The leaves contain Myrtol, an active antiseptic. Chest pains, as found often in consumptives, call for this remedy. Incipient phthisis. Nerve sedative and stimulant to mucous membranes, bronchitis, cystitis and pyelitis.
Remedy Origin / Source
Natural
Clinical Applications
Compare: Myrtus Chekan (Chronic bronchitis with dense, yellowish sputum, difficult to detach. Copious expectoration keeps patient distressed and coughing).
Key Symptoms & Indications
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The leaves contain Myrtol, an active antiseptic. Chest pains, as found often in consumptives, call for this remedy. Incipient phthisis. Nerve sedative and stimulant to mucous membranes, bronchitis, cystitis and pyelitis.
Physical Symptoms
Chest
Stitching pain in left breast, running through to shoulder-blade ( Illic; Therid; Pix ). Dry, hollow cough, with tickling in chest. Worse in the morning. Sensation of burning in left chest.
Mentions in Classic Materia Medicas
Explore detailed descriptions for this remedy across famous historical textbooks:
MYRTUS COMMUNIS
Chest
Stitching pain in left breast, running through to shoulder-blade (Illic; Therid; Pix). Dry, hollow cough, with tickling in chest. Worse in the morning. Sensation of burning in left chest.
Relationship
Compare: Myrtus Chekan (Chronic bronchitis with dense, yellowish sputum, difficult to detach. Copious expectoration keeps patient distressed and coughing).
Dose
Third potency.
Myrtus Communis.
Clinical
Catarrhal fevers. Chest, stitches in. Coryza. Cough. Tuberculosis.
Characteristics
Myrt. com. is an unproved remedy, the symptoms of the Schema being entirely clinical. Hering gives an account of it. It has a very powerful action on the left lung, especially the upper part. It is to the upper left lung what Oxal. ac. is to the lower. This is the keynote: Pain in upper left lung going right through from the front to the left scapula. Cases of phthisis, hæmoptysis, hepatisation, lung syphilis having this symptom present have been cured with Myrt. The pain is mostly stitching, but may be throbbing, aching, or burning. It is < in morning, > evening, < by breathing, yawning, coughing. The cough is dry, hollow; excited by a tickling in upper anterior lobes. Hering has cured catarrhal fever with tickling cough < morning and > evening; with great lassitude in afternoon. This last symptom is important. So is evening > of cough and of tickling in lungs. < From change of atmosphere. Every atmospheric change = cough, coryza, and catarrhal fever.
Relations
Compare: Pains through left chest to scapula, Therid., Illic., Pix., Sul. (Pain through lower lobe of left lung, Oxal. ac.) Compare also: Phos., Bry.
5. Nose
Coryza with cough.
9. Throat
Dryness in throat; pains in throat and chest, with expectoration of blood.
17. Respiratory Organs
Dry, hollow cough, from tickling in upper anterior lobes of lungs; < morning; > evening; great lassitude in afternoon.─Cough, coryza, and catarrhal fever setting in with every atmospheric change.
18. Chest
Pain in chest; acute; pressing; cough with tightness.─Pain in upper part of l. chest through to shoulder, < taking a deep breath and making a strong motion.─Stitching in l. apex straight through to scapula, < breathing, yawning, coughing.─Burning in l. chest with throbbing, aching, tickling.─Hepatisation of l. lung.─Hæmoptysis.─Phthisis, esp. from maltreated syphilis.
27. Fever
Catarrhal fevers with pain in elbow and knee-joints, with dry, hollow cough, caused by tickling in upper and front part of lungs, esp. in morning, > evening, accompanied by lassitude in afternoon.
Myrtus
Respiratory Organs:
Sharp pain through the upper part of left lung from front to shoulder-blade.
Remedy Profile
- Type Remedy
- Common Name HOMOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D. Presented by Médi-T
- Origin Source Natural
Dosage & Potency
Third potency.
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