Grindelia is a remedy with a wider sphere of usefulness in the case of asthma and Chronic obstructive pulmonary disorders.
It is commonly found in two varieties, Grindelia Robusta and Grindelia squarrosa. The medicinal proof from both plants are almost the same.
Grindelia belongs to the family Compositae.
The Grindelia is a genus of asteroid composite plants growing on the Pacific coast and inland in the mountains.
The grindelia plants are commonly called gum plants as the terminal heads of yellow flowers, and the leaves are usually covered with a viscid balsamic secretion; due to this reason they have been called gum plants.
A tincture of grindelia is made of leaves and unexpanded flower parts of the dried plant. Dr. Bundy proved Grindelia squarrosa.
Both Grindelia Robusta and Grindelia squarrosa have been used for similar symptoms.
There is practically no difference in their action. Grindelia is credited with more splenic symptoms, dull pains, and fullness in the left hypochondrium; chronic malaria; gastric pains associated with splenic congestion.
When a dry plant or leaves and unexpanded flowers are chopped and pounded, then the pulp is used in adequate proportion, potentized, and proved according to the doctrine of proving it becomes one of the most valuable remedies in the field of homeopathy.
It was proved and introduced to homeopathy by Dr. Bundy, Dr. Hering, and Dr. Farington.
It is a wonderful remedy from the vegetable kingdom.
Grindelia Constitution /Personality
Grindelia is a remedy best suited for people who are easily affected by respiratory disorders and coughs.
It is best suited to people who are affected by Rhus Toxicodendron overuse as it antidotes the poisonous effects of Rhus Toxicodendron.
Guiding symptoms of Grindelia
Grindelia is one of the best remedies for its action on the respiratory mucus membranes; several times it has been used in cases of asthma and bronchitis.
It is a top-listed remedy for Rhus-poisoning and heart and skin affections.
It is a wonderful remedy for headaches and ophthalmic headaches where there are intensely severe pains in the head and eyes, more on the left than the right.
It is a wonderful remedy for symptoms in the liver and spleen, the symptoms that occur as an after-effect of chronic malaria.
It has a wonderful action on the nervous system and lungs, causing great restlessness and loss of sleep.
It is a wonderful remedy for reducing the effects of an overdose of quinine. There is fullness in the head that occurs after a heavy dose of quinine.
It is a great remedy for acute rheumatism, with intense pain in the left eye and right knee joint, exactly like acute rheumatism.
It is useful for quick relief from knee pain in an acute attack of rheumatism; within 30 minutes patient feels better with Grindelia.
It is a great remedy for eye pain, which becomes most agonizing, and the pupil becomes widely dilated.
It is a remedy for ocular neuralgia that is acute and affecting the right eye.
The patient feels unbearable pain in the liver region.
It is a wonderful remedy for paralysis of the vagus nerve, which comes on falling asleep; the respiratory movement would cease and would not be resumed until the person is woken up from the resulting suffocation.
It is indicated that when the patient was awakened by asthmatic attacks, the room seemed too small as if he was choked.Â
It is found that a lotion of Grindelia is very useful as an application for itching or painful erythematous eruptions; it is also useful for bites and stings of insects.
It is a wonderful remedy for removing the fear or aversion to darkness in one patient, who wanted a light in the room all night. Symptoms are aggravated by movement, in the dark, and on falling asleep.
Grindelia Uses
This article will cover from head to toe all the complaints body. And wherever the symptoms are matched, this medicine can be used-
Mind symptomsÂ
Grindelia is a wonderful remedy for mental conditions. The person is very irritable and restless and has a fear to sleep as he is afraid he will forget to breathe.
It is a wonderful remedy for a person in a mental condition when the patient is worried and has a constant fear of darkness and needs the light on all the time at night.
Head symptomsÂ
Grindelia is a great remedy for severe headaches with terrible fullness in the head, as though from quinine.
Nose symptoms
It is a wonderful remedy for nasal congestion, chronic nasal blockage progressing to asthma, and emphysema.
Eyes symptoms
It is a great remedy for the eye; there is a painful weakness of the eyes. Redness of eyes with heaviness of head.
There is Pain in the eyeballs directed towards the head, which is aggravated by eye movements.
It is a wonderful remedy for pain in the left eye associated with right-sided rheumatism.
It is a wonderful remedy for purulent ophthalmia.
It is a top-listed remedy for Iritis that is traumatic in origin, or from the cold.
Ear symptoms
Grindelia is a wonderful remedy for earache with dull, transient pain and soreness of the middle ear.
It is a wonderful remedy for the rheumatic condition of the mastoid bone and severe neuralgic pains that last for one to two hours.
Face symptom
Grindelia is indicated in cases where the face is dull, pale, and cyanosed, as occurs due to an asthmatic attack when the patient struggles for breath.
It is a wonderful remedy for brownish spots on the face with eruptions like herpes zoster.
Throat symptom
Grindelia is indicated in conditions where there is a sore throat with sharp sticking pain in the throat.
It is a wonderful remedy for pharyngitis with a sensation as if the throat is choked and the person wakes up in sleep and struggles for breathing.
Chest symptom
It is a wonderful remedy for chest conditions where the patient is full of fear of going to sleep on account of loss of breath, which awakens him.
It is a wonderful remedy for asthma on falling asleep, respiratory movement ceases and is not resumed until awakened by suffocation resulting.
It is a top-listed remedy for humid asthma from catarrhal bronchitis.
It is a great remedy for cardiac asthma where the heart action first weakens, and then there is retarding of heart action.
It is a great remedy for bronchitis with a dry cough with tenacious mucus.
Heart symptom
A wonderful remedy for heart conditions involving a feeling of contraction, rapid heartbeat, and chest pain. It addresses increased blood pressure and conditions where the heart action first quickens and then slows.
Stomach symptoms
Grindelia is a great remedy for the stomach when there is excessive hunger, for the retching of a gastric ulcer. The appetite is greatly increased throughout.
It is a wonderful remedy for acidity where there is increased nausea.
It is a wonderful remedy for gastritis that occurs due to disturbed digestion, causing increased sugar in the urine.
It is a wonderful remedy for hyperchlorhydria when attended to asthmatic and other neurotic symptoms.
Hyperemia of gastric mucous membrane with difficult respiration and severe indigestion and acidity.
Abdomen and Rectum symptoms
Grindelia is a wonderful remedy for a distended abdomen, there is a distended feeling all over the abdomen due to inflammation of the spleen.
There is cutting pain in the region of the spleen, that is extending to the hips. It is a wonderful remedy for hypersplenism, where the spleen is enlarged after chronic suffering from malaria.
The splenic symptoms are as if there are dull pains in the left side of the abdomen and fullness in the left hypochondrium.
It is a great remedy for symptoms of gastritis that occur after chronic malaria.
It is a wonderful remedy for gastric pains associated with splenic congestion.
 It regulates a weak or irregular heart. It is especially useful when the heart feels squeezed, beats too fast, or causes chest pain. It helps stabilize blood pressure and corrects patterns where the heart starts off racing and then suddenly slows down.
Raises the blood pressure, causing unbearable pain in the region of the liver and spleen, so severe that he cannot lie still for a moment; soreness like that of acute rheumatism in the same region of the abdomen.
Urinary symptoms
Grindelia has got wonderful action on the urinary organs, the condition after chronic malaria, there is blood in urine in traces with slight pain in the right kidney, then in the left, pains are extending down the left side of the sacrum.
All the symptoms of urinary organs are associated with severe pain in the abdomen region.
Male symptoms
Grindelia has got wonderful action on male problems as they suffer severe soreness of testicles and cords and severe debility due to frequent attacks of asthma and bronchitis.
Female symptomsÂ
Grindelia has wonderful action on the female genital organs. Pruritus of the vagina and vulva, whether from leucorrhea, aphthae, or of venous origin.
Hand and Leg Symptoms
Grindelia is wonderful for rheumatism and gout with pain in the upper part of the shoulders and the region of a vertebra with typical metastasis of rheumatism; the pain is intense, and the fever is high.
Back symptoms
Grindelia is indicated to treat rheumatic pain in the back, especially while sitting, which is aggravated by lying on your back and walking.
There is a heavy sensation like a lump in the right lumbar region.
It is a great remedy for severe rheumatic pains in the region of the Sacro-lumbar joint, and through the left hip joint extending down the outer side of the left leg, ending in the front three inches above the knee.
It is a wonderful remedy for sore pain down the back with severe weakness and exhaustion.
Fever symptoms
Grindelia is a wonderful remedy for low-grade conditions that occur due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disorders.
It is a top-listed remedy for high-grade fever that occurs in metastatic rheumatism, with severe pain in joints.
The fever is with chills beginning below and creeping up the back, making it completely debilitated.
Skin symptoms
It is a great remedy for people with skin affections where the Skin is itchy and full of erythematosus rashes like roseola, covering the whole face, neck, and often the whole body, with severe burning and itching.
An effective antidote to Rhus-poisoning, locally and internally; also, for burns, blisters, vaginal catarrh, and herpes zoster
It is a wonderful remedy for dermatitis with irritable eruptions, followed by popular or vesicular eruptions.
It is a wonderful remedy for gangrene that occurs from uncontrollable sugar circulating in the blood. There are ulcers of the leg with fetid secretion, pain, and much swollen, purplish black skin.
Modalities
Modalities are the factors that increase or decrease the complaints in a patient.
They are categorized as aggravating factors and ameliorating factors.
Aggravating factors make the condition of the illness worse, while the amelioration factor improves the condition of the disease.
It can be time, any part of the day, season, position, or any application, etc.
Aggravated By
The condition Grindelia gets aggravated by movement; being in the dark; and falling asleep.
Amelioration By
The conditions of the Grindelia get better by pressure, waking up from sleep.
Relationship with Other Medicine
Complementary Medicines
This remedy completes the process of cure that is started by the first medicine given.
The remedies complementary to Grindelia are Ammonium. muriaticum, Antimonium. tartaric, Kali bichromicum; Lachesis
Similar Medicines
These remedies have many similarities in action but are different in origin, which means the source of medicines is different.
Remedies similar to Grindelia are Gelsemium.
Gelsemium has waking up feeling the heart has stopped and must keep moving to keep it going, whereas Grindelia has a feeling as if respiration has stopped.
Other remedies similar to it are Stramonium, Opium, Lachesis, and Carbo animalis.
In Dyspnea on falling asleep Grindelias is similar to Ammonium. carbonium., Antim. tart., Arum triphyllous., Badiago, Bryonia.Alba, Cadmium. Sulphuricum, Carbo. Animalis, Carbo. vegetables, Graphites, Lachesis, Nux moschata, Opium, and Ranunculosus. bulbous.
It AntidotesÂ
Grindelia antidotes the ill effects of Rhus Toxicodendron as well as other stimulants.
Antidoted byÂ
The bad effects of Grindelia are antidoted by Camphor.
Grindelia Uses, Dosage & Potencies
The dosage and potency of the medicine depend on the individual case.
Grindelia 30 Uses
Lower potency is given when very few symptoms of the patient match with the medicine and help the doctor only to diagnose the disease condition.Â
It is of great value in the treatment of rheumatism and asthma.
This potency requires frequent repetition, 3-4 times a day, till the expected result is seen.Â
Grindelia 200 Uses
This is considered as higher potency; they are given when the majority of mental symptoms and physical symptoms of Grindelia match.
Higher potencies are advisable to be not repeated very often; they act for a long duration of days, so the second dose is repeated every 7 days or every 15 days once.
Grindelia 1M Uses
This is very high potency. One should give it only after careful case analysis, where all medicinal symptoms of the Grindelia and that given by the patient match perfectly.Â
One should not repeat 1 M potencies. It is given 30 days once and waiting for symptoms to disappear.
Grindelia Q (Mother Tincture) Uses
The mother tincture of Grindelia is used by many homeopaths to relieve the symptoms associated with hemorrhages.
It is mainly used to relieve symptoms of skin eruptions, emphysema, gout, and bronchitis and should only be given when all the symptoms of Grindelia are matched with the patient’s symptoms.
Take 10 drops of mother tincture in half a cup of water three times a day till the improvement occurs.Â
Grindelia 3X/6X Uses
This lower potency of Grindelia works well to treat conditions like herpes -zoster and skin eruptions; it has a therapeutic effect on patients suffering from such conditions.
Take 2-3 drops of dilution directly on the tongue thrice a day for 3 months.
Clinical Indication of Grindelia
- Asthma
- Bites
- Bronchitis
- Cheyne-Stokes breathing
- Conjunctivitis
- Emphysema
- Erythema
- Eyes-pains
- Glaucoma
- Heart-affections
- Iritis
- Itching
- Liver- pain
- Pruritus vulvae
- Pruritus vaginae
- Rhus-poisoning
- Spleen- pain in Ulcers
Grindelia Side Effects
Homeopathic medicines are prepared by potentization where the dynamic curative power of the medication is aroused, so homeopathic medicines produce negligible side effects.
If any side effects of Grindelia are seen mostly nausea or skin rash, then it can be antidoted by Camphora.