# Grindelia

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Herbal Remedy
- **Miasm:** Syphilitic Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Night

## Keynote Indications
Grindeliaproduces paresis of the pneumo -gastric nerve, interfering with respiration and 
producing profuse secretion in bronchial tubes. Dull pains and fullness in left hypochondrium, chronic malaria, 
gastric pains associated with spleen congestion. 
Induces paralysis, beginning in the limbs. Its action is shown on the heart, first quick ening, then retarding it. 
Raises the blood pressure. Acts on the cardio-pulmonary distribution of the pneumo gastric in dry catarrh (Ant-
t. in muco-purulent). 
Smothering after falling asleep  or on awakening. Asthmatic conditions, chronic bronchitis. Bronchorrhea 
with tough, tenacious, whitish mucus. Asthma and emphy sema with dilated heart. Rattling breathing. Cannot 
breathe when lying down. 
Cheyne-Stokes respiration. Hyperchlorhydria when attended with asthmatic and other neurotic symptoms. 
Hyperemia of gastric mucus membrane with difficult respiration. 
Nausea and retching of gastric ulcer. Sugar in urine. Cutting sore pain in the region of spleen extending to 
hips. Spleen enlarged. An effective antidote to Rhus -poisoning, locally and internally, also for burns, blisters, 
vaginal catarrh and herpes zoster.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Sitting position in bed on account of difficult breathing. Worse from falling asleep. Worse motion. 
Worse 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.
- Purulent ophthalmia and iritis.
- Iritis, traumatic, or arising from cold or a metastasis of rheumatism.
- Pain in left 
eye 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 
heart disease.
- Asthma with a profuse tenacious expec toration, which relieves.
- Stops breathing w hen 
fallingasleep, wakes with a start and gasps for breath.
- Must sit up to breathe, cannot breathe when lying 
down.
- Whooping cough with profuse mucus secretion (Coc -c.).
- Rales are disseminated with foamy mucus, 
very difficult to detach.
- Sibilant rales.
- Ch eyne-Stokes respiration.
- Bronchorrhea with tough, whitish, mucus 
expectoration.
- 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 
in region of spleen, extending to hips.
- Spleen enlarged (Cean..
- Card -m.).
- Soreness like that of acute 
rheumatism.

### 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 
over tibia.
- Chronic ulceration of leg.

### Skin
- Bites of insects, fleabites.
- Itching and burning.
- Rash -like roseola with se vere burning and itching.
- Vesicular and papular eruptions.
- Poison oak (locally as a wash).
- Herpes zoster.
- Ulcers with swollen, purplish 
skin.
- COMMENTS - In the clinical experiences recorded, it is Grindelia robusta that is chiefly mentioned, though 
sometimes it is not specified.
- History of results for asthma and emphy sema with a dilated heart.
- Good in tonic for asthma, particularly in 
cases with a great deal of previous medication (Lob.).
- Chronic bronchial asthma and spasmodic bronchial 
cough, with profuse, tenacious expectoration.
- which gives relief.
- Cheyne-Stokes respiration.
- The breath stops when the patient goes to sleep and awakes with a start, gasping 
for breath.
- Irregular heart action and hay fever when 
associated with difficult breathing.
- Sense of suffocation on falling asleep (Lach.).
- Symptoms are worse by movement , worse in the dark, worse 
on falling asleep.
- It removed aversion to darkness in one patient who wanted a light in the room all night.
- One writer obtained excellentresults from “Grindelia” in a number of cases of asthma and emphysema with 
dilated heart.
- H.
- W.
- Foster reported the cure of a case of asthma with G.
- robusta that shows that Dr.
- Bundy's proving of G.
- squarrosa is good for both remedies.
- Dr.
- Foster's patient was awakened by asthmatic attacks, the room 
seeming too small.
- After getting quiet, just as he would commence to lose himself in sleep he would suddenly 
awaken again because he seemed to have forgotten to breathe.
- Grin.
- 30c relieved at once.
- Gatchell recommended an external ap plication of a lotion, one part Grindelia robusta in ten parts water,  for 
itching and painful erythematous eruptions.
- It is also useful for bites and stings of insects.
- Used locally and 
internally as an antidote for Rhus toxicodendron skin rashes.
- The only proving is by Dr.
- T.
- H.
- Bundy, who took a teaspoonful of a tincture of the dried plant of G.
- squarrosa 
and in half an hour followed it by another.
- The result was that he produced some intensely severe pains in 
head and eyes (left, then right), and symptoms in liver, spleen, nervous system and lungs.
- Altogether, he 
passed “the most terrible night of his life.” 
The proving is remarkable for the number of peculiar symptoms induced.
- First there was “fullness in head as 
after a heavy dose of quinine.” Then, intense pain in the left eye and right knee joint exactly like acute 
rheumatism.
- The knee pain lasted only half an hour, and then the third teaspoonful was taken.
- The eye pain 
became agonizing, the pupil became widely dilated.
- It was two hours before the right eye became affected.
- At this time, unbearable pain in whole of live r and spleen came on.
- It was so severe it was impossible to lie 
still.
- There was intense soreness of the region, like that of acute rheumatism.
- The eye pains were in the eyeballs running directly back into the brain, worse by movement.
- There was a kind of  paralysis of the vagus nerve.
- On falling asleep, the respiratory movement would cease 
and would not be resumed until he woke up from the resulting suffocation.