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Trifolium Pratense
Trifolium pratense · TRIF P
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Origin Plant · Leguminosae (Fabaceae) · Simple
ClarkePreparation Tincture of flower heads.
Sources 4 entries across 4 books: Boericke, Clarke, T. F. Allen, Hale

Dose Boericke
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Tincture

Reason for useClarke

Tri. p. has a reputation among eclectics in whooping-cough, and coughs of measles and phthisis. T. C. Duncan and others proved it and elicited some very decided respiratory symptoms, dry, tickling cough, oppressed breathing with fever. One peculiar symptom was, cough followed by hiccough. Many symptoms of congestion appeared. The head felt full of blood. The lungs felt full of blood. Sensation in lungs as if breathing hot air; as if air full of impurities. There was persistent headache on waking. Sleep was unrefreshing. The pulse was weak and intermittent, showing an action on the heart; later it was full and bounding. Pharynx as well as trachea was irritated and there was: "Sharp pain through uvula causing tears to start." Dryness of trachea causing him to clear throat of some foreign substance. Secretion of urine increased. Dull, stupid feeling generally. Farrington gives as characteristic: Hoarseness and choking spells at night with cough; the neck is still, cramps in sterno-mastoid muscle > by heat and friction. Cooper says of Tri. p. that it causes salivation in horses, and diarrhoea if they eat much of it; and that it cures mumps and affections of the pancreas and salivary glands. Hale says it causes "heaves" in horses. Felter (H. R., xiv. 431) gives it to persons disposed to cancer. He finds it retards the progress of cancerous tumours and improves the general condition of the patient. It keeps cancer from ulcerating. After ulceration has occurred Tri. p. does no good. Another indication of Felter's is "scaly and ulcerated conditions of the tibial region of the old." The symptoms are < in close room; > in open air." When I became very warm (with the fever) my breathing stopped; lungs felt as if breathing hot air. " < After sleep.


By regionClarke
Mind Confusion of ideas, morning.
Head Great headache in morning on waking.—Dulness in anterior brain.—Head feels full of blood.—Intermittent headache.—Pricking in forehead.
Eyes Eyes. dull and sore; heavy.
Stomach Great thirst.—Hiccough.
Respiratory Organs Great dryness of trachea causing him to clear throat of some foreign substance at 11 a.m.—Irritation of pharynx and trachea causing short, hacking cough with accumulation of mucus which must be expectorated.—Incessant dry, hacking cough.—Seems as if trachea was loaded with impurities, after eating.—Dyspnoea > in fresh air.
Neck And Back Neck stiff, cramps in sterno-mastoid muscles, > by heat and rubbing; with the cough.
Sleep On waking in morning felt as if he had not been asleep.
Fever Immediately after retiring began to feel cold; pulse intermitting, later bounding; became very warm and breathing stopped; lungs felt as if breathing hot air.—Feet and hands cold, head hot.

Books*
Antidoted by Rhus Toxicodendron
Complementary —
Follows well —
Compare Arnica Montana, Bryonia Alba, Lachesis +4

* Number of books that state the relation, where more than one. Historical text from the classical materia medica (1828–1950). Not medical advice, and not a claim that any remedy works.
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