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Mentha Pulegium

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Mentha Pulegium · Pennyroyal · "The Pennyroyal Emmenagogue"
PlantUncommonPsoric
Source
🎯 Acts primarily on the right side of the head, the left kidney, and the female reproductive system.
About: Known commonly as Pennyroyal, this remedy has a historical reputation as a domestic aid for menstrual disorders. Provings indicate a specific affinity for right-sided head symptoms and left-sided kidney or shoulder discomfort. It is noted that symptoms often worsen when the patient focuses their attention on them.
👤 Characteristics
Sphere of Action & Core States
Common domestic remedy for menstrual disorders
Affinity for the right side of the head
Affinity for the right eye
Affinity for the left kidney
Affinity for the left shoulder
Affinity for the left hand
Key Characteristics & Guiding Symptoms
Symptoms are all worse when thinking of them
Properties in the female sexual sphere remain untested (Berridge's provings were all made on men)
Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Right-sided headache with pressing behind the eyes.
Clarke
Aching pain in the bones of the arms and legs, primarily on the right side.
Clarke
Stitches down the left Eustachian tube into the throat.
Clarke
Symptoms worsen when thinking about them.
Clarke
Relief of bone pain by night's rest.
Clarke
Sharp cutting pain in the region of the left kidney.
Clarke
Trembling of the left hand when holding objects.
Clarke
Flow of saliva from the corner of the mouth during sleep.
Clarke
General creeping chilliness over the back and left thigh.
Clarke
Acts as a painless ecbolic in the female sexual sphere.
Clarke
🩺 Systems & Indications
👁️Eyes
Headaches involving the right temple and forehead, often with eye pressure.
WORSE r. after sunset.
r. temple with pressing behind eyes, first r. then both, WORSE towards evening and in night.
Aching in bones of forehead and sides of head
Headache: r. lower forehead, forcing tears from r. eye
Empty feeling in r. side of head.
Itching all round base of skull and roots of hair.
🔑 Modalities
Worse from
Sunset
right-sided symptoms
Better from
Getting up
kidney and back pain
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Oxalicum Acidum
📚 Sources & References
Clarke's DictionaryAllen's EncyclopediaBoericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraKent's Materia MedicaPhatak's Concise MM

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