# Clematis Vitalba

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Herbal Remedy
- **Miasm:** Emotional Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
Clematis, like other Ranun culi, is a direct irritant of the skin producing inflammation and 
vesication. In the provings, the external head (left), eyes, teeth (left), skin, urinary and male sexual organs 
show the greatest number of symptoms. 
Acts especially on the skin, mucus membranes of eyes and urethra, glands, breasts, ovaries and genito -
urinary organs, especially the testicles. Glands become very hard and painfully swollen. Herpes, stricture of 
the urethra, cancer of the breast and testes. Inflammation of eyes,  worse left, smarting, burning, stitches, 
redness, lachrymation, photophobia. Sensation as if fire were streaming from eyes. 
Neuralgic pains in various parts. Pains relieved by perspiration. Burning, itch ing, stinging, crawling. Muscles 
flaccid or twitch. Distant pulsation in whole body. Vibrating sensation through the body after lying down. 
Strictures. Emaciation. Great sleepiness. Great debility from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Aversion to be washed.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Confused feeling, better in open air.
- Peevish, dissatisfied without any cause.
- Melancholy, 
preoccupied with sad thoughts.
- General sadness and  dread of misfortune.
- Sadness better after eating.
- Cheerful alternating with sadness, followed by irritability and prostration.
- Homesick (Caps.).
- Ailments from homesickness.
- Memory weak.
- Indifference.
- Aversion to talking.
- Indolence in 
morning, better evening.
- Aversion to reading, desires to be read to.
- Irritable, taciturn, doesn't want to go out.
- Low sex drive.
- Fear of being alone, but disinclined to meet even agreeable company.
- Sleepy, dreamy.
- Confused feeling, better in open air.
- Peevish, dissatisfied without any cause.
- Melancholy, 
preoccupied with sad thoughts.
- General sadness and  dread of misfortune.
- Sadness better after eating.
- Cheerful alternating with sadness, followed by irritability and prostration.
- Homesick (Caps.).
- Ailments from homesickness.
- Memory weak.
- Indifference.
- Aversion to talking.
- Indolence in 
morning, better evening.
- Aversion to reading, desires to be read to.
- Irritable, taciturn, doesn't want to go out.
- Low sex drive.
- Fear of being alone, but disinclined to meet even agreeable company.
- Sleepy, dreamy.

### Eyes
- Complaints from bright sunlight.
- Chronic conjunctivitis.
- Pustular conjuncti vitis with tinea capitis, eyes 
inflamed and protruding.
- Chronic blephariti s with sore and swollen meibomian glands.
- Iritis with great 
sensitiveness to cold.
- Heat in eyes, sensitive to air, must close them.
- Burning, as if fire were streaming out 
and smarting, worse closing eyes.
- Lachrymation.
- Flickering before eyes.

### Ears
- Burning pain in exterior of the ear.
- Tinkling, ringing in the ear.

### Face
- White blisters on face and nose, as if sunburned.
- Pain in right side of face to eye, ear and temple, better 
holding cold water in the mouth.
- Swelling of the submaxillary glands with hard tubercles, throbbing, aggravated

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Pain from abdomen to chest, worse breathing and du ring urination.
- Swelling of inguinal glands 
with jerking pains, with scirrhus or suppressed gonorrhea, rheumatism of joints.

### Neck & Back
- Itching pustules around the neck, with excoriation after scratching .Humid tetters from the nape of the 
neck to the occiput.
- Eruption of pustules in the lumbar region.
- Breasts - Breast and uterine cancer.
- Swell ing and induration of breasts.
- Glandular induration and tumors of 
breast.' Breast cancer with stitches in shoulders and uterus.
- Shooting pain in breast, worse urinating.
- Full, 
heavy, sensitive breasts.
- Causations - Homesickness.
- Constitutions - Suited to light-haired people with torpid, cachectic conditions, swellings and indurations of the 
glandular system.
- Syphilitic taint.
- Scrofulous, rheú- matic, gonorrheal and syphilitic patients.