Melilotus alba
Melilotus albus · Plant · Fabaceae
The Melilotus patient is characterised by intense flushing and engorgement of blood vessels, with violent headaches that are relieved when bleeding occurs. They may have religious melancholy and a tendency to convulsions. The face is characteristically very red before any haemorrhagic event.
Key symptoms
- Congestions relieved by haemorrhage
- Violent congestive or nervous headaches with epistaxis affording relief
- Very red face preceding haemorrhage from every organ
- Nosebleed preceded by intense redness, flushing of face, and throbbing carotids
- Convulsions in nervous children during dentition
- Eclampsia and epilepsy
- Religious melancholy with intensely red face
- Constipation with difficult painful stools and throbbing fullness
Worse (aggravation)
- Approach of a storm
- Rainy, changeable weather
Better (amelioration)
- Haemorrhage or nosebleed (relieves congestion and headache)
Sweet Clover (Leguminosae.)
Congestions, relieved by haemorrhage. Engorgement of blood-vessels in any part of organ. Violent congestive or nervous headaches; epistaxis affords relief (Bufo, Ferr. p., Magn. s.). Convulsions: of nervous children during dentition (Bell.); infantile spasms, eclampsia, epilepsy. Religious melancholy with an intensely red face; insanity, in early stages, to relieve brain from pressure and irritation. Nosebleed preceded by intense redness, flushing of face and throbbing of carotids (Bell.); with general relief. Very red face precedes haemorrhage from every organ. Constipation: difficult, painful, constriction in anus; throbbing, fulness; no desire until there is a large accumulation (Alum.).
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