Vinca Minor

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Vinca Minor Reference Specimen Botanical Specimen and Materia Medica Identification
🧬 Remedy Miasm: Psoric Miasm The Psoric miasm is considered the mother of all chronic diseases. It primarily manifests as functional nervous weakness, allergies, skin itching, eruptions, and hypersensitivity.
GENERAL
  • Vinca was proved by Rosenburg on four healthy persons, who took the tinctureConcentrated liquid raw extractA mother tincture prepared by soaking botanical, animal, or mineral raw materials in alcohol and water. in 20 to 60 drop doses.
  • It produced a deep impressi on the organi sm and tissues.
  • Weakness and prostrationExtreme physical weakness or exhaustionA state of extreme physical weakness, collapse, or exhaustion, often accompanying severe illness..
  • “Weakness as if he would die.” Inclination to stretch.
  • Trembling and tendency to start, especially on exciting the mind.
  • Trembling in all the blood vessels.
  • Uterine hemorrhages, followed by great debility.
  • “Toothache better from warmth of bed.” Diphtheria.
  • Empty, all gone sensation in the stomach and chest.
  • Distention of abdo men after stool caused exhaustion.
  • Skin affections, eczemaItchy, inflamed skin conditionAn inflammatory skin rash causing dry, red, itchy, and sometimes cracking or blistered skin patches..
  • Plica polonica.
  • Marked affects on the tissues.
  • The left side was most affected
MODALITIES ETC
  • Worse after swallowing, walking, stooping, moving.
  • Worse anger.
  • Worse reading.
  • Worse in open air.
  • Drinking aggravates, liquids (especially beer) causes belchings, coffee causes nausea
RELATIONSHIPS
📊 Side-by-Side Comparison:

Compare: (1) Olnd., Staph. (2) peevishness with repentance, Croc. Crusta lactea, Med., Melit,
Mez., Jug-r., Olnd. (3) Viol -t. - with strong-smelling urine. (4) Lappa - glands swollen, axillary glands even
suppurate. (5) Staph. - sickly children, pale face, dark rings around eyes. (6) Ust. - filthy eruptions, part of hair
comes out, part matted. (7) Alopecia, Bac., Phos.

VERTIGO, DIZZINESS
  • Whirling vertigoSensation of dizziness or spinningA feeling of movement or spinning of oneself or the surroundings when there is no actual movement. with flickering before eyes.
  • COMMENTS - Vine, has a wide range in pas sive uterine hemorrhages.
  • This case is related in Ind.
  • H.
  • R.
  • (ix.
  • 113): uterine hemorrhageProfuse bleeding from a ruptured blood vesselAn escape of blood from a ruptured blood vessel, especially when profuse., blood dark red, flow copious, uninterrupted with extreme debility.
  • Chin, and Helon failed to relieved, Vine, lx effected a rapid and permanent cure.
  • Frequent nosebleed.
  • The nose “be comes red from the slightest cause, when the least bit angry.” Scabby eruptions about the nose and on the septum, which are part of the general skin effect of the remedy.
  • Corrosive itching of the skin provoking scratching, moist spots and burning in ul cers.
  • The most characteristic effect is on the scalp, where it produces a condition having many features of crusta lactea, favus and plica polonica.
  • Clarke cured With Vine, “sore spots on the scalp” in a young woman.
  • A number of symptoms were produced in the throat and esophagus.
  • C.
  • M.
  • Bogerrecordedthecaseofawomen, 31, who had a cutting sensation in lower part of esophagus while swallowing food and continuing after.
  • Empty faintness in stomach better by eating.
  • Stomach sore to touch or pressure of clothing.
  • ConstipationInfrequent or difficult bowel movementsA condition where stool is dry, hard, and difficult or painful to pass. from indurationHardening of body tissueThe hardening of normally soft organic tissues, usually due to chronic inflammation, infiltration, or scarring. of feces.
  • HemorrhoidsPiles or swollen veins in the rectumSwollen, inflamed blood vessels around the anus or lower rectum, causing pain, itching, or bleeding. constantly sore, smarting after stool.
  • Vine.
  • 41,000c (Fincke) cured
HEAD
  • Tearing pain in vertex, ringing and whistling in ears.
  • Corrosive itching of scalp.
  • Irresistible desire to scratch.
  • Spots on scalp, oozing moisture, matting hair together, plicapolonica.
  • Bald spots covered with short woolly hair falls out and is replaced by gray hair.
  • Kidneys - Diminished secretion of urine pale yellow.
EYES
  • Itching and burning of lids, which become red.
  • Eye dry, on getting snuff into it there was so little secretion he was obliged to wash it out.
  • Foggy vision while reading, at times also while walking
EARS
  • Ringing and whistling in ears with feeling of cold wind, especially the left
FACE
  • Bloated face with pimples.
  • Dry lips.
  • Swelling of upper lip and corner of mouth.
  • Tearing in malar bones
MOUTH
  • Increased secretion of saliva.
  • Insipid taste in mouth to all food.
  • Aph thae.
  • Tearing in teeth better by warmth of bed.
  • Nose - Becomes red on becoming the lea st angry.
  • Tip gets red easily.
  • Moist eruption on septum.
  • Seborrhea upper lip and base of nose.
  • Stoppage of one nostril.
  • Sores in nose.
  • Frequent nose bleeding
THROAT
  • Cutting in lower esophagus, which provokes swallowing.
  • Diphtheria.
  • Ulcers.
  • Frequent hawking.
  • Difficult swallowing
CHEST
  • Pains in chest with sticking and dyspneaDifficulty or shortness of breathLaborious or painful breathing, often associated with respiratory or cardiac conditions..
  • Stitching in sternum.
  • Pressure on sternum with feeling of emptiness in chest.
  • Hoarseness.
  • Tenacious mucus in trachea.
  • Spasmodic cough with little tickling in larynx.
  • Rapid respiration
ABDOMEN
  • Emptiness in stomach.
  • Gastric disturbance.
  • Empty belchings after drink ing beer and generally worse from taking liquid.
  • Nausea after coffee.
  • Violent, bitter, copious vomiting of yellowish-green liquid.
  • Abdomen full, tense but painless.
  • Griping.
  • Rumbling and gurgling with passage of much offensive flatus.
  • Distention after a stool.
  • Hunger alternating with loss of appetite before the hunger has been satisfied.
  • Scarcely any thirst
GENITALS ETC
  • Menses, profuse, flowing like a stream without interruption with great weakness, at menopauseEnd of menstrual cycles in womenThe natural biological transition in a woman's life when menstrual periods permanently stop, typically occurring between ages 45 and 55..
  • Passive uterine hemorrhages (Ust., Trill., Sec.).
  • Menor rhagia, continuous flow, at me nopausal (Lach.).
  • Bleeding fibroids
EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
  • Inclination to stretch limbs.
  • Tearing pains in limbs.
  • Arthritic tearing in bones.
  • Swelling and stiffness of first joints of fingers with burning pain in the nails.
  • Cramp-like drawing in feet and toes
BACK AND NECK
  • Painful tension and stiffness of cervical muscles with an illusive sensation as if a weight were lyin g on them.
  • Causations - Anger.
  • Mental exertion
SKIN
  • Eczema of head and face.
  • Corrosive itching.
  • Great sensitiveness of skin with redness and soreness from slight rubbing.
  • Pustules, itching, burning and offensive odor.
  • Hair matted together.
  • Weeping ec - zema intermingled with foul, thick, crusts.
SLEEP
  • Frequent yawning.
  • Sleeplessness and restlessness at night.
  • Lascivious dreams
GENERALITIES
  • As if he would die from weakness.
  • As if a hammer were beating from within outwards in vertex, cold wind in ears.
  • As if something sticking low down in esophagus.
  • As if a weight lying on cervical muscles

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📚 Literature Citation & References:
This clinical profile is compiled from: Robin Murphy, MD — Lotus Materia Medica, 3rd Edition; Samuel Hahnemann — Materia Medica Pura; William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica; and Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad — Homeopathy: Like Cures Like. Compiled in accordance with classical homeopathic provings and clinical practice.
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