Genista

Genista Tinctoria. Dyer's Greenweld. i\. O. Leguminosae. Tincture of whole plant. Unload— Diarrhoea. Earache. Headache. OlianusteFlsties.— Gts/tf was proved by E. B. Gushing. Its principal effects are : Sharp piercing pains in the head and ear. Brain feels loose and sensitive. Sensitive feeling in brain, eye, and throat. Urgent desire for stool, which is expelled suddenly. A peculiar eruption of dark red confluent spots. < Rising; turning quickly ; shaking head ; walking. In the night, water-br. > In open air ; in cool rooms ; by eating (headache).

Relations

Compare : (Brain feels loose) Cic. v., Nat s., Bar. c., Rhus.

Head

Vertigo and headache on rising or shaking head, > after dinner. — Sensation as if brain were loose and very sensitive. — Frequent, sharp pain in r. temple from within outwards. — Piercing pain in l. temple.

Eyes

Eyes sensitive to touch in forenoon.

Ears

Once, a sensation in l. ear, as though some sharp instrument were thrust into it (forenoon). Throat. — Throat dry and sensitive.

Stomach

Awakened several times in the night with water-brash.

Stool and Anus

Desire for stool with violent sneezing as from snuff. — Urgent desire for stool, lasting only a short time, soon after the dose. — Stool soft and scanty. — Stool tinged with blood ; the faeces though large were expelled like a wad from a pop-gun (forty minutes after third dose).

Skin

Peculiar eruption, consisting of roundish, dark-red, confluent spots, scarcely elevated above the skin, which, itching very much, becomes scarlet-red, then pale, and disappears in twenty-four hours; it occurred on feet to knees, and hands to elbows.