Viscum Album

Rosenberg observed the effects of Voes/au on the healthy. His symptoms

constitute the Schema. The waters produce: Orgasm of blood; pressure and tension. The throat

was sensitive to swallowing warm food and drink. Nettlerash with desquamation. In males there

was sexual excitement and emissions; and in females increased secretion of mucus in genitals

and many troubles connected with menses.

Emaciation of young people—Uneasiness and unsteadiness at

work.—Increased sensitiveness, esp. to external air.

• ▸Feeling as if whole vault of skull were lifted up.
• ▸Blue ring around eyes.
• ▸Double vision.
• ▸Buzzing and stopped-up feeling in ear.
• ▸Deafness from cold.
• ▸Facial muscles in constant agitation.
• ▸Persistent vertigo.

Vertigo and whirling in head.—Reeling and tottering of whole body two or three hours

after a bath.—Congestion to head and orgasm of blood.—Heaviness of head.

Conjunctiva injected.—Pupil slightly dilated and fixed.—Pupils contracted, and at first

• ▸insensible to light (2nd d.
• ▸).
• ▸—Spectral illusions.
• ▸—Eyes sleepy, difficult to open, lids heavy

(B3).—Neuralgic pain lower part r. orbit (B).

• ▸(Deafness in 1.
• ▸ear.
• ▸).
• ▸—Hearing in |.
• ▸ear impaired, sounds muffled (B).
• ▸—Dulness of

• ▸hearing, C ear; sharp twinges of pain in r.
• ▸ear; later in 1.
• ▸(B).
• ▸—Sound as of wind in trees

• ▸(B).
• ▸—Singing in r.
• ▸ear, crackling in I.
• ▸(B).

• ▸Countenance suffused.
• ▸—Lips livid.
• ▸—Face flashed (after palpitation, B1).
• ▸—Face hot and

flushed (B).

Teeth have bled (B1).—Teeth chattered.—Mouth suddenly fills with sativa

(B).—Unpleasant taste on waking, tongue coated to tip with ochre-yellow fur (B).—Tongue

sore.—Felt starving at supper-time (B1).—Appetite ravenous (B1).

Hoarseness and dryness in throat, painful sensitiveness swallowing warm food or

drink.

Appetite is increased after the first bath —Heaviness and sensation of fulness in

stomach.—Sensitiveness and pressure in stomach after eating.

Frequent desire and frequent micturition —Urine: first days red,

afterwards watery and copious.—Increased secretion from prostate.

• ▸Haemorrhage, with pain; blood partly clots and bright red.
• ▸Climacteric complaints (Lach; Sulph).
• ▸Pain from sacrum into pelvis, with tearing, shooting pains from above downwards.
• ▸Retained placenta (Secale).
• ▸Chronic endometritis.
• ▸Metrorrhagia.
• ▸Ovaralgia, especially left.

Increased secretion of mucus from genitals—Menses: delayed;

diminished, accompanied with numerous troubles; offensive; too frequent and copious.

• ▸Dyspnoea; feeling of suffocation when lying on left side.
• ▸Spasmodic cough.
• ▸Asthma, if connected with gout or rheumatism.
• ▸Stertorous breathing.

Hoarseness and dryness in throat, painful sensitiveness on

swallowing warm food and drink.—Dry cough with slight pains in chest.

• ▸Hypertrophy with valvular insufficiency; pulse small and weak; unable to rest in a reclining position.
• ▸Palpitation during coitus.
• ▸Low tension.
• ▸Failing compensation, dyspnoea worse lying on left side.
• ▸Weight and oppression of heart; as if a hand were squeezing it; tickling sensation about heart.

Congestion to chest and other organs.—Oppression; respiration difficult, rapid, short.

Just when going off to sleep heart gave two severe thumps, then went off beating at

• ▸a great rate (B1).
• ▸—Heart gave a throb and then a pause (B).
• ▸—Palpitation during coitus (B).
• ▸—Pulse

small, quick, and very irregular.—Pulse slow, full, and bounding.

Sudden, momentary pain r. side of neck, two inches above clavicle

• ▸(B).
• ▸—Pain in |.
• ▸side of neck on turning head to |.
• ▸(B).
• ▸—Aching between shoulders (B1).
• ▸—Aching

and burning in sacral region (B1).—Lumbar pain and stiffness < on movement (B).—Creepy

shivering lumbar region (B).

• ▸Severe pain in, r.
• ▸shoulder-joint while sitting thinking, 9 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸; < on raising

arm.—Felt in dorsum of |. hand as if a large spider were crawling over it; soon afterwards felt

same sensation in dorsum of the r. hand (Proell, after 40 drops).

• ▸(Several cases of sciatica.
• ▸).
• ▸—In same winter suddenly felt in r.
• ▸foot a violent

aching pain from within outwards, that compelled him to take off his boot, as it felt too tight; this

• ▸sensation went off in an hour (Proell).
• ▸—Sharp pain in r.
• ▸buttock (B).
• ▸—Unable to sleep till 4 a.
• ▸m.

for pain in r. leg, in popliteal space and edge of tibia, as during catamenia; > moving leg about

(B3).—Burning in centre of calf, changing position of limb > but does not remove the pain

(B3).—Aching at upper and outer aspect of both calves, must keep moving them (B3).—Sharp

• ▸shoot centre r.
• ▸thigh at back (B).
• ▸—Sharp twinge of pain in 1.
• ▸tibia (B).
• ▸—Sharp twinge of pain in

• ▸ball of 1.
• ▸great toe (B).
• ▸—Stitch above r, knee (B).
• ▸—Sudden twinges of pain in lower r.
• ▸thigh and 1.

supraorbital region (B).

• ▸Pains alternate in the knee and ankle with shoulder and elbow.
• ▸Sciatica. Tearing, shooting pains in both thighs and upper extremities.
• ▸A glow rises from the feet to the head; seems to be on fire.
• ▸Periodic pains from sacrum into pelvis, worse in bed, with pains into thighs and upper extremities.
• ▸General tremor, as if all muscles were in state of fibrillary contraction.
• ▸Dropsy of extremities.
• ▸Sensation of a spider crawling over back of hand and foot.
• ▸Itching all over.
• ▸Compressing pain in feet.

Itching nettlerash on whole body after fourteen baths, ending in

desquamation.—Itching, heat, biting, esp. towards midnight, previous to the outbreak of

perspiration.

Coldness and chilliness at times changing to heat, with increased thirst—Flushes of

heat without thirst—Perspiration in bed towards morning.

• ▸Antidoted by: Camph.
• ▸, Chi.
• ▸Follows well: Aco.
• ▸(rheumatism).
• ▸Compare: Epilepsy,

• ▸Bell.
• ▸, Stram.
• ▸, Plumb.
• ▸Effects of working in water, Calc.
• ▸Chill, fright, Aco.
• ▸Uterine action, Secale.

• ▸Rheumatism, Aco.
• ▸, Bry.
• ▸, Puls.
• ▸, Rho.
• ▸, Rhus, Spi.

Compare: Secale: Convallar; Bry; Puls; Rhodod. Guipsine -active principle--(exalts the hypotensive properties of Viscum). Hedera Helix-Ivy--(Intercranial pressure).

Tincture and lower potencies.