{"id":1540,"remedy_name":"Grindelia","remedy_type":"Herbal Remedy","alternative_names":[""],"miasm":"Syphilitic Miasm","temperament":"Neutral","aggravation_time":"Night","keynote_indications":"Grindeliaproduces paresis of the pneumo -gastric nerve, interfering with respiration and \nproducing profuse secretion in bronchial tubes. Dull pains and fullness in left hypochondrium, chronic malaria, \ngastric pains associated with spleen congestion. \nInduces paralysis, beginning in the limbs. Its action is shown on the heart, first quick ening, then retarding it. \nRaises the blood pressure. Acts on the cardio-pulmonary distribution of the pneumo gastric in dry catarrh (Ant-\nt. in muco-purulent). \nSmothering after falling asleep  or on awakening. Asthmatic conditions, chronic bronchitis. Bronchorrhea \nwith tough, tenacious, whitish mucus. Asthma and emphy sema with dilated heart. Rattling breathing. Cannot \nbreathe when lying down. \nCheyne-Stokes respiration. Hyperchlorhydria when attended with asthmatic and other neurotic symptoms. \nHyperemia of gastric mucus membrane with difficult respiration. \nNausea and retching of gastric ulcer. Sugar in urine. Cutting sore pain in the region of spleen extending to \nhips. Spleen enlarged. An effective antidote to Rhus -poisoning, locally and internally, also for burns, blisters, \nvaginal catarrh and herpes zoster.","modalities":"Sitting position in bed on account of difficult breathing. Worse from falling asleep. Worse motion. \nWorse in the dark.","symptoms_by_system":{"Mind":"Longing for sunshine, light and company. Longing for sunshine, light and company.","Head":"Terrible fullness in head, as though he had taken ten or more grains of quinine. Terrible fullness in head, as though he had taken ten or more grains of quinine.","Eyes":"Conjunctiva injected. Pupils dilated. Pain in eyeballs,  running back to brain, worse movin g eyes. \nPurulent ophthalmia and iritis. Iritis, traumatic, or arising from cold or a metastasis of rheumatism. Pain in left \neye and right knee joint like rheumatism.","Face":"Face livid. Burning in chin.","Chest":"Weak heart and respiration. Acts on the pulmonary circulation. Wheezing and oppression in bronchitis patients. Bronchitis with \nheart disease. Asthma with a profuse tenacious expec toration, which relieves. Stops breathing w hen \nfallingasleep, wakes with a start and gasps for breath. Must sit up to breathe, cannot breathe when lying \ndown. Whooping cough with profuse mucus secretion (Coc -c.). Rales are disseminated with foamy mucus, \nvery difficult to detach. Sibilant rales. Ch eyne-Stokes respiration. Bronchorrhea with tough, whitish, mucus \nexpectoration. Tough, muco-purulent expectoration, after pneumonia or in chronic bronchitis.","Stomach & Abdomen":"Unbearable pain in region of liver and spleen, so severe he cannot lie still a moment. Cutting pain \nin region of spleen, extending to hips. Spleen enlarged (Cean.. Card -m.). Soreness like that of acute \nrheumatism.","Urinary & Genital":"Pruritus of vagina and vulva, whether from leucorrhea, aphthae or of venous origin.","Extremities":"Legs greatly swollen, especially about ankle -joint. Severe pain, can hardly getabout.  Large ulcers \nover tibia. Chronic ulceration of leg.","Skin":"Bites of insects, fleabites. Itching and burning. Rash -like roseola with se vere burning and itching. \nVesicular and papular eruptions. Poison oak (locally as a wash). Herpes zoster. Ulcers with swollen, purplish \nskin. \nCOMMENTS - In the clinical experiences recorded, it is Grindelia robusta that is chiefly mentioned, though \nsometimes it is not specified. \nHistory of results for asthma and emphy sema with a dilated heart. Good in tonic for asthma, particularly in \ncases with a great deal of previous medication (Lob.). Chronic bronchial asthma and spasmodic bronchial \ncough, with profuse, tenacious expectoration. which gives relief. \nCheyne-Stokes respiration. The breath stops when the patient goes to sleep and awakes with a start, gasping \nfor breath. Irregular heart action and hay fever when \nassociated with difficult breathing. \nSense of suffocation on falling asleep (Lach.). Symptoms are worse by movement , worse in the dark, worse \non falling asleep. It removed aversion to darkness in one patient who wanted a light in the room all night.  \nOne writer obtained excellentresults from \u201cGrindelia\u201d in a number of cases of asthma and emphysema with \ndilated heart. \nH. W. Foster reported the cure of a case of asthma with G. robusta that shows that Dr. Bundy's proving of G. \nsquarrosa is good for both remedies. Dr. Foster's patient was awakened by asthmatic attacks, the room \nseeming too small. After getting quiet, just as he would commence to lose himself in sleep he would suddenly \nawaken again because he seemed to have forgotten to breathe. Grin. 30c relieved at once.  \nGatchell recommended an external ap plication of a lotion, one part Grindelia robusta in ten parts water,  for \nitching and painful erythematous eruptions. It is also useful for bites and stings of insects. Used locally and \ninternally as an antidote for Rhus toxicodendron skin rashes. \nThe only proving is by Dr. T. H. Bundy, who took a teaspoonful of a tincture of the dried plant of G. squarrosa \nand in half an hour followed it by another. The result was that he produced some intensely severe pains in \nhead and eyes (left, then right), and symptoms in liver, spleen, nervous system and lungs. Altogether, he \npassed \u201cthe most terrible night of his life.\u201d \nThe proving is remarkable for the number of peculiar symptoms induced. First there was \u201cfullness in head as \nafter a heavy dose of quinine.\u201d Then, intense pain in the left eye and right knee joint exactly like acute \nrheumatism. The knee pain lasted only half an hour, and then the third teaspoonful was taken. The eye pain \nbecame agonizing, the pupil became widely dilated. It was two hours before the right eye became affected.  \nAt this time, unbearable pain in whole of live r and spleen came on. It was so severe it was impossible to lie \nstill. There was intense soreness of the region, like that of acute rheumatism.  \nThe eye pains were in the eyeballs running directly back into the brain, worse by movement. \nThere was a kind of  paralysis of the vagus nerve. On falling asleep, the respiratory movement would cease \nand would not be resumed until he woke up from the resulting suffocation."},"schema_version":"1.0","api_provider":"Allahshafi"}