Grindelia Robusta – Gum-Plant

The mother tincture is prepared from the dried aerial parts, gathered when it is in flower, of the plant, Grindelia robusta Nutt., a native of North America, Brazil and Russia. N.O. Compositae.

The main symptoms are:

Bronchitis. Emphysema. Asthma with viscid expectoration.

A cutting pain in the spleen area can be an indication for Grindelia. There are also eruptions like roseola on the face and neck, sometimes all over the body, associated with itching and burning; there may also be vesicular and pustular eruptions.

There is a typical holding of the breath on going to sleep. The patient can only eliminate the tough mucus with difficulty, and must sit up in order to breathe, with symptoms of cardiac weakness.

Grindelia can be very useful in cases of moist asthma with copious expectoration which is difficult to shift, and concomitant digestive disorders; also in chronic bron- chitis, emphysema and cardiac asthma.

It is said to be specific in Cheyne-Stokes respiration, also in whooping cough, iri- tis and itching skin diseases. External appliation of the tincture, diluted 1:10, is said to be useful in pruritus and erythema.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Grindelia robusta, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for grindelia robusta: asthmatic diseases with viscous mucus.