Millefolium

Yarrow. Compositss.

A plant known to the ancients, mentioned by Homer in the Iliad, where Chiron instructs Achilles in the art of surgery ; it was named by Linneus, Achillea Millefolium. The plant is common in old fields, along fences, on borders of woods and cultivated grounds, produces a dense corymb of whitish flowers of feeble aro- matic odor, and the leaves have a bitterish, astringent taste. The tincture is pre- pared from the fresh plant.

Introduced by Hartlaub ; provings by Nenning and Schreter (Hartlaub and Trinks' Annalen, vol. 4, p. 344) ; later provings by Hering and Eaue (Amerika- nische Arzneipriifungen, Translation with additions, N. E. M. G., vol. 9, 1874).

Clinical Authorities Kiickert, Annalen, vol. 1, p. 114; Gross, Archives, 15, 3, 25 ; Goullon, Archives, 20, 2, 145 ;

Headache, Kormand, Roux, Journ. de Med., 1771 ; Culic and bloody diarrhoea during pregnancy, Normand ; Htemcduria, Wiedemann, Eiick. Kl.

Erf., vol. 2, p. 23 ; Hcemoptysis, Lobethal, Allg. Hom. Ztg., vol. 13, p. 356 ;

Gross, Hirsch, Riickert, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 3, p. 219 ; Keil, Riick.

Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 805; Okie, N. E.

M. G., vol. 9, 1874; Jousset, Allg. Hom.

Ztg., vol. Ill, p. 127 ; Preventive in post-partum hemorrhage, Rev. Hom.

Beige, 1876, p. 21 ; Smcdlpox, with pain in stomach, Maumery, Normand, Frank's Mag., vol. 1 ; Infantile spasms, Normand ; Fever from suppressed itch, Normand.

^ Mind. Anxious, with pain in heart.

I I Melancholy, sadness; weak memory.

1 I Much excited, with pains in pit of stomach.

Irritable; violent; aversion to work. ^Sensorium. Stupefied, intoxicated.

Confused, dull, especially evenings, knows not what he is about, nor what he ought to do; seems constantly as if he had forgotten something.

Vertigo when moving slowly, walking, but not when tak- ing violent exercise, with nausea when stooping.

• Apoplexy ; paralysis. ^ Inner Head. Sensation as if all blood ascended to head.

Congestion to head: when stooping in evening; at night a stream from chest to head, like a gust of wind, with nosebleed; from coffee; from portal system.

Slight throbbing in arteries of head and face.

Fulness in head after siesta.

Dull pain in vertex.

Sensation in r. side of head as if screwed together.

Hemicrania.

481 MILLEFOLIUM.

I I Violent headache, he strikes head against bedpost or

wall; twitching of eyelids and frontal muscles. Occipital headache, dull towards evening. Piercing or thrusts in head, vertex, over eye, occiput, side

of head. Headache <: stooping; on awaking. ^ Sight and Eyes. Like a mist before eyes, not near, but at

a distance. ■ Nebulous vision, weak sighted, with contortion of facial

muscles. Eyes brilliant. Inward piercing, pressing in eyes to root of nose and sides

of forehead. Sensation of too much blood in eyes. I I Fistula lachrymalis; lachrymation and discharge. Agglutination of eyes in morning. ® Hearing and Ears. Noise in 1. ear causes her to start with

fright; later, ■when laughing, sensation as of cold air

passing out. Sensation as if ears were stopped up, after dinner. Darting in 1. ear. I Earache. '^ Smell and Nose, n Nosebleed: congestion to chest and

head; excessive. I I Stuffed nose.

Piercing pain from eyes to root of nose. ^ Upper Face. Redness of face without internal heat. Sensation of heat as if blood was rising to head. Tearing : in face to temples; from r. lower jaw to ear, then

I I Contortion of face. ^° Teeth and Gums. iToothache: from heating things ; with

swallowing. ^^ Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting. Hiccough;

VOL. VII. — 31.

MILLEFOLIUM. 482

" Scrobiculum and Stomach. Painful gnawing and dig- ging in stomach as from hunger.

Pain in stomach as if empty, mornings after waking.

Burning in stomach; < when doubling body, in region of r. hypochondrium, where it became a drawing, burn- ing pain.

Burning in stomach and abdomen; extending to chest.

I I Pains in stomach, in young, hysterical, irregularly menstruating girls.

I I Great pain in pit of stomach ; excited, pulse accelerated and constricted, pustules collapsing. ^Smallpox.

I I Pain in stomach after confluent smallpox.

I I Cardialgia.

Sensation of fulness in stomach; pressure, like a plug.

Cramp in stomach, with sensation as of a liquid moving from stomach to intestines, towards anus. ^^ Hypochondria. Pain in region of liver; piercing in r. lower ribs.

I I Congestion to portal system.

1 I Stagnation in liver and system of vena portse; sluggish digestion; want of appetite; flatus; distension of ab- domen. ^^ Abdomen, i Bloated ness.

I Pain in abdomen from flatus.

I I Griping and tearing in abdomen, caused by dysentery and lientery.

I I Wind colic in hysterical or hypochondriacal patients; colic during menstruation.

I Hemorrhages from bowels in typhoid fever, with tym- panitis.

I I Incarcerated hernia.

I I Ascites. ^ Stool and Rectum. Frequent emission of fetid flatus.

I I Violent colic with bloody diarrhoea. ^During sixth month of pregnancy, prevailing dysentery.

I I Mucous diarrhoea.

I I Chronic blenorrhoea from atony of mucous membranes; great pain.

I I Dysentery.

I I Bloody dysentery, tenesmus; during epidemics of dysentery.

I Bloody flux after much exertion, lifting, or internal in- juries.

■ Pains from blind hemorrhoids.

■ Hemorrhoidal hemorrhages.

■ Profuse flux from condylomata. I lAscarides.

^^ Urinary Organs. iPain in region of 1. kidney, followed

483 MILLEFOLIUM-

by profuse hsematuria, lasting from five to eight days;

chilliness, which obliges him to keep his bed. 1 I Catarrh of bladder from atony. I I Stone in bladder, with retention of urine; bloody urime.

I I Puslike discharge after lithotomy.

I I Urine bloody ; blood forms a cake in vessel. I I Incontinence of urine.

■ Swollen penis; discharge of blood and watery slinsae.

menstruation. I I Dysmenorrhoea in irregularly menstruating youjjg

girls, pain in stomach.

■ Menses suppressed with pain in stomach, or epileptic

attacks, or cough with bloody sputum. llMenses excessive, last too long, with colic.

I I Leucorrhoea of children from atony.

I I Uterine hemorrhages : after great exertion ; miscarriage.

■ Hemorrhage of bright red and fluid blood.

■ Menorrhagia and metrorrhagia, with congestive head-

■ Painless or bleeding varices in pregnant women.

I I Colic or cramplike affections in confinement; severe after pains.

■ Attacks following a hard delivery.

■ Convulsive motions of all limbs, terrible pains and total

suppression of lochia ; third day after confinement.

■ Lochia: too copious ; suppressed; violent fever, no milk,

convulsive twitchings; great pain.

■ Painless drainings from uterus, nose or lungs, after

labor, after abortion, or when an abortion threatens, if the blood be bright red and there are no pains in joints.

■ Preventive in post-partum hemorrhage. ■Sore (cracked) nipples of nursing mothers.

■ No milk with suppressed lochia and fever.

MILLEFOLIUM. 484

"*' Respiration, l i Shortness of breath.

I Has fallen from a height and spits blood in consequence.

■ Hemorrhages from lungs from a weak condition of vessels. Bin phthisic conditions with coughing of blood, or after

frequent attacks of hemorrhage of lungs.

I I Haemoptysis : in incipient phthisis (after Acon.and Am.); in hemorrhoidal patients; from a rupture of blood- vessel ; after injury.

■ Oppression of chest; excessive palpitation.

■ Coughing blood, vigorous M^pman of 48; no menstrua-

tion for two years ; ebullition in chest every evening, < when lying in bed, not at all during day ; warm blood rises into her throat and flows out of her mouth ; . then cough with more light red, bloody expectoration, half a pound in all, accompanied by great prostration.

■ Coughing blood every afternoon at 4 o'clock.

■ Lung disease after coughing blood.

■ Repeated bronchorrhagia, in phthisis, or after a fall. I i Blenorrhoea of lungs.

■ Expectoration of florid blood, without much coughing,

sometimes in consequence of violent exertions. ^^ Inner Chest and Lungs. Violent fine stitch in middle of 1. scapula from without inward, during an inspiration. ■■Violent congestion to chest; to head, with bleeding of nose and expectoration of bloody mucus.

■ Inflammation of lungs.

■ Oppression of chest, frequent blood spitting ; piercing

pains, stinging, bruised feeling ; < under 1. shoulder blade ; bubbles up in chest as if warm blood was ascend- ing, which is raised without cough. ^Phthisis.

■Haemoptysis, with profuse flow of bright red blood, with- out fever.

I I Phthisis pituitosa.

I I Ulcers in lungs ; vomicae.

i Injuries of lungs. ^'^ Heart, Pulse and Circulation, i Violent palpitation and spitting of blood.

■ Ebullitions with haemoptysis. Anxiousness with pain in heart.

485 MILLEFOLIUM.

^^ Upper Limbs. Fine piercing pain in 1. scapula, in breath- ing when standing.

Left arm feels as if going to sleep ; pricking numbness.

Hot hands. ^ Lower Limbs, l l Violent pains on a level with crest of 1. ilium.

Right tendo-achillis pains as after a blow or sprain.

First 1. then r. foot goes to sleep ; disappearing on walking.

Hot feet. ^ Limbs in General. Piercing, drawing, tearing pains in

Lying in bed: coughing blood <.

Sitting : piercing pains under 1. shoulder blade.

Stooping: nausea; congestion to head; headache <.

Doubling body: burning in stomach <.

Standing: fine piercing pain in 1. scapula.

Moving slowly: vertigo.

Walking: vertigo; going to sleep of feet disappears.

After lifting: bloody flux.

Violent exercise: vertigo >.

After much exertion: bloody flux; uterine hemorrhages; expectoration of florid blood. ^Nerves, i Hysteria; hypochondriasis.

I I Convulsions : during teething ; after labor ; hysterical.

I Convulsion and swoon of newborn child ; recovers after bath, but constantly wails and sighs.

I I General convulsions, with tetanic rigidity of limbs and extremely difficult breathing, in a boy of 14, after a malignant fever; two hours after fourth dose countless vesicles of size of a pea, of a livid brown, rose all over his body ; dark violet after seven hours, discharging an in supportably offensive syruplike secretion ; dry after four days, leaving scar.

I I Epileptic spasms after suppressed menstruation.

I 1 Tetanus.

I I Paralysis and contraction of limbs. ^^ Sleep. Yawning without weariness.

Congestion from chest to head, like a stream, while asleep.

Falls asleep late, unrefreshed in morning. *" Fever, l l Chilliness with pains in 1. kidney.

I I Intermittent fever: quartan; tertian ; irregular.

I I Fever from suppressed itch or suppressed lochia.

I I Scarlet fever epidemic, with excessive angina and vio- lent fever.

I I Exanthema of difficult development and delirium.

Fever heat with thirst.

Heat in hands and feet.

MILLEFOLIUM. 486

I I Hectic fever with haemoptysis.

I I Malignant fever; with tetanus.

I 1 Colliquative sweats. *^ Attacks, Periodicity. Two hours after fourth dose: count- less vesicles appear over whole body, dark violet after seven hours; dry after four days.

Twenty-four hours after confinement : violent pain, fever, suppressed lochia, no milk.

Every afternoon at 4 o'clock : coughing blood.

Every evening: coughing blood.

Third day after confinement: terrible pains and total sup- pression of lochia.

During sixth month of pregnancy: violent colic, with bloody diarrhoea.

For a few years, every four or six weeks, lasting from five to eight days: chilliness, which obliges him to keep his bed. *^ Locality and Direction. Right: sensation in side of head as if screwed together; tearing from lower jaw to ear; drawing, burning pain in hypochondrium.

Left: noise in ear; darting in ear; pain in side of throat when swallowing; pain in region of kidney; violent pains at top of os innominata; violent fine stitch in middle of scapula; pains under shoulder blade; pierc- ing pain in scapula; arm as if going to sleep; pains on a level with crest of ilium.

First r., then 1.: dull piercing pains in side of throat; foot goes to sleep.

From without inward : fine stitch in 1. scapula. ^^ Sensations. As if he had forgotten something ; as if all blood ascended to head; r. side of head as if screwed to- gether; as of too much blood in eyes; as of cold air pass- ing out of ear; as if ears were stopped up; as if blood was rising to head; stomach as if empty; pressure in stomach as of a plug; as of a liquid moving from stom- ach to intestines; as if warm blood was ascending in chest; 1. arm as if going to sleep; pain in r. tendo- achillis as after a blow or sprain.

Pain: in heart; in pit of stomach; in ear; in teeth; in jaw: in 1. side of throat; in stomach; in region of liver; in abdomen; from blind hemorrhoids; in region of 1. kidney; in r. tendo-achillis.

Terrible pains : after confinement.

Violent pain: in head.

Violent pains: at top of 1. os innominata; on a level, with crest of 1. ilium.

Great pain : in pit of stomach.

Tearing: in face to temples; from r. lower jaw to ear and teeth; in abdomen.

487 MILLEFOLIUM.

Darting: in 1. ear.

Violent fine stitch: in middle of 1. scapula.

Piercing or thrusts : in head, vertex, over eyes, occiput, side

blade. Piercing, pressing: in eyes to root of nose and sides of

Slight throbbing : in arteries of head and face. Oppression : of chest.

Fulness : in head after siesta ; in stomach. Pricking numbness : in 1. arm. ** Tissues. ' Congestions.

1 1 Hemorrhages of all kinds, mostly from lungs and

bleed profusely ; especially from a fall. I I Sprains.

MILLEFOLIUM— MITCHELLA REPENS. 488

each; prevented post-partum hemorrhage in seventh

Incompatible : coffee, which causes congestion to head.

Erecht. in epistaxis and hsemoptysis : Senec. aur.

in hsematuria ; Hamam. and Ipec. in hemorrhages.