====== GRATIOLA OFFICINALIS ====== {{anchor:s1}}Gratiola Officinalis. {{anchor:s2}}Hedge Hyssop. {{anchor:s3}}Scrophulariaceae. {{anchor:s4}}A plant growing in moist places in Central and Southern Europe. {{anchor:s5}}The tincture is prepared from the fresh plant before flowering. {{anchor:s6}}Extensively proved by German provers; also by Nicol and Spearman. {{anchor:s7}}See Allen's Encyclopaedia., vol. 4, p. 491. ====== CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. ====== {{anchor:s9}}- Throbbing in temples, Berridge, Raue's Rec., 1872, p. 24; Pain in occiput, Berridge, Hom. Clinics, vol. 4, p. 111; Hydrocephalus, Altdorfer, Raue's Rec., 1872, p. 63; Cardialgia, Raue's Rec., 1872, p. 134; Swelling of mesenteric glands, Hartung, Hom. Clinics, vol. 3, p. 35; Cholera, Wrzler, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 475; Cholera infantum, Miller, Raue's Rec., 1873, p. 122. ====== MIND. [1] ====== {{anchor:s11}}Irresolute; want of perseverance.\\ {{anchor:s12}}Serious, taciturn, absorbed in reverie.\\ {{anchor:s13}}Hypochondriacal affections; melancholia.\\ {{anchor:s14}}Great depression and disinclination to do anything.\\ {{anchor:s15}}Peevish; capricious; constipation; oppression of stomach after a meal, etc. {{anchor:s16}}~ Hypochondriasis.\\ {{anchor:s17}}Ill humor, tired of life, apprehensive of the future.\\ {{anchor:s18}}Delirium tremens, when the delirium assumes the character of anger rather than of anxiety, in subjects not yet greatly exhausted.\\ {{anchor:s19}}Hypochondriasis and hysteria arising from abdominal troubles.\\ {{anchor:s20}}(OBS:) Mental troubles from overweening pride. ====== SENSORIUM. [2] ====== {{anchor:s22}}Intoxicated feeling during and after a meal.\\ {{anchor:s23}}Vertigo: with heat in head; on closing eyes; while reading; on rising from a seat.\\ {{anchor:s24}}Vertigo during and after a meal.\\ {{anchor:s25}}Violent rush of blood, with throbbing in forehead; vertigo and blackness before eyes; agg. by motion.\\ {{anchor:s26}}Determination of blood to head, heat and somnolence.\\ {{anchor:s27}}Fullness and congestion of blood to head with peculiar biting, burning in face and other parts; languor; nausea; disgust for food and vertigo; amel. in open air. ====== INNER HEAD. [3] ====== {{anchor:s29}}Sensation as if brain contracted and as if head grew smaller.\\ {{anchor:s30}}Sensation of heaviness in forehead, as if brain would fall forward, with stoppage of nose.\\ {{anchor:s31}}Pressure in forehead, with vertigo.\\ {{anchor:s32}}Throbbing in temples.\\ {{anchor:s33}}Heat in head after rising from stooping.\\ {{anchor:s34}}Heaviness in head with nausea.\\ {{anchor:s35}}Headaches with peculiar biting and burning in face and other parts, languor in arms and legs, nausea, disgust for food, vertigo; amel. in open air.\\ {{anchor:s36}}Pain in occiput on early waking, amel. by rising or lying prone.\\ {{anchor:s37}}Pain in left occiput on sneezing.\\ {{anchor:s38}}After several days' headache, weakness, loss of appetite, etc., convulsions, followed by sopor and occasional screaming; unconsciousness; lies upon back, with low respiration; occasional sighing; gnashing of teeth; eyes shut; pupils enlarged; slow pulse; unconscious discharge of feces and urine. {{anchor:s39}}~ Hydrocephalus.\\ {{anchor:s40}}Sick headache with mental depression; nausea, disgust for food; giddiness amel. in open air; sensation of heaviness in head and constriction of forehead. ====== OUTER HEAD. [4] ====== {{anchor:s42}}Tightness in forehead with wrinkles in skin.\\ {{anchor:s43}}Itching of scalp.\\ {{anchor:s44}}Peculiar coldness in and about head.\\ {{anchor:s45}}Frequent feeling of coldness on vertex, painful, and changing to a feeling of warmth when moving head.\\ {{anchor:s46}}Head very sensitive to cold. ====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ====== {{anchor:s48}}Objects, even green ones, appear white.\\ {{anchor:s49}}Mist before eyes, when reading or writing.\\ {{anchor:s50}}Short-sightedness, with burning heat in face.\\ {{anchor:s51}}Eyes shut; pupils enlarged. {{anchor:s52}}~ Hydrocephalus.\\ {{anchor:s53}}Eyes feel dry as if sand were in them.\\ {{anchor:s54}}Itching about the eyelashes. ====== HEARING AND EARS. [6] ====== {{anchor:s56}}Itching of ears. ====== SMELL AND NOSE. [7] ====== {{anchor:s58}}Pressure at upper part of nose.\\ {{anchor:s59}}Smarting itching in left nostril. ====== UPPER FACE. [8] ====== {{anchor:s61}}Redness of face.\\ {{anchor:s62}}Sensation of tension and tingling in face; it feels swollen.\\ {{anchor:s63}}Tingling burning in malar bones.\\ {{anchor:s64}}Burning heat in face, while it feels cold to hand.\\ {{anchor:s65}}Every morning, for weeks, swelling of upper lip, disappearing after a few hours. ====== TEETH AND GUMS. [10] ====== {{anchor:s67}}Teeth ache from cold.\\ {{anchor:s68}}Gnashing of teeth. {{anchor:s69}}~ Meningitis. ====== TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] ====== {{anchor:s71}}Tongue rough, coated with mucus. ====== INNER MOUTH. [12] ====== {{anchor:s73}}Fetid breath on waking.\\ {{anchor:s74}}Accumulation of clear water in mouth, causing frequent spitting. ====== PALATE AND THROAT. [13] ====== {{anchor:s76}}Pain in throat obliging one to swallow constantly; swallowing is difficult, as if throat were contracted; agg. during empty deglutition.\\ {{anchor:s77}}Stinging in throat (l. side).\\ {{anchor:s78}}Phlegm in throat, with inability to throw it off. ====== APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] ====== {{anchor:s81}}Hunger after eating, with feeling of emptiness; without appetite.\\ {{anchor:s82}}Appetite for nothing but bread.\\ {{anchor:s83}}Violent thirst.\\ {{anchor:s84}}Aversion to smoking. ====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ====== {{anchor:s86}}Hiccough.\\ {{anchor:s87}}Gulping up of bitter substances; empty retching.\\ {{anchor:s88}}Nausea: amel. after eating, and by eructations; in afternoon.\\ {{anchor:s89}}Two attacks of vomiting in quick succession, of yellow, bitter, sour water.\\ {{anchor:s90}}Vomiting of mucous and bilious matter. ====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ====== {{anchor:s92}}Feeling of anxiety in epigastrium and stomach.\\ {{anchor:s93}}Gnawing at pit of stomach after eating, as of hunger.\\ {{anchor:s94}}Pressure at pit of stomach, as from a stone rolling from side to side, with cramp-like drawing which mounts into chest; at same time frequent urging to vomit and eructations; agg. after food.\\ {{anchor:s95}}Pain in pit of stomach, spreads to upper abdomen, back, and especially kidneys; nausea and vomiting; peculiar sensation in abdomen and stomach.\\ {{anchor:s96}}Great distension of stomach after meals.\\ {{anchor:s97}}Pressure in stomach after every meal.\\ {{anchor:s98}}Cold feeling of stomach, as if full of water.\\ {{anchor:s99}}Empty or cold feeling in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s100}}Pain in stomach, with nausea and general discomfort.\\ {{anchor:s101}}Cramps in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s102}}Cardialgia; pain commences in pit of stomach, and spreads to upper abdomen, back, and especially kidneys; vomiting; constipation; urine scanty, reddish, turbid, and painful to discharge.\\ {{anchor:s103}}Gastralgia. ====== HYPOCHONDRIA. [18] ====== {{anchor:s105}}Heating pain and burning in left hypochondrium. ====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ====== {{anchor:s107}}Distension of abdomen in afternoon and evening.\\ {{anchor:s108}}Rumbling, with nausea, eructations and vertigo; much flatulence.\\ {{anchor:s109}}Cold feeling in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s110}}Burning in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s111}}Gnawing about umbilicus, as of worms.\\ {{anchor:s112}}Tingling in hypogastrium and around umbilicus.\\ {{anchor:s113}}Sticking pain about umbilicus.\\ {{anchor:s114}}Pinching in umbilical region, amel. by emission of flatus.\\ {{anchor:s115}}Colic, violent bellyache with nausea.\\ {{anchor:s116}}Blenorrhea of the intestines with great depression and greatest disinclination to do anything.\\ {{anchor:s117}}Swelling of mesenteric glands after abuse of Iodine preparations. ====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ====== {{anchor:s119}}Frequent discharge of yellow, watery feces.\\ {{anchor:s120}}Diarrhea-like stools of thin, fluid, bright yellow feces, followed by chilliness.\\ {{anchor:s121}}Diarrhea, consisting only of yellow-greenish water, followed by burning in anus.\\ {{anchor:s122}}Diarrhea of green, frothy water, forcibly evacuated without pain.\\ {{anchor:s123}}Yellow, watery evacuations upwards and downwards, with much flatus.\\ {{anchor:s124}}Frequent stools, consisting of thin, watery feces, with soreness in anus.\\ {{anchor:s125}}Stools frequent, gushing out with force.\\ {{anchor:s126}}Brown fetid mucous stools.\\ {{anchor:s127}}Stools: watery; yellow; green; frothy.\\ {{anchor:s128}}Diarrhea: agg. in open air; agg. after drinking too freely of water.\\ {{anchor:s129}}Cholera morbus from drinking excessive quantities of water of moderate coldness; the quantity and not the coldness, being the cause.\\ {{anchor:s130}}Fully developed, rapid, Asiatic cholera.\\ {{anchor:s131}}Vomiting particularly severe, and often accompanied by pains in head; cramps beginning in solar plexus and spreading thence over whole body; the evacuations from above and below were always green, and gradually changed into a colorless fluid.\\ {{anchor:s132}}Unconscious passage of feces. {{anchor:s133}}~ Hydrocephalus.\\ {{anchor:s134}}Stools hard, scanty, tenacious, expelled with difficulty.\\ {{anchor:s135}}Before stool: nausea; rumbling in abdomen; cutting around umbilicus; pressing and ineffectual desire; repeated tenesmus and rumbling, as if diarrhea would come on.\\ {{anchor:s136}}During stool: nausea; burning pain in rectum; straining.\\ {{anchor:s137}}After stool: burning pains in rectum; tenesmus; wrenching pain in coccyx; creeping chills; painful pressure in abdomen when walking, amel. by sitting down.\\ {{anchor:s138}}Pain not amel. by stool, but by escape of flatus.\\ {{anchor:s139}}Soreness in the rectum, burning during and after stool.\\ {{anchor:s140}}Stools with burning and protrusion of large, stinging-burning tumors; varices of rectum.\\ {{anchor:s141}}Tearing in rectum, or prickling in anus.\\ {{anchor:s142}}Great rectal and anal irritation, with passage of fetid mucus.\\ {{anchor:s143}}Constriction of anus.\\ {{anchor:s144}}Itching of anus.\\ {{anchor:s145}}Discharge of ascarides. ====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ====== {{anchor:s147}}Burning in urethra during and after micturition.\\ {{anchor:s148}}Urine diminished.\\ {{anchor:s149}}Urine scant, reddish, becomes turbid on standing.\\ {{anchor:s150}}Unconscious discharge of urine. {{anchor:s151}}~ Hydrocephalus.\\ {{anchor:s152}}Flocculent sediment in urine. ====== MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] ====== {{anchor:s154}}Involuntary emission succeeded by a painful erection.\\ {{anchor:s155}}Stitches in left spermatic cord, ascending through abdomen up to chest. ====== FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23] ====== {{anchor:s157}}Nymphomania.\\ {{anchor:s158}}Irritable condition of sexual organs with congestions.\\ {{anchor:s159}}Menses too early and too profuse.\\ {{anchor:s160}}Leucorrhea with pain in small of back.\\ {{anchor:s161}}Darting in right mamma when stooping agg. on rising, during menses. ====== RESPIRATION. [26] ====== {{anchor:s163}}Respiration feeble; occasional sighing. {{anchor:s164}}~ Hydrocephalus. ====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ====== {{anchor:s166}}Oppression of chest, right side.\\ {{anchor:s167}}Burning in left side of chest.\\ {{anchor:s168}}Heat in chest, then in head and hands, with redness of face. ====== HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] ====== {{anchor:s170}}Violent palpitation of heart, particularly immediately after stool, and with oppression of chest.\\ {{anchor:s171}}Pulse small, intermittent. ====== OUTER CHEST. [30] ====== {{anchor:s173}}Darting in right mamma. ====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ====== {{anchor:s175}}Sensation as if neck were seized with hand.\\ {{anchor:s176}}Darting from left scapula to shoulder and mamma.\\ {{anchor:s177}}Painful cramps in os coccygis.\\ {{anchor:s178}}Wrenching pain in coccyx after stool. ====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ====== {{anchor:s180}}Rheumatic pains in shoulders, arms, fingers, particularly in elbow and wrist-joint.\\ {{anchor:s181}}Itching in palm of right hand. ====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ====== {{anchor:s183}}Bruised pain in thigh, after a short walk.\\ {{anchor:s184}}Lancinating tearing in tibia when sitting, disappearing when walking.\\ {{anchor:s185}}Smarting itching on tibia. ====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ====== {{anchor:s189}}Lies upon back: with low respiration.\\ {{anchor:s190}}Lying prone: pain in occiput; tetanic condition.\\ {{anchor:s191}}Sitting down: pressure in abdomen amel.; lancinating tearing in tibia.\\ {{anchor:s192}}Stooping: darting in right mamma.\\ {{anchor:s193}}Rising from stooping: heat in head; darting in right mamma agg.\\ {{anchor:s194}}Rising from a seat: vertigo; pain in occiput amel.\\ {{anchor:s195}}Motion: agg. vertigo and blackness before eyes.\\ {{anchor:s196}}Walking: pressure in abdomen; bruised pain in thigh; lancinating tearing in tibia amel. ====== NERVES. [36] ====== {{anchor:s198}}Physical and mental depression.\\ {{anchor:s199}}Great languor and prostration.\\ {{anchor:s200}}Tetanic condition, without loss of consciousness, while lying down after a meal, followed by deep sleep with emission of semen; bruised feeling of body, back and left arm on waking.\\ {{anchor:s201}}Nervous diseases, such as mania, nymphomania, etc., and neuralgic affections caused by prolonged abuse of coffee. ====== SLEEP. [37] ====== {{anchor:s203}}Irresistible drowsiness with yawning, and involuntary closing of eyes.\\ {{anchor:s204}}Great somnolence and lassitude after meals.\\ {{anchor:s205}}Deep sleep, like stupor. ====== TIME. [38] ====== {{anchor:s207}}Afternoon: nausea amel. after eating and eructations; distension of abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s208}}Evening: distension of abdomen. ====== TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] ====== {{anchor:s210}}Open air: amel. fullness and congestion of blood to head; languor in arms and legs, nausea, disgust for food, vertigo amel.; diarrhea agg.\\ {{anchor:s211}}Warm room: chilliness.\\ {{anchor:s212}}Cold: head sensitive to cold; toothache. ====== FEVER. [40] ====== {{anchor:s214}}Chilliness in a warm room, during sleep, after an evacuation; with hair standing on end.\\ {{anchor:s215}}Coldness; shuddering when entering a room. {{anchor:s216}}~ Diarrhea.\\ {{anchor:s217}}Heat, ascending to face, with redness and increased external warmth. ====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ====== {{anchor:s219}}Two attacks: of vomiting, in quick succession, of yellow, bitter, sour water.\\ {{anchor:s220}}After every meal: pressure in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s221}}Every morning: for several weeks swelling of upper lip disappearing after a few hours. ====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ====== {{anchor:s223}}Right: darting in mamma; oppression in chest; itching in palms.\\ {{anchor:s224}}Left: smarting, itching of nostril; stinging in throat; heating pain and burning in left hypochondrium; stitches in spermatic cord; burning in side of chest; darting in scapula; bruised feeling in arm; itch-like pustules below buttock. ====== SENSATIONS. [43] ====== {{anchor:s226}}As if brain contracted; as if head grew smaller; as if brain would fall forward; eyes feel as if sand were in them; as if throat were contracted; as from a stone rolling from side to side in stomach; as if stomach was full of water; gnawing as from worms in abdomen; rumbling and tenesmus as if diarrhea would come on; as if neck were seized with hand.\\ {{anchor:s227}}Pain: in occiput; in throat; in pit of stomach, spreads to upper abdomen; in back; in kidneys; in stomach; in head; in small of back.\\ {{anchor:s228}}Lancinating tearing: in tibia.\\ {{anchor:s229}}Tearing: in rectum.\\ {{anchor:s230}}Cutting: around umbilicus.\\ {{anchor:s231}}Stitches: in left spermatic cord, extending through abdomen to chest.\\ {{anchor:s232}}Sticking pain: about umbilicus.\\ {{anchor:s233}}Darting: in right mamma; from left scapula to shoulder and mamma.\\ {{anchor:s234}}Pinching: in umbilical region.\\ {{anchor:s235}}Painful cramps: in os coccygis.\\ {{anchor:s236}}Cramps: in stomach; beginning in solar plexus and spreading thence over whole body.\\ {{anchor:s237}}Gnawing: at pit of stomach; about umbilicus.\\ {{anchor:s238}}Wrenching pain: in coccyx.\\ {{anchor:s239}}Rheumatic pains: in shoulders, arms, fingers, particularly in elbow and wrist-joint.\\ {{anchor:s240}}Biting: in face.\\ {{anchor:s241}}Throbbing: in forehead; in temples.\\ {{anchor:s242}}Stinging: in throat.\\ {{anchor:s243}}Burning pain: in rectum.\\ {{anchor:s244}}Bruised pain: in thigh; in body, back and left arm.\\ {{anchor:s245}}Burning heat: in face.\\ {{anchor:s246}}Heating pain: in left hypochondrium.\\ {{anchor:s247}}Tingling, burning: in malar bones.\\ {{anchor:s248}}Tingling: in hypogastrium and about umbilicus.\\ {{anchor:s249}}Burning: in face; in left hypochondrium; in abdomen; in anus; in urethra during and after micturition; in left side of chest.\\ {{anchor:s250}}Heat: in head.\\ {{anchor:s251}}Painful pressure: in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s252}}Soreness: of anus; in rectum.\\ {{anchor:s253}}Constriction: of forehead; of anus.\\ {{anchor:s254}}Tightness: in forehead.\\ {{anchor:s255}}Pressure: in forehead; at upper part of nose; at pit of stomach; in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s256}}Peculiar sensation: in abdomen and stomach.\\ {{anchor:s257}}Feeling of anxiety: in epigastrium; in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s258}}Fullness: of head.\\ {{anchor:s259}}Oppression: of stomach.\\ {{anchor:s260}}Empty feeling: in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s261}}Languor: in arms and legs.\\ {{anchor:s262}}Tension and tingling: in face.\\ {{anchor:s263}}Heaviness: in forehead.\\ {{anchor:s264}}Smarting, itching: in left nostril; on tibia.\\ {{anchor:s265}}Itching: of scalp; about the eyelashes; of ears; of anus; in palm of right hand.\\ {{anchor:s266}}Peculiar coldness: in and about head.\\ {{anchor:s267}}Painful coldness changing to feeling of warmth in moving head. ====== TISSUES. [44] ====== {{anchor:s269}}Constant vaporous exhalation from body.\\ {{anchor:s270}}(OBS:) Dropsy and ascites.\\ {{anchor:s271}}Subacute or chronic inflammatory conditions of stomach and intestinal tract, with pains and spasmodic ailments. ====== SKIN. [46] ====== {{anchor:s273}}Itching, with burning after scratching.\\ {{anchor:s274}}Acne punctata.\\ {{anchor:s275}}Running, corrosive eruption.\\ {{anchor:s276}}Scabies or herpes.\\ {{anchor:s277}}Small boils.\\ {{anchor:s278}}Itch-like pustule below left buttock.\\ {{anchor:s279}}Miliary pimples with yellow tips. ====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ====== {{anchor:s281}}Boy, aet. 8; hydrocephalus. ====== RELATIONS. [48] ====== {{anchor:s283}}Antidoted by: Caustic., Bellad., Euphorb., Nux vom.\\ {{anchor:s284}}It antidotes: Iodium.\\ {{anchor:s285}}Compare: Apis., Bellad., Helleb. (hydrocephalus); Chamom. {{anchor:s286}}(Teste considers it the Chamom. of chronic diseases); Nux vom. (neuralgia after coffee). ---- ====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ====== ^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 05, 1887 | ^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r147|Gratiola officinalis]] | ^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r147|Gratiola officinalis]] | ^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. | ^ Year: | 1887 | ^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting | ^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}