Melilotus officinalis
as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927
Melilotus
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Mind
Unable to fix mind. Memory treacherous. Stupor. Wants to run away and hide. Delusions; thinks every one is looking at her, fears to talk loud, and wants to run away, etc.
General
Yellow Melilot Sweet Clover Congestions and hæmorrhages seem to be the special manifestations of this drug. Violent congestive and nervous headaches. Infantile spasms. Epilepsy from blow on head. Pain and debility point to it. Coldness but also increase of temperature; tenderness, and pain. Muscular system depressed. Dreams and emissions.
Modalities
Worse, rainy, changeable weather, approach of storm, motion; 4 pm.
Head
Headache with retching, vomiting, sense of pressure over orbits, pallor, cold hands and feet, black spots before eyes. Heavy, oppressed; frontal, throbbing, undulating sensation in brain. Sick headache; relieved by epistaxis or menstrual flow. Fullness all over head. Eyes heavy; blurred sight; wants to close them tightly for relief. Neuralgia around and over right side of head and neck. Scalp sore and tender to touch.
Face
Intensely red and flushed, with throbbing carotids (Bell).
Nose
Stopped up, dry, must breathe through mouth; dry, hard clinkers in nose; profuse epistaxis.
Stool
Difficult, painful, constipated. Anus feels constricted, full, throbs. No desire until there is a large accumulation (Bry; Alum).
Female
Menses scanty, intermit, with nausea and bearing down sticking pain in external parts. Dysmenorrhœa. Ovarian neuralgia.
Respiratory
Feels as if smothering, especially from rapid walking. Hæmoptysis. Weight on chest. Tickling in throat with cough.
Extremities
Pain in knee; wants to stretch leg, but does not relieve. Joints sore. Skin and extremities cold. Numbness and aching in knee-joints.
Relationships
Compare: Melilotus alba––(White Clover)––practically the same action (Hæmorrhages, congestive headaches, engorged blood vessels, spasms). Amyl; Bell; Glon.
Dose
Tincture, for inhaling; lower potencies.
What the other books say about Melilotus officinalis
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Melilotus officinalis in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.
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Create a free accountCite this page. William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Melilotus officinalis — Mind. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/melilotus-officinalis. Published 1927: public domain in the US (since 2023) and in India (author died 1929). Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.