VIOLA ODORATA

Violet


  • Has a specific action on the ear. 
  • Affects especially dark-haired patients; supra-orbital and orbital regions; rheumatism in upper parts of the body when on the right side. 
  • Worm affections in children (Teuc). 
  • Locally, for pain due to uterine fibroids. 
  • Also against snake-bites, bee-stings. 
  • Tension extends to upper half of face and ears.

Head

  • Burning of the forehead. 
  • Vertigo; everything in head seems to whirl around. 
  • Heaviness of head, with sensation of weakness in muscles of nape of neck. 
  • Scalp tense; must knit the brows. 
  • Tendency to pain immediately above eyebrows. 
  • Throbbing under eye and temple. 
  • Headache across the forehead. 
  • Acts upon frontal sinuses. 
  • Hysterical attacks in tuberculous patients.

Eyes

  • Heaviness of lids. 
  • Eyeball feels compressed. 
  • Flames before eyes. 
  • Myopia. 
  • Choroiditis. 
  • Illusions of vision; fiery, serpentine circles.

Ears

  • Shooting in ears. 
  • Aversion to music. 
  • Roaring and tickling. 
  • Deep stitches beneath ears. 
  • Deafness; otorrhoea. 
  • Ear affections with pain in eyeballs.

Respiratory

  • Torpor in the end of nose, as from a blow. 
  • Dry, short, spasmodic cough and dyspnoea; worse in daytime. 
  • Oppression of chest. 
  • Pertussis, with hoarseness. 
  • Dyspnoea during pregnancy. 
  • Difficult breathing, anxiety and palpitation, with hysteria.

Extremities

  • Rheumatism of the deltoid muscle. 
  • Trembling of limbs. 
  • Pressing pain in right carpal and metacarpal joints (Ulmus).

Urinary

  • Milky urine; smells strong. 
  • Enuresis in nervous children.

Modalities

  • Worse, cool air.

Relationship

  • Compare: 
    • Ulmus (formication in feet, numb, creeping pain in legs and feet; rheumatic pains above wrists; numbness, tingling, and full soreness where gastrocnemius gives off its tendon); 
    • Chenopodium (ears; serous or bloody effusion in the labyrinth; chronic otitis media; progressive deafness to the voice, but sensitive to sounds of passing vehicles and other sounds; buzzing; absent or deficient bone conduction; a consciousness of the ear; hearing better for shrill, high-pitched sounds than for low ones); 
    • Aur; Puls; Sep; Ign; Cina; 
    • Cauloph (in rheumatism of small joints).

Dose

  • First to sixth potency.