VALERIANA

Homeopathic Materia Medica & Symptoms

Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

Asthma, spasmodic
nervousness
Bed-sores
Change of life
Clairvoyance
Coxalgia
Headache
Heart, palpitation of
Heels, pain in
Hypochondriasis
Hysteria
Levitation
Neuralgia
Sciatica
Sleeplessness
Toothache
Spasms of the stomach and abdomen
Moral disturbances, passing from one extreme of emotion to another
Tedious convalescence after nervous fevers
Paralysis, and contractions of the limbs
Acceleration of the pulse
Congestion of the head
Darting, tearing pains which come and go
Jerking pains in muscular tissues
Cramping pains
Burning, smarting, and pressure in the margins of the lids
Shine before the eyes in the dark
Hallucinations of hearing and of sense
Imagines she is some one else and moves to the edge of the bed to make room
Anxious, hypochondriac feeling, as if the objects around him had been taken from him; the room appears to him desolate, he does not feel at home in the room, he is compelled to leave it
As if in a dream
Nervous irritation
Cannot keep still
Tearings
Cramps
Constant heat and uneasiness
Disturbed digestion
Taste of fetid tallow
Flat, slimy taste
Nausea begins in umbilical region, rising into pharynx
Peculiar violent kind of pain in the right leg
Attacks during the evening of sudden flushes of heat with thirst, without previous chill
Fatty taste in the mouth with nausea in the throat
Constant pressing pain in the lower part of the chest and pit of the stomach as if something were there forcing itself outward
Painful affection of tendo Achillis and heel
Pain < standing and letting the foot rest on the floor
Hysterical women who have taken too much chamomile tea
Nervous, irritable, hysterical subjects in whom the intellectual faculties predominate and who suffer from hysteria and neuralgia
Nervous affections occurring in excitable temperaments
It calms the nervousness, abates the excitement of the circulation, removes the wakefulness, promotes sleep, and induces sensation of quietude and comfort
Sadness is removed
Globus
All asthmatical and hysterical coughs
Nervous palpitation of the heart
Profuse flow of limpid urine
Red parts become white
As if flying in air
As if eyes would be pierced from within outward
As if smoke in eyes
As if a thread were hanging down throat
As if something forcing a passage through pit of stomach
As if something warm were rising from stomach
As if something pressed out in lower chest
As from cold or over-lifting, pain in loins
As if he had strained left lumbar region
As if an electric shock through humerus
As if thigh would break
As if strained in right ankle
As if bruised in outer malleolus of right foot
Lightness in leg
Like lead in limbs
By touch
Rubbing > cramp in calf
Pressure of hand or covering with hat = icy coldness on vertex
Early decubitus in typhoid
Slight injury = spasms
Rest; sitting; standing <
Motion >
Moving eyes < headache
Bending head back < pain in occiput
Straightening out limb < sciatica
Noon <
Before midnight (cannot sleep before midnight) <
Profuse sweat at night <
Open air; draught of air <
After sleep >
Fasting <
After a meal >
Extremely delirious, attempting to get out of the window, threatening and vociferating wildly
Anxious, hypochondriacal sensation, as if all around were desolate, disagreeable, or strange
Joyous, tremulous excitement
Mild delirium
Intellect clouded
Fear, esp. in evening, and in the dark
Despair
Most opposite moral symptoms appear alternately
Extreme instability of ideas
General illusions and errors of the mind
Hallucinations: esp. at night; sees figures, animals, men; thinks she is some one else, moves to edge of bed to make room
Great flow of ideas, chasing one another
Felt like one who is dreaming
Hysteria, with nervous over-excitability of the nerves
Head confused, as after intoxication
Intoxication and dizziness, with absence of ideas
Whirling in head when stooping forwards
Headache, which appears suddenly or in jerks
Fulness as from rush of blood to head
Pressive headache, or with pressive shootings, esp. in forehead, towards orbits, often alternating with confusion and dizziness in the head
Headache in evening, when at rest, and in the open air <
Headache from movement in the room and when changing the position >
Pressure over the orbits alternates between a pressing and a sticking; the sticking is like a darting, tearing as if it would pierce the eyes from within outward
Headache an hour after dinner, pressure over eyes as if they would be pressed out
Moving them < headache
Drawing pain on one side of head, from a current of air
Headache in the sunshine
Stupefying contraction in head, as from a violent blow on vertex
Sensation of icy coldness in upper part of head, from pressure of hat
Pressure and drawing into side of occiput
Piercing drawing, with pressure from nape to occiput, when bending head back
Sweat in hair of forehead and on forehead about noon
Eyes downcast, as after a nocturnal debauch, esp. after a meal
Pressure, burning sensation, and smarting in eyes as from smoke: morning after rising
Tearing in r. eyeball, sight dim in morning, and pain as from insufficient sleep
Sees things at a distance more distinctly than usual
The eyes shine
Redness, swelling, and pain as from excoriation in margin of eyelids
Swelling and painful sensibility of eyelids
Myopia
Brightness and light before eyes when in the dark, so that objects become almost distinguishable
With this a sensation as if he felt that things were near him even when not looking at them; on looking, he perceives they really were there (10 p.m.)
Sparks before eyes
Otalgia, with spasmodic drawings
Jerking in the ears
Tinkling and ringing in the ears
Illusions of hearing; imagined he heard the bell strike
Violent sneezing
Pain in face, with spasmodic twitching and drawing in zygomatic process
Redness and heat of cheeks in open air
A quarter of an hour later sweat breaks out over whole body, esp. in face
Twitching of muscles of face
Darting like electricity in r. ramus of lower jaw
Toothache, with shooting pain
White blisters on tongue and upper lip, painful when touched
Taste in mouth (and smell before nose) as of fetid tallow (early in the morning after waking)
Bitter taste on tip of tongue when passing it over the lips after a meal
Insipid and slimy taste in mouth after waking in morning
Bulimy, with nausea
Risings, with the taste of rotten eggs, on waking in morning
Frequent, empty, or rancid and burning risings
Voracious hunger with nausea
Nausea and a sensation as if there were a thread from gullet to abdomen (arising from umbilicus and gradually rising to fauces), with copious accumulation of saliva
Nausea, with syncope, lips white and body cold
Disposition to vomit
Vomiting of bile and of mucus, with violent shivering and shaking
Nocturnal vomiting
Weak stomach and digestion
Pressure at scrobiculus, appearing and disappearing suddenly, with a gurgling in abdomen
Pains in hepatic region and epigastrium when touched
Painful shocks in r. hypochondrium
Abdomen inflated and hard
Powerful sensation of expansion in abdomen, as if about to burst
Tendency to retract abdomen
Spasms in abdomen, generally in evening, in bed, or after dinner
Allowing no > in any position whatever
Hmorrhoidal colic; from worms
Gripings and painful pinchings in abdomen when retracting it
Pains in l. side of abdomen in evening, as from subcutaneous ulceration
Drawing, pressure, and pains as from a bruise in hypogastrium, inguina, and abdominal muscles, as after a chill or strain
Digging pains in abdomen
Loose evacuations
Greenish fces of consistence of pap, mixed with blood
Painful borings in rectum
Bubbling pressure above anus in region of coccyx
Discharge of blood from anus
Ascarides from rectum
Profuse and frequent emission of urine
Urine contains a white, red, or turbid sediment
During urination much straining and prolapsus recti
Creeping and drawing in penis as if it had gone to sleep
Frequent erections the day previous, early in morning
Tensive gurgling in r. testis when sitting
Menses too late and scanty
Neurasthenia of sexual organs of women
Child vomits as soon as it has been nursed, after mother has been angry
Child vomits curdled milk in large lumps, the same in stools
Choking in throat-pit on falling asleep
Wakens as if suffocating
Inspirations grow less and less deep and more rapid till they cease
Then catches her breath by a sobbing effort in spells
Sensation as if something warm were rising from stomach, arresting breathing, with tickling deep in throat and cough
Obstructed respiration and anguish in chest
Oppressed respiration, with pressure on lower part of chest
Frequent jerks and stitches in chest (with the sensation as if something were pressed out), sometimes on l. side (in region of heart) when drawing breath
Sudden stitches in chest and liver from within out
Eruption of small, hard nodosities on chest
Drawing pains in the loins and back
Pain in the region of the loins as from a chill or a strain
Lancinations in l. lumbar region above hip
Worse when standing, and esp. when sitting, than when walking
Rheumatic pains in the shoulder-blades
Painful drawing in upper and lower extremities when sitting quietly
Walking >
Spasmodic drawings and jerkings, or else tearing in arms
Crampy drawing in region of biceps, in r. arm from above downward while writing
Crampy, darting tearing like an electric shock, repeatedly through the humerus, intensely painful
Paralytic pain in joints of shoulder and elbow towards the end of a walk
Eruption of small, hard nodosities on arms
Trembling of hands when writing
Painful shocks across the hand
Burning pain in hips when in bed in evening
Crampy tearing in outer side of thigh, extending into hip
Pain in hip and thigh intolerable when standing, as if thigh would break
Spasmodic drawing and jerking in thighs
Great heaviness and lassitude in legs, but esp. in calves
Twinging pain in outer side of calf when sitting
Pulsative tearing in r. calf when sitting in the afternoon
Pain, as of a fracture, in the thighs and tibia
Paralytic pain in the knees towards the end of a walk
Violent stitch in knee
Tensive pain in the calves of the legs, esp. when crossing the legs
Drawing and weak feeling along tendo Achillis, toward heel, as if the part had lost all strength, when sitting
Disappearing when rising from a seat
Constant pain in heels
When sitting heels, esp. r., painful
Drawing in the joints of the feet when sitting down
Sudden pain, as if bruised, in outer malleolus of r. foot
When standing <
When walking >
Wrenching pain in the joints of the foot and ankles
Transient pain in r. ankle
While standing <
But seems to disappear when walking
Lower limbs contracted
Pains and shootings in heels, esp. when seated
Tearing pains in the soles of the feet and in the toes
Patients get 'raving, tearing, swearing' mad
< toward evening from being still
Great sleeplessness in early part of night
Affections in general of the orbit of the eye
Margins of the eyelids
Calves of the legs
Fatty taste
Sediment in the urine
Reddish urine
Hysterical condition
Pains darting from within outward
On stooping <
After moving and being at rest <
While resting <
Standing <
From moving >
From walking >
Rheumatic tearing in limbs, but not usually in the joints, chiefly during repose, after exercise
Mostly > by movement
Or which gives place to other sensations in other parts of the body during a walk
Jerking and shaking pains, appearing (in many places) suddenly and by fits
Pains which manifest themselves after resting a long time in any position
Are > by changing it
Drawing and jerking in limbs, as if in bones
Pain, as from paralysis in limbs, towards the end of a walk
Periodical symptoms, which reappear after two or three months
Epileptic fits
Paralytic torpor in limbs
The majority of the symptoms manifest themselves in the evening and after dinner
Over-sensitiveness of all senses
General morbid excitement and irritability, with lassitude in the limbs, great gaiety, and appearance of vigour
Painful weariness, esp. in lower extremities, after rising in morning
Eruption of small nodosities, at first red and confluent, the white and hard
Painful eruptions
Skin too dry and warm
Sleeplessness
Disturbed sleep (could fall asleep only towards morning), with tossing and anxious and confused dreams
The chilliness generally begins in neck and runs down back
Sensation of icy coldness
Fever, with constant heat, after a short fit of shivering, accompanied by confusion in head and thirst
Heat in evening and when eating <
Accelerated pulse
Pulse irregular
Generally rapid and somewhat tense, sometimes small and weak
Frequent perspiration, esp. on face and forehead (often appearing and disappearing suddenly)
Profuse perspiration, esp. at night and from exertion, with violent heat

Allen's Keynotes

excessive nervous excitability
hysterical nervous temperament
persons in whom the intellectual faculties predominate
changeable disposition
red parts become white
feels light as if floating in the air
oversensitiveness of all the senses
sensation of great coldness in head
sensation as if a thread were hanging down throat
child vomits curdled milk, in large lumps
child vomits same in stools
child vomits as soon as it has nursed, after mother has been angry
sciatica pain worse when standing and letting foot rest on floor
sciatica pain when straightening out limb, during rest from previous exertion
sciatica pain better when walking

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