VIBURNUM OPULUS

High Cranberry


  • A general remedy for cramps. 
  • Colicky pains in pelvic organs. 
  • Superconscious of internal sexual organs. 
  • Female symptoms most important. 
  • Often prevents miscarriage. 
  • False labor-pains. 
  • Spasmodic and congestive affections, dependent upon ovarian or uterine origin.

Head

  • Irritable. 
  • Vertigo; feels as if falling forward. 
  • Severe pain in temporal region. 
  • Sore feeling in eyeballs.

Stomach

  • Constant nausea; relieved by eating. 
  • No appetite.

Abdomen

  • Sudden cramps and colic pains. 
  • Tender to pressure about umbilicus.

Female

  • Menses too late, scanty, lasting a few hours, offensive in odor, with crampy pains, cramps extend down thighs (Bell). 
  • 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 dysmenorrhea (Borax). 
  • Leucorrhea, excoriating. 
  • Smarting and itching of genitals. 
  • Faint on attempting to sit up. 
  • Frequent and very early miscarriage, causing seeming sterility. 
  • Pains from back to loins and womb worse early morning.

Urinary

  • Frequent urging. 
  • Copious, pale, light-colored urine. 
  • Cannot hold water on coughing or walking.

Rectum

  • Stools large and hard, with cutting in rectum and soreness of anus.

Extremities

  • Stiff, sore feeling in nape of neck. 
  • Feels as if back would break. 
  • Sacral backache. 
  • Lower extremities weak and heavy.

Modalities

  • Worse, lying on affected side, in warm room, evening and night. 
  • Better, in open air and resting.

Relationship

  • Compare: 
    • Virburnum prunifolium-Black Haw--(habitual miscarriage; after-pains; cancer of the tongue; obstinate hiccough; supposed to be a uterine tonic. Morning sickness; menstrual irregularities of sterile females with uterine displacements). 
    • Cimicif; Cauloph; Sep; Xanthox.

Dose

  • Tincture, and lower potencies.