Menyanthes Trifoliata

Anxiety and apprehension.—Anxiety about the heart, as if something evil were going

• ▸to happen.
• ▸—Indifference to everything.
• ▸—Tearful sadness.
• ▸—Taciturn and self-

reflecting —Buffoonery and excessive gaiety.

Jerking (painless) of muscles in different parts (face, thigh), principally

during repose.—No thirst at any time.—Jerking pain in outer parts, also pinching pain in outer

parts.—Tension: in root of nose; in arms, hands, fingers; in skin, as if it was several sizes too

small and he was crowded into it—Shooting pains, and pinching in limbs and joints (arthritic

• ▸affections).
• ▸—Great general debility, esp.
• ▸on walking, often accompanied by shivering.
• ▸—Majority

of sufferings < during repose, and towards evening > by movement, or by pressing the hand on

part affected.

• ▸Pressing in vertex; better, hard pressure with hand.
• ▸Pressing-together pain.
• ▸Weight pressing on brain with every step on ascending.
• ▸Pain from nape over whole brain; better, stooping, sitting; worse, going upstairs.
• ▸Cracking in jaw and twitching of facial muscles.

Constant heaviness of head—Compressive, or pressive headache, with a sensation

when going upstairs as if a very heavy load were resting on forehead, > by pressing the hand on

head.—Pressive pain from both sides of head.—Head bewildered and confused in a room, with

slowness of conception, > in open air.—Tensive headache.—Burning pains on skin of

• ▸forehead.
• ▸—Drawing pain in r.
• ▸lobe of cerebrum from below upward, ending in occiput.
• ▸—Single

• ▸stitches in 1.
• ▸side of brain up to crown.
• ▸—When sitting, drawing in occiput.
• ▸—After eating,

emptiness of head —External gnawing at vertex.

Cloudiness of eyes, when reading (everything becomes black before eyes).—Frequent

spasmodic stiffness of eyelids.—Pressing in eyes.—Mist and flickerings before eyes.

• ▸Tinkling in ears.
• ▸—Cracking in ear, when chewing.
• ▸—Discharge from ears (esp.
• ▸after

• ▸exanthemata).
• ▸—Shootings in ears.
• ▸—Feeling of coldness in ear.
• ▸—Tinnitus when chewing.

Redness and heat of face during sleep.—Heat in face, with. coldness of feet —Visible

(painless) twitching in muscles of face and eyelids.—Pain and cracking in the articulation of jaw

when masticating.

• ▸8, 9.
• ▸Mouth and Throat.
• ▸—Sensation of paralysis on 1.
• ▸side of palate, when yawning and

coughing.—Great dryness of throat without thirst —Dryness of palate, causing a stinging when

swallowing.—Dryness and roughness in throat, which impede deglutition of saliva.

• ▸No thirst at any time.
• ▸Revenous hunger; passing away after eating a little.
• ▸Desire for meat.
• ▸Sensation of coldness extending up to oesophagus.

Desire for meat, and dislike to bread and butter.—Sweetish bitterness in

mouth.—Frequent empty risings.—Troublesome confusion in head, after a meal—Bulimy,

sometimes, after eating.

Contractive cramps in stomach.—Continual rumbling in stomach, as if it were

empty.—Heat in stomach, followed by excessive hunger.—Sensation of coldness extending up

cesophagus, with great nausea, following pressure in stomach.

Distended and full; increased by smoking tobacco. Coldness of abdomen.

Sensation of coldness in abdomen, esp. when pressing upon it with the hand, or

in the morning when rising.—Pain, as from excoriation, in abdominal integuments.—Distension

and fulness of abdomen, as if overloaded by food, with undiminished appetite, together with a

sensation as of incarcerated flatulence, and frequent ineffectual efforts to emit flatus; fulness

much < by smoking tobacco.—Distension of abdomen by abundant flatus.—Pinchings in

abdomen.

Constipation.—Hard feces, with pinchings in abdomen.—Bleeding,

hemorrhoidal tumours.

Increase of sexual desire, without excitement of the imagination, or

erection.—Both testicles drawn up, r. more than l—Spermatic cord painful to touch.

When speaking hoarse and rough voice, with obstruction of ears, as if

something had been introduced into them.—Stitch in anterior regions of larynx, impeding

deglutition.—Dyspnoea.—Spasmodic contraction of larynx, with excitation to cough, when

drawing breath.

Shooting compression on both sides of chest.—The stitches in (r.) chest are < during

motion, and when breathing —Aching in chest after dinner.

Stitches in region of heart—Anxiety about heart as if some evil

impending.—Drawing pain in precordia, < after eating.

Rigidity and heaviness in muscles of neck (throat) and of

nape.—Troublesome contusive pain in loins, when seated, and when stooping.—Dull and boring

shootings in 1. shoulder-blade, extending across spine.—Extremely painful tearing between

scapule, extending downwards, esp. on deep breathing; disappearing when sitting; immediately

returning on walking; during rest there remains a sensation of soreness.

Paralytic tearing and spasmodic drawings in arms, hands, and

fingers.—Spasmodic stiffness of arms, with involuntary retraction of fingers —Cramp-like pains

in muscles of (I.) lower arm, extending as far as palm of hand (almost like paralysis).—Painful

starting in (r. upper) arm and little finger.

Contusive pain in thighs.—Shocks and convulsive movements in

thighs.—The (r.) thigh and leg are spasmodically jerked upward, when sitting with the leg

outstretched, > when standing or when drawing up leg.

Icy coldness of hands and feet. Cramp-like pain. As soon as patient lies down, legs jerk and twitch.

Coldness predominates; felt most acutely in abdomen and legs and tip of nose.

Pulse slow during cold stage and accelerated during fever—Predominance of

cold.—Icy coldness of hands and feet—Chill, which is > by heat of stove and only remains in

back.—Shuddering over the upper part of body (with yawning), or in legs, with uprising of hair,

as after a long walk, or after listening to some frightful tale Sensation of coldness, esp. in

fingers.—Intermittent fever, with coldness in abdomen.—Heat in evening, mostly on head, with

cold feet—Perspiration in evening as soon as he lies down, continuing all night.

• ▸Amaurosis.
• ▸Chest, affections of.
• ▸Cramps.
• ▸Fidgets.
• ▸Headache, pressive.
• ▸Heart, pains in.

Intermittent fever. Jerkings. Paralysis.

Characteristics—The Buck-bean (or "Bog-bean," as it is also called in Ireland and in

Lincolnshire) is a water plant, and abounds in the fen districts, where it is in great local repute as

a remedy for ague. Hahnemann proved it and well defined its sphere of action. Teste, who also

proved it, found it very similar to Drosera. Both these drugs caused in him, as one of the first

symptoms, obscuration of sight, a sort of white mist, or vibrations, < in open air or during a

• ▸walk.
• ▸This was so intense that he did not dare to cross a street.
• ▸The pains of Dros.
• ▸and Meny.

were the same in character, but those of Dros. were more intense. This analogy has not proved as

close in other respects as Teste imagined it would. The main features of Meny. are (/) chill; (2)

sensations and pains of tension and compression; and (3) spasmodic jerkings and visible

twitchings; these are < during rest, and may be associated with neuralgia. As soon as the patient

lies down the legs jerk and twitch so that he cannot rest. "When sitting, the outstretched thigh

and leg are four times spasmodically jerked up, but when standing or in drawing up the knees

• ▸towards him, this is not perceptible.
• ▸" Meny.
• ▸has cured many cases of fidgets.
• ▸"jumps," "fidgets,"

and "urinary difficulties in women" are Burnett's leading indications for Veny. The twitching

may appear in any part. Stitches, numbness, tension, and especially cramp-like and paralysing

pains are very distinctive. The pressure is severely felt in the head—Headache: pressing in vertex

from above downwards, > during hard pressure with the hand; when ascending stairs, as of a

heavy weight pressing on the head and brain at every step. With the headache there is often

associated icy coldness of hands and feet. The tension culminates in a sensation as if the skin

• ▸were several sizes too small and he was being crowded into it.
• ▸R.
• ▸Farley (Med.
• ▸Adv.
• ▸, xxi.
• ▸240)

reports this case: Miss D. W., long a sufferer from spinal irritation, had terrible attacks of

bursting headache, a terrible tension in membranes of brain in paroxysms, which caused her to

scream. Began in right side of nape, ascended to forehead, and then spread over whole brain.

Terrible sensation of loneliness with the pain; begged her mother to stay with her. < From light,

noise, jar, even if one walked lightly across the room. > From sitting bent, and by hard pressure

on nape and vertex. Meny. 30 every ten minutes relieved immediately, and removed completely

in two hours.

Antidoted by: Camph. It antidotes: Effects of Quinine and China. Compatible after:

• ▸Cupr.
• ▸, Lach.
• ▸, Lyc.
• ▸, Pul.
• ▸, Rhs.
• ▸, Ver.
• ▸, Compare: < Ascending, Calc.
• ▸Headache > hard pressure,

• ▸Ver.
• ▸Weight on vertex at every step, Cact.
• ▸, Glon.
• ▸, Lach.
• ▸Intermittent fever, with cold extremities,

• ▸Lach.
• ▸(but Lach.
• ▸has livid skin, great prostration, and filiform pulse).
• ▸Icy cold feet and legs,

• ▸Calc.
• ▸, Gels.
• ▸, Carb.
• ▸v.
• ▸Bursting headache pushing skull open, Sil.
• ▸(Sil.
• ▸> warmth, Meny.
• ▸>

• ▸pressure).
• ▸Pressive headache, Puls.
• ▸, Paris, Mag.
• ▸m.
• ▸Fidgets, Pso.
• ▸, Caust.
• ▸, Zinc.
• ▸Compare also, the

Gentians.

Compare: Caps; Puls; Calc; Phos ac; Sang.

Antidote: Camph.

Third to thirtieth potency.