Millefolium (Achillea millefolium)
By Adolph von Lippe â Text Book of Materia Medica
Mind and Disposition
Very excited, with pain in the pit of the stomach.
Sighing and groaning of children.
Head
Vertigo when moving slowly, walking, but not when taking violent exercise, with nausea when stooping, not when lying down.
Sensation as if all the blood ascended to the head.
Violent headache, with twitching of the eyelids and muscles of the forehead.
Eyes
Glistening eyes.
Agglutination of the eyes in the morning.
Lachrymation and discharges from the eyes.
Face
Redness of the face without internal heat.
Nose
Bleeding from the nose.
Mouth and Throat
Ulcers on the gums.
Stomacace.
Tongue swollen and coated.
Elongation of the palate.
Ulcers in the throat.
Stomach and Abdomen
Painful gnawing and digging in the stomach as from hunger.
Burning in the stomach, extending to the chest.
Violent pain in the pit of the stomach (during retrogressive small-pox).
Vomiting when coughing.
Nausea with vertigo.
Pain in the region of the liver.
Congestions to the portal system.
Colic during menstruation.
Ascites.
Incarcerated hernia.
Frequent emission of fetid flatulence.
Violent colic, with bloody diarrhÅa (during pregnancy).
Dysentery.
Stool and Anus
HÃĻmorrhages from the rectum, caused by too violent exertion.
Mucous diarrhÅa.
Profuse bleeding from the hÃĻmorrhoidal tumors.
Urinary Organs
HÃĻmaturia.
Involuntary micturition (Incontinence of urine).
Sexual Organs
Men. Swelling of the penis or testicles.
The semen is not discharged during an embrace.
Sycotic excrescences.
Women. HÃĻmorrhage from the uterus from too violent exertions.
Menses too profuse.
Suppressed menstruation with epileptic attacks.
Barrenness, with too profuse menstruation.
Suppressed lochia with violent fever, suppressed secretion of milk, or convulsions; convulsive motion of all the limbs and violent pain.
Lochia too profuse.
Sore nipples.
Respiratory Organs
Very difficult breathing, with tetanic spasms.
Oppression of the chest, with bloody expectoration.
HÃĻmoptysis (after falling from a height, in the afternoon, in connection with hÃĻmorrhoidal symptoms).
Violent palpitation of the heart and spitting of blood.
Extremities
Upper. Pricking and numbness of the left arm.
Heat of the hands.
Lower. The feet go to sleep; first the left foot, later the right, disappearing on walking.
Heat of the feet.
Generalities
Rheumatic and arthritic complaints.
Convulsions and fainting attacks of infants.
Hysterical spasms.
Paralysis and contraction of the limbs.
Tetanus.
Convulsions after parturition.
Epileptic spasms from suppressed menstruation.
HÃĻmorrhages from various organs.
Sleep
Violent yawning without being tired.
Goes to sleep late, and does not feel refreshed in the morning.
Fever
Pulse accelerated and contracted.
Chilliness with pain in the kidneys.
Colliquative perspirations.
Skin
Suppressed itch, and from it fever.
Painless varices of pregnant women.
Fistulous ulcers.
Ulceration of internal organs.
Cancerous ulcers.
Wounds -after the operation for the stone of the bladder.
Bruises, bleeding from the wounds.
Bad effects from a fall (from a height) and sprains.
Conditions
Especially suitable for aged persons, children and for women.
Coffee causes congestion to the head.