====== GRINDELIA ROBUSTA ======
{{anchor:s1}}Grindelia Robusta.
{{anchor:s2}}Grindelia. {{anchor:s3}}Compositae.
{{anchor:s4}}A plant growing on the Pacific coast and inland on the mountains.
{{anchor:s5}}Proving by Bundy (Not in Allen's Encyclopaedia) and by Hale, see N. A. J. H., vol. 25.
====== CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. ======
{{anchor:s7}}- Iritis, Fiske, N. A. J. H., vol. 25, p. 204; Hay-fever, rose-cold, asthma, Steele, Times Retros., vol. 2, p. 12; Asthma, Scudder, N. A. J. H., vol. 25, p. 203; Smith, N. E. M. G., vol. 11, p. 353; Spasmodic asthma, Hale, Times Retros., vol. 3, p. 25; Pneumonia, bronchitis, Hale, N. A. J. H., vol. 25, p. 202; Ulceration of leg, Scudder, N. A. J. H., vol. 25, p. 204; Affection of pneumogastric, Guernsey, N. E. M. G., vol. 12, p. 138; Epidemic rash, Hale, N. A. J. H., vol. 25, p. 202; Rhus tox. poisoning, Steele, Times Retros., vol. 2, p. 12; N. E. M. G., vol. 11, p. 351.
====== INNER HEAD. [3] ======
{{anchor:s9}}Terrible fullness in head, as though he had taken ten or more grains of quinine.
====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ======
{{anchor:s11}}Conjunctiva injected, eyes presenting appearance noticed in congestion of brain.\\ {{anchor:s12}}Pain in eyeballs running directly back to brain, agg. from moving eyes.\\ {{anchor:s13}}Pain in left eye and right knee-joint, like rheumatism; pain in knee did not last longer than half an hour; pain in eye became more intense, pupil becoming dilated; two hours afterward right eye became affected.\\ {{anchor:s14}}Conjunctivitis and purulent ophthalmia.\\ {{anchor:s15}}Iritis, traumatic, or arising from cold or a metastasis of rheumatism; the pain is intense and the fever runs high.
====== HYPOCHONDRIA. [18] ======
{{anchor:s17}}Unbearable pain in region of liver and spleen, so severe that he cannot lie still a moment; soreness like that of acute rheumatism.
====== MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] ======
{{anchor:s19}}(OBS:) Pruritus affecting vulva and vagina; whether arising from leucorrhea, or of venous origin, or aphthae.
====== RESPIRATION. [26] ======
{{anchor:s21}}Fear of going to sleep on account of loss of breath, which awakens him.\\ {{anchor:s22}}On falling asleep respiratory movement ceases, and is not resumed until awakened by the suffocation resulting.\\ {{anchor:s23}}Mucous asthma depending on an abnormal accumulation of mucus in the smaller bronchi, tenacious and difficult to detach; patient feels and knows that expectoration brings relief.\\ {{anchor:s24}}Humid asthma, originating in catarrhal bronchitis.\\ {{anchor:s25}}After an attack of pneumonia vital forces so greatly reduced that recovery was despaired of; patient almost in a sitting position in bed, with a peculiar interrupted breathing, which entirely prevented sleep; every time he dropped into a doze breathing would become so interrupted that he would have to be aroused; pneumogastric nerve appeared half paralyzed and action of heart was very weak.\\ {{anchor:s26}}Cardiac asthma.
====== COUGH. [27] ======
{{anchor:s28}}Cough from reflex causes; a cough maintained by habit; chronic bronchitis and bronchorrhea.\\ {{anchor:s29}}Mucus tenacious and difficult to detach.
====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ======
{{anchor:s31}}Chronic bronchitis, and cough with muco-purulent expectoration after pneumonia.\\ {{anchor:s32}}Bronchitis accompanying heart disease.\\ {{anchor:s33}}Severe cough with considerable purulent expectoration; on examination, flatness of entire left lung; dyspnea. {{anchor:s34}}~ Chronic pneumonia.\\ {{anchor:s35}}Cough, dyspnea; flatness of right lung and partial consolidation at base of lung.\\ {{anchor:s36}}Asthma; chronic bronchitis; hay-fever; pneumonia.
====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ======
{{anchor:s38}}Leg greatly swollen, especially about ankle-joint; purplish-black color; two large ulcers over tibia, two and three inches long and half an inch in depth; abundant fetid secretion; severe pain; can hardly get about. {{anchor:s39}}~ Chronic ulceration of leg.
====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ======
{{anchor:s43}}Sitting position in bed; on account of difficulty of breathing.\\ {{anchor:s44}}Cannot lie still a moment on account of pain.\\ {{anchor:s45}}Can hardly move on account of pain in legs.\\ {{anchor:s46}}Moving eyes: agg. pain.
====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ======
{{anchor:s48}}Right: pain in knee-joint; flatness of lung.\\ {{anchor:s49}}Left: pain in eye; flatness of lung.
====== SENSATIONS. [43] ======
{{anchor:s51}}As though he had taken ten or more grains of quinine, such terrible fullness in head.\\ {{anchor:s52}}Pain: in eyeballs; in left eye and right knee-joint.\\ {{anchor:s53}}Pains with soreness, like that of rheumatism.\\ {{anchor:s54}}Unbearable pain: in region of liver and spleen.\\ {{anchor:s55}}Severe pain: in limbs.\\ {{anchor:s56}}Burning: of chin.\\ {{anchor:s57}}Terrible fullness: in head.\\ {{anchor:s58}}Soreness: in region of liver.\\ {{anchor:s59}}Itching: of skin.
====== SKIN. [46] ======
{{anchor:s61}}Epidemic rash like roseola, suffusing face, neck and often whole body, with severe burning and itching.\\ {{anchor:s62}}Irritable eruptions, papular or vesicular.\\ {{anchor:s63}}Rhus tox. poisoning.\\ {{anchor:s64}}Bites of insects; flea-bites.
====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ======
{{anchor:s66}}Woman, aet. 48, for two years; chronic pneumonia.\\ {{anchor:s67}}Man, aet. 60, after injury to left eye; iritis.\\ {{anchor:s68}}Man, aet. 60, suffering for twenty years; ulceration of leg.\\ {{anchor:s69}}Old man, broken down with years of sickness, with organic disease of heart, just rallying from an attack of pneumonia; paresis of pneumogastric.
====== RELATIONS. [48] ======
{{anchor:s71}}It antidotes: Rhus tox.\\ {{anchor:s72}}Compare: Am. mur., Ant. tart., Kali. bich.
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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:r747|Grindelia Robusta]] |
^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r747|Grindelia Robusta]] |
^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. |
^ Year: | 1887 |
^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting |
^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}