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Gelsemium Sempervirens

30C / 200CGelsemium
Yellow Jasmine · "The Drooping Remedy"
gels.PolychrestPlantCommonPsoric
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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 ofmotor 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.
introduction
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
↓Worse from
↑Better from
💊 Dosage & Potency
Tincture
Mother Tincture
🕒As directed
Primary Dosage
1X to 3X
Decimal
🕒As directed
📝most often used
30C
Centesimal
🕒As directed
🌿 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
📚 Sources & References

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