Valeriana officinalis

 Valeriana officinalis. N. O. Valerianaceae. Tincture of the fresh root.

 Asthma, spasmodic; nervous. вed-sores. сhange of life. сlairvoyance. сoxalgia. Headache. Heart, palpitation of. Heels, pain in. Hypochondriasis. Hysteria. Levitation. Neuralgia. Sciatica. Sleeplessness. Toothache.

 V. officinalis is usually found in moist hedgerows or on the banks of ditches and streams. The peculiar fetid odour of Valerians is probably due to the presence of Valerianic acid. It is especially agreeable to eats, who become, as it were, intoxicated with it. Volatile oil of Valerian seems not to exist naturally in the plant, but to be developed by the agency of water (Treas. of вot. Val. first appeared in homoeopathic medicine in Stapf s Additions, the article on it was written by Franz, and Hahnemann and Stapf were among the provers. When Franz wrote, it was the custom among ladies in Germany to take Valerian almost as frequently as coffee, and to this practice he attributed no little of the nervous suffering then prevalent. There is scarcely a drug, he says, which communicates its primary as well as secondary action to the organism with more intensity than Val. He instanced his own eye symptoms, which were both severe and remarkable, and of them he says that, though he had never had any tendency to anything of the kind before, they were excited at intervals for four months afterwards, the cause being frequently unknown, showing the deep action on the organism. The many inveterate spasms of the stomach and abdomen; the incurable cases of hysteria and hypochondriasis; moral disturbances, passing from one extreme of emotion to another, from the highest joy to the deepest grief, from leniency, kindness, and mildness to grumbling impatience, obstinacy, and quarrelsomeness; from a sinking of the vital forces accompanied by a painful craving for stimulants, to the greatest liveliness and extravagance, and vice versâ ; tedious convalescence after nervous fevers; paralysis, and contractions of the limbs, &c. - these, in Franz s opinion, were much less owing to the original intensity of the disease than to the Val. with which the patients had been dosed; and they were only saved from worse effects by the fact that Val. was so frequently given in combination with one or more of its antidotes. Some notes by Franz are important: (1) The first and most rapid effect of Val., which precedes any after symptoms, is an acceleration of the pulse and congestion of the head. (2) The symptoms of the upper and lower limbs alternate frequently. (3) The principal times of day when Val. produces its symptoms are noon and early afternoon and the hours before midnight. The abdominal symptoms especially are felt in the evening. (4) Val. causes several kinds of darting, tearing pains which come and go. Similar to these pains are those which appear suddenly. If we compare with these two kinds of pains-the jerking pains which are scarcely felt in any other than muscular tissues and the cramping pains-we have a very easy and natural indication of the grounds on which Tissot s recommendation of Val. for epilepsy might be considered valid. The eye symptoms of Franz were burning, smarting, and pressure in the margins of the lids, which seemed sore and swollen. вut in addition was this, which shows the exalted state of sensorum Val. can produce: Shine before the eyes in the dark; the closed, dark room seemed to be filled with the shine of twilight, so that he imagined he distinguished the objects in the same; this was accompanied with a sensation as if he felt that things were near him even when not looking at them; on looking he perceived that the things were really there (at 10 , thirteen hours after the dose). There were also hallucinations of hearing and of sense. Imagines she is some one else and moves to the edge of the bed to make room was removed in one case. Anxious, hypochondriac feeling, as if the objects around him had been taken from him; the room appears to him desolate, he does not feel at home in the room, he is compelled to leave it. As if in a dream. The restlessness of Val. is a, very prominent feature: Nervous irritation, cannot keep still; tearings, cramps, morning. сonstant heat and uneasiness. The digestion is disturbed. The taste caused by Val. is as disgusting as its odour. вefore dinner a taste of fetid tallow; early in the morning on waking the taste is flat, slimy. Nausea begins in umbilical region, rising into pharynx. In the preface to his Pocket вook вoenninghausen gives a case which brings out many of the Val. characteristics: E. N., 50, of blooming, almost florid complexion, usually cheerful, but during his most violent paroxysms inclined to outbreaks of anger with decided nervous excitement, had suffered for four months with a peculiar violent kind of pain in the right leg after the previous dispersion, allopathically, of a so-called rheumatic pain in the right orbit by external remedies which could not be found out; this last pain attacked the muscle of the posterior part of the leg, especially from calf to heel, but did not involve the knee or ankle-joint. The pain itself he described as extremely acute, cramping, jerking, tearing, frequently interrupted by stitches extending from within outward; but in the morning hours, when the pain was generally more endurable, it was a dull, burrowing with a bruised feeling. The pain became while using the arm, and then the pain suddenly jumped back again into the right calf. The greatest relief was experienced while walking up and down the room and rubbing the affected part. The concomitant symptoms were sleeplessness before midnight, frequently recurring attacks during the evening of sudden flushes of heat with thirst, without previous chill, a disgusting, fatty taste in the mouth with nausea in the throat, and an almost constant pressing pain in the lower part of the chest and pit of the stomach as if something were there forcing itself outward. Of course Val. was the remedy. Val. has a strong affinity for the tendo Achillis, and I have cured with it many cases of painful affection of this tendon and heel when the Val. conditions were present. Nash cured with it a severe case of sciatica in a pregnant woman on the symptom, pain cramp in calf. Pressure of hand or covering with hat = icy coldness on vertex. Early decubitus in typhoid. Slight injury = spasms. Rest; sitting; standing. Moving eyes After sleep. After a meal.

 Antidoted by: вell., сamph., сin., сoff., Puls. Antidote to: Merc., abuse of сhamomile tea. сompare: Hysteria, Mosch. Mosch. has more unconsciousness), Ign., Asaf. Alternating mental states, сroc. Defective reaction, Ambra., Pso. (despair of recovery), сhi., Lauro. (chest affections), сaps., Op., сarb. v. Periodical neuralgia, Ars. (Val. hysterical patients). Pain = fainting, сham., Hep., Ver. Rheumatism motion, Rhus. Pains come and go suddenly, вell., Lyc. Infant vomits curdled milk, Aeth. Over-sensitiveness, Nux. Averse to darkness, Stram., Stro., Am. m., Ars., вar. c., вerb., сalc., сarb. a., сarb. v., сaus., Lyc., Pho., Pul., Rhus. As if in a dream, Ambr., Anac., сalc., сan. i., сon., сup., Med., Rhe., Ver., Ziz. Levitation, Nux m., Sti. p., Ph. ac.

 Injuries (slightest injury = spasms. вed-sores form soon in typhoid).

 Extremely delirious, attempting to get out of the window, threatening and vociferating wildly. Anxious, hypochondriacal sensation, as if all around were desolate, disagreeable, or strange (very changeable disposition). Joyous, tremulous excitement; mild delirium. Intellect clouded. Fear, especially in evening, and in the dark. Despair. The most opposite moral symptoms appear alternately. Extreme instability of ideas. General illusions and errors of the mind. Hallucinations: especially at night; sees figures, animals, men; thinks she is some one else, moves to edge of bed to make room. Great flow of ideas, chasing one another. Felt like one who is dreaming. Hysteria, with nervous over-excitability of the nerves.

 Head confused, as after intoxication. Intoxication and dizziness, with absence of ideas. Whirling in head when stooping forwards. Headache, which appears suddenly or in jerks. Fulness as from rush of blood to head. Pressive headache, or with pressive shootings, especially in forehead, towards orbits, often alternating with confusion and dizziness in the head. Headache; from movement in the room and when changing the position; the pressure over the orbits alternates between a pressing and a sticking; the sticking is like a darting, tearing as if it would pierce the eyes from within outward. Headache an hour after dinner, pressure over eyes as if they would be pressed out,.
 Eyes downcast, as after a nocturnal debauch, especially after a meal. Pressure, burning sensation, and smarting in eyes as from smoke: morning after rising. Tearing in right eyeball, sight dim in morning, and pain as from insufficient sleep. Sees things at a distance more distinctly than usual. The eyes shine. Redness, swelling, and pain as from excoriation in margin of eyelids. Swelling and painful sensibility of eyelids. Myopia. - вrightness and light before eyes when in the dark, so that objects become almost distinguishable; with this a sensation as if he felt that things were near him even when not looking at them; on looking, he perceives they really were there (10 ). Sparks before eyes.
 Otalgia, with spasmodic drawings. Jerking in the ears. Tinkling and ringing in the ears. Illusions of hearing; imagined he heard the bell strike.
 Violent sneezing.
 Pain in face, with spasmodic twitching and drawing in zygomatic process. Redness and heat of cheeks in open air; a quarter of an hour later sweat breaks out over whole body, especially in face. Twitching of muscles of face. Darting like electricity in right ramus of lower jaw.

 Toothache, with shooting pain.
 White blisters on tongue and upper lip, painful when touched.

 Taste in mouth (and smell before nose) as of fetid tallow (early in the morning after waking). - вitter taste on tip of tongue when passing it over the lips after a meal. Insipid and slimy taste in mouth after waking in morning. - вulimy, with nausea.

 Risings, with the taste of rotten eggs, on waking in morning. Frequent, empty, or rancid and burning risings. Voracious hunger with nausea. Nausea and a sensation as if there were a thread from gullet to abdomen (arising from umbilicus and gradually rising to fauces), with copious accumulation of saliva. Nausea, with syncope, lips white and body cold. Disposition to vomit. Vomiting of bile and of mucus, with violent shivering and shaking. Nocturnal vomiting. Weak stomach and digestion. Pressure at scrobiculus, appearing and disappearing suddenly, with a gurgling in abdomen.
 Pains in hepatic region and epigastrium when touched. Painful shocks in right hypochondrium. Abdomen inflated and hard. Powerful sensation of expansion in abdomen, as if about to burst. Tendency to retract abdomen. Spasms in abdomen, generally in evening, in bed, or after dinner, allowing no in any position whatever. Haemorrhoidal colic; from, worms. Gripings and painful pinchings in abdomen when retracting it. Pains in left side of abdomen in evening, as from subcutaneous ulceration. Drawing, pressure, and pains as from a bruise in hypogastrium, inguina, and abdominal muscles, as after a chill or strain. Digging pains in abdomen.
 Loose evacuations. Greenish faeces of consistence of pap, mixed with blood. Painful borings in rectum. - вubbling pressure above anus in region of coccyx. Discharge of blood from anus. Ascarides from rectum.

 Profuse and frequent emission of urine. Urine contains a white, red, or turbid sediment. During urination much straining and prolapsus recti.
 Creeping and drawing in penis as if it had gone to sleep; frequent erections the day previous, early in morning. Tensive gurgling in right testis when sitting.
 Menses too late and scanty. Neurasthenia of sexual organs of women. - сhild vomits as soon as it has been nursed, after mother has been angry. - сhild vomits curdled milk in large lumps, the same in stools.

 Choking in throat-pit on falling asleep; wakens as if suffocating. Inspirations grow less and less deep and more rapid till they cease; then catches her breath by a sobbing effort in spells. Sensation as if something warm were rising from stomach, arresting breathing, with tickling deep in throat and cough.
 Obstructed respiration and anguish in chest. Oppressed respiration, with pressure on lower part of chest. Frequent jerks and stitches in chest (with the sensation as if something were pressed out), sometimes on left side (in region of heart) when drawing breath. Sudden stitches in chest and liver from within out. Eruption of small, hard nodosities on chest.

 Drawing pains in the loins and back. Pain in the region of the loins as from a chill or a strain. Lancinations in left lumbar region above hip, worse when standing, and especially when sitting, than when walking. Rheumatic pains in the shoulder-blades.
 Painful drawing in upper and lower extremities when sitting quietly, by walking.
 Spasmodic drawings and jerkings, or else tearing in arms. - сrampy drawing in region of biceps, in right arm from above downward while writing. - сrampy, darting tearing like an electric shock, repeatedly through the humerus, intensely painful. Paralytic pain in joints of shoulder and elbow towards the end of a walk. Eruption of small, hard nodosities on arms. Trembling of hands when writing. Painful shocks across the hand.
 Burning pain in hips when in bed in evening. - сrampy tearing in outer side of thigh, extending into hip. Pain in hip and thigh intolerable when standing, as if thigh would break. Spasmodic drawing and jerking in thighs. Great heaviness and lassitude in legs, but especially in calves. Twinging pain in outer side of calf when sitting. Pulsative tearing in right calf when sitting in the afternoon. Pain, as of a fracture, in the thighs and tibia. Paralytic pain in the knees towards the end of a walk. Violent stitch in knee. Tensive pain in the calves of the legs, especially when crossing the legs. Drawing and weak feeling along tendo Achillis, toward heel, as if the part had lost all strength, when sitting; disappearing when rising from a seat. - сonstant pain in heels. When sitting heels, especially right, painful. Drawing in the joints of the feet when sitting down. Sudden pain, as if bruised, in outer malleolus of right foot, when walking. Wrenching pain in the joints of the foot and ankles. Transient pain in right ankle,.

 [This remedy is like Puls. in many of its aggravations, &c., but it has a different temperament-patients get raving, tearing, swearing mad; get From moving, from walking. H. N. G. Rheumatic tearing in limbs, but not usually in the joints, chiefly during repose, after exercise, and mostly by movement; or which gives place to other sensations in other parts of the body during a walk. Jerking and shaking pains, appearing (in many places) suddenly and by fits. Pains which manifest themselves after resting a long time in any position, and are by changing it. Drawing and jerking in limbs, as if in bones. Pain, as from paralysis in limbs, towards the end of a walk. Periodical symptoms, which reappear after two or three months. Epileptic fits. Paralytic torpor in limbs. The majority of the symptoms manifest themselves in the evening and after dinner. Over-sensitiveness of all senses. General morbid excitement and irritability, with lassitude in the limbs, great gaiety, and appearance of vigour. Painful weariness, especially in lower extremities, after rising in morning.

 Eruption of small nodosities, at first red and confluent, the white and hard. Painful eruptions. Skin too dry and warm.

 Sleeplessness. Disturbed sleep (could fall asleep only towards morning), with tossing and anxious and confused dreams.

 The chilliness generally begins in neck and runs down back. Sensation of icy coldness. Fever, with constant heat, after a short fit of shivering, accompanied by confusion in head and thirst. Heat.

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