Viburnum opulus

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

Historical reference for practitioners and students. The statements below reflect the named author’s homeopathic teaching and do not establish treatment effectiveness. This text is not medical advice and must not replace appropriate diagnosis or care.

REGION

FEMALE ORGANS.
Nerves.
Left side.

WORSE

Fright.
Before menses.
Cold; snow air.
Lying on L. side.

BETTER

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 headache, menses, hæmorrhage, etc. Heavy ache or excruciating cramps in pelvis; > menses. Dysmenorrhœa; with flatulency, loud eructations and nervousness. Miscarriage. False labor pains. Violent, persistent after-pains. Uterine hæmorrhage. Suffocation, at night; < cold damp. Infantile asthma. Pains in back, end in a cramp in uterus or go down face of thighs. Cramps in calves before menses. Tettery spots on cheeks, arms, etc.

Related: Caul. Pul. Sep.

Viburnum opulus across the other classic books

Viburnum opulus appears in 8 of the 21 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.
“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…”
Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“CRAMP, colic, etc. FEMALE ORGANS HEMORRHAGE, bloody discharges NERVES, nervous patients, etc. RAISING up, Agg. RESPIRATION”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“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 /…”
Hale — The introduction story — early pathogenetic and clinical evidence for medicines new to Hale's generation.
“(High Cranberry.) Botanical Description. — This is a shrub, growing from three to ten feet high, with smooth, gray, spreading branches. Leaves three to five inches in diameter, the lobe often somewhat falcate, nearly smooth above, sparsely hairy underneath ; petiole about an inch long, with four to six glands on the…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“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…”
Hughes & Dake — The source evidence — provings and poisonings retained with their experimental context.
“VIBURNUM. Vihurnum ofulus, L. Guelder rose, high cranberry. Nat. Ord., CapriftRaa^ I. Provingi. — I. Dr. H. C. Allen took, July 6ih, 1879, lodr.of tinct. 3 times ; on 7th, 15 dr. twice ; on 8th, 15, 20, and 25 dr. j on 9th, 50 dr.; on I2th, 100 and 50 dr. From March loth, 1881, took 10 dr. of 30X every m. for a week…”
Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“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…”

Viburnum opulus in Kent's Repertory

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).

FEMALE GENITALIA - IRRITATION - Ovaries
ABDOMEN - PAIN - menses, - during
BACK - PAIN - aching - Sacrum - menses - before
BACK - PAIN - labor-like - Small of back - extending - to loins and pubes
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - drawing - Thigh - anterior part - menses,before
BACK - PAIN - air - in cold - open - amel.
BACK - PAIN - break - as though the back would - menses - during
EXTREMITIES - CRAMPS - Leg - pregnancy,during
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - drawing - Thigh - menses, - before
FEMALE GENITALIA - PAIN - cramping - Uterus - menses - before
BACK - PAIN - menses - as if - would come on
FEMALE GENITALIA - PAIN - Uterus - flow of blood amel.
FEMALE GENITALIA - PAIN - Uterus - menses - at beginning
BACK - PAIN - Lumbar region - menses - beginning - at the
BACK - PAIN - Sacral region - menses - before
ABDOMEN - PAIN - cramping,griping - Hypogastrium - menses - before
GENERALITIES - FAINTNESS,fainting - sitting - up,from
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - drawing - Thigh - anterior part
BACK - PAIN - Lumbar region - pressure - amel.
FEMALE GENITALIA - PAIN - Uterus - paroxysmal

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