Ostrya Virginica
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General
Ostrya.
Ostrya virginica. Hop-hornbeam. Iron-wood. Lever-wood. N. O. Cupuliferae. (Corylaceae.) Tincture of heart wood.
Clinical
Headache, dull. Head, numb. Intermittent fever. Liver, affections of. Lumbago. Malaria. Malarial anaemia.
Characteristics
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.
Relations
Antidoted by: Macro., Bry., Nux (lumbago). Compare: Waking in night hungry, Ign., Lyc. Black stools, Lept.
Mind
Very nervous, with dull headache.
Head
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.
Ear
Drawing pain deep in l. ear.
Face
Moist freckles in face, head, and hands.
Mouth
Boring and sharp pain in r. lower molars
Tongue coated yellow at root
Taste: coppery, slimy; sweet, shiny; bitter; rough.
Stomach
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.
Abdomen
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.
Stool And Anus
Rectum feels sore; protruded feeling after stool.—Stool: loose; bilious with tenesmus and straining; loose without tenesmus; tenesmus followed by diarrhoeic stool; mushy with burning at anus and tenesmus; small, natural; dark-coloured, natural; black, dry lumps 6 p.m.; very black.
Back
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.
Limbs
Arms and legs: aching; dull pains.
Upper Limbs
Fine drawing rheumatic pains in l. fingers, morning.
Lower Limbs
Awoke several times with cramp-like pain in lower limbs, < walking.—Drawing pains in r. ankle.
Generalities
Nervous, languid, weak, uneasy.
Sleep
Constant desire to yawn.—Sleep restless, as after strong tea.
Fever
Cold, chilly about shoulders.—Gentle sweat over entire surface, with feeling of weakness.