VISCUM ALBUM
Mistletoe
Lowered blood pressure. Dilated blood vessels however does no longer act on the facilities in the medulla. Pulse is gradual due to central infection of the vagus.
The signs and symptoms factor mainly to rheumatic and gouty complaints; neuralgia, specially sciatica. Epilepsy, chorea, and metrorrhagia. Rheumatic deafness. Asthma. Spinal pains, due to uterine causes. Rheumatism with tearing pains. Hypertensive albuminuria. Valvular disease, with disturbances in sexual sphere. Symptoms like epileptic air of mystery and petit mal.
Head.–Feeling as if total vault of cranium have been lifted up. Blue ring round eyes. Double vision. Buzzing and stopped-up feeling in ear. Deafness from cold. Facial muscle mass in regular agitation. Persistent vertigo.
Respiratory.–Dyspnoea; feeling of suffocation when mendacity on left side. Spasmodic cough. Asthma, if linked with gout or rheumatism. Stertorous breathing.
Female.–Haemorrhage, with pain; blood partly clots and shiny red. Climacteric complaints (Lach; Sulph). Pain from sacrum into pelvis, with tearing, capturing pains from above downwards. Retained placenta (Secale). Chronic endometritis. Metrorrhagia. Ovaralgia, in particular left.
Heart.–Hypertrophy with valvular insufficiency; pulse small and weak; unable to relaxation in a reclining position. Palpitation throughout coitus. Low tension. Failing compensation, dyspnoea worse mendacity on left side. Weight and oppression of heart; as if a hand have been squeezing it; tickling sensation about heart.
Extremities.–Pains alternate in the knee and ankle with shoulder and elbow. Sciatica. Tearing, taking pictures pains in each thighs and higher extremities. A glow rises from the toes to the head; looks to be on fire. Periodic pains from sacrum into pelvis, worse in bed, with pains into thighs and top extremities. General tremor, as if all muscle tissue have been in kingdom of fibrillary contraction. Dropsy of extremities. Sensation of a spider crawling over lower back of hand and foot. Itching all over. Compressing ache in feet.
Modalities.–Worse, winter, cold, stormy weather; in bed. Movement; mendacity on left side.
Relationship.–Compare: Secale: Convallar; Bry; Puls; Rhodod. Guipsine -active principle–(exalts the hypotensive residences of Viscum). Hedera Helix-Ivy–(Intercranial pressure).
Dose.–Tincture and decrease potencies.
