GRATIOLA OFFICINALISLiquid

Gratiola officinalis is a significant homoeopathic medicine, prepared from the fresh plant Gratiola officinalis before flowering, belonging from Scrophulariaceae family. It has a marked action on the gastrointestinal tract, nervous system, and female reproductive organs. It is particularly known for its beneficialness in diarrhea, constipation, coccygeal pain, abdominal colic, and hysteria. This medicine suits persons who experience sudden gastrointestinal troubles, mental excitability, or nervous irritability, and is also indicated in cases of nymphomania and masturbation-related ailments. Characteristic symptoms include sensations of fullness, pressure, and uneasiness in the abdomen, as well as sudden vision disturbances and peculiar sensations in the head.

Common Name: Hedge Hyssop, Herb of Grace

SBL’s Gratiola officinalis can be helpful in the following conditions:

Gastrointestinal Disorders

• Beneficial in violent diarrhea, particularly with green, frothy, forceful stools.
• Alleviates constipation, with scanty, tenacious stools expelled with difficulty.
• Gratiola officinalis manages alternating diarrhea and constipation, with burning and stinging at the anus.
• Useful in nausea, vomiting of bile or bitter water, and cramping stomach pains.
• Relieves gastric disturbances, particularly with pressure or cold sensation in the stomach and rolling in the epigastrium.

Mental & Emotional Disturbances

• Indicated in serious, taciturn states, mental absorption, and hypochondria.
• Helpful in hysteria, loquacity, or alternating states of gaiety and melancholy.
• Suitable for patients who feel tired of life, anxious about the future, or mentally fatigued.

Headache and Vertigo

• Assists pressing and pulsating headaches, especially in the forehead and occiput.
• Relieves vertigo with blackness before eyes, worsened by motion or exertion.
• Suitable for congestive headaches with rush of blood to the head and loss of consciousness.

Dryness of Eye & Vision Problems

• Aids in dryness, smarting, and burning in the eyes, especially when reading.
• Helps in temporary loss of vision, especially when looking at light objects.
• Relieves myopia while reading and sudden visual dimness that improves with eye closure.

Dry Cough & Chest Oppression

• Supports in dry, excoriating cough, worse at night and in the morning.
• Manages oppression in the chest, burning pimples, and shooting pains on breathing.
• Palpitations after stool with anxiety and pressure in the chest.
• Nocturnal cough with tracheal pain.

Scanty Urine & Rectal Discomfort

• Indicated in scanty, turbid urine with cloudy sediment.
• Relieves burning in the urethra during and after urination.
• Assists blind hemorrhoids with burning, prolapsing tumors and anal itching.

Nymphomania and Masturbation

• Useful in stitching pain in spermatic cord and post-pollution penis pain.
• Indicated in nymphomania, masturbation-related conditions, and premature, profuse menses.
• Relieves irritability and congestion of female genital organs and shooting pain in breasts during menses.

Back and Coccygeal Pain

• Manages coccygodynia and pressing pain in coccyx after stool. Bruised pain in loins.
• Helpful in darting pain from scapula to shoulder and kidney region sticking painful sensation.

Musculoskeletal & Limb Pain

• Assists rheumatic pains in upper limbs, wrists, and elbows.
• Aids in bruised pain in thighs, shooting in legs and feet, and smarting on tibia.
• Eases tearing and cramping pain in limbs with fatigue and extreme weakness.

Scabies, Chilliness with Stupor Sleep

• Useful for scabies-like eruptions, itching with burning, and corrosive skin lesions.
• Gratiola officinalis support deep stuporous sleep, even after nervous excitation.
• Indicated in prostration, weakness, and drowsiness with frequent yawning.
• Fever states with chilliness in a warm room, facial heat, and sweat on slight exertion.