====== GNAPHALIUM POLYCEPHALUM ======
<span tc1>{{anchor:s1}}Gnaphalium Polycephalum.</span>

<span grade2>{{anchor:s2}}Common Life Everlasting. {{anchor:s3}}Compositae.</span>

{{anchor:s4}}A fragrant, bitterish, aromatic annual, growing in fields and woods; flowers in summer and autumn.

{{anchor:s5}}Tincture from the fresh plant, chopped and pounded to a pulp.

{{anchor:s6}}Provings by Banks, Fuller and Woodbury. {{anchor:s7}}See Allen's Encyclopaedia, vol. 4, p. 456.

====== CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. ======

{{anchor:s9}}- <span grade2>Sciatica</span>, Cate, Raue's Rec., 1874, p. 261; Dudley, McCourt, Trans. Hom. Med. Soc. Penna., 1882, p. 161.

====== SENSORIUM. [2] ======

{{anchor:s11}}Giddiness, especially after rising from recumbent position.

====== INNER HEAD. [3] ======

{{anchor:s13}}Fullness about temples.\\ {{anchor:s14}}Dull, continuous pain in back of head, with shooting pain in eyeballs.

====== UPPER FACE. [8] ======

{{anchor:s16}}Dull, heavy expression; face appears bloated.\\ {{anchor:s17}}Neuralgic pain, of an intermittent form, of superior maxillary of both sides.

====== TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] ======

{{anchor:s19}}Flat, sweetish, sickening taste in mouth.\\ {{anchor:s20}}Tongue covered with long, white fur.

====== INNER MOUTH. [12] ======

{{anchor:s22}}Mouth feels parched and tastes badly.

====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ======

{{anchor:s24}}Flatus of stomach, windy eructations, nausea and hiccough.

====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s26}}Colic pains in various parts of abdomen, which is sensitive to pressure, in cecum.</span>\\ {{anchor:s27}}Borborygmus, with emission of much flatus.

====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ======

{{anchor:s29}}Rumbling in bowels with stool before breakfast.\\ {{anchor:s30}}Looseness of bowels, with passage of pale-colored feces.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s31}}Diarrheic discharges in morning and during day, with irritable temper; pains in bowels in children.</span>\\ {{anchor:s32}}Copious, watery stool at night, with much prostration, nausea, pain and rumbling in bowels.\\ {{anchor:s33}}Dark-colored, liquid, offensive stool in morning, afterwards pain in bowels all day.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s34}}Vomiting and purging, like cholera morbus, in the night and all next day.</span>\\ {{anchor:s35}}Constipation for three days after the diarrhea.

====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ======

{{anchor:s37}}Pain in kidneys, with frequent slight pain in prostrate gland.\\ {{anchor:s38}}Sensation of fullness and tension in bladder, even when just emptied.

====== MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] ======

{{anchor:s40}}Increase of sexual passion, waking with an erection and urgent desire for an embrace; the desire was rather mechanical than passional.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s41}}Irritation of prostate gland.</span>

====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ======

{{anchor:s43}}Pains in chest, darting from side to side.

====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ======

{{anchor:s45}}Numbness of lower part of back, with lumbago.\\ {{anchor:s46}}Sensation of weight in pelvis.

====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ======

{{anchor:s48}}Feeling of debility in anus, with rheumatic pains.

====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ======

{{anchor:s50}}Pains dull or darting, or cutting from right hip-joint posteriorly downward to foot; agg. lying down, from motion, stepping; amel. sitting in chair.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s51}}Intense pain along sciatic nerve, following its larger ramifications.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s52}}Sciatica.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s53}}Feeling of numbness occasionally taking place of sciatic pains, making exercise very fatiguing.</span>\\ {{anchor:s54}}Rheumatic pains in knee and ankle-joints.\\ {{anchor:s55}}Frequent cramps of calves of legs.\\ {{anchor:s56}}Cramps of feet in bed.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s57}}Gouty pains in big toes.</span>

====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ======

{{anchor:s61}}Lying down: pain from hip-joint to foot agg.\\ {{anchor:s62}}Sitting in chair: pain from hip-joint to foot amel.\\ {{anchor:s63}}After rising from recumbent position: giddiness.\\ {{anchor:s64}}Motion: pain from hip-joint to foot agg.\\ {{anchor:s65}}Stepping: pain from hip-joint to foot agg.\\ {{anchor:s66}}Exercise very fatiguing: from numbness in lower limbs.

====== TIME. [38] ======

{{anchor:s68}}Morning: diarrheic discharges; dark-colored, liquid, offensive stool.\\ {{anchor:s69}}During day: diarrheic discharges; pain in bowels.\\ {{anchor:s70}}Night: copious, watery stool; vomiting and purging.

====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ======

{{anchor:s72}}Intermittent: neuralgic pains in face.\\ {{anchor:s73}}Three days: constipation.

====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ======

{{anchor:s75}}Right: dull, or darting, or cutting pain from hip-joint to foot.

====== SENSATIONS. [43] ======

{{anchor:s77}}Pain: in bowels; in kidneys; in prostate gland; in chest.\\ {{anchor:s78}}Intense pain: along sciatic nerve.\\ {{anchor:s79}}Cutting pain: from right hip-joint to foot.\\ {{anchor:s80}}Darting pains: from side to side in chest; from right hip-joint to foot.\\ {{anchor:s81}}Shooting pain: in eyeballs.\\ {{anchor:s82}}Neuralgic pain: of superior maxillary.\\ {{anchor:s83}}Gouty pains: in big toes.\\ {{anchor:s84}}Rheumatic pains: in limbs; in knees and ankle-joints.\\ {{anchor:s85}}Colic pains: in various parts of abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s86}}Cramps: of calves of legs; of feet.\\ {{anchor:s87}}Dull, continuous pain: in back of head, from right hip-joint to foot.\\ {{anchor:s88}}Lumbago.\\ {{anchor:s89}}Irritation: of prostate gland.\\ {{anchor:s90}}Weight: in pelvis.\\ {{anchor:s91}}Fullness: about temples; in bladder.\\ {{anchor:s92}}Tension: in bladder.\\ {{anchor:s93}}Debility: in arms.\\ {{anchor:s94}}Numbness: of lower part of back; in limbs.

====== TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] ======

{{anchor:s98}}Pressure: abdomen sensitive.

====== RELATIONS. [48] ======

{{anchor:s100}}Compare: <span grade2>Anis. stel., Chamom., Ipec., Mercur., Pulsat., Xanthox.</span>

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====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ======
^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 05, 1887 |
^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r612|Gnaphalium Polycephalum]] |
^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r612|Gnaphalium Polycephalum]] |
^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. |
^ Year: | 1887 |
^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting |
^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}