# Alfalfa / Medicago Sativa

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Herbal Remedy
- **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
Metabolic regulator. Lack of appetite or aversion to all food. Emaciation. Disorders 
characterized by 
Bladder - Bladder irritability. Urging to urinate, morbid desire. Frequent urging to urinate.  
 
 
Breasts - Breast milk, absent or disappearing. 
Constitutions - Anorexic, emaciated, broken down constitutions. Cancer diathesis.

## Symptoms by System

### Head
- Dull, heavy feeling in occiput in and above the eyes, worse toward evening.
- Violent headache.
- Pain in 
the left side of the head.
- Dull heavy feeling comes on about 2 p.m.
- and gradually increases until 6 p.m., starts 
at the occiput and becomes severe.
- Kidneys - Kidneys are weak, f requent urging to urinate.
- Polyuria (Ph -ac.).
- In creased elimination of urea 
indican and phosphates.
- Inactivity.
- Suppression of urine, anuria.
- Dull, heavy feeling in occiput in and above the eyes, worse toward evening.
- Violent headache.
- Pain in 
the left side of the head.
- Dull heavy feeling comes on about 2 p.m.
- and gradually increases until 6 p.m., starts 
at the occiput and becomes severe.
- Kidneys - Kidneys are weak, f requent urging to urinate.
- Polyuria (Ph -ac.).
- In creased elimination of urea 
indican and phosphates.
- Inactivity.
- Suppression of urine, anuria.

### Eyes
- Aching in and above the eyes.

### Ears
- Stuffed feeling in Eustachian tube (Kali-m.) at night, clear in morning.

### Face
- Flushed.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Emptiness, weak feeling, faintness, goneness.
- Hungry feeling not ameliorated by eating.
- Nervous 
indigestion.
- Urine - Profuse urine, increased.
- Scanty.
- Sediment, increased indican, phosphates.
- Sugar in urine.
- COMMENTS - Dr.
- Houts gathered the fresh Alfalfa leaves, but obtained good results from the use of dried 
leaves which still re tain a green color.
- Using these, he made an infusion which he gave to patients suffering 
from backaches.
- He found it especially indicated if they were passing small quantities of water while suffering from rheumatic 
symptoms or backache with muscular aching, with an excessive quantity of uric acid and urates secreted.
- Dr.
- Fearn of Oakland wrote that its action was very soothing upo n the kidneys and urinary apparatus.
- He 
believed that it could be prepared for human food to as good, if not better, advantage than for animal food.
- Dr.
- Ben Bradley of Hamlet, Ohio, believed that alfalfa is one of our upcoming remedies.
- He reported a case 
where a woman had seven children born apparently strong and well, but when they reached the age of 
eighteen years they wasted away and died.
- When the last girl was taken with the symptoms of which the others had died.
- Dr.
- Bradley made a saturated 
tincture of Alfalfa seed concentrated, fully saturated and gave her ten drops four or five times a day.
- This is 
reported to have increased her weight from 99 to 133 pounds.
- She recovered good health.
- Mr.
- D.
- aged 41, a chief clerk in the general offices of one of our railroad companies, had complained for several 
months of losing flesh.
- His appetite was poor, he did not relish his food.
- There was present an abnormal thirst, 
a loss of flesh and polyuria.
- The quantity of urine for twenty -four hours was eighty ounces, specific gravity 1008.
- Nothing abnormal apart 
from an excess of indican.
- The prostate was enlarged and sensitive to pressure.
- He complained of some 
irritation upon urination.
- Five drops of the tincture was prescribed four times a day.
- After two weeks he se nt a message for a supply 
stating it had greatly benefited him.
- He called at the end of two months having gained ten pounds, the urine at 
this time was practically normal in quan tity.
- The appetite was fine and he considered himself in a normal 
condition.
- Mr.
- G, aged 29, complained of a loss of weight and appetite, excessive thirst, polyuria and mental depression.
- This syndrome had been gradually developing for the past year.
- Physical examination showed a man of medium size, emaciated.
- Heart action weakene d.
- Prostatic portion of 
urethra hypersensitive.
- The urine was greatly increased in quantity and of low specific gravity, free from casts 
and albumin, phosphates were increased.
- Five drops of the tincture before each meal and on retiring gradually relieved  the condition so that in three 
months he considered himself well.
- Increased thirst.
- Appetite wanting with weight loss.
- Sensation of hunger at all times.
- Appetite is 
increased.
- Malnutrition.
- Desire for sweets.
- Sometimes ravenous appetite.
- Hypoglycemia, must stop and 
have something to eat in the middle of the morning.
- Hungry in forenoon (Sulph.).

### Urinary & Genital
- Enlarged prostate gland.
- Prostatic hypertrophy.
- Increased desire.
- Menses coming earlier than usual.

### Sleep
- Slept better than usual, especially in early morning, it induces quiet, reposeful and refreshing sleep.
- Insomnia.
- Sleeplessness during convalescence.