Homeopathy Remedy Hamamelis


Hamamelis homeopathy drug symptoms from Handbook of Materia Medica and Homeopathic Therapeutics by T.F. Allen, of the homeopathic remedy Hamamelis…


      A tincture is made of the fresh bark of the twigs and root of Hamamelis Virginica, L. (witch-hazel.).

General Action

      Its curative power seems to extend over the venous system; it has been found useful in venous dilatations and haemorrhages, which it controls chiefly, we presume, by virtue of the gallic acid contained in the bark.

Allies – Arnica, Rhododendron, Carbo-veg., Vipera.

Generalities

      Disposition to take cold easily. Takes a fresh cold on being exposed for a moment, coldness creeping over body on standing a moment in open air, chill running up leg, head stopped, pain over orbits. Inability to keep still though motion made him worse. Desire to lie down. Weariness; at 3 P.M.; on rising, with vertigo; when walking, instep feels strained. Tired easily; in evening when standing; when walking.

Clinical Varicose veins externally on the abdominal walls. Varicose veins on the extremities, with soreness (it lacks the bruised feeling of Arnica). Many cases of phlebitis, with soreness and swelling of the leg, even up to the hip and extending to the abdomen.

Mind

      Feeling that she ought to be reverenced by all around her and have great respect paid to her opinion. Desire to hear sublime conversation after the heat, with indisposition to talk myself. Impatient, did not care whether he attended to his practice or not. Angry, nothing suits him. Irritable; and not wanting anybody to speak to him. Irritable; and not wanting anybody to speak to him. Gloomy; (>) evening; with no disposition to move. Discontented all day. Wishes to be alone, unable to settle mind on study. Quick to perceive anything out of shape. Listless, (<) afternoon. Dull feeling when waking; on rising; in afternoon, with stupidity. No desire to work, likes to sit and muse; on desire to study or read evening. Inability to read or study; I. to concentrate thoughts, with restlessness and discontentment. Forgetful (<) words when talking; F. of what he reads.

Head

      Aching; all day; in morning; in morning on waking; at 7 A.M.; towards night; on rising; (<) second sleep in morning; (<) morning; when in indoors, (>) thinking, reading, walking or talking; (<) evening; (<) taking cold; (>) evening; (>) out-doors; with soreness of it; with distress in pyloric portion of stomach and umbilical region; intermittent. Bursting pain on waking, (<) bending forward; b. pain at 7 A.M. on waking, (>) towards evening, with vertigo on stooping. Fulness; all day; in brain, (<) at top, after the heat; with feeling as if a bolt passed from temple to temple and were tightly screwed. Feeling as if she had taken cold. Dullness. Vertigo; at noon; when stooping; on rising after stooping, after lying down, when reading; with nausea and desire to lie down; as if drunk, as if brain were swimming around all day; as if brain were swimming around on rising.

Forehead. – Aching; in morning; across bone; over nose and eyes; over r. eye at 9 A.M.; (<) sitting or standing, (>) lying, (>) rubbing forehead and pressure; over r. eye, (<) when sitting or lying quiet, about noon, (>) walking in open air, returning next day at 10 P.M.; (>) out of doors or when busy; with burning distress in lower part of epigastrium and umbilicus; bursting, in f. and over eyes at 8.30 A.M. on rising, with empty feeling at pit of stomach, the headache (>) towards night; stupefying, over eyes and root of nose. Fulness. Sensation as if anterior lobes of brain were too large for cranium. Stopped feeling over root of nose. Dullness, (<) over eyes and at root of nose; root of nose all day, (<) 11 P.M.

Aching in temples, (<) morning; sharp pain in T. Mastoid portion of temples, shooting in l.; shooting when walking in wind; sore pain in r.; pain in morning; peculiar sensation. Pain in occiput. Feeling as if vermin crawled along edges of hair.

Eyes

      Blue margins around eyes; under E., (<) r.; at inner canthi. Dull color of sclerotica. Sore pain. Painful weakness. Feeling as if they would be forced out of head, (>) pressure, (<) transiently after removing pressure. Swelling of balls and lids, with bloodshot appearance of r. eye. Twitching of upper lids, r., then l. Burning of lids on closing them at 4 P.M. with heat in hands. Vision dim.

Clinical Ecchymoses in eyes from bruises. Traumatic inflammation of iris, with haemorrhages. Intraocular haemorrhages (Arnica).

Ears

      Burning in r. in evening. Itching in l., and over body under the clothing. Pain in mastoid process in afternoon and evening on first going into wind.

Nose

      Swollen, inflamed, painful to touch; septum swollen and painful to touch. Pain at root, with fulness. Stoppage; (>) evening. Sneezing at noon; S.; with running of water from nose. Coryza; only from 4 to 10 P.M.; from exposure for a moment to a draught without a hat; with hawking from throat of what should come from throat of what should come from nostrils; fluent, burning and smarting. Tough, green plug from r. nostril. Profuse epistaxis, (>) smelling camphor; between 9 and 10 A.M. with tightness in bridge of nose and crowding pressure in forehead between eyes, and numbness over os frontis. Bad smell from N. Smell oversensitive.

Clinical Nosebleed, either vicarious or idiopathic. Especially indicated in diseases of the nose, pharynx and mucous membranes, generally when there is a varicose condition of the small blood vessels, which bleed easily.

Face

      Muscles sore and stiff. Shooting along r. upper jaw to malar bone.

Mouth

      Lancinating pain extending from molars to malar-bone and into temporal region. Pain in r. teeth. Soreness about r. upper wisdom-tooth. Gums bleed easily (Carbo-v.). tongue pale; clean, but not so red in middle as usual; coated white in morning; blisters on r. side; scalding sensation just beyond tip; pressing distress at root. Taste bad; putrid; flat, rough.

Clinical Gums spongy, bleeding easily.

Throat

      Pain along r. sterno-cleido-mastoid, (<) morning and when moving. Congestion of fauces and tonsils, with pain on swallowing. Stinging in uvula on coughing, as if it would break off. Pain; on swallowing; in pharynx. Soreness. (<) fauces; and every inhalation seemed to dry up their mucous membrane. Rawness; and in fauces; and in fauces in evening. Feeling all day as if something had lodged in fauces, causing constant inclination to swallow. Distress in pharynx, with roughness of fauces; d. in pharynx and oesophagus, extending to stomach. Dryness; not (>) by water; with thirst, causing him to drink much water frequently; with burning, uvula fallen, difficulty in talking; all night, with feeling as if something had lodged there, compelling frequent swallowing, which caused pain in tonsils, next morning very painful on swallowing food, fauces congested, tonsils swollen.

Stomach

      Thirst afternoon; in evening; lacking. Aversion to water. Increased desire to smoke, but symptoms were (<) smoking. Eructations; in evening; at night, three or four hours after meals; after eating; after tea; of air; tasting of food; of unusual taste in morning; taste of food rising to pharynx three or four hours after eating. Hiccough; and spasmodic eructations; violent, at 6 P.M., four hours after eating. Nausea; at 8 P.M.; 11 P.M.; on waking, with pain in frontal bone; after eating; after dinner, with eructations, has to remain quiet, even without reading, to avoid vomiting, has even then eructations and heartburn; after pork; after pork for dinner, with eructations and violent hiccough, then burning pain in stomach and oesophagus, then cramp in stomach and chest; with vertigo, compelling him to lie down in order to avoid falling. Vomiting before midnight of plums eaten at supper.

Gastric troubles. Distended by wind. Cramp; after a hearty dinner of usual food, and in transverse colon. Burning distress in lower epigastrium and umbilicus, with ineffectual urging to stool. Throbbing. Heaviness; back of S.

Clinical Haematemesis of black blood.

Abdomen

      Discharge of flatus. Griping after breakfast. Pain; morning and evening. Distress; in morning. Pain in r. hypochondrium. Cramp in umbilical region; after rising. Griping in U. region at 7 A.M.; at 10 P.M.; before dinner. Distress at umbilicus; with natural stool. Pain in groins; drawing, passing to testicles.

Rectum and Anus

      Pulsations in rectum when he is half recumbent; P. in rectum as if piles would protrude; in R(>) and penis, synchronous with radial pulse. Urging to stool; with large easy stool in morning and afternoon; ineffectual. Spasmodic contraction of sphincter. Itching in anus.

Clinical Haemorrhoidal flow. Discharge of blood from the rectum, painless, dark and thick. Intestinal haemorrhages.

Stool

      Soft at night; at 6 A.M., covered with mucus, and with distress in bowels. Covered with mucus. Constipation.

Urinary Organs

      Urging, but little urine, in drops; frequent urging; acts upon the kidneys more when lying, compelling her to rise soon to pass much urine. Frequent micturition during the day; frequent, with constant desire. Urine copious, with frequent desire; C. and pale; C. and clear; profuse, but little at a time and light- colored; profuse, light-colored, with greasy deposit, which rises to the top on shaking and looks like laudable pus. Urine clear, saltish.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.