# Gratiola (HMT)

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Remedy
- **Miasm:** Syphilitic Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
Gratiola, though rarely used, is notably  important in some diseases.  It
is known for causing profound ne rvous, mental and physical
weakness.  If there is nervous exhaustion, mental and physical
weakness along with othe r specific ailments, the administration of
Gratiola in such cases will promptly  cure the symptoms.  In Gratiola,
there is a type of stinging irritation of the eyes.  The eyesight is hazy
like looking through a cobweb.  Ther e is a peculiar t ype of colour
blindness, in which green appears to  be white. The patient complains
that it is as if sand particles are irritating the eye.

Melancholia in women is probably related to Gratiola. Gratiola
presents a unique paradox that wome n apparently feel weak, but deep
down they may experience passionate excitement of sexual organs.
Young girls, if so afflicted, tend to be immodest and shameless.  They
must be treated to control their passions and desires. Gratiola will
work if other associated symptoms are not very complex.

In responding to heat and cold, the constitution of Gratiola patient is
like that of Pulsatilla.  Gratiola works better on left-sided ailments like
Lachesis.  Its sexual excitement resembles that of Taraentula.
However, Taraentula is good for ri ght-sided sympto ms.  Gratiola
symptoms are mostly localised, while in Lachesis symptoms shift
from left to right.

Gratiola is useful in some kinds of colds.  If nasal secretions enter the
stomach, it causes severe spasms, in the form of twisting and curling
of the stomach. Gratiola is useful in common stomach problems
associated with the swelling of th e upper lip and this is true about
Pulsatilla as well.
Sometimes Gratiola annuls the effect of Coffea.  Similarly, Coffea
works the same way against Gratiola .  The symptoms of both these
remedies are similar.  Although th e nervous infirmity peculiar to
Gratiola is not as pronounced in Coffea. Yet, it is said that Gratiola
resembles Coffea.  One thing is clea r that if one cannot sleep in the
early part of the night and other sy mptoms of Coffea are not present,
then this indicates Gratiola .  In Gratiola, typically, swallowing
relieves the throat’s discomfort . But in Gratiola, swallowing
ameliorates the pain.  Therefore, Gratiola patient drinks fluids in sips
so that the discomfort at the throat may be relieved.

The Gratiola patient feels dizzy while eating, more so after having
finished eating.  Closing the eyes , reading, and getting up suddenly
also produces dizziness, showing that the patient is anaemic or has
low blood pressure.

Another type of stomach upset is associated with nausea and
distension of the stomach due to gas.  In Gratiola nausea disappears as
soon as food is taken. Usually in nausea, one does not feel like eating,
but in Gratiola, strangely enough, the treatment for nausea is eating
food.  Acidity of the stomach can be relieved by food intake, but
returns after a short while.  Acidity of the stomach is not necessarily
due to Hydrochloric acid (HCl).  Very often, due to a lack of
hydrochloric acid, food remains undi gested, producing various other
acids.  In the case of hyperacidity of the stomach, nausea or belching
cause a reflux of the acidic contents of the stomach into the distal part
of the food pipe (oesophagus).  The patient feels burning behind the
breast bone (sternum) and feels tightness of the chest, as in angina.

In Gratiola, there is a feeling of burning all over, but an inflammation
and a burning sensation of the reproductive organs, male and female
both, can provoke unusual and unnatural physical reactions.  In the
Gratiola patient, typically there is palpitation after passing stools.

Homoeopathic physicians must prep are a library of similarly acting
remedies, store them in their memory and then sub-classify them
according to their peculiar, distinctiv e features.  Then alone will they
be able to make proper diagnoses.  If they do not do so, they will
always remain confused and find di fficulty in treating their patients
properly.

Potency: 30 to 200

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