Mentha Piperita

Pennyroyal is a common domestic remedy for menstrual disorders. Berridge's

provings with the 40th were all made on men, so its properties in the female sexual sphere

remain untested. Berridge's proving brought out an affinity for the right side of the head, right

eye, and left kidney, shoulder and hand. The symptoms were all < when thinking of them.

Eager for work; despatches it quickly.—(Cured mental dulness, which previously

always followed early rising.).—Insensible.

Jerk of whole body directly after waking —Rheumatic pains flying about,

chiefly r. side—Sensation as of blood circulating quicker than usual.

Confusion.—Headache: tension towards both ears; < on rising, > returning to

bed.—Acute lancinations from ear to head, on stooping or turning head.—Frontal headache from

one temple to the other.—(Hair ceases to fall out.)

All day when walking, shooting from one ear to the other, as if abscesses were

forming, < 1—When writing sharp lancinations extend from I. ear to all 1. teeth.

• ▸Stitches down |.
• ▸Eustachian tube into |.
• ▸side of throat, > pressing under I.
• ▸ear.

In evening two hours after dinner, weight in stomach which seems to extend to

ears.

Bloated, disturbing sleep. Infantile colic. Bilious colic with great accumulation of gas.

Stitches in r. hypochondrium, sometimes in middle of sternal region.—Severe

cutting stitches in 1. groin and side while sitting.

Menth. Pu. is a popular ecbolic, and acts painlessly and without

much irritation or forcing down. It often causes faintness (Cooper).

Entire trachea from larynx to pit of throat painful to touch.—Husky

voice from reading aloud.—(Given to a singer a few hours before he is to sing, this remedy will

• ▸certainly enable him to hold out to the end without straining his voice.
• ▸).
• ▸—Frequent cough.
• ▸—Dry

cough, excited by merely speaking; expectoration every morning of thick mucus like the core of

a boil (4th to 8th d.).—Dry cough continues; it is not caused by titillation, nor by mucous

accumulations in the bronchi, but merely by the passage of air into the larynx (9th d.).—Least

feeling of cold excites a cough (11th to 21st d.); reading aloud; tobacco smoke and smoke of all

kinds excites it.

• ▸Woke on r.
• ▸side, and as soon as he had turned to |.
• ▸sharp cutting pain in r.
• ▸chest for

two minutes.

Bruised, stiff feeling in small spot, upper part of r. scapula; with aching and empty

• ▸feeling r.
• ▸side of head.
• ▸—Sharp cutting in region of |.
• ▸kidney, shooting up 1.
• ▸side to 1.
• ▸chest; >

getting up.

Two sudden successive jerks upward of |. shoulder and upper arm while

lying on 1. side-—Unable to hold a jug with |. hand when pouring out water, hand trembles.

Sensation under r. foot at extremity of metatarsus, as if shoe sole was too

tight there.

• ▸Every scratch becomes a sore.
• ▸Itching of arm and hand when writing.
• ▸Vaginal pruritus.
• ▸Herpes zoster (Ars; Ran bulb).

Every scratch becomes a sore.—Pimples with much itching near |. ear, with heat in

part.—Frequent itching behind r. ear—Formication in arm and hand when writing.

• ▸Compare: Hedeom.
• ▸puleg.
• ▸, Menth.
• ▸pip.
• ▸In < by thinking of symptoms, Pip.
• ▸methys.
• ▸,

Oxal. ac.

Compare: Rumex; Laches; Mentha pulegium--European pennyroyal--(pain in bones of forehead and extremities). Mentha viridis-Spearmint--(scanty urine with frequent desire).

Tincture, 1 to 20 drops, to thirtieth potency. Locally, in pruritus vaginae.

• ▸Voice husky.
• ▸Tip of nose to touch.
• ▸Throat dry and sore, as if pin crosswise in it.
• ▸Dry cough, worse from air into larynx, tobacco smoke, fog, talking; with irritation in suprasternal fossa (Rumex).
• ▸Trachea painful to touch.