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Melilotus Officinalis

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Sweet Clover · Yellow Melilot · "The Congestive Headache Remedy"
meli.PlantUncommonPsoric
🎯 It acts primarily on the vascular system to relieve intense congestion and hemorrhages, particularly in the head.
📖 Boericke writes:
Yellow Melilot - Sweet Clover
(MELILOTUS)
Congestions and seem to be the special manifestations of this drug. Violent and nervous . Infantile spasms. from blow on head. Pain and point to it. Coldness but also increase of temperature; tenderness, and pain. Muscular system depressed. and .
👤 Constitution
The typical patient is prone to intense congestion, often feeling cold despite having a fever, and may experience a depressed muscular state.
Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Fullness all over head.
head
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Used for states of mental confusion, anxiety, and of being watched.
Unable to fix mind.
Memory treacherous.
.
Wants to run away and hide.
; thinks every one is looking at her, fears to talk loud, and wants to run away, etc.
🔑 Modalities
Worse from
💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

Tincture
Mother Tincture
📝for inhaling
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
GlonoinumMelilotus AlbaBelladonnaAmylamine ChlorohydrateTrifolium Repens

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Melilotus Officinalis is listed in 76 rubrics across 14 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 22 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Head25Locomotor System6Modalities6Female Sexual System6Nervous System5Mind5Nose4Abdomen4Eyes4Respiratory System4Face3Generalities2Fever1Circulatory System1

See all 76 rubrics for Melilotus Officinalis