Viburnum opulus



Nose

Sneezing.- Watery coryza.

Face

Very pale with dark circles under eyes (F4).- Face and lips pale, dark circles under eyes (F2).- Face swollen and congested with dark circles under eyes.- Face flushed and hot.- Lips dry.

Teeth

Tooth sore on pressure.

Mouth

Tongue broad and white, with brown center and imprints of teeth.- Dryness of tongue, of mouth.- Taste disagreeable, coppery.

Throat

Tickling in right side of pharynx, causing cough.

Stomach

No desire to eat, stomach feels full (F3).- Nausea: every night, during menses, for ten days after menses, with faintness at stomach, better eating, with faintness, both returning, in pit of stomach, better lying perfectly quiet, faintness always on trying to get up, with faintness, (without inclination to vomit), better eating, then vomiting.- Pain in stomach in afternoon, better stretching body and throwing stomach forward.- Cramp-like pain in stomach and abdomen, doubling him up.- Cramping pain in stomach (F1). Sensitiveness of stomach region.- Indigestion, food lies heavy.- (Dyspepsia, habitual, with flatus, nausea and distension, and general catarrhal tendency.- ***R.T.C.). Goneness.

Abdomen

Rumbling and darting and flying pains in abdomen.- Darting pains, which settle about navel.- Bearing-down pains as during menstruation, with heavy pain over pubes.- Bearing-down pain, with drawing pains in anterior muscles of thighs and occasional shootings in ovarian regions. -Soreness of abdomen (F3). Sensitiveness to pressure, worse about umbilicus.- Pressure of flatus in left side. – Throbbing pain under left floating ribs from 11 p.m. till 3 a.m., better hard pressure and walking about the room.- Throbbing in left hypochondrium when lying on left side.- Sticking in spleen in evening, better walking about the room, with sensation as if a hot fluid ran through its vessels.- Pain in region of spleen causing faintness, better sweat.- Cramping pain in hypogastrium during menstruation.- Sudden cramping pain, as before menstruation, worse night. Constant bearing down from back through to front in ovarian and uterine region (F3).- (Feeling as if the body from the waist down to lower pelvis would collapse.).

Stool & Anus

Stools watery, profuse, frequent, at menstrual period, with chills and cold sweat rolling off forehead.- Haemorrhage of dark red blood during and after stool.- Inactivity, no inclination for stool.- Constipation, with tenesmus, when bowels moved pain in left orbital region.- Desire with much straining.- Constipation alternating with diarrhoea.- Stools: hard, large, with cutting in rectum and anus when passed, hard, large, painful and so difficult that mechanical assistance was necessary, scanty, in balls, long, large, hard and difficult, having a desire to evacuate, but on attempting feels as if nothing were there, evacuation occurs slowly and only after long straining.- Large stool, difficult, with urging.- Irregular.- Omitted two days, then hard stool, with blood and soreness of anus.- Frequent desire for stool with aching haemorrhoids, frequent urination (F1).

Urinary Organs

Sensation after micturition as if urine continued to flow.- Frequent, profuse urination (F1).- Copious urine, in morning, clear, watery, sp. gr. 1019, frequent micturition, every hour in afternoon and evening, at night, and pale, sp. gr. 1021, every hour or two during menses, and clear, light-coloured, and watery, in afternoon, watery, clear, micturition frequent.- Spurting of urine when coughing (***J.C.B.).- Light-coloured urine.

Male Sexual Organs

Pain and swelling of epididymis and testicle of left side, next day epididymis of right side so painful and swollen he was compelled to wear a suspensory bandage.- Emission without dream.

Female Sexual Organs

Leucorrhoea: thick, white, and copious, thin, yellowish white after menses, thin, colourless, except with every stool, when it was thick, white, inodorous, blood-streaked, causing redness, smarting and itching of genitals.- Sudden pain in womb and hypogastrium before menstruation.- Pain in ovarian region. Congested feeling in pelvic organs, as before menses.- Bearing- down pains: in pelvic region, with uneasiness, as before menses, as during menses, with heavy aching in sacral region and over pubes, as during menses, with heavy aching in sacral region and over pubes, as during menses with drawing pains in anterior muscles of thighs, every day after 3 p.m., with occasional shooting over ovaries, later the same, with nervousness, could not sit or lie still on account of the pains.- Menstrual pain, with feeling as if the breath would leave her body and heart would cease to beat.- Crampy, colicky pains in both ovarian regions, extending down thighs (F1).- Slight, deep-seated pain in right ovarian region, extending down thigh and worse by walking or exertion (F2).- Bearing down as if menses would appear (F2).- Whole pelvis feels full and congested (F2).- At 4 a.m., heavy bearing-down pains running from back around abdomen to uterus where pain is cramping, pressure on bladder, surprised to find herself menstruating (eight days after previous period ceased F3).- At intervals, distressing, grinding pains in ovaries and uterus, with sensation as if organs were turning upside down, and as if parts were being forced through vulva, desire to support the parts (F3).- Menses began ten days early (always regular before), pain in back and cramps lasted throughout the period (F4).- Menses: too early, profuse and offensive, too late, scanty, thin, light-coloured, lasting but a few hours, with lightness of head, faintness on attempting to sit up, look like jelly, stain permanently, ceased for several hours, then four large clots of the colour of raw beef, but as solid as liver, for two days flow like normal menses, but with cramping pain and nervousness.- (Dysmenorrhoea excruciating colic through the

uterus and lower part of the abdomen, just preceding menstruation.- After-pains. Membranous dysmenorrhoea.- Cramps in the calves always between the menses, worse just before the period, with scanty, delayed menstruation, dysmenorrhoea.- Cramps in abdomen and legs in pregnant women, & c.).

Respiratory Organs

Hoarse. – Suffocating spells at night.- Cough during second month of pregnancy, worse night and morning and on lying down, urine spurting out when coughing (***J.C.B.).

Chest

Shooting over left sixth rib near sternum.- Feeling of oppression over whole chest (F4).- In lungs sensation as if muscles of chest failed to act, causing dyspnoea.

Heart

Clutching pain in region of heart worse by any exertion (F4). – Excruciating, cramping pain in heart (F4).- Palpitation, with sensation of lack of air after each severe pain (F3).- Heart’s action increased.

Back

Pain as if back would break during menses.- Lame and bruised feeling in muscles of back.- Wandering, tired pains in muscles, worse left side.- Terrible clutching, cramping pain beginning in back, extending round lower abdomen to uterus with bearing down, as if menses would appear (lasted six days, better only when menses appeared, having missed the previous month F1).- Tired, bruised pain in muscles from point of scapula to wing of ilium, on both sides of spine, better firm pressure.- Pain: in lumbar region, between left floating ribs and wing of ilium, better pressure, but must keep moving, in kidney region, worse working in laboratory, better pressing across back with arms crossed, in left loin and left hypochondrium, causing faintness, better warm sweat though the night was cool, throbbing in left loin, worse lying down, better walking with cane pressed across back, in back, loins, and hypogastrium as if menses were coming on, worse early part of evening and in a close room, better open air and moving about.- Pain in back in region of sacrum, an “unjointed feeling” (F4).

Limbs

Aching in limbs (F2).- Aching of arms and thighs, feet somewhat swollen (F3).

Upper Limbs

Pain in right shoulder.- Soreness of left shoulder in region of subclavian muscle, worse rest and wet weather, better motion, with lameness.- Pain in left biceps.- Numbness of left arm and hand.- Buzzing feeling in hands as if they would burst.- Swelling of fingers, worse washing in cold water, with numbness.

Lower Limbs

Weakness of lower extremities with heaviness.- Wandering, tired pains extending to hips and knees, with disinclination to move about.- Cramps in legs in pregnant women.- Feeling in feet as from the starting of circulation after constriction is removed.- Cramps in feet after long walking.

Generalities

Pains flying from one part to another, wandering, tired pains extending to hips and knees.- Felt bloated all over (F3).- Sick feeling all over (F1,2,3,4). Pains causes perspiration, during the pains felt she could not move (F3).- Great exhaustion (F3). – Paralytic condition coming on after convulsions.- Hysterical convulsions from uterine conditions.- Cramps and contractions of limbs, especially during pregnancy.

Sleep

Retired early, very restless sleep, felt sick all over, when asleep, sensation of falling and awakened frequently with a start (F3).- Desire to sleep between severe pains from exhaustion, but could not (F3).

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica