ALFALFA
Medicago Sativa, California Clover or Lucerne
>From its motion on the sympathetic, Alfalfa favorably influences nutrition, evidenced in “toning up” the urge for food and digestion ensuing in considerably increased intellectual and bodily vigor, with reap in weight. Disorders characterised by using malnutrition are broadly speaking inside its therapeutic range, for example, neurasthenia, splanchnic blues, nervousness, insomnia, anxious indigestion, etc. Acts as a fats producer, corrects tissue waste. Deficient lactation. Increases first-class and volume of milk in nursing mothers. Its reported urinary motion suggests it clinically in diabetes insipidus and phosphaturia; and it is claimed to allay vesical irritability of prostatic hypertrophy. The rheumatic diathesis looks specifically amenable to its action.
Mind.–It induces intellectual pleasure of buoyancy, i.e, a established feeling of properly being; clear and bright, so that all blues are dissipated. Dull, drowsy, dull (Gels); gloomy and irritable, worse at some point of evening.
Head.–Dull, heavy feeling in occiput, in and above the eyes, worse towards evening. Pain in left facet of head. Violent headache.
Ears.–Stuffed feeling in eustachian tubes (Kali mur) at night; patulous in morning.
Stomach.–Increased thirst. Appetite impaired, however specially elevated even to bulimia. He should devour frequently, so that he can’t wait for normal meals; hungry in forenoon (Sul). Much nibbling of meals and craving for sweets.
Abdomen.–Flatulence with distention. Shifting, flatulent ache alongside colon a number of hours after meals. Frequent, loose, yellow, painful stools, with burning of flatulence. Chronic appendicitis.
Urine.–Kidneys inactive; popular urging to urinate. Polyuria (Phos ac). Increased removal of urea, indican and phosphates.
Sleep.–Slept higher than usual, mainly in early morning; it induces quiet, reposeful and clean sleep.
Relationship.–Compare: Avena sat; Dipodium punct; Gels; Hydr; Kali phos; Phos ac; Zinc.
Dose.–The excellent outcomes are elicited with cloth doses (5-10) drops of tincture, a number of instances daily. Continue its use till tonic outcomes ensue.
