# Gnaphalium Polycephalum

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Herbal Remedy
- **Miasm:** Emotional Miasm
- **Temperament:** Chilly
- **Aggravation Time:** Morning

## Keynote Indications
Gnaph. has been used mainly in disorders of the sciatic nerve, but it also has an action 
on the abdominal organs, causing vomiting, colic and diarrhea, thus comparing with Coloc. in both spheres.  
Sciatica and lumbago with numbness alternating with the pain. Intense sciatic pain (Mag-p., Rhus-t., Coloc., 
Hyper.), alternating with or followed by numbness. Lumbago with numbness of part. Rheuma tism. Anterior 
crural neuralgia. 
Pain in joints as if they lacked oil. Pain worse lying down, motion, stepping, by sitting in a chair, better by flexing 
the limbs on abdomen (Colo.). Sticking pain and numb ness. Sharp, shooting pains, or electric -like sensation 
down the backs of the legs. 
 
 
Offensive diarrhea with colic, worse in the morning. Polyuria. Weight and heaviness in the pelvis. 
Dysmenorrhea with scanty menses, very painful during the first day.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Better from flexing limbs. Bet ter sitting in a chair. Worse from walking. Worse lying. Worse cold 
damp.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Very irritable for two or three days after the diarrhea.
- Very irritable for two or three days after the diarrhea.

### Vertigo
- Giddy, especially afterrising from recumbent position.
- COMMENTS - Cramps i n cal ves and back of thighs, hamstrings.
- Sciatica pain in worse on lying down, by 
motion, by stepping, better when sitting in a chair, better drawing up the limb.
- Diarrhea is watery and offensive, occurs in the morning and is repeated during the day.
- Rumbling in the bowels, 
colicky pains and the patient is cross and irritable.
- Urine is scanty.
- Appetite and taste are lo st.
- Dr.
- W.
- McGeorge recorded that Gnaph.
- has a reputation for colds, fevers and night -sweats.
- The last was 
caused in one of the provers.
- It cured one case of chills.
- The periodicity appears in the intermittent neuralgia 
of the upper jaws.
- McGeorge noted a sense of “weight and fullness in the pelvis” for dysmenorrhea.
- Dysmenorrhea when the 
menses are scanty and very painful during the first day.
- Sexual excitement in male provers, pain and irritation in the prostate gland.
- Head ache better by washing in 
cold water.
- Fur on tongue removed by thorough washing with cold water.
- McGeorge cured a very aggravated case of sciatica in a man, resulting from a strain.
- The left leg was cramped 
and drawn up, worse in cold and damp weather.
- Dr.
- George Shelton recorded two cases.
- The first, a clergyman, 27, had sharp cutting pains, starting from inner 
side right thigh, just below Poupart's ligament, extending down course of anterior crural nerve to a  
GnaphaKum polycephalum point about its lower third.
- The pains were paroxysmal, came on when walking, occasionally when lying down.
- He had one or two attacks 
in the pulpit.
- In several instances the pain had extended down the right cord into the testicle and caused him 
to draw up the leg, flexing the thigh on the abdomen.
- This condition was also present in Dr.
- McGeorge's case.
- A few doses of Gnaph.
- 1c cured him completely.
- The second case occurred in a widow, 68, who had severe pains in the outer side of her right thigh for six 
years, part of which she had been confined to bed.
- The pains were paroxysmal, cutting, tearing, extending 
down the course of the sciatic nerve.
- Attacks were worse at night and more frequent, causing her to roll about the bed and cry out with the pain.
- All 
the resources of allopathy had been in vain.
- Rhus-t., Coloc., Sulph., gave no help.
- Bell, relieved slightly.
- Gnaph.
- 1c wrought gradual improvement, and in eight weeks the cure was complete.
- Clarke had acase, cured with Gnaph.
- 30c., of a very gouty man, with the alternation of numbness with pain.

### Face
- Intermittent pains of superior maxil lary of both sides.
- Dull, heavy, bloated ap pearance.
- Neuralgic pain 
of an intermittent from in both upper maxillary bones.

### Mouth
- Mouth feels parched and tastes badly.
- Flat, sweetish, sickening taste.
- Tongue covered with long white 
fur, better 
by thorough washing with cold water.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Vomiting and purging like cholera morbus in the night and all n ext day.
- Flatus, windy belchings, 
nausea and hiccough.
- Colic, pain in various parts of the abdomen.
- Cecum is sensitive.
- Borbo - rygmus with emission of 
much flatus.

### Urinary & Genital
- Irritation of prostate gland.
- Increased sexual passion.
- Dysmenorrhea with scanty and painful menses.
- Sensation of weight in pelvis.
- Sensation of fullness 
in pelvis.
- Kidneys - Pains in kidneys with frequent slight pain in prostate gland.
- Sensation of pain and fullness in bladder, 
even when just emptied.

### Extremities
- Rheumatic pain in ankle joints and legs.
- Intense pain along the sciatic nerve, numbness alternates 
with pain.
- Feeling of weakness, as if incapable of raising the slightest weight.
- Rheumatic pains in elbows and 
shoulders.
- Frequent pains in calves and feet.
- Cramps in calves of legs and feet when in bed.
- Gouty pains in 
big toes.
- Gouty concretions.
- Anterior crural neuralgia (Staph.).
- Chronic muscular rheumatism of back and 
neck.
- Pain in joints as if they lacked oil.
- Better drawing limbs up, flexing thigh on abdomen.

### Neck & Back
- Chronic backache in lumbar re gion, better resting on back.
- Lumbago with numbness in lower part of 
back and weight in pelvis.