====== VALERIANA OFFICINALIS ====== {{anchor:s1}}Valeriana. {{anchor:s2}}(Valeriana Officinalis.) {{anchor:s3}}Valerian. {{anchor:s4}}Valerianaceae. {{anchor:s5}}A native of Europe, where it grows in damp woods and meadows, or on dry, elevated ground. {{anchor:s6}}The root is collected in Spring or Autumn. {{anchor:s7}}The alcoholic tincture is prepared from the powdered dry root. {{anchor:s8}}Introduced by Franz. {{anchor:s9}}Provings by Hahnemann, Franz, Gross, Stapf, etc., Stapf's Beitrge; Jrg, Provings, 1825; Abell, Bost. Med. and Surg. {{anchor:s10}}Jour., 1856, p. 117. ====== CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. ====== {{anchor:s12}}- Hallucinations, Schweikert, A. H. Z., vol. 109, p 29. {{anchor:s13}}Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 435; Pain in lumbar region, Pettit, Med. Adv., vol. 2, p. 14; Coxalgia, Stens, B. J. H., vol. 15, p. 131; Sciatica, Stens, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 908; Nash, Hah. Mo., vol. 24, p. 60; Hysteria, Hartmann, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 290; Spasms, Marsden, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 4, p. 599; Ague, Pettit, Med. Adv., vol. 2, p. 13. ====== MIND. [1] ====== {{anchor:s15}}Easy comprehension; intellect predominates over mind.\\ {{anchor:s16}}Passes quickly from one subject to another; hysteria.\\ {{anchor:s17}}Intellect confused; replies incoherently.\\ {{anchor:s18}}Erroneous ideas; thinks she is some one else, moves to edge of bed to make room; imagines animals lying near her which she fears she may hurt. {{anchor:s19}}~ Typhoid fever.\\ {{anchor:s20}}Ecstasy.\\ {{anchor:s21}}Mild delirium, with great excitement and trembling. {{anchor:s22}}~ Typhoid.\\ {{anchor:s23}}Fear, especially evening in dark, palpitation, trembling.\\ {{anchor:s24}}Changeable; hypochondriacal anxiety, or trembling excitability.\\ {{anchor:s25}}Hysteria, overexcitable, changeable disposition and ideas.\\ {{anchor:s26}}Great melancholy and irritability; morose, easily exasperated.\\ {{anchor:s27}}Hallucinations, particularly at night; sees figures, animals, men, etc. ====== SENSORIUM. [2] ====== {{anchor:s29}}Feels light as if flying in air.\\ {{anchor:s30}}Vertigo, with a sensation as if flying.\\ {{anchor:s31}}Vertigo when stooping.\\ {{anchor:s32}}Oversensitiveness of all senses. ====== INNER HEAD. [3] ====== {{anchor:s34}}Headache appearing suddenly or in jerks.\\ {{anchor:s35}}Pressing as from a stupefying constriction in forehead, drawing into orbits; face pale; agg. evenings, at rest, and in open air; amel. from movement, in room, and from changing position.\\ {{anchor:s36}}One-sided drawing headache from a draft of air.\\ {{anchor:s37}}Headache in sun.\\ {{anchor:s38}}Violent pressure in forehead, followed in a few minutes by sticking in forehead, and especially over orbits; soon sticking changes into pressure, and so on in constant alternation; sticking is like a darting tearing, as if it would pierce eyes from within outward.\\ {{anchor:s39}}Sensation in head of great coldness; hysterical subjects.\\ {{anchor:s40}}Nervous headaches. ====== OUTER HEAD. [4] ====== {{anchor:s42}}Sensation of icy coldness in vertex when pressing firmly with hand, or when covering it with hat. ====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ====== {{anchor:s44}}Vivid light like lightning, accompanied by dark spot to side of line of vision.\\ {{anchor:s45}}Frequent flashes of light before eyes, with dilated pupils.\\ {{anchor:s46}}Luminous appearance before eyes in evening, in dark.\\ {{anchor:s47}}Better from light; agg. in dark.\\ {{anchor:s48}}Expression of eyes peculiarly wild; hysterical neuralgia.\\ {{anchor:s49}}Edges of lids inflamed, with biting stinging.\\ {{anchor:s50}}Pressure in eyes only in morning on rising; margins of eyelids seem swollen and sore.\\ {{anchor:s51}}Smarting in eyes as if occasioned by smoke.\\ {{anchor:s52}}Long-lasting nervous diseases of eye; eye has a wild look and sight is much confused. {{anchor:s53}}~ Hysteria.\\ {{anchor:s54}}Styes. ====== HEARING AND EARS. [6] ====== {{anchor:s56}}Nervous affections of ears, with ringing and hissing; jerking and cramping pains; hyperesthesia. ====== UPPER FACE. [8] ====== {{anchor:s58}}Cheeks red and hot, especially in open air.\\ {{anchor:s59}}Fierce pains through left side of face, darting into teeth and ear; muscles twitch; hysterical neuralgia.\\ {{anchor:s60}}Facial pains appearing suddenly and in jerks.\\ {{anchor:s61}}Spasmodic twitching and drawing in cheek bones.\\ {{anchor:s62}}White blisters with elevated red base on cheek and upper lip, painful to touch.\\ {{anchor:s63}}Twitching of muscles of face. {{anchor:s64}}~ Hysterical neuralgia. ====== LOWER FACE. [9] ====== {{anchor:s66}}Lips incrusted. ====== TEETH AND GUMS. [10] ====== {{anchor:s68}}Stinging pain in teeth. ====== TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] ====== {{anchor:s70}}Taste as of rancid tallow.\\ {{anchor:s71}}Tongue thickly coated, foul.\\ {{anchor:s72}}A greasy taste in mouth, with uneasiness in throat. {{anchor:s73}}~ Neuralgia of limbs. ====== INNER MOUTH. [12] ====== {{anchor:s75}}Flat, slimy taste in mouth on waking. ====== PALATE AND THROAT. [13] ====== {{anchor:s77}}Nausea, mostly in throat.\\ {{anchor:s78}}Sensation as if a thread were hanging down throat, with salivation and vomiting. {{anchor:s79}}~ Hysteria. ====== APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] ====== {{anchor:s82}}Voracious hunger, with nausea.\\ {{anchor:s83}}Worse on an empty stomach, amel. after breakfast. ====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ====== {{anchor:s85}}Eructations: like putrid eggs, morning on waking; frequent, empty.\\ {{anchor:s86}}Heartburn, with gulping up of rancid fluid, which, however, does not rise into mouth.\\ {{anchor:s87}}Nausea: with sensation as of a string hanging down throat; beginning in umbilical region, rising into pharynx; with faintness, lips white, body icy-cold. ====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ====== {{anchor:s89}}Pressing aching in pit of stomach, as from something forcing a passage through it. {{anchor:s90}}~ Neuralgia of limbs.\\ {{anchor:s91}}Cardialgia, with sleeplessness and migrating pains.\\ {{anchor:s92}}Sudden warm rising from epigastrium, with difficult breathing. {{anchor:s93}}~ Hysteria. ====== HYPOCHONDRIA. [18] ====== {{anchor:s95}}Spleen affections.\\ {{anchor:s96}}Pain about lower ribs. ====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ====== {{anchor:s98}}Abdomen bloated, distended, hard.\\ {{anchor:s99}}Colic: hysterical, especially evening in bed; after dinner; from hemorrhoids; from worms.\\ {{anchor:s100}}Involuntary inclination to draw abdomen in, on account of cutting and pinching pain.\\ {{anchor:s101}}Hysterical cramps in abdomen, most frequently evenings in bed, and after dinner; not amel. in any position. ====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ====== {{anchor:s103}}Discharge of ascarides.\\ {{anchor:s104}}Thin, watery diarrhea, with lumps of coagulated milk; diarrhea of children.\\ {{anchor:s105}}Greenish papescent stool, passing with blood; constant pressing and violent screaming; diarrhea of children.\\ {{anchor:s106}}Nightly itching; muscular spasms; sleeplessness. {{anchor:s107}}~ Worms.\\ {{anchor:s108}}Bubbling pressure above anus in region of coccyx. ====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ====== {{anchor:s110}}Urine increased and more frequent.\\ {{anchor:s111}}During urination, much straining and prolapsus recti.\\ {{anchor:s112}}Sediment of urine red or white. ====== FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23] ====== {{anchor:s114}}Menses too late and scanty.\\ {{anchor:s115}}Neurasthenia of sexual organs of women. ====== PREGNANCY. PARTURITION. LACTATION. [24] ====== {{anchor:s119}}Child vomits as soon as it is nursed, after mother has been angry.\\ {{anchor:s120}}Child vomits curdled milk, in large lumps, the same in stools. ====== RESPIRATION. [26] ====== {{anchor:s122}}Choking in throat pit on falling asleep; wakens as if suffocating.\\ {{anchor:s123}}Inspirations grow less deep and more rapid until they cease; then catches her breath by a sobbing effort, in spells. {{anchor:s124}}~ Spasmodic asthma.\\ {{anchor:s125}}On sitting down to meals a sensation of constriction in pharynx, as if in chest, with a suffocating feeling, followed by frequent yawning.\\ {{anchor:s126}}A sensation as if something warm were rising from her stomach, arresting breathing, with tickling deep in throat, and cough.\\ {{anchor:s127}}Paroxysm commences with a very rapid, convulsive movement of diaphragm, giving rise to extreme inhalations somewhat resembling panting of a dog. {{anchor:s128}}~ Spasmodic asthma. ====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ====== {{anchor:s130}}Frequent jerks and stitches in chest, with a sensation as if something pressed out, agg. in lower part of chest.\\ {{anchor:s131}}When walking, feels a pressure over lower half of chest, with oppression of breathing.\\ {{anchor:s132}}Sudden stitches in chest and region of liver, from within outward.\\ {{anchor:s133}}Stitches in left side and arm. ====== HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] ====== {{anchor:s135}}Stitches in region of heart.\\ {{anchor:s136}}Pulse rapid, somewhat tense, or small and weak. ====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ====== {{anchor:s138}}Spine irritated, in beginning of typhoid fever.\\ {{anchor:s139}}Pain in loins as from cold or overlifting.\\ {{anchor:s140}}Bubbling pressure above anus, in coccygeal region.\\ {{anchor:s141}}Intense pain in left lumbar region above hip, as if he had strained part, agg. standing, especially sitting. ====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ====== {{anchor:s143}}Rheumatic pains in scapulae.\\ {{anchor:s144}}Darting along arms, shoulders and face; hysterical neuralgia.\\ {{anchor:s145}}In muscles of left arm from shoulder to fingers, a very painful drawing mixed with single stitches; a sort of tearing.\\ {{anchor:s146}}Crampy darting tearing, like an electric shock, repeatedly through humerus, in bone, intensely painful.\\ {{anchor:s147}}Crampy drawing in region of biceps, in right arm, from above downward, when writing. ====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ====== {{anchor:s149}}Pain in hip and thigh intolerable when standing, as if thigh would break. {{anchor:s150}}~ Sciatica.\\ {{anchor:s151}}Crampy tearing (tearing-darting) pain in outer side of thigh, extending into hip.\\ {{anchor:s152}}Twinging pain in outer side of calf when sitting.\\ {{anchor:s153}}When laying right limb across left, tearing in left calf.\\ {{anchor:s154}}Acute crampy tearing pain in posterior muscles, especially those of calf, amel. in morning and when rubbing affected part; agg. toward evening and when quiet.\\ {{anchor:s155}}Violent drawing, darting, jerking pains in limbs, which appear suddenly; agg. sitting; amel. from motion; strained feeling in lumbar region; lumbago.\\ {{anchor:s156}}Pulsative tearing in right calf when sitting, in afternoon.\\ {{anchor:s157}}Drawing and weak feeling along tendo-Achillis, toward heel, as if part had lost all strength, when sitting; disappearing when rising from a seat.\\ {{anchor:s158}}Transient pain as if strained in right ankle; pain came on after running up stairs fast; it was most felt when standing; amel. when walking.\\ {{anchor:s159}}Sudden pain as if bruised in outer malleolus of right foot; feels pain more when standing.\\ {{anchor:s160}}Drawing in tarsal joints when sitting.\\ {{anchor:s161}}When sitting, heels, especially right heel, feel painful.\\ {{anchor:s162}}Constant pain in heels.\\ {{anchor:s163}}Sciatica of right side; agg. when straightening out limb, especially while standing, could stand at her work with comparative comfort if she stood with foot of affected side upon a chair.\\ {{anchor:s164}}Obstinate coxalgia of nine months' duration; pain greatly agg. by standing, with feeling as if thigh would break.\\ {{anchor:s165}}A feeling of lightness in leg after walking. ====== LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] ====== {{anchor:s167}}Rheumatic pains in limbs, rarely in joints; agg. during rest after previous exertion; amel. from movement.\\ {{anchor:s168}}Arms and legs move normally, but when at rest, jerk and twitch. {{anchor:s169}}~ Hysteria.\\ {{anchor:s170}}Slow painful drawing and jerking, as if in bones of upper and lower extremities, when sitting quietly.\\ {{anchor:s171}}Constant jerking of limbs. {{anchor:s172}}~ Hysterical neuralgia.\\ {{anchor:s173}}Heaviness like lead in limbs, a drawing, feels as if he must move limbs, but cannot. ====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ====== {{anchor:s177}}Rest: headache agg.; cramp in calf; rheumatic pain agg.; arms and legs twitch.\\ {{anchor:s178}}Sitting: pain in lumbar region agg.; twinging in calf; pain in limbs agg.; pulsative tearing in right calf; drawing, weak feeling along tendo-Achillis; drawing in tarsal joints; pain in heels; drawing and jerking in bones of limbs.\\ {{anchor:s179}}Stooping: vertigo.\\ {{anchor:s180}}Standing: pain in lumbar region agg.; pain in hip and thigh intolerable; pain in right ankle agg.; sciatica agg.; coxalgia agg.\\ {{anchor:s181}}Changing positions: headache amel.\\ {{anchor:s182}}Laying right limb across left: tearing in left calf.\\ {{anchor:s183}}Motion: headache amel.; pain in limbs amel.; rheumatic pain amel.\\ {{anchor:s184}}Straightening out limb: sciatica agg.\\ {{anchor:s185}}Writing: crampy drawing in right biceps.\\ {{anchor:s186}}Walking: pain in right ankle amel.; lightness in leg, after.\\ {{anchor:s187}}Running up stairs: pain in right ankle. ====== NERVES. [36] ====== {{anchor:s189}}Ecstasy, overexcitable, changeable disposition and ideas; jerking, twitching, trembling; a sensation as if something warm were rising from stomach, arresting breathing, with tickling deep in throat, and cough; feels a sensation as if a thread were hanging down esophagus from pharynx; fearfullness, tremulousness and palpitation of heart. {{anchor:s190}}~ Hysteria.\\ {{anchor:s191}}Agitation of all nerves; jerks, twitches, trembling.\\ {{anchor:s192}}Oversensitiveness of all senses.\\ {{anchor:s193}}Hysterical complaints.\\ {{anchor:s194}}Drawing in many places, now here, now there, like transient jerks.\\ {{anchor:s195}}Restlessness and spasmodic movements of limbs; staggering gait.\\ {{anchor:s196}}Spasms after slight injuries.\\ {{anchor:s197}}Nervous affections when apparently well-chosen remedy fails; defective reaction; slightest exertion causes violent headache, slightest pain fainting; warm sensation rising from stomach into throat, with globus hystericus; pains simulating rheumatism in limbs, agg. sitting, amel. walking about; hysterical women.\\ {{anchor:s198}}Severe shooting pains in left side of face, teeth, ear and arm; complete sleeplessness; convulsive tossing about of limbs; twitching of muscles of face; lips covered with a crust; thick dirty-looking coating on tongue, edges of which were torn by teeth during convulsions; gloomy expression; eyes staring, restless, wild; during conversation, eyes wander from object to object, and she does not understand questions; menses normal; wanders about house.\\ {{anchor:s199}}Great excitement and trembling. {{anchor:s200}}~ Typhoid fever. ====== SLEEP. [37] ====== {{anchor:s202}}Sleepless, restless tossing, cannot sleep before 12 P. M.; nightly itching, muscular spasms; falls asleep only toward morning, when he had vivid dreams.\\ {{anchor:s203}}Worse on awaking. ====== TIME. [38] ====== {{anchor:s205}}Morning: eructations.\\ {{anchor:s206}}Toward evening: cramp in calf.\\ {{anchor:s207}}Evening: headache agg.; in bed, colic; heat agg.\\ {{anchor:s208}}Night: profuse sweat.\\ {{anchor:s209}}At 12 P. M.: cannot sleep before. ====== TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] ====== {{anchor:s211}}Open air: headache agg.; cheeks red and hot.\\ {{anchor:s212}}Draft of air: headache. ====== FEVER. [40] ====== {{anchor:s214}}Chill: of short duration; followed by long-lasting heat, with dullness of head and thirst; begins in neck and runs down back; fainting during cold stage.\\ {{anchor:s215}}Chill almost wanting, heat exceeds considerably in intensity and endurance, followed by perspiration.\\ {{anchor:s216}}Heat: in whole body, with uneasiness; flushes over cheeks; long-lasting; with sweat on face; agg. evenings and when eating; with thirst; predominates.\\ {{anchor:s217}}In evening spells of fugitive heat with thirst, no shivering. {{anchor:s218}}~ Neuralgia of limbs.\\ {{anchor:s219}}Sweat: profuse, agg. at night, or from exertion, with violent heat; on face with heat; frequent, suddenly ceasing, mostly on forehead; amel. after. ====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ====== {{anchor:s221}}Suddenly, or in jerks: headache; facial pains; pain in limbs.\\ {{anchor:s222}}Alternation: of sticking pain and pressure in forehead.\\ {{anchor:s223}}Now here, now there: transient jerks. ====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ====== {{anchor:s225}}Left: prosopalgia; stitches in side and arm; pain in lumbar region as if strained; drawing in arm.\\ {{anchor:s226}}Right: drawing in biceps; strained feeling in ankle; bruised pain in outer malleolus; sciatica. ====== SENSATIONS. [43] ====== {{anchor:s228}}As if flying in air; as if eyes would be pierced from within outward; as of smoke in eyes; as if a thread were hanging down throat; as of something forcing a passage through pit of stomach; as if suffocating on falling asleep; as if something warm were rising from stomach; as if something pressed out in lower chest; as from cold or overlifting, pain in loins; as if he had strained left lumbar region; as of an electric shock through humerus; as if thigh would break; as if strained in right ankle; as if bruised in outer malleolus of right foot; lightness in leg; like lead in limbs.\\ {{anchor:s229}}Pain: about lower ribs; in hip and thigh; in heels; in eruptions.\\ {{anchor:s230}}Jerking: headache; in ears; in face; in chest; in limbs; in bones of limbs.\\ {{anchor:s231}}Darting: in forehead; from face into teeth and ears; in face; in shoulders; along arms; in humerus; from thigh to hip; in limbs.\\ {{anchor:s232}}Cutting: in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s233}}Stitches: in chest; in region of liver; in left side and arm; in region of heart; in left arm.\\ {{anchor:s234}}Shooting: face, teeth, ear and arms.\\ {{anchor:s235}}Sticking: in forehead; over orbits.\\ {{anchor:s236}}Stinging: in edges of lids; in teeth.\\ {{anchor:s237}}Tearing: in forehead; in left arm; in humerus; in thigh to hip; in left calf; pulsative; in right calf.\\ {{anchor:s238}}Drawing: headache; in cheek bones; in muscles of left arm; in right biceps; in limbs; along tendo-Achillis; in tarsal joints; in bones of limbs.\\ {{anchor:s239}}Rheumatic pains: in scapulae; in limbs.\\ {{anchor:s240}}Aching: in pit of stomach.\\ {{anchor:s241}}Smarting: in eyes.\\ {{anchor:s242}}Biting: in edges of lids.\\ {{anchor:s243}}Pressure: in forehead; in eyes; in pit of stomach; over lower chest; bubbling, above anus.\\ {{anchor:s244}}Pinching: in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s245}}Cramping: in ears; through humerus; in right biceps; in thigh to hip; in posterior muscles, especially in calf.\\ {{anchor:s246}}Constriction: in forehead; in pharynx.\\ {{anchor:s247}}Twinging: in outer side of calf.\\ {{anchor:s248}}Heaviness: in limbs.\\ {{anchor:s249}}Tickling: in throat.\\ {{anchor:s250}}Weakness: in tendo-Achillis.\\ {{anchor:s251}}Coldness: of head; in vertex. ====== TISSUES. [44] ====== {{anchor:s253}}"Nervous affections occurring in excitable temperaments; in hypochondriasis, it calms the nervousness, abates the excitement of the circulation, removes the wakefullness, promotes sleep, and induces sensations of quietude and comfort; sadness is removed; in globus, in all asthmatical and hysterical coughs, and nervous palpitation of heart, profuse flow of limpid urine."\\ {{anchor:s254}}Excessive nervous excitability; exaltation; hysterical spasms; fearfullness and tremulousness with palpitation; hysterical element predominates.\\ {{anchor:s255}}Red parts become white. ====== TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] ====== {{anchor:s259}}Touch: blisters on cheek and lip painful.\\ {{anchor:s260}}Rubbing: amel. cramp in calf.\\ {{anchor:s261}}Pressure: of hand or hat, icy coldness in vertex.\\ {{anchor:s262}}After slight injuries: spasms.\\ {{anchor:s263}}Decubitus: early in typhoid. ====== SKIN. [46] ====== {{anchor:s265}}Painful eruptions.\\ {{anchor:s266}}White miliaria on chest and back. {{anchor:s267}}~ Typhoid.\\ {{anchor:s268}}Skin too dry and warm. {{anchor:s269}}~ Hysterical neuralgia. ====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ====== {{anchor:s271}}Hysterical women who have taken too much chamomile tea.\\ {{anchor:s272}}Nervous, irritable, hysterical subjects, in whom the intellectual faculties predominate, and who suffer from hysterical neuralgia.\\ {{anchor:s273}}Woman, aet. 24, tall, dark hair and eyes, mother of a 9 months old child; spasms.\\ {{anchor:s274}}Woman, aet. 50; hysterical hallucinations.\\ {{anchor:s275}}A man, aet. 50, of florid complexion, almost ruddy, habitual cheerful temper; neuralgia of limbs.\\ {{anchor:s276}}Mrs. ---, tall in stature, fair complexion, dark hair and eyes, usually feeble, subject to nightly ttacks of asthma; spasmodic asthma.\\ {{anchor:s277}}A highly nervous and irritable constitution; neuralgia. ====== RELATIONS. [48] ====== {{anchor:s279}}Antidoted by: Bellad., Camphor, Cina, Coffea, Pulsat.\\ {{anchor:s280}}It antidotes: Mercur., abuse of chamomile tea.\\ {{anchor:s281}}Compare: Arnic., Asafoet, Crocus, Dulcam., Hyperic., Ignat., Nux vom., Spigel., Sulph. (spasms after injuries). ---- ====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ====== ^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 10, 1891 | ^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r122|Valeriana officinalis]] | ^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r122|Valeriana officinalis]] | ^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. | ^ year: | 1891 | ^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting | ^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}