VALERIANA

VALERIANA. [Valerian.] Valerian. Franz. Valerianaceae.

► Easy comprehension. ► Intellect predominates over mind. ► Passed quickly from one subject to another. ► Intellect confused ; replies incoherently. ► Erroneous ideas ; thinks she is some one else, move to edge of bed to make room ; imagines animals lying near her which she fears she may hurt. θ Typhoid fever. ► Ecstasy. ► Thinks himself distinguished. ► Mild delirium, with great excitement and trembling. θ Typhoid. ► Fear, especially evening in dark, palpitation trembling. ► Changeable ; hypochondriacal anxiety or trembling excitability. ► Hysteria, overexcitable, changeable disposition and ideas.

► Feels light, as if flying in the air. ► Vertigo, when stooping. ► Oversensitive.

► Headache appearing suddenly, or in jerks. ► Pressing, as from a stupefying constriction in forehead, drawing into orbits ; face pale ; worse evening at rest and in open air ; better from movement, in room and when changing position. ► One-sided drawing headache from a draft of air. ► Headache in sunshine. ► Stinging or pressing in forehead, extending to orbits.

► Icy-cold sensation in vertex from continuous pressure of the hat.

► Vivid light like lighting, accompanied by dark spot to the side of the line of vision. ► Luminous appearances before eyes in evening in dark. ► Clear-sighted. ► Better from light ; worse in dark. ► Expression of eyes peculiarly wild ; hysterical neuralgia. ► Edges of lids inflamed, with biting, stinging.

► Cheeks red and hot, especially in open air. ► White blisters, with elevated red base on cheek and upper lip, painful to touch. ► Fierce pains through left side of face, darting into teeth and ear ; muscles twitch ; hysterical neuralgia. ► Facial pains, appearing suddenly and in jerks. ► Spasmodic twitching and drawing in the cheek-bones.

► Lips encrusted.

► Stinging pain in teeth.

► Taste as of rancid tallow ; greasy. ► Tongue thickly coated, foul.

► Voracious hunger, with nausea.

► Worse on an empty stomach ; better after breakfast. ► After dinner : 10. When eating : 40.

► Eructations like putrid eggs, morning on waking. ► Heart-burn, gulping of a rancid fluid which does not rise into the mouth. ► Nausea, with sensation as from a string hanging down throat ; profuse ptyalism. ► Nauseated, faint ; lips white, body icy-cold.

► Pressing, aching in pit of stomach, as from something forcing a passage through it ; neuralgia of limbs.

► Sudden warm rising from epigastrium, with difficult breathing. θ Hysteria.

► Distended, hard. ► Colic : hysterical, especially evenings in bed ; after dinner ; from hemorrhoids : from worm.

► Discharge of ascarides. ► Thin watery diarrhoea, with lumps of coagulated milk ; diarrhoea of children. ► Greenish, papescent stool, passing with blood ; constant pressing and violent screaming ; diarrhoea of children.

► Increased and more frequent. ► During urination, much starting and prolapsus recti. ► Sediment of urine red or white.

► Menses too late and scanty.

► The child vomits as soon as it nurses ; after the mother has been angry.

► Choking in throat-pit on point of falling asleep, she awakens as if suffocating. ► Inspirations grow less deep and more rapid until they cease ; then she catches her breath by a sobbing effort ; so on in spells. θ Asthma.

► Frequent jerks and stitches in chest, with a sensation as if something pressed out ; worse in lower part of chest.

► Stitches in region of heart. ► Pulse rapid, somewhat tense, or small and weak.

► Spine irritated, in beginning of typhoid fever. ► Pain in the loins, as from cold or overlifting. ► Bubbling pressure above anus in coccygeal region.

► Rheumatic pains in scapulae. ► Darting along the arms, shoulders and face ; hysterical neuralgia.

► Pain in hip and thigh, intolerable when standing, as if thigh would break ; ischias. ► Acute, crampy, tearing pain in posterior muscles, especially those of calf, better in morning and when rubbing affected part ; worse toward evening and when quiet.

► Rheumatic pains in limbs, rarely in joints ; worse during rest after previous exertion ; better from movement. ► Arms and legs move normally but when at rest, jerk and twitch. θ Hysteria.

► Motion : 3, 34. Exertion : 34, 40. Changing position : 3. Stooping : 2.

3, 34. Standing : 33.

► Agitation of all nerves, jerks, twitches, trembling.

► Sleepless, restless tossing ; nightly itching, muscular spasms. ► Cannot sleep before 12 P.M. ► Worse on awaking.

► Morning : 16. Evening : 1, 2, 3, 5, 19, 40. Night : 37, 40. Before midnight : 37.

► Room : 3. In bed : 19. Sun : 3. Open air : 3, 8. Draught : 3.

► Chill : of short duration ; followed by long-lasting heat with dulness of head and thirst ; begins in neck and runs down the back. ► Fainting during cold stage. ► Long-lasting heat, often with sweat on the face. ► Heat predominates. ► Increased heat, evenings, and when eating. ► In evening, spell of fugitive heat with thirst ; no shivering ; with the neuralgia of limbs. ► Sweat profuse, worse at night or from exertion, with violent heat. ► Frequent and suddenly ceasing attacks of sweat, mostly on forehead. ► Better after sweat.

► Sudden : 3, 40. Frequent : 40.

► Right to left : neuralgia of legs. Left : 8, 29. Above downward : 40.

► Red parts become white.

► Better from rubbing ; neuralgia of limbs. ► Decubitus soon. θ Typhoid. ► Slight wounds cause spasms. ► Touch : 8. Pressure : 4.

► Painful eruptions. ► White miliaria on chest and back. θ Typhoid. ► Skin too dry and warm ; hysterical neuralgia.

► Nervous, irritable, hysterical.

► Valer. useful after abuse of chamomile tea. ► Antidotes to Valer. : Camphor., Coffea, Pulsat.