Gentiana Cruciata

"G. cruciata," says the Treasury of Botany, "has been invested with imaginary

virtues, because its leaves grow in the form of a cross; it has been recommended in

hydrophobia." Its virtues are not all imaginary, and its reputation as a remedy for hydrophobia is

• ▸partly justified in the provings.
• ▸The proving of Gent.
• ▸cruc.
• ▸(by Watzke and ten others) developed

a number of striking symptoms in the throat and digestive tract. Movings about in stomach and

abdomen. Pressure in the stomach as if a stone was in it, with inclination to vomit. All the

symptoms of right inguinal hernia occurred in one prover. A peculiar sense of apprehensiveness;

faintness; uneasiness. One prover felt as if all the nerves were tense, so that walking was

difficult. Creeping over the body as from fleas in the evening. The symptoms are < after eating.

>From warm soup; from drinking fresh water; in open air.

Weeping mood, with disinclination to talk.—Very peculiar apprehensiveness, and

acceleration and difficulty of breathing, swelling of the temporal veins and feeling of pressure in

the temporal region; on reading, print seemed indistinct and as if covered with a veil.

Confusion and whirling.—Sensitiveness of whole head and whole brain after dinner, <

by violent motion of head.—Swelling of temporal veins and feeling of pressure in temporal

• ▸region.
• ▸—Sudden stitch through I.
• ▸temple.
• ▸—Distressing tension, and at times transient jerking in

region of vertex; tension soon became a very acute constant pressure, < by exerting eyes, or

constant thought.

Sensation as though eyes were lying deep in orbit; piercing inward sensation in r.

eye.—Print indistinct as if covered with a veil.

Two aphthous ulcers on margin of lower lip on either side of frenum.—Flow of saliva

increased.

Slight redness and distressing sensation of constriction within the throat, so that

swallowing is very difficult; constantly obliged to hawk up tenacious and firmly adherent

mucus.—Rawness and scraping, causing frequent hawking; with constriction on

• ▸swallowing.
• ▸—Intermittent, deep redness of fauces.
• ▸—Stitches in tonsils.
• ▸—Swallowing difficult;

with an anxious constrictive sensation; slight redness of fauces.

Appetite increased; or lost—Acid eructations; watery vomiting.—Great nausea,

with inclination to lie down.—Vomiting, with some difficulty, a small quantity of mucus of an

acid odour, intensely bitter, leaving a scraping and rawness in throat.—Movings about in

stomach, and afterwards in abdomen, disappeared on walking.—Sensation in stomach and

cesophagus as though he had swallowed a morsel of hot food followed by cold water; lasted the

whole day, < by eating; > by drinking fresh water.—Burning; fulness; pressure in

stomach.—Pressure in stomach as if a stone were in it, with inclination to vomit.—Sensation of

pressing inward in pit of stomach.

Sensitive, griping, sore sensation in umbilical region, < after dinner, > sitting

and lying, < standing, walking, and after" smoking, obliging him to bend forward; therewith

umbilicus seemed to be drawn inward.—Movings about in intestines with slight headache,

followed by copious pasty evacuation.—Distension; fulness; tightness; constriction in

abdomen.—Dragging in r. inguinal region with feeling of protrusion, > sitting or lying; on violent

sneezing actual protrusion occurred, size of hazel-nut, very sensitive.

Constant violent urging, followed by three watery evacuations.—Pasty

diarrhoea.—Free pasty stools without the usual itching in anus.

Menstruation three days earlier than usual, during which there was

a headache as if head too full, with feeling of distension in the skull, > during rest and < by

motion, preventing sleep for a long time.

Hoarseness; voice gave out in middle of speech.—Frequent attacks of

hoarseness and sensitiveness of the throat.

Drawing and jerking along r. side of neck, extending to

shoulder.—Drawing in cervical muscles, extending to ears, < by turning head, an uneasiness so

that he could not remain long in one position.—Repeated drawings in cervical muscles.—Tension

in lumbar region.

• ▸Diarrhcea.
• ▸Dyspepsia.
• ▸Dysphagia.
• ▸Hernia.
• ▸Hoarseness.
• ▸Stiff-neck.
• ▸Stomach, affections

of. Throat, sore.

• ▸Compare: Gent.
• ▸lut.
• ▸; Lyc.
• ▸(> from warm drink); Bry.
• ▸, Puls.
• ▸, Ab.
• ▸n.
• ▸, &c.
• ▸(pressure in

stomach as from a stone); Kal. bi. (tenacious mucus in throat).