Gelsemium sempervirens

Common Name: Yellow Jasmine root


Comment: A tremendous analgesic and reliever of acute pain.
Note: The whole plant is paralysant and a respiratory depressant; danger signs diplopia, ptosis, blurring of perceptions.


Purposes:   (See also Disease: Signs & Symptoms)

hyperventilation


Used In:    (See Formulas)


Properties:   

Hypoglycaemic                        
Nervine                                    
Pain analgesic                      


Contraindication(s):   Practitioner only.


Clinical:     2 ml per 100 ml tincture.

Clinicals:    

cardiac sedative                  


Constituents:   

Alkaloid, indoles. 0.5%. Including gelsemine, sempervirine, gelsemicine, gelsedine, gelseverine.
CoumarinGelsemic acid: b-methyl aesculetin. Scopoletin.
EmodinMonomethyl ether of... .
Pentatriacontane


Materia Medica:    (See Materia Medica.)

AnalgesicsNERVOUS SYSTEM
AnalgesicsMUSCULO-SKELETAL SYSTEM


 

 

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