VINCA MINOR


VINCA MINOR symptoms from Manual of the Homeopathic Practice by Charles Julius Hempel. What are the uses of the homeopathy remedy VINCA MINOR…


INTRODUCTION

VIN. MIN.Wintergreen. See “Archiv, ” XVII.

CLINICAL OBSERVATIONS.

This plant is said to be a remedy for plica-polonica (see “Archiv, ” XI, 3, p. 138). Dr. Schuller has cured with it a badly-smelling eruption on the head, in the face, and behind the ears.

GENERAL SYMPTOMS.

Excessive debility. Arthritic lacerating in the bones. Hemorrhages. Sensitiveness of the skin, with redness and soreness from the least friction. Sleeplessness and uneasiness at night. Sudden shuddering. heat of the cheeks, with out redness. pulse full and hard. Sensation of tremor in every blood-vessel. Sadness, with fear of death.

HEAD.

Vertigo, with gauze and flicking before the eyes. Lacerating in the head, as if the skull would split, with hammering from within outwards. Corrosive itching on the hairy scalp. The hairs are enlarged, as in plica-polonica. Humid eruptions on the head, with much vermin and nightly itching, with burning after ulcerating Burning and itching of the eye-lids, with redness. Dim sightedness on reading. Tingling in the ears.

FACE.

Pale face. Bloated face, w with pimples. The lips are dry,. S of the upper lip and of he corner of the mouth. Aphthae in the, mouth. ulcers in the throat.

APPETITE.

Flat taste. Alternate loss of appetite and insatiable hunger. Rising of air. Vomiting of a yellow bitter fluid. Tenesmus of the rectum. Exhausting stools, with burning at the anus. Excessively profuse menses flowing like a stream of water, with great debility.

LARYNX.

Hoarseness, Spasmodic cough, with tickling in the larynx, and tenacious mucus in the trachea. oppression of the chest, with sticking. painful tension in they nape of the neck, with stiffness and heaviness as from a load. Spasmodic drawing in the feet and toes.

Charles Julius Hempel
Charles Julius Hempel (5 September 1811 Solingen, Prussia - 25 September 1879 Grand Rapids, Michigan) was a German-born translator and homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. While attending medical lectures at the University of New York, where he graduated in 1845, he became associated with several eminent homeopathic practitioners, and soon after his graduation he began to translate some of the more important works relating to homeopathy. He was appointed professor of materia medica and therapeutics in the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in 1857.