Millefolium

[millefoil, common yarrow, natural order, composite.]

This plant grows to a foot in height, along roadsides, in sandy places ; it has white flowers in corymbs.

We make a watery infusion, or an alcoholic tincture of the tops of the plant which must be cut off just before the period of flowering.

HAEMORRHAGE. — In domestic practice this drug has been em- ployed empirically for years past as a remedy for haemorrhages from internal organs, the stomach, lungs, womb, urethra, rectum, also from haemorrhoidal tumors.

SPASMS. — It has also been used as an antispasmodic for recent epileptic spasms, violent cramp-pains in the stomach or bowels, aris- ing from sudden suppression of the menstrual or lochial discharge.

We have a few provings of this drug by Hartlaub and "Trinks, and by Dr. Hoering and other experimenters, which furnish abundant

MILLEFOLIUM. 431

testimony of the homoeopathicity of this agent to conditions imme- diately preceding haemorrhage, or to conditions arising from the ahuor-nial suppression of habitual or accidental haemorrhage.

Millefolium causes: Vertigo (from the Flora Sueciaof Linnaeus). Pains in the right side of the head, such as : tension, tearing and darting pains, sensation as if in a vise. Painful roaring and con- fusion in the head. Sensation as if the whole mass of blood would rush to the head. Rush of blood to the head when stooping, relieved by raising the head.

EP1STAXIS. — These symptoms may arise as precursory symp- toms of a violent attack of epistaxis, or they may develop in conse- quence of the accidental suppression of some habitual discharge of blood, such as the catamenia or profuse haemorrhoidal flow.

UTERINE HAEMORRHAGE of bright-red, fluid blood; after great exertions. Some physicians attribute to it a power to prevent post-partitm hmnorrhage.

Mad. A., the mother of six children ; each birth has been accompanied by grave losses of blood, for which all ordinary medical means had been tried in vain, some- times even aortic compression. She was also in a permanent anaemic state, the losses being so great and occurring about every two years. She applied to me in the seventh month of gestation.

I prescribed millefolium3. Four doses were given in five weeks, each dose in a glass of water taken in two days, leaving an interval of seven or eight days, so that the last dose should be taken about ten days before her expected confinement. She had a natural labor and there was no undue loss of blood. [Horn. Times, April, 1879, Retrospect of Literature.)

AUDITORY GKOUP.

In this group we meet with several symptoms which indicate this rushing of the blood to the brain, such as : Tingling in the left ear. Stitching in the right ear. Noise in the left ear as if caused by the flight of a bat, causing one to start as if in afright, afterward a sen- sation, when laughing, as if cold air were rushing out.

CHYLO-POIETIO GROUP.

In the chylo-poietic group we find several symptoms which admit of a similar interpretation to that of the cephalic and auricular symptoms. We note : Long-continued roughness in the throat. Burning sensation in the stomach and abdomen, as high up as the chest. Sensation as if the stomach were lined with some astringent earth.

Long-continued feeling of fulness in the stomach. Spasm of the stomach, with sensation as if the stomach contained a liquid which moves through the abdomen to the anus. Painful gnawing and digging in the stomach as from hunger. Pain in the stomach, early in the morning, as from long fasting.

432 moschus.

HiEMATEMESIS. — These symtoms clearly represent a condition of the stomach analogous to a pathological state which may result in haernatemesis; or these symatoms may delineate a pathological group which may very properly he described as

CAKDIALGIA, where severe retching and vomiting of blood may constitute characteristic symptoms; we should bear in mind that such an attack may have a metastatic origin or may constitute the ultimate development of an inherent weakness of the functional powers of the stomach.

Other symptoms are recorded by our provers, in various other parts of the body, back, extremities, etc., but they seem to be desti- tute of any marked characteristic features, and are evidently of a subordinate and generally of a consensual character. Some of them constitute exceptions to this remark, inasmuch as they clearly furnish additional testimony concerning the circulation-disordering power of our drug. We may note the following : Violent pinching, first in the left hypochondrium, then on both sides, as far as the heart, with anxiety, going off after rising from the chair.

Frequent going to sleep of the right foot when sitting, not going off after rising, after dinner. Yawning and stretching, with drowsiness, from time to time.