Melilotus officinalis

Melilotus officinalis
(yellow melilot-sweet clover)
* Congestions and haemorrhages seem to be the special manifestations of this drug.
* Violent congestive and nervous headaches.
* Infantile spasms.
* Epilepsy from blow on head.
* Pain and debility point to it.
* Coldness but also increase of temperature; tenderness, and pain.
* Muscular system depressed.
* Dreams and emissions.
Mind
- Unable to fix mind.
- Memory treacherous.
- Stupor.
- Wants to run away and hide.
- Delusions; thinks every one is looking at her, fears to talk loud, and wants to run away, etc.
Head
- Headache with retching, vomiting, sense of pressure over orbits, pallor, cold hands and feet,
black spots before eyes.
- Heavy, oppressed; frontal, throbbing, undulatingsensation in brain.
- Sick headache; relieved by epistaxis or menstrual flow. Fullness all over head.
- Eyes heavy; blurred sight; wants to close them tightly for relief.
- Neuralgia around and over right side of head andneck.
- Scalp sore and tender to touch.
Nose
- Stopped up, dry, must breathe through mouth; dry, hard clinkers in nose; profuse epistaxis.
Face
- Intensely red and flushed, with throbbing carotids. [Bell.]
Stool
- Difficult, painful, constipated.
- Anus feels constricted, full, throbs.
- No desire until there is a large accumulation. [Bry.; Alum.]
Female
- Menses scanty, intermit, with nausea and bearingdown. sticking pain in external parts.
- Dysmenorrhoea.
- Ovarian neuralgia.
Respiratory
- Feels as if smothering, especially from rapid walking.
- Haemoptysis.
- Weight on chest.
- Tickling in throat with cough.
Extremities
- Pain in knee; wants to stretch leg, but does notrelieve.
- Joints sore.
- Skin and extremities cold.
- Numbness and aching in knee-joints.
Modalities
- Worse, rainy, changeable weather, approach of storm, motion; 4 p.m.
Relationship
- Compare : Melilotus alba-(White Clover)- practically the same action. (Haemorrhages,
congestive headaches, engorged blood vessels, spasms.)
- Amyl; Bell.; Glon.
Dose
- Tincture, for inhaling; lower potencies.