Gentiana Cruciata
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General
Gentiana Cruciata.
Kreutz-Enzian. Cross-leaved Gentian. N. O. Gentianaceae. Tincture of root.
Clinical
Diarrhoea. Dyspepsia. Dysphagia. Hernia. Hoarseness. Stiff-neck. Stomach, affections of. Throat, sore.
Characteristics
"G. cruciata," says the Treasury of Botany, "has been invested with imaginary virtues, because its leaves grow in the form of a cross; it has been recommended in hydrophobia." Its virtues are not all imaginary, and its reputation as a remedy for hydrophobia is partly justified in the provings. The proving of Gent. cruc. (by Watzke and ten others) developed a number of striking symptoms in the throat and digestive tract. Movings about in stomach and abdomen.
Pressure in the stomach as if a stone was in it, with inclination to vomit. All the symptoms of right inguinal hernia occurred in one prover. A peculiar sense of apprehensiveness; faintness; uneasiness. One prover felt as if all the nerves were tense, so that walking was difficult.
Creeping over the body as from fleas in the evening. The symptoms are < after eating. > From warm soup; from drinking fresh water; in open air.
Relations
Compare: Gent. lut.; Lyc. (> from warm drink); Bry., Puls., Ab. n., &c. (pressure in stomach as from a stone); Kal. bi. (tenacious mucus in throat).
Mind
Weeping mood, with disinclination to talk.—Very peculiar apprehensiveness, and acceleration and difficulty of breathing, swelling of the temporal veins and feeling of pressure in the temporal region; on reading, print seemed indistinct and as if covered with a veil.
Head
Confusion and whirling
Sensitiveness of whole head and whole brain after dinner, < by violent motion of head
Swelling of temporal veins and feeling of pressure in temporal region
Sudden stitch through l. temple
Distressing tension, and at times transient jerking in region of vertex; tension soon became a very acute constant pressure, < by exerting eyes, or constant thought.
Eyes
Sensation as though eyes were lying deep in orbit; piercing inward sensation in r. eye.—Print indistinct as if covered with a veil.
Mouth
Two aphthous ulcers on margin of lower lip on either side of frenum.—Flow of saliva increased.
Throat
Slight redness and distressing sensation of constriction within the throat, so that swallowing is very difficult; constantly obliged to hawk up tenacious and firmly adherent mucus
Rawness and scraping, causing frequent hawking; with constriction on swallowing
Intermittent, deep redness of fauces
Stitches in tonsils
Swallowing difficult; with an anxious constrictive sensation; slight redness of fauces.
Stomach
Appetite increased; or lost
Acid eructations; watery vomiting
Great nausea, with inclination to lie down
Vomiting, with some difficulty, a small quantity of mucus of an acid odour, intensely bitter, leaving a scraping and rawness in throat
Movings about in stomach, and afterwards in abdomen, disappeared on walking
Sensation in stomach and oesophagus as though he had swallowed a morsel of hot food followed by cold water; lasted the whole day, < by eating;
> by drinking fresh water
Burning; fulness; pressure in stomach
Pressure in stomach as if a stone were in it, with inclination to vomit
Sensation of pressing inward in pit of stomach.
Abdomen
Sensitive, griping, sore sensation in umbilical region, < after dinner, > sitting and lying, < standing, walking, and after" smoking, obliging him to bend forward; therewith umbilicus seemed to be drawn inward
Movings about in intestines with slight headache, followed by copious pasty evacuation
Distension; fulness; tightness; constriction in abdomen
Dragging in r. inguinal region with feeling of protrusion, > sitting or lying; on violent sneezing actual protrusion occurred, size of hazel-nut, very sensitive.
Stool And Anus
Constant violent urging, followed by three watery evacuations
Pasty diarrhoea
Free pasty stools without the usual itching in anus.
Female Sexual Organs
Menstruation three days earlier than usual, during which there was a headache as if head too full, with feeling of distension in the skull, > during rest and < by motion, preventing sleep for a long time.
Respiratory Organs
Hoarseness; voice gave out in middle of speech.—Frequent attacks of hoarseness and sensitiveness of the throat.
Neck And Back
Drawing and jerking along r. side of neck, extending to shoulder
Drawing in cervical muscles, extending to ears, < by turning head, an uneasiness so that he could not remain long in one position
Repeated drawings in cervical muscles
Tension in lumbar region.
Upper Limbs
Distressing drawing in r. shoulder lasting several minutes.
Lower Limbs
Cramp-like pains in soles of feet.