Materia Medica
Gambogia
Gummi Gutti
The use of this drug in Homceopathy has been con- fine to its action on the alirmentary tract. It produces a diarrhcea very similar to Croton. From its patho- genesis, it is very evident that it has very intense and definite action especially on the gastro-enteric tract.
Head
Heavy, with inertia, and drowsiness. Itch- ing and burning in eyes; lids stick together, with sneezing. Gastro-enteric Symptoms. - Feeling of coldness at edge of teeth. Great irritability of the stomach; burn- ing, smarting, and dryness of the tongue and throat. Pain in the stomach after food. Tenderness in epigas- trium. Pain and distention of abdomen from flatulence, after stool. Rumbling and rolling. Dysentery, with re- tained scybala, with pain in sacral region. 1 Diarrhcea, with sudden and forcible cjcction of bilious stools. Tenesmus after, with burning at anus. Hleo-cacal region sensitive to pressure. Profuse, watery diarrhcea in hot weather, particularly old people. Pain in coccyx.
Modalities
Worse, towards evening and at night.
Relationships
Compare: Croton; Aloes; Pod.
Dose
Third to thirtieth potency. Gamboge painted on the chest in lung tuberculosis is considered by Abrams specific and incipient cases are symptomatically cured in several weeks.