Vinca Minor

Vinca was proved by Rosenburg on four healthy persons, who took the

tincture in 20- to 60-drop doses. It produced a deep impression on the organism and tissues.

Weakness and prostration accompanied many of the sufferings; the stool caused exhaustion;

great debility accompanied the uterine heemorrhage. There was "weakness as if he would die";

inclination to stretch; tremulousness and tendency to start, especially on exciting the mind; and

tremulousness in all the blood-vessels. Allied to this an empty, all-gone sensation appeared in the

stomach and chest. A corresponding deep impression was made on the tissues: blood and blood-

vessels; skin, hair, and nails; bones. In passive uterine hemorrhages Vinca has a wide range.

• ▸This case is related in /nd.
• ▸H.
• ▸R.
• ▸(ix.
• ▸113): Uterine hemorrhage, blood dark red, flow copious,

• ▸uninterrupted, with extreme debility.
• ▸Chi.
• ▸and Hel/on.
• ▸failed to relieve; Vinca 1x effected a rapid

and permanent cure. Frequent nose-bleed is another effect of Vinca. And there is a curious

symptom in connection with the nose which it is well to remember: it "becomes red from the

slightest cause; when the least bit angry." There are scabby eruptions about the nose and on the

septum, which are part of the general skin effect of the remedy. It causes corrosive itching of the

skin provoking scratching; moist spots, and burning in ulcers. The most characteristic effect is on

the scalp, where it produces a condition having many features of crusta lactea, favus, and plica

polonica. I have cured with Vinca "sore spots on the scalp" in a young lady. A number of

• ▸symptoms were produced in the throat and cesophagus.
• ▸C.
• ▸M.
• ▸Boger records this case (MV.
• ▸Coun.
• ▸,

xvi. 265): Woman, 31, had a cutting sensation in lower part of cesophagus while swallowing

food, continuing after. Empty faintness in stomach > by eating. Stomach sore to touch or

pressure of clothing. Constipation from induration of feeces. Heemorrhoids constantly sore,

smarting after stool. Vinca 41m (Fincke) cured. Peculiar Sensations are: As if a hammer were

beating from within outwards in vertex. Cold wind in ears. As if something sticking low down in

• ▸cesophagus.
• ▸As if a weight lying on cervical muscles.
• ▸As if he would die from weakness.
• ▸The left

side was most affected. A peculiar symptom was distension of abdomen after stool. "Toothache

• ▸>in warmth of bed" is unusual.
• ▸The symptoms are: < On stooping.
• ▸< Walking.
• ▸< Reading.
• ▸>

• ▸Moving in open air.
• ▸Toothache > by warmth of bed.
• ▸Drinking <: liquids (esp.
• ▸beer) = eructations;

coffee = nausea. Mental exertion <: = tremulous feeling and tendency to start.

Sadness with fear of death —Lachrymose.—Peevish and quarrelsome, soon followed

by repentance.

• ▸Tearing pain in vertex, ringing and whistling in ears.
• ▸Whirling vertigo, with flickering before eyes.
• ▸Spots on scalp, oozing moisture, matting hair together. Corrosive itching of scalp.
• ▸Bald spots.
• ▸Plica polonica.
• ▸Irresistible desire to scratch.

Whirling vertigo with flickering before eyes.—Pressure on head; in temples.—Dulness

of sinciput with slow pressure towards eyes and dimness of vision, < stooping when

• ▸writing.
• ▸—Sticking in 1.
• ▸temple extending to malar bone.
• ▸—Tearing in vertex with feeling as if a

hammer beating from within out.—Corrosive itching on the hairy scalp.—Badly-smelling

eruptions on the head, in the face, and behind the ears (breeding vermin).—The hairs are

entangled, as in plica polonica.—Hair falls out and is replaced by grey hair.—Bald spots, covered

with short, woolly hair—Humid eruptions on the head, with much vermin, and nightly itching,

with burning after scratching.

Itching and burning of lids, which become red.—Eye dry, on getting snuff into it there

was so little secretion he was obliged to wash it out.—Obscuration of vision (fog before eyes)

while reading; at times also while walking.

• ▸Tip gets red easily.
• ▸Moist eruption on septum.
• ▸Stoppage of one nostril.
• ▸Sores in nose.
• ▸Seborrhoea upper lip and base of nose.

Nose becomes red on becoming the least angry.—Tip of nose becomes red from

slightest cause.—Frequent nose-bleed.—Stoppage of nose, mostly of one nostril, with discharge of

much mucus through posterior nares.—Distressing dryness and heat in nose extending into

frontal sinuses.—Itching in nose.—Moist eruption on septum exuding moisture which forms light-

brown scab; skin dirty white, elevated, with red areola.

• ▸Bloated face, with pimples.
• ▸—Tearing in malar bones.
• ▸—Dry lips.
• ▸—Swelling of upper lip

and corner of mouth.

Tearing in teeth > by warmth of bed.—Aphthze.—Increased secretion of

saliva.—Insipid taste in mouth; to all food.

• ▸Frequent hawking through day.
• ▸—Ulcers in throat (?
• ▸).
• ▸—Sore throat, with difficulty in

swallowing.—Sensation as if something was sticking low down in cesophagus, which provokes

swallowing.

• ▸Difficult swallowing.
• ▸Ulcers.
• ▸Frequent hawking.
• ▸Diphtheria.

Hunger alternating with loss of appetite before the hunger has been

satisfied.—Scarcely any thirst—Empty eructations after drinking beer, and generally < from

taking liquid.—Nausea after coffee —Violent, bitter, copious vomiting of yellowish-green

liquid.—Gastric disturbance.—Emptiness in stomach.

Distension after a stool—Abdomen full, tense but painless —Rumbling and

gurgling, with passage of much offensive flatus —Griping.

Urging to stool.—Stool first hard, then soft.—Stool exhausting, with

burning in anus.

• ▸Excessive menstruation with great weakness.
• ▸Passive uterine haemorrhages (Ust; Trill; Secale).
• ▸Menorrhagia; continuous flow, particularly at climacteric (Lach).
• ▸Haemorrhages from fibroids.

Excessive, profuse menses, flowing like a stream, with great

weakness.—Passive uterine hemorrhage from fibroid tumour.—Passive uterine heemorrhage in

women long past their climacteric.

Hoarseness.—Tenacious mucus in trachea.—Spasmodic cough, with

little tickling in larynx.—Rapid respiration.

Pains in chest, with sticking and dyspnoea.—Pressure on sternum, with feeling of

emptiness in chest.—Stitching in sternum.

Painful tension and stiffness of cervical muscles, with an illusive sensation as if a

weight were lying on them.

Cramp-like drawing in upper arm and tips of fingers —Swelling and stiffness

of first joints of fingers, with burning pain in the nails.

Cramp-like drawing in feet and toes.

24. Generalities—Weakness as if he would die.—Tremulous feeling: in all the vessels; in upper

extremities, with tendency to start, esp. on exerting the mind.—Emptiness or hungry

feeling.—Most symptoms > moving about in open air.

• ▸Corrosive itching.
• ▸Great sensitiveness of skin, with redness and soreness from slight rubbing.
• ▸Eczema of head and face; pustules, itching, burning, and offensive odor.
• ▸Hair matted together.

Great sensitiveness of skin, with redness or soreness even from slight

irritation.—Burning in the ulcers like bed-sores on |. buttock —Corrosive itching provoking

scratching.—Itching, moist spots on upper part r. ankle.

Sudden paroxysms of shivering.—Heat with firm, hard pulse —Great warmth in scalp

with prickling.—Heat of cheeks with redness ——Tremor in every blood-vessel.

• ▸Acne.
• ▸Alopecia.
• ▸Crusta lactea.
• ▸Eczema.
• ▸Favus.
• ▸Neck, stiff.
• ▸Nose, redness of.
• ▸Plica

• ▸polonica.
• ▸Seborrhea.
• ▸Throat, sore.
• ▸Uterus, bleeding from.

• ▸Compare: Peevishness with repentance, Croc.
• ▸Crusta lactea, Med.
• ▸, Melit.
• ▸, Mez.
• ▸, jug.

• ▸r.
• ▸, Olean.
• ▸, Viol.
• ▸t.
• ▸(with strong-smelling urine), Arct.
• ▸1.
• ▸(glands swollen; axillary glands even

suppurate), Staph. (sickly children, pale face, dark rings round eyes), Ustil. (filthy eruptions, part

of hair comes out, part matted). Alopecia, Bacil., Pho.

Compare: Oleand; Staph.

First to third potency.

Inclination to stretch limbs.—Tearing pains in limbs.—Arthritic tearing in bones.