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Trifolium Pratense

Red Clover
20 sectionsBoericke · 8Clarke · 12

At a glance

Cardinal features · auto-extracted from Boericke · Clarke
  • Produces most marked ptyalism
  • Crusta lactea
  • Cancerous diathesis

Essence

Prologue
Boericke

Red Clover

  • Produces most marked ptyalism.
  • Feeling of fullness with congestion of salivary glands, followed by increased copious flow of saliva.
  • Feeling as if mumps were coming on.
  • Crusta lactea; dry, scaly crusts.
  • Stiff neck.
  • Cancerous diathesis.
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Keynotes

Characteristics
Clarke
  • The proving of 7r.
  • r.
  • produced a specific action on the salivary glands.
  • Hale

says it produces marked salivation in horses.

Head

Head
Boericke

Confusion and headache on awaking. Dullness in anterior brain. Mental failure, loss of memory.

Symptoms — Head
Clarke

Great headache in morning on waking.—Dulness in anterior brain.—Head feels full of

blood.—Intermittent headache.—Pricking in forehead.

Face

Symptoms — Face
Clarke

Feeling of fulness or congestion of all the salivary glands.—Discomfort and even pain

in glands followed by copious flow of saliva.—One prover felt just as if she had mumps coming

on.

Mouth

Mouth
Boericke

Increased flow of saliva (Merc; Syphil). Sore throat, with hoarseness.

Symptoms — Mouth
Clarke

Whole mucus tract sensitive.—Taste of drug disgusting and always in

mouth.—Salivation (horses).

Throat

Symptoms — Throat
Clarke

Much mucus in throat, constantly trying to clear it-—Throat irritated all the way

down; as if scalded.—Irritation of pharynx and trachea causing dry cough.—Sharp pain through

uvula causing tears to start.

Abdomen

Symptoms — Abdomen
Clarke
  • Rises at 5.
  • 45 a.
  • m.
  • with griping pains in abdomen and headache.
  • —Colicky pains

all day.

Stool

Symptoms — Stool and Anus
Clarke

Very costive, each stool followed by several drops of dark blood, attended

by a bearing-down sensation as if bowel would prolapse by its own weight (this lasted fourteen

days, after which bowels became regular).—Stool delayed several days, hard, covered with

mucus; later bowels moved freely.

Urinary

Symptoms — Urinary Organs
Clarke

Uneasiness in region of kidneys, and whole urinary tract—Urine very

profuse.—Vesical tenesmus after urinating.

Respiratory

Respiratory
Boericke
  • Coryza like that which precedes hay-fever; thin mucus, with much irritation.
  • Hoarse and choking; chills with cough at night.
  • Cough on coming into the open air.
  • Hay-fever.
  • Spasmodic cough; whooping cough, paroxysms; worse at night.
Symptoms — Respiratory Organs
Clarke

Great dryness of trachea causing him to clear throat of some foreign

substance at 11 a.m.—Irritation of pharynx and trachea causing short, hacking cough with

accumulation of mucus which must be expectorated.—Incessant dry, hacking cough.—Seems as if

trachea was loaded with impurities, after eating.—Dyspnoea > in fresh air.

Chest

Symptoms — Chest
Clarke
  • Lungs feel as if full of blood 2 p.
  • m.
  • ; 10 p.
  • m.
  • had to leave a close room from

oppression; on going into fresh air was obliged to cough much; this was followed by hiccough

and profuse expectoration.—Chest tight; on lying down.

Neck & Back

Back
Boericke

Neck stiff; cramp in sterno-cleido muscles; relieved by heat and irritation.

Symptoms — Neck and Back
Clarke

Neck stiff, cramps in sterno-mastoid muscles, > by heat and rubbing; with

the cough.

Extremities

Extremities
Boericke

Tingling in palms. Hands and feet cold. Tibial ulcers.

Fever

Symptoms — Fever
Clarke

Immediately after retiring began to feel cold; pulse intermitting, later bounding;

became very warm and breathing stopped; lungs felt as if breathing hot air——Feet and hands cold,

head hot.

Trifolium Repens.

  • Trifolium repens.
  • White Clover.
  • N.
  • O.
  • Leguminosé.
  • Trituration or tincture of flower heads.

Relations

Relationship
Boericke
  • Compare: Trifolium repens.
  • --White clover- (Prophylactic against mumps, feeling of congestion in salivary glands, pain and hardening, especially submaxillary; worse, lying down.
  • Mouth filled with watery saliva, worse lying down.
  • Taste of blood in mouth and throat.
  • Sensation as if heart would stop, with great fear, better sitting up or moving about; worse, when alone, with cold sweat on face).

Posology

Dose
Boericke

Tincture

Classical Posology

Acute
  • 30C or 200C · repeat every 1–4 h depending on intensity
  • Stop on improvement · reassess in 24–48 h
  • For sensitive / elderly / paediatric: prefer LM1 or 30C
Constitutional
  • 200C or 1M single dose · wait 4 weeks
  • Alternative: LM1 daily × 10 days · ascend on retest
  • Hering's-Law follow-up adapts the next script
Citations: Organon §246 (interval / repetition) · §161 (plussed water) · §282 (LM ascension) · Kent on selection · Vithoulkas on second prescription. Open Repertify for the case-specific dose with the rule cited inline.
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