{"id":907,"remedy_name":"Gnaphalium","remedy_type":"Homeopathic Remedy","alternative_names":[""],"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 \non the abdominal organs, causing vomiting, colic and diarrhea, thus comparing with Coloc. in both spheres.  \nSciatica and lumbago with numbness alternating with the pain. Intense sciatic pain (Mag-p., Rhus-t., Coloc., \nHyper.), alternating with or followed by numbness. Lumbago with numbness of part. Rheuma tism. Anterior \ncrural neuralgia. \nPain in joints as if they lacked oil. Pain worse lying down, motion, stepping, by sitting in a chair, better by flexing \nthe limbs on abdomen (Colo.). Sticking pain and numb ness. Sharp, shooting pains, or electric -like sensation \ndown the backs of the legs. \n \n \nOffensive diarrhea with colic, worse in the morning. Polyuria. Weight and heaviness in the pelvis. \nDysmenorrhea with scanty menses, very painful during the first day.","modalities":"Better from flexing limbs. Bet ter sitting in a chair. Worse from walking. Worse lying. Worse cold \ndamp.","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. \nCOMMENTS - Cramps i n cal ves and back of thighs, hamstrings. Sciatica pain in worse on lying down, by \nmotion, by stepping, better when sitting in a chair, better drawing up the limb. \nDiarrhea is watery and offensive, occurs in the morning and is repeated during the day. Rumbling in the bowels, \ncolicky pains and the patient is cross and irritable. Urine is scanty. Appetite and taste are lo st. \nDr. W. McGeorge recorded that Gnaph. has a reputation for colds, fevers and night -sweats. The last was \ncaused in one of the provers. It cured one case of chills. The periodicity appears in the intermittent neuralgia \nof the upper jaws. \nMcGeorge noted a sense of \u201cweight and fullness in the pelvis\u201d for dysmenorrhea. Dysmenorrhea when the \nmenses are scanty and very painful during the first day. \nSexual excitement in male provers, pain and irritation in the prostate gland. Head ache better by washing in \ncold water. Fur on tongue removed by thorough washing with cold water. \nMcGeorge cured a very aggravated case of sciatica in a man, resulting from a strain. The left leg was cramped \nand drawn up, worse in cold and damp weather. \nDr. George Shelton recorded two cases. The first, a clergyman, 27, had sharp cutting pains, starting from inner \nside right thigh, just below Poupart's ligament, extending down course of anterior crural nerve to a  \nGnaphaKum polycephalum point about its lower third. \nThe pains were paroxysmal, came on when walking, occasionally when lying down. He had one or two attacks \nin the pulpit. In several instances the pain had extended down the right cord into the testicle and caused him \nto draw up the leg, flexing the thigh on the abdomen. This condition was also present in Dr. McGeorge's case. \nA few doses of Gnaph. 1c cured him completely. \nThe second case occurred in a widow, 68, who had severe pains in the outer side of her right thigh for six \nyears, part of which she had been confined to bed. The pains were paroxysmal, cutting, tearing, extending \ndown the course of the sciatic nerve. \nAttacks were worse at night and more frequent, causing her to roll about the bed and cry out with the pain. All \nthe resources of allopathy had been in vain. Rhus-t., Coloc., Sulph., gave no help. Bell, relieved slightly. Gnaph. \n1c wrought gradual improvement, and in eight weeks the cure was complete.  \nClarke 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 \nof an intermittent from in both upper maxillary bones.","Mouth":"Mouth feels parched and tastes badly. Flat, sweetish, sickening taste. Tongue covered with long white \nfur, better \nby thorough washing with cold water.","Stomach & Abdomen":"Vomiting and purging like cholera morbus in the night and all n ext day. Flatus, windy belchings, \nnausea and hiccough. Colic, pain in various parts of the abdomen. Cecum is sensitive. Borbo - rygmus with emission of \nmuch flatus.","Urinary & Genital":"Irritation of prostate gland. Increased sexual passion. Dysmenorrhea with scanty and painful menses. Sensation of weight in pelvis. Sensation of fullness \nin pelvis. \nKidneys - Pains in kidneys with frequent slight pain in prostate gland. Sensation of pain and fullness in bladder, \neven when just emptied.","Extremities":"Rheumatic pain in ankle joints and legs. Intense pain along the sciatic nerve, numbness alternates \nwith pain. Feeling of weakness, as if incapable of raising the slightest weight. Rheumatic pains in elbows and \nshoulders. Frequent pains in calves and feet. Cramps in calves of legs and feet when in bed. Gouty pains in \nbig toes. Gouty concretions. Anterior crural neuralgia (Staph.). Chronic muscular rheumatism of back and \nneck. 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 \nback and weight in pelvis."},"schema_version":"1.0","api_provider":"Allahshafi"}