Menyanthes
Buck-bean
Boericke, Pocket Manual of Homœopathic Materia Medica, 9th ed., 1927, p. 430
A remedy for certain headaches, intermittent fever. Coldness of abdomen. Twitchings. Sensation of tension and compression. Fidgets and urinary difficulties in women. Diabetes.
Head
Pressing in vertex; better, hard pressure with hand. Pressing-together pain. Weight pressing on brain with every step on ascending. Pain from nape over whole brain; better, stooping, sitting; worse, going upstairs. Cracking in jaw and twitching of facial muscles.
Stomach
No thirst at any time. Ravenous hunger; passing away after eating a little. Desire for meat. Sensation of coldness extending up to œsophagus.
Abdomen
Distended and full; increased by smoking tobacco. Coldness of abdomen.
Extremities
Icy coldness of hands and feet. Cramp-like pain. As soon as patient lies down, legs jerk and twitch.
Fever
Coldness predominates; felt most acutely in abdomen and legs and tip of nose.
Modalities
Worse, during rest, ascending. Better, pressure on affected part, stooping, motion.
Relationship
Compare: Caps.; Puls.; Calc.; Phos. ac.; Sang.
Antidote: Camph.
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