Materia Medica
Viburnum Opulus
High Cranberry
A general remedy for cramps.1 Female symptoms most important. Often prevents miscarriage. False labor-pains. Spasmodic and congestive affections, de- pendent upon ovarian or uterine origin.
Head
Irritable. Vertigo; feels as if falling for- ward. Severe pain in temporal region. Sore feeling in eyeballs. [Cimicif.]
Stomach
Constant nausea; relieved by eating.
Abdomen
Sudden cramps and colic pains. Tender to pressure about umbilicus.
Rectum
Stools large and hard, with cutting in rectum and soreness of anus.
Urinary
Frequent urging. Copious, pale, light- colored urine. Cannot hold water on coughing or walking.
Female
Menses too late, scanty, lasting a few hours, offensive in odor, with crampy pains, cramps ex- tend down thighs. [Bcll.] 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 dys- mcnorrhiaa. [Borax.] Leucorrhoea, excoriating. Smart- ing and itching of genitals. Faint on attempting to sit up. Frequent and very early miscarriugc, causing seeming sterility.
Extremities
Stiff, sore feeling in nape of neck. Sacral backache. Iower extremities weak and heavy.
Modalities
W'orse, lying on affected side, in warm room, evening and night. Better, in open air and resting.
Relationships
Compare Virburnum prunifolium (habitual miscarriage; uftcr-pains; cancer of the tongue; obstinate hiccough; supposed to he a uterine tonic). Cimicif.: Cauloph.; Sep.: Xanthox.
Dose
Tincture, and lower potencies. 775