode; little pain, but much heat.
Respiratory– Slowness of breathing, with great prostration. Oppression about chest. Dry cough, with sore chest and fluent coryza. Spasm of the glottis.
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.
Extremities– Loss of power of muscular control.Cramp in muscles of forearm. Professional neuroses. Writer’s cramp.
Sleep– Cannot get fully to sleep. Delirious on falling asleep. Insomnia from exhaustion; fromuncontrollable thinking; tobacco. Yawning, Sleepless from nervous irritation.
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.
Skin-Hot, dry, itching, measle-like eruption. Measles, catarrhal symptoms; aids in bringing out eruption.
Modalities– Worse, damp weather, fog, before a thunderstorm, emotion, or excitement, bad news.. tobacco-smoking, when thinking of his ailments; at 10 am. Better, bending forward, by profuse urination, open air, continued motion, stimulants.
Relationship– Compare: Ignatia (gastric affections of cigarmakers): Baptisa; Ipecac; Acon; Bell; Cimicif; Magnes phos (Gelsem contains some Magnes phos). Culex.
Antidotes: China; Coffea; Dig
