Menyanthes meny.

A tincture is made of the fresh plant, Menyanthes trifoliata, L.

Nat. m., Cact., Aranea.

▶ Twitching of small portions of muscles in various parts (Nat. m.); T. in various parts at the same time, not exactly painful, agg. rest. ▶ Sticking pinching here and there. ▶ Increase of vitality, hastiness in all movements. ▶ Weakness; when walking, with general chilliness; of whole body, with pain above sacrum when standing; (with heat and headache).

Joyous. ▶ Keeps aloof from amusements, afterwards inclines to joke. ▶ Prefers to be alone, though not ill-humored, because he would rather be quiet than talk. ▶ Weeping mood. ▶ Despondent, inclined to think of past sad, disagreeable subjects. ▶ Apprehensive about heart, as of impending evil and as if he had to endure some calamity. ▶ Fretful and gloomy; F., discontented with himself and his circumstances, and anxiety driving him from place to place. ▶ Disinclined to work.

Aching on leaning head to one side; A. agg. open air; agg. eating; agg. ascending steps, when it seemed as if there were a weight upon brain and pressing outward at forehead; amel. laying head upon one side, with heaviness and intermittent stitches in left frontal eminence; stupefying, agg. forehead; like a pressure from both sides, with stitches in occiput. ▶ Pressure from above downward, amel. hard pressure of hand, but returning. ▶ Confusion; in the house, thought difficult though he could readily remember. ▶ Heaviness. ▶ Emptiness after eating. ▶ (Vertigo on stooping and rising again.).

Stitches extending towards vertex; burning S., less on scalp, with heat in face. ▶ Stitchlike tearing near right temple. ▶ Pain on right side, amel. applying palm. ▶ Drawing pain; in right side; above root of nose; internally along left bone. ▶ Pressure outward; in forepart.

Pressure in left, with stitches. ▶ Compression, amel. pressure, but returning. ▶ Sore feeling in skin of left when touched.

▶ Compression from sides, with sensation on ascending steps as if at every step a weight pressed upon brain (Compare Cact.). ▶ Tensive pain. ▶ Gnawing pain externally. ▶ Jerking pain, agg. stooping.

▶ Stitches in left side of brain extending towards vertex. ▶ Pain in right side. ▶ Drawing in occiput when sitting; pinching D. on side of O. ▶ Drawing upward pain in right half of cerebrum, ending in occiput. ▶ Hair stands on end without chilliness.

Violent neuralgic headache beginning in right side of nape and extending over whole brain to forehead, amel. sitting, stooping or pressure (Sil.). ▶ Neuralgic headache pressing from above downward, amel. pressure of hand, agg. going up and down-stairs, with feeling of a heavy weight on the brain pressing it outward at the forehead.

Sciatica of left side. ▶ Sciatica, especially with spasmodic jerking of thighs and legs, the pain generally amel. motion.

In intermittent fever its chief characteristic is the extreme coldness of the tip of nose (Apis), tips of fingers and toes and icy coldness of feet and legs to knees; the chill always predominates and forms a pronounced part of the paroxysm (Aranea).

Pressure on a spot, as if in lens, when sitting, with sensation like vertigo or vanishing of sight or of squinting, but without obscuration of vision. ▶ Lachrymation. ▶ Pupils dilated; contracted. ▶ Stitches in balls. ▶ Twitching of lids, amel. eating, with pressure in balls. ▶ Stiffness in one or other lid like a tonic cramp. ▶ Tearing stitches in inner canthi, with lachrymation. ▶ Sensation internally on left lower lid as if a not very hard body were lying under it. ▶ On holding lids still sensation in them as if swollen or as in a stye. ▶ Burning tension above left upper lid, amel. touch. ▶ Vision dim in open air; V. vanishes on reflecting when reading; V. flickering.

Stitches in right, then left ; in left inner; extending into head, and in muscles below eye of same side. ▶ Sticking tearing posteriorly in cartilage and in mastoid process. ▶ Pinching. ▶ Itching within right. ▶ Coldness internally as if water were in it. ▶ Ringing in right; amel. rubbing ear internally, but returning. ▶ Chirping as from crickets in front of ears. ▶ Roaring in left on blowing nose, as if air rushed out through it.

Tension in root. ▶ Sneezing without coryza. ▶ Involuntary running. ▶ Fluent coryza, with stopped sensation, though he could draw air through it as usual. ▶ Blowing out of blood in morning. ▶ Odor like bad eggs, causing nausea.

▶ Twitching of muscles, agg. right, agg. rest. ▶ Painful cramp in muscles of right cheek during rest. ▶ Stitchlike tearing in left upper jaw. ▶ Tension in jaws. ▶ Lips dry and cracked.

Grumbling in upper teeth. ▶ Stitches on under surface of tongue, amel. moving it. ▶ Pressure in upper part of palate. ▶ Dryness of palate causing sticking when swallowing, without thirst and with ordinary saliva. ▶ Paralyzed feeling in left side of palate of yawning and coughing. ▶ Salivation; with nausea. ▶ Bitter-sweetish taste. ▶ No taste to bread and butter, he has appetite and relish for meat only.

Sticking in right side. ▶ Dryness; with roughness of œsophagus, so that swallowing of saliva was difficult; of œsophagus.

Sudden ravenous hunger, amel. eating a little. ▶ Although not hungry, he relishes food as usual and eats more than usual. ▶ Empty eructations. ▶ Hiccough. ▶ Nausea; with painful retching and constriction in stomach. ▶ Rumbling in epigastric region. ▶ Pinching in region slowly descending towards rectum, amel. emission of flatus, but returning, amel. stool. ▶ Pressure, then nausea, with coldness extending up œsophagus. ▶ Constriction. ▶ Sudden heat, then excessive hunger.

Distention, then emission of flatus; D. as if overloaded with food, with undiminished appetite, sensation of incarcerated flatus and ineffectual efforts to emit flatus, in evening the D. agg. smoking tobacco. ▶ Rumbling after eating. ▶ Flatus moves about making him qualmish. ▶ Griping, then hard stool. ▶ Tension in a part, with pressure. ▶ Coldness, agg. pressure of hand; C. in morning on rising, with creeping coldness over back and sides, like a shivering when listening to a horrible tale.

Parietes sore to touch and to rubbing of clothes, as if covered with pimples. ▶ Painful soreness of skin of upper A. when lying and on moving about, agg. stooping. ▶ Sticking beneath short ribs when sitting, transiently amel. pressure. ▶ Cutting in hypochondria. ▶ Gurgling in right side, with heat over whole abdomen and sensation as before diarrhœa. ▶ Griping in umbilical region, sinking like a weight towards hypogastrium, amel. emission of flatus.

Sticking in left side when walking, then on standing sudden jerklike stitches; sudden jerking S. in left when sitting, causing shuddering; sudden S. in sides when sitting, amel. touch, but returning. ▶ Griping; with urging to stool. ▶ Pressure in glands about rings on bending forward; P. in groin, as if in spermatic cord, with pain on touch.

Itching in rectum. ▶ Twitching in anus. ▶ Constipation. ▶ Stool hard and delayed. ▶ Stool retained; and next day hard, difficult, with drawing griping in hypogastrium.

▶ Frequent desire, with scanty discharge.

Retraction of testicles, agg. right. ▶ Painful jerking in right testicle, agg. rest. ▶ Stitches in left scrotum; burning S. in scrotum and symphysis pubis. ▶ Drawing cutting in right scrotum or feeling as if one side were squeezed. ▶ (Tensive, pressive pain in mons veneris when walking and sitting.). ▶ Great desire without sexual phantasy or erections.

Sticking anteriorly in larynx on swallowing. ▶ Frequent crawling tickling in larynx. ▶ Spasmodic constriction of larynx, with cough from exertion of drawing in air. ▶ Hoarseness. ▶ Voice rough; with stoppage of ears. ▶ Dyspnœa. ▶ Respiration accelerated, even when standing, with increased pulse and redness and heat of face.

Stitches in right; S. on moving; close to left clavicle on inspiration; in sides, agg. inspiration, with pressure on them; in region of heart and in corresponding spot on right side, agg. pressure and making parts tense; in sternum, with pressure; boring in left, when sitting and on moving about, agg. inspiration and expiration; itching in left false ribs during inspiration and expiration. ▶ Grasping from both sides, with stitches. ▶ Aching after dinner. ▶ Drawing pain in right, extending towards axilla. ▶ Soreness as if beaten on sitting bent. ▶ Pressure on left side, as from flatulence; P. upon left, with stitches, alike on inspiration and expiration. ▶ Anxious compression when sitting, walking and standing. ▶ Throbbing in left during inspiration and expiration, only when lying.

Sticking in region of heart, agg. holding breath. ▶ Drawing pain in region after eating. ▶ Pulse slow.

Tearing in nape. ▶ Cramplike pain in right muscles ending in a stitch, amel. touch, but returning. ▶ Pain in muscles as if sprained, paralyzed and tense, as after long bending backward, on walking in open air. ▶ Heaviness of muscles, obliging him to bend neck backward. ▶ Stiff, drawing sensation in nape, with dullness in occiput. ▶ Stiffness of nape; in evening.

Shooting cutting from spine out through abdomen. ▶ Twitching of right dorsal muscles. ▶ Boring sticking in left scapula, extending across spine. ▶ Tearing between scapulæ, extending downward, agg. deep breathing, amel. sitting, but returning, then during rest soreness. ▶ Pinching between scapulæ near spine. ▶ Drawing pain near lower dorsal vertebræ on bending forward when sitting. ▶ Heaviness between scapulæ, amel. bending backward and forward when walking. ▶ Twitching in right lumbar region when sitting.

Pain on stooping; above S. on stooping; extending upward when sitting. ▶ Bruised pain in evening when sitting; B. pain agg. sitting, amel. touch; drawing B. pain in S., left loin, region of kidney and outer side of thigh in evening, when sitting. ▶ Drawing pain on stooping. ▶ Constriction in evening as from pressure of the thumb, and when it became worse a crawling in it.

Weakness. ▶ Shooting into axilla on moving arm; in right axilla, extending towards chest; in deltoid at shoulder-joint. ▶ Burning scraping on top of shoulder. ▶ Painful visible twitching in left arm, agg. rest; T. in right upper arm. ▶ Sudden cramplike tearing in upper arm when sitting.

Stitches below elbow and on wrist. ▶ Cramplike pain in muscles of left, almost like paralysis, extending to palm; C. pressure close to bend of elbow, amel. touch, but returning. ▶ Cramplike drawing in inside of left, then four fingers were involuntarily contracted, with arm spasmodically stiff so that it could not be moved.

Sticking in left wrist. ▶ Paralytic tearing in wrists, agg. motion. ▶ Cramplike pressure in right wrist and metacarpus. ▶ Distention of veins of hands and above them, with coldness of feet. ▶ Cramplike drawing on back of hand, in muscles of thumb. ▶ Drawing pain in hand on writing and on moving it.

Painful jerking in left fourth. ▶ Stitches in proximal joints, amel. motion; S. in right thumb and index, extending outward. ▶ Cramplike pressure in ball of right thumb; in left index, rather externally, amel. motion. ▶ Sticking pinching in outer side of proximal phalanx of thumb.

▶ Jerking stitches in upper margin of left gluteus maximus; sudden S. in right gluteals.

▶ Starting in right T. and leg only when sitting with them outstretched. ▶ Twitching of muscles of left. ▶ Stitches in right hip-joint when walking and standing; burning S. on anterior surface above left knee when sitting. ▶ Sticking constriction in hip-joint about acetabulum when walking. ▶ Intermittent pinching in upper inner part, agg. sitting, with bubbling as from something alive. ▶ Numb, tense, bruised pain when walking and sitting. ▶ Tension in T. and leg near knee, with stitches on anterior surface. ▶ Cramplike drawing on forepart when sitting. ▶ Cramplike drawing, bruised pain in shaft of femur, agg. sitting, with heat in back and over upper part of body.

Stitches outward in patellæ, with heat in knees; itching boring S. on inner side of right knee. ▶ Pain as if dislocated, extending inward. ▶ Drawing in hollow of right, extending through calf, when standing and sitting.

Jerking in left, agg. rest. ▶ Stitches below knee; in middle of tibia during rest, with jerking clutching, as if he had held the foot in a difficult position; burning, above ankles when walking; pulsating, below middle of tibia during rest. ▶ Cramplike paralytic pain extending upward in muscles of right. ▶ Cramplike drawing upward on outer side of left when sitting. ▶ Sharp pressure on tibia. ▶ Sprained pain near inner malleolus, now left, now right. ▶ Corroding biting pain in a spot between right external malleolus and tendo-achillis when sitting and walking. ▶ Tremulous sensation in calves, agg. sitting.

Cutting in external malleoli, amel. motion. ▶ Sprained pain from one left malleolus to the other when walking in open air. ▶ Sticking in right heel; in soles when walking.

Yawning. ▶ Uneasy sleep. ▶ Redness and heat of face during sleep, he woke and cried "There, there," pointed with his finger and fell asleep again. ▶ Vivid, unremembered dreams; and lascivious, without emissions.

▶ Chilliness; agg. fingers; agg. back, not amel. warmth of stove; internal in trunk; then internal heat on trunk, agg. back. ▶ Shivering; creeping, external, agg. legs, without internal chilliness; over upper part of body, with yawning. ▶ Shivering over back; as from listening to a horrible tale, in morning, also when sitting. ▶ Coldness of spine, with shaking. ▶ Cold hands and feet, with warmth of rest of body. ▶ Cold feet as far as knees, as if in cold water (Nat. m.); C. feet, with heat of body, without sweat or thirst.

Heat in evening without thirst; after walking in open air, with sweat. ▶ Burning in scalp above right side of forehead. ▶ B. above left brow. ▶ Especially in face, then chill without thirst; in cheeks in flushes towards evening. ▶ Of ears. ▶ Internal in trunk, agg. back, at times with coldness, without thirst, heat or redness of face, afterwards red cheeks.

Sweat in evening on lying down; from evening till morning.