Onosmodium virginianum

as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927

Onosmodium virginicum

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General

False Gromwell 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 both sexes; hence its homeopathicity, in sexual neurasthenia. Depressed or lost sexual life in women. Neuralgic pains. General prostration. Acts as if born tired.

Modalities

Worse, from motion, jar, and tight clothing. Better, when undressed, when lying down on back, from cold drinks, and eating.

Head

Loss of memory. Nose feels dry. Confused. Dull, heavy, dizzy, pressing upward in occiput. Occipito-frontal pain in morning on waking, chiefly left side. Pain in temples and mastoid (Capsic).

Eyes

Vision blurred; optic disc hyperæmic, and retinal vessels enlarged. Strained feeling in eyes; worse, using eyes. Eyes heavy and dull, muscular

asthenopia; ocular muscles tense. Internal eye muscles paretic. Pain in eyeballs between orbit and ball, extending to left temple.

Throat

Severe dryness. Discharge from posterior nares. Raw, scraping. Stuffed feeling in posterior nares. Symptoms worse by cold drinks.

Abdomen

Craving for ice-water and cold drinks; wants to drink often. Abdomen feels bloated

Male

Constant sexual excitement. Psychical impotence. Loss of desire. Speedy emissions. Deficient erections.

Female

Severe uterine pains; bearing-down pains; old pains return. Sexual desire completely destroyed. Feels as if menses would appear. Aching in breasts. Nipples itch. Menses too early and too prolonged. Soreness in uterine region. Leucorrhœa, yellow, acrid, profuse.

Chest

Sore, aching in breasts; feels swollen and sore. Pain in heart; pulse, rapid, irregular, weak.

Back

Pain in dorsal and lumbar regions. Numbness and tingling in feet and legs.

Extremities

Pain in back. Tired and numb feeling in legs, popliteal spaces, and below knees. Staggering gait. Sidewalk seems too high. Pain in left scapular region. Great muscular weakness and weariness.

Relationships

Compare: Nat mur; Lilium; Gels; Ruta.

Dose

Thirtieth attenuation.

What the other books say about Onosmodium virginianum

The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.

Onosmodium virginianum in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.

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Cite this page. William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Onosmodium virginianum — General. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/onosmodium-virginianum. Published 1927: public domain in the US (since 2023) and in India (author died 1929). Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.