Gratiola
It is a great remedy for nervous prostration; marked lassitude, with
mental and bodily weakness. It is closely related to Coffea and Nux vomica and especially useful for the weakness of the will and neuralgic pains in
coffee drinkers. In hypochondria and in the female it has melancholia and nymphomania.
Convulsive conditions without loss of consciousness.
Complaints are better in the open air, but he is chilly in a warm room
(like Pulsatilla); complaints predominate on the left side; constant vaporous exhalations from
the body. Catarrhal conditions of the stomach and intestines with spasmodic ailments.
There is a lack of will power and aversion to work; mental depression and
capriciousness; he is very irritable and hypochondriacal; fear of the future. Complaints
from pride. Bad effects from coffee and alcohol; nervous complaints associated with stomach
and bowel troubles.
Vertigo during and after eating; on closing the eyes; while reading; on
rising from a seat; on motion; vertigo with cerebral hyperemia. Heat and fullness of the
head; sensation as though the head grew smaller; pulsation in head; in temples; rush of
blood to head, after rising from stooping.
The head symptoms are better in the open air and worse or come on in warm
room. Pain in the occiput in the morning on waking, better rising or lying on the face. Sick
headaches, nausea, vomiting or disgust for food, with vertigo, better in the open air.
Pain in occiput from sneezing. The head feels cold and is sensitive, to
cold air. Cold sensation of vertex. Corrugated forehead during the headache. Itching of the
scalp; itching of the eyes and ears. Mist before the eyes while reading and green objects
appear white.
Pain in eyes as from sand; itching in the nose. There is a sensation of
burning heat in the face, but it feels cold to the hand.
Swelling of the upper lip in the morning. There is a sensation of tension
of the face and tingling and it feels swollen. The face is red; the teeth ache from cold
things taken in the mouth. Grinding of teeth in brain affections.
Pain in the throat, compelling constant swallowing; much mucus in the
throat, which he cannot eject. Violent thirst; emptiness in the stomach after eating; emptiness when he
does not need or desire food. Craves nothing but bread.
Nausea better after eating and by eructations. Vomiting of bitter, sour
water and mucus. A feeling of anxiety in the stomach. Cramping in the stomach after food and
a heavy load that seems to go from side to side as he turns from side to side, with nausea
and eructation. Distension after eating. Pressure in stomach, after eating. Marked coldness in stomach. Cramp and
hard aching in stomach, pain grows rapidly worse and seems to extend to back and kidneys. Cold feeling in abdomen.
Cramping like colic with nausea.
Rumbling in abdomen with distension in afternoon and evening. Swelling of mesenteric glands.
Pinching in abdomen, better by passing flatus. Diarrhoea, with copious gushing, yellow or
yellowish-green, frothy, watery stools; copious watery vomiting and purging, like. cholera
morbus; copious green watery stools. The diarrhoea is brought on. from drinking large
quantities of water, due to the violent thirst.
During the diarrhoea he is often sensitive to draft and open air which
give him urging to stool. It has cured fully developed, rapid, Asiatic cholera.
Green stools and green vomiting, unconscious stools.
Before stool, nausea; rumbling, cutting; tenesmus. During stool, nausea;
burning in rectum straining. After stool, burning in rectum; tenesmus; pain in coccyx
creeping chills; pain in abdomen.
Protrusion of stinging, burning hemorrhoids. Tearing and pricking in
anus. Constriction in anus; itching anus. Ascarides. Burning in the urethra during and after
urination; scanty urine becomes turbid on standing; unconscious discharge of urine.
Stitching in left spermatic cord to abdomen and chest.
It is a most useful remedy in the female when there is marked
irritability of the sexual organs, if the sexual desire is great excited; it is one of our
best remedies for nymphomania. When the desire is so violent that it drives her to secret
vice the remedies are Gelsemium, Gratiola, Origanum, Nux vomica, Phosphorus,
Platina and Zincum. The menses are too early and profuse; darting pain in right mamma when
stooping and during menses worse on rising; leucorrhea with pains in sacrum.
Violent palpitation after stool (Conium) with oppression of chest heat in chest, head, hands,
with red face.
Rheumatic pains in upper limbs; sore bruised pains in lower limbs, after
walking, tearing in the tibia while sitting, better while walking.
Sleepiness after eating; deep sleep, Itching and burning of the skin,
after scratching.
Lectures on Materia Medica- James
Tyler Kent
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