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GELSEMIUM SEMPERVIRENS
Yellow jasmine
Clinical Picture:Children, young people, especially women of a nervous, hysterical temperament (Crocus sativa, Ignatia amara).
Complete relaxation and prostration of the whole muscular system, with motor paralysis.
Excitable, irritable, sensitive; for nervous affections of onanists of both sexes (Kalium phosphoricum).
III effects from fright, exciting news and sudden emotions (Ignatia amara); from pleasant surprise (Coffea cruda).
Fear of death (Arsenicum album); utter lack of courage.
Anticipation of any ordeal, preparing for church, theatre or to meet an engagement, brings on diarrhea; stage fright, nervous dread of appearing in public (Argentum nitricum).
General depression from heat of sun or summer.
Weakness and trembling, of tongue, hands, legs or of entire body.
Desire to be quiet, to be left alone; does not wish to speak or have any one near, even if the person is silent (Ignatia amara).
Vertigo, spreading from the occiput (Silicea); with diplopia, dim vision, loss of sight; seems intoxicated when trying to move.
Children, fear of falling, grasps the crib or seizes adults (Borax, Sanicula aqua).
Headache; preceded by blindness (Kalium bichromicum), decreased by profuse urination. Lack of muscular co-ordination; confused; muscles refuse to obey the will.
Impotence. Cold, sweating genitals. Emission without erection.
Headache: beginning in the cervical spine; pains extend over the head causing a bursting sensation in the forehead and eyeballs (Sanguinaria canadensis; Silicea, begins in same way, but is unilateral); increased by mental exertion; from smoking; heat of sun; lying with head low.
Sensation of a band around the head above eyes (Carbolicum acidum, Sulphur); scalp sore to touch.
Fears that unless on the move, the heat will cease beating (fears it would cease beating if patient moved: Digitalis purpurea).
Slow pulse of old age.
Great heaviness of the eyelids (Causticum, Graphites, Sepia).
Chill along the spine, running up and down in rapid, wave-like movements from sacrum to occiput.
Modalities:
Worse:
Damp weather - Bad news.Better:
Fog - Tobacco smoking.
Before a thunderstorm - When thinking of patient's ailments.
Emotion or excitement - At about 10 a. m.
Bending forwards - Continued motion.
By profuse urination - Stimulants.
Open air.
Relations:
Similar to Ignatia amara (gastric affections of smokers); Baptisia, Ipecacuanha, Aconitum napellus, Belladonna atropa, Cimicifuga racemosa, Magnesium phosphoricum (Gelsemium sempervirens contains some Magnesium phosphoricum) and Culex (vertigo on blowing the nose with fullness of the ears).
Summary of Indications:
Hysteria - stage fright - vertigo - muscular disorders' - impotence.
Antidotes:
Cinchona (China) officinalis
Coffea cruda
Digitalis purpurea
Note:
Alcoholic stimulants relieve all complaints where Gelsemium sempervirens is useful.