MENTHA PIPERITA.
Mentha piperita, Huds.
Natural order
, Labiatæ.
Common name
, Peppermint.
Preparation
Tincture of whole plant.
Authority.
Dr. Demeures, Journ. de la Soc.
Gall., first series, IV, p. 115, symptoms observed from one drops of the
tincture.
MIND.
►
Eager for work, and dispatches it quickly (soon). ►
All my life, after rising earlier than usual in the morning, my head has
felt heavy and my ideas have ben confused for some time, so that I could
scarcely study. Since this proving, I have been able to rise as early as
I wished without misgiving, always finding that I had slept enough, even
after going to bed late, and my mind clear and ready for work.
HEAD.
►
Confusion of the head (soon). ►
Headache, beginning in the morning; tension towards both ears,
especially the right (second day). ►
No headache while in bed, but on rising to see what time it was,
headache from one ear to the other; on returning to bed the pain ceased,
but came back when I got up, at 7 o’clock (third day). ► Acute lancinations from ear to ear, on
stooping or turning the head (third day). ►
Frontal headache from one temple to the other, on waking at night (third
day). ► Very sharp pain in the left
temple when writing; it soon ceases (third day). ►
The hair, which previously was falling out very fast, now stays in
(twenty-second day).
EYE.
[10.]
► Flashes before the eyes when
writing, although I had written but little (twenty-first day).
EAR.
►
All day when walking, shooting from one ear to the other, as if
abscesses were forming in them, especially in the left ear (second day).
► When writing, sharp lancinations in
the left ear, which extend to all the teeth on that side (third day).
NOSE.
►
Tip of nose sore to touch (eleventh day); swollen, but not painful
(twenty-first day).
MOUTH.
►
Very severe toothache in the lower molars, when chewing a bit sugar; it
soon passed off (third day).
THROAT.
►
Throat dry and painful when swallowing, as if a pin were sticking
crosswise in the pharynx (second day). ►
Momentary lancinations in the parotid glands; the pains cease during
breakfast and dinner (second day). ►
When fingering the neck, it is painfully sensitive to touch (second
day).
STOMACH.
►
In the evening, two hours after dinner, feeling of weight in the
stomach, which seems to extend to the ears (second day).
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
►
The entire trachea, from the larynx to the pit of the throat, is painful
to touch (second day). [20.] ► Husky voice from reading aloud (after
five hours). ► Given to a singer a
few hours before he is to sing, this remedy will certainly enable him to
hold out to the end without straining his voice. ►
Frequent cough (third day). Dry cough, excited by merely speaking;
expectoration every morning of thick mucus like the core of a boil
(fourth to eighth day). *Dry cough continues;
it is not caused by titillation, nor by mucous accumulations in the
bronchi, but merely by the passage of air into the larynx
(ninth day). The least feeling of cold excites a cough (eleventh to
twenty-first days). Cough still troublesome; excited by reading aloud,
exposure to cold, tobacco-smoke, and smoke of all kinds (twenty-eighth
to forty-sixth days). Cough still continues (third month). [I cured with
this remedy every case of influenza which came under my care during the
winter of 1847-8. It is to dry cough, however caused, what Arnica is to injuries and Aconite to inflammatory complaints. It
relieves even the cough of consumptives. A single dose (one globule of
the 30th) was always sufficient whenever there was dry cough; however
long it might have lasted, I could safety promise a cure in twenty-four
hours, provided the affection corresponded with that caused by this
agent.]
NECK.
►
All the muscles around the neck are painful to touch (third day).
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Sensation under the right foot, at the
extremity of the metatarsus, as if the shoe-sole was too thick at that
place, and made walking painful (twenty-eighth to forty-sixth days).
SKIN.
►
Liability of the skin to inflammation; every scratch becomes a sore
(eleventh to twenty-first days). ►
Pimple, with much itching, near left ear, with heat of the part; in the
evening (ninth day). ► Formication in
the arm and hand when writing (twenty-first day). ►
Frequent itching behind the lobe of the right ear, compelling to scratch
(eleventh to twenty-first days).
SLEEP.
►
Good sleep (after five hours). [30.]
► Sleep good, refreshing, and quiet. ► Wakes very early in the morning (third
day).
CONDITIONS.
►
Aggravation. ► (Cold air), Cough. ►
(Rising from bed), Headache. ► (Smoke),
Cough. ► (Stooping),
Pain from ear to ear. ► (Turning head), Pain from ear to ear. ► (Writing),
Pain in temple; flashes before eyes; pain in ear. ► Amelioration. ►
(During a meal), Pain in parotid
glands.
SUPPLEMENT: MENTHA PIPERITA.
Authority.
2,
P. C. Remondino, M.D., Med. and Surg. Reporter, vol. xiv, 1866, p. 278,
a boy, aged six years, took between 1 and 2 ounces of the essence, and
died in two hours.►
Insensible (after five minutes).
Motionless; limbs relaxed; slow, full pulse; stertorous breathing; cold
skin; livid lips; immovable pupils; eyes fixed (in twenty minutes), [2].® 2000
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