Homeopathy Remedy Melilotus


Melilotus homeopathy drug symptoms from Handbook of Materia Medica and Homeopathic Therapeutics by T.F. Allen, of the homeopathic remedy Melilotus…


      A tincture is made of the fresh flowers of Melilotus officinalis, Wild. (the yellow Melilot).

General Action

      On the peripheral (Capillary) circulation, dilating the arterioles and causing intense congestion (see physiol. action of Amyl. n.).

Allies – Amyl-n., Gloninum, Cact., Magnolia, Belladonna, Ferrum

Generalities

      Sudden, shooting, stinging, burning, rheumatic pains, (<) knees and elbows, yet metatarsal joint of great toe is most swollen and red. Bruised, sore, tired feeling all over body. Oppression in morning, with heaviness and weariness. Weakness; in forenoon. Wearied easily, as if I could not get air enough to do any good. Stiff on trying to walk; on rising from a seat, with dizziness. Many symptoms appear in forenoon and wear off during the day; return of all symptoms at 3 P.M. Amelioration in open air; A. from walking and change of position.

Clinical Epilepsy resulting from a blow on the head has been cured. Puerperal convulsions. Convulsions of teething children.

Mind

      Furious, had to lock him in his room for twenty-four hours. Irascible, impatient, discontented, fault-finding. Indolent, reluctant to rise in morning, unwilling to set about anything, desire to do something else than the task belonging to the hour. Weeping in three attacks, without melancholy. Nervous and easily annoyed. Desire to be in the open air. Unable to fix mind, stupid, indifferent. Omit words and letters in writing. Unable to study, memory will not retain anything. Talk incoherently, know what I want to say, but seem unable to express myself clearly, “words trip each other up.”

Clinical Religious melancholy. Hypochondriasis.

Head

      Aching; (>) nosebleed, with cough and oppression of chest; so that he was almost delirious; causing purple redness of face and bloodshot eyes, (>) epistaxis; sick, (>) epistaxis or menstrual flow, blood bright red; periodical, nervous, every week or once in four weeks, more frequent in winter; worse once in three or four days; oppressive; oppressive, at 9 P.M. after a hard day’s work, with dizziness, faintness and nausea; heavy, (>) applying vinegar; heavy, in afternoon, becoming towards night heavy throbbing. Heaviness. fulness; and oppression; as if all the blood were there; as if blood would burst through nose, eyes and ears, with dizzy, sick feeling that is (<) motion. Throbbing (Gloninum); and sensation as if all the bloodvessels of the brain would give way and cause some lesion of that organ. Congestion, which has left meningeal capillaries enlarged, and this had made me very nervous. Swaying sensation in brain, with tired pain, coldness and listlessness. Vertigo; on moving; with nausea, with wavelike movement in brain and tension.

Frontal pain in forenoon; every day at 9 or 10 A.M.; in afternoon preceded by hot, flushed face and feverish sensation; in l. supraorbital region, (<) motion or thinking hard, (>) lying down, on talking it changed to occiput and returned to forehead when I stopped talking, it took about a minute to travel back and forth, I could feel it migrate, especially when returning to forehead, when I walked the whole head was affected, (<) over eye (I am right-handed and have a weak r. eye); throbbing, preceded by prostration; throbbing, in r. eminence, (<) from 9 till noon. Sharp pain in r. temple alternating with sharp pain in r. knee. Headache in r. side waking him at 4 A.M., (<) motion, (<) afternoon, with gastric flatulence.

Clinical Neuralgic headaches recurring every day at 4 P.M. Violent neuralgic headache, driving him almost crazy, with violent congestion of the head, pulsation, purple redness of the face, extreme nervousness, symptoms associated with nosebleed, which relieved.

Eyes

      Tired and sore, desire to close them tightly for relief. Sensation as if too large for orbits and as if pressed outward. Heavy, hot and as if pressed outward. Lids heavy. Sensation in lids as if unable to close them. Vision imperfect; blurred; almost unable to focus objects; floating bodies before eyes when studying.

Ears, Nose and Face

      Sensation of puffing of wind from ears. Nose dry; N. stopped, must breathe through mouth. Hard clinkers in nose. Nosebleed; with high fever and congestion of head and face; gush of bright red blood; gushing, with loss of consciousness. Redness of face and head, with throbbing in carotids (Amyl-n., Belladonna); red face all day, and feverish; red in afternoon, and hot; red before haemorrhages from nose, lungs and uterus; almost livid (Belladonna). Pallor.

Throat

      Soreness on l. side, swallowing painful, swallowing caused the wind to puff out of ears. Tickling, with cough and spasmodic breathing, causing nervousness. Fulness.

Stomach and Abdomen

      Very hungry, but nothing satisfied the taste; ravenous about 10 A.M., with the onset of frontal headache; appetite capricious, (<) morning; A. lost, especially for breakfast. Eructations burning, acid, smarting, all day; acrid, burning, all the evening. Cramp in stomach. Congestion of stomach. Abdomen full; at night before sleep, with crawling as of worms near rectal muscles. Flatulent distention of A., (<) during menstruation.

Rectum and Stool

      Internal piles, with oppressive fulness; and heavy throbbing. Shooting, cutting pain in rectum when walking, (>) sitting. Constipation, with gastric discomfort, fulness, flatulence and other symptoms. No stool for three or five days, then daily stool for three or four days. No desire until there is a large accumulation, then difficult, painful stool, with constriction in rectum and discharge (with the faeces) of stringy, glairy, milky- white mucus, each succeeding stool less painful till normal, then constipation again.

Urinary Organs

      Frequent micturition; and excessive (Belladonna). Urine profuse, watery, relieving the dull, congestive headache (Gelsemium).

Sexual Organs

      Leucorrhoea excited by walking, with pain and soreness in back and pelvic organs. Stitching or cutting through uterus; frequent momentary S. in external genitals ((<) labia) at close of menstruation, with nausea and dull, heavy pain in pelvis, menses lasted four days (usually only from twenty-four to thirty-six hours), intermittent only during the day. Enlargement of l. ovary. Congestion of ovaries, with heaviness and oppressive pain. Scanty, intermittent menstruation, thin, pale, offensive; scanty, intermittent, with nausea, pain in back and bearing down pains in pelvis; scanty, intermittent, with headache, vertigo, stiffness in back and limbs, dull heavy pain in pelvis.

Respiratory Organs

      Cough from fulness in chest; C. (>) nosebleed, blood bright red; hacking C. from tickling; dry, spasmodic, distressing; harsh, dry, spasmodic causing anxiety, towards night slight expectoration difficult to detach relieving somewhat, heaviness and oppression so that he could lie on neither side; harassing, as I could not relieve throat or bronchi by getting anything up till near midnight, could expectorate freely next morning on waking. Haemoptysis, bright red. Could not get air enough, felt as if smothering. Breath short, difficult on climbing a hill or from rapid walking; difficult, from weight on chest (Ferrum).

Chest

      Pain in r. lung before 10 P.M., with occasional pain in l. hip and with twitching of muscles. Oppression; with smothered feeling and difficult breathing, next day oppressed, spasmodic breathing, with fulness of chest. Smothering. Soreness; internally and externally; just under ribs, as if in pleura; internally, on waking from bad sleep, with oppression, through the day difficult breathing with fulness of chest and head, next morning woke with spasmodic cough, same oppression and spasmodic breathing, during the day was nervous and had oppressive, heavy, throbbing headache, was easiest when perfectly quiet, towards night was sure that I had internal haemorrhage from the congestion, next day distressing cough causing anxiety, easily wearied, with inability to get air enough, towards night slightly (>) scanty, difficult expectoration, all night had hot cloths applied to the chest to give relief, delirious a part of the night and talked incessantly.

Back

      Broken sensation in lumbo-sacral articulation; in sacro-lumbar region on sitting, (>) walking or standing, constant change of position to obtain relief, inclination to press or strike the part, this backache alternated with headache.

Extremities

      Rheumatic pains in all joints on approach of a rain-storm or in rainy, changeable weather. Feeling as if I had taken a hard cold, stiff and sore when rising, (>) careful movements. Uneasiness in large joints. Arms heavy. Soreness about hip-joints, with bruised sensation on pressure. Cutting in knees alternating with frontal, r. orbital and occipital headache. Gnawing, throbbing pain in r. knee, with desire to stretch the leg, but stretching does not relieve. Numbness, and aching in r., then l. knee. Rheumatic pain in r. leg, (<) about knee and hip, (>) motion.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

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.