HAMAMELIS VIRGINICA


Homeopathic remedy Hamamelis Virginica drug symptoms and indications from Condensed Materia Medica by Constantine Hering, published in 1877….


      Witch 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 inflammed; 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:. Muscles feel sore and stiff;.

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.

Desire Aversions

      No appetite for breakfast; considerable thirst, relieved by small quantities of water.

Appetite good.

Aversion to water makes him sick to think of it.

Eating and Drinking

      After eating; nausea and cramp in stomach 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. 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 or burning pain during micturition.

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; 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 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 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-joints.

Rheumatic pain, constant aching in the left arm.

Lancinating in the wrist-joint.

Violent pain in back of right hand to shoulder-joints.

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: Walking: Using arms stooping Desire to lie down: When lying: After lying: Must lie still: Cannot lie: Bending downward:.

Sleep

      Uneasy, restless morning sleep.

Emissions of semen during sleep.

Time

      Noon: Afternoon: Afternoon and evening:. night:, All day:.

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: Warm moist air:.

Chill Fever Sweat

      Chilly on going o 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 to and full.

Sides

      Right:, Left: Below upward:, Above downward:.

Sensations

      Prickling stinging; veins muscles, skin.

Bruised, soreness.

Tissues

      Varicose veins and ulcers, with stinging of pricking., Venous: Congestions; hemorrhages passive.

Phlebitis prickling pains, Haemorrhagic purpura.

Contact Injuries etc.

      Pressure: From a blow; After a slight knock:

Skin

      Chilblains always bluish.

Relationship

      Complementary to Ferrum (hemorrhages) Pulsat. relieves toothache, worse in warm room. In purpura.

compare: Chloral sulph ac., Clem. Vitalba.

C. Hering
Hering got the degree of M. D. from the University of Wuezburg with highest honours. The theme of his thesis was "De'Medicina Futura" (The medicine of future). Hering left Germany for West Indies and finally arrived at Philadelphia in Jan, 1833. He established a homeopathic school at Allentown, Pennsylvania, commonly known as "Allentown Academy". Soon he became very popular as a physician. He is known as the 'Father of Homeopathy' in America.