Anus, affections of. Backache. Blow, effects of. Coccygodynia. Colic. Diarrhœa. Eyes, inflammation of. Lienteria. Throat, sore. Typhlitis.

The chief reputation of Gamboge among homœopaths is as a remedy for diarrhœa. "Profuse watery diarrhœa, particularly with old people," is characteristic. Stool preceded by excessive cutting about navel; stool expelled all at once after considerable urging; and is followed by a feeling of great relief. Stools: yellow (the colour of the drug); green; bloody; lienteric. Burning in anus after stool; anus sore and excoriated. Frightful vomiting and purging, with fainting. But this action by no means exhausts the range of Gamb.; it has a number of symptoms in the eyes and throat; and also rheumatic symptoms. Pain in small of back, as if bruised or sprained. Pain in sacrum, resulting from a blow, was cured in one case of mine. Gnawing in coccyx. Burning pains are prominent. Burning in the liver. (Like many other yellow, bile-like drugs, Gamb. acts markedly on the liver.) Most symptoms are > by motion; cough > sitting up; > in open air; < towards evening or at night. There is periodicity in the symptoms. General soreness over the body.

Antidoted by: Camph., Coff., Coloc., Kali c., Op. Compare: Aloe, Podo., Puls. (cough > sitting up; > open air); Apocy. c. (stool expelled all once; but Gamb. has cutting before and > after stool); Crot. t. (Crot. has stool in one gush, but Gamb. is not < from least food or drink like Crot.).

Cheerful, talkative, feeling of case, great lightness of all his motions.

Vertigo during rest or motion, in morning on rising.─Pain in the vertex, as if bruised, in the forenoon; > in open air.─Heaviness in the head, with drowsiness and pain in the back.─Heat rises to the head, with perspiration.

Itching of the inner canthi, with discharge of acrid, corrosive tears after rubbing; > in open air.─Nightly agglutination of the lids; burning in the morning.─Violent itching of the eyes in the evening.─Burning of the eyes, > by walking in the open air.─Violent burning of the eyes and photophobia, in evening or afternoon, > from walking in the open air, but returning in the morning.

Lancination in the ears.

Sneezing (in daytime).─Violent chronic sneezing.─Ulceration of r. nostril, with burning pain.─Dryness of r. nostril.─Much mucus in the nose, smelling like pus.

Feeling of coldness in the points of the incisors.─Dry mouth.─Burning of the anterior half, or only of the tip of the tongue, which feels hard.

Violent stinging in r. side of throat.─Stinging in the r. side of the throat during and between the acts of deglutition.─Sore pain in the throat, which is felt when even touching the outer side of the neck.─Roughness and burning in throat, causing constant hawking.─The throat feels swollen.

Bitter taste in the mouth.─Nausea, with accumulation of water in the mouth and gulping up of sour water.─Nausea proceeding from the stomach.─Violent empty eructations.─Frightful vomiting and purging, with fainting.─Dartings in the stomach, causing one to start.─Acute darting, stitching pains in the stomach.─Gnawing in the stomach.─Aversion to food.─Violent thirst in the evening.─Ulcerative pain in the stomach, passing off after eating.

Empty feeling in the stomach and abdomen.─Inflation and tension in the abdomen.─Inflation and tension of the abdomen, with pinching in the umbilical region.─Gnawing in a small spot below the umbilicus.─Pinching in the abdomen and groins.─In the groins sticking, tension.─Burning in the region of the liver.─Rumbling in the bowels.

Frequent emission of flatulence; esp. evening and night.─Diarrhœa, with burning pain and tenesmus of the rectum, prolapsus ani, and constant pinching around the umbilicus, sometimes attended with discharge of mucus.─Watery diarrhœa, with colic and tenesmus.─Fæcal diarrhœa, stools evacuated with great force.─Yellow and green diarrhœic stool, mixed with mucus, preceded by excessive cutting around the umbilicus.─Hard, insufficient stool, with violent urging, pressing, and protrusion of the rectum.─Hard stool, succeeded by burning at the anus.

Infrequent urination.─Emission of a few drops at a time, then intermitting, and finally returning, with burning at the orifice.

Leucorrhœa.─Menses too early and too profuse.

Sensation of soreness in every part of the chest.─Pressure in the middle of the chest.─Stitches going from both sides of the chest towards each other.─Repeated extremely painful stitches in the sternum.

Pain in the small of the back, as if bruised or as if sprained.─Gnawing in the os coccygis.

Stitch on the top of r. shoulder.─Stinging and numb feeling in the ball of r. thumb.

Cramp in the calf, with contraction of the toes.─Heaviness and languor of the feet.

Itching and formication in various parts.─Pains, as if bruised.─Tearing in the shoulders.─Burning sensation in various parts.─Burning-stinging pain.─Increased heat, with anxiety.─Gnawing.

Intolerable itching and formication in various parts.─After scratching, burning and ulcerative pain.─Itching blisters on both hands, first pale, then red.

Drowsiness the whole day.─Sleepiness, great inclination to sleep.─Anxious, vexatious dreams.

Chill, proceeding from the back, with coldness of the whole body from evening till morning.─Chilliness is accompanied by empty eructations, yawning, thirst, pain in the small of the back, biting as of ants over the whole body (by night), excessive stitches in the ears.─Increased warmth, with anxiety and perspiration.─Night-sweat all over. Violent thirst in the evening.

Gambogia

• The action of this medicine is confined to stomach and BOWELS.

• Burnings in different organs are prominent.

• Body feels sore all over.

• Motion in open air.

• After stools.

- After stools.

• Cheerful and talkative.

• Irritable.

• Burning in eyes; itching of eyelids; he rubs them; lids stick together, with sneezing.

• Violent chronic sneezing in day time only.

• Feeling of coldness at the edge of teeth.

• Burning smarting and dryness of tongue and throat.

• Burning in liver.

• Pinching, gurgling in bowels,then sudden yellow or green.

• THIN STOOLS COMING OUT in prolonged gushes; with burning at anus; and much relief.

• Vomiting and purging with fainting.

• Urine smells like onions.

• Crot-t.

Thin yellow, faecal stools, comming out all at once, with a single somewhat prolonged effort.