Gelsemium sempervivum. Kader Kochi.

Synonyms

Yellow jasmine, Heartbreak grass.

Constituents

Climbing Plant. Height 3 meters. Bark of root contains toxic alkaloids gelsemine, gelseminine, sempervirine, gelsemic acid, volatile oil, strychnine like principle, gum, resin, starch, and magnesium. Honey-like odour.

Therapeutics

This is medicine for pain, anxiety, and irritability at night.

It is medicine for facial neuralgia, dystonia, torticollis, sciatica, parkinsonism rigidity, spasm, convulsion, itching, chorea, tetany, and tremor.

It is cardiac depressant (Cinchona).

It is medicine for spasmodic ovarian neuralgia, hysteria spasm, and uterine colic.

It is prophylactic and curative remedy for influenza (Aconitum, Veratrum viride, Ignatia, Nux vomica; Eupatorium perfoliatum, Bryonia alba, Zingiber officinalis, Allium sativa; Ricinus communis, Tabacum)).

It is remedy for loss of muscular power, and muscle paralysis after influenza.

It is remedy for prostration and bilious headache after influenza (Viscum album, Ricinus communis).

It is remedy for orbital neuralgia, Multiple sclerosis and hysterical amblyopia.

It is remedy for drowsiness, lassitude, dullness, and vertigo. 

It is remedy for anxiety neurosis, and irritable bowel syndrome.

It is remedy for paralysis of local part (Causticum).

Its antidotes are Cinchona, Digitalis, Coffea, and Belladonna. 

It is the antidote to the spasm of Nux vomica, and Tabacum (Physostigma).

Dose

2 to 6 drops.

Dilution.