Hand Book of Materia Medica and Homœopathic Therapeutics

Vinca Minor vinc.

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General

A tincture is made of the fresh plant. Vinca minor, L., the lesser Periwinkle.

Arthritic tearing in bones. ▶ Tremulous feeling in all vessels; T. feeling, agg. upper limbs, with tendency to start, agg. exerting the mind. ▶ Empty feeling in various parts. ▶ Weakness. ▶ Most symptoms amel. moving in open air. ▶ Sadness, with fear of death. ▶ Lachrymose. ▶ Peevish and quarrelsome, soon followed by repentance. ▶ Headache. ▶ Pressure externally upon head. ▶ Vertigo, with flickering before eyes. ▶ Dullness of sinciput, agg. stooping when writing, with slow pressure towards eyes and dimness of eyes. ▶ Sticking in left temple, extending towards malar-bone. ▶ Pressure in temples. ▶ Tearing in vertex, with hammering outward. ▶ Matting of the hair. ▶ Moist eruption on scalp, with vermin, especially itching at night, with burning after scratching. ▶ Corrosive itching of scalp. ▶ Itching biting on scalp, agg. vertex.

▶ Itching of eyelids, with burning and redness. ▶ On getting snuff into the eye there was so little secretion that he was obliged to wash it out. ▶ Vision obscured when reading, also at times when walking. ▶ Ringing and whistling in ears, with feeling of a cold wind, agg. left ear. ▶ Tip of nose red from slightest cause. ▶ Eruption on septum, discharging a moisture which formed a light brown scab, the skin was dirty white, elevated, with a red areola. ▶ Dryness in nose, extending into frontal sinus, with heat. ▶ Itching in nose. ▶ Stoppage of nose, agg. one nostril, with discharge of much mucus through posterior nares. ▶ Nosebleed. ▶ Swelling of face, with papules. ▶ Pallor. ▶ Tearing in malar-bones. ▶ Swelling of upper lid and of corner of mouth. ▶ Itching of upper lip. ▶ Lips dry.

Toothache; tearing, amel. warmth of bed. ▶ Aphthæ in mouth. ▶ Salivation. ▶ Insipid taste; to all food. ▶ Hawking through the day. ▶ Ulcers in the throat (?). ▶ Sore throat, with difficulty in swallowing. ▶ Sensation of something sticking low down in œsophagus, which provokes swallowing. ▶ Hunger alternating with loss of appetite before the hunger has been satisfied. ▶ Little thirst. ▶ Empty eructations after beer, generally agg. taking liquids; violent empty E. ▶ Nausea; after coffee. ▶ Violent, copious vomiting of bitter, yellowish-green liquid. ▶ Gastric disturbances. ▶ Emptiness in stomach. ▶ Flatulence. ▶ Abdomen full, tense, but painless A. distended after stool. ▶ Rumbling, with gurgling and emission of offensive flatus. ▶ Griping. ▶ Urging to stool. ▶ Stool first hand, then soft. ▶ Stool exhausting, with burning in anus. ▶ Urine diminished. ▶ Urine pale. ▶ Excessive menstruation, with weakness.

Hoarseness. ▶ Tenacious mucus in trachea. ▶ Spasmodic cough, with little tickling in larynx. ▶ Rapid respiration. ▶ Stitches on sternum; in chest, with pain and dyspnœa. ▶ Pressure on sternum, with empty feeling in chest. ▶ Painful tension in cervical muscles, with stiffness and weight. ▶ Tearing in limbs. ▶ Inclination to stretch limbs. ▶ Swelling of first joints of fingers, with stiffness of them and with burning pain in nails. ▶ Cramplike drawing in upper arm and tips of fingers; in feet and toes. ▶ Itching moist spots on upper part of right ankle. ▶ Burning in the ulcers like bed-sores on left nates. ▶ Sensitiveness of skin, with redness and soreness, even from slight rubbing. ▶ Corrosive itching. ▶ Yawning. ▶ Sleepless and restless at night. ▶ Lascivious dreams. ▶ Sudden paroxysms of shivering. ▶ Heat, with full, hard pulse; H. in scalp, with prickling; in cheeks, without redness.

Clinical

Eczema of scalp and face, with offensive odor. ▶ Eczema matting the hair together. ▶ Bald spots sometimes become covered with very fuzzy hair. ▶ Crusta lactea. ▶ Menorrhagia, continuous flow, particularly at the climacteric. ▶ It is especially useful for hæmorrhages after the climacteric. ▶ Hæmorrhages from fibroid tumors.