Gelsemium sempervirens

Common name: yellow jasmine.

Adapted for children and young people, especially women of a nervous, hysterical temperament (Croc., Ign., Lyc., Nat-M.) (A.).

CONFUSION OF THE MIND (Calc., Cann-I., Carb-V., Glon., Lach., Merc., Nat-M., Nux-M., Op., Petr., Rhus-T., Sep., Strych.) (Bt.).

Mental faculties dull, cannot think; drowsy, with dull red face (N.).

UTTER LACK OF COURAGE (Acon., Bar-C., Chin., Graph., Lyc.) (A.).

FEAR OF FALLING (Bor., Cupr., Lac-C.); THE CHILD GRASPS THE CRIB OR SEIZES THE NURSE (Bor., Sanic.) (A.).

Bad effects from fright, fear, exciting news and sudden emotions (Ign., Puls.) (A.).

DESIRE TO BE QUIET, TO BE ALONE; DOES NOT WISH TO SPEAK OR HAVE ANY ONE NEAR HER, EVEN IF THE PERSON BE SILENT (Ign., Nat-M.) (A.).

Great depression of spirits in onanists, accompanied with excessive languor (Bt.).

Amaurosis from masturbation (Con., Nat-M., Phos., Puls., Sulph.) (Bt.).

STAGE-FRIGHT, NERVOUS DREAD OF APPEARING IN PUBLIC (Arg-N.) (A.).

THE ANTICIPATION OF ANY UNUSUAL ORDEAL, PREPARING FOR CHURCH, THEATRE, OR TO MEET AN ENGAGEMENT, BRINGS ON DIARRHOEA (A.).

Hysteria, with spasms, palpitation of the heart, and great nervous excitability (Kali-P.) (Bt.).

Fears that unless on the move the heart will cease beating (fears it would cease beating if she moved- Dig.) (A.).

Headache, principally in the occiput, ameliorated by reclining the head and shoulders on a high pillow (N.).

HEADACHE, PRECEDED BY BLINDNESS (Hyos., Iris, Kali-B., Lac-D., Nat-M., Podo., Psor., Sep.) (A.).

Intense congestion of the brain (Acon., Bell., Glon., Verat-V.) (Bt.).

Headache: worse from mental exertion, smoking, heat of sun and lying with head low (A.).

Heaviness of the head (or headache) relieved by profuse flow of urine (Ferr-P., Ign., Kalm., Meli., Sang., Sil.) (N.).

Nervous headache: the pain commences in the cervical portion of the spinal cord, and then spreads over the whole head (Bry., Sang., Sil.) (Bt.).

Sensation of band around the head above the eyes (Carb-Ac., Sulph.) (A.).

Scalp sore to touch (Bell., Chin.) (A.).

COMPLETE RELAXATION AND PROSTRATION OF THE WHOLE MUSCULAR SYSTEM, WITH MOTOR PARALYSIS (A.).

Weakness and trembling: of tongue, hands, legs; or of the entire body (A.).

Hysterical spasms, with great excitement and numb feeling in the extremities (Bt.).

LACK OF MUSCULAR CO-ORDINATION; CONFUSED; MUSCLES REFUSE TO OBEY THE WILL (A.).

Catarrhal deafness with pain from the throat into the middle ear (N.).

Progressive loco-motor ataxy (Bt.).

General depression from the heat of sun or summer (A.).

Inspiration long, with crowing sound; expiration sudden and forcible (N.).

Slow, weak pulse of old age (N.).

Numbness of the tongue; feels so thick that he can hardly speak; partial paralysis (N.).

VERTIGO: SPREADING FROM THE OCCIPUT (Sil.); WITH DIPLOPIA, DIM VISION, LOSS OF SIGHT; SEEMS INTOXICATED WHEN TRYING TO MOVE (A.).

Great heaviness of the eyelids; cannot keep them open (Caust., Graph., Sep.) (A.).

Dimness of vision (Calc., Cycl., Kali-C., Lyc., Puls., Sep.) (Bt.).

Beginning typhoid; headache, drowsy, stupid, wants to lie still; great prostration; tongue trembles when protruding it; eyelids droop; trembles all over when trying to move (N.).

Sleep: languid and drowsy; but cannot compose the mind for sleep (N.).

Nocturnal emission and sexual dreams, followed the next day by great languor and irritability (Phos-Ac.) (Bt.).

Genitals cold and relaxed (Calad.).

Involuntary emissions without erections (Chin., Cob., Dios., Graph., Ham., Nat-C., Nuph., Phos-Ac., Sel., Sulph.) (N.).

Spasmodic labour-pains (Bell., Caul., Mag-P., Puls.).

Rigidity of the neck of the uterus (Bell., Sec.).

Chill: without thirst, especially along the spine; running up and down the back in rapid, wave-like succession; from the sacrum to the occiput (A.).

Nervous chill: violent shaking with no sense of coldness (N.).

Desire to quiet; too weak to move (Bry., Kali-C., Phos-Ac.) (N.).

WANTS TO BE HELD THAT HE MAY NOT SHAKE SO MUCH (Lach.) (A.).

General deep-seated muscular pain with prostration (la grippe) (N.).

Could tell when the chill was about to return, as incontinence of urine would set in (A.).

Catarrh with violent paroxysms of sneezing; worse in the morning, with tingling in the nose (hay fever) (N.).

AGGRAVATION: In damp weather; before a thunder-storm; from emotion or excitement; from bad news; from tobacco-smoking; when thinking of his ailments; and when spoken to of his loss.

AMELIORATION: From profuse urination; from remaining quiet.

RELATIONSHIP: Compare: Bapt. in threatening typhoid fever; Ipec. in dumb ague, after suppression by quinine; and Arg-N. in neurasthenia.