Onosmodium onos.

MUSCLES AND nerves: Eyes. Occiput. FEMALE PELVIC ORGANS. Spine.

Sprains: EYE STRAIN. Sexual excesses. Darkness. Tight clothes. Warm. Humid air.

Rest. Sleep. Eating.

Aching, sore and stiff; after the pain. Inco-ordination.

Irresolute. Confused. Forgetful. Slow thinking. Aphasia. Nervous exhaustion. Vertigo; with the headache; < lying on (l), side. Headache; occipital; screwed in, as if; < eye strain and lying on back. Pains up and down from (l), occiput to shoulder, < exertion. Migraine. Dull, heavy oppressing in occiput. Aching, heavy, tired, stiff eyes. Eye, combined with ovarian symptoms. Misjudges distances. Mushy, yellow stool. Aromatic urine. Sexual desire gone. Sexual neurasthenia. Pains alternate between ovaries. Sore ovaries and rectum. Acrid leucorrhœa. Sticky, white expectoration. Swelled, tender mammæ. Itching nipples. Tired, numb legs and popliteæ. Seems to tread on cotton. Staggering.

Related: Cimi. Hyper. Lil-t. Rhus-t.

False Gromwell (ONOSMODIUM)

Want of power of concentration and co-ordination. Vertigo, numbness and muscular prostration. Marked association of head and eye symptoms, with muscular tiredness and weariness.

A remedy for migraine. Headaches from eyestrain and sexual weakness. It produces diminution of sexual desire in both sexes; hence its homeopathicity, in sexual neurasthenia. Depressed or lost sexual life in women. Neuralgic pains. General prostration. Acts as if born tired.

Loss of memory. Nose feels dry. Confused. Dull, heavy, dizzy, pressing upward in occiput. Occipito-frontal pain in morning on waking, chiefly left side. Pain in temples and mastoid (Capsic).

Vision blurred; optic disc hyperæmic, and retinal vessels enlarged. Strained feeling in eyes; worse, using eyes. Eyes heavy and dull, muscular asthenopia; ocular muscles tense. Internal eye muscles paretic. Pain in eyeballs between orbit and ball, extending to left temple.

Severe dryness. Discharge from posterior nares. Raw, scraping. Stuffed feeling in posterior nares. Symptoms worse by cold drinks.

Craving for ice-water and cold drinks; wants to drink often. Abdomen feels bloated

Pain in dorsal and lumbar regions. Numbness and tingling in feet and legs.

Sore, aching in breasts; feels swollen and sore. Pain in heart; pulse, rapid, irregular, weak.

Constant sexual excitement. Psychical impotence. Loss of desire. Speedy emissions. Deficient erections.

Severe uterine pains; bearing-down pains; old pains return. Sexual desire completely destroyed. Feels as if menses would appear. Aching in breasts. Nipples itch. Menses too early and too prolonged. Soreness in uterine region. Leucorrhœa, yellow, acrid, profuse.

Pain in back. Tired and numb feeling in legs, popliteal spaces, and below knees. Staggering gait. Sidewalk seems too high. Pain in left scapular region. Great muscular weakness and weariness.

Worse, from motion, jar, and tight clothing. Better, when undressed, when lying down on back, from cold drinks, and eating.

Compare: Nat mur; Lilium; Gels; Ruta.

Thirtieth attenuation.

Onosmodium virginianum. False Gromwell (or Gromell). N. O. Boraginaceæ. Tincture of entire fresh plant, including root.

Amblyopia. Bladder, irritation of. Breasts, affections of; atrophy of. Colour-blindness. Debility. Diarrhœa. Diplopia. Eyes, affections of. Headache. Locomotor ataxy. Ménière's disease. Neurasthenia. Nose, dryness of. Paralysis. Pregnancy, sickness of. Presbyopia. Seminal emissions. Sexual atony, desire lost. Spine, congestion of. Throat, sore; dry. Urethra, irritation of. Uterus; cramps in; prolapse of.

Onosmodium v ., a member of an American branch of the Borage family closely resembling the British Onosma , was proved in material doses by W. E. Green, of Arkansas ( H. M ., June 1885). Its common name is "False Gromwell"; the real "Gromwell" being another Borage, Lithospermum . The most remarkable feature of Green's striking proving is the want of power of concentration or co-ordination produced by the drug. This appears in inability to concentrate thought; to focus eyes; to co-ordinate muscles; to judge the height of impedimenta on stepping. It also appears in vertigo and sensations of numbness and general muscular prostration. Next to the paretic symptoms come neuralgic pains. These are mostly of a dull, heavy aching character, and affect cervical and spinal nerves and pelvic organs — eyes; occiput; eyes to occiput; sacrum — these are the chief centres of pain; throat, bowels, breasts, heart, and limbs being also affected, the left side of the body more than the right. "Feeling of tension in the eyes, as from straining them to read small print," and "desires to have things far off to look at them," show the paralysing effect on the internal eye muscles, and give one of the keynotes of the drug's action. Onos . has probably cured more cases of headache associated with eye-strain than any other remedy since it was proved. E. S. Norton published several illustrative cases ( N. A. J. H ., i. 792): ( 1 ) Miss C., 23, suffering three years from headache. Pain especially in occiput, which feels "sore and stiff," often extending down spine, which was somewhat sensitive to touch. Dull, aching pain left side of head, occasionally with darting pain through eyes. Aching in eyes, stiff, strained feeling in them if she read more than a little, left worst. Headache < in morning, with some dizziness. The patient had some astigmatism which was corrected with glasses, and Onos . 1x at once relieved all the symptoms. ( 2 ) Mrs. D. had excessive myopia and severe headache: constant dull, stupid ache in right occiput and right eye; < when tired; from coughing; from any sudden motion. A little vertigo and strained feeling in right eye. Onos . 3x cured. Norton suggests that neurasthenia and neurasthenic headache may be met with Onos . when connected with strains of other kinds besides eye strains. He gives a case of ear headache: ( 3 ) Mrs. B., deaf nine years, four years constant roaring, hissing noise in both ears, with constant dull, pressing pain in occiput, < evening; some pain in ear, and sharp shooting pain in front of auricle; slight vertigo. Chronic catarrh of both middle ears, membranes thickened; hearing not improved by Politzerisation. Onos 1x immediately relieved all the pains, though it did not alter the hearing or noises. Green himself has published some very striking cases ( H. M ., vii. 530), with some pathogenetic symptoms as well as cures, and also gives an interesting comparative experience with attenuations. Onos . was brought to Green's notice by Dr. Durgan, presumably an eclectic or old-school practitioner; for he recommended 20-drop doses, which Green gave in the following cases: ( 1 ) Mrs. B., 50, had for three weeks vesical irritation, with tormenting tenesmus, a trouble she had had before. Onos . Ø was given, 20 drops every three hours. Within a short time Green was sent for, as the remedy produced a severe soreness and dryness of the throat . The dose was reduced to five drops, and then to three, and the trouble was entirely relieved in three days. ( 2 ) Mr. D., after operation for urethral stricture, had severe inflammation of urethra with vesical tenesmus. Onos . Ø, five drops every three hours, was prescribed, and there was decided amelioration of the symptoms in twenty-four hours. But there were these new symptoms, which promptly disappeared when the drug was suspended: "I feel as if I had been on a drunk for a week; my head aches and feels full; my mind is confused; I cannot think, remember, or keep my thoughts on my business; my legs are tired and numb, and I cannot walk well." The next case confirms these symptoms. ( 3 ) Mr. E. had the following symptoms of hyperæmia of the spinal cord: Severe pain in lower dorsal or lumbar regions coming on in night, when lying down, < towards morning, > when up and around. Constant sexual irritation, accompanied by severe erections that were also < by lying on the back. Slightly disturbed muscular co-ordination, with numbness and tingling in feet and legs. Onos. Ø, five drops four times a day, cured in a week. ( 4 ) Mrs. P. had numbness and aching of lower limbs, oppression about heart, and general muscular prostration. Heart dilated with aortic and mitral murmurs. Onos . 1x, five drops every three hours, was given. Next day there was a great improvement, but the patient was obliged to discontinue the medicine because it had developed urethral irritation . ( 5 ) Mrs. H. had severe backache in sacro-lumbar region; dull, aching soreness in uterus and ovaries; vesical tenesmus; colicky pains in bowels; slight nausea; clammy taste and white-coated tongue. Onos . 2x, five drops every four hours, was given, and rapid improvement followed. ( 6 ) Mrs. J., 45, had dull, frontal headache, extending through both temples; dizziness; pain over præcordia and crest of left ilium. Urinary discharge irritating, frequent, profuse, light-coloured, and of low specific gravity (1,010). Muscular prostration confined her to bed. Onos . 6 relieved all symptoms in twenty-four hours. ( 7 ) Mrs. M., 30, blonde. During a thunderstorm she slept in a draught, and on awaking had severe and constant roaring in both ears, with marked deafness. On attempting to get up she staggered and fell. Five days later Green saw her and found: Inability to walk, or even stand without help; constant tinnitus; loss of memory: would repeat orders she had given to servant a short time before. Vision blurred; and on looking closely at anything saw double. Pain in lower part of back and lower limbs. Felt as if treading on cotton; imagined the floor too close to her; would step too high, and by so doing jar her body. Fear of falling on going up or down stairs. Onos . 1x, one drop every two hours. Next day she was worse. The remedy was omitted for twenty-four hours, and then given in 6x, with relief from the first dose, and steady recovery. The female prover had very distressing cramps in uterus and pain in ovaries, and breast and menstrual disturbances. — J. W. Covert ( Hom. News , xxvi. 256) gave Onos . Ø, 5-drop doses every hour till relieved, to a woman who had fibroids and suffered from severe uterine cramps. The attack for which be gave it was the worst the patient had ever had, and the first dose relieved so perfectly that no second was required. — W. A. Yingling ( H. P ., xiii. 385) found out that the depressing action of Onos . extends, to the generative sphere, desire being abolished in both male and female. He quotes S. A. Jones as suggesting that this is the primary action of the drug, thereby distinguishing it from Pic. ac ., in which excitement precedes debility. Jones quotes Hahnemann's canon, that "only the primary symptoms of a drug afford the indications for its therapeutical application" (a canon which Jones endorses as far as the infinitesimal dose is concerned), and he concludes that Onos . will correspond to the developed consequences of sexual abuse and Pic. ac . to the initial step of sexual debility manifested in erethism. (Jones is a very acute observer, and his comparison has a practical basis; but I do not endorse Hahnemann's dictum, even to the limited extent Jones does.) Yingling many times verified "complete loss of desire" as a leading indication. W. J. Guernsey ( H. P ., viii. 595) greatly relieved with Onos . a man, 38, suffering from seminal emissions, the result of masturbation. The uterine pains are all > by undressing and lying on the back. A leading symptom of Onos . is dryness: of nose; of mouth; of throat. With this there is a great thirst for cold water, which > . Yingling had an interesting experience in the case of a woman to whom he gave Onos . for dryness of the nose and throat. Not only did it cure this, but it also restored the breasts, which were diminutive and almost absent, to their normal size. Yingling's results were obtained mostly from the c.m. attenuation; he had no results from the Ø, and not marked from 30. "Soreness and stiffness" are the frequent symptoms of Onos . In the occiput there is pressure upward; and the pains may go from the eye backward. With a laryngeal cough there is gluey expectoration. H. F. Ivens cured a case of headache of ten years' duration, which illustrates the modality < in the dark. The pain was in left temple and over left eye; was not < by noises, light, or use of eyes, but was < in the dark and on lying down. Pellets of Onos . Ø were given every twelve hours. The Conditions of Onos . are very distinctive, especially the ameliorations. > From cold drinks; from eating; from undressing and lying on back. The headache is an exception to this last, for it is < lying down; and is also < in the dark. < From tight clothing; from motion; from jarring. > From sleep, but only temporarily (headache).

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A tincture is made from the fresh plant.

Tremulousness from least exertion. ▶ Nervous and shaky feeling that physically and mentally unfits her for any duty. ▶ Muscles feel unsteady and treacherous. ▶ Inability to lie on left side. ▶ General aching, as if I would have a chill. ▶ Every day about 12 to 1 o'clock feeling as if I would have a chill. ▶ General distress and full feeling. ▶ Light feeling, somewhat like that caused by chloroform. ▶ Weakness; in morning with stiffness; in morning, with soreness; in morning when walking, with sore and lame feeling; with aching, stretching, gaping and disagreeable feeling. ▶ Aggravation from pressure or tightness of clothing; from motion or jar; on left side. ▶ Amelioration in open air; from quiet, lying on back, sleep, undressing, cold drinks and eating; temporary A. of all symptoms, except tired feeling in limbs, by eating.

Talkative, but in a disconnected way. ▶ Irritable. ▶ Irresolute. ▶ Desire to change the position constantly, followed by desire to lie down and be quite, with sleepiness. ▶ Impatient, my team travels too slowly. ▶ Minutes seem like hours. ▶ Feeling as if something terrible were going to happen and that she was powerless to help it. ▶ Fear to look down lest she might fall in going down stairs; that he might fall into a fire when walking by it, and in spite of all his will power he did stagger into the fire. ▶ Wants to think and not move, and thinks until she forgets everything and where she is. ▶ I write very fast, but cannot keep pace with my thoughts, before one sentence is completed I begin on another, I omit words and letters, when writing and talking I cannot concentrate my thoughts on the subject. ▶ Wish not talk or make any effort. ▶ Listless; and apathetic, as if it were impossible to think. ▶ Drowsiness and confusion. ▶ Confusion of ideas, forgets the subject of conversation, will begin a subject and before it is complete changes to another. ▶ Dull. ▶ Forgetful; that he is reading, and he drops the book in vague and listless thought.

Fulness, amel. eating and sleep. ▶ Heaviness. ▶ Cannot bear to move. ▶ Lightness. ▶ Frontal pain over eyes; agg. over left eye; over bridge of nose; in left eminence; in right eminence, changing to left, where it remained; running back into neck; heavy, and the same pain in temples and mastoid region. ▶ Pain in left temple; short, darting, in left temple; darting, throbbing, in left temple. ▶ Pain in mastoid. ▶ Dull, heavy pains in left side and over left eye, extending around to back of head and neck, agg. movement and jar, forcing her to go to bed, when they were amel. sleep, but returned soon after waking. ▶ Occipito-frontal pain in morning on waking. ▶ Dull, heavy pain pressing upward in occiput, with dizziness (Gels., Cimicif.).

Dull headache, agg. occiput region, usually extending down nape or over one side of head, generally left, with the headache usually dizziness and sometimes nausea, and either preceding or following the headache pain in or over the corresponding eye, with stiff, strained sensation in the eye, agg. reading or near vision; in another case deafness, with roaring, hissing in ears, dull, pressing pain in occiput, agg. evening, with pain in ear and shooting in front of auricle, vertigo, results of chronic catarrhal inflammation of middle ears, Onos. relieved the headache and pain in ears, but did not affect the hearing or tinnitus. ▶ A case of myopia, with dull, stupid aching in right side of occiput and right eye, agg. fatigue, coughing or sudden motion, with vertigo and strained feeling in right eye. ▶ Vertigo, with ringing in ears, inability to lie on left side or raise her hands above her head.

Pain in dorsal and lumbar regions, constant sexual excitement, severe erections, numbness and tingling in feet and legs.

▶ Pain in and over left. ▶ Feeling as if she had lost much sleep. ▶ Heaviness and dullness. ▶ Feeling of tension, as when straining them to read small print. ▶ Desire to keep them wide open. ▶ Feel tired and as if stretching them open. ▶ Feeling as if they were very wide open, and he feels as if he wanted to look at objects far away, distant objects look large, it is disagreeable to look at near objects, tense, drawing and tired feeling in ocular muscles. ▶ Optic disc hyperæmic. ▶ Retinal vessels engorged, agg. left. ▶ Aching in upper part of balls. ▶ Dull, heavy pains in balls, with soreness. ▶ Lids heavy. ▶ Pain in upper part of left orbit, with feeling of expansion. ▶ Vision impaired; blurred.

Fulness in E. ▶ Feeling in E. as in catarrh. ▶ Hearing impaired. ▶ Singing as from Quinine. ▶ Dryness of nose; with feeling as from taking cold. ▶ Pain in nasal bones. ▶ Sneezing much in morning; and left side of nose and left eye seem affected; on first getting up.

Flushed; agg. least motion or excitement; with relief of headache; with full feeling. ▶ Pain in right malar-bone where it articulates with frontal bone; darting, through right malar-bone, with numbness.

Dryness; and of lips, without thirst; amel. cold water, with scanty saliva. ▶ Clammy, sticky, feeling. ▶ Bitter, clammy taste.

Whitish sticky discharge from posterior nares, causing constant hawking. ▶ Raw scraping. ▶ Soreness lasting longer on left side; it hurts to swallow or speak; S. momentarily amel. drinking, with scraping. ▶ Constriction of pharynx when swallowing. ▶ Stuffed feeling in posterior nares. ▶ Dryness; in pharynx and posterior nares; with stiffness; in pharynx, with soreness. ▶ All symptoms amel. cold drinks and eating.

Appetite increased. ▶ Hunger after siesta; nervous, all day. ▶ Appetite and thirst diminished. ▶ Thirst for cold drinks, wants to drink often. ▶ Distaste for water. ▶ Eructations after eating; nauseous E. ▶ Nausea, with bitter, clammy taste; N. in morning, as in pregnancy.

Distended feeling; amel. removing clothing; with griping and rumbling. ▶ Colic, amel. bending backward; C. below navel; in lower part, amel. undressing or lying on back; in lower part as from ice-water; uneasy, in hypogastrium, as if diarrhœa would come on. ▶ Soreness in hypogastrium.

Shining, bloody and stringy, with tenesmus. ▶ Mushy, greenish-yellow and stringy, with tenesmus. ▶ Yellow, mushy. ▶ Hurrying him out of bed in morning.

Burning in male urethra, with itching. ▶ Pain in prostatic urethra before and after micturition. ▶ Seldom any desire to urinate. ▶ Micturition frequent, scanty. ▶ Urine scanty, high-colored, dark straw and brown, very acid, sp. gr. high, also of balsamic odor and heavily loaded with urea.

Cold feeling in glans. ▶ Desire diminished; destroyed (in a woman). ▶ Itching of vulva, agg. scratching and contact of leucorrhœa. ▶ Constant feeling as if menses would appear. ▶ Pain in ovaries, agg. pressure; cutting and throbbing P.; heavy aching and slowly pulsating pains beginning in one ovary and passing over to the other, leaving a soreness that lasts until the pains return. ▶ Uterine and ovarian pains that had not been felt for years were re-excited. ▶ Uterine cramps as from taking cold during menstruation. ▶ Uterine pains; amel. undressing and lying on back; bearing down. ▶ Soreness in uterine region, agg. clothing and pressure. ▶ Leucorrhœa light-yellowish, offensive excoriating and profuse, running down the legs. ▶ Menstruation too early and prolonged, the two next periods anticipating and profuse.

Voice husky. ▶ Hacking cough, with tough, sticky, white expectoration. ▶ Laryngeal cough, amel. drinking cold water, with expectoration of whitish, sticky phlegm. ▶ Aching in breasts, agg. left ; from left nipple through breasts; sharp, under left breast. ▶ Soreness of chest. ▶ Bruised feeling in left breast, with pain on pressure. ▶ Breasts feel swollen and engorged; feel swollen and sore, with itching about nipples.

Pain causing apprehension of death; P. in region of apex. ▶ Oppression. ▶ Depressed feeling as if it would stop beating. ▶ Action rapid, pulse full and strong.

Rapid; and irregular. ▶ Irregular and weak; and slow. ▶ Weak, and occasionally the diastole seems prolonged. ▶ With every third or fourth beat the diastole is prolonged almost to intermittence.

Pain in neck; in a spot in left scapular region; in lumbar region; over crest of left ilium; in lumbar region in morning on waking, amel. about noon; low down when walking; across lumbar region with stiffness; bearing down, in lumbar region. ▶ Sore, lame feeling in lumbar region. ▶ Tired feeling in lower part of back.

Weariness; of legs, knees and hands, with numbness; of arms and hands. ▶ Trembling of arms and hands. ▶ Aching in biceps, elbows and wrists. ▶ Sore feeling in biceps and muscles of forearm. ▶ Tired feeling in forearms and flexures of elbows. ▶ Numbness of left forearm and agg. leg. ▶ She cannot write nor use the hands well in eating, because she cannot properly co-ordinate the movements. ▶ Shooting in joints of left fingers. ▶ Pain in joints of fingers.

Staggering. ▶ Disturbance of gait, with sensation of insecurity in the step. ▶ The sidewalk seems too high, which causes him to step very high, this jars him and makes his headache worse. ▶ Numbness mostly below knees. ▶ Pain in left hip; in knees; in knees and tendons about them. ▶ Weariness and numb feeling in knees and legs; in popliteal spaces, agg. left ; deep-seated in legs and popliteal spaces. ▶ Tremulousness of legs. ▶ Aching in left calf when walking. ▶ Tingling in calves and feet, agg. left. ▶ Weariness of legs; in evening when walking, with unsteadiness. ▶ Œdematous swelling of ankles. ▶ Heavy pain in left instep. ▶ Numb tingling pain in outer side of both little toes.

Formication in calves. ▶ Sleepiness. ▶ Sleep uneasy and interrupted; restless, and walking early. ▶ Dreams many, varied, neither pleasant nor very unpleasant. ▶ Sensation as if chill would come on. ▶ Flushed feeling over whole body. ▶ No perspiration is very warm weather.

Dull heavy pain, pressing upward in the occiput with vertigo.
Pain in occiput and forehead in the morning on waking.

Clinical:
Headaches caused by straining the eyes, with strained feeling in the eye, or also associated with troubles in the ears and vertigo.

Eyes feel strained, especially on reading.
The retina and optic nerve becomes congested.
The eyeballs pain and lids are sore and heavy.