Materia Medica de A a Z

VIBURNUM OPULUS (vib)

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.

Head

Irritable. Vertigo; feels as if falling forward. Severe pain in temporal region. Sore feeling in eyeballs.

Stomach

Constant nausea; relieved by eating. No appetite.

Abdomen

SUDDEN CRAMPS AND COLIC PAINS. Tender to pressure about umbilicus.

Female

Menses TOO LATE, SCANTY, LASTING A FEW HOURS, offensive in odor, with crampy pains, cramps extend down thighs (Bell). Bearing-down pains before. Ovarian region feels heavy and congested. Aching in sacrum and pubes, with pain in anterior muscles of thighs [Xanthox (Xan)]; spasmodic and membranous dysmenorrhoea [Borax (Bor)]. Leucorrhoea, excoriating. Smarting and itching of genitals. Faint on attempting to sit up. FREQUENT AND VERY EARLY MISCARRIAGE, causing seeming sterility. Pains from back to loins and womb worse early morning.

Urinary

Frequent urging. Copious, pale, light-colored urine. Cannot hold water on coughing or walking.

Rectum

Stools large and hard, with cutting in rectum and soreness of anus.

Extremities

Stiff, sore feeling in nape of neck. Feels as if back would break. Sacral backache. Lower extremities weak and heavy.

Modalities

Worse: lying on affected side, in warm room, evening and night.

Better: in open air and resting.

Relationship

Compare: Viburnum prunifolium (Vib-p) - Black Haw — (habitual miscarriage; AFTER-PAINS; cancer of the tongue; obstinate hiccough; supposed to be a uterine tonic. Morning sickness; menstrual irregularities of sterile females with uterine displacements). Cimic; Cauloph (Caul); Sep; Xanthox (Xan).

Dose

Tincture, and lower potencies.