Genista
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General
Genista.
Genista Tinctoria. Dyer's Greenweld. N. O. Leguminosae. Tincture of whole plant.
Clinical
Diarrhoea. Earache. Headache.
Characteristics
Genista was proved by E. B. Cushing. Its principal effects are: Sharp piercing pains in the head and ear. Brain feels loose and sensitive. Sensitive feeling in brain, eye, and throat. Urgent desire for stool, which is expelled suddenly. A peculiar eruption of dark red confluent spots. < Rising; turning quickly; shaking head; walking. In the night, water-brash. > In open air; in cool rooms; by eating (headache).
Relations
Compare: (Brain feels loose) Cic. v., Nat. s., Bar. c., Rhus.
Head
Vertigo and headache on rising or shaking head, > after dinner
Sensation as if brain were loose and very sensitive
Frequent, sharp pain in r. temple from within outwards
Piercing pain in l. temple.
Eyes
Eyes sensitive to touch in forenoon.
Ears
Once a sensation in l. ear, as though some sharp instrument were thrust into it (forenoon).
Throat
Throat dry and sensitive.
Stomach
Awakened several times in the night with water-brash.
Stool And Anus
Desire for stool with violent sneezing as from snuff
Urgent desire for stool, lasting only a short time, soon after the dose
Stool soft and scanty
Stool tinged with blood; the faeces though large were expelled like a wad from a pop-gun (forty minutes after third dose).
Skin
Peculiar eruption, consisting of roundish, dark-red, confluent spots, scarcely elevated above the skin, which, itching very much, becomes scarlet-red, then pale, and disappears in twenty-four hours; it occurred on feet to knees, and hands to elbows.