The reputation of hamamelis extends to haematuria, and the drug may be of utility pending discovery of the cause of the symptom. It need hardly be said that there is no evidence that hamamelis will produce (say) urinary calculus (renal or vesical), and it will therefore act, at the best, merely as a palliative in bleeding due to their presence. The same is true of other symptomatic haemorrhages, such as haemoptysis, melaen or haematemesis, though in some of these cases (e.g., gastrostaxis) the remedy might also be curative. The kind of haemorrhage in the case must resemble that produced by the drug and the other symptoms should also correspond.
LEADING INDICATIONS.
(1) Mind.-Mental symptoms are not common in hamamelis patients, except in genito-urinary cases. When present they may be either (a) depression with desire to be alone and not to be talked to, or (b) irritability, restlessness and mental activity preventing sleep, or less commonly (c) grandiose ideas.
(2) The heat modality of hamamelis though not very marked is aggravation from warm damp air.
(3) Sensitiveness to exposure, taking cold easily.
(4) Bruised, sore feeling of affected parts-from injury or “rheumatism” of muscles and joints.
(5) Varicosis and phlebitis.
(6) Passive haemorrhages, dark, non-coagulable, traumatic or vicarious, from many sites.
(7) Bruises and wounds-lacerated or contused.
(8) Haemorrhoids, bleeding or thrombosed, with local soreness and burning or tenderness, and characteristic bleeding. Anus feels raw.
(9) Subacute ovaritis and metritis, with or without haemorrhage.
(10) Dysmenorrhoea and uterine haemorrhage.
(11) Urethritis and epididymitis, not acute stage.
(12) Haemoptysis, with tickling cough; haematuria; haematemesis or melaen; menorrhagia (passive); epistaxis which relieves headache.
AGGRAVATIONS:
Warm damp air, pressure, motion, touch, 9 a.m. (headache).
AMELIORATIONS:
Epistaxis (headache), open air (headache), reading (head), thinking or talking (head).
Edwin Awdas Neatby founded the Missionary School of Homeopathy and the London Homeopathic Hospital in 1903, and run by the British Homeopathic Association. He died in East Grinstead, Sussex, on the 1st December 1933. Edwin Awdas Neatby wrote The place of operation in the treatment of uterine fibroids, Modern developments in medicine, Pleural effusions in children, Manual of Homoeo Therapeutics,