Melilotus Officinalis

Dr. Skinner has given a brief account of this nosode, introduced by him, in H.

• ▸W.
• ▸, xvii.
• ▸89.
• ▸He prepared it from the lymph and blood of a case of eczema capitis.
• ▸Cases treated

• ▸by Dr.
• ▸Theobald with Melit.
• ▸, given to him by Dr.
• ▸Skinner, were published in H.
• ▸W.
• ▸, xvii.
• ▸19.

• ▸Very severe cases were cured with Melit.
• ▸c.
• ▸m.
• ▸(F.
• ▸C.
• ▸) given in single doses at considerable

intervals. In one case there was an initial aggravation.

• ▸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.

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.

Tired; bruised; listless; sleepy; chilly—Engorgements of any part or

organ.—Spasms, eclampsia, convulsions, epilepsy.—Heemorrhages.

• ▸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.

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 1.
• ▸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 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.

Sensation of puffing of wind from ears.—Each act of swallowing caused the wind to

puff from both ears.

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

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.

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

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 hemorrhages, nose, lungs, uterus.

• ▸Ravenous about 10 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸, with onset of frontal headache.
• ▸—Appetite capricious,

esp. morning; impaired.

Gastric discomfort, flatulence, fulness, and other symptoms appear when

constipated —Acid eructations all day, causing burning and smarting (B).

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

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.

Frequent and profuse urination.—Urine profuse watery, and relieving the

dull, congestive headache.

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

Leucorrheea; 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.

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

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.
• ▸).
• ▸—Hzmoptysis, 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.).

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).

Numbness and aching in knee-joints; r. then 1——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.

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

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.

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.

Melitagrinum.

The nosode of Eczema capitis. Dr. Skinner's Fluxional Centesimal attenuations.

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., Amy,

• ▸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.
• ▸Hemoptysis,

• ▸bright blood, Ip.
• ▸, Millef.
• ▸Discomfort from constipation, Op.
• ▸Congested head and nose-bleed,

• ▸Erig.
• ▸Red face with throbbing carotids, Bell.
• ▸Compare also: Trifol.
• ▸(botan).

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

Tincture, for inhaling; lower potencies.

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.