Hand Book of Materia Medica and Homœopathic Therapeutics
Viscum Album visc.
General
A tincture is made of the fresh berries and leaves of the mistletœ.
A kind of aura epileptica, feeling as if he must fall, a glow rising from the feet to the head, feeling as if he were on fire, with pallor of face. ▶ Paralysis of every muscle, except of those of the eye. ▶ Inability to speak or swallow, and death from starvation. ▶ Frequent recurrence of the symptoms during two years. ▶ Inclined to be violent. ▶ Spectral illusions. ▶ Insensibility. ▶ Stupor, then insensibility, lying motionless with closed eye, but easily aroused by a loud nose and then answered any question, but when she relapsed into her former condition there was a slight disposition to stertor. ▶ Giddiness. ▶ Conjunctiva injected. ▶ Pupils dilated and fixed; contracted and at first insensible. ▶ Face red. ▶ Lips livid. ▶ Alimentary canal paralyzed. ▶ Constipation. ▶ Breathing slow and stertorous. ▶ Pulse quick, small and irregular; slow, full and bounding. ▶ Sensation as if a spider were crawling over dorsum of left, then of right hand. ▶ Sudden pain from within outward in right foot, compelling him to take off his boot, as it felt too tight. ▶ Drowsiness. ▶ Skin warm and moist.
Clinical
Deafness in left ear. ▶ Numerous cases of retained placenta. ▶ Metrorrhagia, partly bright, partly clotted and dark, with dull headache, stitches in the temples, numbness of the extremities, blue rings around the eyes, sunken eyes. ▶ It causes uterine contractions and stops hæmorrhages. ▶ Chronic endometritis (granular endometritis), characterized by enlargement, either subinvolution, alveolar hyperplasia or hypertrophy. ▶ A case of whooping cough was cured in two days. ▶ Several cases of sciatica. ▶ Chorea from fright.