Materia Medica (Boericke)

Menyanthes

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Natural History.

Buck-bean

 

General.

A remedy for certain headaches, intermittent fever. Coldness of abdomen. Twitchings. Sensation of tension and compression. Fidgets and urinary difficulties in women. Diabetes.

 

Head.

Pressing in vertex; BETTER, HARD PRESSURE WITH HAND. Pressing-together pain. Weight pressing on brain with every step on ascending. Pain from nape over whole brain; better, stooping, sitting; worse, going upstairs. Cracking in jaw and twitching of facial muscles.

 

Stomach.

No thirst at any time. Ravenous hunger; passing away after eating a little. Desire for meat. Sensation of coldness extending up to oesophagus.

 

Abdomen.

Distended and full; increased by smoking tobacco. Coldness of abdomen.

 

Extremities.

ICY COLDNESS OF HANDS AND FEET. Cramp-like pain. As soon as patient lies down, LEGS JERK AND TWITCH.

 

Fever.

Coldness predominates; felt most acutely in abdomen and legs and tip of nose.

 

Aggravation.

WORSE, during rest, ascending.

 

Amelioration.

BETTER, pressure on affected part, stooping, motion.

 

Relationship.

Compare: CAPS.; PULS.; CALC.; PHOS-AC.; SANG.

Antidote: CAMPH.

 

Dose.

Third to thirtieth potency.

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