Mentha pulegium

 Mentha pulegium, Linn. Natural order: Labiatae. Preparation: Tincture of plant.

 Aching pain in bones of forehead and sides of head; worse on right side the same evening after sunset; it lasted four or five days, but decreased. Headache very bad in right lower forehead, forcing tears out of right eye (third day). Headache in right temple, with pressing pains on posterior portion of eye, first on right, then on both (first day); head better (second day); towards evening became worse, and continued through night (second night). Slight dull aching and empty feeling in whole right side to head accompanied the pain in small spot on upper part of right scapula, at 9.30 (second day). Itching all around base of skull at roots of hair, relieved by scratching for a short time, from 2 to 4 (second day).
 Eye.
 Pressing pains on posterior portion of eyes, first on right, then on both with headache in right temple (first day).

 Woke during the night lying on left side, with copious flow of saliva out of left corner of mouth; he thought it was blood, having previously dreamed that he had received a blow on the mouth (second night).
 Throat.
 Sharp stitches down left Eustachian tube and into left side of throat, slightly relieved by pressing upon throat under left ear (for two minutes), at 9.30 (second day).

 Stitches in right hypochondrium, sometimes in middle of sternal region (first day). Severe cutting stitches in groin of left side, and left side, for five minutes, while sitting, at 1 (second day).

 Woke on right side, and as soon as he had turned to the left, sharp cutting pain in right chest, for two minutes (fourth day).

 Back.
 Small spot on upper part of right scapula feels bruised and slightly stiff, from 8 to 8.30 ; the pain had returned in a more marked manner, accompanied by a slight dull aching and empty feeling in whole right side of head, at 9.30 (second day). Sharp cutting pain in region of left kidney, accompanied by a shooting pain running up left side into left chest, at 6.30 p.m; this lasted for fifteen minutes, when he got up and the pain almost immediately ceased (second day).
 Extremities in General.
 Aching pain in bones of legs, chiefly right, and of upper arms, chiefly right, half an hour after the pain in head came on; the pain in limbs ceased after a night’s rest.
 Superior Extremities.
 Two sudden successive jerks upwards of left shoulder and upper arm, while lying on right side (after twenty minutes). When pouring out from a jug with left hand could not, hold it steady; the hand and forearm trembled (never noticed this before), (after five hours).
 Inferior Extremities.
 Momentary twitching of muscles in anterior part of right thigh, at 5.30 (second day). вurning in a small spot just above right patella, for one minute, at 8.20 p.m (third day). Stitches in right little toe when at rest (first day).

 A jerk of the whole body, especially of head, almost directly after waking at 6 p.m (second day). A general sensation of disturbance, as if the blood were circulating quicker than usual, and he could at times hear the pulsations of the arteries in right side of head, on which side he was lying, for five minutes, soon after getting into bed (first night). Rheumatic pains flying from one part to another, but principally in right side (second day).

 Skin.
 Sharp pricking like a fleabite superficially in left elbow, relieved for a moment by rubbing, but returning, at 7.30 p.m (for three minutes), (second day).

 Restless night (second night). Very nervous and restless at night; troublesome dreams (first night). Dreamed that he received a blow on the mouth (second night).

 General creeping chilliness over back and half way down front of left thigh; momentary or nearly so; 7.30 to 8 p.m (second day).

 All pains worse by thinking of them; not noticed when thinking of something else; slightly relieved by moving about.

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