Homeopathy Remedy Onosmodium Virginianum


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


      A tincture is made from the fresh plant.

Generalities

      Treamulousness from least exertion. Nervous, trembling feeling, as from hunger. Nervous and shaky feeling that physically and mentally unfits her for any duty. Muscles feel unsteady and treacherous. Inability to lie on l. side. General aching, as if I would have a chill. Every day about 12 or 1 O’clock feeling as if I would have a chill. General distress and full feeling. Light feeling, somewhat like that caused by chloroform. Weakness; in morning with stiffness; in morning, with soreness; in morning when walking, with sore and lame feeling; with aching, stretching, gaping and disagreeable feeling. Aggravation from pressure or tightness of clothing; from motion or jar; on l. side. Amelioration in open air; from quiet, lying on back, sleep, undressing, cold drinks and eating; temporary A. of all symptoms, except tired feeling in limbs, by eating.

Mind

      Talkative, but in a disconnected way. Irritable. Irresolute. Desire to change the position constantly, followed by desire to lie down and be quiet, with sleepiness. Impatient, may team travels too slowly. Minutes seem like hours. Feeling as if something terrible were going to happen and that she was powerless to help it. Fear to look down least she might fall in going down stairs; that he might fall into a fire when walking by it, and in spite of all his will power he did stagger into the fire. Wants to think and not move, and thinks until she forgets everything and where she is. I write very fast, but cannot keep pace with my thoughts, before one sentence is completed I begin on another, I omit words and letters, when writing and talking I cannot concentrate my thoughts on the subject. Wish not to talk or make any effort. Listless; and apathetic, as if it were impossible to think. Drowsiness and confusion. Confusion of ideas, forgets the subject of conversation, will begin a subject and before it is complete changes to another. Dull. Forgetful; that he is reading, and he drops the book in vague and listless thought.

Head

      Fulness, (>) eating and sleep. Heaviness. Cannot bear to move. Lightness. Frontal pain over eyes; (<) over l. eye; over bridge of nose; in l. eminence; in r. eminence, changing to l., where it remained; running back into neck; heavy, and the same pain in temples and mastoid region. Pain in l. temple; sharp, darting, in l. temple; darting, throbbing, in l. temple. Pain in mastoid. Dull, heavy pains in l. side and over l. eye, extending around to back of head and neck, (<)(>) movement and jar, forcing her to go to bed, when they were (>) sleep, but returned soon after waking. Occipito-frontal pain in morning on waking. Dull, heavy pressing upward in Occiput, with dizziness (Gelsemium, Cimicif.).

Clinical, Dull headache, (<) occipital region, usually extending down nape or over side one side of head, generally l.; with the headache usually dizziness and sometimes nausea, and either preceding or following the headache pain in or over the corresponding eye, with stiff, strained sensation in the eye, (<) reading or near vision; in another case deafness, with roaring, hissing in ears, dull, pressing pain in occiput, (<) evening, with pain in ear and shooting in front of auricle, vertigo, results of chronic catarrhal inflammation of middle ears, Onos. relieved the headache and pain in ears, but did not affect the hearing or tinnitus. A case of myopia, with dull, stupid aching in r. side of Occiput and r. eye, (<) fatigue, coughing or sudden motion, with vertigo and strained feeling in r. eye. Vertigo, with ringing in ears, inability to lie on l. side or raise her hands above her head.

Eyes

      Pain in and over l. Feeling as if she had lost much sleep. Heaviness and Dullness, Feeling of tension, as when straining them to read small print. Desire to keep them wide open. Feel tired and as if stretching them open. Feeling as if they were very wide open, and he feels as if he wanted to look at objects far away, distant objects look large, it is disagreeable to look at near objects, tense, drawing and tired feeling in ocular muscles. Optic disc hyperaemic. Retinal vessels engorged, (<) l. Aching in upper part of balls. Dull, heavy in balls, with soreness. Lids heavy. Pain upper part of l, orbit, with feeling of expansion. Vision impaired blurred.

Ears and Nose

      Fulness in E. Feeling in E. as in catarrh. Hearing impaired. Singing as from Quinine. Dryness of nose; with feeling as from taking cold. Pain in nasal bones. sneezing much in morning; and l. side of nose and l. eye seem affected; on first getting up.

Face

      Flushed; (<) least motion or excitement; with relief of headache; with full feeling. Pain in r. malar-bone where it articulates with frontal bone; darting, through. r. malar-bone, with numbness.

Mouth

      Dryness; and of lips, without thirst; (>) cold water, with scanty saliva. Clammy, sticky, feeling. Bitter, clammy taste.

Throat

      Whitish sticky discharge from posterior nares, causing constant hawking. Raw scraping. Soreness lasting longer on l. side; it hurts to swallow or speak; s. momentarily (>) drinking, with scraping. Constriction of pharynx when swallowing. Stiffed feeling in posterior nares. Dryness; in pharynx and posterior nares; with stiffness; in pharynx, with soreness. All symptoms (>) cold drinks and eating.

Stomach

      Appetite increased. Hunger after siesta; nervous, all day. Appetite and thirst diminished. Thirst for cold drinks, wants to drink often. Distaste for water. Eructations after eating; nauseous E. Nausea, with bitter, clammy taste; N. in morning, as in pregnancy.

Abdomen

      Distended feeling; (>) removing clothing; with griping and rumbling. Colic. (>) bending backward; C. below navel; in lower part, (>) undressing or lying on back; in lower part as from ice- water; uneasy, in hypogastrium, as if diarrhoea would come on. Soreness in hypogastrium.

Stool

      Shining, bloody and stringy, with tenesmus. Mushy, greenish- yellow and stringy, with tenesmus. Yellow. mushy. Hurrying him out of bed in morning.

Urinary Organs

      Burning in male urethra, with itching. Pain in prostatic urethra before and after micturition. Seldom any desire to urinate. Micturition frequent scanty. Urine scanty, high-colored dark straw and brown, very acid, sp. gr. high, also of balsamic odor and heavily loaded with urea.

Sexual Organs

      Cold feeling in glans. Desire diminished; destroyed (in a woman). Itching of vulva, (<) scratching and constant of leucorrhoea. Constant feeling as if menses would appear. Pain in ovaries, (<) pressure; cutting and throbbing P.; heavy aching and slowly pulsating pains beginning in one ovary and passing over to the other, leaving a soreness that lasts until the pains return. Uterine and ovarian pains that had not been felt for years were re-excited. Uterine cramps as from taking cold during menstruation. Uterine pains; (>) undressing and lying on back; bearing down. Soreness in uterine region, (<) clothing and pressure. Leucorrhoea light-yellowish, offensive, excoriating and profuse, running down the legs. Menstruation too early and prolonged, the two next periods anticipating and profuse.

Respiratory Organs and Chest

      Voice husky. Hacking cough, with tough, sticky, white expectoration. Laryngeal cough, (>) drinking cold water, with expectoration of whitish, sticky phlegm. Aching in breasts, (<) l.; from l. nipple through breast; sharp, under l. breast. Soreness of chest. Bruised feeling in l. breast, with pain on pressure. Breasts feel swollen and engorged; feel swollen and sore, with itching about nipples.

Heart

      Pain causing apprehension of death; P. in region of apex. Oppression. Depressed feeling as if it would stop beating. Action rapid, pulse full and strong.

Pulse

      Rapid; and irregular. Irregular and weak; and slow. Weak, and occasionally the diastole seems prolonged. With every third or fourth beast diastole is prolonged almost to intermittence.

Neck and Back

      Pain in neck; in a spot in l. scapular region; in lumbar region; over crest of l. ilium; in lumbar region in morning on waking, (>) about noon; low down when walking; across lumbar region, with stiffness; bearing down, in lumbar region. Sore, lame feeling in lumbar region. Tired feeling in lower part of back.

Clinical Pain in dorsal and lumbar regions, constant sexual excitement, severe erections, numbness and tingling in feet and legs.

Extremities

      Weariness; of legs, knees and hands, with numbness; of arms and hands. Trembling of arms and hands. Aching in biceps, elbows and wrists. Sore feeling in biceps and muscles of forearm. Tired feeling in forearm and flexures of elbows. Numbness of l. forearm and (<) leg. She cannot write nor use the hands well in eating, because she cannot properly coordinate the movements. Shooting in joints of l. fingers. Pain in joints of fingers.

Lower Extremities

      Staggering. Disturbance of gait, with sensation of insecurity in the step. The sidewalk seems too high, which causes him to step very high, this jars him and makes his headache worse. Numbness mostly below knees. Pain in l. hip; in knees; in knees and tendons about them. Weariness and numb feeling in knees and legs; in popliteal spaces, (<) l.; deep-seated in legs and popliteal spaces. Tremulousness of legs. Aching in l. calf when walking. Tingling in calves and feet, (<) l. Weariness of legs; in evening when walking, with unsteadiness. Oedematous swelling of ankles. Heavy pain in l. instep. Numb tingling pain in outer side of both little toes.

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.