Voeslau

Mineral

Clarke

Key symptoms

  • Orgasm of blood with pressure and tension throughout the body
  • Mind restless, excited, irritable, and peevish
  • Vertigo and whirling in head, reeling and tottering
  • Throat sensitive to swallowing warm food and drink
  • Sexual excitement with nocturnal emissions in males
  • Increased mucus secretion from female genitals; menstrual disorders
  • Itching nettlerash over whole body ending in desquamation
  • Overpowering sleepiness during daytime, especially afternoon
  • Increased sensitiveness especially to external air
  • Emaciation of young people

Worse (aggravation)

  • After bathing (reeling and tottering two to three hours after a bath)
  • Towards midnight (itching and heat of skin before perspiration)
John Henry Clarke
A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1900

Mineral Spring at Voeslau, in Austria. (Contains in 100 cubic inches 15.2 gr. of solid constituents: Calc. C. 4.9, Calc. Sul. 2.7, Calc. mur. 0.5, Mag. C. 2.7, Mag. sul. 1.8, Mag. mur. 0.4, Nat. Sul. 0.9, Nat. m. 0.4, Alumina and Silica 0.4, Fer. C. 0.2, gummy substance 0.1.) Dilution.

Clinical

Menstruation, disorders of. Seminal emissions. Urticaria. Vertigo.

Characteristics

Rosenberg observed the effects of Voeslau on the healthy. His symptoms constitute the Schema. The waters produce: Orgasm of blood; pressure and tension. The throat was sensitive to swallowing warm food and drink. Nettlerash with desquamation. In males there was sexual excitement and emissions; and in females increased secretion of mucus in genitals and many troubles connected with menses.

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