The drug "Gelsemium" refers to homeopathic medicines. It is made from a poisonous plant of the same name, which is also called virgin jasmine. What is the use of Gelsemium? Homeopathy as a type of alternative medicine involves the use of highly diluted drugs for the treatment of diseases. Back in 1867, Dr. Hall discovered the healing properties of gelzemium in the fight against influenza (influenza virus).
Today, homeopaths often prescribe the drug for various diseases, but many patients are worried about its prescription, because in the field of alternative medicine, the plant gelzemium (homeopathy) reviews have different and not always positive. Are the fears of people reading about the properties of a poisonous plant justified, or is the drug safe to use? We will understand this article.
What is the Gelsemium homeopathic remedy made of?
The drug is made on the basis of tincture from the root of the plant Gelsemium sempervirens or evergreen jasmine (another botanical name is Virgin jasmine).
At the time of the discoverer of the healing plant, people were treated with tincture of gelzemium, which turned out to be very poisonous. Compliance with a strict dosage provided safety, but there were also side effects when prescribed. Today, pharmaceutical companies produce homeopathic medicines in safe dosages. Depending on the treatment method and indications, Gelsemium is prescribed in the form of granules, drops, injection. The composition of these preparations includes plant-based raw materials and other auxiliary components.
Indications for the appointment of "Gelsemium"
The drug "Gelsemium" (homeopathy) is recommended to be taken in the following cases:
- Influenza and SARS, occurring in particularly complex forms with severe fever and blue limbs. In conditions of high, difficult to correct body temperature, weak breathing, drowsiness, weakness, lack of thirst and appetite, the drug “Gelsemium” (homeopathy) is often prescribed as an ambulance. Indications for use can also occur with any acute infectious diseases accompanied by severe runny nose, fever, headaches and malaise throughout the body.
- Psycho-emotional overload, especially accompanied by increased pressure and hypertensive crises.
- Migraine and severe dull occipital pains, as well as headaches in the frontal lobe during pressure surges.
- With Parkinson's disease at any stage. With severe muscle weakness, trembling limbs, quiet speech, weakened facial expressions.
- Paralysis of various etiologies of any localization (larynx, facial muscles, limbs).
- Herpetic, tuberculous, influenza keratitis (inflammation of the cornea of the eye) and iritis (inflammation of the iris) - any eye disease is perfectly cured by Helzemium.
- Homeopathy as a method of treating herbs in low doses with active substances allows treating eye problems such as glaucoma, strabismus, ptosis of the eyelids (omission) using the highly diluted Helzemium.
- Tonsillitis, pharyngitis, sore throat. Chronic necrotic changes in the throat and larynx.
- Laryngitis with loss of voice, to restore the work of the vocal cords.
- Bronchitis and asthma. It is especially effective in incurable cases accompanied by a feeling of fear (feeling of tightness of breath, cardiac arrest, suffocation, with loss of voice during attacks).
- Ovarian dysfunction, accompanied by severe attacks during periods of menstruation, with trembling throughout the body and cramping pains.
- Amenorrhea (absence of menstruation) in connection with psychoemotional disorders.
What other diseases can doctors prescribe Gelsemium for?
In addition to these basic indications, according to the instructions, doctors prescribe in many other cases "Gelsemium" (homeopathy). The use of the drug is possible as an effective tool for toothache, prolonged attacks of insomnia, an inexplicable feeling of fear, any breathing problems (shortness of breath, shortness of breath). For pain in muscles and joints, stiffness and in other cases of neuralgia.
According to experts of homeopaths, the drug is effective in treating alcoholism, but you need to take it in this case for a long time (at least 6 months).
How does Gelsemium affect the human body?
The extract from the plant contains potent alkaloids, the most powerful of which are: gelzemin (has a small toxic effect on the brain centers); gelzemitsin (leads to anesthesia of the motor and respiratory centers of the brain, can lead to death, as it is a strong poison); Sempervirin (a poison that acts on the muscles and leads to convulsions and convulsions).
The effect of the action of these alkaloids is in blocking the receptors and stopping the transmission of impulses to the respiratory, motor nerves.
It is no secret that only the dosage determines what is the medicine and what is the poison. Like other medicines, preparations based on gelzemium have a number of positive effects on the human body if taken in very small doses.
How is the modern drug Gelsemium dosed?
Modern medicines related to the field of alternative medicine have a special type of dosage. In a special way, the drug "Gelsemium" (homeopathy) is also dosed. The instruction to it describes various forms of release:
- granules - dosage D3, C3, C6, C12
- drops - dosage D3, C3, C6, C12
What does it mean? According to homeopathy, the letter code D corresponds to the decimal dilution scale. The value of the numbers (3, 6, 12) is the degree of dilution. This means that one drop of a clean tincture of a plant uses 9 drops of a solution (usually ethanol in tinctures). Then shake well and then from the resulting solution, again take one drop and again mix with the solvent. This is done as many times as indicated. That is, when diluting C200, the procedure is repeated two hundred times, each time adding a drop from the previous bottle to a new solution.
The letter code C corresponds to a hundredth dilution scale. This means that in drops or granules of the drug for each unit of the drug will have 99 doses of solvent.
There are still different parts of the dilution scale (thousandth M, five thousandth LM), but in Russia D and C (decimal and hundredth) are most often used.
Such dilution methods allow you to take homeopathic medicines daily for a long time without harm to health. The only negative of safe homeopathic medicines is the need to take the drug for long courses for a sustainable effect.
Is Gelsemium safe for humans?
Many sources mention the strong harm of tincture of gelzemium to the human body. However, it must be understood that this is a pure preparation that has been used for a long time in herbalists and homeopaths for complex cases of paralysis. The effect of such a medicine was very strong and had a number of contraindications.
It became possible to safely use the plant gelzemium. Homeopathy as a method of treatment with diluted drugs suggests that a drug based on it, thanks to modern dilution methods, is created with negligible concentrations of the active substance. Because of this, the desired effect can be achieved without harm to health. The use of such a medicine is simply in no way capable of leading to such serious consequences of intoxication as cardiac arrest, paralysis and so on.
All warnings apply to people who try to cure a number of diseases using folk methods and make tinctures on their own or get them from homeopathic doctors. But you need to understand that the tincture of the root of the plant is a really dangerous poison, which must be taken very carefully, carefully observing the dosage.
The constitutional type of patient for taking "Helzemium" according to homeopathy
Competent homeopathic doctors often use the method of determining the constitutional type of a patient when prescribing drugs.
Old people, as well as young people, women, children - these categories correspond to the people who are best suited for treatment, as homeopathy describes (according to the data on the plant gelzemium). Indications for use for such patients are as follows:
- For young people, children - excessive emotionality, high sensitivity, worries, fears, headaches, diarrhea in cases of severe excitement. And also with the fear of speaking to the public.
- For women, these are painful, late or scanty menstruation, cycle disruption. Severe lower back pain, cramping, severe symptoms of PMS.
- For the elderly, vascular atherosclerosis, lethargy, sluggishness, impaired memory, trembling hands, weakness and lethargic speech.