Materia Medica de A a Z

ZINGIBER OFFICINALIS (zing)

States of debility in the digestive tract, and sexual system and respiratory troubles, call for this remedy. Complete cessation of function of kidneys.

Head

Hemicrania; sudden glimmering before eyes; feels confused and empty. Pain over eyebrows.

Nose

Feels obstructed and dry. Intolerable itching; red pimples.

Stomach

Taste of food remains long, especially of bread and toast. Feels heavy, like from a stone. COMPLAINTS FROM EATING MELONS AND DRINKING IMPURE WATER. ACIDITY [Calc; Robinia (Rob)]. Heaviness in stomach on awakening with wind and rumbling, great thirst and emptiness. Pain from pit to under sternum, worse eating.

Abdomen

Colic, diarrhoea, extremely loose bowels. Diarrhoea from drinking bad water, with much flatulence, cutting pain, relaxation of sphincter. Hot, sore, painful anus during pregnancy. Chronic intestinal catarrh. Anus red and inflamed. Haemorrhoids hot, painful, sore. (Aloe).

Urinary

Frequent desire tu urinate. Stinging, burning in orifice. Yellow discharge from urethra. Urine thick, turbid, of strong odor, suppressed. Complete suppression after typhoid. After urinating, continues to ooze in drops.

Male

Itching of prepuce. Sexual desire excited; painful erections. Emissions.

Respiratory

Hoarseness. SMARTING BELOW LARYNX; breathing difficult. ASTHMA, without anxiety, worse toward morning. Scratching sensation in throat; stitches in chest. Cough dry, hacking; copious morning sputa.

Extremities

Very weak in all joints. Back lame. Cramps in soles and palms.

Relationship

Compare: Calad.

Antidote: Nux-v.

Dose

First to sixth potency.