Mitchella Repens

Mitchella is a small trailing evergreen bearing a scarlet bean, and is common

throughout the United States. It belongs to the same order as China, Coffea, and Ipecac., and

shows its affinity with these in its power over hemorrhages. Indian women drink a decoction of

it before confinement to make labour safe and easy. Eclectics use a concentrated decoction as an

• ▸application to sore nipples.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸Duncan, in his proving, induced pains and burning in the

kidneys, and H. P. Hale, who observed the effect on a woman, has recorded some characteristic

symptoms in the urinary and uterine sphere. A leading indication is congestion of the uterus with

bladder irritation as a concomitant.

• ▸Severe frontal headache on waking.
• ▸—Burning in vertex.
• ▸—Throbbing in occiput.
• ▸—Scalp

sensitive to touch.

• ▸Swallowing difficult; tonsils enlarged, esp.
• ▸1.
• ▸, painless.
• ▸—Fauces dry.
• ▸—Pharynx feels

constricted, impeding swallowing —Some enlargement of |. submaxillary gland.

Appetite impaired.—Eructations; acid.—Burning in stomach extending whole

length of cesophagus.

Rumbling.—Whole alimentary tract feels cold; transverse colon tender to

pressure.—Distension with flatus.—Griping.

Heat in kidneys; dull pain in—Uneasiness in neck of bladder, urging to

urinate; burning; 11 a.m.—Urethra (female) and neck of bladder swollen and irritated —Increased

• ▸quantity of urine, 1040, acid.
• ▸—Urine high-coloured, white sediment.
• ▸—Catarrh of bladder, esp.
• ▸in

women.—Dysuria accompanying uterine complaints.

Irritation at neck of bladder, with urging to urinate (Eup purp; Apis). Dysuria. Catarrh of bladder.

Cervix dark red, swollen. Dysmenorrhoea and uterine haemorrhage; blood bright red.

Uterus irritated, severe pain in it, cervix engorged, dark red,

swollen.—Engorged uterus; hemorrhage, bright; with dysuria.—Amenorrhcea; dysmenorrhcea;

menorrhagia; menses delayed.—Slow, feeble, ineffective labour pains.—False pains in last month

of pregnancy.

Much mucus in bronchi.—Dry, hacking cough in morning.—Breathing

difficult 11 a.m.

At heart: burning pains; uneasy feeling as if its action was being interfered

with.—Beats irregular.

Aching pains running down back.—Dull pain: between shoulders; in

kidney region.

Compare: In congested cervix associated with irritation of neck of bladder, Sep.

• ▸(Mitch.
• ▸has no general resemblance to Sep.
• ▸), Eu.
• ▸pu.
• ▸(vesical irritation in women), Hydrocot.

• ▸(Hdrct.
• ▸has in addition heat and itching in vagina), Apis, Vespa (Vesp.
• ▸has ulcer round os); Caul.
• ▸,

• ▸Chim.
• ▸, Act.
• ▸r.
• ▸, Helon.
• ▸, Puls.
• ▸, Senec.
• ▸, Uva ursi.

Compare: Chimaph; Senecio; Uva; Geran; Gossyp.

Tincture.