Other names and synonyms
genist.Description Source
Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica - J.H. ClarkePharmacological Group
Description
Genista Tinctoria. Dyer s Greenweld. N. O. Leguminosae. Tincture of whole plant.
Nosology
Diarrhoea. Earache. Headache.
Typical features
Genista was proved by E. в. сushing. Its principal effects are: Sharp piercing pains in the head and ear. вrain 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. In open air; in cool rooms; by eating (headache).
Dif. diagnostics
Compare: (Brain feels loose) сic. v., Nat. s., вar. c., Rhus.
Head, face, and ears
Vertigo and headache on rising or shaking head, after dinner. Sensation as if brain were loose and very sensitive. Frequent, sharp pain in right temple from within outwards. Piercing pain in left temple.
Eyes sensitive to touch in forenoon.
Once a sensation in left ear, as though some sharp instrument were thrust into it (forenoon).
Eyes sensitive to touch in forenoon.
Once a sensation in left ear, as though some sharp instrument were thrust into it (forenoon).
Mouth and throat
Throat dry and sensitive.
Gastrointestinal tract
Awakened several times in the night with water-brash.
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).
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.