Gymnocladus Canadensis

The most peculiar symptom of the Gymnocl. proving is a bluish-white coating

• ▸of the tongue.
• ▸Guided by this symptom C.
• ▸T.
• ▸Bingham cured a man of headache following

influenza "a constant severe pain in front part of head, especially under eyebrows and upper part

of nose." It had lasted over two weeks, never ceasing and at times intolerable. Bones of eye-

sockets sore to touch. Tongue covered all over with bluish-white coat; does not enjoy food; is

• ▸very weak.
• ▸Gym.
• ▸2x cured.
• ▸Full, tight headache appears in the proving, with sensation as if the

eyes were pushed forward. The fulness takes actual shape in "erysipelatous swelling of face and

head; hot face; it feels swollen; is compelled to rub the eyes." Full sensations and burning pains

are very common. Toothache from slightest cold air or drink. Sore throat, dark livid redness of

fauces and tonsils. There are a number of fever symptoms: Desire for heat, wants to be near the

• ▸fire.
• ▸Cold chills and pains in bowels.
• ▸Perspiration in axillary regions and palms.
• ▸Epidemic fevers

of typhoid character have been cured by it. Violent pain in left forearm as if the bones were

crushed. There is aversion to motion; easily fatigued; desire to lean the head on something.

Walking <. Cold <, cold drinks and cold draughts <. > From rubbing eyes.

Dizzy with dimness of sight; nausea, belching.—Head feels full, tight as if bound

up.—Intense frontal headache, eyes feel pushed forward.—Fulness and pressure in and over eyes,

extending to vertex.—Intense headache with stitches in bowels; in umbilical region at

times.—Catarrhal headache, premonitory stages; feeling of fulness in head, with throbbing in

temples and forehead, with vertigo, heat of face, numbness and tired feeling —Desire to lean the

head on something.

Eyes feel pushed forward —Burning heat and pain through eyes; sore in

• ▸morning.
• ▸—Desire to rub the eyes.
• ▸—Sense of agglutination of |.
• ▸eye; desire to rub or scratch

it.—Violent throbbing pain over I. eye.

Sensation as of flies crawling over face. Erysipelas. Great sensibility of teeth.

Sensations as if flies were crawling over r. side of face —Erysipelatous swelling of face

and head; face feels hot and swollen; is compelled to rub the eyes.—Pain as if bruised in |. malar

bone.

Tongue coated bluish-white—Burning, drawing, and scraping; burning in roof of

mouth, extending to mouth and tonsils.

Great sensibility of teeth; < 1. side and in upper teeth; slightest draught of cold air

induces it; cold drinks very painful.

Sore throat, dark, livid redness of fauces and tonsils.—R. tonsil inflamed,

purple.—Stitching and shooting in throat—Mucus in throat and frequent hawking.

• ▸Sore; dark livid redness of fauces and tonsils.
• ▸Sticking pain.
• ▸Mucus in throat and hawking.
• ▸Tickling, with dry cough.

Belching of sour water.—Nausea after eating with pain and fulness in stomach

and belching.—Burning in cesophagus and stomach.—Circumscribed burning in stomach size of

dollar.

Pain in |. side as if spleen were swollen.—Soreness and tenderness of

abdomen.—Stitches in bowels and umbilical region.

Pressure on bladder and frequent desire to urinate; urine passed in small

stream.

Smarting in larynx.—Tickling in throat in morning causing cough,

increasing through day; cough dry, hard, and racking.—Pressure on chest and sternum.

Violent pain in |. forearm, in radius, as if bones were crushed and

broken.—Pulsation in |. index finger as if panaritium were forming.

Gunpowder.

Black Gunpowder. Carbon-Sulphur-Kali-Nitricum.

• ▸Abscesses.
• ▸Acne.
• ▸Bites.
• ▸Blood-poisoning.
• ▸Boils.
• ▸Carbuncles.
• ▸Cuts, poisoned.
• ▸Ivy

• ▸(Hedera) poisoning.
• ▸Osteo-myelitis.
• ▸Tonsillitis, septic.
• ▸Vaccinosis.
• ▸Worms.

Characteristics——Black Gunpowder is a mixture and not a chemical compound. But for all that,

it is a unit, and can be used as such in medicine. As it contains three potent remedies, two of

them polychrests, there is little wonder at its medicinal powers. A fourth substance may have

some share in its working, as a correspondent of The Homeopathic World writes that Graphites

is used in its manufacture to give a coating to the grains. In its crude form it is an old-established

remedy among the rank and file in the Army for gonorrhcea, syphilis, and blood disorders in

general, especially boils. The London Police Force also know it as a boil remedy. "Get six-

pennyworth of gunpowder from an oil store and take as much as would lie on a sixpence night

and morning for four days, and then leave it off for the same time, and resume if necessary" is

one prescription which has reached me for recurrent boils from the "Force." Canon Roland

Upcher has related the experiences of Norfolk and Suffolk shepherds, who sprinkle gunpowder

on their bread and cheese to cure and prevent infection when handling sheep affected with "rot."

There is no proving of Gunpowder, but I made an experiment on myself with the 2x, as I have

mentioned in my article on Kali nitricum in my Dictionary of Materia Medica. This resulted in a

severe attack of herpes of right eyebrow and side of the nose, leaving permanent scars. I have

used almost exclusively the 3x trituration, which I have prescribed in 4- , 6- , or 8-grain doses,

three or four times a day, either in the form of powder or tablets. In August 1915 I put the

recorded experiences into the form of a pamphlet, Gunpowder as a War Remedy, and since then

many more experiences have seen the light, principally in the pages of The Homeopathic World.

The indications for the remedy are broad and clear, so that no fine differentiating of symptoms is

required. The list of diseases named under "Clinical" will be a sufficient guide, coupled with the

broad indication "Blood-poisoning." Gunp. corresponds to suppuration in a great number of

forms, many of them septic. I have not found it disagree with any other remedy, so that there

need be no fear of alternating it with some other remedy if particularly indicated.

Canon Upcher has recently published cases of skin eruption mistaken for scabies by medical

men, but actually produced by handling ivy, and quickly cured with Gunp. 3x. In some country

districts a decoction of gunpowder is given to children for worms, lumbrici chiefly, and with

much success.

Canon Upcher finds that occasional doses of Hepar highly increase its effects.

Calendula externally is also complementary. Thuja, Silica, Baryta carb. (septic tonsils) agree

very well.

Compare: Lachnant; Laches; Ailanth; Rhus.

Lower attenuations.