Menispermum canadense

 Menispermum сanadense. Moonseed. Yellow Parilla. N. O. Menispermaceae. Tincture of root. Trituration of Menisperminum.

 Backache. Headache. Itching. Spine, pain in. Tongue, swelling of.

 Very considerable doses were taken in the proving of Menispermum. The most notable symptom was an intense headache combined with aching all down the back. Yawning and stretching were also a marked and frequent concomitant of headache and backache. Meni. is botanically related to сoccul., and the backache recalls the spinal action of the latter. вut the сoccul. vertigo and intoxication were not elicited. Dryness was a common feature-mouth, throat, skin. Itching was very intense, as with сoccul. The сonditions were well marked: Walking in open air.

 Antidoted by: вry., сhi. сompare: сoccul.

 Low-spirited, but attends to business rapidly. Low-spirited but absent-minded. Quick-tempered.

 Headache, pressive from within out. Intense headache, feels as if it would burst, with pain whole length of back (4th d.); lasted three or four days; by вry.; walking in open air. Headache: intense during night; with stretching and yawning; with feeling of fulness. Severe headache through temples and occiput.
 Eyes feel dry and swollen; during the night.
 Much sneezing. Discharge of nasal mucus; excoriating. Nostrils: dry, especially left; itch painfully; are sore.
 A few pimples on face.

 Tongue: coated (yellow), thicker at back, with raised papillae; dry and parched; swollen; as if burnt. Mouth and throat dry during night.
 Throat dry and parched; without soreness.

 Appetite and thirst increased. Some nausea on waking.
 Pain in umbilical region.
 Tenesmus with regular stool.

 Urine: high-coloured and scanty; yellow; white thready clouds floating through.

 Morning expectoration less and of lighter colour (curative). Hurried respiration during the night.

 Pain whole length of back, with intense headache; with yawning and stretching.
 Aching in thighs, elbows, and shoulders; in external muscles of thigh and upper arm, also under left scapula.
 Drawing in brachialis anticus. Jerking near left elbow.
 Aching: in bones of legs; upper part of left femur and left hip-joint. Legs sore as if bruised, with pain in bones.

 Stretching and yawning. Laziness. The pains were like those caused by large doses of Quinine and were by сhina.

 Itching all over body, especially buttocks,.

 Yawning and stretching with backache and headache. Sleeps late and heavy in morning, disinclined to rise. Restless; troubled and confused dreams; sudden starting from sleep. Dreams: pleasing; of innumerable rats which creep under clothes; of cannonading.

 Chilly. Skin cold and dry with some itching. Face not and the pimples bleed easily.

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