Virgin's Bower
- Scrofulous, rheumatic, gonorrheal, and syphilitic patients.
- Acts especially on skin, glands and genito-urinary organs, especially testicles.
- A remedy of much importance in disturbances of sleep, and neuralgic pains in various parts.
- Many of these pains are relieved by perspiration.
- Muscles relaxed or twitching.
- Great emaciation.
- Great sleepiness.
- Distant pulsation in whole body.
Head
- Boring pain in temples.
- Confused feeling; better in open air.
- Eruption on occiput at base of hair, moist, pustular sensitive, itching.
Eyes
- Heat in eyes and sensitive to air; must close them.
- Chronic blepharitis, with sore and swollen meibomian glands.
- Iritis, great sensitiveness to cold.
- Flickering before eyes.
- Pustular conjunctivitis, with tinea capitis; eyes inflamed and protruding.
Face
- White blisters on face and nose, as if burned by sun.
- Swelling of submaxillary glands, with hard tubercles, throbbing, aggravated on being touched.
- Pain in right side of face to eye, ear and temple; better, holding cold water in mouth.
Teeth
- Ache; worse, at night and from tobacco.
- Teeth feel too long.
Stomach
- After eating, weakness in all limbs and pulsation in arteries.
Male
- Ilio-scrotal neuralgia.
- Testicles indurated with bruised feeling.
- Swelling of scrotum (Orchitis).
- Right half only.
- Troubles from suppressed gonorrhea.
- Violent erections with stitches in urethra.
- Testicles hang heavy or retracted, with pain along spermatic cord; worse, right side.
Urinary
- Tingling in urethra lasting some time after urinating.
- Frequent, scanty urination; burning at orifice.
- Interrupted flow.
- Urethra feels constricted.
- Urine emitted drop by drop.
- Inability to pass all the urine; dribbling after urinating.
- Pain worse at night, pain along the spermatic cord.
- Commencing stricture.
Skin
- Red, burning, vesicular, scaly, scabby.
- Itches terribly; worse, washing in cold water; worse face and hands and scalp around occiput.
- Glands hot, painful, swollen; worse inguinal glands.
- Glandular indurations and tumors of breast.
- Varicose ulcers.
Modalities
- Better, in open air.
- Worse, at night, and warmth of bed (washing in cold water); new moon--(monthly aggravation).
Relationship
- Compare:
- Clematis vitalba (varicose and other ulcers);
- Sil; Staph; Petrol; Oleand; Sarsap; Canth; Phos ac; Pulsat.
- Antidotes: Bryon; Camph.
Dose
- Third to thirtieth potency.
