Viburnum Opulus

The springs of Vichy are alkaline, both hot and cold. They are used in a large

number of maladies, especially (/) diseases of the digestive tract; (2) diseases of the liver with or

without calculi; (3) abdominal engorgements consequent on paludal fevers; (4) chronic

engorgements of the uterus; (5) catarrh of the bladder; (6) gravel; (7) gout and rheumatism; (8)

diabetes mellitus; (9) skin diseases (Constantin James). Croserio proved Vichy, taking the water,

and triturations of the salt and dilutions. His symptoms make up the Schema. Among the most

prominent symptoms were stitches: stitches below mastoid; in chest; in right loin and in heart.

Across the chest there was a sensation as of a bar impeding breathing. Sinking sensation; and

sensation as if about to be sick. Burning flatulence. In the nose there were illusions of smell;

corpse-like odour; odour of cucumbers. After coitus there was excessive weakness as if from

hunger. The symptoms are: < From cold; from draughts of air. < After eating; when eating.

(Uneasiness is > by dinner.) < When seated. < After coitus.

Very low-spirited; felt as though some misfortune about to happen; causelessly

anxious about the future.

• ▸Irritable.
• ▸Vertigo; feels as if falling forward.
• ▸Severe pain in temporal region.
• ▸Sore feeling in eyeballs.

Slight compressive pain in forehead and temples.—Painful stitching in r. temple for

some minutes.—Stitching below r. mastoid process, followed by griping in middle abdomen, then

return of stitching.—Stitches in petrous portion of temporal bone.—Pressure at occiput with

• ▸general uneasiness, as if fever were coming on.
• ▸—Stitches in occiput below 1.
• ▸tuberosity.
• ▸—Itching

of head: violent in morning on rising; in forehead.

Stinging in eyes with lachrymation.—Pain below I. eye like pressure after

breakfast.—Different coloured sparks before eyes in morning.

Coryza.—Fetid, corpse-like odour in nose, morning on rising.—Very strong smell of

cucumbers in nose, morning.

Sharp stitching between articulation of jaw and |. temple.—Twisting pain in lower jaw,

near ethmoid process, as if jaw was swollen, when masticating on that side.—Red and sore

pimples on upper lip.

Mouth very dry, with very bitter taste all day.—Saliva: abundant, immediately; salty,

with burning in stomach.—Taste: bitter and clammy; bitter in evening with thirst; bitter, morning

on rising.

Constant nausea; relieved by eating. No appetite.

Great hunger.—Keen relish —Diminished thirst (in spite of hot

weather).—Longing for wine.—Craving for food as from feebleness of stomach, with sick feeling

• ▸without hunger——Heartburn.
• ▸—Transient nausea while eating —Acidity.
• ▸—Belching.
• ▸—Pinching;

griping: burning in stomach.—After the first swallow, cutting pain throughout whole

stomach.—Burning in stomach < afternoon.

Sudden cramps and colic pains. Tender to pressure about umbilicus.

• ▸Shooting in liver.
• ▸—Compressive pain in 1.
• ▸hypochondrium.
• ▸—Emission of

burning flatulence, with slight urging to stool—Borborygmus, with gripings, during

• ▸day.
• ▸—Distension and uneasiness —Burning borborygmi.
• ▸—Griping and colic.
• ▸—Feeling of desire

for stool, only wind passes.—In evening sensation as if diarrhoea would come on, with sensation

of hunger at an unusual hour.

Stools large and hard, with cutting in rectum and soreness of anus.

Ineffectual urging to stool, only wind passes.—Very difficult stool with

copious flatulence, followed by burning and uneasiness in rectum.—Large, soft stool—Copious

diarrheeic stool.

Griping in bladder, morning.—Frequent urination during night—Urine:

abundant, watery, foamy.

Frequent urging. Copious, pale, light-colored urine. Cannot hold water on coughing or walking.

• ▸Menses too late, scanty, lasting a few hours, offensive in odor, with crampy pains, cramps extend down thighs (Bell).
• ▸Bearing-down pains before.
• ▸Ovarian region feels heavy and congested.
• ▸Aching in sacrum and pubes, with pain in anterior muscles of thighs (Xanthox); spasmodic and membranous dysmenorrhoea (Borax).
• ▸Leucorrhoea, excoriating.
• ▸Smarting and itching of genitals.
• ▸Faint on attempting to sit up.
• ▸Frequent and very early miscarriage, causing seeming sterility.
• ▸Pains from back to loins and womb worse early morning.

Leucorrheea: thick, white, and copious; thin, yellowish white after

menses; thin, colourless, except with every stool, when it was thick, white, inodorous, blood-

streaked; causing redness, smarting and itching of genitals —Sudden pain in womb and

hypogastrium before menstruation.—Pain in ovarian region.—Congested feeling in pelvic organs,

as before menses.—Bearing-down pains: in pelvic region, with uneasiness; as before menses; as

during menses, with heavy aching in sacral region and over pubes; as during menses with

drawing pains in anterior muscles of thighs, every day after 3 p.m., with occasional shooting

over ovaries, later the same, with nervousness, could not sit or lie still on account of the

pains.—Menstrual pain, with feeling as if the breath would leave her body and heart would cease

to beat—Crampy, colicky pains in both ovarian regions, extending down thighs (F1).—Slight,

deep-seated pain in r. ovarian region, extending down thigh and < by walking or exertion

(F2).—Bearing down as if menses would appear (F2).—Whole pelvis feels full and congested

• ▸(F2).
• ▸—At 4 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸heavy bearing-down pains running from back around abdomen to uterus where

pain is cramping; pressure on bladder; surprised to find herself menstruating (eight days after

previous period ceased—F3).—At intervals, distressing, grinding pains in ovaries and uterus, with

sensation as if organs were turning upside down; and as if parts were being forced through vulva;

desire to support the parts (F3).—Menses began ten days early (always regular before); pain in

back and cramps lasted throughout the period (F4).—Menses: too early, profuse and offensive;

too late, scanty, thin, light-coloured, lasting but a few hours, with lightness of head, faintness on

attempting to sit up; look like jelly; stain permanently; ceased for several hours, then four large

clots of the colour of raw beef, but as solid as liver; for two days flow like normal menses, but

with cramping pain and nervousness.—(Dysmenorrheea, excruciating colic through the uterus and

lower part of the abdomen, just preceding menstruation.—A fter-pains.—-Membranous

dysmenorrhoea.—Cramps in the calves always between the menses, < just before the period, with

scanty, delayed menstruation, dysmenorrhcea—Cramps in abdomen and legs in pregnant women,

&c.)

Strong and long-lasting erections without desire —Excessive itching:

at orifice of glans, fossa navicularis, scrotum.—Desire diminished.—Excessive weakness after

coition, as if suffering from hunger.

Dry cough produced by a pricking or tickling in the neck; followed

by fluent coryza——Cough at night with difficult expectoration.

Painful uneasiness in chest followed by expectoration of purulent matter.—Sensation

in chest as if a bar across it preventing respiration, followed by a cough with expectoration of

• ▸thick mucus.
• ▸—Tearing pain at border of false ribs on both sides.
• ▸—Stitches in r.
• ▸chest,

evenings.—Very painful stitches in r. chest, corresponding to commencement of cartilaginous

portion of two first false ribs, and extending below and behind breast towards back.

Pain as if back would break during menses.—Lame and bruised feeling in muscles of

back.—Wandering, tired pains in muscles, < h side.—Terrible clutching, cramping pain beginning

in back, extending round lower abdomen to uterus with bearing down, as if menses would appear

(lasted six days, > only when menses appeared, having missed the previous month—F1).—Tired,

bruised pain in muscles from point of scapula to wing of ilium, on both sides of spine, > firm

pressure.—Pain: in lumbar region; between 1. floating ribs and wing of ilitum, > pressure, but

must keep moving; in kidney region, < working in laboratory, > pressing across back with arms

crossed; in |. loin and |. hypochondrium, causing faintness, > warm sweat though the night was

cool; throbbing in 1. loin, < lying down, > walking with cane pressed across back: in back, loins,

and hypogastrium as if menses were coming on, < early part of evening and in a close room, >

open air and moving about.—Pain in back in region of sacrum, an "unjointed feeling" (F4).

Painful stiffness of muscles of back of neck and I. scaleni as after making a

false step; moving these parts is very painful.—Stitch in r. loin when seated, following stitch in

heart.

Bruised pain in arms.—Bruising pain in fingers and uneasiness as if a fever

were coming on, after lunch.

Stitch in r. tibia, extending from upper part of instep.

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• ▸Generalities—Uneasiness as if fever coming on.
• ▸—Weakness after coition.
• ▸—Very sensitive to

cold and draughts.

• ▸Stiff, sore feeling in nape of neck.
• ▸Feels as if back would break.
• ▸Sacral backache.
• ▸Lower extremities weak and heavy.

Pimples: on lip: back of neck, with pricking. —Pricking and itching compelling

scratching, which >, but itching returns.

Sleepy: after dinner; in evening; fatiguing dreams, but sleep more prolonged than

usual.

Chill followed by severe headache.—Dripping wet all over, with the pains.

Viburnum Prunifolium.

• ▸Viburnum prunifolium.
• ▸Black Haw.
• ▸(An American species.
• ▸) N.
• ▸O.
• ▸Caprifoliaceze.
• ▸Tincture

of fresh bark ("gathered in October and November from trees grown in open

situations."—Phares, quoted by Hale).

• ▸Bladder, catarrh of.
• ▸Constipation.
• ▸Diabetes.
• ▸Gall-stones.
• ▸Gout.
• ▸Gravel.
• ▸Heartburn.

• ▸Indigestion.
• ▸Intermittent fevers.
• ▸Liver, affections of.
• ▸Neck, stiff.
• ▸Rheumatism.
• ▸Salivation.
• ▸Skin,

affections of. Uterus, affections of.

• ▸Compare: Nat.
• ▸mur.
• ▸Stitching pains, K.
• ▸ca.
• ▸Bar sensation, Heematox.
• ▸, Ars.
• ▸, Ox.
• ▸ac.
• ▸<

• ▸From coitus, K.
• ▸ca.
• ▸, K.
• ▸bi.
• ▸, Staph.
• ▸Illusory smells, Anac.

Compare: Virburnum prunifolium-Black Haw--(habitual miscarriage; after-pains; cancer of the tongue; obstinate hiccough; supposed to be a uterine tonic. Morning sickness; menstrual irregularities of sterile females with uterine displacements). Cimicif; Cauloph; Sep; Xanthox.

Tincture, and lower potencies.