MELILOTUS OFFICINALIS
Yellow Melilot – Sweet Clover
(MELILOTUS)
Congestions and haemorrhages appear to be the specific manifestations of this drug. Violent congestive and frightened headaches. Infantile spasms. Epilepsy from blow on head. Pain and debility factor to it. Coldness however additionally extend of temperature; tenderness, and pain. Muscular device depressed. Dreams and emissions.
Mind.–Unable to repair mind. Memory treacherous. Stupor. Wants to run away and hide. Delusions; thinks each one is searching at her, fears to speak loud, and needs to run away, etc.
Head.–Headache with retching, vomiting, experience of strain over orbits, pallor, bloodless arms and feet, black spots earlier than eyes. Heavy, oppressed; frontal, throbbing, undulating sensation in brain. Sick headache; relieved by way of epistaxis or menstrual flow. Fullness all over head. Eyes heavy; blurred sight; wishes to shut them tightly for relief. Neuralgia round and over proper facet of head and neck. Scalp sore and soft to touch.
Nose.–Stopped up, dry, have to breathe via mouth; dry, tough clinkers in nose; profuse epistaxis.
Face.–Intensely purple and flushed, with throbbing carotids (Bell).
Stool.–Difficult, painful, constipated. Anus feels constricted, full, throbs. No wish till there is a giant accumulation (Bry; Alum).
Female.–Menses scanty, intermit, with nausea and bearing down sticking ache in exterior parts. Dysmenorrhoea. Ovarian neuralgia.
Respiratory.–Feels as if smothering, specially from fast walking. Haemoptysis. Weight on chest. Tickling in throat with cough.
Extremities.–Pain in knee; needs to stretch leg, however does no longer relieve. Joints sore. Skin and extremities cold. Numbness and aching in knee-joints.
Modalities.–Worse, rainy, changeable weather, method of storm, motion; four pm.
Relationship.–Compare: Melilotus alba–(White Clover)–practically the identical motion (Haemorrhages, congestive headaches, engorged blood vessels, spasms). Amyl; Bell; Glon.
Dose.–Tincture, for inhaling; decrease potencies.
