Viburnum opulus
by C.M. Boger — General Analysis
- CRAMP, colic, etc.
- FEMALE ORGANS
- HEMORRHAGE, bloody discharges
- NERVES, nervous patients, etc.
- RAISING up, Agg.
- RESPIRATION
by C.M. Boger — General Analysis
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Viburnum opulus appears in 6 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.
“High Cranberry A general remedy for cramps. Colicky pains in pelvic organs. Superconscious of internal sexual organs. Female symptoms most important. Often prevents miscarriage . False labor-pains. Spasmodic and congestive affections, dependent upon ovarian or uterine origin. Irritable. Vertigo; feels as if falling…”
“FEMALE ORGANS. Nerves. Left side. Fright. Before menses. Cold; snow air. Lying on L. side. Rest. Pressure. Open air. Violent nervous or spasmodic effects; in females. Can't keep still. Cramping. Hæmorrhage. .................... Faint on sitting up. Left parietal pain. Snuffles. Frequent, profuse urination; during…”
“High Cranberry Bush. Cramp Bark. Water Elder. (The Gueldres Rose, or Snowball-tree of our gardens, is the cultivated and sterile variety.) N. O. Caprifoliaceæ. Tincture of the fresh bark. After-pains / Cough, of pregnancy / Cramps / Dysmenorrhœa; spasmodic; neuralgic; membranous / Ears, painful / Epididymitis /…”
“High Cranberry bush. Caprifoliaceæ. This shrub, belonging to the honeysuckle family, grows from five to ten feet high, is common in Canada and the Northern and Western States, abundant in the Catskill and Allegheny Mountains. It flowers in June and July. The bright-red acid fruit is a substitute for cranberries. The…”
“Is a remedy of undoubted value in painful womb troubles. It has been used for painful dysmenorrhœa in different potencies to the 30th, and in tincture. It seems to be particularly efficacious in the neuralgic form of the disease. I have found that the symptom, pain beginning in the back and going around to loins and…”
Kent's Repertory lists Viburnum opulus in 184 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in FEMALE GENITALIA (44), BACK (26), ABDOMEN (14), HEAD (13), GENERALITIES (11).