Gratiola

Hedge Hyssop

Boericke, Pocket Manual of Homœopathic Materia Medica, 9th ed., 1927, p. 312

Acts especially on gastro-intestinal tract. Chronic catarrhal conditions, leucorrhœa and gonorrhœa. Obstinate ulcers. Useful in mental troubles from overweening pride. Especially useful in females. Nux symptoms in females often met by Gratiola.

Head

Sick headache. Rush of blood with vanishing of sight. Sensation as if brain was contracting and head became smaller. Tightness in forehead, with wrinkles in skin. Eyes dry, burn. Myopia.

Stomach

Vertigo during and after meals; hunger and feeling of emptiness after meals. Dyspepsia, with much distention of the stomach. Cramps and colic after supper and during night, with swelling of abdomen and constipation. Dysphagia for liquids.

Stool p. 313

Diarrhœa; green, frothy water, followed by anal burning, forcibly evacuated without pain. Constipation, with gouty acidity. Hæmorrhoids, with hypochondriasis. Rectum constricted.

Sleep p. 313

Insomnia.

Female p. 313

Nymphomania. Menses too profuse, premature, and too long. Leucorrhœa.

Modalities p. 313

Worse, drinking too much water.

Relationship p. 313

Compare: Dig.; Euph.; Tab.; Cham.; Ammon. pic.; Nua vom.

The book’s Dose section is left out: Samepath quotes the books but gives no dosing advice.

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