# Hamamelis Virginiana

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Herbal Remedy
- **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm
- **Temperament:** Hot
- **Aggravation Time:** Night

## Keynote Indications
Source: Derived from the bark and leaves of Hamamelis virginiana, a shrub in the Hamamelidaceae. family, native to North America, prepared for homeopathic use through maceration, serial dilution,. and succussion to eliminate toxicity and enhance therapeutic action. Traditional  Context:  Historically  employed  in  homeopathy  for  circulatory,  musculoskeletal,. mucosal, psychological, and systemic disorders , particularly those involving venous congestion,. hemorrhages, and soreness. It is noted for symptoms such as varicose veins, hemorrhoids, bruising,. and emotional irritability, often aggravated by touch, pressure, or warmth, and ameliorated by rest,. cold applications, or open air. Modern  Context:  Indicated  for  circulatory  conditions (e.g.,  varicose  veins,  hemorrhoids),. musculoskeletal  conditions (e.g.,  bruising,  joint  pain),  mucosal  conditions (e.g.,  epistaxis,. menorrhagia),  psychological conditions  (e.g., irritability, depression), and  systemic conditions. (e.g., fatigue, hypersensitivity). It suits patients with acute or chronic symptoms characterized by. venous stasis,  soreness,  bleeding tendencies , or  emotional sensitivity , typically exacerbated by. touch,  warmth,  or  pressure,  and  often  seen  in  individuals  with  chronic  venous  insufficiency,. hemorrhagic disorders, or stress-related irritability. The remedy is particularly relevant for those. with a sensitive, chilly constitution, often presenting with physical symptoms like swollen veins or. mucosal bleeding alongside psychological symptoms like low mood or impatience, commonly. observed in patients with varicose veins, hemorrhoids, or adjustment disorder triggered by physical. discomfort or stress.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Worse from: Touch, pressure, warmth (weather, rooms, drinks), motion, standing, sitting. (in hemorrhoid cases), emotional stress, exertion, warm stuffy environments, night, trauma,. menstruation.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Forgetful of words when talking.
- No desire to study or work.
- Averse to being spo ken to.
- Irritable, 
gloomy, depressed, stupid.
- Feels unappreciated.
- Wants respect due to him.
- Hemorrhages with tranquil mind.
- Reverence for those around him.
- Anxiety at night.
- Sadness better evening.
- Depressed after emissions with 
regretful mind.
- Sadness from masturbation.
- Felt as if he was going out of his mind during headache over left 
eye.
- Thinks constantly of his ailment.
- Wandering thoughts while studying.
- Forgetful of words when talking.
- No desire to study or work.
- Averse to being spo ken to.
- Irritable, 
gloomy, depressed, stupid.
- Feels unappreciated.
- Wants respect due to him.
- Hemorrhages with tranquil mind.
- Reverence for those around him.
- Anxiety at night.
- Sadness better evening.
- Depressed after emissions with 
regretful mind.
- Sadness from masturbation.
- Felt as if he was going out of his mind during headache over left 
eye.
- Thinks constantly of his ailment.
- Wandering thoughts while studying.

### Vertigo
- Swimming sensation on rising.
- Vertigo when stooping.
- Nausea and vertigo with desire to lie down.
- COMMENTS - Hering, who learned its properties from Mr.
- Pond of “Pond's Extract” fame (Pond was a patient 
of Hering’s), made the first provings and introduced the remedy into homeopathy.
- He defines its position as 
being between Aeon, and Arn.
- “Pond's Extract” is an aqueous distillate prepared from the leaves.
- A number of inter esting superstitions are 
associated with the shrub, and shoots of it are used as “divining rods” for discovering water and metals.
- It is tonic, astringent, sedative and he mostatic.
- Applied topically to varicose veins.
- May hel p relieve the pain 
from burns (Canth.).
- It has been used as a mouthwash with spongy, bleeding gums.
- Hale gave a very full account of the remedy, noting that conditions likely to require Ham.
- include phlebitis and 
varicose veins, hemorrhoids, venous hemorrhages.
- The local application of Ham.
- to a sprained knee has been 
known to set up inflammation in the veins of the part and the provers who had varicose veins experienced 
increased sensitiveness and unusual sensations in them, a number were cured.
- Passive hemorrhages (Chin.), with intense soreness.
- The part from which the flow of blood proceeds feels 
sore and bruised.
- Fullness, soreness, and a bruised feeling.
- Hemorrhages are mostly dark and may occur 
from any orifice.
- Bruising and bleeding under the skin ( Arn., Sul-ac.).
- Ecchymosis.
- Bruising from a puncture wound.
- Lack of 
ligament tone.
- Laxed ligaments, tendons, or tissues.
- Tired, aching, feeling in the back and lower limbs.
- Rheumatic symptoms with characteristic soreness.
- Congestion, inflammation and bleed ing of hemorrhoidal vessels, with marked action in the throat (Aesc.).
- Phlebitis and varicose veins with soreness.
- Varicose angina, where the veins of the pharynx are large and 
blue.
- Taste of blood in the mouth.
- Headache, chiefly in the temples, throb bing, hammering, especially over left eye.
- Black eye (Symph., Led.).
- History of use in painful tumors, especially ulcerated malignant tumors where there is bruised, dark bluish or 
purplish color.
- Pricking pain in the rectum, anal itch ing.
- Dysentery, when the amount of blood is unusually large, dark, small 
clots or patches through the mucus.
- Constipation.
- Hemorrhoids.
- Metrorrhagia, menorrhagia, vicarious menstruation and hemorrhages between the period, particularly if it's 
dark red blood.
- Stagnant blood in the uterus.
- Ovulatory bleeding.
- Orchitis, ovarian disorders, phlebi tis and 
varicose veins.
- Venous stasis (Bell -p., Sep.), particularly after childbirth.
- Ovarian disorders, orchitis, with 
soreness 
Thirst.
- Toothache worse in warm room, from touch.
- Takes cold ea sily from every exposure, but especially to 
warm, moist air.
- Dr.
- Ward noted a case in which he cured inter -menstrual pain.
- Allen mentioned in the provings an inter -
menstrual flow and Dr.
- Ward observed that if his patient has had the flow, the soreness so distinctly felt might 
not have been realized.
- Hughes gave Ham.
- to a young woman suf fering from a daily nosebleed and throbbing headache.
- The first 
dose was followed by a flushing of the face and most distressing throbbing, aching and sense of fullness in 
the head.
- The second dose brought back all the symptoms in the head and a feeling as if it would burst.
- Some days 
later, the 3x was given and again the dilatation of the cerebral vessels occurred, through the symptoms were 
not so severe.
- The scapular pain bears on the experience of Dr.
- Koech, who cured with Ham.
- many cases of scapular 
rheumatism.
- He regarded it as a specific in disorders of the last five cervical nerves.
- Bree said it will relieve the excessive thirst that most patients with heart troubles c omplain.

### Head
- Feeling as of a bolt from temple to temple.
- Numbness over frontal bone.
- Hammering headache, over 
left eye, left temple, as if he would go out of his mind.
- Stupid feeling in head.
- Stupor, dullness, headache, 
crowding fullness in head and neck, also in forehead.
- Fullness o f head, followed by a nosebleed.
- Bursting 
headache on waking.
- Headache after an emission.
- Feeling as of a bolt from temple to temple.
- Numbness over frontal bone.
- Hammering headache, over 
left eye, left temple, as if he would go out of his mind.
- Stupid feeling in head.
- Stupor, dullness, headache, 
crowding fullness in head and neck, also in forehead.
- Fullness o f head, followed by a nosebleed.
- Bursting 
headache on waking.
- Headache after an emission.

### Eyes
- Traumatic effects.
- Sore pain in eyes, eyes painful under slight pressure.
- Painful weakness.
- Black eye.
- Iritis, conjunctivitis.
- Blood shot eyes.
- Hastens absorption of intra -occular hemorrhage.
- Eyes feel forced out, 
better pressure of finger.
- Eyes inflamed, vessels greatly injected, caused by a foreign substance.
- Intense 
soreness after operations.

### Ears
- Deafness in right ear, passes off by noon.
- Buzzing, ringing in ears.
- Bleeding at right ear, also nosebleed, 
which clears her head, relieving her.

### Face
- Burning in right cheek.
- Muscles feel sore and stiff.
- Occasional shooting pains along right superior 
maxillary to malar bone.
- Lips are dry, sore, cracked.

### Mouth
- Burns of tongue and lips, or feels burnt.
- Blisters on sides of tongue, canker spots near the tip.
- Tongue 
coated white.
- Bloody, metallic taste.
- Passive hemorrhage from gums after tooth extraction with soreness.
- Nose - Over-sensitive sense of smell.
- Bad smell from the nose.
- Nose feels stopped up.
- Sneezing spells, 
watery, excoriating, burning discharge.
- Nosebleeds, flow passive, non-coagulable, with tightness at the bridge 
of the nose.
- Profuse nosebleed, idiopathic or vicarious.
- Nosebleeds with hemiplegia in old men.
- The nosebleed 
clears head and relieves.

### Throat
- Hoarse on waking.
- Sore throat, worse right side, right tonsil more swol len, reddened, with distended 
veins.
- Sore throat in those predisposed to fullness of the veins, worse in warm, moist air.
- Mucous membrane 
distended and bluish, varicosis of throat.
- Stinging, breaking pain in uvula, while coughing.
- Hawks considerably.

### Chest
- Chest feels sore and constricted, worse by a long or deep breath.
- Stitches in lower part of lungs.
- Dull, 
aching pain constantly in muscles of left chest, worse using arms afternoon and evening.
- Constitutions - Venous constitutions.
- Coughs - Tickling, with taste of blood on awakening.
- Dry cough, severe stinging in the uvula, as if it would 
break.
- Hemoptysis, tickling cough with taste of blood.
- Dry, short, w ith sensation of dryness in throat.
- Cough 
from a varicose condition of throat.
- Pulse accelerated, full.
- Palpitations.
- Pricking pain in region of heart and superficial veins of both arms.
- Kidneys - Dull aehe about kidneys.
- Hema turia wit h increased desire for urination.
- Hematuria, passive 
congestion of the kidneys, dull pain in kidney region.
- Dull ache about kidneys.
- Urine clear copious.
- Scanty 
high-colored urine.
- Irritation of the urethra, followed by a discharge and ardor urine.
- Smothering sensation when lying.
- Expectoration thick, yellowish or greenish gray, tasting putrid.
- Hemoptysis, tickling cough with taste of blood.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Blisters on side.
- Pain and heavi ness at the back of stomach.
- Throbbing and pain in stomach.
- Cramp in stomach after eating.
- Belchings after a meal, taste of the food.
- Nausea, headache in frontal bone on 
awaking.
- Nausea and inclination to vomit after a meal.
- Vomiting of black blood.
- Hematemesis, black blood.
- Teeth - Sharp pain along the molar teeth, extending to the malar bone, also in temporal region.
- Teeth ache, 
can scarcely sleep, yet not decayed.
- Pains worse in warm room.
- Gums sore, painful, swollen, bleed easily, 
dark fluid.
- Passive venous hemorrhage after extraction of teeth.
- Temperature - Cold creeps in the open air, chills run up the legs, head stopped up, dull pain over orbit.
- Chilliness over back and hips, extending down the limbs.
- Chilly on going to bed, dreading an attack of fever.
- Fever at night, hands hot, burning in the eyelids on closing them.
- Burning in the epigastrium and umbilicus.
- Pain all around lower abdomen.
- Cramps in stomach 
and transverse colon two hours after a hearty dinner.
- Varicose veins of abdomen.
- Flatulence.
- Inguinal glands 
tender and enlarged.
- Appetite good.
- No appetite for break fast.
- Nausea from pork.
- Considerable thirst, better by small 
quantities of water.
- Very thirsty in afternoon and evening, throat dry.
- Averse to water, makes him sick to think 
of it.

### Urinary & Genital
- Severe neuralgic pains in testicles.
- Pain running down the spermatic cords into the testes.
- Orchitis, 
intense soreness and swelling, worse touch.
- Testicles enlarged, hot and painful.
- Epididymitis.
- Varicocele.
- Hematocele.
- Emission at night without being aware of it.
- Profuse cold sweat on scrotum, capillary stasis.
- Vicarious menstruation.
- Menses dark, profuse with soreness in abdo men.
- Jolting brings on 
menses.
- Bleeding, midway between menstrual periods, only in daytime.
- Inter -menstrual pain.
- Leucor - rhea, 
bloody with soreness of vagina.
- Uterine hemorrhage, bearing -down pain i n back.
- Ovarian congestion and 
neuralgia, feel very sore.
- Ovaritis after a blow or after abortion with soreness over the whole abdomen.
- Vagina 
very tender, sore.
- Vulva itches.
- Vaginismus.
- During pregnancy, legs become painful, can neither stand nor 
walk.
- Milk leg.

### Extremities
- Joint  pain  or  stiffness,  with  a  sensation  of  soreness  or  aching,  resembling.
- osteoarthritis or fibromyalgia, worse with pressure, motion, or warmth.
- Muscle  soreness  or  tenderness,  with  a  sensation  of  being  bruised,  resembling.
- contusion or myalgia, aggravated by touch, exertion, or cold.
- Back  pain  or  spinal  sensitivity,  with  a  tendency  to  aggravation  after  prolonged.
- sitting, resembling lumbar strain, worse with warmth or pressure.
- Tendency  to  musculoskeletal  hypersensitivity,  with  aggravation  in  painful  or.
- congested states.
- Mucosal:.
- Epistaxis or nosebleeds, with profuse or recurrent bleeding, resembling hemorrhagic.
- telangiectasia, worse with warmth, exertion, or emotional stress.
- Menorrhagia  or  heavy  menstrual  bleeding,  with  dark,  clotted  blood,  resembling.
- dysfunctional uterine bleeding, aggravated by warmth or standing.
- Gingival bleeding or mucosal fragility, with a tendency to bleed easily, resembling.
- gingivitis or thrombocytopenia, worse with pressure or warmth.
- Tendency  to  mucosal  hypersensitivity,  with  aggravation  in  hemorrhagic  or.
- inflammatory states.
- Psychological:.
- Irritability  or  impatience,  with  a  tendency  to  feel  easily  provoked,  resembling.
- adjustment disorder, worse with physical discomfort, warmth, or emotional stress.
- Depression  or  low  mood,  with  a  sensation  of  hopelessness  or  mental  fatigue,.
- resembling major depressive disorder, aggravated by pain, fatigue, or night.
- Anxiety or restlessness, with a sensation of inner tension, resembling generalized.
- anxiety disorder, worse with warmth or physical soreness.
- Tendency to psychological hypersensitivity, with aggravation during circulatory or.
- musculoskeletal flare-ups.
- Hamamelis virginiana (Witch Hazel) 985.
- Systemic:.
- Fatigue or weakness, with a sensation of heaviness or prostration, resembling chronic.
- fatigue syndrome or post-hemorrhagic exhaustion, worse after warmth, exertion, or.
- emotional stress.
- Chilliness or cold intolerance, with aggravation in warm, stuffy conditions and a.
- desire for open air or rest.
- Hypersensitivity to external stimuli (e.g., touch, warmth, noise), resembling sensory.
- processing disorder, aggravated by warm environments or fatigue.
- Tendency to systemic irritability, with aggravation in venous or hemorrhagic states.

### Neck & Back
- Sore pain down cervical vertebrae.
- Breaking backache.
- Painful scapulae.
- Severe pain in lumbar and 
hypogastric region, extending down legs.
- Rheumatism of scapula.
- Chilliness in back and hips, extending down 
legs.
- Breasts - Sore nipples, bleeding.
- Causations - Bums.
- Injuries.

### Skin
- Fatigue or weakness, with a sensation of heaviness or prostration, resembling chronic.
- fatigue syndrome or post-hemorrhagic exhaustion, worse after warmth, exertion, or.
- emotional stress.
- Chilliness or cold intolerance, with aggravation in warm, stuffy conditions and a.
- desire for open air or rest.
- Hypersensitivity to external stimuli (e.g., touch, warmth, noise), resembling sensory.
- processing disorder, aggravated by warm environments or fatigue.
- Tendency to systemic irritability, with aggravation in venous or hemorrhagic states.

### Sleep
- Restlessness at night.
- Uneasy, restless morning sleep.
- Emissions of semen during sleep.