Viola Odorata

Violet

by William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory

Has a specific action on the ear. Affects especially dark-haired patients; supra-orbital and orbital regions; rheumatism in upper parts of the body when on the right side. Worm affections in children ( Teuc ). Locally, for pain due to uterine fibroids. Also against snake-bites, bee-stings. Tension extends to upper half of face and ears.

Head

Burning of the forehead . Vertigo; everything in head seems to whirl around. Heaviness of head, with sensation of weakness in muscles of nape of neck. Scalp tense; must knit the brows. Tendency to pain immediately above eyebrows . Throbbing under eye and temple. Headache across the forehead . Acts upon frontal sinuses. Hysterical attacks in tuberculous patients.

Eyes

Heaviness of lids. Eyeball feels compressed. Flames before eyes. Myopia. Choroiditis. Illusions of vision; fiery, serpentine circles.

Ears

Shooting in ears. Aversion to music. Roaring and tickling. Deep stitches beneath ears. Deafness; otorrhœa . Ear affections with pain in eyeballs.

Respiratory

Torpor in the end of nose, as from a blow. Dry, short, spasmodic cough and dyspnœa; worse in daytime. Oppression of chest. Pertussis, with hoarseness. Dyspnœa during pregnancy . Difficult breathing, anxiety and palpitation, with hysteria.

Extremities

Rheumatism of the deltoid muscle. Trembling of limbs. Pressing pain in right carpal and metacarpal joints. ( Ulmus ).

Urinary

Milky urine ; smells strong. Enuresis in nervous children.

Modalities

Worse , cool air.

Relationship

Compare: Ulmus (formication in feet, numb, creeping pain in legs and feet; rheumatic pains above wrists; numbness, tingling, and full soreness where gastrocnemius gives off its tendon); Chenopodium ( ears; serous or bloody effusion in the labyrinth ; chronic otitis media; progressive deafness to the voice, but sensitive to sounds of passing vehicles and other sounds; buzzing; absent or deficient bone conduction; a consciousness of the ear; hearing better for shrill, high-pitched sounds than for low ones); Aur; Puls; Sep; Ign; Cina; Cauloph (in rheumatism of small joints).

Dose

First to sixth potency.

Viola Odorata across the other classic books

Viola Odorata appears in 10 of the 13 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.

Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“Viola odorata, Linn. Natural order , Violaceæ. Common name , Violet. Preparation , Tincture of plant in flower. Authority. (Gross, Archiv. für Hom., 8, Part 2, p. 182.) Morbid fantasies; fantasies come to him, he makes an effort to grasp them, but before he can do so they disappear (after eight hours), 3. Sadness…”
Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“TENSION, tightness (Comp. Bursting.)”
Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“Nerves: Eyes. Ears. Vision. Wrists (R). Skin. Cloudy weather. Cool air. Music. Puberty. Tension . Nervous activity, then sudden exhaustion. Combined eye, ear and kidney or worm symptoms. .................... Pain over brows. Pain l. eye to vertex, < cough. Cramp in eyes. Otorrhœa. Craves meat. Itching at anus. Milky…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Sweet-scented Violet. N. O. Violaceæ (an order most members of which contain Emetin, and under which Ipec . is sometimes placed: allied to Cinchonaceæ). Tincture of fresh plant in flower. Cancer / Choroiditis Cough, spasmodic / by day / Hoarseness / Hysteria / Neuralgia, supra-orbital / Otorrhœa; suppressed /…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Sweet-scented Violet. Violaceæ. The tincture is prepared from the fresh plant in flower. Introduced by Wm. Gross. Provings by Gross, Hahnemann and Stapf, Archiv für Hom., vol. 8, p. 182. CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. Rheumatism , Kitchen, Phila. Jour. Hom., vol. 1, p. 49 ; B. J. H., vol. 24, p. 314 ; Hysteria , P. Pop. Hom…”
Lippe (KN) — Only the symptoms Lippe considered reliable enough to prescribe on.
“Flying, burning pains, now here and then there, as if it was contracting and burning, as from a small flame. Trembling of the limbs. Relexation of all the muscles. Great excitability and nervous debility. Hysterical and hypochondriacal complaints. Frequent shedding of tears. Great weakness of the memory. Predominance…”
Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“The intellect predominates over the mind (emotions). Increased activity of the intellect. Hysteric mood with constant weeping. Weakness of memory. Excessive flow of ideas. Vertigo while sitting. Congestion of blood to the head, with pricking in the forehead. The head feels heavy and sinks forward. Tension in the…”
Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common name: violet. Flying, burning pains, now here and then there, as if it was contracting and burning, as from a small flame. Relaxation of all the muscles (Gels.). Trembling of the limbs (Agar., Bel., Gels., Kali-Br., Tarant.). Great excitability and nervous debility (Coff., Nux-V., Tarant.). HYSTERICAL AND…”
Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“Eczema capitis, cracks, exudes and wets the hair; strong urine like cat’s urine.”

Viola Odorata in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Viola Odorata in 238 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in GENERALITIES (50), MIND (38), HEAD (21), EXTREMITIES (19), SLEEP (14).

EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Wrist - right
MIND - EAT,refuses to
MIND - WEEPING,tearful mood,etc. - chill,during the
GENERALITIES - CONGESTION of blood
HEAD - CONSTRICTION,tension - Occiput - alternating with tension of face
CHEST - PAIN - expiration,on
HEAD - PRICKLING - forehead
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Hand - rheumatic
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Wrist - rheumatic
GENERALITIES - PAIN - stitching - outward
VERTIGO - SITTING,while
GENERALITIES - WEAKNESS,enervation - nervous
SKIN - TENSION
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Wrist
GENERALITIES - SIDE,symptoms on one side - left
MIND - HYSTERIA
SKIN - DRY
GENERALITIES - TENSION - externally
FACE - ERUPTIONS
MIND - WEEPING,tearful mood,etc.

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