VISCUM ALBUM

Description

Viscum album, a homoeopathic medicine derived from the mistletoe plant, is particularly known for its action in cardiovascular, neurological, and rheumatic conditions. Belonging to the Loranthaceæ family, it is especially helpful in lowering blood pressure, dilating blood vessels, and addressing issues stemming from circulatory and nervous system imbalance. It is also useful in chronic uterine complaints and joint pains associated with gout and rheumatism.

Common Names

Hindi: Banda

English: Mistletoe

SBL’s Viscum album can be helpful in the following conditions:

Neurological Complaints & Seizure Disorders

• Viscum album aids in conditions resembling petit mal seizures and aura symptoms.
• Supportive in epilepsy, chorea, and general muscle tremors with fibrillary sensations.
• Helps relieve persistent vertigo, double vision, and buzzing or stopped-up sensation in the ears.

Rheumatic & Gouty Conditions

• Useful for tearing, shooting pains in joints—especially alternating between knees, ankles, shoulders, and elbows.
• Supports musculoskeletal conditions linked to gout or rheumatism, including sciatica and painful stiffness.
• Helpful in rheumatic deafness and joint inflammation with chronic neuralgia.

Cardiovascular Health

• Aids in lowering blood pressure and supporting heart function in valvular diseases.
• Useful in cases of palpitations during coitus and feelings of heart constriction or oppression.
• Supportive in hypertensive albuminuria and symptoms of failing cardiac compensation (e.g., dyspnea when lying on the left side).

Female Reproductive Health

• Helpful in chronic uterine conditions, including endometritis and metrorrhagia along with menopausal and climacteric complaints.
• Supports retained placenta cases and left-sided ovarian pain with downward radiating sensations.
• Relieves pain from sacrum into the pelvis, often worse at night.

Respiratory Issues

• Supports relief in dyspnea with suffocative sensation, especially when lying on the left side.
• Useful in asthma associated with rheumatism or gout.
• Helps with spasmodic coughing and stertorous breathing.

Head & Sensory Symptoms

• Aids in sensations like the skull being lifted up or pressure in the cranial vault.
• Supportive in blue rings around eyes and facial muscle agitation.
• Useful in buzzing ears, cold-induced deafness, and double vision.

Extremities & Skin Sensations

• Viscum album eases periodic tearing pains in thighs, upper limbs, and lower extremities.
• Alleviates general muscle tremors and feelings of internal heat rising from feet to head.
• Helps manage skin sensations like crawling (formication), itching, and compressing pain in the feet.
• Relieves edema of the extremities (dropsy).