Materia Medica
Melilotus
Yellow Melilot -- Sweet Clover
Congestions and harmorrhages seem to be the sperial manifestations of this drug. Violent congestive and nervous headaches. Infantile spasims. Epilepsy from blow on head. Pain and debility point to it. Coldness, tenderness, and pain. 489
Mind
Unable to fix mind. Memory treachcrous. 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, throb- bing, undulating sensation in brain. Sick hcadachie; re- lieved by epistaxis or menstrual flow. Fullness all over lead. Eyes heavy; blurred sight; wants to close them tightly for relief. Neuralgia around and ever 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, intcrinit, with nausea and bearing-down. Sticking pain in external parts. Dys- menorrhca. Ovarian neuralgia.
Respiratory
Feels as if smothering, especially from rapid walking. Haemoptysis. Weight on chest. Tic- ling 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, ap- proach of storm, motion; 4 p. M.
Relationships
Compare: Melilotus alba (White Clover — practically the same action.( (Hemorrhages, congestive headaches, engorged blood vessels, spasms.) Amyl; Bell.; Glon.
Dose
Tincture, for inhaling; lower potencies.