Menispermum Canadense

Very considerable doses were taken in the proving of Menispermum. The

most notable symptom was an intense headache combined with aching all down the back.

Yawning and stretching were also a marked and frequent concomitant of headache and backache.

Meni. is botanically related to Coccul., and the backache recalls the spinal action of the latter.

But the Coccul. vertigo and intoxication were not elicited. Dryness was a common feature-

mouth, throat, skin. Itching was very intense, as with Coccul. The Conditions were well marked:

< At night. < By warmth of bed. > Walking in open air.

Low-spirited, but attends to business rapidly.—Low-spirited but absent-

minded.—Quick-tempered.

Stretching and yawning.—Laziness.—The pains were like those caused by

large doses of Quinine and were > by China.

Pressure from within outward, with stretching and yawning and pain down back. Sick headache; pain in forehead and temples, moving to occiput. Tongue swollen and much saliva.

Headache, pressive from within out.—Intense headache, feels as if it would burst, with

pain whole length of back (4th d.); lasted three or four days; > by Bry.; > walking in open

air.—Headache: intense during night; with stretching and yawning; with feeling of

fulness.—Severe headache through temples and occiput.

• ▸Much sneezing.
• ▸—Discharge of nasal mucus; excoriating.
• ▸—Nostrils: dry, esp.
• ▸1.
• ▸; itch

painfully; are sore.

Tongue: coated (yellow), thicker at back, with raised papill¢; dry and parched;

swollen; as if burnt.—Mouth and throat dry during night.

Urine: high-coloured and scanty; yellow; white thready clouds floating

through.

Morning expectoration less and of lighter colour (curative).—Hurried

respiration during the night.

• ▸Aching: in bones of legs; upper part of 1.
• ▸femur and 1.
• ▸hip-joint.
• ▸—Legs sore

as if bruised, with pain in bones.

Pain in back, thighs, elbows, shoulders. Legs sore, as if bruised.

Yawning and stretching with backache and headache.—Sleeps late and heavy in

morning, disinclined to rise.—Restless; troubled and confused dreams; sudden starting from

sleep.—Dreams: pleasing; of innumerable rats which creep under clothes; of cannonading.

Chilly.—Skin cold and dry with some itching.—Face not and the pimples bleed

easily.

Compare: Cocculus; Bryon.

Third potency.

Aching in thighs, elbows, and shoulders; in external muscles of thigh and upper

arm, also under |. scapula.