GAMBOGIA
Gummi Gutti
(GAMBOGIA – GARCINIA MORELLA)
The use of this drug in Homeopathy has been restrained to its motion on the alimentary tract. It produces a diarrhoea very comparable to Croton. >From its pathogenesis, it is very evident that it has very excessive and particular motion specifically on the gastro-enteric tract.
Head.–Heavy, with inertia, and drowsiness. Itching and burning in eyes; lids stick together, with sneezing.
Gastro-enteric Symptoms.–Feeling of coldness at area of teeth. Great irritability of the stomach; burning, smarting, and dryness of the tongue and throat. Pain in the belly after food. Tenderness in epigastrium. Pain and distention of stomach from flatulence, after stool. Rumbling and rolling. Dysentery, with retained scybala, with ache in sacral region. Diarrhoea, with surprising and forcible ejection of bilious stools. Tenesmus after, with burning at anus. Ileo-caecal place touchy to pressure. Profuse, watery diarrhoea in warm weather, specifically ancient people. Pain in coccyx.
Modalities.–Worse, closer to night and at night.
Relationship.–Compare: Croton; Aloes; Pod.
Dose.–Third to thirtieth potency. Gamboge painted on the chest in lung tuberculosis is viewed via Abrams particular and incipient instances are symptomatically cured in numerous weeks.
