(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 everyone 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, undulating sensation 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 and neck. 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 bearing-down. 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 not relieve. 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 head-aches, engorged blood vessels, spasms.) AMYL; BELL.; GLON.
Dose
Tincture, for inhaling; lower potencies.