Materia Medica
Onosmodium
False Gromwell
Want of power of concentration and co-ordination. Vertigo, numbness and muscular prostration. Marked association of head and eye symptoms, with muscular tiredness and weariness. A remedy for migraine. Headaches from eyestrain and sexual weakness. It produces diminution of sex- ual desire in both sexes; hence its homceopathicity, in sexual neurasthenia.. Depressed or lost sexual life in women. Neuralgic pains. General prostration. Acts as if born tired.
Head
Loss of memory. Nose feels dry. Con- fused. Dull, heavy, dizzy, pressing upward in occiput. Occipito-frontal pain in morning on walking, chiefly left side. Pain in temples and mastoid. [Capsic.]
Eyes
Vision blurred; optic disc hyperamic, and retinal vessels enlarged. Strained feeling in eyes; worse, using eyes. Eyes heavy and dull, muscular as- thenopia; ocular muscles tense. Internal eye muscles paretic. Pain in eyeballs between orbit and ball, ex- tending to left temple. Thrpat. -- Severe dryness. Discharge from pos- terior nares. Raw, scraping. Stuffed feeling in pos- terior nares. Symptoms worse by cold drinks.
Abdomen
Craving for ice-water and cold drinks; wants to drink often. Abdomen feels bloated.
Male
Constant sexual excitement. Psychical im- potence. Loss of desire. Speedy emissions. Deficient erections.
Female
Severe uterine pains; bearing-down pains; old pains return. Sexual drsire completely de- stroyed. Feels as if menses would appear. Aching in breasts. Nipples itch.: Menses too early and too pro- longed. Soreness in uterine region. Leucorrhoea, yel- low, acrid, profuse.
Chest
Sore, aching in breasts; feels swollen and sore. Pain in heart; pulse, rapid, irregular, weak.
Back
Pain in dorsal and lumbar regions. Numb- ness and tingling in feet and legs.
Extremities
Pain in back. Tired 'and numb feeling in legs, popliteal spaces, and below knees. Staggering gait. Sidewalk seems too high. Pain in left scapula region. Great muscular weakness and weariness.
Modalities
W'orse, from motion, jar, and tight clothing. Better, when undressed, when lying down on back, from cold drinks, and eating.
Relationships
Compare: Nat. mur.; Lilium; Gels.: Ruta. Compare : Orchitinum—Testicular Extract -— (after ovariotomy, sexual weakness, senile decay).
Dose
Thirtieth and higher have been used most frequently, but it acts equally well in the 2x or 3x attenuation. (Ovarian Extract) Suffering following excision of the ovaries. Nervous symptoms at climacteric. Climacteric disturbances. Ovarian cysts. Cutaneous disorders and acne rosacea. Prurigo. Low triturations.