Genus: Gelsemium
Common name: Yellow Jasmine. Evening Trumpetflower. False Jasmine.
Family: Loganiaceae
Gelsemium sempervirens is an evergreen twining vine which produces clusters of fragrant bright yellow tubular flowers in the spring and can grow 10 – 20 feet long. The fragrance of the flowers is pleasant but can be overpowering. Native to the southeastern United States and Central America, the Yellow Jasmine flower is South Carolina’s state flower. All parts of the plant are toxic in large doses, but Gelsemium has been used in folk medicine to treat fevers or to dull the pain. During the mid 1800s, the roots of the plant were used when distilling bootleg alcohol, resulting in the effects of accidental poisoning – trembling, terrible weakness, dizziness, profuse perspiration, convulsions, and death.
As a homeopathic remedy, Gelsemium is a top remedy for illnesses that come on slowly with symptoms of heaviness and weakness. It can be helpful in some types of fevers, flu, headaches, chronic fatigue, and congestive heart failure. People in a Gelsemium state will be dizzy, droopy, dry, dull, depressed, drowsy, and drained of all energy. Or they may have diarrhea due to dread of an upcoming event. When ill, the person does not want to be disturbed and is not thirsty.
Keynotes:
- Number one remedy for flu
- Anticipation anxiety, dread of ordeals.
- Weakness on every level – mental, emotional, and physical. Incapacitated by fatigue.
- Trembling from weakness, anticipation, fright, or bad news.
- Fear that the heart will stop beating when not moving around.
- Headache starting in the neck or back of the head and radiating to the forehead.
- Vertigo with a sensation of falling.
- Visual disturbances. Diplopia. Blurry vision due to slow accommodation.
- Drowsiness. Sleepy and exhausted during labor.
- Fever with chills running up and down the back. Chills alternating with flushes of heat.
- Heaviness of the tongue, eyelids, head, and extremities.
- Acute ailments with slow onset. Never well since the flu.
- Lack of thirst.
- Diarrhea after hearing bad news, after a shock or fright, or from anticipation anxiety.
- Better after urination.
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