Materia Medica
Menyanthes
Buck-bean
A remedy for certain headaches, intermittent fever. Coldness of abdomen. Twitchings. Sensation of ten- sion and compression.] Fidgets and urinary difficulties in women.
Mind
Excited, full of fancies. Can neither sleep nor work.
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 up- stairs. Cracking in jaw and twitching of facial muscles.
Eyes
Pain from overexertion; blur; unable to dis- tinguish letters; conjunctiva red; eyes hot and painful.
Mouth
Painful jerks in root of teeth. Bloated face. Coppery taste, as after eating onions.
Stomach
No thirst at any time. Ravenous hunger; passing away after eating a little.j Desire for meat. Sensation of coldness extending up to cesophagus.
Abdomen
Distended and full; increased by smok- ing tobacco. Coldness of abdomen.
Respiratory
Sudden contraction of glottis, when drinking or talking. Food goes dowm wrong way. False croup; cannot exhale. Spasmodic and whooping- cough. Few paroxysms in day-time, but many at night; with vomiting after eating. Asthma, as if inhaling sul- phur; cough from talking; hollow, deep, with rawness, hoarseness, and pains through chest. Violent spasmodic cough; worse at night.
Extremities
Icy coldness of hands and feet. Cramp- like pain. As soon as patient lies down, legs jerk and teitclh.
Sleep
Awakes at night with rush of blood to lower legs. Vivid dream of water, fire, etc.
Fever
Coldness predominates; felt most acutely in abdomen and legs and tip of nose.
Modalities
Worse, during rest. ascending. Better, pressure on affected part, stooping, motion.
Relationships
Compare: Caps.: Puls.; Calc.; Phos. ac.; Sang. Antidote: Camph. Compare: Dros.: Coral.; Sticta.
Dose
Third to thirtieth potency. (Skunk) A great medicine for whooping-cough. In order to insure its full success, it should be given in the lower dilutions from 1x to 3x. Suffocative feeling, asthmatic paroxysms, spasmodic cough; cough so violent, seems as if each spell would terminate life. Child must be raised up, gets blue in face, cannot exhale. Mucus rales through upper part of chest. Patient wants to bath in ice-cold water. First to third potency. Has a very short action.