Condensed Materia Medica

Millefolium mill.

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Mind

Anxious, with pain in the heart.
Melancholy, sadness.
Much excited, with pains in pit of stomach.

Sensorium

Stupefied, intoxicated.
Confused, dull, especially evenings, known not what he is about nor what he ought to do; seems constantly as if he had forgotten something.

Inner Head

Congestion to head; when stooping in evening; at night a stream from chest to head, like a gust of wind with nosebleed.
Slight throbbing in arteries of head and face.
Fulness in head after siesta.
Dull pain in vertex.
Sensation in right side of head as if screwed together.
Hemicrania.
Violent headache, so that he strikes head against the bedpost or wall; twitching of eyelids and frontal muscles.
Occipital headache: dull toward evening.
Piercing or thrusts in head, vertex, over eyes, occiput, side of head.
Headache worse; stooping; on awaking.

Eyes

Like a mist before eyes not near the eyes, but at a distance.
Eyes brilliant.
Inward piercing, pressing in eyes to root of nose and sides of forehead.
Sensation of too much blood in eyes.
Spots on the eyes.
Fistula lachrymalis; lachrymation and discharge from the eyes.

Ears

Noise in left ear causes her to start with fright; later, when laughing, sensation as of cold air passing out.
Sensation as if the ears were stopped up, after dinner.
Darting in left ear.

Nose

Nosebleed; in congestions to the chest and head; excessive.
Piercing pain from eyes to root of nose.

Face

Sensation of heat as if blood was rising to the head.
Tearing: in face to temples; from right lower jaw to ear, then teeth; contortions of face.

Teeth

Rheumatic toothache, with diseased gums.
Gum-boil.

Mouth

Thirst, mouth dry.
Putrid sore mouth; stomacace, ulcerated gums.

Throat

Uvula relaxed; also tonsils; asthenic catarrh.
Rough feeling in the throat.
Dull piercing pains, right, then left-sided.
Ulceration of the throat; pain in left side of throat when swallowing.

Stomach

Painful gnawing and digging in stomach as from hunger.
Pain in stomach as if empty, mornings after waking.
Sensation of fulness in the stomach.
Cramp in stomach, with sensation as of a liquid moving from stomach to intestines, toward anus.
Great pain in pit of stomach, from suppressed variolous pustules; pain after confluent variola.

Hypochondria

Pain in region of liver, at beginning of cartilage of twelfth rib; also below.
Piercing in right lower ribs.

Abdomen

Wind colic in the hysterical or hypochondriacal; colic during menstruation.
Incarcerated hernia.
Ascites.

Stool, etc

Bloody dysentery, tenesmus; during epidemics of dysentery; bloody flux after much exertion.
Violent colic, bloody diarrhœa during pregnancy.
Chronic blenorrhœa from atony of mucous membranes; great pain.
Hemorrhoids; profuse flow of blood.
Ascarides.
Offensive flatus.

Urine

Pain in region of left kidney, then bloody urine.
Involuntary micturition.
Urine bloody; blood forms a cake in the vessel.
Catarrh of bladder from atony.
Stone in bladder, with retention of urine; bloody urine.
Pus-like discharge, after lithotomy.

Male Sexual Organs

Want of ejaculations when cohabiting.
Gleet.
Swelling of penis and testicles.

Female Sexual Organs

Menses: suppressed, with pain in stomach; epilepsy; cough, with bloody sputum; excessive flow, lasts too long; also with colic pains.
Uterine hemorrhages after great exertion.
Leucorrhœa of children from atony of vaginal mucous membrane.

Pregnancy

During pregnancy, cramp-like affections.
Barrenness, with too profuse menses.
Lochia too copious.
Lochia suppressed; violent fever, no milk, convulsive twitchings; great pains.
Nipples sore.

Cough

With frequent spitting of bright blood; oppression of chest, palpitation; in phthisis; in suppressed hemorrhoids; suppressed menses; checked lochia.
Repeated bronchorrhagia; especially in phthisis; or after a fall.
Blenorrhœa of the lungs.

Lungs

Oppression of chest, frequent blood-spitting; piercing pain, stinging, bruised feeling; worse under left shoulder-blade. θ Phthisis pulmonalis.

Heart and Pulse

Excessive palpitation and bloody sputum.
Ebullitions from coughing blood.
Pulse accelerated and contracted.

Upper Limbs

Fine piercing pain in left scapula, in breathing when standing.
Left arm frequently feels as if going to sleep.
Hot hands.

Lower limbs

Right tendo-achillis pains as after a blow or sprain.
First left, then right foot goes to sleep; disappearing on walking.
Hot feet.

Limbs in General

Piercing pains, drawing, tearing.

Position, etc

Stooping: 3. Exertion: 23. Standing: 22. Walking: 33.

Nerves

Convulsions during teething; after labor.

Sleep

Yawning, without any weariness.
Congestion from chest to head, like a stream, while asleep.
Falls asleep late, unrefreshed in morning.

Time

Morning: 17, 37. Evening: 2, 3. Night: 3.

Chill, Fever and Sweat

Chilliness, with pain in kidneys.
Fever from suppressed itch.
Colliquative sweats.

Sides

Right: 3, 8, 18, 33. Left: 6, 13, 21, 28, 32. Right to left: 13. Left to right: 33. Below upward: 3. Above downward: 17.

Tissues

Congestions.
Hemorrhages florid.
Painful varices during pregnancy.
Mucous discharge from atony.

Contact, Injuries, etc

Wounds which bleed profusely; especially from a fall.
Sprains; effects of overlifting or overexertion.

Skin

Countless vesicles, size of a pea, offensive secretion.
Stomachic pains from suppressed small-pox.

Stages and States

For the aged; atonic; for children and women.

Relationship

Millef. is said to antidote Arum mac.
Coffee drunk after Millef. causes congestion to head.
Erechthites is a rival of Millef, in bright red epistaxis and in hæmoptysis.
Senecio aur., is excellent in hæmaturia; renal pains with nausea.