YARROW-NOSE-BLEED.
Introduction
Millefolium -mill, a thousand plus folium, a leaf.)
Millefolium “is a very common herb, which amounts to a weed in old, dry p[assures and along roadsides. It came to us from Europe, but is now fully naturalized ” (Millspaugh).
Symptoms
It was first proved by Nenning, one of Hahnemann’s provers. Painless haemorrhages from all mucous surfaces is the chief if not sole indication for the use of this remedy. haemorrhages, with profuse flow of bright red blood, which is thin.
Hughes speaks of using Millefolium with benefit in recurring epistaxis, and its common European name-nosebleed-was given to it from the fact that the early writers claimed that haemorrhage of the nose followed placing its leaves in the nostrils. Millspaugh questions whether this may not have been due to its direct irritation, its leaves being saw-toothed.
Among the especially indications for it s use are; painless, bleeding piles (85), bright-red haemorrhage from the uterus, or “painless draining’s (138) from the uterus after labor, after abortion, or when abortion threatens 913) if the blood be bright red and there are no pains in the joints. It also checks too profuse menstruation” (Dunham) (135).
It is to be thought of for varicose veins (295) during pregnancy and it is of value in haematuria (85) when it is painless.
Millefolium is a remedy that you want to have with you when called to treat a case of haemoptysis (27). The blood would be bright red, and you would find oppression of the chest (29), palpitation and but little cough, and it is useful during the progress of tuberculosis, the blood being raised without cough. Allen gives a valuable point here when he tells us that t”the haemorrhage,” of Millefolium, “is only distinguished from that of Aconite by the absence of anxiety,”
Hughes warns us against using Millefolium too strong, saying that he has :seen drop doses of the tincture seriously aggravate” a haemorrhage from the lungs.
I use Millefolium in the tincture.
