Viola Odorata

The Violet was introduced by Gross and proved by Hahnemann, Gross, and

Stapf. Gross says of his symptoms that they recurred equally in all positions, were mild, yet more

definitely felt than from other drugs. Hahnemann had bruised pain in all the bones in the

morning, in bed after waking, > after rising. Stapf had relaxation of all the muscles. The mind

• ▸was greatly excited and disturbed, and V.
• ▸od.
• ▸found its first uses in hysterical cases.
• ▸Aversion to

music, especially the violin, is one of the peculiar symptoms. There is increased activity and rush

of ideas, generally confused: "Can only grasp half an idea; puts it in its proper place but cannot

• ▸hold it.
• ▸" A keynote symptom of V.
• ▸od.
• ▸is Tension: "Tension of the occiput and forehead";

"Tension of the scalp of occiput even when not moving, though < bending head forward and

backward; painful, compelling him to wrinkle forehead; lasting several days." Gross experienced

the former and Stapf the latter of these. The following is from Gross: "Tension which at times

extends to upper half of face, especially of nose, thence to forehead and temples, as far as ears,

• ▸alternating with a similar sensation in occiput and cervical muscles.
• ▸" Cooper (H.
• ▸M.
• ▸, xxix.
• ▸154

• ▸and 640) has illustrated the action of V.
• ▸od.
• ▸on the head and eye by a case: Miss X.
• ▸had for

twenty years attacks of fearful headache which began suddenly and without apparent cause at

intervals of a week or more. The pain was throbbing under right temple and eye, sometimes

flying for a short time to the other side. Vision very defective, especially on dull, wet days;

chronic choroiditis had been diagnosed by one prominent oculist. On September 11, 1893, a

• ▸single dose of V.
• ▸od.
• ▸R was given.
• ▸Next day the patient had a headache, not in the usual place,

but quite at the vertex. After this there were no severe headaches and very few threatenings.

General health improved and the sight also; the pain and irritation, which were formerly

distracting, disappeared. Cooper ordered discontinuance of glasses. On March 10, 1894, there

was a rather pronounced attack of headache, with sick feeling, at the time of the period; "the first

day the pain was through my head, the second day about an inch or two above the right ear."

• ▸Another dose of V.
• ▸od.
• ▸R was sent.
• ▸From this time the cure went steadily forward.
• ▸Appetite and

strength increased, and sight gradually became normal. On May 11, 1894, the patient wrote, "I

• ▸am quite well, and my sight is in splendid order.
• ▸" Cooper considers V.
• ▸od.
• ▸has a very specific

relation to the lateral sinuses and their vasomotor nerves. Symptoms of the proving show a

"decided pitch" on the interior of the eyes: "Oppression in the eyeballs; heat and burning of the

eyes"; "Fiery appearances (a fiery semicircle) before the eyes"; "Stinging in the eyes." Cooper

• ▸has also published an ear case treated with Viola (H.
• ▸M.
• ▸, xxix.
• ▸154): A child of seventeen months

had been affected with recurring otorrhsa of both ears (< right) from birth; and two other

children of the same parents were said to have died from discharges of the ears, coming on in the

• ▸same unaccountable manner.
• ▸V.
• ▸od.
• ▸R, one dose, was given, and the next day a great quantity of

ills-smelling discharge came from the right ear, with immediate improvement in the child's

condition; from being drowsy and listless she became bright and intelligent. Thereafter both

• ▸discharge and deafness disappeared.
• ▸Ear affections with pain about the orbits indicate V.
• ▸od.
• ▸V.

od. has cured a number of cases of rheumatism, chiefly right-sided. It has a marked affection for

the wrists, especially the right. Cooper considers it Suited to "dark-complexioned people of the

Fer. pic. type"; Hering says to "tall, thin, nervous girls"; to "mild, impressive girls of fair

complexion"; and to "tuberculous patients." Teste, who used Viola frequently, described the type

as "a lymphatico-nervous temperament, a mild disposition, dry and cool skin." Many patients

cured by him were tall and slender. [The cure of Lady Margaret Marsham, 67, of an affection of

the throat pronounced to be malignant (apparently epithelioma of tonsil), with an infusion of

• ▸Violet leaves is on record (H.
• ▸W.
• ▸, xxxvi.
• ▸556).
• ▸Boiling water was poured on the fresh leaves and

allowed to stand twelve hours. Compresses moistened with this were applied externally to the

throat and covered with oil-silk. Relief of pain, dysphagia, and suffocative symptoms was

immediate. The external swelling disappeared in a week, the growth on the tonsil in a fortnight. ]

Peculiar Sensations are: As if everything in head whirled around. As if eyeballs were

compressed. As if nose had been beaten and blood were pressing out. As if hard palate were

dried up. As if a stone were lying on chest. Burning like a small, transient flame in spots here and

• ▸there.
• ▸The symptoms are: < Bending head backward and forward.
• ▸< By day (cough).
• ▸< From

• ▸music.
• ▸Bone pains > after rising in morning.
• ▸< Cold room (hoarseness).
• ▸< Dull wet day (vision).

Sombre melancholy and sadness.—Hysterical humour, with constant weeping, without

• ▸knowing why.
• ▸—Aversion to conversation.
• ▸—Great weakness of memory and forgetfulness.
• ▸—Great

concourse (excessive flow) of unsettled and confused ideas.—Insane confusion, childish

behaviour, disobedience, refusing nourishment, talks in a low, soft voice.—Remarkable

perspicuity and great activity of brain.—Predominance of intellect over feeling. —Increased

activity of the intellect.

• ▸Burning of the forehead.
• ▸Vertigo; everything in head seems to whirl around.
• ▸Heaviness of head, with sensation of weakness in muscles of nape of neck.
• ▸Scalp tense; must knit the brows. Tendency to pain immediately above eyebrows.
• ▸Throbbing under eye and temple.
• ▸Headache across the forehead.
• ▸Acts upon frontal sinuses.
• ▸Hysterical attacks in tuberculous patients.

Dull and painful confusion in the head.—Turning vertigo, also when

seated.—Headache, sometimes with cramps in eyes and luminous circles before sight.—Drawing

in |. frontal eminence.—The head feels heavy and sinks forward; sensation of weakness in

muscles of nape.—Rush of blood to head, with prickings in sinciput (forehead).—Tension in

integuments of the head, extending into face, nose, and ears, frequently causing a knitting of the

brows.—Burning in forehead.

• ▸Heaviness of lids.
• ▸Eyeball feels compressed.
• ▸Flames before eyes.
• ▸Myopia.
• ▸Choroiditis.
• ▸Illusions of vision; fiery, serpentine circles.

Cramps in eyelids.—Closing of eyes as from drowsiness.—Heaviness of

• ▸eyelids.
• ▸—Sensation as if eyeball were compressed.
• ▸—Pupils contracted.
• ▸—Heat and burning

• ▸sensation in eyes.
• ▸—Myopia.
• ▸—Flames before eyes.
• ▸—(Chronic choroiditis with fearful throbbing

• ▸headache under r.
• ▸temple.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Caused styes on r.
• ▸eyelids in a case of Cooper's.
• ▸—(Vision

dim, < on dull, wet days).

• ▸Shooting in ears.
• ▸Aversion to music.
• ▸Roaring and tickling.
• ▸Deep stitches beneath ears.
• ▸Deafness; otorrhoea.
• ▸Ear affections with pain in eyeballs.

Shootings in (and around) ears.—Aversion to all kinds of music, principally

violin.—Murmuring and tinkling before ears —(Discharges of both ears with deafness

• ▸disappeared after one dose of R.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Brings on a discharge that has stopped; or heals a

• ▸discharge in a few days (R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).

Hot forehead.—Pain in face, with drawing pressure in zygomatic process.—Tension in

integuments of face, esp. above eyes.—Tension below eyes and above nose, extending to

temples.—Tearings in (1.) lower jaw in direction of ear.

Constipation, with ineffectual want to evacuate.-—Helminthiasis.—Itching

of anus every afternoon.

Milky urine; smells strong. Enuresis in nervous children.

• ▸Torpor in the end of nose, as from a blow.
• ▸Dry, short, spasmodic cough and dyspnoea; worse in daytime.
• ▸Oppression of chest.
• ▸Pertussis, with hoarseness.
• ▸Dyspnoea during pregnancy.
• ▸Difficult breathing, anxiety and palpitation, with hysteria.

Hoarseness, followed by coryza.—Dyspnsa with violent cough; < in

daytime.—By day chiefly, in long-lasting spells, dry, short, violent cough, with much

dyspnsa.—Whooping-cough in nervous, thin little girls —Sputum profuse, clear, ropy, jelly-

like.—Respiration difficult, and scarcely perceptible, with painful expiration, excessive anguish,

and violent palpitation of heart.—Shortness of breath.

Violent oppression of the chest and dyspnSa, with pressure on the chest, as by a

stone.

Tension in muscles of the neck.—Jerking drawing in cervical muscles, near

nape, extending down, < lying on opposite side.

Slight trembling of arms; dyspnsa.—Rheumatism of upper limbs; deltoid; of

• ▸r.
• ▸carpal and metacarpal joints.
• ▸—Drawing pain in elbow-joint and back of hand.
• ▸—Pressive, aching

pain in the wrists, esp. r.

Sdematous swelling of lower limbs with stitching pains.

24. Generalities—Congestion of blood to single parts—Troubles of or on |. ear—Burning and

flushes of heat in different parts.—Great nervous debility.—The sufferings are mild, but still well

defined, and the same in all positions—Yawning every morning, with lachrymation.—The patient

lies on the back while asleep at night, with the |. hand passed above the head and the knees bent;

contrary to his habit.

Rheumatism of the deltoid muscle. Trembling of limbs. Pressing pain in right carpal and metacarpal joints. (Ulmus).

Dry, warm skin, want of sweat; only palms moist; measles running an irregular

course.—Transient burning here and there in small spots.

Yawning: and stretching without sleepiness; every morning so that eyes fill with

water.—Sleepiness in eyes, lids will close —Lies on back in sleep with 1. hand over head, knees

bent and lying far to side.

Chilly disposition.—Forehead hot.—Transient burning, here and there, as if it

concentrated in a small spot and burned there like a small flame.—Febrile shuddering.—Night-

sweats.

• ▸Cancer.
• ▸Choroiditis Cough, spasmodic; by day.
• ▸Hoarseness.
• ▸Hysteria.
• ▸Neuralgia,

• ▸supra-orbital.
• ▸Otorrhsa; suppressed.
• ▸Rheumatism.
• ▸Seminal emissions.
• ▸Styes.
• ▸Whooping-cough.

Wrists, rheumatism of.

Antidoted by: Camph. Compatible: In whooping-cough, Coral.; in helminthiasis,

• ▸Cina.
• ▸Compare: Pain in right wrist, Act.
• ▸spi.
• ▸, Bry.
• ▸Ropy sputa, K.
• ▸bi.
• ▸Weakness of muscles of

• ▸neck, Ver.
• ▸, Ant.
• ▸t.
• ▸< Music, Nux, Sep.
• ▸, Ph.
• ▸ac.
• ▸, Aco.
• ▸, Nat.
• ▸c.
• ▸, Puls.
• ▸[Cooper has pointed out a

close relationship between the Violaceé and the Rubiacec, notably between Viola and Ipecac.

• ▸Both Viola and Ipec.
• ▸have been used externally as remedies for stings and snake-bites (H.
• ▸W.
• ▸,

xxxvi. 249).] Teste puts Viola in the Chelidonium group, and finds a striking analogy between

these two remedies.

Compare: Ulmus (formication in feet, numb, creeping pain in legs and feet; rheumatic pains above wrists; numbness, tingling, and full soreness where gastrocnemius gives off its tendon); Chenopodium (ears; serous or bloody effusion in the labyrinth; chronic otitis media; progressive deafness to the voice, but sensitive to sounds of passing vehicles and other sounds; buzzing; absent or deficient bone conduction; a consciousness of the ear; hearing better for shrill, high-pitched sounds than for low ones); Aur; Puls; Sep; Ign; Cina; Cauloph (in rheumatism of small joints).

First to sixth potency.

Rheumatism of r: side; motion of r. side almost impossible.—Bruised pain in all

bones in morning in bed, after waking, disappears after rising.—Relaxation of all the

muscles.—Drawing pains in limbs.—Pain as if broken in all joints on waking in

morning.—Trembling of limbs.