Materia Medica
Gratiola
Edge Hyssop
Acts especially on gastro-intestinal tract. Useful in mental troubles from overweening pride. Especially useful in females.Nux symptoms in females often met by Gratiola.
Head
Sick headache. Rush of blood with vanish- ing of sight. Sensation as if brain was contracting and head became smaller. Tightness in forehead, with wrinkles in skin. Eyes dry, burn. 1 Myopia.
Stomach
Vertigo during and after meals; hunger and feeling of emptiness after meals. Dyspepsia, with much distention of the stomach. Cramps and colic after upper and during night, with swelling of abdo- men and constipation. J Dysphagia for liquids.
Stool
Diarrhoea; green, frothy zeater. followed by anal burning, forcibly evacuated without pain. Consti- pation. with gouty acidity. ~Haemorrhoids, with hypo- chondriasis. Rectum constricted.
Female
Nymphomania. Menses too profuse, pre- mature, and too long.
Sleep
Insomnia.
Modalities
Worse, drinking too much water.
Relationships
Compare: Dig., Euph.; Tab.; Cham.; Ammon. pic.
Dose
Second to third potency.