Valeriana officinalis
vale-offValerian
Hysteria, over-sensitiveness, nervous affections, when apparently well-chosen remedies fail. Hysterical spasms and affections generally. Hysterical flatulency.
Valeriana officinalis — Materia Medica
Valeriana officinalis — keynotes · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
Suddenly changeable disposition and symptoms. Alternations and want of reaction. Pains move outward; are here and there or come and go. Illusions; of smell, taste or hearing. Sense of floating; of a ball or plug. Globus. Impulse to move. Jerks. Weak single parts; eyes, arms, wrists, popliteæ, etc. .................... NERVOUS, excitable and weak; wriggles or squirms about; inclined to faint. Anger. Very mobile ideas, going from one extreme to another. Hysteria. Luminosities, before eyes in dark. Objects seem too near eyes. Greasy or rancid taste. As of a thread in throat. Eructations, like bad eggs. Hunger, with nausea; as if from navel. Gastric cramp. Flatulence. Colic. Polyuria. Strangling on dropping to sleep. Crampy pain in l. humerus, wakes from sleep. Heels pain when sitting. Coldness in upper head. Chills start and go down back from occiput. Fever composed of disagreeable heat only. Sudden gushes of sweat.
Valeriana officinalis — mind · William Boericke
Changeable disposition. Feels light, as if floating in air. Over- sensitiveness (Staph). Hallucinations at night. Irritable. Tremulous.
Valeriana officinalis — general · James Tyler Kent
This remedy cures many nervous and hysterical phenomena in excitable women and children, and the complaints of the hypochondriac. Great nervous excitability, exaltation, hysterical contractures, trembling, palpitation, sense of levitation, paroxysmal respiration, stitching pains, tension in the limbs, jerking, twitching, globus hystericus. Sensation of something warm rising from the stomach, causing paroxysmal suffocation. All the nerves are in a fret. Oversensitiveness of all the senses; great nervous restlessness. All these general symptoms come on during rest, and are relieved by motion and moving about. Fainting easily. Slight exertion brings on symptoms. Complaints change about, and pains wander from place to place. It is a great remedy for the numerous nondescript nervous manifestations that come in spinal irritation when there is amelioration by motion and aggravation by much exertion. Exertion brings on headache in these cases. Stitching pains all over the body during rest. The mental state is often ecstatic or hysterical. The mind undergoes rapid changes in disposition and ideas. The mental symptoms come on at night; sees images, animals and men. The mental state is one of extreme activity, tension, excitement, passes from one subject to another. Erroneous ideas; thinks she is some one else, moves to the edge of the bed to make room; imagines animals lying near her which she fears she may hurt. Fear in the evening in the dark. Symptoms aggravated in the dark. Great sadness and irritability. Morose, easily exasperated. Mental symptoms come on during rest, while sitting and lying, and go off on walking about. Vertigo when stooping. Feels light as if floating in air. Violent nervous headaches in evening during rest, ameliorated by motion.
Valeriana officinalis — modalities worse · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
REST. STANDING. Excitement. Evening.
Valeriana officinalis — modalities better · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
Changing position. Walking about. Rubbing.
Valeriana officinalis — head · William Boericke
Sensation of great coldness. Pressure in forehead. Feeling of intoxication.
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