GELSEMIUM SEMPERVIRENS 30

Action of Medicine:

• For children, young people, especially women of a nervous, hysterical temperament.
• Weakness and trembling; of tongue, hands, legs; of the entire body.
• The anticipation of any unusual ordeal, preparing for church, theatre, or to meet an engagement, brings on diarrhoea; stage fright, nervous dread of appearing in public.
• Headache: beginning in the cervical spine; pains extend overhead, causing bursting sensation in forehead and eyeballs.
• Chill without thirst, especially along spine, running up and down the back in rapid.
• Worse- before a thunderstorm, emotion, or excitement, bad news, tobacco-smoking, when thinking of his ailments; at 10 am.
• Better- bending forward, by profuse urination, open air, continued motion, stimulants.

Reference: Boericke’s New Manual of homeopathic Materia Medica with Repertory