Zingiber Officinale

Zng. was proved by Franz and others, and their symptoms make a full

pathogenesis. The genito-urinary and respiratory systems were strongly affected. Farrington says

ginger is not a safe food to give in kidney affections, as it has caused Bright's disease. Prolonged

retention of urine; or complete cessation of the function of the kidneys is an indication for Zng.

In the provers it produced a cheerful, good-humoured state of mind; and when this occurs when

the opposite might rather be expected, Zng. will probably be the remedy. For instance, in asthma,

Farrington gives this indication: Asthma, of gastric origin; attacks come in the night, towards

morning. Patient must sit up to breathe; but despite the severity of the paroxysm, there is no

anxiety. The nasal mucous membrane is affected as markedly as that of the lungs. Ozeena and

postnasal catarrh are among the symptoms. Like most condiments, Zng. has a specific action on

the digestive organs, causing flatulence and other symptoms of indigestion; pressure in stomach

• ▸as from a shot.
• ▸Zng.
• ▸has < from eating bread; and especially from eating melons.
• ▸It causes

diarrhoea or constipation, and sets up some irritation of the rectum. Peculiar Sensations are: As if

head too large. Confused and empty in head. As if contents of head pressed into forehead and

root of nose on stooping. As if right eye were pressing out, with headache. As if a board pressing

• ▸through head.
• ▸As if head were pressed.
• ▸As from a grain of sand in eye.
• ▸As if there were an

• ▸obstacle in throat to swallow over.
• ▸As of a stone in stomach.
• ▸Empty feeling in stomach.
• ▸As if

beaten in lower back. A shock-like moving downward as from a dropping fluid in left loin. Pain

as from weakness in sacral region. Pain as from over-work in left deltoid. As from over-strung

• ▸muscles in bend of knee.
• ▸As if going to faint.
• ▸The symptoms are: < By touch.
• ▸< Lying.
• ▸> Sitting;

• ▸standing.
• ▸Motion <.
• ▸Rising <.
• ▸Laughing and talking < headache.
• ▸< Evening and night.
• ▸>

Uncovering. < In cold air; cold, damp air. < From bread: from melons.

Cheerful, good-humoured, a pleasing sensation in her system.—Asthma without

anxiety.—Increased activity of brain —Forgetful; weak memory.—Irritable and chilly in evening

and during menses.—Nervous and fidgety.—Feet very uncomfortable, and did not know what to

do.

Foaming at mouth; free urination; spasms.—Faint, weak, wants to lie

down.—Nervous, fidgety feeling at night.

Hemicrania; sudden glimmering before eyes; feels confused and empty. Pain over eyebrows.

Vertigo, limbs heavy.—Feels confused and empty in his head.—Head feels too

large —Frontal headache (drawing and pressive pains) over eyes and at root of nose; also when

he exerts himself—Headache (pressure) < over |. eye; aching (drawing) over eyebrows, followed

by nausea; later over r. eye and pressing in |. occiput; < in warm room, but continued in cold,

• ▸damp air, in motion or sitting.
• ▸—Pressive drawing headache as if r.
• ▸eye pressing out.
• ▸—Pain

encircling head; dull, heavy pain, like a board pressing through whole head, 11 a.m.—Heavy

pressure in head from without inward, when walking in cold, damp air—Hemicrania; nervous

• ▸headache.
• ▸—Congestion of blood to head, esp.
• ▸temples.
• ▸—Itching on scalp, head, and cheeks.

Smarting and burning in eyes; sensitive to light, with stinging pain in them; feeling as

of sand in eyes.—Pressure on eyes; on 1—Weakness of sight; dimness of cornea.

Feels obstructed and dry. Intolerable itching; red pimples.

Coryza, watery, sneezing, more in open air.—Insupportable itching, tingling in

nostrils.—Dryness and obstruction in posterior nares, with discharge of thick mucus.—Ozzena.

Hot, red face —Exhausted look, blue under eyes, before menses.—Dry lips and mouth.

Slimy, bad taste in mouth in morning.—Mouth smells foul to herself, as from

disordered stomach.

Dryness of throat and difficulty of swallowing, as from an obstruction, with dryness

of posterior nares.—Increased mucous secretion; no fever.

10. Appetite-—Much thirst; mouth dry.—Headache and pressure in stomach after eating

bread.—Complaints from eating melons.

• ▸Taste of food remains long, especially of bread and toast.
• ▸Feels heavy, like from a stone.
• ▸Complaints from eating melons and drinking impure water. Acidity (Calc; Robinia).
• ▸Heaviness in stomach on awakening with wind and rumbling, great thirst and emptiness.
• ▸Pain from pit to under sternum, worse eating.

Belching and diarrhcea.—Nausea; vomiting of mucus in drunkards.—Acidity of

stomach.—Weak digestion, stomach heavy, like a stone.

• ▸Colic, diarrhoea, extremely loose bowels.
• ▸Diarrhoea from drinking bad water, with much flatulence, cutting pain, relaxation of sphincter.
• ▸Hot, sore, painful anus during pregnancy.
• ▸Chronic intestinal catarrh.
• ▸Anus red and inflamed.
• ▸Haemorrhoids hot, painful, sore.
• ▸(Aloe).

Stitches in spleen.—Unbearable sore pain on a small place in r. side of

abdomen.—Contractive pain passes through abdomen while standing; soon after, desire for

• ▸stool.
• ▸—Sharp pain in |.
• ▸iliac region.
• ▸—Great flatulency; in gouty persons.
• ▸—Constipation.

Diarrheea: from drinking impure water; of brown mucus; < mornings; <

from deranged stomach; from damp, cold weather —Diarrhcea in morning, followed by

nausea.—Belching with constipation.—Redness, inflammation, burning-itching at anus and higher

up back.

Increased secretion of urine.—Urine thick, turbid; dark brown, of strong

• ▸smell.
• ▸—Retention of urine (after typhus).
• ▸—Acute pain in orifice of urethra while urinating.
• ▸—Dull

aching in both kidneys, with frequent desire to urinate.—Dull aching, with sensation of heat in 1.

kidney; < while sitting, with frequent desire to urinate.

• ▸Frequent desire tu urinate.
• ▸Stinging, burning in orifice.
• ▸Yellow discharge from urethra.
• ▸Urine thick, turbid, of strong odor, suppressed.
• ▸Complete suppression after typhoid.
• ▸After urinating, continues to ooze in drops.

Itching of prepuce. Sexual desire excited; painful erections. Emissions.

Itching on prepuce, which feels cold.—Painful erections —Increased

sexual desire; nightly emissions.

• ▸Hoarseness.
• ▸Smarting below larynx; breathing difficult.
• ▸Asthma, without anxiety, worse toward morning.
• ▸Scratching sensation in throat; stitches in chest.
• ▸Cough dry, hacking; copious morning sputa.

Burning, smarting sensation below larynx, followed by a cough, with

rattling of phlegm, and sometimes with expectoration of thick mucus.—Asthma

humidum.—Painful respiration; < at night, must sit up in bed; < two or three hours every

morning; asthma.—Dry, hacking cough, from tickling in larynx on |. side of throat; from smarting

or scratching; with pain in lungs; difficult breathing; morning sputum, which is copious.

Stiffness of back of neck, with headache and nausea.—Backache, as from

weakness; < sitting and leaning against something; lower part of back lame, as if beaten, or from

walking or standing; feels stiff.

Very weak in all joints. Back lame. Cramps in soles and palms.

• ▸Sleepy and exhausted-coma.
• ▸—Sleepless, wakes at 3 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸; falls asleep again late in

morning.

Chilliness beginning in lower limbs, going upwards.—Chilly in evening. —Chilliness

and sensibility in open air.—Hot and chilly at same time.

• ▸Albuminuria.
• ▸Asthma.
• ▸Breath, offensive.
• ▸Deltoid rheumatism.
• ▸Diarrhoea.
• ▸Dropsy.

• ▸Flatulence.
• ▸Ozzena.
• ▸Post-nasal catarrh.
• ▸Seminal emissions.
• ▸Spleen, pains in.
• ▸Urine, suppressed.

• ▸Antidoted by: Nux.
• ▸Compare: Weight in stomach, Ab.
• ▸n.
• ▸Prepuce cold (Sul.
• ▸glans

• ▸cold).
• ▸Wakes 3 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸, Bels.
• ▸, Nux.

Compare: Calad.

Antidote: Nux.

First to sixth potency.

Dull, heavy, lame feeling in limbs; numbness.—Rheumatic, drawing pains.—Joints

feel weak, stiff, lame.