- Meli, was first proved by Bowen in 1851.
- A second provingTesting a remedy on healthy volunteersThe systematic method of administering a substance to healthy subjects to observe and record the symptoms it produces. was made by him fifteen years later.
- He used both the yellow and the white varieties.
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- Allen published a further proving of Meli, alba, using the entire plant.
- His pro ving entirely confirmed Bowen's and added many symptoms.
- According to Allen the action of Meli, lasted about thirty days, the indolence and prostrationExtreme physical weakness or exhaustionA state of extreme physical weakness, collapse, or exhaustion, often accompanying severe illness. being the first symptom to ap pear and the last to disappear.
- Congestions especially to the head, and pr ofuse, bright red, hemorrhageProfuse bleeding from a ruptured blood vesselAn escape of blood from a ruptured blood vessel, especially when profuse. which gives relief.
- Engorgements of any part or organ.
- Violent congestive and nervous headaches.
- Pain and debility.
- Coldness, but also increase of temperature, tenderness and pain.
- Muscular system depressed.
- Spasms, eclampsia, convulsions.
- EpilepsyNeurological disorder causing seizuresA neurological disorder marked by sudden recurrent episodes of sensory disturbance, loss of consciousness, or convulsions., from blow on head.
- Infantile spasms.
- Tired, bruised, ■ listless, sleepy, chillyHypersensitive to cold temperaturesA constitutional state of feeling exceptionally cold, lacking vital heat, and needing warmth or heavy blankets..
- Feeling of rawness.
- Dreams and emissions.
- COMMENTS - Characteristic engorgement.
- Blood engorgement.
- Tending to hemorrhages, profuse, bright red, which give relief.
- Intensely red or even purple face attending any disorder.
- Headaches with blushing and nosebleed.
- Headaches better by lying down, profuse urination, application of vinegar.
- Headaches more often in hot weather, worse after exposure or getting feet wet, on approach of storm, in rainy, changeable weather.
- Sensation of waving in the brain.
- Alternation of pains, from right temple to right knee, pains in head alternating with pains in back.
- Marked periodicity.
- Generally better sitting, worse from walking, but pain in sacral region is opposite.
- Symptoms appear in the forenoon and wear off during the day.
- Relieved by discharges.
- Bowen used Meli, successfully in all kinds of congestive or nervous headaches, nasal and pulmonary hemorrhages, congestion of spinal cord, pleura, lungs, ovaries, menstrual colicSevere fluctuating pain in the abdomenSevere, often fluctuating pain in the abdomen caused by gas, spasm, or obstruction in the intestines, common in infants., palpitation and nervousness, cramps in stomach, spasms, convulsions and for reliev ing brain-pressure and irritation in insanity.
- He always gave it in pellets medicated with the 1c dilutionPotentized liquid homeopathic medicineA solution prepared by repeatedly diluting and shaking (succussing) a substance to enhance healing power while removing toxicity..
- In different cases, Bowen removed symptoms including a desire to run away, to hide, insists that everyone is looking at them.
- Mania to escape and kill himself, with insomniaPersistent inability to fall or stay asleepA sleep disorder marked by difficulty falling asleep, waking up too early, or unrefreshing sleep..
- Nervous and timid.
- Dares not talk loudly, whispers.
- Vicious, threatens to kill those who approach.
- Thinks there is a devil in his stomach contradicting all he says.
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- Allen relieved with Meli, a fear of danger, fear of being arrested in mental cases.
- In a schoolboy, Clarke cured with Meli.
- 30c a very distressing recurrent headache, accompanied by an intensely red face while the pain was on and with the same potencyStrength level of a remedyThe dilution and succussion scale of a remedy (e.g., 6C, 30C, 200C, 1M), indicating its energetic concentration..
- Clarke gave great relief in a case of melancholiaSevere depression or deep sadnessDeep sadness or depression, historically considered a mental illness characterized by lack of activity and apathy. in a young woman.
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- Barker recorded the case of Miss X, 19, tall, blonde, for several years had severe, nervous and congestive headaches.
- The attacks recurred two to four times a month and were so severe that they compelled her to keep to her bed twenty-four hours.
- The pain, mostly in temples and forehead, was a congested, full sensation with flushed face, drowsy, stupid feeling and sometimes much nausea.
- Trivial things seemed to provoke the attacks.
- Spectacles had been supplied by oculists and teeth freshly stopped by dentists, diet, rest from study and outdoor exercise had all failed to relieve.
- Meli.
- 4x was given and she had only two attacks in six months and those very slight.
- A writer in Hom.
- News tells of a French man who came to him complaining of an incessant headache so bad that he thought he would die.
- A dose of Meli, was given on the spot and the doctor, thinking Nux -v indicated, went into the next room to get it.
- He returned in five minutes and found the patient on his hands and knees shaking his head.
- The doctor, thinking him crazy, asked what he was doing.
- He replied that the pain was entirely gone and he was only trying various attitudes and motions to make sure.
- Temperature - Chilly 10 a.m., begins in back, loins or occiput, passing in waves up to vertex.
- Chilly 12 p.m to 1 p.m with sharp pains in cardiac region of stomach and much flatulenceGas accumulation in stomach or intestinesThe presence of excessive air or gas in the digestive tract, causing bloating and wind..
- Chilly all forenoon.
- Uncomfortably chilly, feet and hands colds.
- Much distention, flatulent, worse during menses.
- Ravenous about 10 a.m with onset of fro ntal headache.
- Appetite capricious, especially in morning, impaired
