{"id":16449,"remedy_name":"Viscum Album","remedy_type":"Herbal Remedy","alternative_names":[""],"miasm":"Psoric Miasm","temperament":"Chilly","aggravation_time":"Night","keynote_indications":"The first homeopathic symptomatology was established by Proll, Stager, Schier and Black \nduring the second half of the 19th century, using the mother tincture and low potencies. Proell made a proving \nof the tincture and the symptoms developed resembling an epileptic aura and petit mal, which had the \nadditional epileptic feature of recurrence they recurred frequently for two years.  \nVise, affects the nerves and female sexual organs. Lowered blood pressure. Dilated blood vessels but does \nnot act on the centers in the medulla. Pulse is slow due to central irritation of the vagus. The symptoms point \nto rheumatic and gouty complaints, neuralgia, especially sciatica. \nEpilepsy, feels a glow that rises up from feet to head. Chorea and metrorrhagia. Chorea from fright. Symptoms \nlike epilep tic aura and petit mal. General tremor as if all muscles are in fibrillary contraction. Neuralgia. \nParesthesia. \nRheumatism, tearing pains.  Rheumatoid condition ameliorated in fresh air and by the movement. Gouty. \nSciatica with otorrhea. Spinal pains from uterine causes. \nFeeling of lightness as if floating on air. The brain is swaying around the inside the skull. Congestion in the \nhead with head aches and vertigo. Blood would not clot and wounds would not heal. Bleeding of bright red \nblood from the uterus. Valvular disease with disturbances in sexual sphere.  \nRheumatic deafness. Asthma.  Hypertensive albuminuria. Nausea at the sight of the bottle containing the \nmedicine to be taken. Pruritus. Burning cold under the right shoulder.","modalities":"Better by counter-pressure, resting quietly, walking in the fresh air. Worse by slightest movement. \nWorse winter, cold, stormy weather, becoming  chilled while hot, heat. Worse in bed, lying on left side. Worse \nsuppression of menses. Worse mental effort. Worse tobacco.","symptoms_by_system":{"Mind":"Apathy, sadness. Lack of optimism liveliness. Irritable, sad, morose. Restless, ner vous, thoughtless, \nshakes with impatience. Unable to carry out intellectual activities. Thoughts keep turning to past events, for \nhours on end. Obsessive persistence of thoughts. \nSensation of strength, optimism, gaiety, desire to undertake anything, full of ideas for the future. Hallucinatory \npsychosis. Extremely sensitive to noise. Fear of telephones. Apathy, sadness. Lack of optimism liveliness. Irritable, sad, morose. Restless, ner vous, thoughtless, \nshakes with impatience. Unable to carry out intellectual activities. Thoughts keep turning to past events, for \nhours on end. Obsessive persistence of thoughts. \nSensation of strength, optimism, gaiety, desire to undertake anything, full of ideas for the future. Hallucinatory \npsychosis. Extremely sensitive to noise. Fear of telephones.","Vertigo":"Vertigo, persistent after epilep tic attack. Sensation of lightness, as if floating on air. Severe attacks \nof vertigo totters and has to hold on to the furniture. Vertigo occurs on  rising from movement, by moving the \nhead quickly, tends to fall backwards. Vertigo never occurs when \nlying down. Vertigo when looking out of a window. \nCOMMENTS - Two women took Vise, to procure abortion. Every muscle save those of the eyes became \nparalyzed, as did also the intestinal tract. They could not swallow and died of starvation in consequence, the \nbowels being obstinately constipated. The muscles of speech were also paralyzed.  \nA boy, 14, ate some berries, soon after be gan to feel giddy and then be came insensible. He was found with \nsuffused countenance, lips livid, conjunctiva injected, pupils slightly dilated and fixed, pulse slow and full, \nbounding, breathing slow, stertorous. \nOn pricking the soles the feet were quickly drawn up. Then, cold applications aroused him, when he began to \ntalk incoherently, had spectral illusions and was inclined to be violent. \nIn a pamphlet on \u201cViscum Album\u201d Dr. George Black of Torquay put together most of the facts relating to this \nplant including four new provings, by himself and three female provers. \nBlack removed with Vise. 3c lumbago from chill, tearing pain, wants something to press against it. Lumbago, \nright, extending to right buttock, worse by slightest movement. Pain in sacral region, unable to turn either side, \nworse slightest movement, \u201cpain of a terrible clutching nature, as if her vitals were affected.\u201d  \nCooper gave great relief with Vise, in \u201cold spinal irritation pains.\u201d He also named \u201cspinal symptoms due to \nuterine causes\u201d as indicating it. Rheumatism, \u201cth e weight of my body on the joint causes it to be very sore,\u201d \nexcessive perspiration. \nSciatica associated with otorrhea. Burning pain from center of left buttock to inner ankle, heel as if red-hot coal \napplied, leg feels heavy as lead. In addition a number  of cases of catarrhal deafness with noises in the ears \nwere cured or greatly improved. \nBelcher gave to a girl, 17, suffering from chorea, 5 drop doses of a tincture of leaves and berries. On the \nsecond day he was called to see her and found her suffering as if under the influence of an opiate. \nBlack also quoted William Huber\u2019s experi ences with Vise., the first case was of retained placenta with \nconstitutional symptoms after miscarriage at sixth month. Expulsion rapidly effected by Vise. 3c. \nA man, 22, robust, fair took a chill from traveling in ice-cold wind. Got a drawing, tearing pain in left lower jaw, \nlasting some hours. Succeeded by loud buzzing and stopped -up feeling, ending in complete deafness of that \near. Vise. 3c cured. \nMetrorrhagia following suppression from working in water. Sciatica left side, cured with Vise. 3c. Rheumatism \nfrom wading ill -shod through great tracts of snow, cured with Vise. 3c. Hydrothorax (right) from chill with \nshooting in spleen, cured with Vise. 4c and 3c. \nJohn Wilde made a tincture of the bruised leaves and gave 5 drop doses to a boy, 14, who had chorea affecting \nface and limbs. There was improvement in two days and in a few weeks a complete cure.  \nA boy, nine, strumous with tendency to skin disease, was affected with chorea after a fright. He was completely \nchanged in expression, speech quite inarticulate, look idiotic. \nThe movements continued at night and the boy was worn out for want of sleep. Vise., 1 to 2 drop doses, did \nno good. The dose was then increased to 15 drops . Improvement set in at once and a perfect cure was \neffected, the doses being diminished after a time because soreness of the tongue and redness of the \nconjunctiva were set up. \nC. M. Boger related a case in which persistent vertigo after epileptic seizures , lasting a month at a time, was \ncured with Vise. 100,000c. \nHuber used the 3x and 6x. He considered it applicable to all kinds of rheumatism, acute and chronic, especially \nwhen characterized by tearing pains in cases occurring in winter, the result of exposure to sharp winds and in \ncases of rheumatic deafness.","Head":"Feeling as if whole vault of skull were lifted up. Sudden throbbing in ver tex. Headache, especially at \nthe forehead, temples andparietalbone,can spread to the whole heat. Dull, heavy aching, numbing and \ncongestive, beating or hammering. Feeling as if whole vault of skull were lifted up. Sudden throbbing in ver tex. Headache, especially at \nthe forehead, temples andparietalbone,can spread to the whole heat. Dull, heavy aching, numbing and \ncongestive, beating or hammering.","Eyes":"Blue rings around eyes. Ocular neuralgia. Conjunctivitis. Myd riasis, ocular neuralgia, conjunctival \nirritation. Double vision. Bad focusing, eyes weep through fatigue.","Ears":"Deafness from cold. Buzzing and stopped-up feeling in ear. Hypersensitive to noise. Whistling, buzzing. \nHears heartbeat. Sclerosis of the ears.","Face":"Facial muscles in constant agitation. Countenance suffused. Lips livid. Face hot and flushed.","Mouth":"Lips cracked. Dryness of the mouth. Mouth suddenly fills with saliva. Unpleasant taste on waking \ntongue coated to tip with ochre -yellow fur. Tongue sore. Buccal mucus me mbrane is as if tanned. \nTeetWehattered. \nNose - Catarrh in the nose and pharynx. Catarrhal congestion of the mucus mem branes with discharge of a \nwatery or purulent liquid. Purulent rhinitis. Polyps. Nosebleed.","Throat":"Throat dry, burning with sticky discharge. Sensation of constriction around the neck. The feeling of a \nlump in the throat disappeared in one female prover.","Chest":"Angina pectoris. Nervous dyspnea with feeling of constriction in the chest. Hypertrophy with valvular insufficiency, pulse small and weak, unable to \nrest in a reclining positions. Low blood  pressure. Failing compensation, dyspnea worse lying on left side. \nWeight and oppression of heart, as if a hand were squeezing it, ticking sensation about heart. Inflammation of \nthe coronary arteries. Feeling of tightness of heaviness. As if the heart is being squeezed by a hand. Heartbeat \nirregular. Agitation and fibrillation. Pulse accelerated or slow with fear of death. Palpitations in the chest, throat \nand upper part of the abdomen. Palpitations during sex. \nKidneys - Urinary tenesmus and copious urine. Bladder paralyzed. Involuntary passing of urine as a result of \nan irritating cough. Urine is turbid and evil-smelling. Urine milky after standing. Bedwetting. Dyspnea, feeling of suffocating when lying on leftside. Stertorous breathing. Asthma, if connected \nwith gout or rheumatism. Bronchial asthma, connected with gout or rheumatism. Glottal spasms and rattles in \nthe bronchi. Painful, frequent cough, scanty, gray or yellow sputum. Spasmodic cough.","Stomach & Abdomen":"Gastritis. Heavy sensation, feel ing of a stone in the stomach. Squeamish before breakfast and \ndinner. Heartburn, cutting pain in the stomach, ameliorated by  eating and belching. Nausea ameliorated by \nvomiting. \nTemperature - General shivering followed by sudden hot flush towards the head and feeling of anguish. Feels as if someone were dragging her down fro m the waist. Sore about waist. Violent rumbling \nand painful distention of the supra -umbilical region, ameliorated by expelling wind and leaning backwards. \nColitis. Chronic pancreatitis. Felt starving at supper-time. Appetite ravenous.","Urinary & Genital":"Libido increased or diminished. Disturbed libido. Violent, painful erection. Atonic discharge of seminal  \nfluid. Cramping pain in the prostate. Prostatitis. Menses too early, copious with bright red blood and very painful. Menorrhagia. Chronic endometritis. \nMetrorrhagia. Atonic, post -partum hemorrhage. Hemorrhage with pain. Blood partly clots and bright red. \nMenopausal complaints (Lach., Sulph.). Pain from sacrum into pelvis with tearing, shootin g pains from above \ndownwards. Ovarian pain, especially left. Retained placenta (Sec.).","Extremities":"Chorea-like movements of the arms and legs. A glow rises from the feet to the head, seems to be on \nfire. General tremor, as if all muscles were in state of fibrillary contraction. Dropsy of limbs. Sciatica. Drawing, \ntearing pains in the arm. Pains alternate in the knee and ankle with shoulder and elbow. P eriodic pains from \nsacrum into pelvis, worse in bed with pains into thighs and upper limbs. Tearing, shooting pains in both thighs \nand upper limbs. Cannot keep legs still. Sensation of a spider crawling over back of hand and foot. Itching all \nover. Compressing pain in feet. Raynaud\u2019s syndrome. Walking, bending is painful. Burning sensation in the \nfeet.","Neck & Back":"Lumbago from a chill, wants some one to press against the back . Stiffness and muscular pains in the \nnape of the neck, thoracic cage and back. Torticollis. Sensation of a burning coal under the right shoulder. \n \n \nCausations - Chill, wetting. Fright. Suppression of menses.","Skin":"General itching and tingling with no apparent cause, ameliorated in the evening and by perspiration. \nFormication along the arms. Pruritus, senile and vulvae.","Sleep":"Falls asleep late, wakes early. Sleeps, despite exhaustion and after drinking coffee. Troubled dreams \nof war, bombardment."},"schema_version":"1.0","api_provider":"Allahshafi"}