Myrtus communis
Plant · Myrtaceae
Myrtus Communis is indicated in patients with left upper lung affections, particularly phthisis, haemoptysis, and hepatisation, where a characteristic stitching pain runs from the front of the left upper lung through to the left scapula. Its leaves contain Myrtol, an active antiseptic, making it useful in bronchitis and urinary infections. It occupies for the upper left lung the position that Oxalic acid holds for the lower left lung.
Key symptoms
- Stitching pain in upper left lung running through to left shoulder blade
- Dry hollow cough with tickling in chest
- Sensation of burning in left chest
- Chest pains worse in the morning
- Incipient phthisis with characteristic upper left lung pain
- Acts as nerve sedative and stimulant to mucous membranes
Worse (aggravation)
- Morning (cough and chest pain)
Better (amelioration)
- Evening
Myrtle
The leaves contain Myrtol, an active antiseptic. Chest pains, as found often in consumptives, call for this remedy. Incipient phthisis. Nerve sedative and stimulant to mucous membranes, bronchitis, cystitis and pyelitis.
Chest
Stitching pain in left breast, running through to shoulder-blade (Illic; Therid; Pix). Dry, hollow cough, with tickling in chest. Worse in the morning. Sensation of burning in left chest.
Relationship
Compare: Myrtus Chekan (Chronic bronchitis with dense, yellowish sputum, difficult to detach. Copious expectoration keeps patient distressed and coughing).
Dose
Third potency.
Myrtle. (Closely allied to Granatum, the Pomegranate-tree.) N. O. Myrtaceæ. Tincture of fresh shoots and leaves. Tincture of fresh flowering shoots and leaves.
Clinical
Catarrhal fevers. Chest, stitches in. Coryza. Cough. Tuberculosis.
Characteristics
Myrt. com. is an unproved remedy, the symptoms of the Schema being entirely clinical. Hering gives an account of it. It has a very powerful action on the left lung, especially the upper part. It is to the upper left lung what Oxal. ac. is to the lower. This is the keynote: Pain in upper left lung going right through from the front to the left scapula. Cases of phthisis, hæmoptysis, hepatisation, lung syphilis having this symptom present have been cured with Myrt. The pain is mostly stitching, but may be throbbing, aching, or burning. It is < in morning, > evening, < by breathing, yawning, coughing. The cough is dry, hollow; excited by a tickling in upper anterior lobes. Hering has cured catarrhal fever with tickling cough < morning and > evening; with great …
Respiratory Organs
Sharp pain through the upper part of left lung from front to shoulder-blade.
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