Onosmodium Virginianum

by C.M. Boger — A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica

REGION

MUSCLES AND nerves: Eyes. Occiput. FEMALE PELVIC ORGANS.
Spine.

WORSE

Sprains: EYE STRAIN. Sexual excesses.
Darkness.
Tight clothes.
Warm.
Humid air.

BETTER

Rest.
Sleep.
Eating.
Aching

, sore and stiff; after the pain. Inco-ordination. .................... Irresolute. Confused. Forgetful. Slow thinking. Aphasia. Nervous exhaustion. Vertigo; with the headache; < lying on (l), side. Headache; occipital; screwed in, as if; < eye strain and lying on back. Pains up and down from (l), occiput to shoulder, < exertion. Migraine. Dull, heavy oppressing in occiput. Aching, heavy, tired, stiff eyes. Eye, combined with ovarian symptoms. Misjudges distances. Mushy, yellow stool. Aromatic urine. Sexual desire gone. Sexual neurasthenia. Pains alternate between ovaries. Sore ovaries and rectum. Acrid leucorrhœa. Sticky, white expectoration. Swelled, tender mammæ. Itching nipples. Tired, numb legs and popliteæ. Seems to tread on cotton. Staggering.

Related: Cimi. Hyper. Lil-t. Rhus-t.

Onosmodium Virginianum across the other classic books

Onosmodium Virginianum appears in 4 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.

Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“False Gromwell (ONOSMODIUM) Want of power of concentration and co-ordination. Vertigo, numbness and muscular prostration. Marked association of head and eye symptoms, with muscular tiredness and weariness. A remedy for migraine . Headaches from eyestrain and sexual weakness. It produces diminution of sexual desire in…”
Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“COORDINATION, disturbed OCCIPUT, nape and NECK OCCIPUT, nape and NECK, Left READING, Agg., eyestrain, Agg.”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“virginianum. False Gromwell (or Gromell). N. O. Boraginaceæ. Tincture of entire fresh plant, including root. Amblyopia / Bladder, irritation of / Breasts, affections of; atrophy of / Colour-blindness / Debility / Diarrhœa / Diplopia / Eyes, affections of / Headache / Locomotor ataxy / Ménière's disease / Neurasthenia…”

Onosmodium Virginianum in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Onosmodium Virginianum in 250 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in EXTREMITIES (39), HEAD (31), FEMALE GENITALIA (28), MIND (26), GENERALITIES (19).

VISION - LARGE field of vision - objects seem - raises his foot unnecessarily high in stepping over small objects when walking
HEAD - PAIN, - Occiput and Forehead - morning,on waking
MIND - IRRESOLUTION - acts,in
BACK - PAIN - Lumbo-sacral region
BACK - PAIN - aching - Lumbo-sacral region
HEAD - PAIN, - looking fixedly at anything, - from
GENERALITIES - CLOTHING - intolerance of
VISION - EXERTION - of vision agg.
MIND - IRRESOLUTION
GENERALITIES - WAKING - on
MIND - INDIFFERENCE,apathy,etc.
BACK - PAIN - Sacral region
GENERALITIES - MORNING
MIND - CONFUSION of mind
HEAD - PAIN, - Occiput
VERTIGO - VERTIGO
FEMALE GENITALIA - PAIN - Uterus - lying down,on - on back amel.
MALE GENITALIA - COLDNESS - Penis - glans
EXTREMITIES - INCOORDINATION - Upper Limbs
FEMALE GENITALIA - PULSATING - Ovaries

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