Gambogia
Garcinia hanburyi (gamboge resin) · Plant · Clusiaceae
Gambogia is suited to individuals, particularly elderly persons, with violent choleraic diarrhea in hot weather. The patient experiences intense burning throughout the gastrointestinal tract with sudden, forcible expulsion of stools and marked relief after defecation. There is periodicity in symptoms, and burning pains are prominent throughout.
Key symptoms
- Profuse watery diarrhea especially in elderly people in hot weather
- Stool preceded by excessive cutting around navel, expelled all at once
- Burning pain and tenesmus at anus after stool
- Sudden and forcible ejection of bilious stools
- Inflation and tension of abdomen with flatulence
- Itching and burning in eyes with agglutination of lids
- Pain in coccyx and sacrum
Worse (aggravation)
- Worse towards evening and at night
Better (amelioration)
- Better from motion
- Better sitting up
- Better in open air
Gummi Gutti (GAMBOGIA - GARCINIA MORELLA)
The use of this drug in Homeopathy has been confined to its action on the alimentary tract. It produces a diarrhœa very similar to Croton. >From its pathogenesis, it is very evident that it has very intense and definite action especially 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 edge of teeth. Great irritability of the stomach; burning, smarting, and dryness of the tongue and throat. Pain in the stomach after food. Tenderness in epigastrium. Pain and distention of abdomen from flatulence, after stool. Rumbling and rolling. Dysentery, with retained scybala, with pain in sacral region. Diarrhœa, with sudden and forcible ejection of bilious stools. Tenesmus after, with burning at anus. Ileo-cæcal region sensitive to pressure. Profuse, watery diarrhœa in hot weather, particularly old people. Pain in coccyx.
Modalities
Worse, towards evening and at night.
Relationship
Compare: Croton; Aloes; Pod.
Dose
Third to thirtieth potency. Gamboge painted on the chest in lung tuberculosis is considered by Abrams specific and incipient cases are symptomatically cured in several weeks.
Gamboge. Gummi Gutti. N. O. Guttiferæ. Tincture of the resinous gum obtained from a tree (Garcinia morella) native to China.
Clinical
Anus, affections of. Backache. Blow, effects of. Coccygodynia. Colic. Diarrhœa. Eyes, inflammation of. Lienteria. Throat, sore. Typhlitis.
Characteristics
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. …
Anus and Stool
Thin yellow, faecal stools, comming out all at once, with a single somewhat prolonged effort.
Phatak's chapter on Gambogia is available in the app.
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