Condensed Materia Medica

Viburnum Opulus vib.

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Mind

Decreased.
Unable to concentrate mind on usual mental labor.

Sensorium

Vertigo: inclines to turn to left; on rising, as if he would fall forward; on closing eyes.

Inner Head

Dull frontal headache; and throbbing, extending to eyeballs, worse mental exertion, better moving about.
Frontal headache, occasional vertigo, incapacitates for study; with profuse and frequent urination.
Dull, heavy headache, mostly over eyes, worse on left side, at times extending to vertex and occiput, principally when delayed menses should appear; worse sudden jar, bending over, false step, movement.
Severe pain in left parietal region, sharp, penetrating brain, worse every cough, moving head, when bowels move.

Eyes

Heaviness over eyes and in balls, must, at times, look twice to be sure of seeing an object.
Eyes burn; profuse flow of tears.
Sore feeling in eyeballs.

Ears

Sharp, jerking pains as from knife.
Wakens at night with pain in ears, deep in bone.
External ear sore as if bruised; cannot lie on it; must rub ear, it feels as if pinned to head.

Face

Flushed and hot.

Tongue, etc

Dry; broad and white, centre brown, takes print of teeth.
Taste: coppery; disagreeable.

Mouth

Lips and mouth dry.

Nausea and Vomiting

Constant nausea; also relieved while eating; followed by vomiting.
Deathly sick at stomach as if could not live, every night; worse least motion.

Stomach

Food lies heavily.
Stomach felt faint and nauseated, must lie down (for ten days after menses cease).
Goneness as if empty.
Aching, better stretching body and throwing stomach forward.

Hypochondria

Spleen: darting pain deep-seated; feels as if hot fluid was running through splenic vessels, better walking about room.
Intense pain in splenic region, faintness, better by sweat.
Severe throbbing pain under left floating ribs, better from hard pressure and walking; cannot lie on left side.

Abdomen

Tender and sensitive, worse about umbilicus.
Cramping colicky pains in lower abdomen, almost insupportable, coming suddenly and with terrible severity.

Stool, etc

Constipation: stools of large, dry, hard balls; voided with such difficulty as to need mechanical aid; much tenesmus; or, inactive rectum.
Dark blood after stool.
Diarrhœa profuse, watery, with chills, and at same time, cold sweat that rolls off of forehead.

Urine

Urine: clear, profuse, frequent; sensation after micturition as if urine was still flowing, during menses and also with headache.

Male Sexual Organs

Seminal emissions without dreams.

Female Sexual Organs

Before menses: severe bearing down, drawing in anterior muscles of thighs; heavy aching in sacral region and over pubes; occasional sharp, shooting pains over ovaries; pains make her so nervous she cannot sit still; excruciating, cramping, colicky pains in lower abdomen, and through womb; pains begin in the back and go around, ending in cramps in uterus.
During menses: nausea; cramping pain and great nervous restlessness; flow ceases for several hours, then returns in clots. Flow scanty, thin, light-colored, with sensation of lightness of head, faint when trying to sit up. Spasmodic or membranous dysmenorrhœa.
Leucorrhœa thin-yellow, white or colorless, except with the stool, when it is thick, white, blood-streaked.

Pregnancy

Threatened abortion; intense cramp in uterus and bearing down; or, pain around from back, ending in excruciating cramp in lower abdomen (many cases).

Neck and Back

Neck stiff, with pain in occiput.
Tired, bruised pain in muscles of back, from point of scapula to wing of ilium on each side, better from firm pressure.

Limbs in General

Buzzing feeling in hands, as if they would burst.

Position, etc

Walking: 18. Moving: 3. Rising: 1. Lying: 17. Stretching: 17. Sitting up: 23.

Sleep

Restless, unrefreshing.

Time

Worse evening and night: 6, 16.

Temperature and Weather

Worse in a warm room.
Better in open air.

Chill, Fever and Sweat

Chill from 8 to 1 A.M., or 12 M. followed by severe headache.

Sides

Left side most affected.

Contact, Injuries, etc

Pressure: 6, 18, 31. Sudden jar: 3.

Relationship

Compare: Cauloph., Act. rac., Gelsem., Sepia, Chamom., Secale, Xanthox., Coccul., Pulsat., Symphoricarpus (uterine nausea).
Viburnum, in a threatened abortion, relieved; but renewed symptoms differing only in the appearing of an irritable, peevish state of mind, required Chamom., which cured.