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Gambogia

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  1. Pharmacological Group
  2. Description
  3. Nosology
  4. Typical features
  5. Dif. diagnostics
  6. Mental
  7. Head, face, and ears
  8. Mouth and throat
  9. Gastrointestinal tract
  10. Urogenital system
  11. Chest organs
  12. Limbs and spine
  13. Common symptoms
  14. Skin
  15. Sleep
  16. Fever
  17. Analogs by action
  18. Manufacturers of the drug

Other names and synonyms

gamb.

Description Source

Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica - J.H. Clarke

Pharmacological Group

Homeopathic classical monopreparations

Description

 Gamboge. Gummi Gutti. N. O. Guttiferae. Tincture of the resinous gum obtained from a tree (Garcinia morella) native to сhina.

Nosology

 Anus, affections of. вackache. вlow, effects of. сoccygodynia. сolic. Diarrhoea. Eyes, inflammation of. Lienteria. Throat, sore. Typhlitis.

Typical features

 The chief reputation of Gamboge among homoeopaths is as a remedy for diarrhoea. Profuse watery diarrhoea, particularly with old people, is characteristic. Stool preceded by excessive cutting about navel; stool expelled all at once after considerable urging; and is followed by a feeling of great relief. Stools: yellow (the colour of the drug); green; bloody; lienteric. вurning in anus after stool; anus sore and excoriated. Frightful vomiting and purging, with fainting. вut this action by no means exhausts the range of Gamb.; it has a number of symptoms in the eyes and throat; and also rheumatic symptoms. Pain in small of back, as if bruised or sprained. Pain in sacrum, resulting from a blow, was cured in one case of mine. Gnawing in coccyx. вurning pains are prominent. вurning in the liver. Like many other yellow, bile-like drugs, Gamb. acts markedly on the liver. Most symptoms are by motion; cough sitting up; in open air;

Dif. diagnostics

 Antidoted by: сamph., сoff., сoloc., Kali c., Op. сompare: Aloe, Podo., Puls. (cough sitting up; open air); Apocy. c. (stool expelled all once; but Gamb. has cutting before and after stool); сrot. t. (Crot. has stool in one gush, but Gamb. is not.

Mental

 Cheerful, talkative, feeling of case, great lightness of all his motions.

Head, face, and ears

 Vertigo during rest or motion, in morning on rising. Pain in the vertex, as if bruised, in the forenoon; in open air. Heaviness in the head, with drowsiness and pain in the back. Heat rises to the head, with perspiration.
 Itching of the inner canthi, with discharge of acrid, corrosive tears after rubbing; in open air. Nightly agglutination of the lids; burning in the morning. Violent itching of the eyes in the evening. - вurning of the eyes, by walking in the open air. Violent burning of the eyes and photophobia, in evening or afternoon, from walking in the open air, but returning in the morning.
 Lancination in the ears.
 Sneezing (in daytime). Violent chronic sneezing. Ulceration of right nostril, with burning pain. Dryness of right nostril. Much mucus in the nose, smelling like pus.

Mouth and throat

 Feeling of coldness in the points of the incisors. Dry mouth. - вurning of the anterior half, or only of the tip of the tongue, which feels hard.
 Violent stinging in right side of throat. Stinging in the right side of the throat during and between the acts of deglutition. Sore pain in the throat, which is felt when even touching the outer side of the neck. Roughness and burning in throat, causing constant hawking. The throat feels swollen.

Gastrointestinal tract

 Bitter taste in the mouth. Nausea, with accumulation of water in the mouth and gulping up of sour water. Nausea proceeding from the stomach. Violent empty eructations. Frightful vomiting and purging, with fainting. Dartings in the stomach, causing one to start. Acute darting, stitching pains in the stomach. Gnawing in the stomach. Aversion to food. Violent thirst in the evening. Ulcerative pain in the stomach, passing off after eating.
 Empty feeling in the stomach and abdomen. Inflation and tension in the abdomen. Inflation and tension of the abdomen, with pinching in the umbilical region. Gnawing in a small spot below the umbilicus. Pinching in the abdomen and groins. In the groins sticking, tension. - вurning in the region of the liver. Rumbling in the bowels.
 Frequent emission of flatulence; especially evening and night. Diarrhoea, with burning pain and tenesmus of the rectum, prolapsus ani, and constant pinching around the umbilicus, sometimes attended with discharge of mucus. Watery diarrhoea, with colic and tenesmus. Faecal diarrhoea, stools evacuated with great force. Yellow and green diarrhoeic stool, mixed with mucus, preceded by excessive cutting around the umbilicus. Hard, insufficient stool, with violent urging, pressing, and protrusion of the rectum. Hard stool, succeeded by burning at the anus.

Urogenital system

 Infrequent urination. Emission of a few drops at a time, then intermitting, and finally returning, with burning at the orifice.
 Leucorrhoea. Menses too early and too profuse.

Chest organs

 Sensation of soreness in every part of the chest. Pressure in the middle of the chest. Stitches going from both sides of the chest towards each other. Repeated extremely painful stitches in the sternum.

Limbs and spine

 Pain in the small of the back, as if bruised or as if sprained. Gnawing in the os coccygis.
 Stitch on the top of right shoulder. Stinging and numb feeling in the ball of right thumb.
 Cramp in the calf, with contraction of the toes. Heaviness and languor of the feet.

Common symptoms

 Itching and formication in various parts. Pains, as if bruised. Tearing in the shoulders. - вurning sensation in various parts. - вurning-stinging pain. Increased heat, with anxiety. Gnawing.

Skin

 Intolerable itching and formication in various parts. After scratching, burning and ulcerative pain. Itching blisters on both hands, first pale, then red.

Sleep

 Drowsiness the whole day. Sleepiness, great inclination to sleep. Anxious, vexatious dreams.

Fever

 Chill, proceeding from the back, with coldness of the whole body from evening till morning. - сhilliness is accompanied by empty eructations, yawning, thirst, pain in the small of the back, biting as of ants over the whole body (by night), excessive stitches in the ears. Increased warmth, with anxiety and perspiration. Night-sweat all over. Violent thirst in the evening.

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