Valeriana

Characteristic symptoms

Jerking drawing in the limbs and bones ; pains which appear suddenly, concussive, or shifting from one part to another ; aggravation in the evening after meals, at rest, especially after preceding exercise ; mitigation of the pains by motion, friction and rubbing; white eruption ; hard pimples ; morbid nervousness and hyperesthesia of all the senses, with trembling ; great restlessness and fear ; irritability of the mind with illusions of the senses ; hypochondriac despair ; scintillations and black motes before the eyes ; sensation as if a thread were hanging down the oesophagus from the pharynx ; empty eructations ; taste as of fetid tallow; ulcerative pain in the abdomen and distensive sensation.