# Gambogia

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Evening

## Keynote Indications
Affects the stomach and bowels, chiefly known as a remedy for a diarrhea similar to Crot -
t. 
Burning in anus after stool, anus sore and excoriated. Profuse watery diarrhea, particularly with elderly 
people. Stool preceded by excessive cutting about navel. Stool is expelled all at once after considerable urging 
and is followed by a feeling of great relief. Stools are yellow, green, bloody, lienteric.  
Frightful vomiting and purging with fainting. Burning in the liver. Pain in small of back, as if bruised or sprained. 
Pain in sacrum, resulting from a blow. Gnawing pains in the coccyx. Burning pains. General soreness. 
Rheumatic symptoms. Periodic symptoms.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Better by motion. Better in open air. Better after stools. B etter sitting up. Worse evening and at 
night. Worse motion. Worse in open air. Worse after stools. Most symptoms come on while sitting, and go off 
during motion in open air.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Irritable in morning on waking.
- Despondency, sadness.
- Cheerful and talk ative.
- Feeling of ease, great 
lightness of all his motions.
- Irritable in morning on waking.
- Despondency, sadness.
- Cheerful and talk ative.
- Feeling of ease, great 
lightness of all his motions.

### Vertigo
- Vertigo during rest or motion.
- Vertigo in morning.
- Vertigo on rising.
- Confusion of head with feeling of 
reeling or motion from side to side.
- COMMENTS - Gamb.
- painted on the chest in lung tuberculosis was considered by Abrams a specific.
- Also 
incipient diarrhea cases were symptomatically cured in several weeks.

### Head
- Gastric headaches.
- Head hot, face red, during attacks of diarrhea.
- Heat rises to head, with sweat.
- Heavy sensation with inertia and drowsiness.
- Sensation of great coldness in left temple as from a wet cloth.
- Vertex as if bruised, in forenoon, better open a ir.
- Oppressive pain with heaviness in forehead.
- Compressive 
pain.
- Pain in coronal suture.
- Kidneys - Sharp pain in left kidney.
- Infrequent urination.
- Increased secretion of urine.
- Urine smells like onions.
- Urine diminished in dropsy.
- Gastric headaches.
- Head hot, face red, during attacks of diarrhea.
- Heat rises to head, with sweat.
- Heavy sensation with inertia and drowsiness.
- Sensation of great coldness in left temple as from a wet cloth.
- Vertex as if bruised, in forenoon, better open a ir.
- Oppressive pain with heaviness in forehead.
- Compressive 
pain.
- Pain in coronal suture.
- Kidneys - Sharp pain in left kidney.
- Infrequent urination.
- Increased secretion of urine.
- Urine smells like onions.
- Urine diminished in dropsy.

### Eyes
- Burning in eyes.
- Itching and burning in eyes.
- Itching of eyelids, he rubs them.
- Eyelids stick together with sneezing.
- Eyes as if sticky and dry.
- Nightly agglutination of lids, burning in 
morning.
- Violent burn ing of eyes with photophobia.
- Smarting of eyes with lachrymation.
- Very severe pain in 
eyeballs.

### Ears
- Ringing in left ear all the time.
- Lancination pain in ears.

### Face
- Swelling of face.
- Swelling of eyelids, nose and lips.
- Upper lip swollen.
- Itching, smarting on right cheek, 
chin and upper lip.

### Mouth
- Aphthae.
- Deep ulcers in mouth, inner side of lips and cheeks.
- Bitter taste in mouth.
- Feeling of coldness 
at the edge of teeth.
- Burning vesicles on inner side of lips.
- Dryness of mouth.
- Clammy, adhesive state of 
mouth.
- fióse-Violent chronic sneezing, in daytime only.
- Smarting as if a sore pimple existed immediately below right 
 
 
nostril.
- Dryness of right nostril.
- Much mucus in nose, smelling like pus.
- Tendency to hemor rhages from nose 
and lungs.
- Perspiration - Sweats all over, at night.
- Sweats on awaking at 4 a.m.
- Cold sweats on limbs, during stool.

### Throat
- Swollen sensation.
- Violent stitches in right si de of throat.
- Pain as from soreness in throat.
- Rawness 
and burning in throat, causes constant hawking.
- Sore, in throat.
- Scratching sensation in larynx.
- Tickling in 
larynx and trachea from epiglottis to pit of throat.
- Tongue - Burning, smarting and dryness of tongue and throat.
- Burning of anterior half or only tip of tongue, 
which feels hard.
- Raw, rough feeling in fauces and at root of tongue.

### Chest
- Congestion of blood to chest.
- Chest, sore and raw.
- Pressure and weight in chest.
- Pressure pain in 
middle of chest.
- Sharp pains in sternum.
- Sharp pains going from both sides of chest towards each other.
- Cough - Dry, with hoarseness and hawking of mucus.
- Severe cough, at night, compel ling him to sit up, with 
easy expectoration of mucus.
- Cough better sitting up.
- Expectoration of blood.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Frequent violent empty eructations.
- Gulping up of sour water.
- Gnawing pain in stomach.
- Emptiness 
in stomach and abdomen.
- Great irritability of the stomach.
- Pain in the stomach after food.
- Acute dart  
ing, stitching pain in stomach.
- Nausea, inclination to vomit with accumulation of saliva in mouth.
- Frightful 
vomiting and purging, with fainting.
- Ulcerative pain in stomach, better after eating.
- Vomiting and purging with 
fainting.
- Temperature - Violent chill, beginning in back.
- Chill with empty eructations.
- Internal and external coldness 
from 7 p.m.
- to 8 p.m.
- Violent shakin g chill at 7 p.m., beginning in back.
- Sudden shaking chill at night, waking 
him from sleep, and suddenly disappearing.
- Chill with chattering of teeth and violent thirst.
- Increased heat with 
anxiety.
- Gurgling in abdomen, as of fluid running from a bottle.
- Rushing sounds in abdomen as from 
motions of air.
- Tenderness in epigastrium.
- Pain and dis tention of abdomen from flatulence after stool.
- Rumbling and rolling.
- Ileo-cecal region sensitive to pressure.
- Pinching pain in abdomen immediately after 
eating.
- Aversion to food.
- Violent thirst in evening.
- Appetite good, but a little food satisfies.
- Thirst after dinner.
- Thirst during chill.
- Great thirst, in chronic diarrhea.
- Worse after drinking ale.

### Urinary & Genital
- Gleety discharge agglutinating orifice of urethra.
- Menses too early and too profuse.
- Menses long-lasting.
- Congestion to sexual organs.
- Leucorrhea.

### Extremities
- Stinging and numb feeling in ball of right thumb.
- Tearing pain in shoulders.
- Sharp pain, in upper limbs.
- Itching blisters on both hands, at first pale, afterwards red.
- Severe aching deep in hip, and severe cutting pain 
about trochanter major.
- Aching pain in knees.
- Cram p in calf with contraction of toes.
- Heaviness and languor 
of feet.
- Liver - Burning in liver.

### Neck & Back
- Pain in coccyx.
- Small of back as if bruised or sprained.
- Gnawing pain in coccyx.
- Pain and itching 
between scapula.
- Cutting pain across top of sacrum and in left hip.
- Cutting pain in muscles just above sacroiliac 
symphysis on left side.

### Skin
- Violent itching in various parts of body, burning after scratching, worse evening and night.
- Aft er 
scratching, burning and ulcerative pain, with swelling and redness of parts, worse evening and night.
- Biting as of ants over whole body, worse 1 evening and night.
- Itching on various parts of surface pleasantly 
better gentle friction.
- Itching and formication here and there all night.
- Pemphigus.

### Sleep
- Sleepiness, great inclination to sleep.
- Sleeplessness from weight on chest.
- Anxious, vexatious dreams.
- Dreams with broken sleep.