Menthol
Chest
William Boericke 1922
Short, dry cough, worse smoking. Asthmatic breathing, with congestive headache
Compare
William Boericke 1922
Kali hich.; Spigel.
Dose
William Boericke 1922
Sixth potency. Externally for itching, use 1 per cent, solution or ointment.
Extremities
William Boericke 1922
Muscular pain in cervical region. Soreness of lumbar muscles.
Guiding symptoms
William Boericke 1922
The stearopten from the essential oil of Mentha. Mucous membrane of naso-pharynx and spinal nerve plexus, producing neuritic pains and parathesias. Menthol has proved curative in acute nasal catarrh in acute eustachian catarrh; pharyngitis; laryngitis; neuralgias, etc. (Wm. B. Griggs, M.D.) Itching, especially pruritus vulvae.
Head
William Boericke 1922
Frontal headache, pain over frontal sinus, descends to eyeballs. Mental confusion. Supra orbital pain over left eye. Pain in face above zygoma with numbness. Pain in eyeballs. Coryza with post-nasal dripping. Cold sensation in
Nose
William Boericke 1922
Eustachian tubes feel blocked and some deafness.
Respiratory
William Boericke 1922
Tickling in the fauces. Stabbing pains in the precordia, radiating over entire
References
This monograph is an original summary faithful to the classical tradition. It condenses material from these public-domain sources:
- James Tyler Kent, Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica (1905)Primary remedy pictures; characteristic mental and general symptoms. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
- William Boericke, Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica and Repertory (1927)Reproduced here in full — the complete classical repertory-style monographs. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
- Constantine Hering, The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica (1879–1891)Confirmed symptom aggregates behind the section organization. · Public domain
- Timothy Field Allen, Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica (1874–1879)Provings background referenced by the verification tradition. · Public domain
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