MELILOTUS OFFICINALIS: A REMEDY FOR HEADACHE
MELILOTUS
OFFICINALIS
BOTANICAL NAME: Melilotus officinalis Linn.
FAMILY: Leguminosae
COMMON NAMES: English: Yellow melilot, Yellow Clover, Sweet
Clover.
DESCRIPTION: A perennial
herb up to 1.20 m in height. Leaves pinnately 3-foliate , leaflets toothed and
narrow. Flower small, yellow, in slender long stalked axillary racemes. Fruit a
pod.
DISTRIBUTION: Native of Europe, naturalized in USA and England as a common weed found in waste
places; Ladakh.
PART USED: Flowering top.
HOMOEOPATHIC
USES
HEADACHE: Violent,
throbbing, congestive, nervous, and periodical headaches. Rushes of blood to
head. Headaches are better nosebleed, menstrual flow, application of vinegar.
Sick headache, relieved by nosebleed or menstrual flow. Headache with retching
, vomiting, black spots before eyes. Fullness all over head. Intensely red and
flushed face with throbbing carotids.
PART USED: Mother
tincture, 3x.
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