Gelsemium sempervirens
The great flu remedy with heaviness, drowsiness, dullness, and trembling. Drooping eyelids. Absence of thirst. Anticipatory anxiety with diarrhea and trembling. Paralytic weakness, muscular soreness. Feels heavy and wants to be held.
Source
Prepared from the fresh root bark of Gelsemium sempervirens (Loganiaceae).
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Keynote Symptoms
The four D's: Dullness, Dizziness, Drowsiness, Drooping. Heavy drooping eyelids, can hardly keep eyes open. Anticipatory anxiety with trembling and diarrhea. Absence of thirst even with fever. Muscular weakness, heaviness, aching. Chills up and down the spine. Trembling.
Mind & Emotional Symptoms
Dull, heavy, drowsy, apathetic. Stage fright, anticipatory anxiety with trembling and diarrhea. Desires to be quiet, left alone, does not want to be disturbed. Bad effects of fright, fear, exciting news. Wants to be held because feels shaky. Dread of ordeals.
General Symptoms
Muscular weakness and heaviness. Trembling. Worse before thunderstorms, from emotional excitement, bad news, humid weather, spring, 10 AM. Better from profuse urination, open air, continued motion, stimulants, bending forward.
Physical Symptoms
Head
Heavy band sensation around head. Dull occipital headache spreading to forehead. Vertigo spreading from occiput. Scalp sore.
Eyes
Heavy, drooping eyelids (ptosis). Blurred vision. Diplopia. Orbital neuralgia with contraction of muscles.
Face
Heavy, drooping, besotted. Red, hot. Chin quivers.
Mouth
Tongue numb, thick, feels paralysed. Difficulty speaking.
Throat
Difficulty swallowing, especially warm food. Sensation of lump. Tonsils inflamed. Post-nasal drip.
Stomach
Thirstless even with fever. Sensation of emptiness and weakness. Hiccough.
Rectum
Diarrhea from emotional excitement (fright, anticipation). Involuntary stools from fright. Stool cream-coloured, tea-green.
Respiratory
Slow labored breathing. Sensation of oppression. Fear of cessation of breathing if not constantly concentrating on it.
Chest
Slow, weak pulse. Sensation that heart would stop unless constantly moving.
Back
Chills running up and down the spine. Deep-seated dull aching in lumbar and sacral region. Muscular weakness.
Extremities
Heavy, tired, aching. Trembling. Weakness. Cannot control movements. Loss of muscular coordination. Writer's cramp.
Fever / Chill / Perspiration
Chill along spine. Thirstless. Muscular aching. Wants to be held. Prostration. Remittent, bilious fever. Heat with drowsiness.
Modalities
Better From
Profuse urination, open air, continued motion, stimulants, bending forward, sweating
Worse From
Damp weather, fog, before thunderstorm, emotional excitement, bad news, 10 AM, spring, humidity, tobacco smoking
Constitutional Type
Dull, heavy, drowsy individuals. Cowardly, nervous, afraid of ordeals. Sensitive artists and students. Dark-haired, tired-looking.
Clinical Indications
Influenza, stage fright, anticipatory anxiety, headache, ptosis, paralysis, neuralgia, measles, vertigo, writer's cramp
Comparative Materia Medica
Argentum nitricum also has anticipatory anxiety but is hurried and craves sweets. Baptisia has similar flu but more confused and with offensive discharges. Bryonia has flu but is irritable and worse from any motion.
Safety Information
China, Coffea, Digitalis, Nux vomica. Also strong coffee as material antidote.
Yellow jasmine contains gelsemine, a potent toxin causing respiratory paralysis, visual disturbance, and death. Extremely toxic. Use only potentised forms.
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