Ostrya Virginica

The Hop-hornbeam, Ostrya virginica, is sometimes regarded as a variety of

the common Hornbeam naturalised in America, though native to Southern Europe. The chief

• ▸difference between them is that Ost.
• ▸vulg.
• ▸has pendulous and Ost.
• ▸virg.
• ▸upright catkins.
• ▸The

wood, from preparations of which the provings by Burt and others were made, is exceedingly

hard and heavy. The symptoms show a marked action on the liver, with the usual dull headache

and pain in back and shoulders; cutting, sinking pains in abdomen. Allen put in italics the

following: "Tongue coated yellow at root." "Loss of appetite for breakfast and dinner." "Frequent

nausea with the dull frontal headache." On the other hand there is increased appetite; hunger

• ▸wakes the patient at 4 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸; and sinking at epigastrium.
• ▸Sickening pains were much complained

• ▸of.
• ▸Some of the stools were very black.
• ▸The symptoms were < moving; stooping; walking.
• ▸< 6

• ▸a.
• ▸m.
• ▸; 4 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸; 3 p.
• ▸m.

Light feeling in head (with stomach symptoms); < walking.—Dull headache with

numb, prickly feeling in head, face, and hands; < head.—Sharp pain from within out back of

mastoid process.—Severe throbbing frontal headache, < stooping. —Dull frontal headache with

• ▸nausea.
• ▸—Severe pressing pain r.
• ▸temple; and r.
• ▸molars.
• ▸—R.
• ▸—side headache, morning.

• ▸Boring and sharp pain in r.
• ▸lower molars.
• ▸—Tongue coated yellow at root.
• ▸—Taste:

coppery, slimy; sweet, shiny; bitter; rough.

Appetite greatly increased—Woke with hunger 4 a.m.—Loss of

appetite —Frequent nausea with the dull frontal headache.—Sour stomach.—Burning distress in

epigastrium.—Sensation as if indigestible substance in stomach; > by eating —Nausea and

distress after riding in cold air.—Hard sickening pains in epigastric and umbilical region;

awaking him at night.—Sinking in epigastrium.

Dull pain in r. hypochondrium, < by walking; with nervousness and dull

• ▸headache.
• ▸—Dull pains in r.
• ▸lobe of liver with sour eructations.
• ▸—Retraction of umbilicus.
• ▸—In

umbilical region: frequent, hard sickening, cutting pains; extending into hypogastrium; with

desire for stool; with borborygmi and tenesmus; neuralgic pain; constant distress—Rumbling;

flatus; pain waking him in night—Bowels felt as if bound by lead poisoning.

Rectum feels sore; protruded feeling after stool.—Stool: loose; bilious with

tenesmus and straining; loose without tenesmus; tenesmus followed by diarrhoeic stool; mushy

with burning at anus and tenesmus; small, natural; dark-coloured, natural; black, dry lumps 6

p.m.; very black.

• ▸Back so painful, can hardly turn in bed; cannot sit up (> by Macro.
• ▸, Bry.
• ▸, Nux).
• ▸—Dull

pain in whole dorsal region; extending into |. hypochondrium.—Constant lumbar and sacral pain,

< stooping or walking.

Awoke several times with cramp-like pain in lower limbs, <

walking.—Drawing pains in r. ankle.

Cold, chilly about shoulders—Gentle sweat over entire surface, with feeling of

weakness.

• ▸Headache, dull.
• ▸Head, numb.
• ▸Intermittent fever.
• ▸Liver, affections of.
• ▸Lumbago.

Malaria. Malarial anzemia.

• ▸Antidoted by: Macro.
• ▸, Bry.
• ▸, Nux (lumbago).
• ▸Compare: Waking in night hungry,

Ign., Lyc. Black stools, Lept.

First to third potency.

• ▸Tongue yellow; coated at the root.
• ▸Loss of appetite.
• ▸Frequent nausea, with dull, frontal headache.
• ▸Sickening pains.