Ginseng Quinquefolium

The symptoms of the Chinese and the American Ginseng are taken together,

as the two are probably identical. The name is said to signify "the resemblance of a man" or

man's thigh. The root is forked like that of the mandrake. Fabulous prices are given for it in

Manchuria, as much as L40 per pound being paid for certain qualities of it. The wild Ginseng of

Siberia is said to be the best. The natives along the Ussuri river use it boiled for headaches,

colds, fevers, stomach pains. In America it is a domestic remedy for the after-pains of labour.

The shape of the root might indicate an action on the pelvis and lower limbs, and J. H. Henry (7.

R., xi. 493) says it acts on the lower part of the spinal marrow; is indicated by "bruised pains in

small of back and thighs (on rising from bed), and great languor, with paralytic, rheumatic pains

in lower limbs, arthritic swelling of the foot, which had been exerted a long time, violent pain in

big toe." He mentions also "Nightly digging in right lower limb from hip to big toe, cramp, pains

from right hip to toes; lancinating, tearing in right tarsal joint." He considers it specific in

lumbago, sciatica and chronic rheumatism, with frequent desire to urinate, and sexual

excitement. Lembke and others have proved it. It is an aromatic stimulant and removes feelings

of fatigue, imparting a joyous sense of vigour and elasticity to the limbs, especially the upper

limbs, and clearness of mind. The opposite condition of malaise is also produced. Yawning, and

drowsiness. Drowsiness with headache. Feeling of extreme heat and intense coldness, longing to

expose the body to cool air. The right side of the body is most affected. There is pain in right

• ▸side.
• ▸of hypogastrium, extending into groin.
• ▸Dry mouth, tongue, and lips.
• ▸Vertigo.
• ▸The

respiratory organs are affected as with Aralia racem. Mouth and throat are sensitive to the

ordinary air of room; are < in free open air and from talking, > at dinner. Many symptoms are <

in open air; at night bending or turning; descending stairs; sitting.

Mood quiet and contented, with good courage.—Mind generally calm; but impatient

impulses, fear of accidents.—Thinking difficult—Memory weak.—Disposition to weep; anxious

about the future.

Painful lassitude of the extremities, superior and inferior.—Coldness,

trembling, and numbness of the hands, with deadness of the fingers ——Tendency of the symptoms

to show themselves more particularly on r. side.—As during fever, uneasiness, with inclination to

sleep; internal shivering, with heat externally, tingling in the fingers, yawning and stretching,

trembling, shivering, thirst, dryness of the mouth, draggings in the stomach, and weakness of the

legs, as after a severe illness —Great sensitiveness to cold, and tendency to feel bruised all

over.—After a walk, inability to obtain warmth.—Pulse natural.

Vertigo, with gray spots before eyes; semi-lateral headache; occipital; difficult opening of eyelids; objects appear double.

Vertigo, cloudiness, confusion, giddiness, and heaviness of the head.—Vertigo on

going down winding stairs.—While standing, the ground seems to waver.—Reflection difficult;

tendency to forgetfulness.—Reeling sensation in occiput.—Reeling sensation in occiput, with grey

spots before eyes.—Head seems at times enlarged and to sway to one side.—Pressure in

• ▸longitudinal sinuses.
• ▸—Drawing in r.
• ▸side of frontal bone; in muscles of neck and loins.
• ▸—Drawing

in occiput; he involuntarily bends head backward.—Painful sensitiveness of the

head.—Semilateral cephalalgia—Lancinations from r. side of the forehead as far as the orbit, with

heaviness of the eyelids, irrepressible inclination to sleep, heat of the head, and heaviness in the

temples.—Sudden shock in occiput, followed by pain, as of a bruise.

Pressure on the eyes, which seems to force them inwards; the upper eyelids fall (esp.

r.).—Great difficulty in opening the eyelids, which are heavy and painful; itching of the

eyelids.—Biting and itching in margins of lids.—Unpleasant sensation of coldness on surface of

eyeball.—Pupils alternately large and small.—Vision indistinct—Sensation of fatigue when

exposed to the light; objects appear double when looked at fixedly; in reading, the characters

become confused.

Alternation of redness and paleness.—Burning erythematous redness on r. cheek, on the

ala nasi, on the chin; following chapping of the parts, with itching and heat; afterwards an

eruption of small miliaria, with tingling; after this, mealy tetters on the skin, with desquamation

at the end of fifteen days.—Lips red, dry, rough, thick, cracked and bleeding, esp. the lower lip; <

in open air and by talking —Drawing in jaws and bones of face.

Tongue red and smarting with thirst; then white in the middle-—Tongue white,

completely dry, with large glistening papill¢é—Mouth, lips, and teeth very dry; voice rough and

scraping; swallowing of saliva very difficult on account of dryness; a swallow of water moistens

only for a moment.—Dry sensation in palate, with accumulation of much saliva, which is

swallowed without difficulty——Green saliva.

Tonsillitis, just like Bellad, but in dark-complexioned people.

Great appetite at a very unusual time; risings, empty, sometimes sour; nausea and

inclination to vomit, with eructations which afford relief.—Pressure on the stomach, with

inflation, dull borborygmi in the abdomen, tension and feeling of inflation, emission of wind,

uneasiness and yawning.—Oppression, pressure of clothing intolerable.—Painful drawings in the

stomach, as from hunger, following shiverings, with painful lancinations in the precordial region;

violent colicky pains, which pervade the abdomen; swelling and pulsation of the stomach,

anguish, inclination to vomit, and pain in |. side at the heart, following shiverings, which extends

to the elbow.—Contractive pain in the stomach, with anguish, difficulty of respiration, drawing

pains in the stomach, and lancinations in r. side, which stop respiration.

• ▸Tense, painful, rumbling.
• ▸Pain in right side.
• ▸Loud gurgling in ileo-caecal region.
• ▸Perityphlitis.

Pain in r. side of lower region of abdomen, extending to the groins, with painful

tingling extending to the foot and great toe, where very painful lancinations are felt—Pains in the

lower region of the abdomen, with violent aching in the groins, inflation, tension and pressure

towards the lower region; colicky pains in the lower part of the abdomen, from the r. to L.,

ascending to the precordial region, with inflation of the abdomen, which is relieved by emission

of wind.—Violent cutting pains from r. coxo-femoral region to abdomen, causing a writhing of

the body.—Colic, which extends into the stomach, with pressure and pain when pressed

externally; painful digging in r. side of abdomen extending to the groins and stomach, with

cutting pains throughout the lower part of the abdomen; inclination to vomit, and pain as of

excoriation in r. side, below the ribs, < by external pressure. Pains in the abdomen, as from a

• ▸girdle, with digging and starting in r.
• ▸hip.
• ▸—Pain in r.
• ▸side of lower abdominal region, from the

hip to the ribs, with sharp pains from the precordial region; lancinations in r. side of the upper

part of the abdomen, with inability to bear tight clothes, pains in the abdomen, borborygmi,

emission of wind and lancinations, like thrusts of a knife in the region of the stomach.—Painful

inflation of the abdomen, extending on r. side, below the ribs, with pains in the region of the

heart, and eructations which give relief; tense painful abdomen; > by emission of flatus

downwards; inflated abdomen, painful, with pain, as of a fracture, in the loins; bruise-like pain in

the iliac region, < by pressure; general uneasiness, and pains which pervade the abdomen and the

chest; pressure on the stomach, and constraint from the clothes over the parts.

Evacuation difficult, without, however, being hard.—Hard stool, which is

not emitted without efforts, which are followed by burning at the anus.—Slight sticking in

rectum.—Tenesmus and lancinations in the rectum.—Four thin stools preceded by short violent

pain, extending from within the pelvis to the thighs, as though one must sink to the

ground.—Liquid stools in the evening, preceded by colic.

Sticking and voluptuous twitching in navicular fossa.—Pruritus and

burning in urethra, with frequent urging to urinate ——Yellowish lemon-coloured urine, depositing

a red sediment.

• ▸Rheumatic pains after frequent emissions.
• ▸Weakness of genital organs.
• ▸Voluptuous tickling at end of urethra.
• ▸Sexual excitement.
• ▸Pressure in testicles.

Great excitation of the genital organs.—Nocturnal erections without

pollutions.—Painful erections while sitting at engrossing business.—Pressure in

testicles —Dreams vivid, lascivious, of which the recollection remains, always after taking the

medicine.

Voice rough and hoarse.—Dry cough in paroxysms.—Short anxious

respiration; or slow and deep with exertion.—Frequent deep inspiration, and tightness of chest as

if he could not get enough air; > while walking.—Contractive pain across lower thorax.

Aching and oppression in the chest, with great difficulty of respiration.—Oppression

of the chest, with anxiety and lancinations in pit of stomach, and in lumbar region.—Prostration

of strength, and lassitude in the limbs.

Severe pain; dagger-like lancinations and stitches in précordia.—Some violent beats

while sitting, and followed by sensation of floundering of heart, with rapid, small, indistinct

pulse.—Pulse very irregular.

Frequent cracking in upper cervical vertebré on moving head.—Heaviness

• ▸and stiffness in nape.
• ▸—Drawings in cervical muscles.
• ▸—Pulsation in vessels of r.
• ▸side of

neck.—Painful lassitude along back, with bruised feeling down to and in sacrum.—Stiffness in

back.—Pressure in dorsal vertebr¢é.—Deep lancinations around loin &-Lancinations between the

shoulder-blades, extending to r. shoulder, or else along the dorsal spine to the sacrum, esp. on

standing upright, accompanied by difficulty of respiration Weight in nape of neck, with

contusive pain along back of sacrum.

Pain in shoulders, with cracking in them.—Peculiar sensation of coldness and

crawling in r. elbow and parietal eminence.—Violent compressing pain in muscles of lower I.

forearm, as if a hoop were tight around them.—Object dropped from hands easily, hastiness in his

movements.—On closing hands sensation as if they were swollen and the skin tight.—Contraction

of the fingers of r. hand and stiffness in their joints.

• ▸Retraction of muscles of r.
• ▸leg; great weakness of r.
• ▸leg.
• ▸—Staggering

• ▸gait.
• ▸—Sticking in r.
• ▸tibia —Lancinating tearing in r.
• ▸ankle joint.
• ▸—Lancinations alternately in both

• ▸great toes.
• ▸—Painful stiffness of 1.
• ▸thigh, from the hip to knee.
• ▸—Heaviness of the lower limbs,

contraction of the muscles of |. leg, with bruise-like pain in the coxo-femoral

articulation. —Difficulty in walking, tingling and stiffness from the thigh to the foot; pain in the

knee, and violent incisive pain in the r. hip, which extends to the abdomen, and occasions

writhing of the body.—Contusive pains in the thighs and loins, with great lassitude in the

morning on rising, with rheumatic and paralytic pains in the lower limbs.—Nocturnal digging

pain in r. leg, from the hip to the great toe, in which are experienced violent

lancinations.—Violent lancinations in |. great toe, already suffering from arthritic

swelling.—Alternate lancinations in one of the great toes——Cramp-like pain, extending from r.

hip, along the leg, to the points of the toes —Lancinating tearing in the articulation of r. foot.

• ▸Hands feel swollen.
• ▸Skin feels tight.
• ▸Contraction.
• ▸Coldness in back and spine.
• ▸Bruised pain in small of back and thighs; nightly digging in right lower limb to toes.
• ▸Burning heat in tips of fingers.
• ▸Eruption on upper inner thighs.
• ▸Stiff, contracted joints, heaviness of lower limbs.
• ▸Crackling in joints.
• ▸Stiffness in back.

Itching pimples on the skin of the neck, and of the chest—Itching below r. foot.

Much yawning and drowsiness.—Awakens with difficulty or else with a

start.—Pleasant voluptuous very vivid dreams, constantly repeated every time he takes the drug.

Coldness, numbness, trembling of hands, fingers white—Chilliness through the back

extending into arms.—Coldness pierces into interior of occiput.—Coldness in back extending into

bones of back, cold hands, blue nails.—Coldness in spine.—A small glass of Malaga wine caused

remarkable heat of body, esp. back, with distended veins.—Violent burning heat in tips of

fingers.

• ▸Appendicitis.
• ▸Debility.
• ▸Headache.
• ▸Lumbago.
• ▸Rheumatism.
• ▸Sciatica.
• ▸Sexual

excitement.

• ▸Compare Aralia rac.
• ▸, Hedera, Coca.
• ▸In "Drowsiness with headache": Brucea, Herac.
• ▸,

• ▸Gels.
• ▸, Nat.
• ▸sul.
• ▸, Nux mos.
• ▸, and Sul.
• ▸In dry lips, Bry.

Compare: Aral; Coca. Hedera-Ivy-mental depression and skin irritation antidoted by Gunpowder.

Tincture, to third potency.

Much cracking in joints on moving.—Peculiar lightness, vigour, and flexibility of

limbs in spite of much walking or a bad night.—Painful lassitude in limbs.—Bruised pain in limbs

alternating in different parts.