Millefolium Herba

Mimosa is one of the remedies introduced and proved by Mure. The most

notable symptoms were lancinations in the back and limbs, and "swelling and redness of left

ankle with tension and lancination." This last symptom has been confirmed. The "sensitive plant"

of our hothouses is MZ. Pudica, but the leaves of M. humilis, says Mure, "close at the least

contact."

• ▸Falls (from height).
• ▸Over-exertion.
• ▸Lifting.
• ▸Suppressed lochia.
• ▸Suppressed menses.

Suppressed milk.

• ▸Vertigo when moving slowly.
• ▸Sensation as if he had forgotten something.
• ▸The head seems full of blood.
• ▸Convulsions and epilepsy from suppressed menses.
• ▸Piercing thrusts of pain.

Nosebleed (Erecht). Piercing pain from eyes to root of nose.

Sensation of heat, as if blood was rising to head.—Redness of face without internal

heat.—Tearing: in face to temples; r. lower jaw to ears; then teeth.

Bleeding of gums.—Salivation.

• ▸11, 12.
• ▸Stomach and Abdomen.
• ▸—Stomach-ache.
• ▸—Borborygmi.
• ▸—Flatulent colic.

Toothache: from heating things; rheumatic, with diseased gums.—Gumboil.—Ulcers

on gums.—Stomacace.

Elongation of palate —Uvula relaxed.—Ulceration of throat; pain in 1. side when

swallowing.

Painful gnawing and digging in stomach as from hunger.—Burning in stomach,

extending to chest.—Violent pain in pit of stomach (during retrogressive small-pox).—Vomiting

when coughing.—Nausea with vertigo —Hzematemesis.—Cramps in stomach, with a sensation of

a liquid flowing from stomach to anus.—Burning pain in stomach.—Sensation of fulness in

stomach; as if stomach were contracted and filled with earth—Eructations.

Pain in region of liver—Congestions to portal system.—Colic during

• ▸menstruation.
• ▸—Ascites.
• ▸—Incarcerated hernia.
• ▸—Pain as from incarcerated flatulence.
• ▸—Frequent

emission of fetid flatulence.—Violent colic, with bloody diarrhoea (during

pregnancy).—Dysentery.—Abdomen distended.

Haemorrhage from bowels. Bleeding haemorrhoids. Urine bloody (Senec aur).

Bleeding hemorrhoids; profuse flow of blood from bowels.—Diarrheea,

preceded by rattling of fluids in abdomen, profuse chocolate-coloured stools, changing to black,

very offensive, becoming blood-streaked.—Mucous diarrhoea; bloody; dysentery.—Ascarides.

Hematuria—Involuntary micturition; of children —Bloody

urine.—Catarrh of bladder from atony.—Stone in bladder, with retention of urine.

Menses early, profuse, protracted. Haemorrhage from uterus; bright red, fluid. Painful varices during pregnancy.

Hemorrhage from uterus from too violent

• ▸exertions.
• ▸—Metrorrhagia.
• ▸—Menses too profuse.
• ▸—Suppressed menstruation with epileptic

attacks.—Barrenness with too profuse menstruation, or tendency to miscarry.—Suppressed lochia

with violent fever, suppressed secretion of milk, or convulsions, convulsive motion of all limbs

and violent pain—Lochia too profuse.—Sore nipples.

Haemoptysis in incipient phthisis. Cough, with bloody expectoration, in suppressed menses or haemorrhoids. Violent palpitation.

Excessive palpitation and bloody sputum.—Ebullitions from coughing

blood.—Anxiousness with pain at heart.—Pulse accelerated and contracted.

Twitching of arm, extending to chest—Numbness of arm and r. hand,

ceasing on movement.—Inflammatory swelling of 1. hand—Numbness of hands.

Trembling of legs.—Smarting pain in legs, with paralysis of knee.—Stiffness

of bends of knees.—Swelling of |. ankle, with redness, tension, and lancination.

• ▸Ant.
• ▸t.
• ▸relieves the vertigo of Mill.
• ▸, Ars.
• ▸i.
• ▸the diarrhoea.
• ▸Mill.
• ▸Antidotes: Arum mac.

Incompatible: Coffee (= congestion to head). Compare: Erech. (epistaxis and hemoptysis);

• ▸Senec.
• ▸aur.
• ▸(heematuria).
• ▸Ham.
• ▸and Ipec.
• ▸(hemorrhages); Plat.
• ▸(Mill.
• ▸red, clotted; Plat.
• ▸dark,

• ▸clotted); Bry.
• ▸, Ustil.
• ▸, and Ham.
• ▸(hamatemesis) Aco.
• ▸(hemorrhages, profuse flow of bright red

• ▸blood—Aco.
• ▸, anxiety; Mill.
• ▸, absence of anxiety).
• ▸The Composite generally, Arn.
• ▸, Bellis, Calend.
• ▸,

&e.

Compare: Ficus venosa (Pakur). Haemorrhage from bowels and lungs. Acalypha and Helix tosta-Snail--(in haemoptysis, diseases of chest, consumption); also, Secale; Ipec; Erecht; Geran; Hamam.

Tincture, to third potency.

millefolium

This is a most useful remedy in varicose veins ; especially are the

capillaries spongy and enlarged. Veins break easily when congested.

Wounds bleed easily and much. It favors apoplexy. Ecchymoses of

the skin and eyes. It favors local congestions. Haemorrhage from

any part, from wounds, from ulcers. Atony of the blood vessels.

Haemorrhage from the lungs, stomach, rectum, nose, after extraction

of teeth. The blood is generally bright red. Varicose veins on the

limbs during pregnancy when painful. Hjemorrhage in malignant ulceration. After an operation and the wound has been properly closed

the skin forming the edges of the wound continues to ooze a bright red

• ▸blood.
• ▸When a general haemorrhagic condition prevails.
• ▸These features are often associated with heart troubles that will be expected.
• ▸If

there has been a history of bleeding it should be given before a surgical

• ▸procedure {Lack.
• ▸).
• ▸Violent congestion after haemorrhage.
• ▸No tend-*

ency to repair of vascular tissue. Hyperaemia of the brain and red

face. Fullness and heat in head, but no fever. A rush of blood from

chest to the head like a siigring. Violent headache. Dull occipital

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pain. Pain in head aggravated by stooping.

Blood-shot eyes. Sharp pain in eyes and root of nose. Eyes red

and congested. Foggy vision.

Noise in left ear startles her ; later when laughing. Sensation as of

cold air passing out of ear. Sensation as though ears were stopped.

Sharp pain in ear. Earache.

Epistaxis^ with congestion to head and chest.

Face red, without fever. Venous face. Flushes to face.

Pain in teeth from hot things. A haemorrhagic patient should have

a dose of Mill, or Lack, before having teeth extracted. The throat is

red, ulcerated and bleeds easily.

Empty hungry feeling in morning. Burning in stomach, aggravated

bending forward. Burning in stomach and abdomen extending to chest.

Vomiting blood.

Abdomen distended with flatus. Haemorrhage from intestines and

rectum. Haemorrhage in typhoid fever. Internal haemorrhage from

• ▸lifting and from injuries.
• ▸Prolonged buildings.
• ▸Bleeding piles.
• ▸Bleeding

condylomata of anus.

The urine is bloody, clots in the urine after standing. Pain in

kidneys followed by bloody urine lasting many days. Incontinence of

urine.

Want of ejaculation in coition. Haemorrhage from bladder and urethra. Bleeding wounds.

Profuse menses, protracted, with cramps in uterus and abdomen.

Uterine haemorrhage after slight exertion from abortion, or during

labor ; continuous, bright red blood. Varicose veins of legs ulcerate

and bleed in pregnant women. After hard delivery prolonged obstinate bleeding. A woman predisposed to haemorrhage should have a

dose of Millefolium before going into confinement. Suppressed lochia.

No milk in breasts. Inflammation of the uterus after a uterine haemorrhage.

Oppression of the chest ; palpitation ; surging of blood from chest

to head. Haemorrhage from lungs. Congestion of lungs following

bleeding of lungs. Bleeding from lungs from suppressed menses.

• ▸Expectoration of blood 4 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸daily.
• ▸Bleeding from the lungs in

phthisis. Bleeding from lungs after exertion. A man thrown from a

carriage had continued to cough up blood for many weeks was cured

by this remedy very high. Orgasm of blood about heart.

Yarrow

• ▸An invaluable remedy for various types of haemorrhages; blood bright red.
• ▸Incarcerated hernia; smallpox, with great pain in pit of stomach.
• ▸After operations for stone.
• ▸Bad effects from fall from a height; overlifting.
• ▸Continued high temperature.
• ▸Haemoptysis.