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Ginkgo biloba (Gink-b)

Ginkgo biloba (Gink-b) appears in 147 rubrics in the Repertory. Of these, 9 are single rubrics in which only this remedy appears, and 7 are small rubrics with at most two other remedies. The emphases lie in Sadness, which forms the largest main rubric with 15 rubrics, plus Concentration, Irritability, Mistakes, Fear and Memory. The picture is that of a person whose sadness alternates between day and evening and whose concentration and memory fluctuate.

Sadness and alternation

Sadness is recorded in 15 rubrics and is often linked with an alternation. A single rubric describes the sequence: "evening – alternating with – cheerfulness – daytime". Another links sadness with obesity. Sadness further alternates with pneumonia and pleuropneumonia, which are listed in single rubrics.

Concentration, memory and mistakes

Concentration is recorded in eight rubrics, Memory in five. Mistakes that the person makes are recorded in seven rubrics. A single rubric describes absent-mindedness while driving a car. These cognitive rubrics form a separate emphasis alongside the mood.

Irritability and fear

Irritability is recorded in eight rubrics, Fear in six. A single rubric describes anger on hearing other people speak. A small rubric on impatience relates to work. The aversion to company is linked with dullness.

Hair and delusion

A striking pattern is the hair: the desire to have the hair cut is recorded in two small rubrics, one of them in children, namely short and stubbly. The delusion of being an old man is recorded in a small rubric: "being, an old man".

Summary

Ginkgo biloba appears in the Repertory as a remedy of changing sadness, accompanied by weakness of concentration and memory. Irritability, fear and absent-mindedness are added. The desire for short hair and the delusion of aging are individual, sharply set-off features of the picture.

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