Gelsemium-sempervirens
NATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOMOEOPATHY 2004 Nov / Dec VOL VI NO 6.
Late Dr P I Tarkas
Dr Ajit Kulkarni
'Gels

Several D's
Discomforted. Deconfidented. Dull. Dizzy. Dazed. Drowsy. Dready. Delirious. Depressed. Dissipated. Depressing emotions. Dusky. Dolor. Doddering (Tottering). Drooping. Dimness. Diplopia. Diarrhea. Dampness.

Shows Seven Trends

1. Dull; listless; lassitude, languid; timorous; exhausted (Kali-p)
2. Catarrhs (Nat-m)
3. Cerebral congestion (Op)
4. Beginning of septicemia (Cur, Lach) and Neurotoxy (Zinc)
5. Neurotoxy and ataxia - spinal irritation (Arg-n)
6. Paralyses (Naja)
7. Ageing: Confusion, slow pulse, trembling (Con)

Make Up: The neurotic. The deconfidented; mentally and physically (sensorially and motorially). Weak, tired, delicate, timid; children; adolescents.

Nerves
Neurotoxy: System seems to be laboring under the effect of some poison. Nerve exhaustion. Severe nervous depression. A low nervous condition, drowsiness, languor, disposition to be quiet; general relaxation, a tired, played out feeling following depressing factors (emotions, continued work, apprehension, anxiety or watching over sick relatives, chill, etc); non-appearing eruptions (Zinc).

Prostration: Begins with exhaustion, through incoordination to paralysis (Stry begins with turbulence, through incoordination to exhaustion - paralysis cp Ang). Prostration of vital forces. Adynamic condition of the system: atony, inertia. Feels completely played out (exhausted). Every little exertion fatigues. Nervous exhaustion as found in persons of dissolute habits (eg onanism); tobacco or alcohol addicts or cigar makers. Muscular prostration through action on motor nerves. Muscular relaxation and prostration (resulting in indigestion, diarrhea etc) and even paralysis from overpowering emotions (as fright, bad news, preparing for an extra ordeal etc). Command lost, intellectual and motor.

'Faint, dusky, confused, drowsy, unbelievably feeble, yet high strung and exhausted: The 7 bells of Gels (Wright Hubbard). Fainting in acidosis due to eating after fasting. Flu, severe anorexia, then utter prostration leading ultimately to closure of mouth - no speech, no deglutition, cases of acidosis. Gels helped in one case. Would it help the other? Was a Xanth called for?

Depression: A stage of depression, lassitude or paresis mental and physical as a result of acute or sub-acute disease of old age, or of some emotional assault on the nerves. Complete relaxation of the whole muscular system. Utterly powerless, though there is perfect cognizance of what is transpiring (like Cocc). General depression from heat of sun or summer; yes, from heat, not from immediate effects of the sun (as in the case of Bell or Glon-Lilienthal). Moved in sun, then slept under a tree and became unconscious. Languid, listless and lulled. From tobacco: nervous depression, occipital pain, vertigo, tremors; impotence; palpitation; helps break tobacco habit (like Tab). From quinine: amorousness, metrorrhagia, deafness, and aphonia.

Commotion: Excessive trembling of single muscles: face, chin, tongue etc. During high excitement and afterwards, also with febrile condition and remains sometime after. Undistinguishable from nervous chills. Swimmers who tremble violently when out of water, in spite of warmth or old people tremble much after a cold morning spell. Crawling, tingling, and pricking (Agar).

Chorea of pregnancy following or being allied to rheumatism; with intermittent fevers. Locomotor ataxia.

Paralysis: Cases that begin with fever (like polio). Of various groups of muscles: eyes, throat, chest, larynx, bladder, sphincters, extremities etc. After a snowstorm exposure. Post diphtheric. Professional neuroses (those who use only a small set of muscles as writers, pianists etc). Functional paralyses. P after Naja bite. Paralytic weakness of painful parts.

Convulsions: Convulsions from reflex irritation (eg teething, exanthema) from mother's fright. During fever. Convulsive symptoms: hiccough; urination; Millar's asthma; cough spasmodic. Hysterical epilepsy after suppr menses. Puerperal convulsions; amel washing with cold water (hands) due to rigid os or uremia.

Hysteria: Globus, spasm of the glottis, onanists, numb extremities, loss of muscular power. Hysterical insensibility and catalepsy. H with spasm of throat followed by a heavy, stupid feeling or loss of muscular power - inability to move a limb or even to raise the eyelids, though the hearing is unimpaired.

Pains: Deep-seated muscular pains (like Cimic), with loss of control over the painful part. Sudden darting pains that make one start. Overpowering aching. Pain intermits. Better stimulants. Shooting, tearing along tracks of nerves, especially when aggr by change of weather, soreness. Pains fixed, continuous, unremitting, no restlessness. Or little pain; pains cease during labor or metrorrhagia. Pains run upwards (colic, labor pains, burning in spine). Waves run upwards. Pains: Tender to touch; scalp, occiput, abdomen etc. Aching: from spinal irritation, cold (rheumatic), after ague. Pains in pectoral muscles.

Tissues
Congestion: Paralytic congestion (earlier stage of Carb-s and Cur). Paralyzing catarrhal congestions (Am-c, Zinc). Rheumatico-toxic. C (s) Congestions, of brain; also spine (which Bapt has not), liver, lungs ... of organs, and also high-grade inflammation of any organ (Rhus) - uterus, ovaries, stomach, rectum, intestine, lungs, skin (erysipelas), brain, liver, lungs, spine, uterus, heart etc. Congestions with motor paralyses of sundry organs.

Muscles: In coordination of muscles; muscles do not obey the will, can not direct their movements with precision; power over muscles impaired (Hell). Heavy, tired feeling; in single parts; heart; liver, etc. Knew everything going on, but could not move. Languor; muscles feel bruised; from every little exertion. Old age infirmity.

Blood: Being related to Bapt and a vegetable Lach there must be same blood poisoning in Gels. Fringe septicemia, earlier stage of (Chin, Bapt, Bufo, Cur, Strept) but tending towards tabes like Lol-t (but departing from Sec in putrescence). In hemorrhages blood crimson.

Circulation: Passive Congestion (arterial and venous) with sluggish circulation. Vascular excitement (Ver-v); ebullitions, orgasms, flushes. Venous stagnation; fullness. Plethora. "Blood vessels dilated and full but lack the firmness and resistance of a fully developed sthenic inflammation" (Hering). "Hyperemias dependent upon relaxation of (annular, Ferr-ph) muscular fibers of blood vessels or of voluntary motion."

Tension: In arteries, eyeballs, liver, kidneys (like Bry). Catarrh: Catarrhal conditions in general by warm moist relaxing weather; growing out of the relaxed and debilitated condition of the system on the return of warm weather at the close of winter. Catarrhal affections, especially if motor disturbances (eg asthma, spasm of glottis, larynx) occur. Discharges watery mucus, generally excoriating, never purulent, yellow (Gels is yellow jasmine. It has yellow catarrh, excepting nasal).

Bones: Rickets.
Periodical return of symptoms when the year comes round.
Injuries: Traumatic shock, ?Naja bite (paralysis). Fall: brain, concussion; paralysis.

Signs of Reaction: Epistaxis, urination.

Mind: An inhibited neurotic. High strung, puny and timid, apprehensive, sympathetic. Overburdened, consequently exhausted persons. Fagged (Zinc). Mental exertion causes a sort of helplessness from brain fatigue. Discouraged and helpless. Great want of courage; stage fright, nervous dread of appearing in public; examination funk; of soldiers in battlefield. Upset when called on to perform something unusual.

The increased responsibilities of this age of strife, stress and strain; responsibilities financial, social or church burdens. These cause mental heaviness, inability to reason out problems, fear and apprehension as to the ultimate outcome, a state of physical and nervous restlessness with inability to keep quiet even when the opportunity presents itself. Great distress and apprehensiveness at the memory of a former accident (shock) (Op). On becoming overwhelmed by some surprise, he becomes faint, nauseous, weak and exhausted, tired in all the limbs and unable to resist opposing a feeling of helplessness. Children get an anticipatory fear, eg of examination or race competition or any test (esp a viva voce), become panicky, lose their thread, stammer and seem stupefied; may even suffer bodily.

Fears: Full of fears of pains, ordeals, failure, crowd, public places, lightening, labor - pains (an anticipatory fear) (a kind of helplessness), of death and more esp of falling - child grabs the nurse or the crib. Fears of Gels are chiefly anticipatory. Paralyzed by fright. Infant cries on unless it is held fast by the nurse, it won't lie, on the bed or in the cradle or on the nurse’s arms. Gets unnerved if he lets go his usual stick. Must lean on something, or he is upset. Great personages with foibles may as well be Gels patients. Gels is the 'blossom' to the infant, a 'finger' to the young and 'stick' to the old and infirm, a reassurer or confidence inspirer to all. Must have a company, cannot bear to be alone (when apprehensive). Apprehension, distress and fright from a thunderstorm after seeing lightning strike a person previously.

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