Viburnum Opulus

► Decreased. ► Unable to concentrate mind on usual mental labor.

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

► 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.

► 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.

► 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.

► Flushed and hot.

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

► Lips and mouth dry.

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

► 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.

► 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.

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

► 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. ► Diarrhoea profuse, watery, with chills, and at same time, cold sweat that rolls off of forehead.

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

► Seminal emissions without dreams.

► 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 dysmenorrhoea. ► Leucorrhoea thin-yellow, white or colorless, except with the stool, when it is thick, white, blood-streaked.

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

► 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.

► Buzzing feeling in hands, as if they would burst.

► Restless, unrefreshing.

► Worse evening and night : 6, 16.

► Worse in a warm room. ► Better in open air.

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

► Left side most affected.

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

► 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.