General
  • A general remedy for cramps. Colicky pains in pelvic organs. Superconscious of internal sexual organs. Female symptoms most important. Often prevents miscarriage. False labor-pains. Spasmodic and congestive affections, dependent upon ovarian or uterine or
Head
  • Irritable. Vertigo; feels as if falling forward. Severe pain in temporal region. Sore feeling in eyeballs.
Stomach
  • Constant nausea; relieved by eating. No appetite.
Abdomen
  • Sudden cramps and colic pains. Tender to pressure about umbilicus.
Rectum
  • Stools large and hard, with cutting in rectum and soreness of anus.
Urinary
  • Frequent urging. Copious, pale, light-colored urine. Cannot hold water on coughing or walking.
Female
  • Menses too late, scanty, lasting a few hours, offensive in odor, with crampy pains, cramps extend down thighs (Bell). Bearing-down pains before. Ovarian region feels heavy and congested. Aching in sacrum and pubes, with pain in anterior muscles of thighs
Extremities
  • Stiff, sore feeling in nape of neck. Feels as if back would break. Sacral backache. Lower extremities weak and heavy.
Modalities
  • Worse: lying on affected side, in warm room, evening and night. Better: in open air and resting.
Relationship
  • Compare: Virburnum prunifolium - Black Haw (habitual miscarriage; after-pains; cancer of the tongue; obstinate hiccough; supposed to be a uterine tonic. Morning sickness; menstrual irregularities of sterile females with uterine displacements). Cimicif; Ca
Dose
  • Tincture, and lower potencies.