====== MENYANTHES TRIFOLIATA ======
<span tc1>{{anchor:s1}}Menyanthes Trifoliata.</span>

<span grade2>{{anchor:s2}}Buck Bean; Bitterklee. {{anchor:s3}}Gentianaceae.</span>

{{anchor:s4}}A perennial which grows in boggy places, indigenous to America, Europe and Northern Asia. {{anchor:s5}}It blossoms in May and June; flowers rose colored or whitish. {{anchor:s6}}The tincture is made from the fresh plant just coming into bloom.

{{anchor:s7}}Introduced by Hahnemann and proved by himself and his provers (Materia Medica Pura, vol. 5, p. 15).

====== CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. ======

{{anchor:s9}}- <span grade2>Headache</span>, Dunham, Raue's Rec., 1870, p. 287; <span grade2>Amaurosis</span>, Teste, Hughes' Pharmacod., p. 517; <span grade2>Pain in chest with nausea</span>, Hering, MSS.; <span grade2>Affection of chest</span>, Wells, Trans. {{anchor:s10}}World's Hom. Con., 1876, p. 554; <span grade2>Jerking of legs</span>, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 4, p. 581; <span grade2>Sciatica</span>, Lilienthal, Times Retros., vol. 1, p. 121; <span grade2>Cramps in legs</span>, Org., vol. 3, p. 269; <span grade2>Intermittent fever</span>, Charg, Trans. {{anchor:s11}}World's Hom. Con., 1876, p. 418; Wells, Trans. {{anchor:s12}}World's Hom. Con, 1876, p. 554; Dunham, Raue's Rec., 1870, p. 314; <span grade2>Quartan ague</span>, Fisher, Allen's Int. Fever, p. 171; <span grade2>Ague</span>, Douglas, Allen's Int. Fever, p. 172.

====== MIND. [1] ======

{{anchor:s14}}Taciturn, reflective; sad, weeping; likes to be alone.\\ {{anchor:s15}}Anxiety about heart, as if some evil was going to happen.\\ {{anchor:s16}}Indifference alternating with too great joy.\\ {{anchor:s17}}Ill humored, cross.

====== INNER HEAD. [3] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s19}}Constant heaviness of head.</span>\\ {{anchor:s20}}Painful dullness of head after eating.\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s21}}Pressure in head from above downward, amel. better during hard pressure with hand.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s22}}Pressive, stupefying headache, mostly involving forehead, during rest and motion.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s23}}Dull headache in room, with difficult flow of ideas; amel. in open air.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s24}}Compressive headache in vertex from both sides, on ascending steps, sensation as if a weight pressed upon brain with every step.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s25}}Stitches in left side of brain extending toward vertex.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s26}}Stitchlike tearing in right side of forehead near temporal region.</span>\\ {{anchor:s27}}Burning pain in forehead.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s28}}Pain in forehead, more severe in left side, eye and ear, extending through occiput; much amel. by pressure with hands.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s29}}Headache agg. lying down, by sleep and application of cold water.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s30}}Cold feeling of head, as if cold wind was blowing on it.</span>

====== OUTER HEAD. [4] ======

{{anchor:s32}}External gnawing on vertex.

====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ======

{{anchor:s34}}When reading everything becomes black before eyes.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s35}}Amaurosis.</span>\\ {{anchor:s36}}Pressing in eyes.\\ {{anchor:s37}}Eyelids feel stiff as from tonic spasms.

====== HEARING AND EARS. [6] ======

{{anchor:s39}}Stitches in ears.\\ {{anchor:s40}}Feeling of coldness in ears.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s41}}Cracking in ear when masticating.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s42}}Otorrhea, especially after exanthemata.</span>

====== SMELL AND NOSE. [7] ======

{{anchor:s44}}Tension in root of nose.\\ {{anchor:s45}}Subjective nauseating smell, as from rotten eggs.

====== UPPER FACE. [8] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s47}}Visible, though not painful twitching of facial muscles, especially of right side, agg. during rest than when walking.</span>\\ {{anchor:s48}}Heat and redness of face when sleeping.\\ {{anchor:s49}}Heat in face with cold feet.\\ {{anchor:s50}}Pain and cracking in articulation of jaw when masticating.\\ {{anchor:s51}}Pimples on face.

====== TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] ======

{{anchor:s53}}Taste in mouth, bitter sweet.

====== INNER MOUTH. [12] ======

{{anchor:s55}}Dryness of palate causing a stinging when swallowing.

====== PALATE AND THROAT. [13] ======

{{anchor:s57}}Great dryness of throat without thirst.\\ {{anchor:s58}}Paralytic feeling on left side of throat when yawning and coughing.\\ {{anchor:s59}}Dryness and roughness in throat preventing deglutition.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s60}}Sensation of coldness extending up esophagus, with great nausea, following pressure in stomach.</span>

====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s62}}Empty eructations.</span>

====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s64}}Throbbing in epigastrium like a pulse.</span>\\ {{anchor:s65}}Continuous rumbling in stomach as from emptiness.\\ {{anchor:s66}}Constriction in stomach.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s67}}Weak stomach, with pressing in head and hard stools.</span>

====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ======

{{anchor:s69}}Sensation of coldness in abdomen, especially when pressing with hand on it, in morning when rising.\\ {{anchor:s70}}Sensation of soreness of abdominal walls.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s71}}Distension and fullness of abdomen, as if overloaded by food, all day, with undiminished appetite, together with a sensation as of incarcerated flatus and frequent ineffectual efforts to emit it; in evening fullness much agg. by smoking.</span>

====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ======

{{anchor:s73}}Constipation hard stool, with pinching pain in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s74}}Bleeding hemorrhoidal tumors.

====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s76}}Frequent desire to urinate, with scanty discharge.</span>

====== MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] ======

{{anchor:s78}}Increased sexual desire, without amorous fancies or erections.\\ {{anchor:s79}}Both testicles are drawn up, right more than left.\\ {{anchor:s80}}Spermatic cord painful to touch.

====== VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] ======

{{anchor:s83}}Rough, hoarse voice, ears feel obstructed, as if something had been stretched across.\\ {{anchor:s84}}Stitch in anterior region of larynx, impeding deglutition.\\ {{anchor:s85}}Spasmodic contraction of larynx; effort to inspire causes cough.

====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s87}}Sharp pain through middle of upper right chest to lower part of shoulder, causing nausea and faint feeling; can scarcely move.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s88}}Pressure on both sides of chest, with sharp stitches, agg. on inspiration.</span>\\ {{anchor:s89}}Constriction and stitches on both sides of chest.\\ {{anchor:s90}}Stitches in (r. side) of chest agg. during motion and when breathing.\\ {{anchor:s91}}A man about fifty years of age consulted me for a trouble in his chest; great oppression of breathing, with violent and irregular action of heart, agg. from slight exertion; feet and legs below knees habitually cold, agg. about 8 A. M., for an hour or two, during which time chest symptoms agg. <span sbita>{{anchor:s92}}~</span> Affection of chest.

====== HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] ======

<span grade4>{{anchor:s94}}Anxiety about heart, as if some evil was going to happen.</span>\\ {{anchor:s95}}Stitches in region of heart.\\ {{anchor:s96}}Pulse slow during chill, accelerated during heat.

====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ======

{{anchor:s98}}Heaviness and stiffness in muscles of neck and throat.\\ {{anchor:s99}}Dull, boring stitch on left shoulder blade.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s100}}Dull boring sticking in left scapula, extending across spine.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s101}}Extremely painful tearing between scapulae, extending downward, especially on deep breathing.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s102}}Bruised pain in small of back, agg. when stooping, also when walking.</span>\\ {{anchor:s103}}Pain in back, when sitting still, disappearing on touching; pressure as from a thumb, and tingling in it, which increases pain, agg. on stooping, drawing upward.

====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s105}}Muscular twitches in right upper arm.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s106}}Cramplike pain in muscles of left forearm, extending to palm of hand, almost like paralysis.</span>\\ {{anchor:s107}}(In sick:) Tingling from elbows into hands and fingers, at 11 A. M., on walking in open air.\\ {{anchor:s108}}Tension and paralytic tearing in arms, hands and fingers.\\ {{anchor:s109}}Spasmodic stiffness of arms, fingers involuntarily clenched.\\ {{anchor:s110}}Painful jactitation of muscles of right upper arm and little finger.

====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s112}}Stitching, contractive pain in region of hip joint; cramplike drawing in of anterior portion of thigh when sitting; when sitting, thighs and legs are spasmodically jerked upward; pain amel. by motion and pressure, agg. evening, during rest and when lying down; after abuse of quinine.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s113}}~</span> <span grade3>Sciatica.</span>\\ {{anchor:s114}}Bruised feeling of thighs.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s115}}Right thigh and leg are spasmodically jerked upward while sitting, not when standing.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s116}}Legs constantly jerked up with cramps, preventing sleep.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s117}}Cramplike pain in muscles of right leg, extending from below upward, like a paralytic pain.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s118}}Painful spasmodic jerking of lower extremities in gouty persons, with calcareous deposits in joints.</span>

====== LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] ======

{{anchor:s120}}Stinging, pinching pain in limbs. <span sbita>{{anchor:s121}}~</span> Arthritic affection.

====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ======

{{anchor:s125}}Rest: pressive, stupefying headache; twitching of facial muscles agg.; pain in thigh agg.\\ {{anchor:s126}}Lying down: headache agg.; pain in thighs agg.; sweat in bed.\\ {{anchor:s127}}Sitting still: pain in back; cramplike drawing in thigh; thigh and leg jerked upward.\\ {{anchor:s128}}Stooping: pain in small of back agg.\\ {{anchor:s129}}Slight exertion: irregular action of heart agg.\\ {{anchor:s130}}Swallowing: stinging in palate.\\ {{anchor:s131}}Masticating: cracking in ear; pain and cracking in articulation of jaw.\\ {{anchor:s132}}Motion: pressive, stupefying headache; almost impossible, sharp pains through chest; stitches in chest agg.; pain in thighs amel.\\ {{anchor:s133}}Ascending steps: compressive headache.\\ {{anchor:s134}}Walking: twitching of facial muscles amel.; pain in small of back agg.; tingling from elbows into hands and fingers; great debility.

====== NERVES. [36] ======

{{anchor:s136}}Great debility, especially when walking, often with chilliness.\\ {{anchor:s137}}Painless twitching of muscles in different parts (face and thigh), principally when at rest.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s138}}Injuries to nerves (teeth broken when pulled, etc.).</span>

====== SLEEP. [37] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s140}}Vivid unremembered dreams.</span>

====== TIME. [38] ======

{{anchor:s142}}Morning when rising: coldness in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s143}}At 8 A. M., for an hour or two: coldness of feet and legs agg.\\ {{anchor:s144}}At 11 A. M.: tingling from elbows into hands and fingers.\\ {{anchor:s145}}All day: distension and fullness of abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s146}}Evening: fullness in abdomen agg. by smoking; pain in thighs agg.; general heat; sweat in bed.\\ {{anchor:s147}}All night: sweat lasting.

====== TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] ======

{{anchor:s149}}Warm stove: chill passes off.\\ {{anchor:s150}}Open air: dull headache amel.; tingling from elbows to fingers.\\ {{anchor:s151}}In room: dull headache.\\ {{anchor:s152}}Cold water: headache agg.

====== FEVER. [40] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s154}}Shivering on upper part of body, with yawning.</span>\\ {{anchor:s155}}Shuddering without chill (like from hearing horrible tales), only on upper body.\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s156}}Coldness of abdomen, especially on pressure with hand.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s157}}Chilly sensation in abdomen.</span> <span sbitared>{{anchor:s158}}~</span> <span grade4>Intermittent.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s159}}Coldness of dorsal spine, with shaking.</span>\\ {{anchor:s160}}General chill, which passes off near warm stove, remaining only on back.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s161}}Feet cold as far up as knees, as if they were in cold water.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s162}}Icy coldness of hands and feet, with warmth of rest of body.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s163}}Veins of lower arms and hands distended, while feet are icy cold.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s164}}Chilliness, especially of fingers and toes.</span>\\ {{anchor:s165}}Heat without thirst.\\ {{anchor:s166}}Hot face, with cold hands and feet.\\ {{anchor:s167}}General heat in evening, most severe on head, attended with cold feet.\\ {{anchor:s168}}Sensation of heat, particularly in back, with intermingling coldness, particularly in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s169}}Sweat in evening in bed immediately after lying down, frequently lasting whole night.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s170}}Intermittent fever, with chilliness in abdomen, lasting six days, when a disagreeable feeling of heat comes on, alternating or intermingling with chilliness, with cold feet and legs and slow pulse.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s171}}Paroxysm of fever daily at 9 A. M.; heat, thirst, restlessness and redness of face and eyes lasted till 3 P. M.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s172}}Irregular intermittent paroxysm consists chiefly of a cold stage which is incompletely developed, hands or ends of fingers, and toes or feet, and end of nose alone becoming very cold.</span>

====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ======

{{anchor:s174}}Alternate: heat and chilliness.\\ {{anchor:s175}}Daily at 9 A. M.: fever.\\ {{anchor:s176}}Lasting from 9 to 3 P. M.: heat, thirst, restlessness and redness of face and eyes.\\ {{anchor:s177}}Lasting six days: intermittent fever, with chilliness.

====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ======

{{anchor:s179}}Right: stitch-like tearing in side of forehead; twitching of facial muscles; testicle drawn up; sharp pain through upper side of chest; stitches in chest; muscular twitches in upper arm; thigh and leg jerked upward; cramplike pain in muscles of leg.\\ {{anchor:s180}}Left: stitches in side of brain; pain in side of forehead; paralytic feeling on side of throat; dull boring stitch in shoulder blade; dull boring sticking in scapula; cramplike pain in muscles of forearm.\\ {{anchor:s181}}From above downward: pressure in head.

====== SENSATIONS. [43] ======

{{anchor:s183}}As if some evil was going to happen; as if a weight pressed upon brain; as if cold wind was blowing on head; abdomen as if overloaded by food; as of incarcerated flatus; as if something had been stretched across ears; as if a thumb pressed on back; as if feet were in cold water.\\ {{anchor:s184}}Pain: in forehead; in articulation of jaw; in back.\\ {{anchor:s185}}Sharp pain: through middle of upper right chest.\\ {{anchor:s186}}Jerking and pinching pain: in outer parts.\\ {{anchor:s187}}Stitchlike tearing: in right side of forehead.\\ {{anchor:s188}}Paralytic tearing: in arms, hands and fingers.\\ {{anchor:s189}}External painful tearing: between scapulae.\\ {{anchor:s190}}Stitching contractive pain: in region of hip joint.\\ {{anchor:s191}}Stitches: in left side of brain; in ears; in anterior region of larynx; in chest; in both sides; in region of heart.\\ {{anchor:s192}}Stinging, pinching pain: in limbs.\\ {{anchor:s193}}Stinging: in palate.\\ {{anchor:s194}}Burning pain: in forehead.\\ {{anchor:s195}}Pinching pain: in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s196}}Cramplike pain: in muscles of left forearm; in muscles of right leg.\\ {{anchor:s197}}Cramplike drawing: in anterior portion of thigh.\\ {{anchor:s198}}Dull boring, sticking: in left scapula.\\ {{anchor:s199}}Bruised pain: in small of back; in thighs.\\ {{anchor:s200}}External gnawing: on vertex.\\ {{anchor:s201}}Painful spasmodic jerking: of lower extremities.\\ {{anchor:s202}}Painful jactitation: of muscles of arm and little finger.\\ {{anchor:s203}}Muscular twitches: in right upper arm.\\ {{anchor:s204}}Throbbing: in epigastrium.\\ {{anchor:s205}}Anxiety: about heart.\\ {{anchor:s206}}Compressive pain: in vertex.\\ {{anchor:s207}}Pressive, stupefying headache.\\ {{anchor:s208}}Dull pain: in head.\\ {{anchor:s209}}Tingling: in back; from elbows into hands and fingers.\\ {{anchor:s210}}Soreness: of abdominal walls.\\ {{anchor:s211}}Heat: of face; in head; in back.\\ {{anchor:s212}}Paralytic feeling: in left side of throat.\\ {{anchor:s213}}Spasmodic stiffness: of arms; fingers.\\ {{anchor:s214}}Stiff feeling: in eyelids; in muscles of neck and throat.\\ {{anchor:s215}}Dryness: of palate; of throat.\\ {{anchor:s216}}Tension: in root of nose; in arms, hands and fingers.\\ {{anchor:s217}}Constriction: in stomach; in both sides of chest.\\ {{anchor:s218}}Pressure: in head; in eyes; in stomach; in both sides of chest; in back.\\ {{anchor:s219}}Heaviness: of head; in muscles of neck and throat.\\ {{anchor:s220}}Fullness: of abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s221}}Coldness: of abdomen; of dorsal spine; of hands and feet; of end of nose.\\ {{anchor:s222}}Cold feeling: of head; in ears; extending up esophagus; in abdomen; in feet and legs.\\ {{anchor:s223}}Chilly sensation: in abdomen; of fingers and toes.\\ {{anchor:s224}}Shivering: on upper part of body.

====== TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] ======

{{anchor:s228}}Touch: spermatic cord painful; on back, makes pain disappear.\\ {{anchor:s229}}Pressure: pain in forehead amel.; coldness of abdomen amel.; pain in thighs amel.\\ {{anchor:s230}}Hard pressure: amel. pressure in head.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s231}}Injuries to nerves.</span>

====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ======

{{anchor:s233}}Child, aet. 22 months; intermittent fever.\\ {{anchor:s234}}Man, aet. 78; cramps in legs.\\ {{anchor:s235}}Man, aet. about 50; respiratory and heart trouble.

====== RELATIONS. [48] ======

{{anchor:s237}}Antidote: <span grade2>Camphor.</span>\\ {{anchor:s238}}It antidotes chronic effects of <span grade2>Cinchon.</span> and <span grade2>Quinia.</span>\\ {{anchor:s239}}Compatible: <span grade2>Capsic., Lycop., Pulsat., Rhus tox.</span>, which follow well.\\ {{anchor:s240}}Compare: <span grade2>Mag. mur., Paris quad.</span> and <span grade2>Pulsat.</span> in headaches; <span grade2>Carbo veg.</span> and <span grade2>Lycop.</span> in gastric symptoms; <span grade2>Laches.</span> in chills and fever; <span grade2>Calc. ostr.</span> and <span grade2>Gelsem.</span> in icy cold feet and legs.

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====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ======
^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 07, 1888 |
^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r145|Menyanthes trifoliata]] |
^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r145|Menyanthes trifoliata]] |
^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. |
^ Year: | 1888 |
^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting |
^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}