Viscum album
visc-albMistletoe
Lowered blood pressure. Dilated blood vessels but does not act on the centers in the medulla. Pulse is slow due to central irritation of the vagus. The symptoms point especially to rheumatic and gouty complaints; neuralgia, especially sciatica. Epilepsy, chorea, and metrorrhagia. Rheumatic deafness. Asthma. Spinal pains, due to uterine causes. Rheumatism with tearing pains. Hypertensive albuminuria. Valvular disease, with disturbances in sexual sphere. Symptoms like epileptic aura and petit mal.
Viscum album — Materia Medica
Viscum album — keynotes · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
Vertigo; persists after epileptic attack. Vertex; sudden throbbings in. Sore about waist. Milky urine. Bronchial asthma. Blood won't clot and wounds won't heal.
Viscum album — introduction · Margaret Lucy Tyler
Mistletoe One of our little-known remedies, and not too well proved, one gathers. But a remedy for chorea and epilepsy is not to be lightly set aside. It was one of the late Dr. Robert Cooper s cases that brought the drug to mind, and we will try to do it justice and make it available for us all. Boger (Synoptic Key) gives it only a few lines, but says it is related to Bufo. One of his points is, “ Vertigo persists after epileptic attacks A late edition of Boericke gives many symptoms ; and Clarke has a great deal to say about it in his Dictionary. Clarke, Burnett and Cooper—it is difficult to talk of them in the past tense ; since they, being dead, still speak convincingly. They were a wonderful trio of geniuses in their several ways. Each seems always to supplement the others. Actually the mistletoe is a very ancient remedy—for epilepsy, for chorea, for disorders of the spleen and for " imposthumes ” (abscesses) according to old Culpepper, some three hundred years ago. We shall see how far he is followed, in our day. He speaks not only of the mistletoe, but of the virtues of bird-lime made from the berries of the mistletoe, “ to ripen and draw forth thick and thin humours from remote parts of the body, digesting and separating them ; to mollify the hardness of the spleen ; to help old ulcers and sores, and mixed with sanderick and orpiment, it helps to draw off foul nails. Mistletoe, made into powder and given to drink, is good for falling sickness (epilepsy). The fresh wood bruised and the juice extracted and dropped into the ears is effectual in curing the imposthumes in them. Mistletoe is a cephalic and nervine medicine, useful for convulsive fits, palsy and vertigo.” These ancient uses still obtain. Viscttm alb. has been proved.
Viscum album — modalities worse · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
Becoming chilled while hot.
Viscum album — head · William Boericke
Feeling as if whole vault of skull were lifted up. Blue ring around eyes. Double vision. Buzzing and stopped-up feeling in ear. Deafness from cold. Facial muscles in constant agitation. Persistent vertigo.
Viscum album — respiratory · William Boericke
Dyspnœa; feeling of suffocation when lying on left side. Spasmodic cough. Asthma, if connected with gout or rheumatism. Stertorous breathing. Female.––Hæmorrhage, with pain; blood partly clots and bright red. Climacteric complaints (Lach; Sulph). Pain from sacrum into pelvis, with tearing, shooting pains from above downwards. Retained placenta (Secale). Chronic endometritis. Metrorrhagia. Ovaralgia, especially left.
Viscum album — heart · William Boericke
Hypertrophy with valvular insufficiency; pulse small and weak; unable to rest in a reclining position. Palpitation during coitus. Low tension. Failing compensation, dyspnœa worse lying on left side. Weight and oppression of heart; as if a hand were squeezing it; tickling sensation about heart.
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