Valeriana Fever Symptoms


Allen gives the therapeutic indications of the remedy Valeriana in different kinds of fevers like: Continued, Bilious, Intermittent, Malarial, Remittent, Pernicious, Typhoid, Typhus, Septic fever, etc…


Fever

Characteristic – For nervous, irritable, hysterical subjects, in whom the intellectual faculties predominate and who suffer from hysterical neuralgia of the limbs, changeable disposition.

Mental confusion, replies incoherently (Arnica, Baptisia).

Delirium: hallucinations, sees figures, animals, men, delusions, thinks she is someone else, moves to edge of bed to make room, imagines animals lying near her which she fears she may hurt.

Great nervous excitement and trembling.

Red parts become white (Ferrum).

Feels light as if floating in the air (Asarum europaeum, Lac caninum – as if legs were floating, Stic.)

Oversensitiveness of all the senses (Chamomilla, Cof., Nux).

Sensation: of coldness in head (on vertex, Sepia, Verbascum), as if a thread were hanging down throat (on tongue, Nat., Silicea).

Child vomits : curdled milk in large lumps, same in stools (Eth.), as soon as it has nursed, after anger of mother.

Sciatica: pain aggravated when standing and letting foot rest on floor (Belladonna): in straightening out limbs, during rest from previous exertion, amelioration when walking.

Type: Continued, typhoid, especially nervous typhoid.

Chill: Short, with thirst, begins in neck and runs down back (heat begins in neck and runs down the back, Paris), with fainting during chill (during heat, Aconite).

Heat: Long – lasting, severe, with thirst and dull headache, with restlessness and neuralgia of the limbs, indigestion, often with sweat on the face. In evening, spells of fugitive heat, after eating, with thirst. Hot stage predominates.

Sweat: profuse, aggravated at night, but not debilitating, from exertion, with violent heat, on face with heat, often attended with or followed by heat, frequent, suddenly ceasing. Better after sweat.

H. C. Allen
Dr. Henry C. Allen, M. D. - Born in Middlesex county, Ont., Oct. 2, 1836. He was Professor of Materia Medica and the Institutes of Medicine and Dean of the faculty of Hahnemann Medical College. He served as editor and publisher of the Medical Advance. He also authored Keynotes of Leading Remedies, Materia Medica of the Nosodes, Therapeutics of Fevers and Therapeutics of Intermittent Fever.