Lemna Minor

Flitting pains about head and legs, with pains in eyes during heavy rain, drowsy by

day, restless at night.

• ▸Putrid smell; loss of smell.
• ▸Crusts and muco-purulent discharge very abundant.
• ▸Post-nasal dropping.
• ▸Pain like a string from nostrils to ear.
• ▸Reduces nasal obstruction when it is an oedematous condition.
• ▸Dryness of naso-pharynx.

Foul smell in nose, or loss of smell.—Smell of strong-scented flowers before

intolerable can now be borne.—Feeling of cold in nose better, sense of obstruction nearly

gone.—Nose blocked with polypi became almost cleared with Lemna © after Calc. 2000,

followed by Merc. 3 (given for faceache);—previously Lemna @ had been given without

effect.—Nasal polypi in man, 60; markedly < in wet weather; after taking Lemna 3x gtt. v three

times a day for a month said, "That is the best tonic I have ever taken"; and he could breathe

quite comfortably. —Polypi which swell in wet weather.—Nostrils plugged by swollen

turbinates.—Ozzena since childhood in girl of sixteen; odour most offensive; bad taste; takes cold

easily in night air or damp; bowels and catamenia irregular, greatly relieved by Lemna.—Post-

nasal ulceration high up, dry feeling at top of throat with flatulence, much catarrhal pharyngitis;

two weeks after dose of Lemna @ nose less blocked and better in every respect; colic and

diarrhoea followed.—Stuffiness of nose relieved; simultaneously an attack of

diarrhcea—Turbinate bones swollen.—Crusts form in r. nostril, pain like a string extends from r.

nostril to r. ear, which is deaf (greatly relieved).—Excessive catarrh with frequent sneezing

attacks.—Profuse yellow defluxion.—Atrophic rhinitis; crusts and muco-purulent discharge very

abundant, with fetor.

Putrid taste on rising in the morning. Dry pharynx and larynx.

Tongue dry, coated or brownish white; covered with cracks in arborescent

arrangement, main crack down centre.

Sensation of intense dryness in pharynx and larynx (if given too low in atrophic

rhinitis) —Dropping of foul secretion from posterior nares.

Intense thirst, yet drinking more than a very slight quantity of water, warm or

cold, provoked epigastric pains.—Shortly after taking the drug seized with vomiting and retching,

more retching.

Disposition to noisy diarrhoea.

Very severe abdominal pains, with soreness to touch; when lying on side >

drawing up legs; when on back > with legs out straight.

Diarrhcea.—Bowels acted freely with much heat in anus.—Disposition to morning

diarrhoea.

During the (first) night frequent calls to stool; stools dark brown at first,

afterwards bloody.—Later stools contained larger quantities of blood, never any mucus.

Snoring cured after an aggravation in the shape of diarrhcea.

Leonurus Cardiaca.

• ▸Leonurus cardiaca.
• ▸Motherwort.
• ▸N.
• ▸O.
• ▸Labiaté.
• ▸Tincture or infusion of fresh plant.

Dysentery. Hémorrhages.

Characteristics—The popular name of this plant sufficiently indicates its traditional virtues. The

only experience with it is an involuntary proving recorded by Clarence Bartlett (Ved. Adv., xx.

280). A married woman, 40, took an infusion to produce miscarriage. Twenty-four hours later

Bartlett saw her, and found her vomiting and retching, passing bloody stools, suffering severe

abdominal pains, which were provoked by drinking anything more than a small quantity of

water, which she did to allay her great thirst. Dry conjunctivé, dry, cracked tongue were noted.

• ▸The bowel symptoms were < midnight to 3 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸Ars.
• ▸3x relieved all symptoms.
• ▸She did not

miscatry.

Compare: Dulc (damp surroundings and foggy weather). Calc; Teucr; Calend; Nat sulph.

Third to thirtieth potency.