Gelsemium

Characteristic symptoms

Numbness, tingling, prickling and crawling sensation ; depresses and paralyzes the nerves of motion • tetanus ; hydrophobia ; infantile spasms of the glottis ; spasmodic croup ; profound and intense prostration of the whole muscular system; myalgia from great over-exertion ; pulse frequent, soft, weak ; heart's action slow and feeble ; the action of the heart and arteries much depressed with cold hands and feet ; chills and pains in head; nervous chills, especially in hysterical persons; chilliness with vertigo ; headache and coated tongue ; cold extremities, inclination to hug the fire, with chills following each other in rapid succession from sacrum to base of the occiput; miasmatic fevers, remittent fever, especially in children and women ; intermittent fever ; typhoid fever with great prostration of the vital forces, with strange sensations in the head and continued jactitation of the muscles ; eruptive fevers in their forming stage ; excessive irritability of body and mind; contusion of mind; stupid intoxicated feeling; excruciating headache, accompanied by slight nausea ; nervous headache ; hemicrania with dimness of sight or double vision and sensitiveness to all sounds ; sunstruck ; distressing headache after intermittents; diplopia, when inclining the head towards the shoulder, but vision single when holding the head erect; dimness of sight ; amaurosis ; contusion of sight with heavy looking eyes ; smoky appearance before the eyes ; yytosis, asthenopia, strabismus/ amaurosis/ thirst for light/ watery discharge of the nose ; bloody mucous discharge from the nose, orbital neuralgia ; toothache of a shooting character : tongue red, raw and painful ; yellow or white coating of the tongue ; scarlatinous angina, tonsilitis, paralysis succeeding diphtheria; pain on swallowing, going up in the internal ear, with deafness threatening ; large deeply bilious discharges ; creamy papescent stools ; frequent micturition of a clear and limpid urine, with relief to the dullness of the head ; involuntary emission of semen, without an erection ; flaccidity with coldness of the genital organs ; gonorrhœa / dysmenor rhœa ; false labor pains ; threatened abortion ; puerperal convulsions depending on uraemia ; rheumatic myalgic pains in extremities.