Melilotus



Throat

Throat sore left side, swallowing difficult, painful.

Appetite

Ravenous about 10 a.m., with onset of frontal headache. Appetite capricious, especially morning, impaired.

Stomach

Gastric discomfort, flatulence, fulness, and other symptoms appear when constipated. Acid eructations all day, causing burning and smarting (B).

Abdomen

Much distension, flatulent, worse during menses.

Stool and Anus

Constipation: no movement for 3 to 5 days then daily movement for 3 or 4 days. No desire for stool till there is large accumulation, when there is a very difficult, painful stool with constriction in rectum and discharge of stringy, glassy, milk- white mucus, each succeeding passage less painful until normal, then constipation sets in again. Heavy throbbing and fullness in rectum from internal piles (B.). Severe shooting cutting in rectum while walking, better sitting down.

Urinary Organs

Frequent and profuse urination. Urine profuse watery, and relieving the dull, congestive headache.

Female Sexual Organs

Leucorrhoea, pain and soreness in back and pelvic region, excited by walking. Menses at proper time, but scanty and intermittent, thin, watery, pale, offensive. During menses: headache, vertigo, stiffness in back and limbs, with dull, heavy, bearing-down pain in pelvis. Severe sharp sticking, shooting pains in external genitals (especially labia), momentary but frequently recurring and very annoying, causing starts (at close of menses). Severe stitches or cutting pains through uterus (B.). Ovarian neuralgia.

Respiratory Organs

Cough: harsh, dry, spasmodic, horribly distressing, causing great anxiety, towards night a slight expectoration, difficult, with slight better, so heavy and oppressive finally could not lie on either side (B.). Cough from fullness of chest better by epistaxis (B.). Haemoptysis, blood bright red. Smothering sensations, cannot get air enough. Breathing difficult from weight on chest, fulness of chest and head, violent congestion of the lungs. Tickling in throat with cough and spasmodic breathing causing extreme nervousness (B.). Weight on chest causing difficult breathing, sensation of smothering, frequently examined clothes to see if they were not too tight (B.).

Back

Broken sensation in lumbo-sacral articulation, on sitting and especially sitting upright, constantly changes position to get relief, wants to strike the part or press it, better standing or walking (seemed to alternate with headache).

Limbs

Uneasy sensation in large joints. As if had taken hard cold, stiff and sore on rising, better by careful movement. Rheumatic pains in all joints on approach of rain-storm or in rainy, changeable weather. Extremities cold.

Upper Limbs

Arms heavy, too much prostrated to lift them without effort.

Lower Limbs

Numbness and aching in knee-joints, right then left Gnawing throbbing in right knee-joint, wants to stretch it but stretching does not better. Rheumatic pain in right leg, especially about knee, better moving. Soreness about hip-joints. Cutting pains in knees alternating with headaches.

Generalities

Tired, bruised, listless, sleepy, chilly. Engorgements of any part or organ. Spasms, eclampsia, convulsions, epilepsy. Haemorrhages.

Sleep

Drowsy, sleepy, stupid. Alternate sleep and wakefulness through night. Dreams: unpleasant, of bickering. Insomnia: cannot sleep after 3 a.m., awakes regularly a few minutes before 3 a.m. Head seemed too high (although he had no pillow). Sleep prevented by unpleasant things (unconnected, meaningless) coursing through brain.

Fever

Chilly 10 a.m., begins in back, loins, or occiput, passing in waves up to vertex. Chilly 12-1 p.m., with sharp pains in cardiac region of stomach and much flatulence. Chilly all forenoon. Uncomfortably chilly, feet and hands colds. Febris nervosa stupida.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica