Valeriana Officinalis

Valerian. Valerianaceas.

A native of Europe, where it groAVS in damp woods and meadows, or on dry, elevated ground. The root is collected in Spring or Autumn.

The alcoholic tincture is prepared from the powdered dry root.

Introduced by Franz.

Provings by Hahnemann, Franz, Gross, Stapf, etc., Stapf's Beitrage; Jorg, Provings, 1825; Abell, Post. Med. and Surg, Jour., 1856, p. 117.

Clinical Authoeities.— J?a//«cma^7'o7is, Schweikert, A. H. Z., vol. 109, p. 29; Dlarrhcea of children, Kkht., Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 435; Pain in lumbar region, Pettit, Med. Adv., vol. 2, p. 14; Coxalgia, Stens, B. J. H., vol. 15, p. 131 ; Sciatica, Stens, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 908 ; Nash, Hah. Mo., vol. 24, p. 60 ; Hysteria, Hartmann, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 290; Spasms, Marsden, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 4, p. 599; Ague, Pettit, Med. Adv., vol. 2, p. 13.

^ Mind. Easy comprehension ; intellect predominates over mind.

Passes quickly from one subject to another; hysteria.

Intellect confused ; replies incoherentl3^

I I Erroneous ideas ; thinks she is some one else, moves to edge of bed to make room ; imagines animals lying near her which she fears she may hurt. ^Typhoid fever.

Ecstasy.

I I Mild delirium, with great excitement and trembling. ^Typhoid.

Fear, especially evening in dark, palpitation, trembling.

Changeable ; hypochondriacal anxiety, or trembling exci- tability.

■ Hysteria, overexcitable, changeable disposition and ideas.

Great melancholy and irritability; morose, easily exas- perated.

I Hallucinations, particularly at night; sees figures, ani- mals, men, etc. '^ Sensorium. i Feels light as if flying in air.

Vertigo, with a sensation as if flying.

Vertigo when stooping.

Oversensitiveness of all senses. ^ Inner Head. Headache appearing suddenly or in jerks.

Pressing as from a stupefying constriction in forehead, drawing into orbits ; face pale ; < evenings, at rest, and in open air; > from movement, in room, and from changing position.

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One-sided drawing headache from a draft of air. Headache in sun.

■ Violent pressure in forehead, followed in a few minutes by sticking in forehead, and especially over orbits; soon sticking changes into pressure, and so on in constant alternation; sticking is like a -darting tearing, as if it would pierce eyes from within outward. Sensation in head of great coldness; hysterical subjects. • Nervous headaches. * Outer Head. Sensation of icy coldness in vertex when pressing firmly with hand, or when covering it with hat. ^ Sight and Eyes. Vivid light like lightning, accompanied by dark spot to side of line of vision.

Frequent flashes of light before eyes, with dilated pupils. Luminous appearance before eyes in evening, in dark. Better from light; < in dark.

Expression of eyes peculiarly wild ; hysterical neuralgia.' Edges of lids inflamed, with biting stinging. Pressure in eyes only in morning on rising ; margins of

eyelids seem swollen and sore. Smarting in eyes as if occasioned by smoke. Long-lasting nervous diseases of eye ; eye has a wild look

and sight is much confused. ^Hysteria. St^^es. ''Hearing and Ears. Nervous affections of ears, with ring- ing and hissing ; jerking and cramping pains ; hyper- sesthesia. ^ Upper Face. Cheeks red and hot, especially in open air. Fierce pains through 1. side of face, darting into teeth

and ear ; muscles twitch ; hysterical neuralgia. Facial pains appearing suddenly and in jerks. Spasmodic twitching and drawing in cheek bones. AVhite blisters with elevated red base on cheek and upper

lip, painful to touch. I I Twitching of muscles of face. ^Hysterical neuralgia. ^ Lower Face. Lips incrusted. ^° Teeth and Gums. Stinging pain in teeth. " Taste and Tongue. Taste as of rancid tallow. Tongue thickly coated, foul.

I I A greasy taste in mouth, with uneasiness in throat. ^^Neuralgia of limbs. '^ Inner Mouth. Flat, slimy taste in mouth on waking. '^Throat. Nausea, mostly in throat.

I I Sensation as if a thread were hanging down throat, with salivation and vomiting. ^Hysteria. "Appetite, Thirst. Desires, Aversions. Voracious hun- ger, with nausea. Worse on an empty stomach, > after breakfast.

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'^Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting. Eructa- tions: like putrid eggs, morning on waking; frequent, empty.

Heartburn, with gulping up of rancid fluid, which, how- ever, does not rise into mouth.

Nausea : with sensation as of a string hanging down throat; beginning in umbilical region, rising into pharynx ; with faintness, lips white, body icy-cold. '^ Scrobiculum and Stomach. Pressing aching in pit of stomach, as from something forcing a passage through it. ^Neuralgia of limbs.

Cardialgia, with sleeplessness and migrating pains.

Sudden warm rising from epigastrium, with difficult breathing. ^Hysteria. ^* Hypochondria. Spleen affections.

jpain about lower ribs. ^^ Abdomen. Abdomen bloated, distended, hard.

I Colic: hysterical, especially evening in bed; after din- ner ; from hemorrhoids ; from worms.

Involuntary inclination to draw abdomen in, on account of cutting and pinching pain.

Plysterical cramps in abdomen, most frequently evenings in bed, and after dinner; not > in any position. ^^ Stool and Rectum. Discharge of ascarides.

I Thin, watery diarrhoea, with lumps of coagulated milk ; diarrhoea of children.

I Greenish papescent stool, passing wnth blood; constant pressing and violent screaming; diarrhoea of children.

I I Nightly itching ; muscular spasms ; sleeplessness.

^ Worms. Bubbling pressure above anus in region of coccyx. ^' Urinary Organs. Urine increased and more frequent. During urination, much straining and prolapsus recti. Sediment of urine red or white. ^* Female Sexual Organs. Menses too late and scanty.

Neurasthenia of sexual organs of women. 2* Pregnancy. Parturition. Lactation. ■ Child vomits as soon as it is nursed, after mother has been angry.

I I Child vomits curdled milk, in large lumps, the same in stools.

^^Respiration. Choking in throat pit on falling asleep; wakens as if suffocating.

Inspirations grow less deep and more rapid until they cease; then catches her breath by a sobbing effort, in spells. ^Spasmodic asthma.

On sitting down to meals a sensation of constriction in pharynx, as if in chest, with a suffocating feeling, fol- lowed by frequent yawning.

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A sensation as if something warm were rising from her stomach, arresting breathing, with tickling deep in throat, and cough.

I I Paroxysm commences with a very rapid, convulsive movement of diaphragm, giving rise to extreme inha- lations somewhat resembling panting of a dog. ^Spas- modic asthma. ^^ Inner Chest and Lungs. Frequent jerks and stitches in chest, with a sensation as if something pressed out, < in lower part of chest.

When walking, feels a pressure over lower half of chest, with oppression of breathing.

Sudden stitches in chest and region of liver, from within outward.

I I Stitches in 1. side and arm. ■^^ Heart, Pulse and Circulation. Stitches in region of heart.

Pulse rapid, somewhat tense, or small and weak. ^^ Neck and Back. Spine irritated, in beginning of typhoid fever.

Pain in loins as from cold or overlifting.

Bubbling pressure above anus, in coccygeal region.

Intense pain in 1. lumbar region above hip, as if he had strained part, < standing, especially sitting. ^' Uppei^ Limbs. Rheumatic pains in scapulae.

Darting along arms, shoulders and face; hysterical neu- ralgia.

I In muscles of 1. arm from shoulder to fingers, a very painful drawing mixed with single stitches; a sort of tearing.

Crampy darting tearing, like an electric shock, repeatedly through humerus, in bone, intensely painful.

I Crampy drawing in region of biceps, in r. arm, from above downward, when writing. ^^ Lower Limbs. ' iPain in hip and thigh intolerable when standing, as if thigh would break. ^Sciatica.

Crampy tearing (tearing- darting) pain in outer side of thigh, extending into hip.

Twinging pain in outer side of calf when sitting.

When laying r. limb across 1., tearing in 1. calf.

Acute crampy tearing pain in posterior muscles, especially those of calf, > in morning and when rubbing affected part; < toward evening and when quiet.

■ Violent drawing, darting, jerking pains in limbs, which appear suddenly ; < sitting; > from motion; strained feeling in lumbar region ; lumbago.

Pulsative tearing in r. calf when sitting, in afternoon.

Drawing and weak feeling along tendo-Achillis, toward heel, as if part had lost all strength, when sitting; dis- appearing when rising from a seat.

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Transient pain as if strained in r. ankle ; pain came on after running up stairs fast; it was most felt when stand- ing; > when walking. Sudden pain as if bruised in outer malleolus of r. foot ; feels pain more when standing.

Drawing in tarsal joints when sitting.

When sitting, heels, especially r. heel, feel painful. I I Constant pain in heels.

I i Sciatica of r. side ; < when straightening out limb, espe- cially while standing, could stand at her work with com- parative comfort if she stood with foot of affected side upon a chair. I I Obstinate coxalgia of nine months' duration; pain greatly < by standing, with feeling as if thigh would break.

A feeling of lightness in leg after walking. ^* Limbs in General. Rheumatic pains in limbs, rarely in joints ; < during rest after previous exertion ; > from movement.

Arms and legs move normally, but when at rest, jerk and twitch. ^Hysteria.

Slow i)ainful drawing and jerking, as if in bones of upper

and lower extremities, when sitting quietly. I I Constant jerking of limbs. ^Hysterical neuralgia.

Heaviness like lead in limbs, a drawing, feels as if he must move limbs, but cannot. ^^Rest. Position. Motion. Rest: headache <; cramp in calf; rheumatic pain <; arms and legs twitch.

Sitting: pain in lumbar region < ; twinging in calf; pain in limbs <; pulsative tearing in r. calf; drawing, weak feeling along tendo-Achillis ; drawing in tarsal joints; pain in heels; drawing and jerking in bones of limbs.

Stooping: vertigo.

Standing: pain in lumbar region <; pain in hip and thigh intolerable; pain in r. ankle <; sciatica <; cox- algia <.

Changing positions: headache >.

Laying r. limb across 1.: tearing in 1. calf.

Motion: headache > ; pain in limbs >; rheumatic pain > .

Straightening out limb: sciatica <.

Writing: crampy drawing in r. biceps.

Walking: pain in r. ankle >; lightness in leg, after.

Running up stairs: pain in r. ankle. '^Nerves. Ecstasy, overexcitable, changable disposition and ideas; jerking, twitching, trembling; a sensation as if something warm were rising from stomach, arresting breathing, with tickling deep in throat, and cough ; feels a sensation as if a thread were hanging down

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oesophagus from pharynx ; fearfulness, tremuloiisness and palpitation of heart. ^Hysteria.

■ Agitation of all nerves; jerks, twitches, trembling.

I lOversensitiveness of all senses.

I I Hysterical complaints.

Drawing in many places, now here, now there, like tran- sient jerks.

Restlessness and spasmodic movements of limbs ; stagger- ing gait.

■Spasms after slight injuries.

■ Nervous affections when apparently well-chosen remedy

fails ; defective reaction ; slightest exertion causes vio- lent headache, slightest pain fainting; warm sensation rising from stomach into throat, with globus hystericus; pains simulating rheumatism in limbs, < sitting, > walking about; hysterical women I I Severe shooting pains in 1. side of face, teeth, ear and arm ; complete sleeplessness ; convulsive tossing about of limbs; twitching of muscles of face; lips covered with a crust; thick dirty-looking coating on tongue, edges of which were torn by teeth during convulsions; gloomy expression ; eyes staring, restless, wild ; during conversation, eyes wander from object to object, and she does not understand questions; menses normal; wanders about house.

■ Great excitement and trembling. /^Typhoid fever.

^^ Sleep. Sleepless, restless tossing, cannot sleep before 12 p.m.; nightly itching, muscular spasms ; falls asleep only toward morning, when he had vivid dreams.

Worse on awaking. ^^Time. Morning: eructations.

Toward evening : cramp in calf.

Evening: headache <; in bed, colic; heat <.

Night : profuse sweat.

12 P.M.: cannot sleep before. '^ Temperature and Weather. Open air: headache < ; cheeks red and hot.

Draft of air: headache. ^'^ Fever. Chill: of short duration; followed by long-lasting heat, with dulness of head and thirst; begins in neck and runs down back; fainting during cold stage.

I I Chill almost wanting, heat exceeds considerably in in- tensity and endurance, followed by perspiration.

Heat: in whole body, with uneasiness; flushes over cheeks; long-lasting; with sweat on face; < evenings and when eating; with thirst; predominates.

I I In evening spells of fugitive heat with thirst, no shiver- ing. ^Neuralgia of limbs.

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Sweat: profuse, < at night, or from exertion, with violent heat; on face with heat; frequent, suddenly ceasing, mostly on forehead ; > after. *' Attacks, Periodicity. Suddenly, or in jerks : headache ; facial pains ; pain in limbs.

Alternation : of sticking pain and pressure in forehead.

Now here, now there : transient jerks, *^ Locality and Direction. Left: prosopalgia; stitches in side and arm ; pain in lumbar region as if strained ; drawing in arm.

Right: drawing in biceps; strained feeling in ankle; bruised pain in outer malleolus ; sciatica. *^ Sensations. As if flying in air ; as if eyes would be pierced from within outward ; as of smoke in eyes ; as if a thread were hanging down throat ; as of something forcing a passage through pit of stomach ; as if suffocating on fall- ing asleep ; as if something warm were rising from stomach ; as if something pressed out in lower chest ; as from cold or overlifting, pain in loins ; as if he had strained 1. lumbar region ; as of an electric shock through humerus ; as if thigh would break ; as if strained in r. ankle; as if bruised in outer malleolus of r. foot; light- ness in leg ; like lead in limbs.

Pain: about lower ribs; in hip and tlygh; in heels; in eruptions.

Jerking: headache; in ears; in face ; inchest; in limbs; in bones of limbs.

Darting : in forehead ; from face into teeth and ears ; in face; in shoulders; along arms; in humerus; from thigh to hip ; in limbs.

Cutting: in abdomen.

Stitches: in chest; in region of liver; in 1. side and arm; in region of heart; in 1. arm.

Shooting: face, teeth, ear and arms.

Sticking : in forehead ; over orbits

Stinging : in edges of lids ; in teeth.

Tearing : in forehead ; in 1. arm ; in humerus ; in thigh to hip; in 1. calf; pulsative; in r. calf.

Drawing: headache; in cheek bones; in muscles of 1. arm; in r. biceps ; in limbs ; along tendo-Achillis ; in tarsal joints ; in bones of limbs.

Rheumatic pains : in scapulse ; in limbs.

Aching : in pit of stomach.

Smarting : in eyes.

Biting : in edges of lids.

Pressure: in forehead; in eyes; in pit of stomach; over lower chest ; bubbling, above anus.

Pinching : in abdomen.

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Cramping: in ears; through humerus; in r. biceps; in thigh to hip ; in posterior muscles, especially in calf.

Constriction : in forehead ; in pharynx.

Twinging : in outer side of calf.

Heaviness: in limbs.

Tickling : in throat.

Weakness : in tendo-Achillis.

Coldness : of head ; in vertex. " Tissues. " Nervous affections occurring in excitable tem- peraments ; in hypochondriasis, it calms the nervous- ness, abates the excitement of the circulation, removes the wakefulness, promotes sleep, and induces sensations of quietude and comfort; sadness is removed; in globus, in all asthmatical and hysterical coughs, and nervous palpitation of heart, profuse flow of limpid urine."

Excessive nervous excitability ; exaltation ; hysterical spasms; tearfulness and tremulousness with palpitation; hysterical element predominates.

Red parts become white. *^ Touch. Passive Motion. Injuries. Touch : blisters on cheek and lip painful.

Rubbing : > cramp in calf.

Pressure: of hand or hat, icy coldness in vertex.

After slight injuries: spasms.

Decubitus: early in typhoid. ^^Skin. Painful eruptions.

I I White miliaria on chest and back. ^Typhoid.

I I Skin too dry and warm. ^Hysterical neuralgia. *^ Stages of Life, Constitution. Hysterical women who have taken too much chamomile tea.

Nervous, irritable, hysterical subjects, in whom the intel- lectual faculties predominate, and who suffer from hys- terical neuralgia.

Woman, set. 24, tall, dark hair and eyes, mother of a 9-months-old child ; spasms.

Woman, set. 50; hysterical hallucinations.

A man, set, 50, of florid complexion, almost ruddy, habitual cheerful temper; neuralgia of limbs.

Mrs. , tall in stature, fair complexion, dark hair and

eyes, usually feeble, subject to nightly attacks of asthma; spasmodic asthma.

A highly nervous and irritable constitution; neuralgia. "Relations. Antidoted by: Bellad., Camphor, Cina, Coffea, Pulsat.

It antidotes : Mercur., abuse of chamomile tea.

Arnic, AsafcEt, Crocus, Dulcam., Hyperic, Ignat., Nux vom., Spigel., Sulph. (σπασμοί μετά από τραυματισμούς).

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