Gelsemium Sempervirens Homeopathic remedies are prescribed on the principal that 'like cures like', in a tiny dilution - so the indications below are what a healthy person would feel if taking Gelsemium Sempervirens. If your symptoms fit within the symptoms below, then Gelsemium Sempervirens would be a good bet. The following are the strongest indications of Gelsemium Sempervirens for its use in homeopathy. Entries on a white backgorund are from Boericke's Materia Medica, other entries are from a reversed Kent's repertory. Homeopathic remedies are not the same as herbal remedies. Please remember though, this homeopathy materia medica is provided for information only, with no guarantee of accuracy; it is not intended as a substitute for medical advice, nor as a claim for the effectiveness of Gelsemium Sempervirens in treating any of the symptoms below. If symptoms persist, seek professional medical advice - minor symptoms can often be a sign of a more serious underlying condition. Homeopathic remedies are very dilute, and while the homeopathic remedy may be beneficial, the raw product may be harmful. To purchase Gelsemium Sempervirens and other homeopathic remedies online, please click the button above. Centers its action upon the nervous system, causing various degree of Motor paralysis. General prostration. Dizziness, drowsiness, dullness, and trembling. Slow pulse, tired feeling, mental apathy. Paralysis of various groups of muscles about the eyes, throat, chest, larynx, sphincter, extremities, etc. Post-diphtheritic paralysis. Muscular weakness. Complete relaxation and prostration. Lack of muscular coordination. General depression from heat of sun. Sensitive to a falling barometer; cold and dampness brings on many complaints. Children fear falling, grab nurse or crib. Sluggish circulation. Nervous affections of cigar makers. Influenza. Measles. Pellagra. BETTER, bending forward, by profuse urination, open air, continued motion, stimulants. WORSE, damp weather, fog, before a thunderstorm, emotion, or excitement, Bad news, tobacco-smoking, when thinking of his ailments; at 10 A.m. Relationships Compare: Ignatia (gastric affections of cigar makers); Baptisa; Ipecac.; Acon.; Bell.; Cimicif.; Manges. Phos ( Gelsemium Sempervirens contains some Magnes. phos.) Culex - (vertigo on blowing the nose with fullness of the ears.) Antidotes: China; Coffea; Dig. Alcoholic stimulants relieve all complaints where Gelsemium Sempervirens. Is useful. expectoration; mucous; bloody; expectoration; hawked up; bloody; water; Desire to be quiet, to be left alone mind; emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition; cowardice; mind; emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition; sensitive, oversensitive; mind; emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition; unhappy; sadness, mental depression; mind; hysteria; mind; intellectual faculties; impaired thinking; dull, sluggish; mind; insecure, uncertain, scared; fear; of public places; mind; insecure, uncertain, scared; fear; of death; mind; insecure, uncertain, scared; timidity; mind; quiet, peace (or lack of); wants to be quiet; mind; excitement; after bad news; ; mind; insecure, uncertain, scared; timidity; appearing in public; mind; excitement; ailments from emotional excitement; Dullness, languor, listless “Discernings are lethargied.” Apathy regarding his illness Absolute lack of fear Delirious on falling to sleep Emotional excitement, fear, etc., lead to bodily ailments Bad effects from fright, fear, exciting news Stage fright Child starts and grasps the nurse, and screams as if afraid of falling ( Bor.) mind; symptoms follow intense emotions; bad news; mind; desires, wants; desire for light (see dark); mind; aversions, dislikes; company; vertigo, dizziness; with obscuring of vision; vertigo, dizziness; while standing; with staggering; ; vertigo, dizziness; from head; at back of head (occiput); ; vertigo, dizziness; head; pain, headache; maddening; pains; head; pain, headache; from certain movements; on moving head; ; head; pain, headache; with other pains; pain in nape of neck; ; head; pain, headache; urination; profuse; head; pain, headache; back of head (occiput); ; head; pain, headache; back of head (occiput); extending to other parts; forehead; ; head; pain, headache; back of head (occiput); extending to other parts; to head; ; head; pain, headache; back of head (occiput); extending to other parts; upward; ; head; pain, headache; dull pain; back of head (occiput); ; head; pain, headache; sore bruised, sensitive to pressure; head; pain, headache; sore bruised, sensitive to pressure; back of head (occiput); ; head; sensitive; brain; ; head; pain, headache; from emotions; nervous; ; head; heaviness (see pain; pressing); profuse urination; head; cerebral haemorrhage; head; congestion (see pulsation); head; congestion (see pulsation); during convulsions; ; head; congestion (see pulsation); from suppressed period; ; head; constriction, tension (see also pulling, pressing); head; constriction, tension (see also pulling, pressing); like band or hoop; head; constriction, tension (see also pulling, pressing); as if by string; head; heaviness (see pain; pressing); head; movements of head; falling (see heaviness); unable to hold up head; head; pain, headache; head; pain, headache; affected by certain foods and drinks (improved, brought on or aggravated); from wine; head; pain, headache; with other pains; pain in neck; ; Headache preceded by blindness; better, profuse urination Scalp sore to touch Delirious on falling asleep Headache, with muscular soreness of neck and shoulders Pain in temple, extending into ear and wing of nose, chin DULL, heavy ache, with heaviness of eyelids; bruised sensation; better, compression and lying with head high Vertigo, spreading from occiput head; pain, headache; sore bruised, sensitive to pressure; in brain; ; Wants to have head raised on pillow. Heaviness of head; Band-feeling around and Occipital headache Bruised pain back of the orbits Detached retina, glaucoma and descemetitis Disturbed muscular apparatus Albuminuric retinitis Serous inflammations Corrects blurring and discomfort in eyes even after accurately adjusted glasses Vision blurred, smoky ( Cycl.; Phos.) Dim-sighted; pupils dilated and insensible to light Orbital neuralgia, with contraction and twitching of muscles Deep inflammations, with haziness of vitreous One pupil dilated, the other contracted Double vision Ptosis; EYELIDS heavy; patient can hardly open them eye; pupils; dilated; eye; photomania (must be in light); eye; paralysis; optic nerve, total blindness, without eye damage (amaurosis); ; eye; paralysis; of muscles of eyeball; ; eye; paralysis; lids; upper; ; eye; discoloration; redness; lids; ; eye; lids; eyes closed; hard to keep open; eye; lids; hard to keep open; eye; lids; opening eyes difficult; eye; lids; opening eyes difficult; eye; lids; falling of lids; eye; heaviness; lids; ; Hysterical amblyopia. vision; accommodation, movement of eyeball; slow; vision; blurred; vision; foggy; vision; double vision; vision; dim; during vertigo, dizziness; ; vision; dim; vision; objects seem distorted; objects seem distant; vision; confused vision; Dryness of nasal fossae Acute coryza, with dull headache and fever. Sneezing; fullness at root of nose Watery, excoriating discharge Swelling of turbinates Hot, heavy, flushed, besotted-looking ( Bapt.; Op.) Neuralgia of face Chin quivers face; pain; face; pain; profuse urination; face; pain; wandering pain; ; Facial muscles contracted, especially around the mouth Lower jaw dropped. Dusky hue of face, with vertigo and dim vision mouth; numbness; tongue; ; mouth; speech; difficult; heaviness of tongue; mouth; tongue; tongue feels thick; mouth; speech; difficult; mouth; speech; thick; mouth; paralysis; tongue; ; Putrid taste and breath Tongue numb, thick, coated, yellowish, Tremble, paralyzed. Throat feels rough, burning throat; inflammation; larynx; ; Pain from throat to ear. Difficult swallowing, especially of warm food Itching and tickling in soft palate and nasopharynx Pain in sternocleidomastoid, back of parotid Swallowing causes pain in ear ( Hep.; Nux.) Difficult swallowing Post-diphtheritic paralysis Tonsillitis; shooting pain into ears Feeling of a lump in throat that cannot be swallowed Aphonia throat; larynx (voice box); spasm in vocal cords, stopping breathing; Tonsils swollen Sensation of emptiness and weakness at the pit of the stomach, or of an oppression, like a heavy load. abdomen; bladder; paralysis; abdomen; bladder; urination; frequent; with headache; abdomen; stomach; hiccup; convulsive; Stomach; As a rule, the Gelsemium Sempervirens patient has no thirst abdomen; stomach; without thirst; during heat; ; abdomen; stomach; without thirst; Hiccough; worse in the evening rectum; diarrhoea; from emotions; on going into battle; ; rectum; dysentery; rectum; diarrhoea; from emotions; from exciting news; ; rectum; diarrhoea; from emotions; after a fright; ; Diarrhoea From emotional excitement, fright, bad news ( Phos-ac.) Stool painless or involuntary Cream-colored (Calc.), Tea-green Partial paralysis of rectum and sphincter. Profuse, clear, watery, with chilliness and tremulousness Dysuria Partial paralysis of bladder; flow intermittent ( Clematis.) retention. urine; copious; urine; colourless; urine; clear; urine; clear as water; genitals; female; pain; labour-like; extending to back and hips; ; Female; Rigid os ( Bell.) Vaginismus genitals; female; pain; labour pains; weak; genitals; female; pain; labour pains; spasmodic; genitals; female; pain; labour pains; distressing; genitals; female; rigidity of neck of womb during labour; genitals; female; miscarriage; from excitement; ; genitals; female; miscarriage; genitals; female; pain; labour-like; False labor-pains; pains pass up back Dysmenorrhoea, with scanty flow; menses retarded Pain extends to back and hips Aphonia and sore throat during menses Sensation as if uterus were squeezed ( Cham.; Nux-v.; Ustilago.) Male; Spermatorrhoea, Without erections Genitals cold and relaxed ( Phos-ac.) Scrotum continually sweating Gonorrhoea, first stage; discharge scanty; tendency to corrode; little pain, but much heat; smarting at meatus. respiration; shrill grating sound; Aphonia; acute bronchitis, respiration quickened, spasmodic affections of lungs and diaphragm. Spasm of the glottis Dry cough, with sore chest and fluent coryza Oppression about chest respiration; accelerated; Slowness of breathing, with great prostration chest; heart; fears unless constantly on the move the heart will cease; Weak, slow pulse of old age. CAN.) Palpitation; pulse soft, weak, full and flowing Pulse slow when quiet, but greatly accelerated on motion Heart; A feeling as if it were necessary to keep in motion, or else heart’S action would cease Slow pulse ( Dig.; Kalm.; Apoc back; pain; neck; ; Pain in neck, especially upper sternocleidomastoid muscles back; pain; in women; during labour; ; back; pain; travels upwards; during labour; ; back; coldness; travelling up and down the back; ; back; congestion, neck; back; inflammation; spinal cord; ; back; inflammation; membranes; in spinal meningitis; back; pain; travels upwards; ; back; pain; neck; extending to other parts; head; all over; ; back; pain; aching; base of spine; ; back; pain; aching; neck; ; back; pain; neck; extending to other parts; top of head (vertex); ; back; pain; dorsal (shoulder level); shoulder blades; left; under; ; back; pain; aching; lumbar (lower half of back); ; back; pain; neck; extending to other parts; upward; ; Pain in muscles of back, hips, and lower extremities, mostly deep-seated. Dull aching in lumbar and sacral region, passing upward Every little exertion causes fatigue Languor; muscles feel bruised Complete relaxation of the whole muscular system Dull, heavy pain back; pain; neck; extending to other parts; head; back of head (occiput); ; back; pain; sacrum (base of spine); ; extremities, limbs; heaviness; upper limbs; ; extremities, limbs; weakness; lower limbs; after walking; ; extremities, limbs; coldness; lower limbs; foot; during headache; ; extremities, limbs; heaviness; tired limbs; ; extremities, limbs; heaviness; during fever; ; extremities, limbs; heaviness; lower limbs; ; extremities, limbs; heaviness; lower limbs; after exertion; ; extremities, limbs; heaviness; lower limbs; while walking; ; extremities, limbs; heaviness; leg; exertion; extremities, limbs; movements and positions; trembling; extremities, limbs; numbness (see tingling); extremities, limbs; pain; aching; lower limbs; ; extremities, limbs; paralysis; painless; extremities, limbs; weakness; extremities, limbs; weakness; lower limbs; ; extremities, limbs; weakness; lower limbs; after exertion; ; Cramp in muscles of forearm Fatigue after slight exercise. Hysteric convulsions Excessive Trembling and weakness of all limbs Writer’s cramp Professional neuroses Loss of power of muscular control Yawning Sleepless from nervous irritation ( Coffea.) Insomnia from exhaustion; from uncontrollable thinking; tobacco Delirious on falling asleep Cannot get fully to sleep chill; from emotions; from fright; ; chill; after excitement; ; chill; beginning in particular area; hands; ; chill; beginning in particular area; feet; ; chill; afternoon; ; chill; chill; dangerously cold; fever; continued fever; fever; with shivering; fever; remittent; infantile; ; fever; remittent; afternoon; ; fever; no perspiration; fever; intense heat; fever; afternoon; ; fever; localised; cerebro-spinal fever; ; fever; burning heat; fever; fever without chill; fever; fever without chill; late morning; ; fever; fever without chill; late morning; 10 a.m.; ; fever; long lasting heat; fever; Dumb-ague, with much muscular soreness, great prostration, and violent headache Wants to be held, because he shakes so Pulse slow, full, soft, compressible Chill, without thirst, along spine; wave-like, extending upward from sacrum to occiput. Bilious remittent fever, with stupor, dizziness, faintness; thirstless, prostrated Nervous chills Chilliness up and down back Heat and sweat stages, long and exhausting perspiration; cold; afternoon; ; perspiration; other symptoms relieved while perspiring; Retrocedent, with livid spots Scarlet fever with stupor and flushed face. Measles, catarrhal symptoms; aids in bringing out eruption Hot, dry, itching, measle-like eruption Erysipelas generalities; pulse; imperceptible; almost; generalities; pulse; slow; generalities; pulse; weak; generalities; lack of reaction; generalities; relaxation of muscles; generalities; symptoms from masturbation; ; generalities; swelling; of affected parts; ; generalities; trembling; externally; ; generalities; weakness (see lethargic, weariness); generalities; weakness (see lethargic, weariness); paralytic; generalities; pulse; full; generalities; pulse; frequent, accelerated, elevated, exalted, fast, innumerable, rapid; generalities; perspiration; after perspiration; generalities; extreme emotion; generalities; physical exertion; generalities; heaviness; externally; ; generalities; heaviness; internally; ; generalities; inflammation; internally; ; generalities; lack of irritability; generalities; lethargic, tired; generalities; numbness; internally; generalities; pain; sore, bruised; internally; ; generalities; paralysis; painless; generalities; weariness (see weakness); Gelsemium Sempervirens is available to buy through our online shop from WHP in USA, Boiron in USA, Boiron in Canada, Hylands in USA, Weleda in UK (not for export), Helios, Europe, by clicking the red 'View Purchase Options' button. 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