ZINGIBER OFFICINALE

Ginger


  • States of debility in the digestive tract, and sexual system and respiratory troubles, call for this remedy. 
  • Complete cessation of function of kidneys.

Head

  • Hemicrania; sudden glimmering before eyes; feels confused and empty. 
  • Pain over eyebrows.

Nose

  • Feels obstructed and dry. 
  • Intolerable itching; red pimples.

Stomach

  • Taste of food remains long, especially of bread and toast. 
  • Feels heavy, like from a stone. 
  • Complaints from eating melons and drinking impure water. 
  • Acidity (Calc; Robinia). 
  • Heaviness in stomach on awakening with wind and rumbling, great thirst and emptiness. 
  • Pain from pit to under sternum, worse eating.

Abdomen

  • Colic, diarrhea, extremely loose bowels. 
  • Diarrhea from drinking bad water, with much flatulence, cutting pain, relaxation of sphincter. 
  • Hot, sore, painful anus during pregnancy. 
  • Chronic intestinal catarrh. 
  • Anus red and inflamed. 
  • Hemorrhoids hot, painful, sore (Aloe).

Urinary

  • Frequent desire to urinate. 
  • Stinging, burning in orifice. 
  • Yellow discharge from urethra. 
  • Urine thick, turbid, of strong odor, suppressed. 
  • Complete suppression after typhoid. 
  • After urinating, continues to ooze in drops.

Male

  • Itching of prepuce. 
  • Sexual desire excited; painful erections. 
  • Emissions.

Respiratory

  • Hoarseness. 
  • Smarting below larynx; breathing difficult. 
  • Asthma, without anxiety, worse toward morning. 
  • Scratching sensation in throat; stitches in chest. 
  • Cough dry, hacking; copious morning sputa.

Extremities

  • Very weak in all joints. 
  • Back lame. 
  • Cramps in soles and palms.

Relationship

  • Compare: Calad.
  • Antidote: Nux.

Dose

  • First to sixth potency.