Menispermum canadense

Menispermum canadense
(moonseed)
* A remedy for megrim, associated with restlessness and dreams.
* Pain in spine.
* Dryness, itching all over.
* Dry mouth and throat.
Head
- Pressure from within outward, with stretching and yawning and pain down back.
- Sick headache; pain in forehead and temples, moving to occiput.
- Tongue swollen and much saliva.
Extremities
- Pain in back, thighs, elbows, shoulders.
- Legs sore, as if bruised.
Relationship
- Compare : Cocculus; Bryon.
Dose
- Third potency.
Mentha piperita
(peppermint)
* Stimulates the cold-perceiving nerves, so just after taking it, a current of air at the ordinary
temperature seems cold.
* Marked action on respiratory organs and skin.
* Useful in gastrodynia, flatulent cold.
Abdomen
- Bloated, disturbing sleep.
- Infantile colic.
- Bilious colic with great accumulation of gas.
Respiration
- Voice husky.
- Tip of nose to touch.
- Throat dry and sore, as if pin crosswise in it.
- Dry cough, worse from air into larynx, tobacco smoke, fog, talking; with irritation in
suprasternal fossa [Rumex.] Trachea painful to touch.
Skin
- Every scratch becomes a sore.
- Itching of arm and hand when writing.
- Vaginal pruritus.
- Herpes zoster. [Ars.; Ran. bulb.]
Relationship
- Compare : Rumex; Laches.; Mentha pulegium- European pennyroyal-(pain in bones of
forehead and extremities).
- Mentha viridis-Spearmint-(scanty urine with frequent desire).
Dose
- Tincture, 1 to 20 drops, to thirtieth potency.
- Locally, in pruritus vaginae.