Gettysburg water
Gettysburg mineral spring water · Mineral
Suited to patients with sub-acute and chronic rheumatism and gouty tendencies. The constitutional picture features joint weakness, ligamentous rigidity, and muscular stiffness that is most notable on beginning movement but absent at rest. Symptoms are particularly pronounced in the lumbar region, hips, shoulders, and wrists.
Key symptoms
- Stringy mucus from throat and posterior nares with rawness
- Rigidity and stiffness of neck muscles and ligaments
- Weakness of joints; cannot lift things
- Subacute gouty state with high-colored urine and red sandy sediment
- White coated tongue
- Sensation of rigidity worse on moving, especially in lumbar region
- Stiffness of muscles on moving, not perceived when quiet
- Pain in ligaments relieved by rest
Worse (aggravation)
- Worse from motion (stiffness of muscles and sensation of rigidity)
- Worse in the morning
- Cannot remain long in one position
Better (amelioration)
- Better from rest (ligament pains and muscle stiffness)
- Not perceived when quiet
Stringy mucus from throat and posterior nares. Rawness. Neck muscles rigid. Joints weak. Cannot lift things. Ligaments rigid. Subacute gouty state. Evaporated and residium triturated to 6x. Of use in sub-acute and chronic rheumatism. White coated tongue. High colored urine with red sandy sediment. Sensation of rigidity worse moving. Especially in lumbar region and joints of hips, shoulders and wrists. Not perceived when quiet. More in morning. Cannot remain long in one position. Stiffness of muscles on moving. Pain in ligaments relieved by rest.
Relationship
Lycopodium, Phosphor. Rhus Pulsat, but modalities differ.
Modalities
Worse, stiffness of muscles on moving. Better, rest (ligaments and stiffness of muscles).
Dose
Lower triturations. Also thirtieth potency.
The Salt of a Mineral Spring at Gettysburg, Pa., U.S.A. Trituration.
Clinical
Bone, affections of. Hip disease. Potts'disease. Scrofula. Ulcers.
Characteristics
Magnesium sulphate is the predominant ingredient of Gettys., but the water contains many salts of alkalis, and earths with a number of metals. Lithium is contained in it. Its action is very like that of Silica (which it contains). It is indicated in caries of vertebræ or hip; ulceration of joints, when the discharge excoriates. Scrofulous children.
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