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Hamamelis Virginiana

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General

HAMAMELIS VIRGINIANA. [Hamam.] Witch Hazel. Hering. Hamamelaceae.

Mind

► Forgetful. ► No desire to study or work. ► Depressed in mind ; also after emissions, with regretful mind. ► Irritable.

Sensorium

► Vertigo when stooping. ► Swimming sensation on rising. ► Nausea and vertigo, with desire to lie down.

Inner Head

► Feeling as if a bolt was passing from temple to temple. ► Fulness in the forehead, with pressing in the root of the tongue. ► Bursting headache on awaking, insupportable on bending downward. ► Dulness and fulness in the head all day. ► Headache after an emission ; depressed in mind.

Outer Head

► Hammering over the left eye, as if he would go out of his mind.

Eyes

► Eyes feel weak, but are less inflamed ; painful weakness of the eyes. ► Feeling as if both eyes would be forced out of the head, better by pressing them with the fingers, but worse a few moments afterwards. ► Sore pain in the eyes ; eyes painful under slight pressure. ► Swelling of eyeballs and lids, with bloodshot appearance of the right eye. ► Eyes inflamed ; vessels greatly injected ; caused by a foreign substance, as melted sugar ; intense soreness.

Ears

► Deafness in right ear, passes off by noon. ► Bleeding at the right ear, also nosebleed, which clears her head, relieving her. ► Buzzing, ringing in ears.

Nose

► Smell oversensitive. ► Bad smell from the nose. ► Sneezing spells, watery, excoriating, burning discharge. ► Nose feels stopped up. ► Epistaxis flow passive, non-coagulable.

Face

► Burning a right cheek. ► Occasional shooting pains along the right superior maxillary to malar bone : 10. ► Muscles feel sore and stiff : 32, 33.

Lower Face

► Lips : dry ; sore, cracked.

Teeth

► Sharp lancinating along the molar teeth, extending to malar bone ; also in temporal region. ► Teeth ache, can scarcely sleep, yet not decayed. ► Pains worse in warm room. ► Gums : sore, painful, swollen ; bleed easily ; passive ; dark fluid ; after extraction of teeth.

Tongue, Etc

► Metallic taste ; tongue coated white. ► Scalding sensation on the tongue. ► Blisters on the sides of the tongue ; canker spots near tip.

Throat

► Severe stinging in the uvula, as if it would break, when he coughs. ► Dryness of the lips and fauces ; must drink large quantities of water to assist deglutition. ► Sore throat, worse right side ; right tonsil more swollen ; reddened, and veins enlarged, varicose. ► Sore throat in the those predisposed to fulness of the veins, worse in warm, moist air. ► Hawks considerably.

Desires And Aversions

► No appetite for breakfast ; considerable thirst, relieved by small quantities of water. ► Appetite good. ► Very thirsty, afternoon, evening ; throat dry. ► Aversion to water makes him sick to think of it.

Eating And Drinking

► After eating : nausea, must keep quiet ; eructations ; hiccough. ► Port nauseates.

Nausea And Vomiting

► Eructations after a meal, taste of the food. ► Nausea, eructations and violent hiccough after pork, followed by burning in stomach and oesophagus ; later, cramp-pains in stomach and chest. ► Nausea, vertigo, must lie still to prevent vomiting. ► Nausea, headache in frontal bone to walking. ► Nausea and inclination to vomit after a meal.

Stomach

► Haematemesis, blood black ; sensation of trembling in the stomach, or fulness and gurgling in the abdomen ; feverish by spells ; weak, cold, quick pulse, profuse sweat. ► Heaviness at back stomach ; pain in back of stomach, along the spinal column. ► Violent throbbing in the stomach. ► Cramp in stomach ; after eating.

Abdomen

► Cramps in stomach and transverse colon two hours after a hearty dinner. ► Flatulence. ► Burning in the epigastrium and umbilicus.

Stool, Etc

► Stools : costive ; hard, coated with mucus. ► Dysentery when the amount of blood is unusually large ; dark, small clots, or patches through the mucus. ► Large quantities of a tar-like blood. θ Typhoid. ► Piles bleeding profusely ; with burning, soreness, fulness and weight ; back as if it would break ; urging to stool. ► Itching at the anus.

Urine

► Increased desire to urinate. ► Urine clear, copious. ► Scanty, high-colored urine. ► Haematuria ; passive congestion of the kidneys ; dull pain in renal region. ► Irritation of the urethra, followed by a discharge and ardor urinae.

Male Sexual Organs

► Emissions at night, without being aware of it ; headache, depression of mind. ► Erections : great desire for an embrace. ► Severe neuralgic pains in testicles suddenly shifting to bowels, causing nausea and faintness ; profuse cold sweat on scrotum ; capillary stasis. ► Orchitis, intense soreness and swelling. ► Varicocele.

Female Sexual Organs

► Dysmenorrhoea, with severe pains through the lumbar and hypogastric regions and down the legs ; fulness of the brain and bowels, with severe pain through the whole head, causing stupor, deep sleep ; varicose veins. ► Metrorrhagia, passive flow ; anaemia. ► Amenorrhoea, vicarious bleeding from nose or stomach ; costive ; varices on the legs. ► Leucorrhoea, great tenderness of the vagina ; flow bloody. ► Vaginismus, intense soreness ; prurigo of vulva. ► Ovaritis after a blow ; diffused agonizing soreness over the whole abdomen ; menses irregular ; worse at time of menses ; retention of urine.

Pregnancy

► Sore nipples. ► Phlegmasia alba dolens. ► Varicose veins.

Larynx

► Hoarse on arising ; awoke hoarse.

Breathing

► When lying, felt a smothering sensation.

Cough

► Tickling cough, taste of blood on awaking. ► Dry cough, severe stitching in uvula, as if it would break. ► Expectoration thick, yellowish or greenish-grey, tasting putrid.

Lungs

► Haemoptysis, tickling cough, with taste of blood, or of sulphur ; dull frontal headache ; tightness of the chest ; cannot lie down, because of difficult breathing from congestion ; fullness in the head ; mind calm. ► Stitches in lower part of lungs. ► Sensation of constriction across chest, increased by a long or deep breath.

Heart And Pulse

► Palpitation. ► Pricking pain in region of heart and superficial veins of both arms.

Outer Chest

► Dull, aching pain constantly in muscles of left chest, worse using arms, afternoon and evening.

Neck And Back

► Sore pain down the cervical vertebrae. ► Tearing pains across of back, with fulness of joints of legs. ► Small of back feels as if it would break.

Upper Limbs

► Bruised feeling in upper arms and shoulder, worse from motion. ► Stiffness in arms and shoulders. ► Tenderness of the right biceps, increased by pressure. ► Stiffness of elbow-joint. ► Rheumatic pain, constant aching in the left arm. ► Lancinating in the wrist-joint. ► Violent pain in back of right hand to shoulder-joint. ► Hands chapped. ► Thumb-nail becomes sore, pus discharges after a slight knock.

Lower Limbs

► Sore pain in right femur, muscles of thighs sore, as if bruised. ► Soreness in femoral vessels in middle of thigh. ► Weakness of the knees, afternoon. ► Forcible feeling in the varices ; veins sensitive, dilated.

Limbs In General

► Tired feeling in arms and legs. ► Rheumatism, with great soreness of the muscles.

Position, Etc

► Motion : 32.

Using arms : 30.

Stooping : 2.

Rising : 2.

Desire to lie down : 2.

After lying : 40.

Must lie still : 16.

Cannot lie : 28.

Sleep

► Uneasy, restless morning sleep. ► Emissions of semen during sleep.

Time

► Noon : 6.

Afternoon : 33.

Afternoon and evening : 14, 30.

Night : 22, 40.

Temperature And Weather

► Takes cold easily from every exposure ; but especially to warm, moist air ; subject to varicose veins. ► Cold creeps in the open air, chills run up the legs, head stopped up, dull pain over orbit. ► Warm room : 10. Warm, moist air : 13.

Chill, Fever And Sweat

► Chilly on going to bed ; dreaded an attack of fever. ► Chilliness over back and hips extending down the extremities. ► Fever at night ; hands hot, burning in eyelids on closing them. ► Sweats freely at night, after lying down. ► Pulse accelerated ; fever. ► Pulse 60 to 70 and full.

Sides

► Right : 5, 6, 8, 13, 32, 33.

Left : 4, 30, 32.

Below upward : 32, 39.

Above downward : 40.

Sensations

► Prickling, stinging : veins, muscles, skin. ► Bruised, soreness.

Tissues

► Varicose veins and ulcers, with stinging of pricking. ► Venous : congestions ; hemorrhages ; passive. ► Phlebitis ; prickling pains. ► Hemorrhagic purpura.

Contact, Injuries, Etc

► Pressure : 5, 32. From a blow : 23. ► Chilblains always bluish.

Relationship

► Complementary to Ferrum (hemorrhages). ► Pulsat. relieves toothache, worse in warm room. In purpura. ► Compare : Chloral., Sulph. ac., Clem. vitalba.