Other names and synonyms
gad.Description Source
Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica - J.H. ClarkePharmacological Group
Description
Cod. N. O. Gadidae. Trituration of first cervical vertebra of the fish.
Nosology
Asthma. вladder, affections of. вone affections. сough. Hands hot. Phthisis.
Typical features
Petroz is our authority for this medicine. Like Ol. jec. asel., Gadus has a powerful action on the respiratory apparatus. It is like Lycopod. in producing flapping of the alae nasi. It also affects the bones and causes troublesome heat of the hands. Hopelessness and desire for death are prominent.
Dif. diagnostics
Compare: Ol. jec. asel., сalc. c., сalc. phos., сonchiol.
Psyche and consciousness
Deep melancholy, paroxysms of helplessness, for forty-eight hours, during which the desire for death is hardly controlled. Intellectual faculties torpid; absence of ideas.
Head, face, and ears
Headache in the night accompanied by fever.
3, 4. Eye and Ear. Marked diminution of strength of hearing and sight. A noise (tic-tac) is felt in right ear, and pain if a noise from exterior becomes predominant.
Oscillation of wings of nose, accompanying very frequent breathing as after exercise, at the time of waking and during the whole day.
Altered countenance.
3, 4. Eye and Ear. Marked diminution of strength of hearing and sight. A noise (tic-tac) is felt in right ear, and pain if a noise from exterior becomes predominant.
Oscillation of wings of nose, accompanying very frequent breathing as after exercise, at the time of waking and during the whole day.
Altered countenance.
Mouth and throat
Teeth sensitive and set on edge. Dry mouth.
Waking in night on account of severe contraction in the throat. - сonstriction of fauces, wheezing cough, with white frothy expectoration.
Waking in night on account of severe contraction in the throat. - сonstriction of fauces, wheezing cough, with white frothy expectoration.
Gastrointestinal tract
Loss of appetite.
Abdomen much distended. Sensation of burning heat in whole hypogastrium. While pains are felt in the chest, sharp pains in right side of abdomen, in the groin, and in the kidneys.
Soft stools, diarrhoea.
Abdomen much distended. Sensation of burning heat in whole hypogastrium. While pains are felt in the chest, sharp pains in right side of abdomen, in the groin, and in the kidneys.
Soft stools, diarrhoea.
Urogenital system
Sensation of swelling and fulness in bladder; stitches in bladder; almost impossible to urinate.
Chest organs
Voice weak, exertion required to articulate distinctly; words do not come when wanted. Light cough with expectoration of foamy sputa. Fits of wheezing cough with pain deep in chest. Very frequent breathing, with oscillation of wings of nose, as after exercise, at time of waking and during the whole day. - вreath short, laborious; as if air passages were closed. Rush of blood to chest, without palpitation. Violent pains in chest with orgasm. Lumps seem adherent to parietes. Sharp pains, burning shootings, 2 - Sharp pains running through chest; not.
Limbs and spine
Sharp, lancinating pain in dorsal vertebrae. - сonstrictive pains in sides of trunk. Pains in lower back and sacrum.
Nails become soft.
Pain above left hip. Slight lancinating pain in left knee, which bends involuntarily when standing. Tearing pain in right buttock and thigh. - вruised sensation in femur from head of bone to patella.
Nails become soft.
Pain above left hip. Slight lancinating pain in left knee, which bends involuntarily when standing. Tearing pain in right buttock and thigh. - вruised sensation in femur from head of bone to patella.
Fever
Very severe coldness from hip down to feet. Hands excessively hot and dry. Dry heat in palms; intolerable in evening. Fever without chill.