# Menyanthes Trifoliata

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
Hahnemann proved it and well defined its sphere of action. The major features of Meny. 
are chill, sensations and pains of tension and co mpression, and spasmodic jerkings and visible twitchings, 
worse during rest and may be associated with neuralgia. 
 
 
Tensive and compressive pains. Tension in skin, as if it was several sizes too small and he was crowded into 
it. 
Shooting pains and pinching in limbs and joints, in arthritic disorders. 
Jerking pain in outer parts, also pinching pain in outer parts. Spasmodic jerking and visible twitchings with 
neuralgia. Jumpy, fidgety women with urinary troubles. Diabetes. 
Great general debility, on walking often accompanied by shivering. Icy coldness of single or affected parts, 
nose, ears, fingers, knees, abdomen etc. Intermittent fever, coldness predominates, felt most acutely in 
abdomen and legs and tip of nose. Certain headaches.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Better hard pressure on affected part, laying on hand, stooping, motion, twilight. Worse light, 
noise, during rest, walking, ascending, jar.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Hurried.
- Anxiety and apprehension.
- Anxiety as if something evil were going to happen.
- Fear about the 
heart, driving him from place to place.
- Buffoonery and excessive gaiety.
- Confusion, better open air.
- Dullness of mind.
- Indifference to everything, alternating with great joy .
- Aversion to 
amusement.
- Discontented with everything, with self.
- Dwells on past disagreeable occurrences.
- Taciturn and 
self-reflecting.
- Tearful sadness.
- Hurried.
- Anxiety and apprehension.
- Anxiety as if something evil were going to happen.
- Fear about the 
heart, driving him from place to place.
- Buffoonery and excessive gaiety.
- Confusion, better open air.
- Dullness of mind.
- Indifference to everything, alternating with great joy .
- Aversion to 
amusement.
- Discontented with everything, with self.
- Dwells on past disagreeable occurrences.
- Taciturn and 
self-reflecting.
- Tearful sadness.

### Head
- Bursting headache, pain ascends from nape, better stooping, sitti ng bent.
- Heavy, pressing pain in 
vertex, better hard pressure with hand.
- Sensation as of weight in nape.
- Weight pressing on brain with every 
step on ascending.
- As if cold wind blowing on it.
- Bursting headache, pain ascends from nape, better stooping, sitti ng bent.
- Heavy, pressing pain in 
vertex, better hard pressure with hand.
- Sensation as of weight in nape.
- Weight pressing on brain with every 
step on ascending.
- As if cold wind blowing on it.

### Eyes
- Frequent spasmodic stiffness of eyelids.
- Pressing in eyes.
- Mist and flick- erings before eyes.
- Cloudiness 
of eyes, when reading.

### Ears
- Tinnitus, when chewing.
- Tinkling in ears.
- Cracking in ear, when chewing.
- Shootings in ears.
- Feeling of 
coldness in ear.
- Discharge from ears (after exanthemata).

### Face
- Redness and heat of face during sleep.
- Heat in face with coldness of feet.
- Visible twitching of the facial 
muscles, worse rest.
- Pain and cracking in the articulation of jaw when chewing.

### Mouth
- Sweetish bitterness in mouth.
- Sen sation of paralysis on left side of palate, when yawning and 
coughing.
- Nose - Cold.
- Tension in root of nose.
- Nauseous smell before nose like that of rotten eggs.
- Perspiration - Perspiration in evening as soon as he lies down, continuing all night.

### Throat
- Dryness of palate, stinging when swallowing.
- Dryness and roughness in throat, which impede 
swallowing of saliva, without thirst.
- When speaking hoarse and rough voice with obstruction of ears, as if 
something had been introduced into them.
- COMMENTS - Teste, who also proved it, found it very similar to Dros.
- Both these drugs caused in him, as one 
of the first symptoms, obscuration of sight, a sort of white mist or vibrations, worse in open air or during a walk.
- This was so intense that he did not dare to cross a street.
- The pains of Dros.
- and Meny.
- were the same in character, but those of Dros.
- were more intense.
- This analogy 
has not proved as close in other respects as Teste imagined it would.
- “Jumps,” “fidgets,” and “urinary difficulties in women” are Burnett's leading indications.
- “ 
When sitting, the outstretche d thigh and leg are four times spasmodically jerked up, but when standing or in 
drawing up the knees towards him, this is not perceptible.” 
Twitching in any part.
- Legs jerk and twitch, cannot rest when lying down.
- Stitches, numbness, tension.
- Tension 
sensation, as if the skin were several sizes too small.
- Cramp-like and paralyzing pains.
- Severe pressure in the head.
- Pressing in vertex from above downwards, better during hard pressure with the 
hand, when ascending stairs, as of a heavy weight pressing on the head and brain at every step.
- Icy coldness 
of the hands and feet with the headache.
- R.
- Farley reported the case of Miss D.
- W., long a sufferer from spinal irritation, had terrible attacks of bursting 
headache, a terrible tension in membranes of brain in paroxysms, which caused her to scream.
- Began in right 
side of nape, ascended to forehead and then spread over whole brain.
- Terrible sensation of loneliness with the pain, begged her mother to stay with her.
- Worse from light, noise, jar, 
even if one walked lightly across the room.
- Better from sitting bent and by hard pressure on nape and vertex.
- Meny.
- 30c every ten minutes relieved immediately and completely removed everything in two hours.

### Chest
- Shooting compression on both sides of chest.
- Stitches in chest, worse during motion and when 
breathing.
- Aching in chest after dinner.
- Stitches in region of heart.
- Slightest exertion causes irregular action.
- Drawing pain in précordia, worse 
after eating.
- Anxiety about, as if some evil was going to happen.
- Kidneys - Frequent desire to urinate with scanty urine.
- Stitch in anterior regions of laryn x, impeding swallowing.
- Dyspnea.
- Spas modic contraction of larynx 
with excitation to cough, when drawing breath.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Sensation of coldness extending up esophagus with great nausea, following pressure in stomach.
- Heat in stomach, followed by excessive  hunger.
- Contractive cramps in stomach.
- Continual rumbling in 
stomach, as if it were empty.
- Frequent empty belchings.
- Temperature - Predominance of cold.
- Icy coldness of hands and feet.
- Shivering with yawning.
- Chill, which is 
better by heat of stove and on ly remains in back.
- Intermit tent fever with coldness in abdomen.
- Pulse slow 
during cold stage and accelerated during fever.
- Heat in evening, mostly on head with cold feet.
- Quartan 
 
 
malaria.
- Distended and full, increased by smoking tobacco.
- Distention of abdo men by abundant flatus.
- Coldness, worse pressing upon it with hand.
- Pinchings in abdomen.
- Pain, as from excoriation in abdominal 
tissues.
- Ravenous hunger, passing away after eating a little.
- Troublesome confu sion in head after a meal.
- Desire for meat.
- Aversion to bread and butter.
- No thirst at any time.

### Urinary & Genital
- Increase of sexual desire without excitement or erection.
- Both testicles drawn up, right more than left.
- Spermatic cord painful to touch.

### Extremities
- Cramp-like pains in limbs.
- Cramps in posterior thighs worse sitting.
- Cramps from ankles to calf (right).
- Legs jerk and twitch, worse lying down.
- Shocks and convulsive movements in thighs.
- Paralytic tearing and 
spasmodic drawings in arms, hands and fingers.
- Icy coldness of hands and feet.

### Neck & Back
- Rigidity and heaviness in muscles of neck, throat and nape.
- Extremely painful tearing between the 
scapula, extending downwards.
- Boring at scapula (left).
- Bruised pain in sacrum, worse stooping, walking.
- Causations - Injuries to nerves (tooth broken in).
- Quinine.

### Skin
- Feels tight.

### Sleep
- Agitated sleep with vivid dreams.
- Doesn't remembered dreams.