# Mentha Piperita

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Herbal Remedy
- **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 
tincture, the effects of which lasted into the third month. After the proving, Demeures found that he could rise 
earlier than usual and yet feel bright and fresh, whereas before it he could not. 
Marked action on respiratory organs and skin. Stimulates the cold perceiving nerves so just after taking it a 
current of air at the ordinary temperature seems cold. Herpes zoster. 
Broncho-tracheal catarrh and diseases of the skin. Dry cough, excited by air entering larynx, exposure to cold, 
reading aloud, shocks of any kind. Irritation in the suprasternal fossa. Dry, spasmodic cough which is worse in 
cold weather, and following the influenza. 
Stomach pain, flatulence, flatulent colic and hysteria, with nausea and vomiting. Deranged digestion. Vaginal 
pruritus.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Better lying down in bed, while eating. Worse early rising, cold air, smoke. Worse stooping, turning 
head, reading aloud, writing.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Mental dullness, which follows early morning rising.
- Insensible.
- Confusion of mind.
- Eager for work, 
dispatches it quickly.
- Mental dullness, which follows early morning rising.
- Insensible.
- Confusion of mind.
- Eager for work, 
dispatches it quickly.

### Head
- Headache with tension toward both ears, worse on rising, better returning to bed.
- Acute lancinations 
from ear to head, on stooping or turning head.
- Frontal headache from one temple to the other.
- Hair ceases to 
fall out.
- Headache with tension toward both ears, worse on rising, better returning to bed.
- Acute lancinations 
from ear to head, on stooping or turning head.
- Frontal headache from one temple to the other.
- Hair ceases to 
fall 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.
- When writing, sharp lancinations extend from left ear to left teeth.

### Mouth
- Very severe toothache in lower molars when chewing a bit of sugar.
- Nose - 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 
a pin stuck crosswise in pharynx.
- Momentary lancinations in parotids, better during breakfast and dinner.
- Throat externally painfully sensitive to touch.
- Husky voice from reading aloud.
- COMMENTS - A case of fatal poisoning with the essence is on record.
- The patient, a boy of six took between 
1 and 2 ounces and died in two hours.
- When seen, he was insensible, eyes fixed, pupils were fixed, stertorous 
breathing, cold skin and the lips were livid.
- Demeures said he cured with Menth.
- every case of influenza that came under his care in the winter of 1847 -
8.
- “It is to dry cough, however caused, what Arn.
- is to injuries and Aeon, to inflammatory complaints.
- It relieves 
even the cough of tuberculosis patients.” A single globule of the 30c sufficed.
- Gibson Millerrelated the case of a teacher, 43, who had a dry, spasmodic cough, worse in cold w eather since 
whooping cough in boyhood.
- The inhalation of the smallest quantity of smoke, either of coal, wood or tobacco, 
at once induced a most distressing paroxysm.
- Worse by the least breath of air or any fog.
- Scarcely any expectoration.
- Husky on attemp ting to sing.
- Menth.
- 30c completely removed the cough and enabled him to sit in a room full of to bacco smoke and sing 
with clearness.
- Hansen commended it in bilious colic with great accumulation of gas, severe pain of shingles and as an 
external remedy in itching of the vagina.

### Chest
- Frequent coughs and colds.
- Dry cough, excited by merely speaking, expectoration every morning 
of thick mucus like the core of a boil.
- Dry cough continues, not caused by titillation or mucus accumulations in 
the bronchi, but merely by the passage of air into the larynx.
- Cough excited from least feeling of cold, reading 
aloud, 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 
 
 
behind right ear.
- Formication in arm and hand when writing.

### Sleep
- Sleep good, refreshing.
- Waking early.