Hand Book of Materia Medica and Homœopathic Therapeutics

Viola Tricolor viol-t.

Allen (1889)In every bookSave

General

A tincture is made of the whole plant in flower (Pansy).

Generalities

Feeling as if he had not slept enough in forenoon when sitting. ▶ Exhaustion.

Clinical

General aggravation in winter and cold air.

Eczema of scalp, with swollen cervical glands. ▶ In crusta lactea it is similar to Vinca (but Viola has urine like cat's urine). ▶ By some considered nearly specific in eczema of the scalp, especially with matted hair.

Scrofulous ophthalmia, with crusta lactea.

Incontinence of urine at night, in children, the urine smelling like cat's urine.

Impetigo, groups of pustules, followed by scabs, on chin and upper lip.

Mind

Hasty in his actions as if impelled by anxiety, yet feeling of prostration. ▶ Sad about his domestic relations. ▶ Disobedient. ▶ Morose all day, with sensitiveness and little desire to talk; M. all day, inclined to quarrel and dispute; M. all day, in evening jolly and inclined to talk; and quiet, indifferent; and weeping mood. ▶ Introspective, discouraged, discontented with his work; I., discontented with himself, distrustful of himself, especially of his future. ▶ Disinclination for mental work; D. for earnest work. ▶ Dullness in afternoon and evening, with disinclination to talk, which was almost impossible.

Head

Tearing, with heat in face and thirst. ▶ Pain in brain; P., with pressure in forehead; in brain extending outward through forehead. ▶ Confusion; with pressure in frontal bones; with pressure in forehead, and when walking the brain shakes, with heaviness, as if a stone were in it, which extended forward into head. ▶ Heaviness, with pressure towards forehead; H. as if a weight pressed it forward, amel. stooping, agg. rising. ▶ Vertigo when walking, with reeling.

Forehead

Burning stitch in bone. ▶ Pain above right eye, amel. pressure; extending from rot of nose into brain, amel. open air; wavelike. ▶ Tensive drawing externally in left side, extending into cervical muscles. ▶ Tingling when sitting still.

▶ Tearing stitch externally in left temple. ▶ Pressure outward in temples. ▶ Pain in left temple near eye; burning, on right side of vertex when sitting; bruised, in parietal bone on touch. ▶ Pressure outward in right side of head. ▶ Sticking in left side of occiput; tensive in right muscles of occiput.

Eyes

Itching-cutting stitches outward in right. ▶ Biting as left as if sweat were in it. ▶ Pupils contracted. ▶ Tensive stitch in left ball, persistent on motion. ▶ Sensation of a hard body between ball and upper lids. ▶ Lids pressed together and difficult to open. ▶ Hardened matter in canthi. ▶ Vision obscured, especially distant objects.

Ears, Nose and Face

Itching stitches behind left ear. ▶ Pressure inward upon drum of ear. ▶ Itching pressure towards left side of nose. ▶ Drawing tension in left cheek, in front of ear. ▶ Drawing pain from left side of lower jaw into right side of head.

Mouth and Throat

Tongue white. ▶ Tongue covered with bitter mucus. ▶ Salivation, with dry sensation in mouth. ▶ Sore throat in evening.

Stomach

Loss of appetite and taste. ▶ Empty eructations. ▶ Nausea and retching. ▶ Sticking in diaphragm during inspiration and expiration. ▶ Constriction in pit on inspiration.

Abdomen

Rumbling and emission of flatus. ▶ Stitches like lightning in right side of A. and chest when walking; griping S. when walking, so that he must stand still. ▶ Griping. ▶ Cutting; with urging to stool; with howling and screaming, then sleep at noon, the pain returned on waking, then emission of flatus and stool with mucus in large pieces. ▶ Sticking in upper A. during inspiration and expiration; S. externally in umbilical region. ▶ Sticking cutting in hypochondrium on inspiration while sitting bent over. ▶ Stitches in left groin when sitting and on rising up; jerklike, in forepart of hypogastrium when sitting, amel. standing up, leaving burning. ▶ Pinching crawling in right side of pelvis when sitting.

Rectum and Stool

Excessive urging to stool, which is normal. ▶ Stool soft; soft, preceded by flatulence; hard; as if chopped.

Urinary Organs

Tenesmus. ▶ Urging; frequent, with copious urine; frequent, with scanty urine. ▶ Frequent copious micturition, can scarcely hold the urine. ▶ Stitch in urethra when not urinating. ▶ Urine copious, burning; scanty; turbid; offensive; smelling like cat's urine.

Sexual Organs

Erection in morning. ▶ Penis, jerking, tending to make it stiff, in morning on waking; stitch in back; itching biting in skin; pain extending to glans. ▶ Burning in glans. ▶ Swelling of prepuce. ▶ Voluptuous itching of prepuce when standing, with erection. ▶ Itching sticking of scrotum. ▶ Emission, with lascivious dream. ▶ Stitch on right side of mons veneris. ▶ Leucorrhœa.

Chest

Twitching of right pectoral muscles. ▶ Sticking on left true ribs; in left side during inspiration and expiration while walking; in right side when walking; when standing; in right side, agg. inspiration and expiration; in upper part of sternum, agg. expiration; itching, in right pectoral muscles. ▶ Cutting on right side, agg. moving trunk and arm, bruised pain on pressure.

Heart and Pulse

Anxiety in H. in wavelike throbbing when lying. ▶ Oppression in region of H. on bending forward while sitting, with stitches. ▶ Pulse rapid.

Neck and Back

Swelling of cervical glands. ▶ Cramplike drawing in cervical muscles, which suddenly drew the head backward. ▶ Sticking in left scapula. ▶ Pinching contraction between scapulæ, with coldness.

Upper Extremities

Sticking in right axilla; cutting, in axilla, with itching; in left shoulder joint, amel. motion; in left elbow; contractive, in left forearm near bend of elbow, when walking; in left ring finger during rest.

Lower Extremities

Stitches in left gluteals when lying. ▶ Thighs feel bruised in morning on waking. ▶ Tearing bubbling in internal and upper part of thigh when sitting. ▶ Drawing in right thigh when standing. ▶ Itching stitch in left knee; in right patella when lying, amel. motion, returning on sitting. ▶ Twitching in right calf towards inner side; feeling of T. in left calf. ▶ Sticking in right tibia when walking. ▶ Pressing-out pain in right tibia when walking and sitting, agg. standing. ▶ Drawing along calf and thigh when walking, with giving way of knees. ▶ Tensive sticking in middle of right foot when walking. ▶ Tearing in heel beneath inner malleolus, amel. motion, leaving burning. ▶ Pain in right sole; in right sole when sitting; in right sole when walking, agg. joints. ▶ Pressing burning in left great toe.

Skin

Thick and hard on face. ▶ Eruption over face (except eyelids) and behind ears, with burning itching, agg. night, a thick, hard scab formed, cracked here and there, from which a tenacious yellow pus exuded and hardened into a substance like gum. ▶ Pimple beneath left zygoma, with pain on touch; itching P. on last joint of index. ▶ Nettle-rash over whole body, with stinging biting. ▶ Hives on left cheek, with itching, not agg. scratching.

Burning stitches on left thigh; on upper abdomen when walking. ▶ Itching stitches below right external malleolus; on right side of abdomen, amel. touch. ▶ Cutting and crawling, with cramplike pain in skin between scapulæ. ▶ Itching on right wing of nose; on right scapula; inner upper part of right thigh; anteriorly above left knee; on left inner malleolus; on ball of right great toe when standing, agg. sitting; of dorsal muscles, amel. scratching; between scrotum and thigh when sitting, amel. scratching; sticking in left brow, amel. rubbing.

Sleep

Sleepiness in afternoon; in afternoon, with falling of eyelids; irresistible, in afternoon. ▶ Frequent waking. ▶ Restless. ▶ The child twitches the hands and closes in the thumb, with general dry heat and redness of face. ▶ Falls asleep late on account of numerous thoughts, in morning he wakes early, lies upon the unaccustomed side and cannot arouse himself on account of weakness. ▶ Amorous dreams. ▶ Vivid dreams.

Fever

Chilliness in cold, open air; creeping, in forenoon, with vertigo and pulling asunder sensation in middle of brain. ▶ Heat without thirst; H. after eating, agg. face, with sweat, oppression of chest, with anxiety, driving him about; in scalp above forehead; in skin of temple by right eye; in side of face on which he was not lying in evening; suddenly in face when sitting, without thirst. ▶ Sweat at night.