Cinnabaris cinnb.

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

C. M. Boger · Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica · A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1915 — the Materia Medica half

Region

Blood. Naso - pharynx. Neck. Bones.

Worse

Touch. Light. Dampness.

Better

Open air. Sunshine (Stro.).

General

Pain outward along brow, encircling eyes, or like a saddle at root of nose. Nose; heavy pressure at root; < pressure of glasses; discharges foul, acrid, burning serum or dark lumps. Dry mouth, wakes from sleep. Hawks down stringy mucus or lumps of mucus drop from posterior nares. Naso-pharyngeal catarrh. Thin, white diarrhœa. Foul, acrid sweat between scrotum and thigh. Warts on prepuce. Old, hard chancres. Heart flutters, then rushes of blood to head. Nodes on shin bones. Cramp in calf, after walking. Fiery red ulcers, eruptions, etc. Sweat, < nose.

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Related

Complementary: Thu. Related: Merc.

Key-Notes to the Materia Medica

Henry N. Guernsey · Key-Notes to the Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML text (Guernsey d. 1885; public domain)

General

We are led to use this for very red, and very fiery looking ulcers, which may occur in the throat or in any other part of the body, in the mouth, on the legs; particularly if there be nodes on the shinbones. For very angry looking chancres.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Mercuric Sulphide (MERCURIUS SULPHURATUS RUBER)

General

For certain forms of ciliary neuralgia and ulceration upon a syphilitic base, this remedy is most effective. Sleepless during night.

Head

Congestion to head; face purple red.

Eyes

Pains from lachrymal duct around eye to temple, from inner canthus across brows to ear. Severe shooting pain in bones of orbit, especially running from inner to outer canthus in the bone. Redness of whole eye. Lids granulated; canthi and lids red.

Nose

Pressive sensation, as from heavy spectacles. Pain about root, extending into bones on each side (Aur; Kal hyd).

Throat

Stringy mucus passed through posterior nares into throat. Dryness of mouth and throat; must rinse the mouth. Fiery-looking ulcers in mouth and throat.

Male

Prepuce swollen; warts on it which bleed easily; testicles enlarged; buboes; angry-looking chancres. Syphilides, squamous and vesicular.

Female

Leucorrhœa. Feeling of pressure in vagina.

Extremities

Pain in forearm from elbow down, including hands. Pain in long bones when barometer lowers; coldness of joints.

Skin

Very fiery-red looking ulcers. Nodes on shin-bones. Buboes. Condyloma, easily bleeding.

Modalities

Worse, lying on right side (feels as if contents of body were being dragged over to that side).

Relationship

Compare: Hepar; Nitr ac; Thuja; Sep.

Antidotes: Hepar; Sulph.

Dose

First to third trituration.

Text Book of Materia Medica

Adolph Lippe · Text Book of Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML text (Lippe d. 1888; public domain)

Mind and Disposition

Indisposition for mental labor. Sensation of fulness of the head from mental application. Forgetfulness (forgets things he has to do). Fretful, easily provoked. Desire to be alone.

Head

Giddiness in the morning after rising, when stooping, with nausea. Fulness in the head ; the eyes are reddened. Congested sensation over the whole head, principally the forehead. Congestion of blood to the head, particularly to the vertex ; worse after eating. Intense headache ; he cannot raise his head from the pillow ; relieved by external pressure. Dull pain in the forehead, which is cold ; relieved by heat. Sensation as if touched by a cold metallic body, on a small space over the root of the nose. In the morning, after waking, pain in the forehead and top of the head ; worse when lying on the left side and back ; better and going off, when turning on the right side, and after rising. Shooting pain in the left side of the head, with increase of saliva and great flow of urine. Sensitiveness of the head to the touch -even the hairs are sore.

Eyes

Shooting pains in the inner canthus of the right eye, with burning and itching. Inflammation of the right eye ; itching, pressing and pricking at the inner angle and lower lid ; constant lachrymation on looking steadily, with profuse discharge of mucus from the nose. Flow of tears. Sticking pain about the punctum lachrymale of the upper eyelid. Redness of the whole eye, with swelling of the face.

Ears

Roaring in the ears, with swelling of the face (after eating). Scurfy eruption in the right external ear. Itching in the right ear.

Nose

Itching of the nose, with bleeding (very dark blood) after blowing it. Coryza, with lameness of the thighs and aching pain in the small of the back ; lumps of dirty yellow mucus are discharged from the posterior nares.

Face

Heat of the face, which is much swollen, mostly about the eyes.

Mouth and Throat

Both corners of the mouth are chapped. Tongue coated white in the morning. A small ulcer on the roof of the mouth, on the right side of the tip of the tongue ; on the tip of the tongue. Soreness in the roof of the mouth. Dryness in the mouth and throat at night, which causes him to drink often. Inflammation, with great dryness of the throat and mouth ; worse at night. Dryness and irritation of the throat (posterior nares, tonsils, fauces) at night, with soreness during the day ; in the morning, secretion of tenacious mucus also, in lumps, from the posterior nares. Contracting pain in the throat during empty deglutition. Fulness in the throat, causing a constant desire for swallowing. Taste bitter (in the morning). Increased flow of saliva (and of urine). Salivation. Scanty, tenacious, frothy saliva in the mouth, without thirst ; better after drinking. Dryness and putrid taste in the mouth.

Stomach and Abdomen

Appetite increased. Soreness in the stomach with dizziness and lightness in the head and tightness in the temples. Nausea, alleviated by eructations. Nausea, with water-brash (in the evening). Flashes of heat confined to the abdomen, with great flatulence (worse in the forenoon).

Stool and Anus

Soft, scanty stools twice a day, preceded by pinching ; less afterwards. Bloody dysentery. Sensation of formication in the anus, as if from a large worm. Little pimples around the anus, with burning and itching ; thin stools and tenesmus.

Urinary Organs

Frequent and increased emission of watery urine ; also daring the night. Pain, as if from a sore in the urethra when urinating ; this pain wakes him up at night.

Genital Organs

Men. Swelling of the penis. Redness and swelling of the prepuce, with painful itching. Violent itching of the corona glandis, with profuse secretion of pus. Small, shining red points on the glans penis. Blennorrhœa of the glans penis. Sycotic excrescences. Violent erections in the evening. Women. Leucorrhœa, causing, during its discharge, a pressing in the vagina.

Respiratory Organs

Hoarseness in the evening. Chest oppressed, feels contracted ; relieved by stretching himself. Dyspnœa, with heat. Pain running over the ensiform cartilage, from the seventh rib on the right side diagonally through the chest. Cough from tickling in the throat.

Back

The muscles of the back part of the neck seem as if contracted. Aching in the small of the back, as if bruised. Pain all over the back down to the loins, aggravated on drawing a long breath.

Extremities

Upper. Pain in the left shoulder, between the clavicle and, scapula ; interiorly. Pain in the middle of the upper part of the right arm, as though it would break. Periodical shooting pains in the arms. Sensation of lameness in the right arm. Numbness of the left arm, from the elbow to the end of the little finger. It feels as if the "crazy-bone" was struck. The joints of the fingers and knuckles are red (and hot). Lower. Shooting, drawing and aching pains in the thighs, from the hip-joints nearly down to the condyles ; worse at night. Violent itching on the inside of the thighs, knees and legs ; worse on the knees, especially at night. Profuse perspiration between the thighs (when walking). Rheumatic pain in the right knee-joint ; worse when walking (ascending), better at rest. Pain in the tendo Achilles and os calcis after walking. Coldness in the joints. Coldness of the feet, day and night.

Generalities

Sensation of lameness in all the limbs. Weariness, languor, tired and prostrated worse before eating, better when riding in the open air. General nervous, uneasy sensation.

Sleep

Sleepiness in the day-time and sleeplessness at night ; unconquerable desire to sleep after dinner, early in the evening (during the day). Restlessness and sleeplessness at night, from a constant flow of ideas changing from one thing to another. Restless sleep, with vivid dreams and much talking.

Fever

Pulse slower in the forepart of the day, accelerated in the evening. Coldness and chilliness in the warm room. Internal and external heat of the body during the whole night. Profuse perspiration between the thighs. Perspiration most at noon.

Skin

Itching of the nose (bleeding after blowing it), of the eye-lids, canthi (outer), ears, face (left side), palms of the hands (right), thighs (inside), knees, legs, at the anus (at night), on the shoulders (evening). Sensation as if pimples were coming out over the body. Red papulous eruption, without itching, on both elbows. Redness of the skin.

Conditions

The pains intermit in severity. Aggravations in the evening and at night, except of the perspiration, which is worse at midday ; after sleeping (headache). Amelioration in the open air, and after dinner.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1st edition (1900-02, three volumes); homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML digitization

General

Mercuric Sulphide. Red Sulphide of Mercury. Hg S. Trituration.

Clinical

Albuminuria. Bubo. Catarrh. Chancre. Cystitis. Dysentery. Eye, inflammation of. Gleet . Gonorrhœa. Gout. Nose, external, sensitive. Priapism. Rheumatism. Sciatica. Scrofula. Sleep, abnormal . Sycosis. Syphilis. Tapeworm. Warts.

Characteristics

Cinnabar . corresponds to sycosis as well as to syphilis, and to combinations of the two. In warts on the prepuce it is more specific than Thuja ; especially for fan-shaped warts. In the mental sphere there is indolence and indisposition to mental labour. Forgetful. Fretful, easily provoked. Headache with nosebleed. General sensitiveness to touch: bones of skull, scalp, roots of hair; bridge of nose; warts bleed when touched. Sensation on bridge of nose as if touched with metallic substance, uneasy creeping and pressing sensation about nasal bones as from wearing spectacles when not used to them. Jerkings and pullings are frequent. Berridge reports this symptom cured: "Left leg feels shorter than right whilst walking." jerking in penis; occurring during sleep. Tearing stitches in glans. Burning, stinging, itching of corona glandis. Leucorrhœa, the discharge of which causes a pressure in vagina. Hæmorrhages are frequent: nose-bleed; bleeding piles. In addition to dysenteric symptoms there is obstinate constipation, stools hard and too large. Protrusion of anus during stool. Formication as from a large worm. Little pimples round anus with burning and itching. The skin is much affected. Redness predominates (colour of the drug). Red spots. Heat, redness, and swelling of face, especially about eyes. "We are led to use this for very red and very fiery-looking ulcers, which may occur in the throat or on any other part of the body, in the mouth, on the legs; particularly if there be nodes on the shin-bones. In very angry-looking chancres" (Guernsey). Eruption on posterior cervical region; on inner and lower part of thigh with itching. Warts; pimples; pustules; ulcers; violent itching and pricking, especially about joints. The back of the neck is much affected. Pain extending to occiput when head is thrown back. Pain r. side of neck on turning head. Muscles seem contracted. Glands enlarged. The symptoms are > in open air. Cold and chilly in warm room. < In summer. Most symptoms are < at night. Sweat < at noon. Generally rest > ; walking < . Headache < after sleep. After dinner > . Symptoms intermit in severity.

Relations

Antidoted by: Hepar, Nit. ac., Opium, and Sulphur. Compare: Camph. (red spots); Lach., Merc., Nit. ac., Thuja (Cinnab. is better than Thuja in warts on prepuce); compare also Sep. (warts on margin of prepuce); Ant. t. (warts at back of glans). Seneg. has > bending head backward, Clem. has headache < from same; Clem. also has vertigo on lifting head up or moving head; Cinnab. has pain in back of neck when head is thrown back.

Mind

Indisposition for mental labour. ─ Sensation of fulness in the head from mental application. ─ Forgetfulness (forgets things he has to do). ─ Fretful, easily provoked. ─ Desire to be alone.

Head

Violent and frightful attack of cephalalgia, in the sinciput and in the temples, mitigated by compression of the head. ─ Stupefying buzzing in the head, a little after dinner, and in the evening before lying down. ─ Giddiness in the morning after rising, when stooping, with nausea. ─ Congestion of blood to the head, particularly to the vertex; worse after eating. ─ Intense headache; he cannot raise his head from the pillow; relieved by external pressure. ─ Dull pain in the forehead, which is cold; relieved by heat. ─ In the morning, after waking, pain in the forehead and top of the head; < when lying on the l. side and back; > and going off, when turning on r. side, and after rising. ─ Shooting pain in the l. side of the head, with increase of saliva and great flow of urine. ─ Shooting in the teguments of the head. ─ Painful sensitiveness of the cranium and of the hair on being touched.

Eyes

Inflammation of the eyes, with pressive shootings and constant lachrymation when fixing them on an object. ─ Shooting pains in inner canthus of r. eye, with burning and itching. ─ Inflammation of r. eye, with profuse discharge of mucus from the nose. ─ Flow of tears. ─ Sticking pain about the punctum lachrymale of the upper eyelid. ─ Redness of the whole eye, with swelling of the face.

Ears

Roaring in the ears with swelling of the face (after eating). ─ Scurfy eruption in r. external ear. ─ Itching in r. ear.

Nose

Violent fluent coryza, with secretion of burning serum. ─ Sensation as if touched by a cold metallic body, on a small space over the root of the nose. ─ Itching of the nose, with bleeding (very dark blood) after blowing it. ─ Coryza, with lameness of the thighs and aching in the small of the back; lumps of dirty yellow mucus are discharged from the posterior nares.

Face

Heat of the face, which is much swollen, mostly about the eyes.

Mouth

Both corners of the mouth are chapped. ─ Tongue coated white in the morning. ─ A small ulcer on the roof of the mouth, on the r. side of the tip of the tongue; on the tip of the tongue. ─ Burning, constrictive sensation in the palate; taste bitter in the morning. ─ Salivation and increased flow of urine. ─ Putrid taste in the mouth.

Throat

Dryness and irritation of the throat (posterior nares, tonsils, fauces) at night, with soreness during the day. ─ In the morning, secretion of tenacious mucus from posterior nares, in lumps. ─ Increased dryness of mouth and throat, being obliged to moisten and rinse the mouth every time he wakes.

Appetite

Nocturnal dryness and heat in the mouth and in the throat, with much thirst. ─ Scanty, tenacious, frothy saliva in the mouth, without thirst; better after drinking. ─ Pressive contractions in the throat during deglutition. ─ After a meal, disagreeable sensation of swelling over the whole body, with tightness in the chest and in the stomach. ─ Appetite increased.

Stomach

At night, heat, which extends upwards from the stomach towards the neck and the head, and disperses on rising up in bed. ─ Soreness in the stomach, with dizziness and lightness in the head and tightness in the temples. ─ Nausea, alleviated by eructations. ─ Nausea, with water-brash (in the evening).

Abdomen

Flashes of heat confined to the abdomen, with great flatulence (worse in the forenoon).

Stool and Anus

Evacuations, soft and frequent, preceded by pinchings in the abdomen; less afterwards. ─ Bloody dysentery. ─ Greenish mucous diarrhœa. ─ Sensation of formication in the anus, as if from a large worm. ─ Little pimples around the anus, with burning and itching; thin stools and tenesmus.

Urinary Organs

Frequent and increasing emission of watery urine; also during the night. ─ Pain, as if from a sore in the urethra, when urinating; this pain wakes him up at night.

Male Sexual Organs

Swelling of the penis. ─ Pseudo gonorrhœa, with redness and swelling of the prepuce. ─ Violent itching of the corona glandis, with profuse secretion of pus. ─ Small, shining red points on the glans penis. ─ Condyloma. ─ Blennorrhœa. ─ Sycotic excrescences. ─ Sexual desire strongly excited, and great inclination for coition, with great appetite for eating and drinking. ─ Strong erections in the evening in bed. ─ Fetid and corrosive sweats, between the scrotum and the thighs when walking.

Female Sexual Organs

Leucorrhœa, causing, during its discharge, a; pressure in the vagina.

Respiratory Organs

Hoarseness in the evening. ─ Dyspnœa, with heat. ─ Cough from tickling in the throat. ─ Dry cough, in single shocks, when lying down; > by sitting up.

Chest

Chest oppressed, feels contracted; relieved by stretching himself. ─ Pain running over the ensiform cartilage, from the seventh rib on the r. side diagonally through the chest. ─ Pulsative and shooting pains in the chest, esp. when walking.

Neck and Back

Pain in back part of neck when head is thrown back, extending to occiput. ─ Wrenching pains in the vertebræ of the neck. ─ The muscles of the back part of the neck seem as if contracted. ─ Tearing in the side of the back, even at night on moving in the bed, > by the heat of the fire. ─ Aching in the small of the back, as if bruised. ─ Pain all over the back down to the loins, aggravated on drawing a long breath.

Upper Limbs

Pain in the l. shoulder, between the clavicle and scapula, interiorly. ─ Pain in the middle of the upper part of r. arm, as though it would break. ─ Periodical shooting pains in the arms. ─ Tearing in the arms when writing, > by the heat of the fire. ─ Sensation of lameness in r. arm. ─ Numbness of l. arm, from elbow to end of little finger, it feels as if the "crazy-bone" was struck. ─ The joints of the fingers and knuckles are red (and hot).

Lower Limbs

Painful jerking in the leg, in the evening, after sleeping. ─ Shooting, drawing, and aching pains in the thighs, from the hip-joints nearly down to the condyles; < at night. ─ Violent itching on the inside of thighs, knees, and legs; worse in the knees, esp. at night. ─ Profuse perspiration between the thighs (when walking). ─ Rheumatic pain in r. knee-joint; < when walking (ascending), > at rest. ─ Pain in the tendo Achillis and os calcis after walking. ─ Coldness in the joints. ─ Coldness of the feet, day and night.

Generalities

Sensation of lameness in all the limbs. ─ Pulling and shuddering in the arms and the legs. ─ Paralytic pains in the limbs, with indolence and drowsiness. ─ Weariness, languor, tired and prostrated; worse before eating, better when riding in the open air. ─ General nervous, uneasy sensation.

Skin

Itching: of the nose (bleeding after blowing it); of eyelids; canthi (outer); ears; face (l. side) palms of hands (r.); thighs (inside); knees; legs; at the anus (at night), on the shoulders (evening). ─ Sensation as if pimples were coming out over the body. ─ Red papulous eruption, without itching, on both elbows. ─ Redness of the skin. ─ Red, fiery-looking ulcers, which may occur in the throat or in any other part of the body, in the mouth, on the legs; particularly if there be nodes on the shin-bones. ─ Very angry-looking chancres.

Sleep

Sleepiness in the daytime and sleeplessness at night; unconquerable desire to sleep after dinner, early in the evening (during the day). ─ Restlessness and sleeplessness at night, from a constant flow of ideas changing from one thing to another. ─ Nightly sleeplessness, without causing fatigue. ─ Restless sleep, with vivid dreams and much talking. ─ Nightmare after midnight.

Fever

Pulse slower in the forepart of the day, accelerated in the evening. ─ Coldness and chilliness in the warm room. ─ Internal and external heat of the body during the whole night. ─ Profuse perspiration between the thighs. ─ Perspiration most at noon.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Constantine Hering · The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica · 1879–91

Mind

Indisposition for mental labor.
Sensation of fulness of head from mental application.
Forgetfulness (forgets things he has to do.)
Fretful, easily provoked, irritable.
Desire to be alone.
Mind clear and cheerful.
Exhilaration.

Sensorium

Dizziness : in morning after rising ; when stooping ; with nausea.

Inner head

Dulness and heaviness of head, with ringing in ears after dinner and late in evening.
Fulness in head ; eyes are reddened.
Congested sensation over whole head, principally forehead.
Congestion of blood to head, particularly to vertex ; < after eating.
Sensation as if touched by a cold metallic body, on a small space over root of nose.
Feeling like a vise or band around head, cutting, shooting pain in forehead, aching in superciliary ridge of right eye, extending to back of head, with nausea.
Pressing in forehead with sensation of congestion.
Dull pain in forehead, which is cold ; > by heat.
Tearing pain in forehead, before catamenia.
In morning, after waking, pain in forehead and top of head ; < when lying on left side and back ; > and going off when turning on right side, and after rising.
Dull pain in left temple and side of head.
Shooting pain in left side of head, with increase of saliva and great flow of urine.
Pain from back of head to forehead with vertigo, cannot grasp ideas ; shooting from occiput forward.
Intense headache ; cannot raise his head from pillow ; > by external pressure.
Headache with nosebleed.

Outer head

The bones of skull, the scalp, and even the hair are painfully sensitive to touch.
Tensive, stinging pains in ears, cheeks, temples and sides of head, extending to occiput and nape of neck, with swelling of parotids and face. θ Catarrh of bladder.

Sight and eyes

Dimness and opacity of cornea.
Marked photophobia and lachrymation, with redness.
Redness of whole eye, with swelling of face.
Shooting pains through eye into head.
Sharp, stitching, stinging, or dull, aching pain above eye, extending from internal to external canthus, or runs around eye ; pain may extend into eye or up into head.
Inflammation of right eye ; itching, pressing and pricking at inner angle and lower lid ; constant lachrymation on looking steadily, with profuse discharge of mucus from nose.
Shooting pains in inner canthus of right eye, with burning and itching.
Outer half of left eye injected and puffy ; pains severe, seeming to run around the eye, < at night.
Sticking pain about punctum lachrymale of upper eyelid.
Lids so heavy that they are kept open with difficulty, < in evening.
Asthenopia, with pain extending from inner canthus around eye, with soreness over exit of supraorbital nerve, < in morning.
Conjunctivitis and blepharitis, discharge < in morning.
Kerato-iritis and uncomplicated iritis, especially in syphilitic variety, and if condylomata are present on iris, or on lids ; < at night ; pain intermitting.
Keratitis.
Soreness along course of supraorbital nerve and corresponding side of head, < at night.
Ciliary neuralgia.

Hearing and ears

Roaring in ears, with swelling of face (after eating).
Scurfy eruption in right external ear.
Itching in right ear.

Smell and nose

Sensation on bridge of nose similar to that produced by touching it with a metallic substance.
Uneasy creeping and pressive sensation about ossa nasi, lasting about an hour ; the sensation experienced by most persons on putting on a pair of heavy spectacles, if not accustomed to wear them.
Sensation of weight and pressure at root of nose, zygoma and temples. θ Catarrh.
Itching of nose, with bleeding (very dark blood) after blowing it.
Coryza, with lameness of thighs and aching pain in small of back ; lumps of dirty yellow mucus are discharged from posterior nares.

Upper face

Hot face, which is much swollen, mostly about eyes.

Lower face

Corners of mouth chapped.

Teeth and gums

Right molars and bicuspids (some decayed) feel soft, heavy, and too large, at 8 P. M. and at 2 or 3 A. M. ; sensation comes and goes gradually.
On biting teeth together, second right upper decayed molar feels as if it would fly to pieces.

Taste, speech, tongue

Taste : metallic ; bitter (in morning), putrid.
Tongue coated white in morning.

Inner mouth

Soreness in roof of mouth.
A small ulcer on roof of mouth, on right side of tip of tongue.
Salivation ; increased flow of saliva and of urine. θ Inflammatory affections of mouth and fauces.
Inflammation with great dryness in mouth and throat, < at night, which causes him to drink often.
Dryness and irritation of throat at night, with soreness in morning, secretion of tenacious mucus during day, inclination to empty deglutition.
Scanty, tenacious, pasty saliva in mouth, without thirst ; > after drinking.

Palate and throat

Inflammation, with great dryness of throat and mouth ; < at night.
Contracting pain in throat during empty deglutition.
Fulness in throat causing a constant desire for swallowing.
Dryness and irritation of throat (posterior nares, tonsils, fauces) at night, with soreness during day ; in morning, secretion of tenacious mucus, in lumps, from posterior nares.
Increased dryness of throat and mouth, being obliged to moisten and rinse mouth every time he wakes.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Want of appetite with aversion to food.

Eating and drinking

After eating, great discomfort and feeling of distension and pressure in upper abdomen, with flushes of heat.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Nausea : with waterbrash ; alleviated by eructations and vomiting.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Soreness in stomach, with dizziness and lightness in head, and tightness in temples.
Flatulence of stomach ; with irregularity of stools.

Abdomen and loins

Griping colic, followed by soft, mushy stools.
Tapeworm.
Syphilitic buboes, indurated, not very sensitive or inflamed ; surrounding glands also swollen.

Stools and rectum

Irregularity of passages.
Bloody dysentery.
Green, mucous diarrhœa which stains the skin about the anus and scrotum a copper color.
Thin stools with tenesmus.
Nightly painful diarrhœa.
Sensation of formication in anus, as if from a large worm.
Little pimples around anus, with burning and itching.
Protrusion of anus during stool.

Urinary organs

Frequent and increased emission of watery urine ; also during night.
Pain, as if from a sore in urethra when urinating ; this pain wakes him up at night.
Albuminuria.

Male sexual organs

Increased sexual desire with violent erections, particularly in evening.
Swelling of penis and twitching in it.
Great redness of urethra with pinching pain.
Pain in urethra on urination.
Violent itching of corona glandis, with profuse secretion of pus.
Small, shining red points on glans penis.
A lentil-sized swelling surrounded by a reddish-yellow circle, on glans penis, near urinary meatus ; several reddish-yellow lentil-shaped discolorations on glans and prepuce.
Redness and swelling of prepuce with painful itching.
Warts on prepuce, frenum and inner surface, bleeding when touched.
Phimosis, with profuse, fetid, dirty, pus-like discharge. θ Secondary syphilis.
Syphilitic phimosis, prepuce terribly swollen, purplish and ulcerated, with fetid, gangrenous odor.
Red, swollen chancres with hard, elevated edges, not sensitive, discharging thin pus.
Indurated or neglected chancres.
Indurated chancre on middle of penis.
Round chancre above corona glandis as large as a pea, surrounded by a red circle ; three red patches on glans penis and prepuce, resembling in color the eruptions of scarlatina.
Gonorrhœa of very long standing, with much pain and soreness during urination ; yellowish-green discharge.
Gonorrhœa on a sycotic basis, or complicated with syphilis.
Blennorhea of glans penis.
Sycotic excrescences.
Indurated testicles.

Female sexual organs

A few days before appearance of menses, and during their continuance, tearing pain in forehead, sensation of weakness in eyes, rending in spine, tearing pains and cramps in bowels, with diarrhœa and great prostration.
Leucorrhœa, the discharge of which causes a pressure or labor-like pain in vagina.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

Shooting across abdomen, either right to left or left to right, during pregnancy.
Long-continued false labor pains, child's head pressed against symphysis pubis with violent tenesmus in anus.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Hoarseness in evening.
Syphilitic laryngeal ulcers, torpid, and associated with tuberculosis.

Cough

Cough from tickling in throat.

Inner chest and lungs

Dyspnœa with heat.
Chest oppressed, feels contracted ; > by stretching himself.
Oppression of chest awakens after midnight.
Pain running over ensiform cartilage from seventh rib on r. side diagonally through chest to back.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Pulse slower in forepart of day, accelerated in evening.

Outer chest

Red spots and points on neck and chest, changing to little blotches.

Neck and back

The muscles of back part of neck seem as if contracted.
Pain in back of neck shooting to occiput, with stiffness and hard swelling of glands at back of neck.
Aching in small of back as if bruised, with coryza.
Sudden stitches and tearing pains on each side of spine, in back and lumbar region.
Pain all over back down to loins, < on drawing a long breath.

Upper limbs

Pain in left shoulder, between clavicle and scapula, interiorly.
Periodical shooting pains in arms.
Pain in upper part of right arm, as if it would break.
Sensation of lameness in right arm.
Numbness of left arm, from elbow to end of little finger.
Sensation as if "cazy-bone" had been struck.
Joints of fingers and knuckles are red and hot.
Œdema of right arm.

Lower limbs

Shooting, drawing and aching pains in thighs, from hip joints nearly down to condyles ; < at night. θ Ischias rheumatica and syphilitica.
Lameness of thighs with coryza.
Violent itching on inside of thighs, knees and legs ; < on knees, especially at night.
Profuse, offensive sweat between thighs (when walking).
Painful twitching in leg, awakens from sleep at night.
Rheumatic pain in right knee joint ; < when walking (ascending), > at rest.
Tearing pain in legs below knees.
Coldness in joints.
Nodes on shin bones.
Pain in tendo-achillis and os calcis after walking.
Pressure and feeling of numbness in foot.
Coldness of feet, day and night.

Limbs in general

Chilliness and lameness in arms and legs.
Wandering gout.

Rest. position. motion

At rest : rheumatic pain in right knee joint >.
Lying on back : pain in forehead and top of head <.
Lying on left side : pain in forehead and top of head <.
Turning on right side : > pain in forehead and top of head.
After rising : pain in forehead and top of head >.
Stretching : > oppression and contracted feeling of chest.
Stooping : dizziness.
Walking : profuse, offensive sweat between thighs ; rheumatic pain in right knee joint <.
After walking : pain in tendo-achillis and os calcis.

Nerves

General nervous, uneasy sensation.
Great lassitude, prostration, and feeling of lameness in limbs.
Weariness, languor, tiredness and prostration ; < before eating, > when riding in open air.
Sensation of lameness in all the limbs.

Sleep

Sleepiness in daytime and sleeplessness at night ; unconquerable desire to sleep after dinner and early in evening.
Restlessness and sleeplessness at night, from a constant flow of ideas changing from one thing to another.
Wakes suddenly after midnight with oppression of chest.
Restless sleep, with vivid dreams and much talking.

Time

In morning : dizziness, after rising ; pain in forehead and top of head after waking ; soreness over exit of supraorbital nerve < ; discharge of blepharitis < ; tongue coated white ; soreness of throat ; pulse slower ; metallic taste.
In forenoon : flashes of heat in abdomen with great flatulency.
At noon : perspiration <.
After dinner : ringing in ears, with dulness and heaviness of head ; unconquerable desire to sleep ; symptoms >.
During day : secretion of tenacious mucus, inclination to empty deglutition ; soreness of throat ; sleepiness.
Early in evening : unconquerable desire to sleep.
In evening : heaviness of lids < ; increased sexual desire with violent erections ; hoarseness ; pulse accelerated.
At 8 P. M. : right molars and bicuspids feel soft, heavy and too large.
Late in evening : dulness and heaviness in head with ringing in ears.
At night : pain of left eye < ; kerato-iritis and uncomplicated iritis < ; soreness along course of supraorbital nerve and corresponding side of head < ; inflammation with dryness in mouth and throat < ; dryness and irritation of throat ; painful diarrhœa ;
frequent and increased emission of watery urine ; pain in urethra wakes him up ; pains in thighs < ; violent itching on inside of thighs, knees and legs < ; painful twitching in leg awakens from sleep ; sleepless ; restlessness and sleeplessness from a constant flow
of ideas ; internal and external heat of body.
After midnight : awakens suddenly with oppression of chest.
At 2 or 3 A. M. : right molars and bicuspids feel soft, heavy and too large.

Temperature and weather

In open air : weariness, languor, tiredness and prostration > when riding ; symptoms >.
In warm room : coldness and chilliness.
Heat : > dull pain in forehead, which is cold.
Worse in Summer.

Fever

Coldness and chilliness in warm room.
Internal and external heat of body during whole night.
Flushes of heat confined to abdomen, with great flatulence ; < in forenoon.
Nightly fever with dry mouth.
Perspiration most at noon.

Attacks, periodicity

Frequent emissions of watery urine.
Intermitting : pain of kerato-iritis and uncomplicated iritis.
Coming and going gradually : sensation as if right molars and bicuspids were soft, heavy and too large.
Lasting about an hour : uneasy creeping and pressive sensation about ossa nasi.
Long continued : false labor pains.
During whole night : internal and external heat of body.
Nightly fever with dry mouth.
Periodical : shooting pains in arms.
Day and night : coldness of feet.

Locality and direction

Right : aching in superciliary ridge of eye ; inflammation of eye ; itching, pressing and pricking at inner angle and lower lid ; shooting at canthus of eye, with burning and itching ; scurfy eruption in external ear ; itching in ear ; molars
and bicuspids feel soft, heavy and too large ; second upper decayed molar feels as if it would fly to pieces on biting teeth together ; small ulcer on side of tongue ; pain in middle of upper part of arm, as if it would break ; sensation of lameness in arm ; œdema
of arm ; rheumatic pain in knee joint ; itching of palm of hand ; red eruption, sometimes with pustules filled with yellow matter, under knee ; nostrils somewhat tumefied.
Left : dull pain in temple and side of head ; shooting pain in side of head ; outer half of eye injected and puffy ; severe pains seeming to run around eye ; pain in shoulder, between clavicle and scapula, interiorly ; numbness of arm, from elbow to end of
little finger ; itching of side of face.
From right to left and from left to right : shooting across abdomen during pregnancy.

Sensations

General nervous, uneasy sensation.
As if touched by a cold metallic body on a small space over root of nose ; as of a vise or band around head ; as of congestion in forehead ; as of putting on a heavy pair of spectacles ; as if right molars and bicuspids were soft, heavy and too large ; as if
second right upper decayed molar would fly to pieces on biting teeth together ; as if upper abdomen was distended ; as of a large worm in anus ; as if a sore was in urethra when urinating ; as if chest was contracted ; as if muscles of back part of neck were
contracted ; as if bruised in small of back ; as if upper part of right arm would break ; as if pimples were coming out over body ; as if crazy-bone was struck.
Pain : in forehead and top of head ; from back of head to forehead ; severe, running around left eye ; from inner canthus around eye ; in urethra on urinating ; running over ensiform cartilage from seventh rib on right side diagonally through chest to
back ; in back of neck shooting to occiput ; all over back down to loins ; in left shoulder, between clavicle and scapula, interiorly ; in upper part of right arm ; in tendo-achillis and os calcis.
Cutting : in forehead.
Sudden stitches : on each side of spine, in back and lumbar region.
Stitching : above eye, from internal and external canthus, or runs around eye ; may extend into eye, or up into head.
Sticking : about punctum lachrymale of upper eyelid.
Stinging : in ears, cheeks, temples and sides of head, extending to occiput and nape of neck ; above eye, from internal to external canthus, or runs around eye ; may extend into eye or up into head.
Pricking : at inner angle and lower lid of right eye.
Shooting : in left side of head ; from occiput forward ; in forehead ; through eye into head ; at inner canthus of right eye ; across abdomen during pregnancy ; in arms ; in thighs, from hip joints nearly down to condyles.
Tearing : in forehead ; in bowels ; on each side of spine, in back and lumbar region ; in legs below knees.
Rending : in spine.
Drawing : in thighs, from hip joints nearly down to condyles.
Burning : in inner canthus of right eye ; around anus ; of skin.
Soreness : over exit of supraorbital nerve ; along course of supraorbital nerve and corresponding side of head ; in roof of mouth ; of throat ; in stomach.
Sharp pains : above eye, from internal to external canthus, or runs around eye ; may extend into eye or up into head.
Irritation : of throat.
Pressure : over root of nose, zygoma and temples ; in upper abdomen, after eating ; in vagina ; in foot.
Pressing : in forehead ; at inner angle and lower lid of right eye.
Pressive sensation : about ossa nasi.
Oppression : of chest.
Pinching : in urethra.
Cramps : in bowels.
Contracting pain : in throat during empty deglutition.
Tensive pains : in ears, cheeks, temples and sides of head, extending to occiput and nape of neck.
Labor-like pain : in vagina.
Rheumatic pain : in right knee joint.
Aching : in superciliary ridge of right eye, extending to back of head ; in small of back ; in thighs, from hip joints nearly down to condyles.
Tightness : in temples.
Fulness : of head ; in throat, causing constant desire for swallowing.
Heaviness : of head.
Weight : over root of nose, zygoma and temples.
Congested sensation over whole head, principally forehead.
Lightness : in head.
Dulness : of head.
Dull pain : in forehead ; in left temple and side of head.
Painful twitching : in leg.
Twitching : in penis.
Tickling : in throat.
Formication : in anus.
Creeping : about ossa nasi.
Numbness : of left arm, from elbow to end of little finger ; in foot.
Weakness : in eyes.
Lameness : of thighs ; in right arm ; in arms and legs ; in all limbs.
Uneasiness : about ossa nasi.
Painful itching : of prepuce.
Violent itching : of corona glandis ; on inside of thighs, knees and legs ; < on knees.
Itching : of eyelids, outer canthi ; ears, face (l. side), palm of right hand ; inside of thighs ; on knees, legs and shoulders ; of skin ; occasionally, in eruption under right knee ; at inner angle and lower lid of right eye ; in inner canthus of
right eye ; in right ear ; of nose ; around anus.
Dryness : in mouth and throat.
Coldness : of forehead ; in joints of feet.

Tissues

Syphilis ; gonorrhœa and sycotic excrescences.
Wandering gout.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Touch : bones of skull, scalp and even hair painfully sensitive to ; causes bleeding of warts on prepuce, frenum and inner surface.
Pressure : > intense headache.
Scratching : < burning and itching of skin.
On biting teeth together : second right upper decayed molar feels as if it would fly to pieces.
Riding in open air : > weariness, languor, tiredness and prostration.

Skin

Itching of nose (bleeding after blowing it), of eyelids, canthi (outer), ears, face (l. side), palm of hand (right), thighs (inside), knees, legs, at anus (at night), on shoulders (evening).
Burning and itching of skin, < after scratching.
Redness of skin ; red spots on skin.
Sensation as if pimples were coming out over body.
Eruption of red points, spots and pustules.
Red, papulous eruption, without itching, on both elbows.
Red eruption on finger, sometimes with pustules filled with yellow matter ; the same under right knee, with occasional itching.
Chronic impetigo, pustules and scabs on upper lip, immediately under nose ; right nostril also somewhat tumefied.
Gangrenous ulcerations ; fiery, angry-looking ulcers. θ Sycosis.
Honeycombed ulcers ; fistulous.
Elevated ulcers, which have the appearance as if condylomata would grow out of them.

Stage of life, constitution

Combination of scrofula with syphilis or sycosis, or syphilis and tuberculosis.
Syphilis complicated by scrofula, or previous mercurial treatment.
Arthritic patient addicted to spirituous liquors ; prosopalgia, parotitis and vesical catarrh.
Girl, suffering from dysmenorrhœa ; tapeworm.
Man, æt. 28, sanguine temperament, scrofulous ; secondary syphilis.
Man, æt. 29, syphilitic phimosis.

Relations

Antidoted by Cinchon ., Hepar , Nitr. ac ., Opium , Sulphur .
Compare : Camphor (red spots) ; Laches. ; Mercur. ; Nitr. ac . and Thuya .

Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

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Lecture

The symptoms are worse at night from warmth of the bed, and when perspiring, like Mercurius. Worse from both heat and cold,

Catarrhal inflammation. Fig warts ( Thuja). Ulcers. Many complaints from eating. Syphilis in all stages. Suppurating glands; chancres. It is best to study this remedy as a form of Mercurius, which has a few cunning phases of its own. It is a deep acting remedy in sycosis

The patient desires to be alone. Aversion to mental work. Forgets things which he intended to do. Mind crowded with thoughts preventing sleep.

The pains in the head are violent; worse after eating; better by heat and pressure. Fullness in the whole head. Constriction. Pain in the cold forehead, which is ameliorated by heat. Tearing in the forehead before the menstrual flow. Pain in the forehead and vertex in the morning, worse lying on the left side and back, ameliorated lying on the right side, and it passes off after rising.

Shooting pains in the left side of the head with flow of saliva and copious urine. Headache with nosebleed. Sensitive scalp and skull. Supra-orbital neuralgia.

Stitching, and dull pains in the eyes. Inflammation of the conjunctiva; worse at night. Red, congested lids. Ptosis. Weak vision. Iritis of syphilitic origin. The symptoms are worse at night. Sharp paroxysmal pains from the warmth of the bed.

Roaring in the ears after eating. Itching in the ears.

Cold spot on root of nose Pressure on the bones of the nose. Coryza with dirty yellow -mucus drawn from posterior nares. Epistaxis; pains in back and limbs.

The symptoms of the teeth are similar to Mercurius.

Tongue coated white every morning. Taste putrid, metallic and bitter. Sore ulcerated mouth. Salivation. Inflammation of mouth and throat with great thirst, worse at night. Dry mouth, and viscid mucus in the throat. Fullness in the throat, with constant desire to swallow. Dryness of the throat.

Aversion to food. Eructations, and vomiting. Tenderness of the stomach.

Syphilitic buboes.

Dysentery, worse every night; bloody mucous stools; much straining. Diarrhoea, with greenish stools, worse at night. Protrusion of anus during stool.

Copious urine. Pain as from an ulcer in urethra when urinating; it wakes him also at night. Albumin in the urine.

Inflammation of glans penis with profuse secretion of pus. Increased sexual desire. Swelling of prepuce with much itching. Warts on the prepuce and fraenum, bleeding when touched. Chancres on the prepuce of gangrenous odor. Inflamed and swollen chancres, hard, discharging pus. Indurated, or neglected chancres.

Gonorrhoea, of yellowish green discharge, much pain during flow of urine. Symptoms worse at night, and from the warmth of the bed. The patient is sensitive to both a warm room, and to cold air. Induration of testes.

Syphilitic laryngeal ulcers in a tubercular patient. Hoarseness in the evening.

Pulse fast in the evening and night.

Stiff neck with pains shooting to occiput. Stitching pains each side of spine in dorsal and lumbar regions, worse on deep breathing.

Pain in the limbs at night. Sensitive to sudden changes in the weather. Lame, bruised and stiff in all the limbs. Pains worse from motion. Syphilitic nodes on tibia.

Pain in tendo Achillis and os calcis after walking. Numbness in the feet. Cold feet, day and night. Wandering gout.

Burning itching of the skin, worse scratching. Itching all over. Redness, and red spots on the skin. Pustules. Gangrenous ulcers. Elevated ulcers.

It is antidoted by Hepar and Nitric acid . It is closely related to Thuja.