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 diarrhea 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.
- Diarrhea, with sudden and forcible ejection of bilious stools.
- Tenesmus after, with burning at anus.
- Ileo-caecal region sensitive to pressure.
- Profuse, watery diarrhea 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.
