Menispermum canadense
Plant · Menispermaceae
The Menispermum Canadense patient suffers from megrim-like headaches associated with restlessness and dreams. Spinal pain accompanies the headaches, and the characteristic yawning and stretching concomitant with pain is distinctive. General dryness and itching complete the picture.
Key symptoms
- Intense headache with aching all down the back
- Pressing headache from within outward with stretching and yawning
- Sick headache with pain in forehead and temples moving to occiput
- Pain in back, thighs, elbows, and shoulders
- Legs sore as if bruised
- Dryness and itching all over
- Dry mouth and throat with swollen tongue
Moonseed (MENISPERMUM)
A remedy for megrim, associated with restlessness and dreams. Pain in spine. Dryness, itching all over. Dry mouth and throat.
Head
Pressure from within outward, with stretching and yawning and pain down back. Sick headache; pain in forehead and temples, moving to occiput. Tongue swollen and much saliva.
Extremities
Pain in back, thighs, elbows, shoulders. Legs sore, as if bruised.
Relationship
Compare: Cocculus; Bryon.
Dose
Third potency.
Menispermum Canadense. Moonseed. Yellow Parilla. N. O. Menispermaceæ. Tincture of root. Trituration of Menisperminum.
Clinical
Backache. Headache. Itching. Spine, pain in. Tongue, swelling of.
Characteristics
Very considerable doses were taken in the proving of Menispermum. The most notable symptom was an intense headache combined with aching all down the back. Yawning and stretching were also a marked and frequent concomitant of headache and backache. Meni. is botanically related to Coccul., and the backache recalls the spinal action of the latter. But the Coccul. vertigo and intoxication were not elicited. Dryness was a common feature-mouth, throat, skin. Itching was very intense, as with Coccul. The Conditions were well marked: < At night. < By warmth of bed. > Walking in open air.
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