Magnetis Polus Australis mag-aust.

South Pole of the Magnet. Attenuations of media saturated with emanations of the pole.

Cough. Dislocation, easy. Frost-bite. Heart, palpitation of. Hernia. Ingrowing toe-nails . Levitation. Menorrhagia. Varicosis.

I have cured so many cases of ingrowing toenail with M. p. aust . 2m, that I invariably give it in the first place when there are no symptoms plainly indicating another remedy. Here are the symptoms in Hahnemann's Schema which led to this use: "Sore pain on the inner side of the nail of the big toe when walking, as if the nail had grown into the flesh or, the side, very painful on being slightly touched (8h);" and "the shoe presses on the toes and on the nail of the big toe when walking, as from corns." The accurate response to these symptoms on the part of the attenuated M. p. aust . proved to me the possibility of attenuating and so fixing this "imponderable" for use as an ordinary homœopathic remedy. Swan has collected a number of cases from different authors in Org ., iii. 342. Berridge ( Org ., iii. 53) reports this case: Miss X. had for three weeks aching in middle of front of left lower leg (where she has had varicose veins for eight months), when standing, or when the leg is hanging down , removed by placing it horizontally; frequent feeling of hot water running down affected part, but only when leg is down ; at times throbbing there when leg hangs down . M. p. aust . c.m., one dose. The hot-water feeling never returned; the pain ceased in two days. — Pinching, squeezing sensations and bruised pains predominate. Faintness comes on when walking, and is < when sitting; There is great rush of blood to the brain early In the morning in bed. The symptoms are < when walking in open air; < when sitting; < hanging limb down.

Antidoted by: M. p. arct., Ign., Zinc. Compare: Mgt., Galv., Electr. In fetid cough, Caps. Rush of blood to head, Ast. r. Toe-nails, Graph., Sil., Nit. ac., Thuj. See also under Mgt.

Moroseness and ill-humour, with aversion to conversation. — Dislike to society and to laughing faces. — Passion and rage. — Instability of ideas.

Vertigo, as from intoxication, with staggering gait. — Great rush of blood to brain early in morning, in bed. — Heaviness, tingling, and digging in head. — Shocks in head, sometimes with tearing.

Dryness and smarting in eyelids, esp. when moving them, < morning and evening. — Lachrymation. — Amblyopia.

Tearing, jerking odontalgia, < by hot things.

Accumulation of watery saliva in the mouth. — Speech embarrassed, as by a swelling of the tongue.

Burning sensation in gullet.

Metallic taste, at one time sweetish, at another acidulous, on and under the tongue. — All kinds of food appear insipid. — Extreme indifference to food, drink, and tobacco-smoke. — Bulimy at noon and evening, sometimes during the febrile shiverings. — Aching in scrobiculus during mental exertion.

Pinching in abdomen caused by a current of air. — Noisy borborygmi and grumbling in abdomen. — Pressive, flatulent colic, with pinchings, and inflation of abdomen. — Sensation, as if inguinal ring were dilated, preparatory to a rupture, with painful sensibility of that part, when coughing.

Soft, loose fæces, preceded by gripings. — Evacuation of liquid fæces, with a sensation as if flatus were about to be discharged. — Contraction and painful constriction in rectum and anus, which hinder the expulsion of wind.

Involuntary emission of urine, from paralysis of sphincter vesicæ, esp. at night. — Emission of urine, drop by drop, with torpor of urethra. — Very feeble stream of urine. — Frequent emission of urine at night.

Strong disposition to emission. — Emission (very unusual) in a hemiplegic patient; paralysis < after the emission. — Impotence, with sudden cessation of all enjoyment, in the moment of greatest excitement. — Pain in penis, as if some fibres were torn or plucked away. — Painful retraction of testes at night. — Swelling of testes, with tearing shocks, and sensation of contraction.

Catamenia premature and profuse. — Metrorrhagia.

Cough and coryza, with expectoration of greenish mucus, and shortness of breath. — Paroxysms of fetid cough at night, when sleeping. — Want to take full inspirations, like sighing, with involuntary deglutition.

Oppression of the chest, as if the respiration were tremulous, and produced an impression of coolness. — Drawing pressure in both sides of sternum, with anguish of conscience, which allows no rest.

Violent palpitation of the heart, with great heat in cardiac region. — Palpitation of the heart, during which it seems that it is not the heart that palpitates.

Pressive, burning pain in loins, during repose and movement. — Pain, as of a fracture, or wrenching pain in joints of sacrum, and lumbar vertebræ.

Tingling along arms, like slight shocks. — Painful and rapid jerking along arms. — Heaviness and lassitude in arms. — Gurgling along arms and veins of the arms. — Tingling and throbbing in ends of fingers. — Panaritium.

Jerking throbbing in tendons of ham, with contraction of legs, esp. during movement. — Pressive tearing in the patella. — Throbbing in muscles of feet, after walking. — The knees give way during movement. — Easy dislocation of joint of foot, when making a false step. — The feet are painful when he lets them hang down when sitting; all over them there is a fine throbbing. — Sensibility and pain, as from a wound, in nail of great toe. — The toenails penetrate the flesh.

Drawings in fingers, joints of fingers, feet, and ankles. — Lancinating pulsative pains in roots of nails, as if about to suppurate. — Pains, with pinching or burning lancinations in different parts of the body. — Contusive pains in limbs and joints, as if the patient had been lying on flints. — Liability to suffer from a chill. — Tendency of nose, ears, hands, and feet to be frozen by a moderate degree of coldness. — Sudden lassitude when walking, with anxiety and heat, or sudden inclination to sleep. — Lightness of whole body.

Urgent inclination to sleep, evening and morning; closing of the eyes without power to sleep. — Sleeplessness with over-excitement before midnight. — Confused, frightful dreams. — Prolonged dreams on the same subject, with fatiguing meditation. — Dreams of incendiary fires. — Slow, noisy, snoring expiration before midnight; after midnight inspiration is of the same character. — Lying on the back during the night. — Congestion in head in morning, which compels lying with head high.

Excessive dread of open air, which penetrates to the very marrow of the bones, even when the weather is hot; with ill-humour and inclination to weep. — Shuddering, with cloudiness before eyes, trembling and tossing of limbs, without shivering, followed by heat in head and face.

Unsteadiness and instability, ideas cannot be properly fixed and objects hover only half observed before the senses. Disposition to start. Vehemence and irascibility. Harshness in word and deed.

Reeling and staggering when walking.

Congestion to (without heat). Crawling in brain, root of nose and temples. Headache from mental exertion.

Tears in. Painfully, sore dryness of lids.

Sensation, as of a cold (or warm) wind blowing on.

Suppressed fluent coryza.

Sensation of a cold breath on.

Tearing twitching in upper jaw (or in one eye - tooth) extending toward eye, in evening. Stitches in hollow t. toothache, warm drinks.

Foul odor from, early in morning. Salivation. Difficult speech.

Appetites, etc. - Indifference to food, drink and smoking. Great appetite in evening. Ravenous hunger during chill.

Pressure in, from mental exertion. Pain in, as though a bruised place were pressed upon.

Diarrhoea, preceded by cutting in abdomen and chill.

Nightly involuntary discharge of, from weakness of urinary organs. Incontinence from weakness of sphincter vesicae. Interrupted urination, the urine passes drop by drop, with insensibility of urethra. Feeble stream.

Drawing and twitching in spermatic cord. Spasmodic retraction of testes. Violently excited sexual desire. Impotency from a sudden disappearance of voluptuous sensation during coition.

Menses: Of pale, watery blood, too early and too profuse. Uterine hemorrhage.

Short, seeming to arise from epigastrium. Deep, sighing r., with involuntary swallowing at the same time, Slow, loud, snuffling expiration before, and a similar inspiration after midnight.

Pressive pain in, with anxiety. Violent palpitation.

Heat in. Lumbar ache.

Rambling and gurgling down arm. Panaritia with throbbing in finger - tips.

Paralytic drawing in legs. Easy dislocation of ankle. Varicose veins during pregnancy. Ingrowing toe - nails, they grow into the flesh.

Great tendency to take cold, on exposure to slight cold, nose, ears, hands and feet are frozen, and in a warm room they become hot, creep and itch. Great aversion to open air. Sensation of a cold wind blowing over entire body. Twitching pains here and there. Bruised pain in parts upon which he does not lie. Many symptoms are intensified by motion.

Sleepiness with inability to sleep before midnight.

Warmth all over. Warmth constantly predominates.

Allied Remedies: Ign., M - arcot., Nux-v., Zinc.

Mind and Disposition:
After walking in the open air he feels quarrelsome and peevish.
After an evening nap he feels exceedingly peevish and ill-humored.
He is liable to start when touched.
Want of cheerfulness; he is low-spirited, as if he were alone, or as if he had experienced some sad event, for three hours.
Weeping immediately.
Despondency (the first hours).
Great discouragement, dissatisfaction with himself.
Want of disposition to work, and vexed mood.
Taciturn, he is not disposed to talk.
He wants to be alone, company is disagreeable to him.
Cheerful faces are disagreeable to him.
Violent anger excited by a slight cause; he becomes trembling and hurried, and used violent language.
Wild, vehement, rude, both in language and action (he does not perceive it himself); he asserts with violence, reviling others, with distorted countenance.
Feeling of warmth, gradually increasing to heat (in a woman in the magnetic sleep, after touching the south pole of the magnet).
Great quickness of fancy.

Unsteadiness of the mind; he is unable to fix his ideas; things seen to flit to and fro before his senses; his opinions and resolutions are wavering, which occasions a kind of anxious and uneasy condition of the mind.
This mental disturbance is removed by touching the metallic zinc.
Vertigo as if intoxicated, as if he were obliged to stagger, some vertigo even while sitting.

Rush of blood to the head, without heat.
Heaviness of the head, with a sort of creeping or fine digging in the head.
Fine crawling in the brain as of a number of insects, accompanied with heaviness of the head.
Creeping in the vertex, as if something were running about there, and a sort of tearing.
Shocks in either temple.
Pain in the right side of the forehead, composed of tearing and beating.
A few beatings over the forehead, accompanied with a tearing pain.
Tearing at a small spot on the left temple.
Drawing-tearing pain in the left brain, resembling a slow, burning stitch.
Pressure in the occiput, in alternate places.
Headache, pressure on the top of the head, or in either temple, an intense violent pain, as is felt in a catarrh, being violent when sitting straight, more so when shaking the head or when reflecting, diminishing when walking, and disappearing almost entirely when bending the head forward or backward (in the first hours).
Headache in the occiput, most violent in the room, but disappearing in the open air (in the first hours).
Creeping, mixed with prickings, in the anterior and middle part of the forehead, in the evening.
Sharp, pointed, aching pain in the left side of the head, with pressure from within outward; continuous stitch accompanied with pressure (relieved by the north pole).
Simple and tensive pain over the whole brain, commencing while walking in the open air, and speedily going off in the room.
Pulsative beating in the right side of the head, when lying down.
Jerkings in he head.
Spasmodic contractive headache in the region between the eyebrows.
A certain spot in the hairy scalp is painful as if bruised, still more so when touched.
A glandular tubercle in the nape of the neck becomes suddenly inflamed, the skin all around was painful as if sore, and the least touch was unpleasant to it.
The skin on the forehead feels as if dried fast to the skull.

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