Condensed Materia Medica

Hamamelis Virginica ham.

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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 œsophagus; 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

Hæmatemesis, 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.
Hæmaturia; passive congestion of the kidneys; dull pain in renal region.
Irritation of the urethra, followed by a discharge and ardor urinæ.

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

Dysmenorrhœa, 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; anæmia.
Amenorrhœa, vicarious bleeding from nose or stomach; costive; varices on the legs.
Leucorrhœa, 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

Hæmoptysis, 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 vertebræ.
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.