Onosmodium virginianum
False gromwell. · Plant · Boraginaceae
This remedy is given primarily to women who are physically and mentally worn out. Confused, indecisive, and aimless, they may feel as if their emotions are working in slow motion. Their memory is often weak, and they are unable to finish sentences when speaking.Physically, Onosmodium is associated with exhaustion characterized by trembling, a sensation of heaviness, and lack of coordination. There may be diminished or absent sexual desire in both men and women. Onosmodium may also be given for eye strain, in cases where the eyes feel tense and strained on reading small print, and distances are misjudged due to slow eye accommodation or adjustment.
Key symptoms
- Migraine with marked association of head and eye symptoms
- Headaches from eyestrain; ocular muscles tense with strained feeling
- Diminished sexual desire in both sexes; sexual neurasthenia
- Occipito-frontal pain on waking, chiefly left side
- General muscular prostration; numbness and tingling in feet and legs
- Want of power of concentration and coordination; acts as if born tired
Worse (aggravation)
Better (amelioration)
False Gromwell (ONOSMODIUM)
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 sexual desire in both sexes; hence its homeopathicity, 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. Confused. Dull, heavy, dizzy, pressing upward in occiput. Occipito-frontal pain in morning on waking, chiefly left side. Pain in temples and mastoid (Capsic).
Eyes
Vision blurred; optic disc hyperæmic, and retinal vessels enlarged. Strained feeling in eyes; worse, using eyes. Eyes heavy and dull, muscular asthenopia; ocular muscles tense. Internal eye muscles paretic. Pain in eyeballs between orbit and ball, extending to left temple.
Throat
Severe dryness. Discharge from posterior nares. Raw, scraping. Stuffed feeling in posterior nares. Symptoms worse by cold drinks.
Abdomen
Craving for ice-water and cold drinks; wants to drink often. Abdomen feels bloated
Back
Pain in dorsal and lumbar regions. Numbness and tingling in feet and legs.
Chest
Sore, aching in breasts; feels swollen and sore. Pain in heart; pulse, rapid, irregular, weak.
Male
Constant sexual excitement. Psychical impotence. Loss of desire. Speedy emissions. Deficient erections.
Female
Severe uterine pains; bearing-down pains; old pains return. Sexual desire completely destroyed. Feels as if menses would appear. Aching in breasts. Nipples itch. Menses too early and too prolonged. Soreness in uterine region. Leucorrhœa, yellow, acrid, profuse.
Extremities
Pain in back. Tired and numb feeling in legs, popliteal spaces, and below knees. Staggering gait. Sidewalk seems too high. Pain in left scapular region. Great muscular weakness and weariness.
Modalities
Worse, from motion, jar, and tight clothing. Better, when undressed, when lying down on back, from cold drinks, and eating.
Relationship
Compare: Nat mur; Lilium; Gels; Ruta.
Dose
Thirtieth attenuation.
Onosmodium virginianum. False Gromwell (or Gromell). N. O. Boraginaceæ. Tincture of entire fresh plant, including root.
Clinical
Amblyopia. Bladder, irritation of. Breasts, affections of; atrophy of. Colour-blindness. Debility. Diarrhœa. Diplopia. Eyes, affections of. Headache. Locomotor ataxy. Ménière's disease. Neurasthenia. Nose, dryness of. Paralysis. Pregnancy, sickness of. Presbyopia. Seminal emissions. Sexual atony, desire lost. Spine, congestion of. Throat, sore; dry. Urethra, irritation of. Uterus; cramps in; prolapse of.
Characteristics
Onosmodium v., a member of an American branch of the Borage family closely resembling the British Onosma, was proved in material doses by W. E. Green, of Arkansas (H. M., June 1885). Its common name is "False Gromwell"; the real "Gromwell" being another Borage, Lithospermum. The most remarkable feature of Green's striking proving is the want of power of concentration or co-ordination produced by the drug. This appears in inability to concentrate thought; to …
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