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Mentholum
30CMentholumMenthol · Peppermint Camphor · "The Cooling Nasal Remedy"
mentho.PlantUncommonPsoric✨ Boericke only
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Exclusively Documented in Boericke
This remedy is documented exclusively in Boericke's Materia Medica. It does not appear in other classical references in this encyclopedia.
🎯 It acts primarily on the mucous membranes of the nose and throat and the spinal nerve plexus to relieve inflammation and nerve pain.
📖 Boericke writes:
The stearopten from the essential oil of Mentha. Mucous membrane of naso-pharynx and spinal nerve plexus, producing neuritic pains and parethesias. Menthol has proved curative in acute nasal catarrh; in acute eustachian catarrh; pharyngitis; laryngitis; neuralgias, etc (Wm. B. Griggs, M. D). Itching, especially pruritus valvae.
👤 Constitution
•No specific constitutional type is defined, but it is indicated for individuals suffering from acute catarrhal inflammation or localized nerve pain.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Cold sensation in the nose.
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Stabbing pains in the heart area radiating over the chest.
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Itching, especially of the vulva.
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Acute nasal and eustachian catarrh.
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Facial pain above the cheekbone with numbness.
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🩺 Systems & Indications
✨ Boericke Exclusive👤HEAD
Useful for frontal headaches, sinus congestion, and ear blockage associated with colds.
Frontal headache, pain over frontal sinus, descends to eyeballs.
Mental confusion.
Supra orbital pain over left eye.
Pain in face above zygoma with numbness.
Pain in eyeballs.
Coryza with post-nasal dripping.
Cold sensation in nose.
Eustachian tubes feel blocked and some deafness.
🔑 Modalities
✨ Boericke Exclusive↓Worse from
💊 Dosage & Potency
Sixth potency
Centesimal
🕒As directed
📝Internal use.
1 per cent
Other
🕒As directed
📝Externally for itching, use as solution or ointment.
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Kali Bichromicum →Spigelia Anthelmia →
📚 Sources & References
✓ Boericke's Materia Medica↗Hering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraKent's Materia MedicaClarke's DictionaryAllen's EncyclopediaPhatak's Concise MM
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