# Valeriana Officinalis ## Remedy Classification - **Type:** Herbal Remedy - **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm - **Temperament:** Hot - **Aggravation Time:** Morning ## Keynote Indications Source: Derived from the fresh root of Valeriana officinalis, commonly known as Valerian or. Garden Heliotrope, a perennial plant in the Caprifoliaceae family, prepared for homeopathic use. through trituration and serial dilution to enhance therapeutic action while eliminating material. sedative properties, in accordance with homeopathic pharmacopeia standards. Traditional Context: Historically employed in homeopathy for neurological, psychological, and. musculoskeletal disorders, particularly those involving nervous excitability, insomnia, and. spasmodic pains. It is noted for symptoms such as restlessness, hysterical states, and aggravation. from rest, often worsened by rest, evening, or emotional stress, and ameliorated by motion, fresh. air, or distraction. Modern Context: Indicated for neurological conditions (e.g., insomnia, restless legs syndrome),. psychological conditions (e.g., generalized anxiety disorder, adjustment disorder),. musculoskeletal conditions (e.g., fibromyalgia, muscle spasms), and constitutional conditions. (e.g., chronic fatigue syndrome, neurasthenia). It suits patients with acute or chronic symptoms. characterized by nervous excitability , restlessness, insomnia, spasmodic pains , or emotional. sensitivity, typically exacerbated by rest, evening, emotional stress, or confinement, and often seen. in individuals with dynamic, oversensitive constitutions. The remedy is particularly relevant for. those with neurological or psychological conditions, often presenting with symptoms like insomnia. or anxiety, commonly observed in patients with generalized anxiety disorder, restless legs. syndrome, or fibromyalgia triggered by rest, emotional stress, or lack of stimulation. ## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations) Worse from: Rest, evening, night, emotional stress, confinement, lying down, warmth. (neurological symptoms), dampness, fasting, tight clothing, morning, lack of stimulation. ## Symptoms by System ### Mind - Mental disturbances passing from one extreme of emotions to another, from the highest joy to deepest grief, from mildness to grumbling. - Changeable disposition and moods. - Impatience, passes quickly from one subject to another. - Tremulous. - Over-sensitiveness (Staph.). - Irritable. - Anger. - Mad, raving, swearing. - Hysterical spasms and disorders gener ally. - Wriggles or squirms about. - Inclined to faint. - Hysteria, dreads being alone and especially in the dark. - Hallucinations at night. - Erroneous ideas, thinks she is some one else, as if all around were strange and disagreeable. - Delusions of animals, men. - Feels light, as if floating in air. - Mental disturbances passing from one extreme of emotions to another, from the highest joy to deepest grief, from mildness to grumbling. - Changeable disposition and moods. - Impatience, passes quickly from one subject to another. - Tremulous. - Over-sensitiveness (Staph.). - Irritable. - Anger. - Mad, raving, swearing. - Hysterical spasms and disorders gener ally. - Wriggles or squirms about. - Inclined to faint. - Hysteria, dreads being alone and especially in the dark. - Hallucinations at night. - Erroneous ideas, thinks she is some one else, as if all around were strange and disagreeable. - Delusions of animals, men. - Feels light, as if floating in air. ### Vertigo - Vertigo on stooping, feels light, as if floating. - Head confused, as after intoxication. - Intoxication and dizziness with absence of ideas. - Whirling in head when stooping forwards. - COMMENTS - Franz wrote that it was the custom among women in Germany to take Valerian almost as frequently as coffee. - He attributed much of the nervous suffering, then prevalent, to this practice. - “There is scarcely a remedy,” he said, “which com municates its primary as well as secondary action to the organism with more intensity than Valer.” He referenced his own eye symptoms, which were both severe and remarkable, though he had no tendency to anything of the kind before. - His symptoms were excited at intervals for four months afterwards, the cause was frequently unknown, showing the deep action on the organism. - Franz recorded burning, smarting and pressure in the margins of the eyelids, which seemed sore and swollen. - There were also hallucinations of hearing and of sense. - “Imagines she is some one else and moves to the edge of the bed to make room.” “Anx ious, hypochondriac feeling, as if the objects around him had been taken from him, the room appears to him desolate, he does not feel at home in the room, he is compelled to leave it.” “As if in a dream.” “The many inveterate spasms of the stomach and abdomen. - The incurable cases of hysteria and hypochondriasis. - Moral disturbances, passing from one extreme of emotion to another. - From the highest joy to t he deepest grief from leniency. - Kindness and mildness to grumbling impatience, obstinacy and quarrelsomeness from a sinking of the vital forces. - A painful craving for stimulants to the greatest liveliness and extravagance and vice versa.” In Franz’s opinion, tedious convalescence after nervous fevers, and paralysis and contractions of the limbs, were owed less to the original intensity of the disease than to the Valer, with which the patients had been dosed. - They were only saved from worse effects because Valer, was frequently given in combination with one or more of its antidotes. - Franz noted that the first and most rapid effect of Valer., which precedes any after symptoms, is an acceleration of the pulse and congestion of the head. - Symptoms of the upper an d lower limbs alternate frequently. - Principally produces symptoms at noon Valeriana officinalis and early afternoon, and the hours before midnight. - The abdominal symptoms are particularly felt in the evening. - Disturbed digestion. - Fetid tallow taste before dinner. - Flat, slimy taste early in the morning, on waking. - Nausea begins in umbilical region, rising into pharynx. - Darting, tearing pains that come and go. - Pains appear suddenly. - Tearings, cramps, better morning. - Constant heat and uneasi ness. - Restlessness . - Nervous irritation, can not keep still. - Tissot recommended Valer. - for epilepsy. - Nash cured a severe case of sciatica in a pregnant woman based on the symptoms, “pain worse standing and letting the foot rest on the floor.” She could stand with the foot resting on a chair or lie down in comfort. - Hering said it met “Nervous disorders occurring in excitable temperaments. - In hypochondriasis it calms the nervousness, abates the excitement of the circulation. - “It removes the wakefulness, promotes sleep and induc es sensation of quietude and comfort. - Sadness is removed in globus hys tericus in all asthmatic and hysterical coughs. - Nervous palpitations, profuse flow of limpid urine. - Red parts become white.” ### Head - Headache, which appears suddenly or in jerks. - Fullness as from rush of blood to head. - Pressive headache. - Headaches, better moving about, worse sunshine. - Moving eyes aggravates headache. - Sensation of great coldness. - Pressure in forehead. - Bending head back aggravates pain in occiput. - Headache, which appears suddenly or in jerks. - Fullness as from rush of blood to head. - Pressive headache. - Headaches, better moving about, worse sunshine. - Moving eyes aggravates headache. - Sensation of great coldness. - Pressure in forehead. - Bending head back aggravates pain in occiput. ### Eyes - Swelling and painful sensibility of eyelids. - Myopia. - Brightness and light before eyes in a dark room, vision sharp. - Sparks before eyes. - Objects seem too near eyes. - Wild look. ### Ears - Otalgia with spasmodic drawings. - Jerkings in the ears. - Hyperesthesia. - Earache from exposure to drafts and cold. - Nervous noises. - Tinkling and ringing in the ears. - Illusions of hearing, imagined he heard the bell tinkle. ### Face - Pain appears suddenly and jerks. - Muscles twitch. - Cheeks red and hot in open air. ### Mouth - Rancid, greasy taste. - Bitter taste on tip of tongue. - Tongue thickly coated. - Nausea felt in throat. - White blisters on tongue and upper lip, painful when touched. - Toothache with shooting pain. - Nose - Violent sneezing. ### Throat - Choking in throat-pit on falling asleep, wakes as if suffocating. - Pharynx feels constricted. - Sensation as if a thread were hanging down throat with salivation and vomiting. - Nausea felt in throat. ### Chest - Sudden stitches in chest and liver from within out. - Eruption of small, hard nodosities on chest. - Constitutions - Hysterical women who have taken too much chamomile tea. - Nervous, irritable, and hysterical subjects in whom the intellectual faculties predominate and who suffer from hysteria and neuralgia. - Stitching in heart with quick, small and weak pulse. - Kidneys - Much straining and prolapsed rectum during urination. - Urine increased and more frequent in nervous women. - Urine contains a white, red or turbid sediment. - Choking in throat on falling asleep. - Wakes as if suffocating. - Spasmodic asthma, convulsive movements of the diaphragm. - Obstructed respiration and anguish in chest. ### Stomach & Abdomen - Weak stomach and digestion. - Sense of something warm rising from stomach and causing suffocation Cramps in stomach. - Foul belchings, like bad eggs. - Heartburn with gulping of rancid fluid. - Nausea with faintness. - Child vomits curdled milk in large lumps after nursing after mother’s anger. - Temperature - Chilliness, generally begins in neck and runs down back. - Body ice cold with nausea and vomiting. - Sensation of icy coldness (Helo., Camp., Abies -c.). - Heat predominates. - Fever composed of disagreeable heat only. - Long lasting heat, often with sweat on face. - Sudden gushes of sweat, mostiy on foreñead. - Abdomen inflated and hard. - Hysterical cramps. - Spasms, cramps in bowels after food and at night in bed. - Flatulence. - Draws abdomen in involuntarily. - Voracious hunger with nausea, as if from navel. ### Urinary & Genital - Creeping and drawing in of penis, as if it had gone to sleep. - Menses late and scanty (Puls.). - Neurasthenia of sexual organs. ### Extremities - Muscle cramps or spasms, with a sensation of tightness or jerking, resembling. - muscle spasms, worse with rest, evening, dampness, or night, often with soreness or. - twitching. - Generalized aching or soreness, with a tendency to stiffness or fatigue, resembling. - fibromyalgia, aggravated by rest, evening, or stress, often with trigger points or. - weakness. - Joint pains or stiffness, with a sensation of heaviness or burning, resembling. - osteoarthritis, worse with rest, evening, or cold, often with crepitation or reduced. - mobility. - Tendency to musculoskeletal hypersensitivity, with aggravation in rest or damp. - states. - Constitutional:. - Chronic fatigue or weakness, with a sensation of exhaustion or debility, resembling. - chronic fatigue syndrome, worse with rest, stress, morning, or confinement, often. - with pallor or weight changes. - Valeriana officinalis (Valerian) 2013. - Neurasthenic states or sluggishness, with a tendency to low vitality or burnout,. - resembling neurasthenia, aggravated by rest, evening, or emotional stress, often with. - chills or flushing. - General sensitivity or fragility, with a sensation of internal irritation or vulnerability,. - resembling post-viral fatigue, worse with rest, stress, or lack of stimulation, often. - with hypersensitivity or irritability. - Tendency to constitutional hypersensitivity, with aggravation in rest or stressed. - states. ### Neck & Back - Lancinations in left lum bar region above hip, worse when standing and es pecially when sitting, than when walking. - Rheumatic pains in the shoulder blades. - Causations - Injuries, slightest injury causes spasms. ### Skin - Skin too dry and warm. - Painful erup tions. - Eruption of small nodosities, at first red and confluent, then white and hard. ### Sleep - Sleeplessness with nightly itching and muscular spasms from excitement, worse on waking. - Cannot sleep before midnight. - Insomnia, during pregnancy and menopause. - Di sturbed sleep with toss ing and anxious, confused dreams. ### Generalities - Pressure of hand or covering with hat causes icy coldness on vertex. - As if flying in air. - As if eyes would be pierced from within outward. - As if smoke in eyes. - As if a thread were hanging down throat. - Like lead in limbs. - Lightness in leg. - As if strained in right ankle. - As if bruised in outer malleolus of right foot.