Viola Odorata

▲   GENERAL

General

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.

Dose

First to sixth potency.

▲   RELATIONSHIPS

Compare

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); Aurum Metallicum ^Aur; Pulsatilla ^Puls; Sepia ^Sep; Ignatia ^Ign; Cina ^Cina; Cauloph (in rheumatism of small joints).

▲   MIND

Mind

Aversions, dislikes; aversion to mental work

Behaviour; childish behaviour (see foolish)

Delusions, imaginations, hallucinations, illusions

illusions of fantasy

Excitement

Fantasies; of exaltation

Emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition

cheerful, happy

irritability

mildness

sensitive, oversensitive; to music

weeping, crying, tearful mood (lamenting)

causeless, groundless, with no reason

during the chill

involuntary

Hysteria

Uncooperative; refuses to eat

Intellectual faculties

bright, intelligent, clear; abundant ideas, clearness of mind

bright, intelligent, clear; abundant ideas, clearness of mind; while perspiring

impaired thinking; absent-minded (see forgetful)

impaired thinking; difficulty concentrating

impaired thinking; confusion

impaired thinking; dull, sluggish

impaired thinking; imbecility

impaired thinking; vanishing of thoughts

thoughts wandering

ideas; abundant ideas, clearness of mind

while perspiring

Insecure, uncertain, scared; anxiety

Memory

active memory

forgetful

weakness of memory

for what was read

Restlessness, nervousness

Talking, conversation

obstinate

dislike of talking, desire to be silent, taciturn

talkative

Thoughts (see preoccupied); persistent (see delusions)

rapid, quick, etc.

thoughtful

Unconsciousness

▲   VERTIGO, DIZZINESS

Vertigo

Vertigo; everything in head seems to whirl around

While sitting

Spinning

▲   HEAD

Head

Burning of the forehead

Heaviness of head, with sensation of weakness in muscles of nape of neck

Throbbing under eye and temple

Viola Odorata acts upon frontal sinuses

Hysterical attacks in tuberculous patients.

Congestion (see pulsation)

Constriction, tension (see also pulling, pressing)

back of head (occiput)

alternating with tension of face

Hot

forehead

Prickling

forehead

Tingling; forehead

Headache

Tendency to pain immediately above eyebrows

Headache across the forehead

Heaviness (see pain; pressing)

Pain, headache

from certain movements

while bending head backward

from certain movements; while bending head forward

from certain movements; on moving head

from noises; from music

from sex; after excessive pollutions

sides; one side

sides; left

pulling; forehead

left

dull pain

Scalp

Scalp tense; must knit the brows

▲   EYES

Eyes

Heaviness of lids

Eyeball feels compressed

Flames before eyes

Myopia

Choroiditis

Illusions of vision; fiery, serpentine circles.

Lids; falling of lids

Eye feels hot

Heaviness; lids

Pain

burning, smarting, gnawing, biting

burning, smarting, gnawing, biting; evening

pressing

Tears; when yawning

Vision

Acute

Colours and shapes in front of eyes

circles; zigzags

colours; bright

fiery

sparks; before headache

zigzags; circles of colours

Dazzling; trembling objects (see dazzling)

Dim

Exertion of vision

Short-sightedness

Merging together; letters

▲   EARS

Ear

Shooting in ears

Aversion to music

Roaring and tickling

Deep stitches beneath ears

Deafness; otorrhoea

Ear affections with pain in eyeballs.

Noises in ear

ringing

roaring

rushing

rustling

tinkling

Pain

behind ear

aching; behind ear

pressing; behind ear

stitching, sudden, sharp

about the ear

behind the ear

below the ear

Hearing

Impaired

Too sensitive

to music

violin

▲   FACE

Face

Pain

pressing

cheek bones

tearing

jaw; lower

jaw; lower; extending to ear

Skin

out-breaks on skin

out-breaks on skin; acne; chronic, especially nose and cheeks

tension of skin

below eyes

wrinkled; forehead; in headache

▲   NOSE

Nose

Nose bleed

Numbness; of tip

Pain; sore, bruised

Smell; acute, over sensitive

Sense of numbness

▲   MOUTH

Gums and teeth

Teeth

pain; extending to other parts; ear

pain; tearing

Saliva

Dryness; sensation of dryness

Taste

Taste; bitter

Palate

Dryness; palate (roof of mouth)

▲   CHEST

Chest

Anxiety

Heart; palpitations; tumultuous, violent, intense

Oppressed feeling

Pain

heart

pressing

Respiration

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.

Pain; on breathing out

Asthma attack

Difficult (dyspnea)

with cough

during palpitation

Painful

▲   COUGH

Cough

Daytime

only

long lasting spells, dry, short, violent coughs, with much difficulty breathing

Asthmatic

Dry cough

Short

Violent

Whooping

▲   EXPECTORATION

Expectoration

Copious

Thick

like jelly

ropy

▲   SKIN

Skin

Dry

inability to perspire (see inactivity)

Abnormal growths; warts; wrinkled, shrivelled

Itching

burning

Out-breaks on skin

burning

generating pus

Pain

burning

burning; as from flames

burning; spots

Tension

▲   BACK AND NECK

Neck

Pain; pulling; neck

Weakness (tired feeling, in spine); neck

▲   GENITALS ETC

Urine

Milky urine; smells strong

Enuresis in nervous children.

Worse, cool air.

Male

Male; thick emission from penis

▲   EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Extremities, limbs

Rheumatism of the deltoid muscle

Trembling of limbs

Pressing pain in right carpal and metacarpal joints ( Ulmus).

Movements and positions

trembling

trembling; upper limbs

Pain

joints; morning

joints; gouty

upper limbs; rheumatic

upper arm; deltoid region (by top muscle of arm)

wrist

right

rheumatic

hand; rheumatic

fingers; first finger; joints of

ankle; rheumatic

pulling; elbow

pulling; hand; back of hand

pressing; wrist

sore, bruised; joints

stitching, sudden, sharp; fingers; second finger; tip

Problems from playing musical instrument; violin

Stiffness; hand; rheumatic

▲   FEVER AND CHILL

Fever and chill

One-sided

▲   GENERALITIES

Sleep and dreams

Position

arms over head

arms under head

on back

head tilted forwards

knees bent

limbs pulled up

limbs spread apart

Sleepiness, tiredness

Sleeplessness, insomnia

night; with sleepiness

night; from thoughts; from activity of mind

Waking; frequent

Yawning

morning

without sleepiness

Generalities

Morning

Evening

Night; after midnight

Blood vessels; congestion of blood

Faintness, fainting

Formication (like insects crawling around); internally

Heaviness

externally

internally

Lying down

lying down

after lying down

lying in bed

lying on side; on painless side

lying on side; on painful side

Hypnosis, trance

Movement

Numbness; internally; of suffering parts

Pain

burning externally; internally

pressing; externally

pressing; internally

pressing; as from load

pressing; together

sore, bruised

sudden, sharp; externally

sudden, sharp; outward

tearing; externally

tearing; internally

tearing; muscles

Symptoms from suppression of perspiration

Pressure; on painless side

Prickling; internally

Pulse

abnormal

full

hard

small

Relaxation of muscles

Sensitive; to pain

Symptoms not symmetrical

symptoms on one side

crosswise, left lower and right upper

right

left

While sitting

Stretching

Swelling; glands

Tension; externally

Touch

Trembling; externally

On waking

Walking

Weakness (see lethargic, weariness); nervous weakness

Weariness (see weakness)

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