Ostrya ostrya

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Ironwood

Of great value in anæmia from malaria. Bilious conditions and intermittent fever.

Tongue yellow; coated at the root. Loss of appetite. Frequent nausea, with dull, frontal headache. Sickening pains.

First to third potency.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1902

Ostrya virginica. Hop-hornbeam. Iron-wood. Lever-wood. N. O. Cupuliferæ. (Corylaceæ.) Tincture of heart wood.

Headache, dull. Head, numb. Intermittent fever. Liver, affections of. Lumbago. Malaria. Malarial anæmia.

The Hop-hornbeam, Ostrya virginica , is sometimes regarded as a variety of the common Hornbeam naturalised in America, though native to Southern Europe. The chief difference between them is that Ost. vulg . has pendulous and Ost. virg . upright catkins. The wood, from preparations of which the provings by Burt and others were made, is exceedingly hard and heavy. The symptoms show a marked action on the liver, with the usual dull headache and pain in back and shoulders; cutting, sinking pains in abdomen. Allen put in italics the following: "Tongue coated yellow at root." "Loss of appetite for breakfast and dinner." "Frequent nausea with the dull frontal headache." On the other hand there is increased appetite; hunger wakes the patient at 4 a.m.; and sinking at epigastrium. Sickening pains were much complained of. Some of the stools were very black. The symptoms were < moving; stooping; walking. < 6 a.m.; 4 a.m.; 3 p.m.

Antidoted by: Macro., Bry., Nux (lumbago). Compare: Waking in night hungry, Ign., Lyc. Black stools, Lept.

Very nervous, with dull headache.

Light feeling in head (with stomach symptoms); < walking. ─ Dull headache with numb, prickly feeling in head, face, and hands; < head. ─ Sharp pain from within out back of mastoid process. ─ Severe throbbing frontal headache, < stooping. ─ Dull frontal headache with nausea. ─ Severe pressing pain r. temple; and r. molars. ─ R. ─ side headache, morning.

Drawing pain deep in l. ear.

Moist freckles in face, head, and hands.

Boring and sharp pain in r. lower molars. ─ Tongue coated yellow at root. ─ Taste: coppery, slimy; sweet, shiny; bitter; rough.

Appetite greatly increased. ─ Woke with hunger 4 a.m. ─ Loss of appetite. ─ Frequent nausea with the dull frontal headache. ─ Sour stomach. ─ Burning distress in epigastrium. ─ Sensation as if indigestible substance in stomach; > by eating. ─ Nausea and distress after riding in cold air. ─ Hard sickening pains in epigastric and umbilical region; awaking him at night. ─ Sinking in epigastrium.

Dull pain in r. hypochondrium, < by walking; with nervousness and dull headache. ─ Dull pains in r. lobe of liver with sour eructations. ─ Retraction of umbilicus. ─ In umbilical region: frequent, hard sickening, cutting pains; extending into hypogastrium; with desire for stool; with borborygmi and tenesmus; neuralgic pain; constant distress. ─ Rumbling; flatus; pain waking him in night. ─ Bowels felt as if bound by lead poisoning.

Rectum feels sore; protruded feeling after stool. ─ Stool: loose; bilious with tenesmus and straining; loose without tenesmus; tenesmus followed by diarrhœic stool; mushy with burning at anus and tenesmus; small, natural; dark-coloured, natural; black, dry lumps 6 p.m.; very black.

Back so painful, can hardly turn in bed; cannot sit up ( > by Macro., Bry., Nux ). ─ Dull pain in whole dorsal region; extending into l. hypochondrium. ─ Constant lumbar and sacral pain, < stooping or walking.

Arms and legs: aching; dull pains.

Fine drawing rheumatic pains in l. fingers, morning.

Awoke several times with cramp-like pain in lower limbs, < walking. ─ Drawing pains in r. ankle.

Nervous, languid, weak, uneasy.

Constant desire to yawn. ─ Sleep restless, as after strong tea.

Cold, chilly about shoulders. ─ Gentle sweat over entire surface, with feeling of weakness.