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Menyanthes Trifoliata

30CMenyanthes
Buckbean · Bogbean · "The Coldness Headache Remedy"
meny.PlantUncommonPsoric
🎯 A remedy primarily indicated for specific types of , fevers, and coldness in the abdomen.
📖 Boericke writes:
(MENYANTHES)
A remedy for certain , . Coldness of abdomen. Twitchings. Sensation of tension and compression. Fidgets and urinary difficulties in women. Diabetes.
👤 Constitution
The typical patient may experience fidgety behavior, urinary difficulties, or symptoms of diabetes, often presenting with a general sensation of tension and compression.
Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Pressing in ; better, hard pressure with hand.
head
Icy coldness of hands and feet.
extremities
🩺 Systems & Indications
👤HEAD
Useful for characterized by heavy pressure that improves with firm manual pressure.
Pressing in ; better, hard pressure with hand.
Pressing-together pain.
Weight pressing on brain with every step on ascending.
Pain from over whole brain; better, stooping, sitting; worse, going upstairs.
Cracking in jaw and twitching of facial muscles.
🔑 Modalities
Worse from
Better 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.

3rd to 30th
Centesimal
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🚫 Antidotes
Camphora
🔄 Compare With
Pulsatilla PratensisCalcarea CarbonicaSanguinaria CanadensisPhosphorusPhosphoricum AcidumCapsicum Annuum

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

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Menyanthes Trifoliata is listed in 41 rubrics across 11 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 15 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Head11Fever8Modalities5Nervous System4Locomotor System4Stomach3Abdomen2Generalities1Face1Nose1Circulatory System1

See all 41 rubrics for Menyanthes Trifoliata