# Gratiola Officinalis

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

## Keynote Indications
Symptoms of a fully de veloped, rapid attack of Asiatic cholera are produced. A large 
proportion of the effects of Gratiola are expended on the gastro-intestinal tract. It is an inodorous plant of bitter 
taste and very poisonous, causing violent colic, bloody stools, enteritis, jaundice.  
Affection of the solar plexus. Constant sinking but cannot eat, bitter taste. Cramps beginning at pit of stomach; 
pains radiating from stomach. Urine is diminished, reddish, turbid. 
Diarrhea, yellowish, gushing, watery, as though rushing from a hydrant. Vomiting of yellowish fluid. Summer 
diarrhea from excessive drinking of water whether cold or hot. Soreness, burning or irritation of anus follows 
the stools. 
Teste considered Grat, the Cham, of chronic diseases. Teste saw four cases of nymphomania in females to 
whom herb doctors had given injections o f a decoction of freshly gathered Gratiola. Burnett con sidered it 
specific in female masturbation and nymphomania. 
Especially useful in females, Nux -v.-like symptoms in females. Chronic catarrhal conditions, leucorrhea and 
gonorrhea. Obstinate ulcers. 
Trembling in limbs, convulsions, cramps, excitement and disordered condition of the sexual powers. Paralytic 
pains and feeling of coldness especially in the abdomen. Cerebral disorders without fever. Nervous prostration. 
Neuralgia due to abuse of coffee.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Better from open air. Better rest. Worse from eating. Worse drink ing too much water. Worse hot 
or cold. Worse abuse of coffee. Worse dinner. Worse warm room. Worse summer. Worse motion.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Anxiety, gnawing, empty feeling, rolling about in epigastric region.
- Peevishness.
- Confusion when lying 
down.
- Ill humor, tired of life.
- Mental troubles from overweening pride.
- Answers, reflects long.
- Taciturn.
- Great depression and disinclination to do anything.
- Weak will.
- Lack of perseverance.
- Ill-humor.
- Irresolution.
- Violent anger from contradiction.
- Delirium tremens.
- Hysterical.
- Loquacity and gaiety.
- Delusion being 
 
 
diminished, smaller.
- Absorbed in reveries.
- Nymphomania.
- Apprehensive about the future.
- F ear of eating when hungry.
- Hypochondriasis and hysteria arising from 
abdominal troubles.
- Abdomen - Shooting pains in the abdomen.
- Inflation of the abdomen.
- Rumbling with nausea, eructation and vertigo.
- Flatulent and pressive colic with 
nausea and disagreeable risings.
- Feeling of coldness in abdomen, lasting half an hour.
- Anxiety, gnawing, empty feeling, rolling about in epigastric region.
- Peevishness.
- Confusion when lying 
down.
- Ill humor, tired of life.
- Mental troubles from overweening pride.
- Answers, reflects long.
- Taciturn.
- Great depression and disinclination to do anything.
- Weak will.
- Lack of perseverance.
- Ill-humor.
- Irresolution.
- Violent anger from contradiction.
- Delirium tremens.
- Hysterical.
- Loquacity and gaiety.
- Delusion being 
 
 
diminished, smaller.
- Absorbed in reveries.
- Nymphomania.
- Apprehensive about the future.
- F ear of eating when hungry.
- Hypochondriasis and hysteria arising from 
abdominal troubles.
- Abdomen - Shooting pains in the abdomen.
- Inflation of the abdomen.
- Rumbling with nausea, eructation and vertigo.
- Flatulent and pressive colic with 
nausea and disagreeable risings.
- Feeling of coldness in abdomen, lasting half an hour.

### Vertigo
- Vertigo during and after meals, hunger and feeling of emptiness after meals.
- Vision - Myopia.
- Shortsightedness with burning heat in face.
- All objects seem white, even green trees.
- Mist 
before eyes when reading or writing.
- Sudden vanishing of sight while writing or looking at light objects, better 
 
 
closing eyes, but constantly returns.
- COMMENTS - Two excellent cures with Grat, have been recorded by C.
- W.
- Sonnenschmidt.
- The first case, 
Mrs.
- C., 53, was attacked in June with diarrhea, yellow, watery, frothy stools gushing out with force.
- Severe 
cutting pains in abdomen, rumbling of flatulence.
- Oc casional nausea and vomiting.
- Coloc.
- and Ip.
- failed to 
relieve.
- Then on close inquiry it was elicited that “a cold feeling in the abdomen” had been a feature throughout.
- Grat.
- off.
- 3c, cured promptly.
- In the second case, a three -weeks' old infant was attacked with diarrhea and colic.
- There were two or three 
stools in quick suc cession and then an interval of an hour or two.
- Stools, gre en or yellow watery, frothy, 
expelled suddenly.
- Nausea and vomiting.
- Severe pain before stools, relieved after wards, for a short time.
- Cham., Coloc., and Verat.
- failed, then Grat, rapidly cured.
- It also removed “redness around anus and on the 
side an abrasion of half an inch in extent, which caused some oozing of blood.” 
E.
- E.
- Case cured a woman, age 50, of hemorrhoids with Constipation, difficult stools.
- External hemorrhoids 
from any exertion and after stool.
- Biting, stinging tension in tumors.
- During st ool, a sensation as if the rectal 
membrane was torn.
- After stool, all the nerve of the pelvis seem in a high state of tension, the flesh on the perineum feels as if torn 
from the bone.
- Sleepless before midnight, peevish, melancholy.
- Grat.
- 200c cured.
- The left side is more affected than the right.
- The head and eye symptoms are of the first importance.
- Rush of 
blood to head with vanishing of sight is a keynote.
- Heat ascending to face with redness and increased external 
warmth.
- A number of pains are experience d in the coccyx.
- Chilly, shud dering on entering a warm room.
- Constant vaporous emanations from body.

### Head
- Rush of blood  with vanishing of sight.
- Sick headache.
- Tightness in fore head with wrinkles in skin.
- Sensation as if brain was contracting and head became smaller.
- Rush of blood  with vanishing of sight.
- Sick headache.
- Tightness in fore head with wrinkles in skin.
- Sensation as if brain was contracting and head became smaller.

### Eyes
- Eyes feel dry as if sand were in them.
- Dry, burning eyes.
- Itching about eyelashes.

### Ears
- Itching of ears.

### Face
- Burning heat and redness of the face.
- Sensation of tension in the face, it feels swollen.
- Swelling of 
upper lip.
- Tearing on one side of face.
- Painful crack in left side of chin.
- Tingling , burning in malar bones.

### Mouth
- Accumulation of much saliva in the mouth.
- Mouth bitter or clammy.
- Fetid breath in the morning after 
waking.
- Tongue rough, covered with mucus.
- Sensation of cold in the teeth.
- Nocturnal tearing or piercing in the 
molars.
- Nose - Frequent sneezing.
- Stoppage of the nose.
- Smarting , itching in left nostril.
- Pressure at upper part of 
nose.
- Perspiration - Constant vaporous exhalation from body.

### Throat
- Pressure in throat, as from thick mucus.
- Accumulation of mucus in throat.
- Phlegm in throat with 
inability to throw it off.
- Pain in throat obliging one to swallow constantly.
- Stinging in throat.
- Tingling, roughness 
and scraping in throat.

### Chest
- Heat in the chest, then the head and hands with redness of the face.
- Pressure on the chest.
- Shootings 
in the chest on breathing.
- Pimples on the chest, which burn after having been scratched.
- Palpitations after stools, with oppression of the chest.
- Pulse small, intermittent.
- Kidneys - Burning in the urethra during and after urination.
- Diminished secretion of urine.
- Scanty and reddish 
urine, which becomes turbid on standing with cloudy sediment.
- Dry cough, excited by a sensation of roughness in the chest in the morni ng or at night.
- Nocturnal 
cough with pain as from excoriation in trachea, oppression of the chest and shivering.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Dyspepsia with much distention of the stomach.
- Emptiness after eating.
- Cramps and colic after 
supper and during night with swelling of abdomen and constipation.
- Dysphagia for liquids.
- As of a cold water 
or loose, heavy load in stomach.
- Temperature - Tendency to chilliness.
- Chilliness in a warm room during sleep, after an evacuation, with the 
hair standing on end.
- Heat ascending to the face with redness and increased external warmth.
- Hunger after a meal with feeling of emptiness.
- Craves nothing but bread.
- Worse during and after eating, 
vertigo during and after a meal.

### Urinary & Genital
- Painful rigidity of the penis after seminal emission, nightly.
- Stitches in left spermatic cord, ascending 
though the abdomen up to the chest.
- Drawing pain in glans.
- Menses too profuse, premature and too long.
- Persistent leucorrhea.
- Ten dency to masturbation.
- Nymphomania.
- Irritable condition of sexual organs with congestions.

### Extremities
- Limb gives way with sciatic pain.
- Rheumatic pains in the shoulders, arms, fingers, particularly in elbow 
and wrist joint.
- Itching in the palm of the hand.

### Neck & Back
- Pain in coccyx after stool.
- Neck as if seized by hands.
- Breasts - Darting pain in breasts.
- Shootings in right breast, worse on rising during menses.
- Causations - Coffee causes neuralgia.

### Skin
- Itching with burning after scratching.
- Running and corrosive eruptions, which resemble scabies.
- Small 
boils.
- Miliary pimples with yellow tips.

### Sleep
- Insomnia.
- Irresistible drowsiness with yawning and involu ntary closure of eyes.
- Great sleepiness and 
lassitude after meals.
- Deep sleep, like stupor.

### Generalities
- As if brain contracted, as if head grew smaller, as if brain would fall forward.
- As if sand in eyes, 
as if throat contracted.
- As if a stone rolling from side to side in stomach.