VIOLA TRICOLOR.
By Timothy F. Allen — The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
Viola tricolor, Linn. (Jacea).
Natural order , Violaceæ.
Common names , Pansy, Heartsease.
Authorities. (Gross, Archiv für Hom., vol. vii, Part 2, p. 173).
1 , Hahnemann; 2 , Franz; 3 , Gutmann; 4 , Langhammer; 5 , Wislicenus; 6 , Haase, Dissert. de Viola tri., Erlangen, 1782; 7 , Hufeland's Journ., vol. ii, Part 4, pp. 128, 129, 137; 8 , Schlegel, Material., 1803; 9 , Althof in Murray, App. Mat. Med., p. 703. [Not found; reference seems to be wrong. -T. F. A.]
MIND
- Special joyous mood; he was less ill-humored, and could not be easily discomposed (curative action), 4.
- Sad about his domestic relations, 3.
- Morose mood all day, great sensitiveness and little desire to talk, 4.
- Introspective, discouraged, discontented with his own work (after twenty-six hours), 3.
- Introspective, discontented with himself, distrustful of himself, especially of his future (after ten hours), 3.
- Ill-humored all day, in the evening jolly and inclined to talk, 4.
- Ill-humored, quiet, indifferent (after fifty hours), 3.
- Ill-humored all day, very much inclined to quarrel, and being out of humor with himself, 4.
- Hasty in all his actions, as if impelled by an internal anxiety, yet with a feeling of great weakness and prostration, 2. [10.]
- Fretful and weeping mood, 1.
- Disobedience, 1.
- Disinclination for mental work (after fifty-two hours), 3.
- Not inclined to work, at least to earnest work, 3.
- Dulness of mind and disinclination to talk, which was almost impossible, in the afternoon and evening, 3.
HEAD
- Confusion of the whole head and dulness (after thirty-one hours), 3.
- Dizzy and reeling, when walking, 3.
- Heaviness of the head with pressure towards the forehead, 3.
- Heaviness in the head as if a weight were lying upon it and pressing it forward; on stooping the head left easier, on rising up it was more severe (after twelve hours), 3.
- Heaviness of the head with pressure towards the forehead, 3. [20.]
- Dull pain in the head and pressure in the forehead (after two hours), 3.
- Headache extending from the root of the nose into the brain, disappearing in the open air, 1.
- Pressing and tearing headache, with heat of the face, and thirst, 2.
- Pressing headache over the whole brain equally, 3.
- Pressing pain in the brain, extending outward through the forehead, 3.
- Forehead.
- Pressure in the forehead and dulness in the whole head; while walking the whole brain shakes, with heaviness, as if a stone were lying upon it, which extended forward into the head (after eleven hours), 3.
- Pressing headache above the right eye, disappearing on pressing upon it, 2.
- Pressure in the frontal bones with dulness of the whole head (after two hours and a quarter), 3.
- Wavelike pressure in the forehead, 3.
- Tensive drawing externally in the left side of the forehead, extending down into the left cervical muscles (after one hour and a half), 3. [30.]
- Tingling in the forehead, while sitting still, 2.
- Burning stitch in the forehead, as if externally in the bone, 3.
- Temples.
- Pressure outward at both temples (after three-quarters of an hour), 3.
- Pressing pain in the temple near left eye (after eight hours and a half), 3.
- Dull tearing stitch externally in the left temple (after fifty-two hours), 3.
- Vertex and Parietals.
EYE
- Biting sensation in the left eye as if perspiration were in it (after ten hours), 3.
- Itching-cutting stitches, from within outward, in the right eye (after four hours and a half). 3.
- Lids.
- Falling of the lids, with sleepiness, in the afternoon, 3.
- Hardened matter in the canthi (after three hours), 4.
- Pressing together of the eyelids, the eyes close and seem difficult to open (after eleven hours and a half), 3.
- Sensation of a hard body between the upper lids and the eyeballs, lasting three hours, 3.
- Ball.
- Tensive stitch in the left eyeball, persistent on motion (after thirty-six hours), 3.
- Pupil.
- Pupils contracted (after two hours and three-quarters), 4.
- Vision. [50.]
- Obscuration of the eyes, objects at a distance seem very much obscured, 2.
EAR
- Pressure from without in ward upon the drum of the ear, 3.
- Itching needlelike stitches behind the left ear, 3.
NOSE
- Itching pressure towards the left side of the nose (after four hours), 3.
FACE
- Drawing tension in the left cheek in front of the ear (after three quarters of an hour), 3.
- Drawing-pressing pain extends from the left side of the lower jaw into the right side of the head (after half an hour), 3.
MOUTH
- Tongue white, 3.
- Tongue covered with mucus of a bitter taste; the food has a natural taste, 3.
- Much saliva, with sensation of dryness in the mouth, 3.
THROAT
STOMACH
- He has no appetite, and there is no taste to food, 3.
- Empty eructations (after half an hour), 4.
- Nausea and retching, 6.
- Pressing, sticking in the diaphragm, persistent during inspiration and expiration (after ten hours), 3.
- Constrictive pain in the pit of the stomach on inspiration (after ten hours), 3.
ABDOMEN
- Sticking cutting in the left hypochondriac region on inspiration, while sitting bent over (after fifteen hours), 5.
- Stitches externally about the umbilicus (after three hours), 3.
- Stitches as quick as lightning, in the whole right side of the abdomen and chest while walking, 3.
- Emission of flatus, with rumbling in the intestines (after two hours), 3. [70.]
- Griping pain in the whole abdomen (after one hour and a quarter), 3.
- Griping sticking in the intestines so that he was obliged to stand still, while walking (after seven hours), 3.
- Cutting in the abdomen without stool (after two hours and a half), 4.
- Cutting through the abdomen and urging to stool, 2.
- Cutting in the abdomen, with bowling and screaming; after which she fell asleep, at noon; on waking the pain immediately recommenced, followed by emission of much flatus and stool with mucus in large pieces, 1.
- Pain like needle-stitches, in the upper abdomen, during inspiration and expiration, 3.
- Single jerklike stitches in the forepart of the lower abdomen while sitting, disappearing on standing up, and leaving behind a burning sensation, 2.
- Pinching crawling, in the whole right side of the pelvis, while sitting (after twenty-six hours), 3.
- Fine stitches in the left groin, while sitting, which continued somewhat even on rising up (after thirteen hours), 3.
RECTUM AND ANUS
- Excessive urging to a stool which is normal, 2.
STOOL. [80.]
- Soft stool, preceded by flatulence, 3.
- Hard stool (after thirteen hours), 3.
- Soft stool (after twenty-four hours), 3.
- Stool as if chopped, 1.
URINARY ORGANS
- Tenesmus of the bladder; he strained as if there were constantly more urine to pass, 1.
- Dull stitch in the urethra, when not urinating (after eighteen hours), 3.
- Very frequent urging to urinate, 7.
- Frequent urging to urinate with emission of much urine (after three hours and twelve hours), 4.
- Frequent desire to urinate, with remarkably little urine (after the third morning dose), 4.
- Frequent profuse micturition, much more than has been drunk, can scarcely hold it, 1. [90.]
- Increased quantity of urine, which causes burning, 8.
- Scanty micturition (after twenty-four to thirty-six hours), 4.
- Urine very turbid, 1.
- The urine smells like cats' urine, 7, 9.
- Very offensive urine, 6.
SEXUAL ORGANS
- Male.
- Erection in the morning, 3.
- Swelling of the prepuce, 1.
- Pressing pain in the penis, extending to the glans (after two hours and a half), 3.
- Jerking in the penis, which tends to make it stiff, in the morning on waking, 1.
- Burning in the glans penis, immediately, 3. [100.]
- Fine stitch in the back of the penis (after thirty-three hours), 3.
- Itching biting in the external skin of the penis (after sixty hours), 3.
- While standing, a voluptuous itching on the prepuce, accompanied by an erection, which provoked scratching (after three hours and a half), 4.
- Itching sticking in the scrotum (after five hours), 3.
- Emission with lascivious dream, 3.
- Female.
- Stitch in the region of the mons veneris, on the right side (after seven hours), 3.
- Leucorrhœa, 3.
CHEST
- Cutting pressure on the right side of the chest, not aggravated by inspiration, but by moving the trunk and arm; painful, as if bruised, on pressure (after twenty-four hours), 5.
- Twitching of the right pectoral muscles (after twenty-four hours), 3.
- Stitches in the chest, while standing (after three-quarters of an hour), 3. [110.]
- Constant dull stitch in the upper part of the sternum, aggravated by expiration (after fifty hours), 3.
- Oppressive sticking in the right side, while walking (after nine hours), 2.
- Dull stitches in the right side of the chest, more violent during inspiration than expiration (after seventy-four hours), 3.
- Itching sticking in the right pectoral muscles (after thirty-five hours), 3.
- Stitch in the left chest, persistent during inspiration and expiration , while walking (after six hours and a half), 3.
- Stitch in the left side of the chest, on the true ribs (after eleven hours and a half), 3.
HEART AND PULSE
- Anxiety of the heart, while lying, in wavelike beating, throbbing, 2.
- Oppression and stitches in the region of the heart on bending the chest forward, while sitting, 2.
- Pulse increased from ten to fifteen beats a minute, 8.
NECK AND BACK
- Cramplike drawing in the cervical muscles, which suddenly drew the head backward (after two hours and a quarter), 3. [120.]
- Dull stitch in the left scapula (after twenty-six hours), 3.
- Pinching contraction between the scapulæ, with a sensation of coldness (after ten hours), 5.
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES
- Cutting stitches, with itching in the axillæ (after half an hour), 3.
- Fine stitches in the left shoulder-joint, disappearing on motion, 3.
- Dull Stitch in the right axilla (after twenty-four hours), 3.
- Fine stitches in the left elbow, persistent during rest and motion, 3.
- Some contractive needlelike stitches in the muscles of the left forearm near the bend of the elbow, while walking (after twelve hours), 4.
- Pressing stitches in the left ring finger only during rest, on movement it ceases, but returns during rest, 3.
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES
- Stitches in the left gluteal muscles, while lying down (after thirty-seven hours), 3.
- The thighs feel bruised, in the morning on waking, 2. [130.]
- Drawing in the right thigh, while standing (after one hour and three-quarters), 2.
- Tearing bubbling in the internal and upper part of the thigh, while sitting (after two hours), 2.
- Dull itching stitch in the left knee, not obliging scratching, 3.
- Itching stitch in the right patella, while lying, disappearing on motion and returning on sitting (after twenty-seven hours), 3.
- Pressing-out pain at the right tibia, persistent while walking and sitting, more violent while standing (after one hour), 3.
- Feeling of muscular twitches in the left calf (after two hours), 3.
- Twitching in the right calf towards the inner side (after thirty-hours), 3.
- Drawing along the calf and thigh, with giving way in the knees, while walking, 2.
- Fine stitches in the right tibia, while walking (after thirty-six hours), 3.
- Tensive sticking in the middle of the right foot, while walking (after four hours and a half), 3. [140.]
- Tearing in the heel beneath the inner malleolus during rest, which disappears on moving the foot, and leaves a slight burning sensation, 2.
- Pressing pain in the sole of the right foot, especially in the joints, while walking, 3.
- Pressing pain in the sole of the right foot (after two hours and a half), 3.
- Pressure in the sole the right foot, while sitting (after four hours and a half), 3.
- Pressing burning in the left great toe, while sitting (after thirty-two hours), 3.
GENERALITIES
- Exhaustion of the whole body, 3.
- Frequently feels as though he had not slept enough, while sitting, in the forenoon (after three hours and a half), 4.
SKIN
- Objective.
- Skin of the face thick, hard, 7.
- Nettlerash over the whole body, with stinging-biting sensation, not provoking scratching, 1.
- *Eruption with intolerable (burning) itching, especially at night, over the whole face, and also behind the ears (only excepting the eyelids); a hard thick scab formed, cracked here and there, from which a tenacious yellow pus exuded, and hardened into a substance like gum, 7. [150.]
- Some hives on the left cheek, with violent itching, which obliges vigorous scratching, but which immediately returns after scratching (after ten hours and a half), 3.
- A pimple beneath the left zygoma, without sensation by itself, painful when touched (after ten hours), 5.
- Itching pimple on the last joint of the index finger (after twenty-four hours), 4.
- Subjective.
- Cramplike pain in the skin between the scapulæ, with cutting and crawling in the skin (after eighteen hours), 5.
- Sticking itching in the left eyebrow, relieved by rubbing (after two hours), 3.
- Burning stitch in the skin of the upper abdomen, while walking (after thirty-two hours), 3.
- Burning sticking in the skin of the left thigh (after twenty-two hours), 3.
- Itching on the right wing of the nose provoking scratching, 3.
- Itching on the right scapula, 3.
- Itching of the dorsal muscles, relieved by scratching (after half and hour), 3. [160.]
- Itching between the scrotum and thigh, while sitting, relieved by scratching (after twenty-six hours), 3.
- Itching on the inner upper portion of the right thigh, 3.
- Itching anteriorly above the left knee, 3.
- Itching stitch in the skin of the right side of the abdomen, disappearing on touch (after nine hours), 3.
- Itching on the left inner malleolus (after twelve hours), 3.
- Itching sticking in the right foot below the external malleolus not relieved by motion, 3.
- Itching in the ball of the right great toe, while standing, more violent while sitting, .
SLEEP
- Sleepiness.
- Sleepiness for two hours, in the afternoon, 3.
- Irresistible sleepiness, in the afternoon (after eleven hours and a half), 4.
- Sleeplessness.
- Falls asleep late on account of numerous thoughts; in the morning he wakes very early, lies upon the side to which he is totally unused, and cannot rouse himself completely on account of weariness, 2. [170.]
- Restless sleep, 3.
- While asleep the child twitches the hands and closes in the thumb, with very dry heat over the whole body, and redness of the face, 1.
- Frequent waking without cause, 4.
- Frequent waking from sleep, as from wakefulness, 4.
- Dreams.
- Vivid dreams, 3, 4.
- Amorous dreams, 3, 4.
FEVER
- Chilliness.
- He is chilly through and through in the cold open air, immediately, 2.
- Chilliness, for a quarter of an hour, in the forenoon, cold creeping through the whole body, as from a cold wind with dizziness of the head, vertigo, and a slight sensation of tense pulling asunder, in the middle of the brain (after one hour), 2.
- Heat.
- Great heat over the whole body after eating a little, still greater heat in the face, with perspiration, oppression of the chest with great anxiety, which drove him about, 2.
- Very transient sensation of heat, without thirst (after one hour), 4. [180.]
- Heat in the side of the face upon which he was not lying, in the evening in bed, 5.
- Sudden heat of the face without thirst, while sitting (after twelve hours), 4.
- Sweat.
- Nightsweat, two nights in succession, 1.
CONDITIONS
- Aggravation.
- ( Expiration ), Stitch in upper part of sternum.
- ( Moving trunk and arm ), Pressure in right side of chest.
- ( Sitting ), Stitches in abdomen; stitches in groin.
- ( Standing ), Pain in left tibia.
- ( Walking ), Vertigo; stitches through chest and abdomen.
- Amelioration.
- ( Open air ), Headache.
- ( Motion ), Stitches in left shoulder-joint.
- ( Standing ), Stitches in abdomen.