{"id":16319,"remedy_name":"Mentha Piperita","remedy_type":"Herbal Remedy","alternative_names":[""],"miasm":"Tubercular Miasm","temperament":"Chilly","aggravation_time":"Night","keynote_indications":"A remarkable proving of Menth. was made by Demeures, who took a single drop of the \ntincture, the effects of which lasted into the third month. After the proving, Demeures found that he could rise \nearlier than usual and yet feel bright and fresh, whereas before it he could not. \nMarked action on respiratory organs and skin. Stimulates the cold perceiving nerves so just after taking it a \ncurrent of air at the ordinary temperature seems cold. Herpes zoster. \nBroncho-tracheal catarrh and diseases of the skin. Dry cough, excited by air entering larynx, exposure to cold, \nreading aloud, shocks of any kind. Irritation in the suprasternal fossa. Dry, spasmodic cough which is worse in \ncold weather, and following the influenza. \nStomach pain, flatulence, flatulent colic and hysteria, with nausea and vomiting. Deranged digestion. Vaginal \npruritus.","modalities":"Better lying down in bed, while eating. Worse early rising, cold air, smoke. Worse stooping, turning \nhead, reading aloud, writing.","symptoms_by_system":{"Mind":"Mental dullness, which follows early morning rising. Insensible. Confusion of mind. Eager for work, \ndispatches it quickly. Mental dullness, which follows early morning rising. Insensible. Confusion of mind. Eager for work, \ndispatches it quickly.","Head":"Headache with tension toward both ears, worse on rising, better returning to bed. Acute lancinations \nfrom ear to head, on stooping or turning head. Frontal headache from one temple to the other. Hair ceases to \nfall out. Headache with tension toward both ears, worse on rising, better returning to bed. Acute lancinations \nfrom ear to head, on stooping or turning head. Frontal headache from one temple to the other. Hair ceases to \nfall out.","Eyes":"Flashes before eyes when writing.","Ears":"All day when walking, shooting from one ear to the other, as if abscesses were forming, worse left. \nWhen writing, sharp lancinations extend from left ear to left teeth.","Mouth":"Very severe toothache in lower molars when chewing a bit of sugar. \nNose - Tip of nose sore to touch, swollen but not painful.","Throat":"Entire trachea from larynx to pit of throat painful to touch. Throat dry and painful on swallowing, as if \na pin stuck crosswise in pharynx. Momentary lancinations in parotids, better during breakfast and dinner. \nThroat externally painfully sensitive to touch. Husky voice from reading aloud.  \nCOMMENTS - A case of fatal poisoning with the essence is on record. The patient, a boy of six took between \n1 and 2 ounces and died in two hours. When seen, he was insensible, eyes fixed, pupils were fixed, stertorous \nbreathing, cold skin and the lips were livid. \nDemeures said he cured with Menth. every case of influenza that came under his care in the winter of 1847 -\n8. \u201cIt is to dry cough, however caused, what Arn. is to injuries and Aeon, to inflammatory complaints. It relieves \neven the cough of tuberculosis patients.\u201d A single globule of the 30c sufficed.  \nGibson Millerrelated the case of a teacher, 43, who had a dry, spasmodic cough, worse in cold w eather since \nwhooping cough in boyhood. The inhalation of the smallest quantity of smoke, either of coal, wood or tobacco, \nat once induced a most distressing paroxysm. \nWorse by the least breath of air or any fog. Scarcely any expectoration. Husky on attemp ting to sing. \nMenth. 30c completely removed the cough and enabled him to sit in a room full of to bacco smoke and sing \nwith clearness. \nHansen commended it in bilious colic with great accumulation of gas, severe pain of shingles and as an \nexternal remedy in itching of the vagina.","Chest":"Frequent coughs and colds. Dry cough, excited by merely speaking, expectoration every morning \nof thick mucus like the core of a boil. Dry cough continues, not caused by titillation or mucus accumulations in \nthe bronchi, but merely by the passage of air into the larynx. Cough excited from least feeling of cold, reading \naloud, and smoke of all kinds.","Stomach & Abdomen":"Indigestion. In evening, two hours after dinner, weight in stomach which seems to extend to ears.","Extremities":"Sensation under right foot at extremity of metatarsus, as if shoe sole was too tight there.","Neck & Back":"Muscles around neck are painful to touch.","Skin":"Every scratch becomes a sore. Pimples with much itching near left ear with heat in part. Frequent itching \n \n \nbehind right ear. Formication in arm and hand when writing.","Sleep":"Sleep good, refreshing. Waking early."},"schema_version":"1.0","api_provider":"Allahshafi"}