# Trifolium Pratense

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic 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.
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.

## 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.

### 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.