# Melilotus Officinalis ## Remedy Classification - **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy - **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm - **Temperament:** Neutral - **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime ## Keynote Indications Meli, was first proved by Bowen in 1851. A second proving was made by him fifteen years later. He used both the yellow and the white varieties. H. C. Allen published a further proving of Meli, alba, using the entire plant. His pro ving entirely confirmed Bowen's and added many symptoms. According to Allen the action of Meli, lasted about thirty days, the indolence and prostration being the first symptom to ap pear and the last to disappear. Congestions especially to the head, and pr ofuse, bright red, hemorrhage which gives relief. Engorgements of any part or organ. Violent congestive and nervous headaches. Pain and debility. Coldness, but also increase of temperature, tenderness and pain. Muscular system depressed. Spasms, eclampsia, convulsions. Epilepsy, from blow on head. Infantile spasms. Tired, bruised, ■ listless, sleepy, chilly. Feeling of rawness. Dreams and emissions. ## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations) Better from bleedi ng, profuse urination, vinegar application. Worse rainy, changeable weather, approach of storm. Worse motion, walking, 4 p.m., menopause. Nose - Profuse and frequent nosebleeds, bright red blood with general relief. Nosebleed with high fever and violent congestion of head and face. Stopped up, dry, must breathe through mouth. Exces sive dryness of nose, obstructed. Dry, hard clinkers in nose. ## Symptoms by System ### Mind - Irritable, impatient, discontented, fault finding. - Indolent. - Unable to fix mind, stupid indifferent. - Total inability to study, memory will not retain anything. - Omits words and letters in writing. - Shyness and blushing. - Attacks of weeping without mu ch depression. - Religious melancholy with intensely red face. - Wants to kill himself or threatens to kill who approach. - Furious, had to lock him in room. - Loss of consciousness. - Panic and fear. - Fear of talking loudly, she whispers. - Fear of danger. - Fear of be ing arrested. - Wants to go home. - Wants to run away and hide. - Suspicious. - Delusions, thinks everyone is looking at her, fears to talk loud. - Irritable, impatient, discontented, fault finding. - Indolent. - Unable to fix mind, stupid indifferent. - Total inability to study, memory will not retain anything. - Omits words and letters in writing. - Shyness and blushing. - Attacks of weeping without mu ch depression. - Religious melancholy with intensely red face. - Wants to kill himself or threatens to kill who approach. - Furious, had to lock him in room. - Loss of consciousness. - Panic and fear. - Fear of talking loudly, she whispers. - Fear of danger. - Fear of be ing arrested. - Wants to go home. - Wants to run away and hide. - Suspicious. - Delusions, thinks everyone is looking at her, fears to talk loud. ### Vertigo - Vertigo worse on moving. - COMMENTS - Characteristic engorgement. - Blood engorgement. - Tending to hemorrhages, profuse, bright red, which give relief. - Intensely red or even purple face attending any disorder. - Headaches with blushing and nosebleed. - Headaches better by lying down, profuse urination, application of vinegar. - Headaches more often in hot weather, worse after exposure or getting feet wet, on approach of storm, in rainy, changeable weather. - Sensation of waving in the brain. - Alternation of pains, from right temple to right knee, pains in head alternating with pains in back. - Marked periodicity. - Generally better sitting, worse from walking, but pain in sacral region is opposite. - Symptoms appear in the forenoon and wear off during the day. - Relieved by discharges. - Bowen used Meli, successfully in all kinds of congestive or nervous headaches, nasal and pulmonary hemorrhages, congestion of spinal cord, pleura, lungs, ovaries, menstrual colic, palpitation and nervousness, cramps in stomach, spasms, convulsions and for reliev ing brain-pressure and irritation in insanity. - He always gave it in pellets medicated with the 1c dilution. - In different cases, Bowen removed symptoms including a desire to run away, to hide, insists that everyone is looking at them. - Mania to escape and kill himself, with insomnia. - Nervous and timid. - Dares not talk loudly, whispers. - Vicious, threatens to kill those who approach. - Thinks there is a devil in his stomach contradicting all he says. - H. - C. - Allen relieved with Meli, a fear of danger, fear of being arrested in mental cases. - In a schoolboy, Clarke cured with Meli. - 30c a very distressing recurrent headache, accompanied by an intensely red face while the pain was on and with the same potency. - Clarke gave great relief in a case of melancholia in a young woman. - C. - F. - Barker recorded the case of Miss X, 19, tall, blonde, for several years had severe, nervous and congestive headaches. - The attacks recurred two to four times a month and were so severe that they compelled her to keep to her bed twenty-four hours. - The pain, mostly in temples and forehead, was a congested, full sensation with flushed face, drowsy, stupid feeling and sometimes much nausea. - Trivial things seemed to provoke the attacks. - Spectacles had been supplied by oculists and teeth freshly stopped by dentists, diet, rest from study and outdoor exercise had all failed to relieve. - Meli. - 4x was given and she had only two attacks in six months and those very slight. - A writer in Hom. - News tells of a French man who came to him complaining of an incessant headache so bad that he thought he would die. - A dose of Meli, was given on the spot and the doctor, thinking Nux -v. - indicated, went into the next room to get it. - He returned in five minutes and found the patient on his hands and knees shaking his head. - The doctor, thinking him crazy, asked what he was doing. - He replied that the pain was entirely gone and he was only trying various attitudes and motions to make sure. ### Head - Rushes of blood to head. - Fullness all over head. - Violent, throbbing, nervous and periodical headaches. - Congestive headaches. - Headaches are better nosebleed, menstrual flow, application of vinegar. - Sick headache, relieved by nosebleed or menstrual flow. - Headache with retching, vomiting, black spots before eyes. - Neuralgia around and over right side of head and neck. - Scalp sore and tender to touch. - Headache alternating with backache. - Kidneys - Frequent and profuse urination. - Urine profuse, watery and relieving the dull, congestive headache. - Rushes of blood to head. - Fullness all over head. - Violent, throbbing, nervous and periodical headaches. - Congestive headaches. - Headaches are better nosebleed, menstrual flow, application of vinegar. - Sick headache, relieved by nosebleed or menstrual flow. - Headache with retching, vomiting, black spots before eyes. - Neuralgia around and over right side of head and neck. - Scalp sore and tender to touch. - Headache alternating with backache. - Kidneys - Frequent and profuse urination. - Urine profuse, watery and relieving the dull, congestive headache. ### Eyes - Hot, heavy, blurred sight, wants to close them tightly for relief. - As if they were too large. - Eyes as if pressed outward. - Eyelids very heavy. - Vision dim, blurred, rubs eyes. - Unable to focus. - Floating bodies before eyes when studying. ### Ears - Sensation of puffing of wind from ears. - Each act of swallowing caused the wind to puff from both ears. ### Face - Intensely red and flushed with throbbing carotids and headache (Bell.). - Very red before hemorrhages from nose, lungs, uterus. - Face hot, flushed, all day, feverish. ### Throat - Throat sore, left side, swallowing difficult, painful. - Tickling in throat with cough. ### Chest - Weight on chest causing difficult breathing, sensation of smothering, fre quently examined clothes to see if they were not too tight. - Smothering sensations, cannot get air enough, from rapid walking. - Cough harsh, dry, spasmodic, horribly distressing. - Cough from fullness of chest better by nosebleed. - Hemoptysis, blood bright red. ### Stomach & Abdomen - Gastric discomfort, flatulence, fullness and other symptoms appear when constipated. - Acid belchings all day, causing burning and smarting. - Temperature - Chilly 10 a.m., begins in back, loins or occiput, passing in waves up to vertex. - Chilly 12 p.m. - to 1 p.m. - with sharp pains in cardiac region of stomach and much flatulence. - Chilly all forenoon. - Uncomfortably chilly, feet and hands colds. - Much distention, flatulent, worse during menses. - Ravenous about 10 a.m. - with onset of fro ntal headache. - Appetite capricious, especially in morning, impaired. ### Urinary & Genital - Leucorrhea, pain and soreness in back and pelvic region, excited by walking. - Menses scanty, intermittent, with nausea and bearing down pains. - Menses thin, watery, pale offensive. - Dysmenorrhea. - During menses, headache, bearing-down pain in pelvis. - Recurring, sharp, darting pain in vagina and vulva at close of menses. - Severe stitches or cutting pains through uterus. - Ovarian neuralgia. - Sticking pain in external parts. ### Extremities - Skin and limbs cold. - Joints sore. - Stiff and sore on rising, better by careful movement. - Rheumatic pains in joints on approach of rain-storm or in rainy, changeable weather. - Uneasy sensation in large joints. - Numbness and aching in knee joints, right then left. - Gnawing, throbbing in right knee joint, wants to stretch leg, but does not relieve. - Arms heavy, too much prostrated to lift them without effort. ### Neck & Back - Broken sensation in lumbo -sacral joint, on sitting and especially sitting upright. - Constantly changes position to get relief, wants to strike the part or press it, better standing or walking. ### Skin - Dry skin. - Tendency to bruise and bleed easily. ### Sleep - Drowsy, sleepy, stupid. - Alternate sleep and wakefulness through night. - Awakes regularly a few minutes before 3 a.m. - Insomnia, cannot sleep after 3 a.m. - Head seemed too high (although he had no pillow). - Sleep prevented by unpleasant thoughts coursing through brain. - Unpleasant dreams, of bickering.