ONOSMODIUM VIRGINIANUM
False Gromwell (ONOSMODIUM)
Want of energy of awareness and co-ordination. Vertigo, numbness and muscular prostration. Marked affiliation of head and eye symptoms, with muscular tiredness and weariness.
A treatment for migraine. Headaches from eyestrain and sexual weakness. It produces diminution of sexual wish in each sexes; subsequently its homeopathicity, in sexual neurasthenia. Depressed or misplaced sexual lifestyles in women. Neuralgic pains. General prostration. Acts as if born tired.
Head.–Loss of memory. Nose feels dry. Confused. Dull, heavy, dizzy, urgent upward in occiput. Occipito-frontal ache in morning on waking, in particular left side. Pain in temples and mastoid (Capsic).
Eyes.–Vision blurred; optic disc hyperaemic, and retinal vessels enlarged. Strained feeling in eyes; worse, the use of eyes. Eyes heavy and dull, muscular asthenopia; ocular muscle mass tense. Internal eye muscle mass paretic. Pain in eyeballs between orbit and ball, extending to left temple.
Throat.–Severe dryness. Discharge from posterior nares. Raw, scraping. Stuffed feeling in posterior nares. Symptoms worse by way of bloodless drinks.
Abdomen.–Craving for ice-water and bloodless drinks; wishes to drink often. Abdomen feels bloated
Back.–Pain in dorsal and lumbar regions. Numbness and tingling in toes and legs.
Chest.–Sore, aching in breasts; feels swollen and sore. Pain in heart; pulse, rapid, irregular, weak.
Male.–Constant sexual excitement. Psychical impotence. Loss of desire. Speedy emissions. Deficient erections.
Female.–Severe uterine pains; bearing-down pains; historic pains return. Sexual want definitely destroyed. Feels as if menses would appear. Aching in breasts. Nipples itch. Menses too early and too prolonged. Soreness in uterine region. Leucorrhoea, yellow, acrid, profuse.
Extremities.–Pain in back. Tired and numb feeling in legs, popliteal spaces, and under knees. Staggering gait. Sidewalk looks too high. Pain in left scapular region. Great muscular weak point and weariness.
Modalities.–Worse, from motion, jar, and tight clothing. Better, when undressed, when mendacity down on back, from bloodless drinks, and eating.
Relationship.–Compare: Nat mur; Lilium; Gels; Ruta.
Dose.–Thirtieth attenuation.
