Common name: Yellow Melilot.
Introduction
Melilotus officinalis, Linn. Natural order: Leguminosae. Preparation: Tincture of the flowers. (Dr. Bowen uses both the yellow and white species; M. officinalis and M. alba).
Mind
He was fairly furious; was obliged to lock him in his room for twenty-four hours (after six hours). Loss of consciousness (with gushing of blood from nose), (fourth day).
Head
Dizzy (third day). Headache lasting four days, with oppression of the chest, severe stitching or cutting pains in the womb and through the hernia; was confined to bed for four days and only relieved by profuse bleeding from the nose, (after two days); she had no more headaches for seven months. Severe headache (third day). Almost delirious with headache (second and third day). In the afternoon had a heavy oppressive headache which towards night assumed a heavy throbbing nature (third day). A frightful, heavy, oppressive headache for three days, which is easiest relieved by applying vinegar to the head. Headache began gradually, and was confined to the left supraorbital region; it was aggravated by motion; on lying down it was better; if I allowed myself to think hard, as there was a disposition to do it would ache worse; I noticed on talking it quite disappeared from the forehead, and settled in the occipital region; when I stopped talking it returned to the forehead; it took it about a minute, I should judge, to travel back and forth; I could feel it migrate, especially when returning to the forehead; when I walked around the whole head was affected, but worse over the eye (I am right- handed, and have a weak right eye; the left brain is therefore best developed); this alternate headache is unique, so far as I know, it lasted about two hours (after about two hours).
Nose
Blood gushed from my nose, and I lost consciousness (fourth day).
Face
Very red face (third day). Face highly congested, almost livid (after six hours). Looked very pale (after six days); (after a week). Very red face in the afternoon (second day).
Stomach
Acid eructations all day, of a burning and smarting nature (first day). Acrid and burning eructations all the evening (first day).
Abdomen
Before I got to sleep, my abdomen became considerably bloated, with a crawling sensation as of worms, near the rectal muscles (second day).
Rectum
Had a heavy throbbing and fullness in the rectum, which I found to be internal piles, which alarmed me very much, as I had never been troubled there before (third day).
Urinary Organs
Was obliged to leave business, and go to relieve the accumulation of water in the bladder, which annoyed me very much (third day). Was obliged to void water very frequently (fourth day).
Respiratory Organs
Harsh, spasmodic cough (third day). Dry cough, spasmodic and distressing (third day). Smothered or partial suppressed cough. Cough very harassing, as I could not relieve my throat or bronchia by getting anything up until near night, when it began to loosen a little (fourth day); when I woke could expectorate quite freely (fifth morning). Very easily wearied as I could not get air enough to do me any good apparently (fourth day). Oppressed for beneath, and seemed to be smothering up (after six hours).
Chest
Much oppression of the chest; there seemed to be a load on my chest; difficult breathing, felt smothered and oppressed; frequently examined my clothes feared they might be too tight (second day); still an oppressed spasmodic breathing, with great fullness of the chest (third day). A great deal of soreness of the chest, both internally and externally; was fearful I had taken a cold, which I knew was not possible (second day).
General Symptoms
Very nervous and easily annoyed (third day). Seemed to be quite weak (after six days). Suffered for three days with terrible headache, a bad cough, and oppression of the chest, but she got relief when her nose began to bleed, which it did to a frightful degree. Symptoms only relieved by severe or profuse bleeding from the nose for three days.
Sleep
Poor sleep (first night). Passed a miserable night; my wife was much worried about me; slept better towards morning (fourth night).
Fever
Cold extremities (third day).
Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.