Mentha pulegium
Mentha pulegium (syn. Pulegium vulgare) · Plant · Lamiaceae
The Mentha Pulegium patient has characteristic right-sided head complaints that worsen towards evening and night. A peculiar feature is that all symptoms are aggravated by thinking of them. This is a minor remedy primarily for bone-type headaches and salivation.
Key symptoms
- Aching in bones of forehead and sides of head, worse right side after sunset
- Headache in right lower forehead, forcing tears from right eye
- Pressing headache behind eyes, first right then both, worse towards evening and night
- Empty feeling in right side of head
- Itching all round base of skull and roots of hair
- Flow of saliva from corner of mouth at night
- All symptoms worse when thinking of them
Worse (aggravation)
- Thinking of symptoms
- Towards evening and night
- Right side of head worse after sunset
Mentha pulegium. Pennyroyal (English). N. O. Labiatæ. Tincture of plant.
Clinical
Headache. Salivation, nocturnal.
Characteristics
Pennyroyal is a common domestic remedy for menstrual disorders. Berridge's provings with the 40th were all made on men, so its properties in the female sexual sphere remain untested. Berridge's proving brought out an affinity for the right side of the head, right eye, and left kidney, shoulder and hand. The symptoms were all < when thinking of them.
Relations
Compare: Hedeom. puleg., Menth. pip. In < by thinking of symptoms, Pip. methys., Oxal. ac.
2, 3. Head and Eyes
Aching in bones of forehead and sides of head; < r. after sunset.─Headache: r. lower forehead, forcing tears from r. eye; r. temple with pressing behind eyes, first r. then both, < towards evening and in night.─Empty feeling in r. side of head.─Itching all round base of skull and roots of hair.
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