Valeriana officinalis

Common name: valerian.

Acts very beneficially in soothing nervous irritability in the neurotic.

Rheumatic tearing in the limbs, worse during rest after motion, better during motion (Rhus-T.).

Violent tearing up and down in the muscles of the extremities.

Nervousness, especially at the climaxis, or at the time of institution of the menstrual epochs.

Twitching, suddenly-appearing pains, relieved by change of position.

Of great value in hysteria (Coff., Scutel., Vib.).

Vertigo, in hysterical females (Puls.) (G.).

Red parts become white (Ferr.) (A.).

Mental confusion; replies incoherently (Arn., Bapt., Hyos.) (A.).

Of great utility in general nervousness, obsessions, night terrors, extreme impressionability and bad effects from impurity of life.

Sleeplessness (Coff., Scutel.).

Suddenly-appearing and disappearing perspiration of the face and forehead.

White lips, body icy cold, with faintness (Camph.) (Bt.).

Afraid of the dark or of being left alone (Ars., Kali-C., Phos., Stram.) (C.).

OVER-SENSITIVENESS AND OVER-EXCITABILITY (Scutel., Vib.).

FEELS LIGHT, AS IF FLOATING IN THE AIR (Asar., Lac-C.; as if the legs were floating- Sticta) (A.).

The opposite symptoms of the mind appear alternately (Ign.).

Changeable disposition (Ign., Puls.) (A.).

ILLUSIONS OF SIGHT, HEARING, SMELL, AND TASTE.

Hysterical spasms, fearfulness and tremulousness, with palpitation of the heart (Bt.).

Great nervous excitement and trembling (Acon., Plat.) (A.).

Unusually joyous mood (Coff.) (C.).

Hysterical dyspnœa (Ign., Nux-M., Sep.) and chorea (Agar., Nat-M., Stram.) (Bt.).

Neuralgia; the pain is unbearable (Acon., Cham., Coff.) (Bt.).

Especially useful for persons in whom the intellectual faculties predominate (Lyc.) (A.).

Oversensitiveness of all the senses (Cham., Nux-V.) (A.).

Sensation of great coldness in the head (on the vertex- Sep., Verat.) (A.).

SCIATICA; THE PAIN IS UNBEARABLE WHILE STANDING, WITH A FEELING AS IF THE THIGHS WOULD BREAK OFF (Ra.).

SCIATIC PAIN WORSE WHEN LETTING THE FOOT REST ON THE FLOOR (Bell.), WHEN STRAIGHTENING OUT THE LIMB, AND DURING REST FROM PREVIOUS EXERTION; BETTER WHEN WALKING (A.).

Sensation of light before the eyes in the dark.

SENSATION AS IF SOMETHING WARM RISING IN THE THROAT, ARRESTING BREATHING (G.).

Feels a sensation as if a thread was hanging down in the throat, with tickling deep in her throat (on the tongue- Nat-M., Sil.) (A.).

SLIMY TASTE IN THE MOUTH IN THE MORNING, ON WALKING (Merc-I., Zinc.) (K.).

Child vomits curdled milk, in large lumps and passes the same with stools (Aeth.); it vomits milk as soon as it has nursed, after anger of mother (A.).

Nausea with hunger (Cycl., Ign., Lach., Mosch., Phos., Sep., Tab., Verat.) (Bl.).

Foul eructations (Arn., Asaf., Graph., Nux-V., Phos., Plb., Puls., Sep., Sulph., Sulph-Ac.) (Bl.).

Delirium: Hallucinations; sees figures, animals, men; delusions, thinks she is some one else, moves to edge of bed to make room; imagines animals lying near her which she fears she may hurt (A.).

Increase of the urinary secretion, which is limpid like water (Gels., Helon., Nat-M., Phos-Ac.).

SPASMODIC ASTHMA (Ars., Cupr., Hydr-Ac., Ipec., Lob., Mag-P., Mosch., Nux-V., Puls., Spong., Sumb., Tab., Zinc.) (K.).

Choking on falling asleep (Bell., Crot-H., Kali-C., Lac-C., Lach., Naja, Nux-V., Sep., Teucr.) (Bl.).

Suppressed catamenia (Bry., Ferr., Graph., Nat-M., Puls., Vib.).

Great nervous irritation, cannot sit still (Kali-Br., Phos.) (N.).

Tearing pains and cramps in different places (Cupr.) (N.).

Short chill with thirst. Chill begins in the neck and runs down the back (heat begins in the neck and runs down the back-Paris), with fainting during chill (during heat - Acon.) (A.).

Long-lasting, severe heat, with thirst and dull headache; with restlessness and neuralgia of the limbs (A.).

Profuse sweat, worse at night, but not debilitating sweat from exertion. Sweat on the face with heat. Better after sweat (A.).

Urine contains a white, red or turbid sediment (Lyc.) (C.).

Sudden stitching in the chest and in the region of the liver, from within outward (C.).

AGGRAVATION: Towards noon; in the first hours of the afternoon; towards evening until midnight; periodically (every two to three months); while standing; when sitting; and on falling asleep.

AMELIORATION: From walking; and after sweat.

RELATIONSHIP: Compare: Aeth., Asaf., Asar., Cham., Croc., Ign., Lac-C., Nat-M., Sil., Spig., Sulph., and Zinc.

It is useful for the abuse of Chamomile tea.

For pain in the heels compare this remedy with Agar., Caust., Cycl., Led., Mang., and Phyt.

ANTIDOTES: Camph. and Coff.