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RED AND BLUE ONLY – Valeriana. (Valeriana Officinalis.) – THE GUIDING SYMPTOMS OF OUR MATERIA MEDICA By CONSTANTINE HERING, M.D.

Main * Valer.

[1] Mind.
[2]
Sensorium.
[3]
Inner head.
[4] Outer head.
[5] Sight and eyes.
[6] Hearing and ears.
[7] Smell and nose.
[8]
Upper face.
[9] Lower face.
[10] Teeth and gums.
[11]
Taste, speech, tongue.
[12] Inner mouth.
[13]
Palate and throat.
[14] Appetite, thirst. Desires..
[15] Eating and drinking.
[16] Hiccough, belching, nausea..

[17] Scrobiculum and stomach.
[18] Hypochondria.
[19]
Abdomen and loins.
[20]
Stools and rectum.
[21] Urinary organs.
[22] Male sexual organs.
[23] Female sexual organs.
[24]
Pregnancy. Parturition..
[25] Voice and larynx. Trachea..
[26]
Respiration.
[27] Cough.
[28]
Inner chest and lungs.
[29] Heart, pulse and circulation.
[30] Outer chest.
[31] Neck and back.
[32]
Upper limbs.

[33] Lower limbs.
[34]
Limbs in general.
[35] Rest. Position. Motion.
[36]
Nerves.
[37] Sleep.
[38] Time.
[39] Temperature and weather.
[40]
Fever.
[41] Attacks, periodicity.
[42] Locality and direction.
[43] Sensations.
[44] Tissues.
[45] Touch. Injuries..
[46]
Skin.
[47] Stage of life, constitution.
[48] Relations.

Valer. * Full text (40 Ko) * Red and blue only * Red only

MIND. [1] [Valer.]

Erroneous ideas ; thinks she is some one else, moves to edge of bed to make room ; imagines animals lying near her which she fears she may hurt. θ Typhoid fever.
Mild delirium, with great excitement and trembling. θ Typhoid.
Hysteria, overexcitable, changeable disposition and ideas.
Hallucinations, particularly at night ; sees figures, animals, men, etc.
   

SENSORIUM. [2] [Valer.]

Feels light as if flying in air.
   

INNER HEAD. [3] [Valer.]

Violent pressure in forehead, followed in a few minutes by sticking in forehead, and especially over orbits ; soon sticking changes into pressure, and so on in constant alternation ; sticking is like a darting tearing, as if it would pierce eyes from within outward.
Nervous headaches.
   

UPPER FACE. [8] [Valer.]

Twitching of muscles of face. θ Hysterical neuralgia.
   

TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] [Valer.]

A greasy taste in mouth, with uneasiness in throat. θ Neuralgia of limbs.
   

PALATE AND THROAT. [13] [Valer.]

Sensation as if a thread were hanging down throat, with salivation and vomiting. θ Hysteria.
   

ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] [Valer.]

Colic : hysterical, especially evening in bed ; after dinner ; from hemorrhoids ; from worms.
   

STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] [Valer.]

Thin, watery diarrhœa, with lumps of coagulated milk ; diarrhœa of children.
Greenish papescent stool, passing with blood ; constant pressing and violent screaming ; diarrhœa of children.
Nightly itching ; muscular spasms ; sleeplessness. θ Worms.
   

PREGNANCY. PARTURITION. LACTATION. [24] [Valer.]

Child vomits as soon as it is nursed, after mother has been angry.
Child vomits curdled milk, in large lumps, the same in stools.
   

RESPIRATION. [26] [Valer.]

Paroxysm commences with a very rapid, convulsive movement of diaphragm, giving rise to extreme inhalations somewhat resembling panting of a dog. θ Spasmodic asthma.
   

INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] [Valer.]

Stitches in left side and arm.
   

UPPER LIMBS. [32] [Valer.]

In muscles of left arm from shoulder to fingers, a very painful drawing mixed with single stitches ; a sort of tearing.
   

LOWER LIMBS. [33] [Valer.]

Pain in hip and thigh intolerable when standing, as if thigh would break. θ Sciatica.
Violent drawing, darting, jerking pains in limbs, which appear suddenly ; < sitting ; > from motion ; strained feeling in lumbar region ; lumbago.
Constant pain in heels.
Sciatica of right side ; < when straightening out limb, especially while standing, could stand at her work with comparative comfort if she stood with foot of affected side upon a chair.
Obstinate coxalgia of nine months’ duration ; pain greatly < by standing, with feeling as if thigh would break.
   

LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] [Valer.]

Constant jerking of limbs. θ Hysterical neuralgia.
   

NERVES. [36] [Valer.]

Agitation of all nerves ; jerks, twitches, trembling.
Oversensitiveness of all senses.
Hysterical complaints.
Spasms after slight injuries.
Nervous affections when apparently well-chosen remedy fails ; defective reaction ; slightest exertion causes violent headache, slightest pain fainting ; warm sensation rising from stomach into throat, with globus hystericus ; pains simulating rheumatism in limbs, < sitting, > walking about ; hysterical women.
Severe shooting pains in left side of face, teeth, ear and arm ; complete sleeplessness ; convulsive tossing about of limbs ; twitching of muscles of face ; lips covered with a crust ; thick dirty-looking coating on tongue, edges of which were torn by teeth during convulsions ; gloomy expression ; eyes staring, restless, wild ; during conversation, eyes wander from object to object, and she does not understand questions ; menses normal ; wanders about house.
Great excitement and trembling. θ Typhoid fever.
   

FEVER. [40] [Valer.]

Chill almost wanting, heat exceeds considerably in intensity and endurance, followed by perspiration.
In evening spells of fugitive heat with thirst, no shivering. θ Neuralgia of limbs.
   

SKIN. [46] [Valer.]

White miliaria on chest and back. θ Typhoid.
Skin too dry and warm. θ Hysterical neuralgia.

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