Hamamelis virginiana

SORENESS, bruised; in blood-vessels; localized; abdominal, etc. Tense, bursting feeling; in piles, joints, or lower limbs. Congestive fulness. Veins, sore; cutting; swelled; inflamed. Painful varicoses. Hæmorrhage; capillary; dark, fluid; relieves or causes undue weakness. .................... Irritable and chilly. Hammering headache, < l. temple. Blood-shot eyes. Taste of blood. Pain and heaviness back of stomach. Piles. Pain up along spermatic cord. Neuralgia of testes. Orchitis; < touch. Varicocele. Breaking backache. Profuse, dark menses. Scapular pains. Dull ache about kidneys. Phlebitis. Ecchymoses. Varicose ulcers with bloody bases.

Injury. Bruises. Pressure. Air: Open. Humid. Cold. Jar. Motion. Touch.

VEINS: Rectum. Genitals. Limbs. Throat. Liver. Abdominal and chest walls.

Complementary: Fer. Flu-ac. Related: Arn. Pul. Vip.

Hamamelis Virginica

Witch Hazel. Hamamelaceae.

This shrub flowers from September to November, when the leaves are falling. The seeds mature the following summer.

It is adapted to venous haemorrhage from every orifice of the body; nose, lungs, bowels, uterus, bladder.

Venous congestion : passive, of skin and mucous membranes ; phlebitis, varicose veins ; ulcers, varicose, with stinging, pricking pain ; haemorrhoids.

Patients, subject to varicose veins, take cold easily from every exposure, especially in warm, moist air.

^Ts the Aconite of the venous capillary system.”

Bruised soreness of affected parts (Arn.); rheumatism, articular and muscular.

Wounds: incised, lacerated, contused; injuries from falls; checks haemorrhage, removes pain and soreness (Arn.).

Chronic effects of mechanical injuries (Con.).

Traumatic conjunctivitis; sugillations, or extravasations into chambers of eye; from severe coughing; intense soreness (Arn., Calen., Led.).

Nosebleed: flow passive, long-lasting, blood noncoagulable (Crot.) ; profuse > headache (Mel.) ; idiopathic, traumatic, vicarious, of childhood.

Haemorrhage : profuse, dark, grumous, from ulceration of bowels (Crot. ) ; uterine, active or passive; after a fall or rough riding; vicarious menstruation; no mental anxiety.

Haemoptysis : tickling cough, with taste of blood or sulphur; venous, without effort or coughing; sometimes monthly, for ;^ears.

Profuse discharges, which simulate a haemorrhage, and form a drain upon system as severe as loss of blood.

Haemorrhoids: bleeding profusely; with burning, soreness, fullness, heaviness; as if back would break; '.irging to stool; bluish color; anus feels sore and raw.

Menses : flow, dark and profuse ; with soreness in abdomen; after a blow on ovary, or a fall; all suffering < at menstrual period (Act., Puls.).

Uterine haemorrhage active or passive; from jolting while riding over rough roads; bearing down pain in back.

After haemorrhage from piles, prostration out of all proportion to amount of blood lost (Hydr.).

Bad effects from loss of blood (Cinch.).

rhages and the haemorrhagic diathesis.

Compare: Arn., Calen., for traumatic, and to hasten absorption of intraocular haemorrhage.

Witch-hazel Venous congestion, hæmorrhages, varicose veins, and hæmorrhoids, with bruised soreness of affected parts, seem to be the special sphere of this remedy. Acts upon the coats of the veins causing relaxation with consequent engorgement. Passive venous hæmorrhages from any part. Great value in open, painful wounds, with weakness from loss of blood. After operations, supersedes the use of morphia (Helmuth).

Worse, warm, moist air.

Wants "the respect due to me" shown. Feeling as of a bolt from temple to temple. Fullness, followed by epistaxis. Numbness over frontal bone.

Painful weakness; sore pain in eyes; bloodshot appearance; inflamed vessels greatly injected. Hastens absorption of intraocular hæmorrhage. Eyes feel forced out.

Bleeding from nose profuse; flow passive, non-coagulable, with tightness in bridge of nose. Bad odor from nose.

Mucous membrane distended and bluish; varicosis of throat.

Tongue feels burnt. Thirst. Blisters on side. Hæmatemesis of black blood. Throbbing and pain in stomach.

Anus feels sore and raw. Hæmorrhoids, bleeding profusely, with soreness. Dysentery. Pulsation in rectum.

Hæmaturia, with increased desire.

Pain in spermatic cord, running into testes. Varicocele. Pain in testicles. Orchitis. Testicles enlarged, hot, and painful. Epididymitis.

Ovarian congestion and neuralgia; feel very sore. Vicarious menstruation. Uterine hæmorrhage, bearing-down pain in back. Menses dark, profuse, with soreness in abdomen. Metrorrhagia, occurring midway between menstrual periods. Intermenstrual pain (Jas. W. Ward). Vagina very tender. Profuse leucorrhœa. Vulva itches. Milk-leg, hæmorrhoids, and sore nipples, after confinement. Metrorrhagia; passive flow. Vaginismus, ovaritis, soreness over whole abdomen. Phlegmasia alba.

Hæmoptysis; tickling cough. Chest feels sore and constricted.

Sore pain down cervical vertebræ. Severe pain in lumbar and hypogastric region, extending down legs.

Tired feeling in arms and legs. Very sore muscles and joints. Varicose veins. Chilliness in back and hips, extending down legs. Neuralgia of internal saphenous nerve.

Bluish chilblains. Phlebitis. Purpura. Varicose veins and ulcers; very sore. Burns. Ecchymosis. Traumatic inflammations (Arnica).

Compare in hæmorrhoids: Calc fluor; Aloe; Mur ac in varicose veins. Mangifera indica. Compare: Arnica; Calend; Trillium; Bellis; Sulph ac; Pulsatilla. Antidote: Arnica. Complementary: Ferrum.

Tincture, to sixth attenuation. Distilled extract locally.