Menispermum canadense

Homeopathic classical monopreparations

 Menispermum сanadense, Linn. Natural order: Menispermaceae. Preparation: Tincture of root.

 Emotional. Low-spirited, but attend to business with rapidity (thirteenth day). Low-spirited, but absent-minded (fifth day). Quick-tempered (twelfth day). Quick temper, and irritable (thirteenth day). Feel surly, ill-natured, and stubborn (tenth day). Intellectual. Absent-minded, but thoughts clear (sixth day).

 Feeling of fullness in the head, during the night (twelfth night). Headache, with pressure from within outwards (fourteenth morning). Intense headache, with feeling as if it would burst, with pain the whole length of the back, at 4 (fourteenth day); the headache continued three or four days; вryonia relieved the headache; it was also ameliorated by walking in the open air. Headache, during the night (thirteenth night). Intense headache, with stretching and yawning; the headache lasting three or four days (after three hours, fifth day). Dull, heavy headache, with a feeling of fulness (fourth morning). Slight headache in upper frontal region, and through the temples (ninth day) Headache through temples, extending to occiput (tenth day). Headache in temples and occiput (eleventh day). Severe headache through temples and occiput (twelfth day).
 Eye.
 Eyes feel dry and swollen (after three hours, fifth day, and twelfth night). Eyes feel as if swollen, during the night (thirteenth day).
 Nose.
 Objective. Sneezing (fifth day). Much sneezing and profuse flow of mucus from the nose (fourteenth morning). Nose discharge but little mucus; nostrils feel dry (fourth day). Nasal mucus thinner, but more copious (second day); thin but less copious (third day). Subjective. Nostrils feel dry (fifth day). Nostrils feel dry, especially the left, and itch painfully; mucus excoriates (sixth day). Painful soreness of inner nostrils (seventh day). A feeling of itching and swelling of mucous membrane of left nostril (fourteenth day). Itching of nostrils (twelfth day).

 Objective. Tongue coated, thicker posteriorly, with raised papillae; dry and parched (fourth morning). Tongue coated yellowish white (fifth day). Tongue coated yellow (thirteenth morning). Tongue coated all over with a yellow fur (twelfth morning). Yellow coat on the tongue, thickest at the base; tongue swollen (fourteenth morning). Slight milky coating on tongue (eighth day). Subjective. Mouth and throat dry, during the night (twelfth night). вurning on the tongue, soon (first day). Tongue felt raw, as if burned (after one hour, second day).
 Throat.
 Throat feels dry and parched (twelfth morning). No soreness of throat (curative), (after eight or nine days).

 Increased appetite (fourth day). Rather thirsty (fifth day). Much thirst (eighth day). Slight nausea on waking in the morning (eleventh day).
 Abdomen.
 Pain in the umbilical region (fourth morning); increased (fifth day).
 Rectum.
 Slight tenesmus, with natural stool (first day); tenesmus continues (second day); occasional tenesmus, bowels regular (third day); occasional tenesmus (fourth day); tenesmus (sixth day); tenesmus, but bowels still regular (eighth day).

 Urine high-colored scanty and hot (after three hours, fifth day). Urine averages 30 oz., (before the proving); 34 oz., with white cloud near the bottom (second day); 32 oz., with white thready clouds floating through it (third day); yellowish, about 30 oz., (fourth and fifth days); yellow and cloudy (sixth day); dark yellow, rather scanty (eighth day); less dark (tenth day); still yellow (twelfth day).

 (Morning expectoration less, and of a lighter color, curative), (second day). Very little expectoration, curative), (after eight or nine days). Hurried respiration during the night (twelfth night).

 Back.
 Pain in the whole length of the back with intense headache, with feeling as if it would вurst, at 4 (fourteenth day). Dull pain the whole length of the back, with yawning and stretching (fourth morning).
 Extremities in General.
 Aching in thighs, elbow, and shoulders (ninth day). Slight drawing aching in external muscles of the thigh and upper arm, also under left scapula (seventh day).
 Superior Extremities.
 Drawing in the brachialis anticus (eighth day). Noticed once or twice a slight jerking near left elbow, probably in biceps muscles (seventh day).
 Inferior Extremities.
 Aching in the bones of the legs, lasting three or four days (after three hours, fifth day). Aching in upper part of left femur and left hip-joint (eighth day). Legs feel sore, as if bruised with pain in the bones, at 4 , (fourteenth day); the pain in the bones continued for three or four days.

 Objective. Stretching and yawning, at noon (fourteenth day). Stretching and yawning, with intense headache (after three hours, fifth day). Languor, laziness mental and physical (eighth day). Subjective. Aching-drawing pains in the muscles of the thighs, also in shoulder joints and region of scapulae (sixth day). The pains resembled those caused by taking large doses of Quinine, and relieved by a few doses of сhina.

 Skin.
 A few pimples on the face (fifth day). Itching all over the body, especially over the gluteal muscles and thighs, aggravated by warmth of the bed (after three hours, third day). Thighs itch (ninth day).

 Sleepiness. Yawning and stretching, with dull pain the whole length of the back (fourth morning). Disinclination to get up early in the morning, from unusual sleepiness (nineteenth day). Slept late and heavy in morning (tenth and twelfth days). Sleeplessness. Restlessness, during the night (thirteenth night). Restlessness, with Troubled and confused dreams and sudden starting from sleep, during the night (third night). No sleep (sixth night). Dreams. Sleep well, but inclined to dream pleasing dreams (fourth day). Dream of innumerable rats, which creep under my clothing (a ludicrous but entirely new symptom), (thirteenth day). Dreams of hearing cannonading (twelfth day).

 Some chilliness (after three hours, fifth day). Skin cold and dry, with some itching, at noon (fourteenth day). Face hot, and the pimples bleed easily (ninth day).

 (Morning), On waking nausea. Night), Headache; eyes feel swollen; dryness of mouth, etc.; hurried respiration. Warmth of bed), Itching.
 Amelioration.
 (Walking in open air), Headache.