Viburnum opulus

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); spasmodic and membranous dysmenorrhœa (Borax). Leucorrhœa, 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.

Dull frontal headache. She has cramping colic pains.in lower abdomen, almost unbearable. Pains come suddenly and with terrible severity. Cramp like colic pain., in lower abdomen (during menstruati'm) VIBURNUM OPULUS AND PRUN. Before menses : severe bearing down ; drawing in anterior muscles of thigh : heavy aching in sacral region and over pubes ; occasional sharp, shooting pains in ovaries ; they make her so nervous that she cannot sit still. Excruciating, cramping, colicky pains in lower abdomen and through womb. Pains begin in back and go around, ending in cramps in uterus. During menses : nausea ; cramping pain and great nervous restlessness : flow ceases for several hours, then returns in clots. Menstrual flow scanty, thin, light-coloured, with sensation of lightness of head, faint when trying to sit up. Spasmodic, or metnbraneous dysmenorrhaa. Leucorrhoea, thin, yellow-white or colourless, except ivith stool, when it is thick, white, blood-streaked. Neuralgic and spasmodic dysmenorrhgea. Pain beginning in back and going round to loins and across pubic bone like labour pains. Irritable ovaries, with dysmenorrhaa. Cramp-like pains and spasms of stomach, bowels, bladder or other organs, when reflex from uterine irritation. Cramfls in abdomen and legs of pregnant women. Will prevent miscarriage if given before the membranes are injured, and when the pains are spasmodic and threatening. Hysterical convulsions from uterine irritation. General irritation of nervous system. Cramps and contractions of extremities, especially- during pregnancy. Among peculiar sensations are also : Opening and shutting in left parietal region (in occiput Cocc. Compare also Cann. ind.). Stabbed with a knife in eyes and ears. Ears pinned to head. As if she could not live : sick feeling in stomach. Pelvic organs turning upside down. As if she would collapse, from waist to lower pelvis. As if breath would leave body and heart would cease beating. Clutching and cramping pains in heart. Excruciating, cramping pain in heart. Oppression over whole chest : dyspnoea, as if chest muscles failed to act. As if hands would burst. In sleep, sensation of falling, wakes with a start. (Compare Thuja.) VIBURNUM OPULUS AND PRUN. Dr. Boger, writing later, stresses a few more points. Violent nervous, or spasmodic effects in females. Can’t keep still. Cramping. Haemorrhage. Frequent profuse urination : during headache, menses, haemor­ rhage, etc. Heavy ache, or excruciating cramps in pelvis : > menses. Dysmenorrhcea ; with flatulency, loud eructations and ner­ vousness. Miscarriage. False labour pains. Uterine hæmorrhage. Suffocation : at night ; worse cold damp Infantile asthma. Pains in back, end in cramp in uterus, or go down anterior surface of thighs.