Homeopathic Remedy Gelsemium Sempervirens

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Gelsemium Sempervirens

Gelsemium is used medicinally for fevers. Persons needing gelsemium feel heavy and tremble with exhaustion. They can also be thirsty. Complains come on very slowly, often when then weather changes from cold to warm.

Use Gelsemium to stop those constantly runny noses, colds where there is a sense of fullness at base of nose, dull headache, sneezing. A good cold and flu remedy.  Great for Hay-fever too.

The roots of Gelsemium Sempervirens are analgesic, antispasmodic,  sedative and vasodilator. A powerful depressant of the central nervous system, deadening pain and reducing spasms. Gelsemium is said to suspend and hold in check muscular irritability and nervous excitement with more force and power than any known remedy. Whilst it relaxes the muscles, it also relieves all sense of pain. It is used internally in the treatment of neuralgia, migraine, sciatica, toothache, severe pain and meningitis. Externally it has been used as a folk remedy for cancer. The root is best harvested in the autumn and dried carefully for later use.