Melilotus Alba meli.

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

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Region

HEAD. Vaso-motor nerves. Circulation.

Worse

Climacteric. Walking. Weather: Changing. Stormy. Rainy.

Better

Bleeding. Profuse urine. Vinegar.

General

Raw feeling. Congestions. Bright red hæmorrhage; which >.

Particulars

Desires to escape. Rushes of blood to head. VIOLENT, THROBBING HEADACHE; threatens his reason; > nosebleed. FIERY RED FACE. Profuse nosebleed. Dry skin.

Related

Related: Bell. Glo.

Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica

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Keynote

Congestions, relieved by haemorrhage. Engorgement of blood-vessels in any part of organ. Violent congestive or nervous headaches; epistaxis affords relief (Bufo, Ferr. p., Magn. s.). Convulsions: of nervous children during dentition (Bell.); infantile spasms, eclampsia, epilepsy. Religious melancholy with an intensely red face; insanity, in early stages, to relieve brain from pressure and irritation. Nosebleed preceded by intense redness, flushing of face and throbbing of carotids (Bell.); with general relief. Very red face precedes haemorrhage from every organ. Constipation: difficult, painful, constriction in anus; throbbing, fulness; no desire until there is a large accumulation (Alum.).

Relations

Compare: Amyl., Ant. c., in epistaxis after headache, but does not relieve; Bell., Glon., Sang. in congestive headache, red face, hot head, etc.

Aggravation

Approach of a storm; rainy, changeable weather.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Yellow Melilot - Sweet Clover (MELILOTUS)

General

Congestions and hæmorrhages seem to be the special manifestations of this drug. Violent congestive and nervous headaches. Infantile spasms. Epilepsy from blow on head. Pain and debility point to it. Coldness but also increase of temperature; tenderness, and pain. Muscular system depressed. Dreams and emissions.

Mind

Unable to fix mind. Memory treacherous. Stupor. Wants to run away and hide. Delusions; thinks every one is looking at her, fears to talk loud, and wants to run away, etc.

Head

Headache with retching, vomiting, sense of pressure over orbits, pallor, cold hands and feet, black spots before eyes. Heavy, oppressed; frontal, throbbing, undulating sensation in brain. Sick headache; relieved by epistaxis or menstrual flow. Fullness all over head. Eyes heavy; blurred sight; wants to close them tightly for relief. Neuralgia around and over right side of head and neck. Scalp sore and tender to touch.

Nose

Stopped up, dry, must breathe through mouth; dry, hard clinkers in nose; profuse epistaxis.

Face

Intensely red and flushed, with throbbing carotids (Bell).

Stool

Difficult, painful, constipated. Anus feels constricted, full, throbs. No desire until there is a large accumulation (Bry; Alum).

Female

Menses scanty, intermit, with nausea and bearing down sticking pain in external parts. Dysmenorrhœa. Ovarian neuralgia.

Respiratory

Feels as if smothering, especially from rapid walking. Hæmoptysis. Weight on chest. Tickling in throat with cough.

Extremities

Pain in knee; wants to stretch leg, but does not relieve. Joints sore. Skin and extremities cold. Numbness and aching in knee-joints.

Modalities

Worse, rainy, changeable weather, approach of storm, motion; 4 pm.

Relationship

Compare: Melilotus alba--(White Clover)--practically the same action (Hæmorrhages, congestive headaches, engorged blood vessels, spasms). Amyl; Bell; Glon.

Dose

Tincture, for inhaling; lower potencies.

Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics

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Leaders

Here is a remedy of undoubted great value. The best rendering of it is given by Dr. H. C. Allen in the transactions of the I. H. A., page 104, year 1887, although a very fair one is found in the "Guiding Symptoms" (Hering). The provers all had fearful headaches and hæmorrhages except myself (Bowen).

The congestion to the brain is equal to that of Belladonna and Glonoine, and the most characteristic symptom of such congestion is intense redness of the face, with throbbing carotids, which is often > by a profuse epistaxis. Several years ago I cured a very bad case of mania of the religious form with the 6th potency. This lady had had one similar attack a few years before, when, after she had been given up by two allopaths, who said she must go to the asylum, I relieved her with Stramonium. She was very loquacious at that time.

This time Stramonium failed, but no indication of the intensely red face I gave her Melilotus with a rapid and permanent cure. The first cause of these attacks was overheating in the sun.

One more case will illustrate the action of this truly great remedy.

During a run of typhoid fever in a young lady she had frequent attacks of profuse epistaxis. One attack followed another, sometimes twice or three times in twenty-four hours, until I became alarmed on account of the great loss of blood.

She had been subject to frequent attacks of nosebleed since childhood, from the time she was injured in the nasal passage by a button she pushed up the nose, and which a "regular" claimed, after much violence, to have pushed down her throat, but which in reality remained in her nose a long time -several months- when it was ejected in a fit of coughing and sneezing. Two years before I carried her through a very severe attack of diphtheria, which was also attended by severe nosebleed, occurring at night, the blood hanging in clots from the nose like icicles.

Mercurius sol. 30th then stopped it very nicely. Now the blood clotted some, but not so markedly. Mercurius did no good. Every attack has preceded by the most intense redness and flushing of the face and throbbing of the carotids I ever witnessed. The nosebleed would invariably follow within a few hours this apparent rush of blood to head and face. Belladonna did no good. Neither did Erigeron, which, in Hering, "has congestion of the head, red face, nosebleed and febrile action."

Melilotus 30th relieved promptly not only these attacks of congestion to head and nosebleed, but the whole case afterward progressed without an untoward symptom to perfect recovery.

F. A. Waddell, M. D., reports a case of pneumonic congestion, in which the characteristic red face and epistaxis were present, as cured with this remedy.

Dr. Bowen, to whom belongs the credit of first introducing this remedy to the profession, reports many cases of headaches, colic, cramps in the stomach and spasms relieved and cured by it. It seems to me that this remedy should be classed with Belladonna and Glonoine, and never forgotten in comparison with remedies having strong head symptoms.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

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General

Melilotus alba and Melilotus officinalis. Melilot. Sweet Clover. White and yellow varieties. N. O. Leguminosæ. Tincture of whole fresh plant in flower. (It would be well to include a specimen of both plants in the tincture.)

Clinical

Blushing. Congestion. Cough. Dysmenorrhœa. Epilepsy. Epistaxis. Fear. Hæmoptysis. Headache. Insanity. Leucorrhœa. Melancholia. Ovaries, neuralgia of. Pneumonia. Shyness. Spasms.

Characteristics

Melilot . was first proved by Bowen in 185l. A second proving was made by him fifteen years later. He used both the yellow and the white varieties, and his symptoms are marked ("B.") on the Schema. In Med. Adv . xx., 321, H. C. Allen published a further proving of Melilot. alb ., arranged in Schema, with the symptoms of Bowen. Allen used the entire plant. His proving entirely confirmed Bowen's and added many symptoms thereto. Bowen says of his proving: "All the provers had fearful headaches and profuse hæmorrhages except myself. I did not lose blood from my nose and so have the engorgements it caused relieved from the pressure, but it evidently left the blood-vessels enlarged, for since that time my brain and mental faculties have been more active than ever. I needed less food and sleep; could lose two or three nights in a week and not feel the loss. My nervous system was as perfect as any one's ever was, except my sympathetic nerves, which became almost a total wreck, so much so as to disqualify me from any forensic effort whatever. My belief is that Melilotus was the cause of its deflection from normality, and from this fact its probable efficacy in certain forms of insanity and nervous affections ought to be determined." The great feature of the Melilot . action is engorgement . The headaches and other affections are all attended with this, the engorgement tending to hæmorrhages, profuse, bright red, which give relief. An intensely red or even purple face attending any affection should call Melilot . to mind. In a schoolboy I cured with Meli . 30 very distressing recurrent headache, accompanied by an intensely red face whilst the pain was on; and with the same attenuation, I gave great relief in a case of melancholia in a young woman. H. C. Allen ( Med. Adv ., xxi. 514) has relieved with Meli .: "Fear of danger; fear of being arrested," in mental cases. Bowen ( Med. Adv ., xxiii. 417) removed these symptoms in different cases: ( 1 ) Wants to run away. Wants to kill himself. Vicious. Threatens to kill those who approach. Thinks there is a devil in his stomach contradicting all he says. ( 2 ) Wants to run away and hide as she insists that everyone is looking at her. Very nervous and timid. Says she dares not talk loud as it would kill her; she whispers. ( 3 ) Mania to escape and kill himself, with insomnia. In this last case Meli . produced so much improvement that the friends discontinued treatment and neglected precautions, and the patient finally shot himself. Cases 1 and 2 were permanently cured. Here is a typical case of Melilotus headache reported by C. F. Barker ( Clinique , Feb., 1900). Miss X, 19, tall, blonde, for several years had severe, nervous, and congestive headaches. The attacks recurred two to four times a month and were so severe that they compelled her to keep her bed twenty-four hours. The pain, mostly in temples and forehead, was a congested, full sensation, with flushed face, drowsy, stupid feeling, and sometimes much nausea. Trivial things seemed to provoke the attacks. Spectacles had been supplied by oculists and teeth freshly stopped by dentists, diet, rest from study, and outdoor exercise had all failed to relieve. Meli . 4x was given, and she had only two attacks in six months, and those very slight. A writer in Hom. News (xxxiii. 124) tells of a Frenchman who came to him complaining of an incessant headache so bad that he thought he would die. A dose of Meli . was given on the spot, and the doctor, thinking Nux vomica indicated, went into the next room to get it. He returned in five minutes and found the patient on his hands and knees shaking his head. The doctor, thinking him crazy, asked what he was doing. He replied that the pain was entirely gone and he was only trying various attitudes and motions to make sure. Bowen has used Meli . successfully in all kinds of congestive or nervous headaches, nasal and pulmonary hæmorrhages, congestion of spinal cord, pleura, lungs, ovaries; menstrual colic; palpitation and nervousness; cramps in stomach; spasms; convulsions; and for relieving brain-pressure and irritation in insanity. He always gives it in pellets medicated with the 1st centesimal dilution. In addition to the blushing and epistaxis as accompaniment the headaches have other features. They are > by profuse urination; > by lying down; > by application of vinegar. One prover had a sensation of waving in the brain. As well as the relief by discharges, there is an alternation of pains with Meli .: from right temple to right knee; pains in head alternating with pains in back. A periodicity is noticeable. Walking < most symptoms and sitting > , but a pain in the sacral region has the opposite. Many symptoms appear in forenoon and wear off during day. The headaches are apt to be more frequent in hot weather; but there is < after exposure or getting feet wet; on approach of storm; in rainy, changeable weather. > by hæmorrhages; by flow of urine.

Relations

According to H. C. Allen the action lasted about thirty days, the indolence and prostration being the first symptom to appear and the last to disappear. Compare: Bell., Amyl, Glon., and Sang. in congestive headaches (but Bell. has < lying down and < from application of vinegar cloths). In epistaxis after headache, Ant. cr. (but with Ant. cr. the epistaxis does not necessarily relieve). Waving in brain, Act. r. Rheumatic pains > moving, Rhus. Hæmoptysis, bright blood, Ip., Millef. Discomfort from constipation, Op. Congested head and nose-bleed, Erig. Red face with throbbing carotids, Bell. Compare also: Trifol. (botan).

Mind

Irascible, impatient, discontented, fault-finding. ─ Fairly furious; had to lock him in room for 24 h. (B.). ─ Indolent, unable to fix mind, stupid, indifferent. ─ Total inability to study, memory will not retain anything. ─ Omits words and letters in writing. ─ Loss of consciousness (with gushing of blood from nose) (B.). ─ Shyness and blushing. ─ Wants to go home. ─ Thought there was something supernatural in always waking a few minutes before 3 a.m. ─ Fear: of danger; of being arrested. ─ Panic fear. ─ Suspicious. ─ Increased mental power (B.). ─ Attacks of weeping without much depression. ─ Religious melancholy, with intensely red face.

Head

Vertigo; on moving. ─ Sensation of tension and wave-like movement in brain with vertigo and nausea. ─ Swaying sensation in brain with tired pain. ─ Headache > from nose-bleed. ─ Terrible headache; with vertigo, faintness, and nausea; throbbing and sensation as if all the blood-vessels of the brain would give way and cause some lesion of that organ; with frequent and profuse urination (B.). ─ Headaches so intense as to cause a purple redness of face and bloodshot eyes, culminating in epistaxis till > (B.). ─ Headaches: periodical; nervous; every week; every four weeks; more frequent during winter months (B.). ─ Headache: intense in l. supraorbital region; < by motion, by thinking; > lying down; on talking disappeared from temple and settled in occiput; ceasing to talk it returned, could be distinctly felt migrating (B). ─ Sick headache; > by epistaxis or menstrual flow; blood bright red (B.). ─ Periodical nervous headache every week, or once in four weeks, more frequent in winter. ─ Violent congestion of head, with heaviness, fulness and throbbing as if the blood would burst through nose, eyes, and ears, with dizzy, sick feeling that is < from motion. ─ Throbbing frontal headache preceded by great prostration. ─ Intense frontal headache preceded by hot, flushed face and feverish sensation. ─ Throbbing headache in r. eminence from 9 a.m. till noon. ─ Sharp pains in r. temple, alternating with sharp pains in r. knee.

Eyes

Eyes hot, very heavy, and as if pressed outward. ─ Sensation as if eyes too large and pressed out; as if lids would not cover them. ─ Eyelids very heavy. ─ Vision dim, blurred, rubs eyes. ─ Unable to focus. ─ Floating bodies before eyes when studying.

Ears

Sensation of puffing of wind from ears. ─ Each act of swallowing caused the wind to puff from both ears.

Nose

Excessive dryness of nose; obstructed. ─ Dry, hard clinkers. ─ Profuse and frequent epistaxis; bright red blood; with general relief (B). ─ Epistaxis with high fever and violent congestion of head and face.

Face

Great redness of face and head, with throbbing in carotids. ─ Face highly congested, very red, almost livid (B.). ─ Face hot, flushed, all day, feverish. ─ Face hot, flushed 3 p.m. ─ Very red face preceding hæmorrhages, nose, lungs, uterus.

Throat

Throat sore l. side, swallowing difficult, painful.

Appetite

Ravenous about 10 a.m., with onset of frontal headache. ─ Appetite capricious, esp. morning; impaired.

Stomach

Gastric discomfort, flatulence, fulness, and other symptoms appear when constipated. ─ Acid eructations all day, causing burning and smarting (B).

Abdomen

Much distension; flatulent; < during menses.

Stool and Anus

Constipation: no movement for 3 to c days then daily movement for 3 or 4 days. ─ No desire for stool till there is large accumulation, when there is a very difficult, painful stool with constriction in rectum and discharge of stringy, glassy, milk-white mucus; each succeeding passage less painful until normal, then constipation sets in again. ─ Heavy throbbing and fulness in rectum from internal piles (B.). ─ Severe shooting cutting in rectum while walking, > sitting down.

Urinary Organs

Frequent and profuse urination. ─ Urine profuse watery, and relieving the dull, congestive headache.

Female Sexual Organs

Leucorrhœa; pain and soreness in back and pelvic regions; excited by walking. ─ Menses at proper time, but scanty and intermittent; thin, watery, pale, offensive. ─ During menses: headache; vertigo; stiffness in back and limbs; with dull, heavy, bearing-down pain in pelvis. ─ Severe sharp sticking, shooting pains in external genitals (esp. labia), momentary but frequently recurring and very annoying, causing starts (at close of menses). ─ Severe stitches or cutting pains through uterus (B.). ─ Ovarian neuralgia.

Respiratory Organs

Cough: harsh, dry, spasmodic; horribly distressing, causing great anxiety; towards night a slight expectoration, difficult, with slight > ; so heavy and oppressive finally could not lie on either side (B.). ─ Cough from fulness of chest > by epistaxis (B.). ─ Hæmoptysis, blood bright red. ─ Smothering sensations; cannot get air enough. ─ Breathing difficult from weight on chest; fulness of chest and head; violent congestion of the lungs. ─ Tickling in throat with cough and spasmodic breathing causing extreme nervousness (B.). ─ Weight on chest causing difficult breathing; sensation of smothering; frequently examined clothes to see if 8 they were not too tight (B.).

Back

Broken sensation in lumbo-sacral articulation; on sitting and esp. sitting upright; constantly changes position to get relief; wants to strike the part or press it; > standing or walking (seemed to alternate with headache).

Limbs

Uneasy sensation in large joints. ─ As if had taken hard cold; stiff and sore on rising, > by careful movement. ─ Rheumatic pains in all joints on approach of rain-storm or in rainy, changeable weather. ─ Extremities cold.

Upper Limbs

Arms heavy; too much prostrated to lift them without effort.

Lower Limbs

Numbness and aching in knee-joints; r. then l. ─ Gnawing throbbing in r. knee-joint; wants to stretch it but stretching does not > . ─ Rheumatic pain in r. leg, esp. about knee, > moving. ─ Soreness about hip-joints. ─ Cutting pains in knees alternating with headaches.

Generalities

Tired; bruised; listless; sleepy; chilly. ─ Engorgements of any part or organ. ─ Spasms, eclampsia, convulsions, epilepsy. ─ Hæmorrhages.

Sleep

Drowsy; sleepy; stupid. ─ Alternate sleep and wakefulness through night. ─ Dreams: unpleasant, of bickering. ─ Insomnia: cannot sleep after 3 am.; awakes regularly a few minutes before 3 a.m. ─ Head seemed too high (although he had no pillow). ─ Sleep prevented by unpleasant things (unconnected, meaningless) coursing through brain.

Fever

Chilly 10 a.m., begins in back, loins, or occiput, passing in waves up to vertex. ─ Chilly 12-1 p.m., with sharp pains in cardiac region of stomach and much flatulence. ─ Chilly all forenoon. ─ Uncomfortably chilly; feet and hands colds. ─ Febris nervosa stupida.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Constantine Hering · The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica · 1879–91

General

Sweet Clover. Leguminosæ.
Introduced and proved by Bowen in 1852. He used both the white and yellow species, and made a second proving fifteen years later (See Allen's Encyclopædia, vol. 6, p. 176 ). More recent provings of the white species were made by H. C. Allen, assisted by Kraft, Gee, Waddell, and two students (See Medical Advance, vol. 20, p. 322).
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.
- Religious melancholy , Nash, Med. Adv., vol. 20, p. 323 ; Headache (several hundred cases cured), Bowen, Trans. Hom. Med. Soc. Pa., 1872, p. 108 ; Cheeseman, Org., vol. 2, p. 233 ; Sick headache , Willard, Trans. Hom. Med. Soc. Pa., 1871, p. 188 ; Nervous headache and dysmenorrhœa , Bowen, Trans. Hom. Med. Soc. Pa., 1872, p. 108 ; Epistaxis , Nash, Med. Adv., vol. 20, p. 325 ; Relief from nosebleed , Brown, Org., vol. 2, p. 113 ; Bilious colic (three cases reported cured), Bowen, Trans. Hom. Med. Soc. Pa., 1872, p. 108 ; Cramps in stomach , Bowen, Trans. Hom. Med. Soc., Pa., 1872, p. 107 ; Pneumonia , Waddell, Med. Adv., vol. 20, p. 327 ; Infantile spasms (fourteen cures reported), Bowen, Trans. Hom. Med. Soc. Pa., 1872, p. 105 ; Spasms during dentition , Bowen, Raue's Path. and Therap., p. 904 ; Eclampsia , Bowen, Trans. Hom. Med. Soc. Pa., 1872, p. 108 ; Clinical extracts from Rev. Hom. Belge, June 1877 ; Hahn. Mo., vol. 13, p. 122.

Mind

Loss of memory.
Confusion of thought.
Inability to fix mind ; stupid ; indifferent ; omits letters and words in writing.
Irascible ; fairly furious.
Indolent ; an overpowering stupor.
Total inability to study.
Weeping.
Religious melancholy of four months' standing ; intensely red face.

Inner head

Throbbing frontal headache, preceded by great prostration.
Intense frontal headache, preceded by hot, flushed face and feverish sensation.
Distressing headache in left temple, commencing at about 4 P. M., > by remaining out of school.
Severe headache.
Almost delirious with headache.
A frightful, heavy, oppressive headache for three days.
Headache, < from 9 to 12 A. M.
Severe headache, followed by profuse epistaxis and afterwards by hæmoptysis of bright red blood in considerable quantity.
Headache lasting four days, with oppression of chest, severe stitching or cutting pains in womb and through hernia ; was confined to bed for four days and only > by profuse bleeding of nose.
Sick headache ; retching, vomiting, excessive pains in temples, sense of pressure over orbits, coldness of feet and hands, pallor, loss of sight, or appearance of black spots before eyes.
Headache, with extreme nervousness ; irritability ; forgetfulness ; confusion of thoughts ; palpitation ; relaxation of bowels ; > from epistaxis.
Violent congestion to head.
Headache so intense as to cause purple redness of face and bloodshot eyes, culminating in epistaxis, which affords relief.
Young man, æt. 20, of lymphatic temperament, subject to congestive headaches for several years at intervals of one to three months ; more frequent in hot weather ; during attack face and head swell, become purple, with bloodshot eyes ; had frequently fallen in streets, and would wander around unconsciously through streets by day or night, and was always left weak, trembling and nervous for two or three days after.

Sight and eyes

Eyelids very heavy.

Smell and nose

Excessive dryness of nose.
Profuse and frequent epistaxis, with general relief.
Epistaxis during a fever ; one attack followed another, once or twice in twenty-four hours, usually at night ; loss of blood alarmingly great ; every attack preceded by intense redness, flushing of face and throbbing of carotids.

Upper face

Great redness of face and head, with throbbing of carotids.
Very red face precedes hemorrhage from nose, lungs and uterus.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Cramps in stomach every time he gets his feet wet, or after any unusual exposure.

Abdomen and loins

Bilious colic.

Stools and rectum

Looseness of bowels.
Shooting, cutting in rectum while walking, > sitting down.
Heavy throbbing and fulness in rectum from internal piles.
Constipation, difficult, painful stool, constriction in rectum, discharge of stringy, milky white mucus.

Female sexual organs

Menstruation painful and difficult, accompanied by nervous headache (prolapsus uteri and left inguinal hernia).
Severe, sharp, shooting, sticking pains in external genitals (especially labia), lasting only a moment, but recurring frequently and very annoying ; at times so sharp as to cause involuntary starts ; with nausea and dull heavy pain in pelvis (at close of menses).

Respiration

Difficult breathing from climbing or rapid walking.
Could not get air enough, felt as if smothering.

Cough

Cough : dry, harsh, spasmodic, horribly distressing, causing great anxiety ; > by epistaxis ; > by slight expectoration.

Inner chest and lungs

Hæmoptysis ; blood bright red.
Both lungs greatly congested ; face and eyes very red ; nosebleed every few minutes ; high fever ; constant, severe, racking cough and very rapid respiration. θ Pneumonia.
Chest very sore and oppressed, as if garments were too tight.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Palpitation of heart.

Neck and back

A broken sensation in lumbar sacral region, < sitting, > walking or standing, alternate with headache.

Limbs in general

Rheumatic pains in joints on approach of a rain storm, or in rainy, changeable weather.

Rest. position. motion

Sitting : cutting in rectum > ; broken sensation in lumbar sacral region <.
Standing : a broken sensation in lumbar sacral region >.
Walking : cutting in rectum ; rapid, difficult breathing ; broken sensation in lumbar sacral region >.

Nerves

Extreme nervousness.
Infantile spasms.
Spasm during dentition, with great congestion of head.
Convulsion of nervous children during dentition.
Eclampsia.

Time

At 4 P. M. : distressing pain.
Day or night : wanders unconsciously through streets ; epistaxis.

Temperature and weather

Approach of a rain storm or in rainy, changeable weather : rheumatic pains in joints.
After exposure or getting feet wet : cramps in stomach.
Hot weather : congestive headache more frequent.

Fever

Febris nervosa stupida ; deaf and dumb ; involuntary stools, mixed with blood ; epistaxis ; unconsciousness ; loss of memory ; confusion of ideas.

Attacks, periodicity

Alternate : broken sensation, with headache.
Every few moments : nosebleed.
Lasting only one moment, but recurring frequently : sharp pains in external genitals.
From 9 to 12 A. M. : headache <.
Once or twice in twenty-four hours : epistaxis.
For two or three days after headache : nervous and trembling.
For three days : oppressive headache.
Lasting four days : headache.
For several years at intervals of one to three months : congestive headache.

Locality and direction

Left : distressing pain in temple ; inguinal hernia.

Sensations

As if smothering ; as if garments were too tight across chest.
Intense frontal headache.
Excessive pains : in temples.
Severe pain : in head.
Distressing pain : in left temple.
Stitching or cutting pains : in womb and through hernia.
Severe, sharp, shooting, sticking pains : in external genitals.
Sudden, sharp, shooting, stinging, burning, rheumatic pains : in joints.
Shooting, cutting : in rectum.
Frightful, heavy, oppressive pain : in head.
Throbbing pain : in frontal region.
Rheumatic pain : in joints.
Cramps : in stomach.
Bilious colic : in abdomen.
Dull, heavy pain : in pelvis.
Soreness : of chest.
Broken sensation : in lumbar sacral region.
Constriction : in rectum.
Pressure : over orbits.
Heavy feeling : of eyelids.
Fulness : in rectum.
Oppression : of chest.
Throbbing : of carotids ; in rectum.
Dryness : of nose.
Coldness : of feet and hands.

Tissues

Congestion relieved by hemorrhage.
Congestive or nervous headaches ; engorgements of bloodvessels in any part or organ ; spasms, infantile, eclampsia and epilepsy ; insanity, to relieve brain from pressure and irritation.

Stage of life, constitution

Child, æt. 5, sick two days ; pneumonia.
School-girl ; headache.
Man, æt. 20, lymphatic temperament ; congestive headaches.
Woman, æt. 30, nervo-bilious temperament, suffering for years ; nervous headache and dysmenorrhœa.
Woman, subject since childhood to frequent attacks of nosebleed ; epistaxis.
Man, æt. 64 energetic, suffering fifteen years ; cramps in stomach, after exposure.

Relations

Compare : Amyl nitr . on circulation ; Antim. crud . in epistaxis after headache, but does not > ; Bellad, Glon . and Sanguin . in congestive headache, red face, hot head, etc. ; Stramon . in mental conditions.