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Gelsemium Sempervirens

30C / 200CGelsemium

Yellow Jasmine · "The Drooping Remedy"

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🎯 It acts primarily on the nervous system, causing motor paralysis, muscle weakness, and a state of mental and physical dullness.

📖 Boericke writes:

(GELSEMIUM)

Centers its action upon the nervous system, causing various degrees of motor paralysis. General prostration. Dizziness, drowsiness, dullness, and trembling. Slow pulse, tired feeling, mental apathy. Paralysis of various groups of muscles about the eyes, throat, chest, larynx, sphincter, extremities, etc. Post-diphtheritic paralysis. Muscular weakness. Complete relaxation and prostration. Lack of muscular co-ordination. General depression from heat of sun. Sensitive to a falling barometer; cold and dampness brings on many complaints. Children fear falling, grab nurse or crib. Sluggish circulation. Nervous affections of cigarmakers. Influenza. Measles. Pellagra.

👤 Constitution

•Typically a person who is dull, lethargic, and trembling, often with a flushed, heavy-looking face and a desire to be left alone.

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Dizziness, drowsiness, dullness, and trembling.

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Paralysis of various groups of muscles about the eyes, throat, chest, larynx, sphincter, extremities, etc. Post-diphtheritic paralysis.

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Muscular weakness.

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Influenza.

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Measles.

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Dullness, languor, listless.

mind

" Apathy regarding his illness.

mind

Pain in temple, extending into ear and wing of nose, chin.

head

Orbital neuralgia, with contraction and twitching of muscles.

eyes

Serous inflammations.

eyes

Hysterical amblyopia.

eyes

Hot heavy, flushed, besotted-looking (Bapt; Op).

face

🩺 Systems & Indications

🧠Mind

Useful for mental states involving anxiety, fear, or extreme lethargy and dullness.

Desire to be quiet, to be left alone.

Dullness, languor, listless.

"Discernings are lethargied.

" Apathy regarding his illness.

Absolute lack of fear.

Delirious on falling to sleep.

Emotional excitement, fear, etc, lead to bodily ailments.

Bad effects from fright, fear, exciting news.

Stage fright.

Child starts and grasps the nurse, and screams as if afraid of falling (Bor).

🔑 Modalities

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💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

Tincture

Mother Tincture

Primary Dosage

1X to 3X

Decimal

📝most often used

30C

Centesimal

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🚫 Antidotes

China Officinalis →Coffea Cruda →Digitalis Purpurea →

🔄 Compare With

Magnesium Phosphoricum →Ignatia Amara →Baptisia Tinctoria →Ipecacuanha →Aconitum Napellus →Belladonna →Cimicifuga Racemosa →Magnesia Phosphorica →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Gelsemium Sempervirens is listed in 561 rubrics across 23 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 267 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Head79 Nervous System71 Fever49 Female Sexual System43 Eyes43 Locomotor System40 Mind31 Male Sexual System28 Urinary System27 Modalities26 Circulatory System19 Throat16 Nose14 Respiratory System13 Abdomen13 Face12 Ears10 Generalities9 Tongue7 Stomach4 Skin3 Mouth2 Teeth2

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