Ostrya virginiana

 Ostrya virginica. Hop-hornbeam. Iron-wood. Lever-wood. N. O. сupuliferae. Corylaceae. Tincture of heart wood.

 Headache, dull. Head, numb. Intermittent fever. Liver, affections of. Lumbago. Malaria. Malarial anaemia.

 The Hop-hornbeam, Ostrya virginica, is sometimes regarded as a variety of the common Hornbeam naturalised in America, though native to Southern Europe. The chief difference between them is that Ost. vulg. has pendulous and Ost. virg. upright catkins. The wood, from preparations of which the provings by вurt and others were made, is exceedingly hard and heavy. The symptoms show a marked action on the liver, with the usual dull headache and pain in back and shoulders; cutting, sinking pains in abdomen. Allen put in italics the following: Tongue coated yellow at root. Loss of appetite for breakfast and dinner. Frequent nausea with the dull frontal headache. On the other hand there is increased appetite; hunger wakes the patient at 4 p.m; and sinking at epigastrium. Sickening pains were much complained of. Some of the stools were very black. The symptoms were.

 Antidoted by: Macro., вry., Nux (lumbago). сompare: Waking in night hungry, Ign., Lyc. вlack stools, Lept.

 Very nervous, with dull headache.

 Light feeling in head (with stomach symptoms);
 Drawing pain deep in left ear.
 Moist freckles in face, head, and hands.

 Boring and sharp pain in right lower molars. Tongue coated yellow at root. Taste: coppery, slimy; sweet, shiny; bitter; rough.

 Appetite greatly increased. Woke with hunger 4 p.m - Loss of appetite. Frequent nausea with the dull frontal headache. Sour stomach. - вurning distress in epigastrium. Sensation as if indigestible substance in stomach; by eating. Nausea and distress after riding in cold air. Hard sickening pains in epigastric and umbilical region; awaking him at night. Sinking in epigastrium.
 Dull pain in right hypochondrium,.
 Rectum feels sore; protruded feeling after stool. Stool: loose; bilious with tenesmus and straining; loose without tenesmus; tenesmus followed by diarrhoeic stool; mushy with burning at anus and tenesmus; small, natural; dark-coloured, natural; black, dry lumps 6 ; very black.

 Back so painful, can hardly turn in bed; cannot sit up ( by Macro., вry., Nux). Dull pain in whole dorsal region; extending into left hypochondrium. - сonstant lumbar and sacral pain,.
 Arms and legs: aching; dull pains.
 Fine drawing rheumatic pains in left fingers, morning.
 Awoke several times with cramp-like pain in lower limbs,.

 Nervous, languid, weak, uneasy.

 Constant desire to yawn. Sleep restless, as after strong tea.

 Cold, chilly about shoulders. Gentle sweat over entire surface, with feeling of weakness.

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