Gastein
Bad Gastein thermal spring water · Mineral
Gastein suits debilitated individuals who need tonic stimulation of the nervous and sexual systems, particularly after exhausting illness or in states of general lassitude. The patient is prone to taking cold easily and shows contractive sensations throughout. It is suited to conditions involving calculi, varicose ulcers, membranous dysmenorrhea, and old scars that reopen.
Key symptoms
- Great sense of vitality and physical comfort spreading through the whole being
- Unusual warmth with shocks and tremors spreading through the limbs
- Strong aphrodisiac effect with increased sexual desire
- Takes cold very easily with liability to repeated infections
- Passage of stones from kidneys and bladder with calculous deposits
- All symptoms worse before a storm or during Sirocco
- Contractive sensations predominating throughout the body
Worse (aggravation)
- Worse before a storm and during the Sirocco
The hot springs of Wildbad Gastein in Salzburg, Austria, contain Sodium Sulphate predominantly, but also Silicic Acid, Potassium Sulphate and Carbonate, Lithium Chloride, Magnesium Carbonate, Ferrum Carbonate, Aluminium Phosphate, and traces of Calcium Fluoride, Strontium, Arsenicum, Titanic Acid, Rubidium, Cæsium; also free Carbonic Acid. Lapis albus is a kind of gneiss found in the spring. It is a Silico-fluoride of Calcium. Dilutions.
Clinical
Amenorrhœa. Apoplexy. Calculi. Callosities. Cold, easily taken. Constipation. Debility. Diarrhœa. Gout. Hæmorrhoids. Membranous dysmenorrhœa. Paralysis. Rheumatism. Scars. Sexual weakness. Typhlitis. Varicose ulcers.
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