GRATIOLA OFFICINALIS

Hedge Hyssop


  • Acts especially on gastro-intestinal tract. 
  • Chronic catarrhal conditions, leucorrhea and gonorrhea. 
  • Obstinate ulcers. 
  • Useful in mental troubles from overweening pride. 
  • Especially useful in females. 
  • Nux symptoms in females often met by Gratiola.

Head

  • Sick headache. 
  • Rush of blood with vanishing of sight. 
  • Sensation as if brain was contracting and head became smaller. 
  • Tightness in forehead, with wrinkles in skin. 
  • Eyes dry, burn. 
  • Myopia.

Stomach

  • Vertigo during and after meals; hunger and feeling of emptiness after meals. 
  • Dyspepsia, with much distention of the stomach. 
  • Cramps and colic after supper and during night, with swelling of abdomen and constipation. 
  • Dysphagia for liquids.

Stool

  • Diarrhea; green, frothy water, followed by anal burning, forcibly evacuated without pain. 
  • Constipation, with gouty acidity. 
  • Hemorrhoids, with hypochondriasis. 
  • Rectum constricted.

Sleep

  • Insomnia.

Female

  • Nymphomania. 
  • Menses too profuse, premature, and too long. 
  • Leucorrhea.

Modalities

  • Worse, drinking too much water.

Relationship

  • Compare: Dig; Euph; Tab; Cham; Ammon pic; Nux vom.

Dose

  • Second to third potency.