# Trifolium Pratense

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

## Keynote Indications
T. C. Duncan and others proved it and elicited some very decided respiratory symptoms, 
dry, tickling cough, oppressed breathing with fever. One peculiar symptom was a cough followed by hiccough. 
Marked salivation. Feeling of fullness with congestion of salivary glands, followed by increased flow of saliva. 
Crusta lactea, dry, scaly crusts. Stiff neck. Feeling as if m umps were coming on. Preventive for mumps and 
cancer. Retards progress of cancerous tumors before ulceration has taken place. Cancerous diathesis.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Mental breakdown.
- Confusion of ideas, morning.
- Loss of memory.
- Mental breakdown.
- Confusion of ideas, morning.
- Loss of memory.

### Head
- Confusion and headaches on awaking.
- Dullness in anterior brain.
- Confusion and headaches on awaking.
- Dullness in anterior brain.

### Mouth
- Increased flow of saliva (Merc., Syph.).

### Throat
- Sore throat with hoarseness.
- COMMENTS - Trif-p.
- has many symptoms of congestion.
- Dull, stupid feeling generally.
- The head and lungs feel full of blood.
- Sensa tion in lungs as if breathing hot air, as if air full of impurities.
- Persistent headache on waking.
- Unreffeshing sleep.
- Weak and intermittent pulse, later full and bounding.
- Irritation of the pharynx and trachea.
- “Sharp pain through uvula causing tears to start.” Dryness of trachea 
causing him to clear throat of some foreign substance.
- Secretion of urine increased.
- Farrington noted “Hoarseness and choking spells at night with cough, the neck is stiff, cramps in sternomastoid 
muscle better by heat and friction.” 
Cooper said of Trif -p.
- that it causes saliva tion in horses and diarrhea if they eat much of it and that it cu res 
mumps and disorders of the pancreas and salivary glands.
- Hale said it causes “heaves” in horses.
- Felter noted “scaly and ulcerated condi tions of the tibial region of the old.” The symptoms are worse in close 
room, better in open air.
- “When I became ve ry warm with the fever my breathing stopped, lungs felt as if 
breathing hot air.” Worse after sleep.

### Chest
- Hay fever.
- Coryza like that which precedes hay fever, thin mucus with much irritation.
- Hoarse and 
choking, chills with cough at night.
- Cough on coming into the open air.
- Spasmodic cough.
- Whooping 
cough, paroxysms, worse at night.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Griping pains in abdomen and headache.
- Colicky pains all day.

### Extremities
- Hands and feet cold.
- Tingling in palms.
- Tibial ulcers.

### Neck & Back
- Neck stiff, cramp in sterno-cleido muscles, relieved by heat and irritation.
- Constitutions - Cancer diathesis.