Menyanthes, trifoliata, Linn.

Natural order , Gentianaceæ.

Common names , Buck-bean, Bitterklee.

Preparation , Tincture of whole plant.

Authorities. (Hahnemann. Mat. Med. Pura, 5, 15).

1 , Hahnemann; 2 , Franz; 3 , Guttmann; 4 , Hornburg; 5 , Hartmann; 6 , Haynel; 7 , Langhammer; 8 , Mœckel; 9 , Teuthorn; 10 , Wislicenus; 11 , Joh. Francus, Trifol. fibrin. hist., 1701; 12 , Schlegel, in Huf. Journ., VII, 4, p. 163.

MIND

Emotional.
(With increase of the heat, delirium, and small, rapid, irritable pulse), 12 . [In a intermittent fever. -Hahnemann.]
Quiet mood; contented with his circumstances, 7 . [Curative action. -Hahnemann.]
Quiet, reserved, contented with himself all day, 7 . [Rather a curative effect. -Hahnemann.]
He prefers to be alone, though not ill-humored, because he would rather be quiet than talk (after seven hours), 5.
Excessively frolicsome (after eleven hours), 5 . [Alternate action. -Hahnemann.]
Weeping mood, 9.
Despondent mood; his thoughts incline to dwell upon past, sad, disagreeable subjects (after eighty hours), 10.
Apprehensive sensation about the heart, as of impending evil, and as if he had to endure some hardship (after one hour), 12.
Fretful, ill-humored, and discontented with himself and his circumstances; apprehension drives him from place to place (after sixteen hours), 2. [10.]
Gloomy, morose, and fretful (after one hour), 8.
Keeps aloof from amusements (after twelve hours); half an hour afterwards is inclined to joke, 3.
Intellectual.
Disinclination to work, 5.

HEAD

Confusion and Vertigo.
Confusion of the head like a gloominess, in the house; thought was difficult, though he could readily remember anything; but in the open air he felt freer and easier (after two hours), 2.
(Vertigo, on stooping and rising again), 1.
General Head.
Emptiness in the head after eating, 1.
Dulness in the head (after seventeen hours), 6.
Headache like a painful dulness, increased after eating, 2.
Heaviness with pressure in the whole head; at times also violent stitches in the left frontal eminence; a headache that completely disappears on laying the head upon one side, 5.
Constant heaviness of the head, immediately, 3. [20.]
Dull headache, on leaning the head to one side, 1.
*A pressure in the head from above downward, relieved during hard pressure with the hand, afterwards returning and lasting several hours (after five hours and a half), 5.
Headache like a pressure from both sides, together with some stitches in the occiput, 9.
Pressive headache, violent in the open air (after twelve hours), 3.
Pressive stupefying headache, mostly involving the forehead, during rest and motion (after half an hour), 7.
Pressive headache, aggravated on ascending or descending steps, when it seemed as though a heavy weight were lying upon the brain and pressing outward at the forehead (after three hours and a half), 5.
Forehead.
Drawing headache in the forehead, 2.
Drawing headache in the right side of the forehead (after three hours and a half), 6.
Pressive-drawing headache in the forehead just above the root of the nose (after two hours), 2.
Pressure in the forepart of the forehead from within outward (after two hours and a half), 5. [30.]
Pressive headache above the right side of the forehead, immediately disappearing on applying the palm of the hand (after two hours and a half), .

EYE

Pressure on a small spot in the eye, as if in the lens, with a sensation like vertigo, or vanishing of sight, or of squinting of the eyes, but without obscuration of vision (while sitting), 2. [50.]
Tearing stitches in the inner canthi, which cause the eyes to fill with water (after twelve hours), 10.
Brow.
Burning above the left eyebrow, 3.
Lids.
At times stiffness in one or the other lid, like a tonic cramp, so that he could not move it, 2.
A sensation on the left lower lid internally, as if a not very hard body were lying under it (after four hours and a half), 3.
Sensation in the eyes as from swelling of the lids, or as in a stye, on holding the lids still, 2.
Burning tension above the left upper lid that disappears when touched, 3.
Twitching in both eyelids and a pressure in both eyeballs, which, however, soon disappears after eating, 1.
Lachrymal Apparatus.
Lachrymation from time to time, 3.
Ball.
Dull stitches in the eyeballs, 2.
Pupil.
Pupils dilated (after four hours and a half), 7. [60.]
Pupils contracted (after three-quarters, and one hour), 7.
Vision.
Dimness of the eyes, only in the open air (after six hours), 8.
It frequently becomes black before the eyes, on reflecting while reading (after eight hours), 8.
Flickering before the eyes, so that all objects seem to jump, lasting four minutes (after four hours), 8.

EAR

External.
Sticking tearing in the posterior portion of the cartilage of the ear, and in the mastoid process (after fourteen hours), 10.
Middle.
Feeling of coldness within the ear, just as if water had got into it (after one hour), 10.
Aching in both ears, 4.
Small stitches in quick succession in the left inner ear (after seven hours and a half), 8.
Dull stitches extending through the ear into the head, and in the facial muscles of the same side below the eye (after one hour), 10.
Some fine stitches, first in the right, then in the left ear, 6. [70.]
Itching within the right ear, lasting three days), 3.
Hearing.
He seems to hear sounds in the right ear (immediately), 6.
Slight humming as from insects in front of the ears (after forty-eight hours), 10.
Constant ringing in the right ear, which ceases when the ear is rubbed internally, but immediately returns (after four hours), 8.
Roaring in the left ear, on blowing the nose, as though air passed out through it (after twenty-six hours), 10.

NOSE

Objective.
Sneezing without coryza (after six hours and a half), 7.
Profuse fluent coryza all day; involuntary running from the nose, 3.
He blows blood from the nose in the morning, 1.
Subjective.
The nose seemed stopped, with fluent coryza, though he could easily draw air through it as usual (after two hours and a half), 7.
Tension in the root of the nose, 1.
Smell. [80.]
A disgusting odor in front of the nose, as from bad eggs, caused nausea, occurring in the house or open air, lasting a quarter of an hour (after nine hours), 8.

FACE

Visible, though not painful, twitching of the facial muscles, especially of the right side, worse during rest than while walking (after six hours and a half), 8.*
Painful cramp in the right cheek muscles during rest, 5.
Stitchlike tearing in the left upper jaw during rest and motion (after two hours), 7.
Lips completely dried and cracked, without thirst or perceptible heat (after three hours), 8.
Tension in the jaws, 1.

MOUTH

Teeth.
A grumbling in the upper teeth, not aggravated by biting upon them, 1.
Tongue.
Fine stitches on the under surface of the tongue, which disappear on moving it (after three-quarters of an hour), 3.
General Mouth.
Dryness of the palate, which causes sticking when swallowing, without thirst, and with the ordinary saliva in the mouth (after one hour), 2.
Sensation as if the left side of the palate were paralyzed on yawning and coughing, 1. [90.]
Pressure in the upper part of the palate, 1.
Saliva.
Increased secretion of saliva (immediately), 6.
Saliva accumulates in the mouth, without nausea (after eight minutes), 6.
Water accumulates in the mouth, with nausea (after one hour and a quarter), 6.
Taste.
Bitter sweetish taste in the mouth (after two hours), 2.

THROAT

Feeling of dryness in the throat (after twenty minutes), 6.
Dryness, with so great roughness of the throat that swallowing saliva was difficult, increasing for two days, 3.
Transient, extremely fine stitch in the right side of the throat (after one hour), 6.
Constant sticking in the throat, in front by the larynx, only on swallowing, which it impeded (after eight hours), 7.
Pharynx and Œsophagus.
Dryness of the pharynx, commencing in the morning, for two days, 3. [100.]
A sensation of coldness extending up the œsophagus, with great nausea, following pressure in the stomach, lasting twenty minutes (after ten hours and a half), 8.*
External Throat.
Sensation of heaviness in the anterior cervical muscles; obliged to bend the neck backward, 4.
Cramplike pain, ending in a stitch, in the right anterior cervical muscles, disappearing after touch, but returning in two hours and three-quarters, 7.

STOMACH

Appetite.
Sudden ravenous hunger, lasting half an hour, ceasing after eating a little (after five hours), 8.
Although not hungry, he relishes food as usual, and even eats more than usual, 2.
He does not relish bread and butter; he has appetite and relish for only meat, 4.
Eructation and Hiccough.
Empty eructations, 1 ; immediately, 5.
Frequent empty eructations (after a quarter of an hour), 7.
Frequent hiccough (after four hours and three-quarters), 7.
Nausea.
Very transient nausea, without eructations (after ten hours), 8. [110.]
Great inclination to vomit, usually with painful retching and constriction in the stomach, though without eructations (after ten hours and a half), 8.
Stomach.
A constant rumbling in the epigastric region, as frequently occurs in emptiness of the stomach, though without an empty stomach (after two hours), 5.
Sudden heat in the stomach, lasting a quarter of an hour, followed by excessive hunger (after three hours), 8.
Constrictive sensation in the stomach (after a quarter of an hour), 4.
A pressive pinching in the region of the stomach, that slowly descends towards the rectum, and disappears after the emission of flatus, but soon returns and obliges him to go to stool, after which it disappears (after half an hour), 5.

ABDOMEN

Hypochondria.
Pressive cutting in the hypochondriac region (after eight hour), 10.
Sticking pain beneath the short ribs while sitting, not affected by inspiration or expiration, relieved for a moment by external pressure with the hand (after three hours), 9.
Umbilical and Sides.
Long-continued griping in the region of the umbilicus; it sinks like a weight towards the lower abdomen, and disappears after emission of flatus (after half an hour), 5.
Gurgling movements in the right side of the abdomen, with a feeling of heat over the whole abdomen, and an internal sensation as if diarrhœa would follow, during rest and motion (after half an hour), 7.
General Abdomen.
Distension of the abdomen (after fourteen hours), followed after two hours by profuse emission of flatus, 8. [120.]
Distension and fulness of the 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 flatus; in the evening the fulness was much increased by smoking tobacco, 9.*
Flatus moves about the abdomen, which makes him very qualmish, 4.
Audible rumbling in the intestines after eating, 4.
Tension and pressure in a part of the abdomen, 1.
Griping in the abdomen, immediately followed by a hard stool, 3.
Cutting pain suddenly shoots from the spine out through the abdomen (after twelve hours), 10.
Painful soreness of the parietes of the abdomen to touch and the rubbing of the clothes, as if it were covered with pimples (after seventy-two hours), 10.
Painful soreness of the skin of the upper abdomen while lying, as also on moving about, though worse on stooping (after two hours), 3.
Hypogastrium and Iliac Regions.
Griping in the lower abdomen (after half an hour), 3.
Griping in the lower abdomen, with urging to stool in the rectum, 2. [130.]
Violent pressure in the hypogastrium and spermatic cord, which is also painful to touch, .

RECTUM AND ANUS

Sensitive itching within the rectum (after thirteen hours), 8.
Twitching in the anus, 3.

STOOL

Griping in the abdomen, followed by a stool that was not very hard, and occurred several hours sooner than usual (after a quarter of an hour), 3 . [Curative reaction in the organism of a person inclined to constipation, and who had an evacuation only every thirty-two or thirty-six hours. -Hahnemann.]
Constipation for two days, 1.
Stool retained, 1. [140.]
Retention of stool (first day); a hard stool, evacuated with difficulty, with drawing-griping pains in the lower abdomen (second day), 2.
Retention of stool (first day), and not till the third day two easy stools, 2.
Retention of stool for thirty-two hours, followed by evacuation of hard fæces, 10.

URINARY ORGANS

Frequent desire to urinate, with scanty discharge (after four hours and nine hours and a half), 7.*

SEXUAL ORGANS

Male.
Pressive drawing-cutting pain in the right side of the scrotum, or a feeling as if one side was squeezed (after fourteen hours), 4.
Fine stitches in the left side of the scrotum (after three hours), 10.
Constant burning stitches in the scrotum and symphysis pubis (after one hour and a half), 6.
The painful testicles were retracted, the right more so (after one hour and a half), 8.
Painful jerking in the right testicle, worse during rest (after six hours and a half), 8.
Great desire for coition, without sexual phantasy or erections (after five hours), 7.
Female. [150.]
(A tensive-pressive pain in mons veneris while walking and sitting), 1.

RESPIRATORY APPARATUS

Larynx.
Spasmodic constriction of the larynx; the exertion of drawing in air provoked cough, lasting several minutes (after nine hours), 8.
Crawling tickling in the larynx, frequently returning (after fifteen hours), 3.
Voice.
Rough voice, 3.
On talking, the voice was rough, almost harsh, wherewith the ears were almost as much stopped as if they had been stuffed with something (after three hours), 7.
Hoarseness, 11.
Respiration.
Respiration accelerated, even while standing, with increased pulse, and redness and heat of the face (after two hours), 9.
Dyspnœa, 11.

CHEST

A compression around the chest while sitting, walking, and standing, a very disagreeable, anxious sensation (after six hours and a half), 6.
Drawing pain in the right chest, extending towards the axilla (after one hour and a half), 6. [160.]
Pressure upon the chest after dinner, 2.
Constant pressure upon the left chest, mingled with stitches, alike on inspiration and expiration (after one hour and a half), 5.
Dull sticking pain in the chest in the region of the heart, and in the corresponding spot on the right side, aggravated by pressing upon the parts and making them tense (after twenty-one hours and a half); it returned and lasted several hours (after twenty-six hours), 6.
Boring sticking in the left chest while sitting and on moving about, though more violent on inspiration and expiration (after three hours and a half), 3.
Violent stitches in the chest only on moving (after three hours and a half), 6.
Long fine stitches in the left chest, close to the clavicle, on inspiration (after one hour and a half), 5.
An itching stitch in the left false ribs, persisting during inspiration and expiration (after two hours and a half), 3.
Soreness of the chest, as if beaten, on sitting bent over, 2.
Throbbing in the left chest, persistent during inspiration and expiration, though only while lying (after fourteen hours), 3.
Front.
Pressure, with some sharp stitches, in the sternum (after twelve hours), 10.
Sides. [170.]
Contracting pain from both sides of the chest, with sharp stitches (after twelve hours), 10.
Pressure on both sides of the chest, with sharp stitches, greatly aggravated on inspiration (after nine hours), 10.
Frequent pressure on the left side of the chest, as from flatulence, 1.
Transient stitches in the right side of the chest (after one hour and a quarter), 6.

HEART AND PULSE

Drawing pain in the region of the heart after eating, 6.
Violent, persistent stitches in the region of the heart, increased by holding the breath (after fifteen hours), 6.
Pulse slow, 52 (after one hour and a quarter), 7.

NECK AND BACK

Neck.
Stiffness in the nape of the neck in the evening, 1.
Sensation of stiffness in the cervical muscles on moving the neck (after nine hours), 10.
Stiff, drawing sensation in the nape of the neck, with dulness in the occiput, 2. [180.]
Tearing pressure in the nape of the neck (after eight hours), 10.
Pain in the cervical muscles, sprained, paralyzed, and tense, as after long bending backward, on walking in the open air (after six hours), 7.
Dorsal.
Twitching of the right dorsal muscles (after eleven hours), 3.
A sensation of heaviness between the scapulæ; while walking he was constantly obliged to bend forward and backward to obtain relief, 4.
Sharp pinching near the spine, in the region of the scapulæ (after twenty-four hours), 10.
Dull boring sticking in the left scapula, extending across the spine, 4.
Extremely painful tearing between the scapulæ, extending downward, especially on deep breathing , disappearing while sitting, but immediately returning on walking; during rest, there remains a sensation of soreness, 4.
Lumbar.
Muscular twitches in the right lumbar region while sitting (after three hours), 3.
A constrictive pain in the small of the back; later in the evening a feeling of pressure as with the thumb upon it, and when it became worse, a crawling in it, 1.
Pain like a dull drawing near the lower vertebræ on bending the body forward while sitting, 2. [190.]
A pressive pain in the small of the back, extending upward, while sitting, 2.
Pressive pain in the small of the back on stooping, 3.
Pressive pain above the sacrum always on stooping (after eight hours), 6.
Drawing-pressive pain in the small of the back on stooping, 2.
Bruised pain in the left lumbar region, in the vicinity of the kidney, in the evening while sitting quietly, 2.
Bruised pain in the small of the back, mostly while sitting quietly, disappearing on touch, .

EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL

Weakness of all the limbs for an hour, during rest and motion (after twenty-eight hours), 8.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

Painful visible twitching in the left arm, worse during rest (after six hours and a half), 8.
Shoulder.
Stitches in the deltoid muscle of the shoulder-joint, 2.
Fine stitches shoot into the axilla on moving the arm (after four hours), 10. [200.]
Numerous fine stitches in the right axilla, extending towards the chest (after seven hours and a half), 8.
A burning-scraping sensation on the top of the shoulder, 4.
Arm.
Muscular twitches in the right upper arm (after twenty-four hours), 3 ; (after sixteen hours and a half), 6.
Sudden cramplike tearing in the upper arm while sitting, 2.
Forearm.
Cramplike pain in the muscles of the left forearm, extending to the palm of the hand, almost like paralysis (after two hours), 7.
Repeated cramplike drawing in the inside of the left forearm; at last four fingers became involuntarily contracted; the arm itself was spasmodically stiff, so that no exertion sufficed to move it (after eight hours and a half), 8.
Cramplike pressure in the forearm, close to the bend of the elbow, disappearing on touch, but immediately returning, 2.
Stitches below the elbows and at the wrist (after twelve hours), 10.
Wrist.
Cramplike pressure in the right wrist and metacarpus during rest and motion (after one hour and three-quarters), 7.
Sticking pain in the left wrist (after half an hour), 6. [210.]
Paralytic tearing in the wrists, especially on moving them (after two hours), 6.
Hand.
Distension of the veins of the hands and somewhat above them on the forearms, with the ordinary warmth of the body, but icy coldness of the feet (after five hours), 5.
Drawing pain on writing and on moving the hand, disappearing on resting it (after two hours), 2.
Cramplike drawing on the back of the hand in the muscles of the thumb, .

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

Hip. [220.]
Sticking constrictive pain in the hip-joint, about the acetabulum, only when walking (after three hours), 9.
Very acute fine stitches in the right hip-joint, when walking and standing (after thirteen hours), 8.
Thigh.
Twitching of the muscles of the left thigh, 6.
Four spasmodic startings in the outstretched right thigh and leg, while sitting, but while standing or if he drew up the knee while sitting it was not noticed (after eight hours), 8.
Tension, with stitches on the anterior surface of the thigh and leg, in the vicinity of the knee (after ten hours), 10.
An intermitting pinching, with bubbling, as from something alive, in the upper part of the inner side of the thigh, worse while sitting (after five hours), 10.
A cramplike drawing on the forepart of the thigh, while sitting (after two hours), 2.
Violent burning stitch on the anterior surface of the left thigh, somewhat above the knee, while sitting (after fifteen hours), 6.
Sudden shooting stitches in the right gluteal muscles (after seven hours), 10.
Jerking stitches in the upper margin of the left gluteus maximus, 2. [230.]
Cramplike, drawing, bruised pain in the femur, with a feeling of heat in the back and over the whole upper part of the body, mostly while sitting, 2.
Numb, tense, pressive, bruised pain in both thighs, while walking and sitting, 2.
Knee.
Drawing in the hollow of the right knee, extending through the calf, while standing and sitting, 3.
Pain in the knee-joint, as if dislocated, extending inward, during rest and motion (after three-quarters of an hour), 7.
Dull stitches in the patella, from within outward, with a feeling of heat in the knees (after twelve hours), 10.
An itching-boring stitch on the inner side of the right knee-joint, during rest and motion (after eleven hours and a half), 3.
A jerking in the left knee, not exactly painful, worse during rest than while walking (after six hours and a half), 8.

GENERAL SYMPTOMS

Objective.
Twitching of small portions of muscles in various parts of the body at different times, 6.
Visible twitching in several parts at the same time, not exactly painful, worse during rest than while walking (after six hours and a half), 8.
Vitality extremely increased; excessive hastiness of all movements (after thirty-two hours), 8 . [Alternate effect. -Hahnemann.]
Weariness and exhaustion, immediately, 1.
Weakness of the body while walking; together with chilliness all over (after one hour and a quarter), 6.
Great weakness of the whole body, together with pressive pain above the sacrum while standing, diminished while sitting (after seventeen hours), 6.
(Extreme weakness, with heat and violent headache), 12 . [In an intermittent fever. -Hahnemann.]
Subjective.
Sticking pinching here and there in the body (after eight hours), 10.
A drawing-bruised pain on the outer side of the thigh, small of the back, and left loin, and in the region of the kidney, while sitting quietly, in the evening, 2.

SLEEP AND DREAMS

Sleepiness. [260.]
Frequent yawning, as though he had not slept enough (after two hours), 7.
Sleeplessness.
Uneasy sleep; he tosses from side to side, 3.
Redness and heat of the face during sleep; he woke and cried out, "There, there!" and pointed with his finger, and fell asleep again, 1.
Dreams.
Vivid unremembered dreams, 7.
Lascivious, vivid, unremembered dreams, without emissions, 3.

FEVER

Chilliness.
A sensation of chilliness, especially in the fingers, 1.*
Chilliness over the whole body, especially on the back, not relieved by the warmth of the stove (after three-quarters of an hour), 6.
Chilliness over the whole body, disappearing by the warmth of the stove, returning at a distance from the stove, lasting half an hour (after a quarter of an hour), 6.
Shivering, as after a long walk, 4.
Creepings of external shivering without internal chilliness, especially on the legs, in a warm room (after three hours), 10. [270.]
Horripilation, without chilliness, for ten minutes in a warm room (after seven hours), 8.
Feeling of chilliness over the whole trunk, with otherwise equable temperature (after eight hours and a quarter), 6.
Cold sensation in the abdomen, especially on pressure with the hand, 1.
Feeling of coldness in the abdomen, on rising from bed in the morning; creeping coldness over the back and sides, like a shivering when listening to a horrible tale, 1.
Coldness of the spine, with shaking (after four hours), 8.
Feet cold as far up as the knees, as if they were in cold water, 4.*
Cold feet, for forty-eight hours, 5.
Coldness of the feet, lasting till night; she could not even get them warm in bed (after three hours), 9.
*Icy coldness of the hands and feet, with warmth of the rest of the body (after half an hour), 5.
Shivering over the upper part of the body, with yawning, immediately, 5. [280.]
Shivering in the back, as from listening to a horrible tale, not like a chill, in the morning, 1.
Shivering over the back without chilliness, as if he had been excited or frightened by something, without subsequent heat (while sitting), (after one hour and a half), 7.
Febrile shivering over the whole back, as if he had been uncovered for a long time in the cold air (after a quarter of an hour), 7.

CONDITIONS

Aggravation.
( Morning ), Blows blood from nose; shivering in back.
( Evening ), After walking in open air, heat, etc.; immediately after lying down, perspiration.
( Open air ), Pressive headache; dimness of eyes.
( Walking in open air ), Pain in cervical muscles.
( After eating ), Emptiness in head; headache; rumbling in abdomen; pain in region of heart.
( Inspiration ), Pressure in sides of chest.
( Lying ), Throbbing in chest.
( Motion ), Stitches in chest; tearing in wrists; drawing in hand.
( Rest ), Twitching in facial muscles; cramp in cheek-muscles; jerking in testicle; twitching in arm; jerking in knee; stitches in tibia ; cutting in malleoli; twitching in several parts.
( Sitting ), Drawing in occiput; pain in small of back; bruised pain in small of back; tearing in upper arm; startings in thigh; pinching in thigh; drawing in thigh; stitch on thigh; pain in femur, etc.; pain between malleolus and tendo Achillis; sensation in calves; pain in thigh, etc.
( Smoking ), Distension of abdomen, etc.
( Standing ), Pain above sacrum.
( Ascending or descending steps ), Pressive headache.
( Stooping ), Headache in vertex; soreness of upper abdomen; pressive pain in small of back.
( Walking ), Stitch in lower abdomen; tearing between scapula ; pain in hip-joint; stitch above ankles.
Amelioration.
( Open air ), Confusion of head, etc.
( After eating ), Twitching in eyelids, etc.
( Motion ), Stitches in finger-joints.

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