Gossypium herbaceum
Alias: Goss., Gossypium
Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica, William Boericke
Cotton-plant (GOSSYPIUM)
A powerful emmenagogue, used in physiological doses. Homeopathically, it corresponds to many reflex conditions, depending on disturbed uterine function and pregnancy. Gossypium will relieve tardy menses, especially with sensation that the flow is about to start and yet does not do so. Tall, bloodless patients, with nervous chills.
Head.--Pain in cervical region with tendency for head to draw backward with nervousness.
Stomach.--Nausea, with inclination to vomit before breakfast. Anorexia, with uneasy feeling at scrobiculum at time of menses.
Female.--Labia swollen and itching. Intermittent pain in ovaries. Retained placenta. Tumor of the breast with swelling of axillary glands. Morning sickness, with sensitive uterine region. Suppressed menstruation. Menses too watery. Backache, weight and dragging in pelvis. Uterine sub-involution and fibroids, with gastric pain and debility.
Relationship.--Compare: Action similar to Ergot when made from fresh green root. Lilium; Cimicif; Sabina.
Dose.--Tincture, to sixth attenuation.
A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica, John Henry Clarke
Cotton Plant. N. O. Malvaceae. Tincture of fresh inner root bark, chopped and pounded to a pulp.
Clinical.─Abortion. Amenorrhoea. Dysmenorrhoea. Labia, abscess of. Ovaries, pains in. Pregnancy, vomiting of. Sterility. Tumour. Uterus, bearing down in.
Characteristics.─Gossyp. has been mainly used in affections of the female generative organs. It has been taken in the form of the extract to procure abortion. The symptoms of the external organs are strongly marked, and the ovaries are the seat of pains which come and go, and in the uterus are bearing-down pains. "Intermittent pains in the ovaries" is characteristic. The morning nausea and salivation indicate the remedy for morning sickness of pregnancy. The pains are of a stinging, drawing, tearing, and sometimes of a burning character, extending from one place to another, jumping from one place to another. Pains generally move from above downward. Pains are generally < by motion; > by rest. Sympathetic symptoms of stomach, heart, bowels, and nervous system arising from disturbance of uterine functions.
Relations.─Compare: Act. r., Apis, Asar., Bell., Bry., Lil. t., Puls., Sabi., Sec., Sep., Ustil.
SYMPTOMS.
2. Head.─Pain, first burning, then stinging, extending from both temporal bones to middle of frontal bone.─Drawing pain over eyes, with stinging pain in pupils.
5. Nose.─Nostrils swollen and inflamed.
9. Throat.─Tonsils swollen, r. <.
11. Stomach.─Nausea, with accumulation of saliva in mouth; inclination to vomit before breakfast.─Rotating pain in pit of stomach.─Anorexia, with uneasy, depressed feeling at scrobiculum cordis at time of menses.
14. Urinary Organs.─Frequent desire to urinate, with burning pains.
16. Female Sexual Organs.─Stinging pain in both ovarian regions, and at the same time drawing towards uterus, lasting about ten minutes at a time.─Soreness between thigh and vulva, with a watery secretion.─Soft-tumour between l. thigh and vulva, first as large as pea, increasing to size of pigeon's egg, secreting a watery fluid with needle-like sticking pain, < at night.─Swelling of l. labium, outer part, with intolerable itching; some swelling in r. labium.─Outer skin of both labia studded with innumerable, full, somewhat reddish granules.─Amenorrhoea.─Menses scanty and painful or painless; last twenty-four hours and then become very sparse and painful; too watery; nineteen days late.─Sterility from uterine torpor.─Morning vomiting, followed by faintness; unable to rise from bed; great distress, weakness, and prostration.
20. Back.─Pain in back.
22. Upper Limbs.─Heavy feeling in both hands, > hanging them down, < in warmth of bed.
26. Sleep.─Caused her to sleep a great part of the time.