Magnesia Carbonica mag-c.

Malar bones. DIGESTIVE TRACT: Stomach. Bowels. Liver. NERVES: Facial. Dental.

NIGHT. Rest. Noise. Cold: Changes of weather. Wind. Drafts. Food; starchy; milk. Slight causes, touch, etc. Children. Nurselings.

Motion. Walking about. Open air.

Ailing, worn out, nervous, flatulent and flabby. Sour; all over (Rhe.); regurgitation; foamy vomitus; stool, etc. Emaciation. Marasmus. Sharp shoots along nerves; must walk about. Numb, distended feeling. Can't bear hands covered, yet chilled by uncovering.

Heavy brain. Tearing, digging, boring face or toothache; < pregnancy; > cold. Sudden deafness. Waxy pallor. Hawks cheesy masses from throat. Sorethroat at menses. Nibbling appetite. Vomits undigested milk or bitter water. Cutting colic. Stool, frothy; GREENISH, LIKE WATER AND SCUM OF A POND; lienteric, with gelatinous or fatty masses; grass green. Menses like thick, dark molasses; tarry; viscid; < night and on rising; leave a fast stain. Craves open air. Paroxysmal cough; difficult, thin, salty or bloody sputum. Heavy, weary feet. Chilly; takes cold, with coryza, toothache, sorethroat, etc.; before menses; and dry. Sour, greasy, indelible sweat.

Antidotes: Cham. Nux-v. Pul. Related: Rhe.

For persons, especially children, of irritable disposition, nervous temperament (Cham.); lax fibre; sour smell of whole body (Rheum). The whole body feels tired and painful especially the legs and feet; aching, restless. Spasmodic affections of stomach and intestines (Col., Mag. p.), increased secretion from mucous membranes. Unrefreshing sleep, more tired on rising than when retiring (Bry., Con., Hep., Op., Sulph.). Inordinate craving for meat in children of tuberculous parentage. Heartburn; sour, belching, eructations, taste and vomiting; of pregnancy. Pains: neuralgic, lightening-like, < left side (Col.); insupportable during repose, must get up and walk (Rhus); toothache, during pregnancy < at night. Pain on vertex as if the hair were pulled (Kali n., Phos.). Menses: preceded by sore throat (Lac c.), labor-like pain, cutting colic, backache, weakness, chilliness; flows only at night or when lying, ceases when walking (Am. m., Kreos., - rev. or Lil.); acrid, dark, pitch-like; difficult to wash off (Med.). Diarrhoea: preceded by cutting, doubling-up colic; occurs regularly every three weeks; stools green, frothy, like scum of a frog-pond; white, tallow-like masses are found floating in stool; the milk passes undigested in nursing children. When crude magnesia has been taken to "sweeten the stomach;" if the symptoms correspond, the potentized remedy will often relieve.

Complementary: to, Chamomilla.

Change of temperature; every three weeks; rest; milk, during menses.

Warm air, but worse in warmth of bed (Led., Mer. - better in warmth of bed, Ars.).

We often use this with great advantage for complaints arising in people who have been taking this drug to "sweeten the stomach."

Female: Menses too late; too scanty; mucous leucorrhœa; toothache of pregnant females; sore throat before menstruating.

Dreams anxious; of dead persons; of fire; of thieves.

Affections of the left abdominal ring; great amount of flatus which is sour when eructated. Pains in the top of the shoulder-joints, generally left side, which prevent raising the arm; much pain in the malar bones, particularly at night, preventing sleep, or they may appear swollen. Expectoration of soft tubercles big as a pea, and very offensive in smell. Diarrhœa (especially in children) which looks like the green on a frog pond.

Caustic., Phosphor., Pulsat., Sepia, Sulphur.

Acid dyspepsia; from milk, which sours; from cabbage, potatoes and other gross food. Diarrhoea, especially of children; stools green and frothy like the scum of a frog pond; griping pains, sour eructations. Neuralgia, especially of the face; lightning-like pains, usually worse at night; great restlessness, must get up and walk about.

Carbonate of Magnesia (MAGNESIA CARBONICA)

Gastro-intestinal catarrh, with marked acidity. Often used with advantage for complains arising in people who have been taking this drug to sweeten the stomach. Is frequently indicated in children; whole body smells sour, and disposed to boils. Broken-down, "worn-out" women, with uterine and climacteric disorders. With numbness and distension in various, parts and nerve prostration. Sensitive to the least start, noise, touch, etc. Affection of the antrum of Highmore. Effects of shock, blows, mental distress. Sense of numbness; nerve prostration; tendency to constipation after nervous strain; sensitive to least touch, it causes starting, or cold winds or weather or from excess of care and worry with constipation and heaviness. Intense neuralgic pains.

Sticking pain in the side of the head on which he lies, as if the hair was pulled; worse, mental exertion. Itching of scalp worse in damp weather. Pain above margin of right orbit. Blank motes before eyes.

Diminished hearing. Deafness; comes suddenly and varies. Numbness of outer ear. Feeling of distention of middle ear. Subdued tinnitus.

Tearing pain in one side; worse; quiet; must move about. Toothache, especially during pregnancy; worse at night; worse, cold and quiet. Teeth feel too long. Ailments from cutting wisdom teeth (Cheiranthus). Pain in malar bone, worse during rest, night. Swelling of malar bone with pulsating pain, worse exposure to cold wind.

Dry at night. Sour taste. Vesicular eruption; bloody saliva. Sticking pain in throat; hawking up fetid, pea-colored particles.

Desire for fruit, acids, and vegetables. Eructations sour, and vomiting of bitter water. Craving for meat.

Rumbling, gurgling. Dragging towards pelvis. Very heavy; contractive, pinching, pain in right illiac region.

Preceded by griping, colicky pain. Green, watery, frothy, like a frog-pond's scum. Bloody mucous stools. Milk passes undigested in nursing children. Sour, with tenesmus (Rheum). Constipation after mental shock or severe nervous strain.

Sore throat before menses appear. Before menses, coryza and nasal stoppage. Menses too late and scanty, thick, dark, like pitch; mucous leucorrhœa. Menses flow only in sleep; more profuse at night (Amm m), or when lying down; cease when walking.

Ticking cough, with salty, bloody expectoration. Constrictive pains in chest, with dyspnœa. Soreness in chest during motion.

Tearing in shoulders as if dislocated. Right shoulder painful, cannot raise it (Sang). Whole body feels tired and painful, especially legs and feet. Swelling in bend of knee.

Earthy, sallow and parchment-like; emaciation. Itching vesicles on hands and fingers. Nodosities under skin. Sore; sensitive to cold.

Chilly in evening. Fever at night. Sour, greasy perspiration.

Unrefreshing; more tired on rising than on retiring.

Worse, warmth of bed; change of temperature; cold wind or weather; every three weeks; rest. Better, warm air; walking in open air.

Antidotes: Ars; Merc.

Complementary: Cham.

Compare: Rheum; Kreos; Aloes; Cheiranthus-Wall flower --(deafness, otorrhœa, nose stopped up at night from irritation of cutting wisdom-teeth).

Third to thirtieth potency.

Stools green and frothy, like the scum of a frog pond; doubling up colic > after stool.

Toothache in decayed teeth, worse at night; must get up and walk about for relief (especially during pregnancy).

To exhausted nerves in worn-out women what China is for loss of blood.

Menses; flow only at night or when lying, and in absence of uterine pains.

The salts of Magnesia are not new to the medical profession as remedies. Especially is the one under consideration so well known in its action upon the intestinal canal that it has for a long time been "my lady's" habitual resort for sour stomach and constipated bowels. Of course, then it should become a very useful remedy for diarrhœa in the hands of a Homœopathist, and so it is. The kind of diarrhœa to which it is most applicable is -"Stools green and frothy like the scum of a frog pond." All of the Magnesias are great pain producers, consequently pain relievers, and, as might be expected, the stools of Magnesia carb. are preceded by griping, doubling-up colic. So far as colic is concerned, sometimes it might be difficult to choose between Magnesia carb. and Colocynth, but the stools are not alike. Rheum comes nearest to Magnesia carb., in that both have colic before stool, sour stool and sour smell of the whole body; but with Magnesia the green stool stands first and with Rheum the sourness. The stool of Rheum is oftener dark brownish than green. Chamomilla has green stool with much pain, but the stool is watery, while Magnesia carb. is more slimy. Mercury has the slimy stool which may be green also; but with Mercury tenesmus is the leading symptom, and the mouth symptoms and sweat without relief under it are not like the other remedies. Magnesia carb. has toothache which at first sight seems to simulate that of Mercury. It comes in decayed teeth and is worse at night. There is a finer shade of difference, however, that distinguishes them. Mercury is worse from the warmth of the bed (a general characteristic of Mercury), while Magnesia carb. is worse quiet. The patient is obliged to walk about for relief. This kind of toothache is common among pregnant women, and I have often cured it. (Ratanhia.) I have used it in the 200th potency for this trouble. Have used it lower in diarrhœas. I once cured a severe case of coccydynia, a case of long standing. The pains were sudden, piercing, causing the patient to almost faint away. Magnesia carb. 200th cured promptly. Lobelia inflata has extreme sensitiveness; sits leaned forward to avoid contact of even soft pillow.

Anxious, with perspiration all day. Uneasiness, with trembling of the hands and absence of mind. Sad mood, with indisposition to talk. Anxious and warm through the whole body, especially in the head, while eating warm food. Trembling, anguish and fear as if some accident would happen, all day, going a off after going to bed.

Vertigo, when kneeling or standing, as if everything were turning around. Heaviness and dizziness in the head, early in the morning, when rising, going off after a walk. Pressure in the forehead. Pressing headache from mental exertion and when among many persons. Violent darting headache after vexation (1 to 10 P.M.). Lancinating headache early in the morning after rising. Pulsating sensation in the forehead. Congestion of blood to the head, especially when smoking. Heat in the head and hands with redness of the face, alternating with paleness of the face. Bruised sensation on the vertex. Pain on the top of the head, as if the hair were pulled. Dandruff on the scalp, itching during wet and rainy weather. Falling of the hair.

Inflammation of the eyes, with redness, burning, stinging and obscuration of sight, or dim-sightedness. Swelling of the eyeball. Agglutination of the eyes early in the morning. Obscuration of the cornea. Black motes before the eyes. Obscuration of crystalline lens (cataract). Dryness of the eyes. Profuse lachrymation.

Inflammation of the ears, with external redness and sensation of great soreness. Great sensitiveness of the ear to noise. Hardness of hearing with whizzing before the ears. Whizzing, fluttering and buzzing in the right ear with hardness of hearing.

Bleeding from the nose in the morning. Vesicular eruption in the nose with pressing pain. Dry coryza and obstruction of the nose, waking one at night.

Pale face, earthy, sickly complexion. Alternate redness and paleness of the face. Tension on the face, as if the white of an egg had dried on it. Nightly tearing, digging and boring in the malar bone, insupportable during rest, and driving one from one place to another. Swelling of the malar bone, with pulsating pain. Hard nodosities, bloatedness and swelling of the face. Herpetic eruption around the (lower part of the) mouth. Hard, little nodosities in both corners of the mouth.

Beating and stinging in the teeth after eating. Toothache while riding in a carriage. Toothache at night, compelling one to rise and walk about, the pain is insupportable while at rest. Toothache, mostly burning, tearing, drawing, twitching, or great ulcerative pain, with twitching in the fingers and feet. Toothache during pregnancy. Ailments from cutting the wisdom teeth. Looseness of the teeth, with swelling of the gums. The toothache is aggravated from cold. Burning vesicles on the gums, on the inside of the cheeks, tongue, lips, and palate, they bleed from the least contact. Dryness of the mouth, especially at night and in, the morning. Stinging pain in the throat when talking and swallowing. Burning in the throat and palate, with dryness and roughness, as if scraped by the beard of a barleycorn. Frequent rising of mucus in the throat (morning) with roughness and dryness of the fauces. Soft, fetid tubercles of the color of peas are hawked up.

Bitter taste in the mouth, the tongue coated white, the mouth and teeth are full of white, tough mucus, going off after rinsing the mouth. Sour taste in the mouth. Violent thirst for water, especially in the evening and at night. Desire for acid drinks. Sour eructations. Nausea and vertigo while eating, followed by retching and vomiting of bitter, salty water. Feeling of emptiness and qualmishness in the stomach, better after dinner. Ulcerative pain in the stomach, with great sensitiveness to pressure. Great heaviness in the bloated abdomen. Colic, pressing spasmodic-contractive pain. In the region of the liver, hardness and stitches. Colic followed by discharge of leucorrhœa. Cutting and pinching, in the abdomen.

Constipation, frequent ineffectual urging, to evacuate with small stool or only discharge of flatulence. Diarrhœa painful, stools green and frothy. Sour-smelling diarrhœa of children. Ascarides and lumbrici. Stitches in the anus and rectum, also with fruitless desire for stool.

Secretion of urine increased, pale, watery or green. Involuntary secretion of urine when walking or rising from the seat. White sediment in the urine. Burning and smarting during micturition.

Men. Sexual desire diminished, erections wanting. Discharge of prostatic fluid while passing flatulence. Women. Pressing towards the pelvis, as if menstruation would come on, with cutting in the abdomen. Menses too late or suppressed. Menstrual blood thick, dark, like pitch. During the menstruation, weakness, chilliness, headache, paleness of the face, pain in the small of the back, or spasmodic pressing pain in the abdomen with suppressed menstrual discharge. Fluor albus, of acrid white mucus, preceded by colic.

Oppression of the chest with the sensation of constriction. Sensation of soreness in the chest or in the left side of the chest, region of the heart. Spasmodic cough from tickling in the larynx, with expectoration only in the morning and during the day of yellow, thin or tough mucus or of dark blood tasting salt. The cough is worse in the evening till after midnight.

Stiffness in the neck. Pain in the back and small of the back at night, as if broken.

Upper. Pain as from dislocation in the shoulder-joint when moving it. Rheumatic pain in the shoulders (at night) with tingling down to the fingers ; the pain prevents the least movement of the arm. Heat of the fingers. Red, inflammatory swelling of the fingers. The skin of the hands becomes chapped. Spreading blisters on the hands and fingers, with stinging. Lower. Restlessness in the legs. Drawing pains in the legs and feet. Itching of the buttocks, with red spots after scratching. Painful swelling in the bend of the knee. Cramp in the calves (at night). Burning spot on the tibia. Blood-boils on the lower leg.

Epileptic attacks ; while standing or walking he frequently falls down suddenly with consciousness. Painfulness of the whole body. Sensation of being tired, especially in the feet and when sitting. A short walk tires much. Restlessness in the limbs in the evening after sitting long. Rheumatic pains in the limbs.

Sleepiness during the day. Sleeplessness at night from oppression in the abdomen, or from anxious restlessness and internal heat, with aversion to being uncovered in the least. Many and anxious dreams, with starts and crying out in the sleep. Unrefreshing sleep, more tired in the morning than he was when lying down in the evening.

Pulse slightly accelerated only during the night. Chill and chilliness with external coldness in the evening, and after lying down, slowly going off. Chill running down the back. Heat mostly in the forenoon, frequently with perspiration on the head only. Heat after the evening chill. At night, anxious internal heat, with restlessness and aversion to being uncovered. Perspiration with thirst, from midnight till morning. Morning sweat. Perspiration is greasy, coloring the linen yellow, smelling sour or putrid.

Itching and great dryness of the skin. Large, stinging nodosities under the skin. Painful, small, red herpes, they scale off afterwards. Spreading blisters. Small blood boils (lower legs).

Most symptoms come on at night and while at rest. Symptoms coming on while sitting, disappear or are better while walking.

Magnesiæ carbonas levis. Light carbonate of magnesium of B. P. Magnesia carbonate 3(MgCO 3 ) Mg(HO) 2 . 4 H 2 O. Trituration.

Antrum of Highmore, affections of . Ascarides. Catarrh. Constipation. Cornea, opacities of. Cough. Deafness. Debility. Diarrhœa . Dyspepsia. Eyes, inflammation of. Hernia. Menorrhagia. Menstruation, delayed . Metrorrhagia. Nervousness. Neuralgia. Neurasthenia. Pregnancy, nausea of; toothache of . Spleen, pain in. Taste, disorded . Tinnitus. Toothache . Tumours.

Mag. c . is the leading partner in the well-known "Pulv. Rhei Co." of the B. P., still better known as "Gregory's Powder," one of the terrors of an allopathic nursery. The proportions are: Mag. c ., six parts; Rhubarb powder, two parts, and Ginger powder one part. A curious point about this mixture is that Mag. c . and Rheum are antidotal in Homœopathic practice, both having much acidity, and green, sour stools. "Fluid Magnesia" ( Liquor Magnesiæ Carbonatis ), a much more palatable dose, as my early memories tell me, is made by impregnating water in which freshly precipitated carbonate of magnesia is suspended with CO 2 . One fluid ounce contains gr. xiii. of Mag. c . The properties of Mag. c . from the old-school standpoint are summed up as "laxative, antacid, antilithic." Guernsey says of it: "We often use Mag. c . with great advantage for complaints arising in people who have been taking this drug to 'sweeten the stomach.' " In order to obtain a proper notion of the power and sphere of this great remedy it is best to put out of mind all thought of its old associations. We shall then be able to view it in its entirety and its old uses will be seen in their proper relations. Mag. c . has many points of contact with Gels., Cham . and Ars . in nervous irritation and sleeplessness. But the nervousness of Mag c . is of the type of nerve exhaustion. "Water containing Magnesia and that coming from magnesian limestone districts is peculiarly soft to the feel. There is reason for supposing that this softness has a soothing effect upon the nervous system when used in the form of baths — e.g ., Buxton and Matlock in England, Schlangenbad, Wildbad, Rehme, and it may be Gastein in Germany. It is often found that the physical characteristics of substances correspond with their dynamic influences, and thus with Magnesia ; it very frequently is required for nervous systems that demand a permanently soothing and sustaining influence. Its effects on the skin are reflected upon the primæ viæ or vice versâ ; for, on the mucous surfaces, quite apart from its antacid action, it proves soothing and sustaining" (Cooper). An indication given me by Cooper has been of immense service in numbers of cases. — It is "worn-out women" — that is, the state of nervousness induced by excess of the cares and worries of life. Mag. c . 200, repeated three or four times a day, has given untold relief to many a patient of this kind. When constipation and heaviness are present these will be removed at the same time. One leading note of Mag. c . is sensitiveness, mental and bodily, sensitive to touch, sensitive to cold air. Effects of shocks, blows, or mental distress. The least touch causes starting. This sensitiveness passes into neuralgic pains of the highest intensity, neuralgia, lightning-like; < on left side, insupportable during repose; must get up and walk about. The sufferings of the pregnant state — neuralgia, toothache, nausea — come into this category. An extra tax is made on the woman's strength at this period, and as so often happens the daily tasks go on as usual during the greater part of the time, so that a "worn-out" condition is induced. Mag. c . is of great value here. Mag. c . is to exhausted nerves what Chi . is to exhaustion from loss of fluids. But it must not be supposed that Mag. c . is a "nerve" medicine only. Tumours, even bony ones, have yielded to it; and it has been credited with the cure of cataract. I have no definite experience with it in cases of this last, though I have thought I observed improvement in some. But I have many times removed with it corneal opacities left by ulceration; and I practically cured with it a tumour of the right malar bone. The patient was a sea-captain, aged 50. I had saved a relation from some operation, and for this reason he came to me. Except for his trouble, which was steadily getting worse, he was quite healthy. His face was quite distorted; right cheek bulging out, nose pushed over to left side, right nostril stretched out. The malar bone was especially prominent near the wing of the nose. This was the only part that was tender. The tumour was softish as if cystic. There was no discharge. Inside the mouth the right side of the hard palate bulged into the mouth and was slightly tender to pressure. The tumour was the seat of a constant gnawing pain; but the thing that troubled him most was sensitiveness to cold winds and cold weather . This was so great that he was afraid he would have to give up his calling. This led me to give Silic . 30 in the first instance (on February 27, 1895); but Sil . only increased the pain. One night he awoke feeling all his back aching. I worked up the case more carefully and found this under Mag. c .: "Throbbing pain in antrum of Highmore with swelling of right malar bone"; and "facial neuralgia, left side, shooting like lightning; < from touch, draught, change of temperature ; cannot stay in bed, must walk the floor." Putting these together I prescribed (on March 13th) Mag. c . 30, giving four doses a day. March 28th Much less pain. Face much reduced, swelling softer, fluctuating. Swelling inside mouth softer." April 10th: "Very much better. Tumour smaller and softer." August 14th: "Face almost normal in appearance. Swelling inside mouth quite gone. Has no pain whatever, no sensitiveness to cold air. Had finished medicine in middle of July." He now joined his ship, and as he was generally away for years at a time that was the last I saw of him, but I gave him a supply of Mag. c . to take with him. The sensitiveness in this case was not that of nerve exhaustion, but it was sufficient to confirm the choice of the remedy, and it teaches us that it is never wise to narrow down the meaning of symptoms too closely. So whilst Mag. c . is suited to "persons, especially children, of irritable disposition, nervous temperament; lax fibre; sour smell" (Hering); and to "worn-out women, and dark-haired, sensitive people, spare-and thin" (Cooper); it is just as ready to cure a tough old sailor, impassive and stolid, provided he has sufficient Mag. c . symptoms about him. A knowledge of the temperaments of remedies often saves much trouble; but it must be used with brains. Two cases (related by A. I. Harvey) illustrating the power of Mag. c . in neuralgia are quoted in Amer. Hom ., xxii. 12. ( 1 ) Carpenter, 50, light complexion, spare, had had facial neuralgia two years coming in attacks, lasting from three to seven days, at intervals of two or three weeks. Pain sharp, shooting, from left side of face and head, < at night, from pressure, from jar. Mag. c . cured promptly after failure of Spig . ( 2 ) Blacksmith, 22, light complexion, full figure. For several years he had attacks of facial neuralgia coming on after taking cold. Pain very severe in left orbital region, shooting down into eye and face, and back to occipital region begins in morning, grows worse till noon, then subsides. No pain at night, rests well. Spig . and Kali bi . failed. Mag. c . cured promptly. Cooper mentions it, as a possible remedy in pyorrhea alveolaris. In the homœopathic nursery Mag. c . is just as indispensable a blessing as it is in the allopathic nursery an indispensable curse. For children who are puny and sickly; who refuse their milk and get pain in the stomach if they take it, diarrhœa, colic, stools green, like the scum of a frog pond, jelly-like lumps; aphthæ; marasmus, Mag. c . is a sovereign remedy. On September 25, 1899, I was written to from France about an infant girl seventeen months old. Up to three months before she had been perfectly well. Then diarrhœa came on. At first had ordinary stools which became loose; then green; sometimes very white, or bright slimy-yellow mixed with blood., and every time the bowels acted ( i.e ., every hour or hour and a half) she screamed before, during, and after the action. At the time of writing the stools were one or two in the night and three or four during the day. Still watery but seldom undigested. Always thirsty, but cannot take milk. Vomits food. Face pale, drawn; dark under eyes. Emaciated. So weak can hardly stand. Has eight teeth. I sent Mag. c . 30 to be taken four times a day. Report received October 6th. "Well. Was better after two doses. Can take cow's milk freely now.". — The acidity for which allopaths give Magnesia is a true enough indication; but not for the reason they give: Sour stools; sour sweat; sour smell of whole body; sour eructations from cabbage; sour vomiting; sour breath; sour taste-all these are caused and cured by Mag. c . Persons of lax fibre and sour smell are suited to Mag. c . The whole body feels tired and painful, especially the legs and feet; aching; restless. Spasmodic affections of stomach and intestines. Unrefreshing sleep; more tired on waking than on going to bed. Inordinate craving for meat in children of tubercular parentage. There is much suffering at the menses in women. They are preceded by labour-like pain, cutting colic, backache, weakness, chilliness. A grand characteristic is: Flows only at night or when lying, ceases when walking. The period is usually late and scanty. Flow acrid, dark, pitch-like, difficult to wash off. During pregnancy there is vomiting and toothache. Sensations of Mag. c . are: As if everything was turning round. As if hair was pulled. As if white of egg had dried on face. As if teeth too long. Throat as if scraped by an awn. As if rectum pricked with needles. Back as if broken. The pains are < by rest; insupportable; must get up and walk about. Rheumatic pains are < after a long walk, > by warmth, < in bed. Walking fatigues; = involuntary urination; prickings in rectum; smarting leucorrhœa. Walking stops menses. Cannot put left foot on ground when walking. Raising arm < pain in shoulder. Kneeling < vertigo; < 2-3 a.m. (sleeplessness); 4 a.m., intolerable pain in rectum. Symptoms generally < evening and especially at night. < From uncovering; great aversion to it. Eating warm food < ; = anxiety and warmth through whole body. Milk < . Warmth of bed < toothache. Cold < toothache. Cold water > toothache for a short time; then < . Wet and rainy weather = itching of scalp. Draught < facial neuralgia. There is periodicity with Mag. c .: every second day, every three weeks; "all symptoms < every third week." Touch and pressure < almost, all symptoms; but pressure in abdomen > menstrual flow. Pain is < on the side lain on. Smoking < headache.

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Uneasiness, with trembling of hands and absence of mind.
Anxious and warm through whole body, especially in head, while eating warm food.
Anxious, with perspiration all day.
Trembling, anguish and fear, as if some accident would happen ; all day, > after going to bed.
Sad mood, with indisposition to talk ; sad and disconsolate.
Much < from talking or mental exertion.
Changeable ; gloomy, vexed, ill humored, then talkative.

Vertigo : when kneeling ; when standing, as if everything was turning around ; in evening ; as if about to faint ; in morning after rising, with inclination to vomit and accumulation of water in mouth.
Frequent sudden falling, with consciousness, when standing or walking.
Heaviness and dizziness in head ; early in morning, when rising, going off after a walk.

Dulness of head from mental exertion.
Pressure and pulsating in forehead.
Congestion to head : with pressive frontal headache ; especially when smoking.
Pressing headache from mental exertion and when among many people.
Violent, darting headache, after vexation (1 to 10 P. M.).
Lancinating headache, early in morning, after rising.
Sticking headache.
Heat in head and hands, with redness of face, alternating with paleness.

Bruised sensation of vertex.
Pain on top of head, as if hair was pulled.
Dandruff on scalp, itching during wet and rainy weather.
Falling off of hair, tetter on scalp ; itching violently in rainy weather.
Hard nodosity on right temple.

Black spots or motes before eyes.
Burning of eyes and dimness of vision.
Lenticular cataract (occasionally received Sulphur.).
Obscuration of cornea.
Swelling of eyeball.
Dryness of eyes, or profuse lachrymation.
Inflammation of eyes, with redness, burning, stinging and obscuration of sight, or dim-sightedness.
Scrofulous ophthalmia, with opacities on cornea.
Agglutination of lids in morning, with pressure in eyes.

Great sensitiveness of ear to noise.
Whizzing, buzzing, fluttering in right ear.
Hardness of hearing and ringing in ears.
Inflammation of ears, with external redness and sensation of great soreness.

Bleeding from nose in morning, more from right side.
Vesicular eruption in nose, with pressing pain.
Dry coryza or obstruction of nose, waking one at night.

Face : dirty, dark yellow ; frequent congestion to head ; pale, earthy ; alternately red and pale.
Tension on face, as if white of egg had dried on it.
Nightly tearing, digging and boring in malar bone, insupportable during rest and driving one from place to place ; swelling of malar bone, with pulsating pain.
Obliged to run from room to room all night on account of pain in face, to hold painful side and constantly wag head ; as soon as she remained quiet pains returned.
Neuralgia facial, left side, shooting like lightning ; < from touch, draft, change of temperature ; cannot stay in bed, must walk floor.
Hard nodosities, bloatedness and swelling of face.

Herpetic eruption around lower part of mouth.
Hard little nodosities in corners of mouth.

Beating and stinging in teeth after eating.
Toothache : while riding in a carriage, < in cold ; at night, compelling one to rise and walk about, pain insupportable while at rest ; during pregnancy ; mostly burning, tearing, drawing, twitching, or great ulcerative pain, with twitching in fingers and
feet ; from teeth to temples, commencing only in evening in bed ; with swelling of gums and inflamed mucous membrane.
Insupportable tearing pain generally from a hollow tooth, passing through face and into head and affecting eye ; easily dazzled ; slightest draft of air brings on pain ; < from warmth of bed, must get up and walk about ; > for a short time by a mouthful of cold
water ; ill humored, capricious.
Toothache : at one time in one, at another in several apparently sound teeth ; severe boring in right side of lower jaw, with tearing pain through right side of face, extending to region of temple ; stiffness of muscles of neck and throat ; painful side swollen ;
pain slight during day, very severe at night ; as soon as she gets into bed, must get up and walk about.
Pains tearing and extending into left temple ; teeth extremely sensitive to slightest touch of tongue, feel too long ; increase of saliva ; < at night. θ Odontalgia
rheumatica.
Awakens from sleep with intolerable pain ; burning in all teeth of right side ; hot sensation in mouth ; burning, throbbing pains, extending to malar bone and to ear ; temple sensitive to slightest touch ; drawing out sensation in ear ; several hollow teeth
on right side ; pains begin in afternoon, grow very severe in evening on getting warm in bed ; menses regular.
Toothache of pregnant women ; throbbing pain with occasional stitches ; ulcerative pain when teeth are touched.
Teeth feel too long.
Ailments from cutting wisdom teeth.
Looseness of teeth, with swelling of gums.
Slow eruption of teeth ; emaciation.
Caries of lower teeth.
Burning vesicles on gums, on inside of cheeks, tongue, lips and palate, they bleed from least contact.

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This remedy has only been partially proved, and comes to us now as Hahnemann left it.

The mental symptoms and symptoms of some portions of the body and particulars have not been fully brought out. The remedy really needs reproving with high potencies upon sensitive provers that the finer shades may be understood. I would not speak of it but for the fact that it relates to a class of cases so very important that you will not be able to get along without it. It is related to the older and deeper psoric sickness. It is deep acting and long acting and permeates the economy as thoroughly as Sulphur.

Some of the most striking general features are: Amelioration from motion; desire for open air, yet very sensitive to cold air; wants to be covered during all stages of fever; daily evening fevers; symptoms recurring every twenty-one days. Sensation of heat and even sweat from eating and drinking warm things; evening thirst.

Like other Magnesias it has most violent neuralgic pains, pains along the course of nerves, pains so violent that he cannot keep still, and he moves about and is relieved by motion. The provers felt these pains mostly in the head and face, but clinical experience has demonstrated that it has violent neuralgia everywhere.

We are justified from the proving, in considering it as especially related to the left side of the face; neuralgia in the night; driving him out of bed, keeping him in constant motion. As soon as he stops moving the pain becomes very severe, shooting, tearing and cutting.

It has varied eruptions upon the skin; dry scaly, dandruff-like eruptions upon the skin, very unhealthy hair and nails. Particularly does it affect the teeth and roots of the teeth. In every change of the weather the roots of the teeth become violently painful, burn, shoot and ache continuously. Toothache before and during menstruation.

During pregnancy she suffers all the time with toothache, tearing pains in the left side of the face, although the roots of the teeth are perfectly sound. The hollow teeth are unusually sensitive, and painful. The teeth are so sensitive that they cannot be manipulated by the dentist.

This is like Ant. crud., but Magnesia carb. especially affects the roots of the teeth, while Ant. crud. affects the dentine more particularly. Sensitiveness of the teeth, so that he cannot bite upon the teeth, and the teeth feel too long. Magnesia carb, and China , when no other symptoms are present, are prominent remedies among the affections of the teeth during pregnancy.

There is a kind of marasmus that you will puzzle over if you do not know this remedy. If we analyze the remedy in general, we will see that it produces a state of the body like that prior to tuberculosis.

He does not undergo, repair, he loses flesh, and the muscles become flabby as if some serious disease were coming. In children of tuberculous parents there is that tendency to go into marasmus. The child's muscles are flabby, the child will not thrive in spite of feeding and medicines. It seems to be laying the foundations for some serious trouble.

Finally, it emaciates and the back of the head begins to sink in, as if from atrophy of the cerebellum. The appetite increases for milk and meat and animal broths, and yet they are not digested, and when the milk is taken it continually passes the bowel in the form of white potter's clay, or like putty.

The stool is soft and of the consistency of putty. If you go through a china factory where the men are forming with their hands, in such wonderful manner, all sorts of beautiful dishes, and moulds, you will see that the original clay, as they are manipulating it, is white. It is a perfect picture of the Mag. carb. stool, composed of putty-like undigested milk.

I have observed, especially among illegitimate infants, those that have been conceived by clandestine coition, that they have a tendency to sinking in the back of the head. The occipital bone will sink in, and the parietal bones jut out over it, and there will be a depression. That is not an uncommon thing in children that go into marasmus. They are very likely to have a potter's clay stool. It does not run, and it is not hard.

The white, hard stool is quite another symptom, and the soft semi-fluid white stool leads to another class of remedies, but this pasty stool, looking as if it could be moulded into any kind of shape, is a Magnesia carb. stool. I once had in charge an orphanage, where we had sixty to one hundred babies on hand all tho time. The puzzle of my life was to find remedies for the cases that were going into marasmus. A large number of them were clandestine babies. It was a sort of Sheltering Arms for these little ones.

The whole year elapsed, and we were losing babies every week from this gradual decline, until I saw the image of these babies in Magnesia carb., and after that many of them were cured.

The Mag. carb. baby smells sour like the Hepar baby.

Wash it as you will and it smells sour; the perspiration is sour, and the whole baby smells sour. It is not especially the stool. The stool smells strong and pungent putrid, and very often the whole child has a pungent odor, like an unclean baby, though it be well washed.

The Magnesias produce inactivity of the rectum and anus - a paresis. The stool is large and hard, requiring great straining to expel. It is dry, hard and crumbling. The stool will remain partly expelled and then crumble, breaking up in many pieces. Another stool that is laid down in the books as a most striking condition of Magnesia carb. is green; it is the diarrheic stool, and the green part floats upon the watery portion of the stool.

The stool is often lumpy, and liquid.

The lumps lie in the bottom of the vessel, but floating upon the liquid portion of the stool is the green like the scum of the frog pond. This is recognized as one of the most striking features.

"Stools green, like scum on a frog pond; sour, frothy; with white floating lumps like tallow, bloody, mucous."

Floating like lumps of tallow, is more characteristic of Phosphorus, and many a time has Dulcamara cured it.

The face of the chronic adult case is pale, waxy, sickly and sallow. and you wonder why this patient will not right up, and will not thrive. She has a sickly countenance, her muscles are lax , she becomes so tired and sweats upon little exertion.

She is disturbed in every change of the weather, and is worse at the beginning of menstruation, She seems to take cold whenever menstruation is coming on. She says:

"I know my menstrual period is coming on, because I have a cold in my head."

Magnesia carb. has coryza every month before. the monthly period.

These patients take on an appearance as if going into decline, and yet they go on year after year unable to do anything; not able even to keep house, have a violent craving for meat and an aversion to vegetable food, grow thin and increasingly flabby, muscles relaxed, and with tendency to prolapsus. The walls of the abdomen have a tendency to fall down and to be relaxed, and the rings favor the formation of hernia.

That is the kind of relaxation. The nerves are painful, and the muscles are tired. When you have such a case and have prescribed, and they persist in spite of every remedy, you know that the case does not well indicate a remedy, that the conditions are latent and there is a tendency to some grave internal disorder. The organs are threatening to break down; the kidneys, the heart, the lungs, or the brain are about to undergo organic change.

We have a catarrhal state in this remedy, but it is a dry catarrh, not much discharge. An old ulcer will dry up and become shiny and discharge almost nothing. The nose is dry and the eyeballs are so dry that the lids stick together and it is difficult to open the eyes. The skin becomes dry and itches and burns. Tendency to dryness of the mucous membranes and dryness of the skin. Dryness is a marked feature of this medicine.

"Inordinate appetite for meat in children."

The stomach is a troublesome organ. The Magnesia carb. patient is always complaining of a sour stomach; sour eructations. Food comes up sour. There is nausea and coming up in the throat of sour food. Pains in the stomach after eating an ordinary amount of food; bloated after eating; much flatulence after eating. The stomach digests the food slowly and it becomes sour.

This remedy is especially useful if the history has been a tubercular one. Losing flesh and craving for meat in those who are tubercular, or in those, that are from tubercular parents.

Patients suffering from a dry cough.

Dry cough before the evening chill like Rhus tox. There are persons who have simply this tendency who go along year after year in this withered state, with the little hacking cough, not rousing up into much. Finally some favorable circumstance arises and the tuberculosis comes on rapidly after it has remained in a sluggish state for a long time.

There are a few remedies more likely to be associated with that condition than any others, Arsenicum, Calc. carb., Lycopodium, Magnesia carb. and Tuberc . They fit into this lingering state, this prelude to active phthisis.

They sometimes set a patient thriving, but mind you, these cases are hard cases to manage. They are difficult to find remedies for. Their trouble is so latent, the symptoms do not come out, and sometimes you have to read between the lines. They are the one-sided cases spoken of by Hahnemann.

In addition to this dry, tickling cough, which is not mentioned in the books, we find

"Cough, spasmodic at night from tickling in the larynx."

"Sleepiness during the day and sleeplessness at night."

When you have seen many of these cases that are threatening to go into phthisis, you will notice that it is a general feature with all of them.

"Doctor, I am so tired in the morning; while I sleep some in the night, in the morning I feel as if I had not slept."

Always tired and relaxed. Most of these subjects are cold and chilly. This, state has not been bought out yet in the remedy, but clinically it relates to cold and chilly patients. Patients who say that they have not much blood.

For persons, especially children, of irritable disposition, nervous temperament (Cham.); sour smell of the whole body (Rheum).

The whole body feels tired and painful, especially the legs and feet.

Pains: neuralgic, lightning-like, worse left side (Col.—worse right side, Mag. p.); insupportable during repose, must get up and walk about; toothache during pregnancy < at night.

Pain on vertex as if the hair were pulled (Kali n., Phos.).

All the symptoms are aggravated every third week (feels badly week before menstruation, Kali c.).

Menses: preceded by sore throat (Lac c.), labor-like pains, cutting colic, backache, weakness, chilliness; flow only at night or when lying, and in absence of uterine pains, cease when walking (Am. c., Kreos.—rev. of Lil.); acrid, dark, pitch-like; difficult to wash off.

Inordinate craving for meat in children of tuberculous parentage.

Diarrhœa: preceded by cutting colic; occurs regularly every three weeks; stools, green, frothy, like scum of a frog pond; white, tallow-like masses are found floating in stool; milk passes undigested in nursing children.

Unrefreshing sleep, more tired on rising than when retiring (Bry., Con., Hep., Op., Sulph., Tub.).

Complementary: Chamomilla.

Cold; draft; change of temperature; contact; every third week; rest; milk during menses.

Warm air, but worse in warmth of bed (Led., Mur.—> in warmth of bed, Ars.).

Periodicity not marked. Quotidian generally.

Symptoms return periodically every three weeks.

9 A. M., and 5, 7, 8, 9 and 10 P. M.

Chilliness in bed, as if dashed with cold water (Ant. t., Led., Sab.). Shaking chill beginning in the feet, going off in bed. Shaking chill at 9 P. M.; even in bed she was unable to get warm for an hour. Shivering at 10 P. M. in bed without subsequent heat, sweat or thirst (without subsequent heat or sweat, Bov., Sul.). Coldness of feet, as if wading in cold water (as if standing in cold water up to the ankles, Sep.). Chill running down the back; lessened by out-door exercise.

A feeling of warmth streams through her whole body (as if vapors rise up to the brain, Lyssin., Sarac.—as of hot water running through the veins, Ars., Bry., Rhus). Great internal heat at night, could scarcely remain in bed, yet dreads the slightest exposure (Bar., Nux). Great aversion to uncovering (Bell.—cannot move in the least or be uncovered without feeling chilly, Nux). Heat of the head, face, hands; one-sided (right), mostly in forenoon; redness, burning and thirst for half an hour; often with sweat on the head.

Profuse, with thirst; from 12 P. M. till morning; on slight motion; offensive night sweat Sour-smelling, oily perspiration, difficult to wash off; stains yellow.

Clean or white-coated; taste sour, bitter. Desire for meats, acid drinks.

The constitutional symptoms are the chief guides.

Uneasiness, with trembling of hands and absence of mind.
Anxious and warm through the whole body, especially in the head, while eating warm food.
Trembling, anguish and fear, as if some accident would happen; all day, relieved after going to bed.
Sad mood with indisposition to talk.
Much worse from talking or mental exertion.

Vertigo: when kneeling; when standing, as if everything were turning around in the evening.

Pressure in the forehead.
Pressing headache, from mental exertion and when among many persons.
Violent darting headache after vexation (1 to 10 P.M.).
Lancinating headache early in the morning after rising.
Pulsating sensation in the forehead.
Congestion of blood to the head, especially when smoking.
Heat in the head and hands, with redness of the face alternating with paleness.

Bruised sensation of the vertex.
Pain on the top of the head, as if the hair were pulled.
Dandruff on scalp, itching during wet and rainy weather.
Falling off of the hair.

Black motes before the eyes.
Lenticular cataract.
Obscuration of the cornea.
Swelling of the eyeball.
Dryness of the eyes; or profuse lachrymation.
Inflammation of the eyes, with redness, burning, stinging and obscuration of sight, or dimsightedness.
Agglutination of lid in morning, with pressure in eyes.

Whizzing, fluttering and buzzing in the right ear, with hardness of hearing.
Dulness of hearing.
Inflammation of ears, with external, redness and sensation of great soreness.

Bleeding from nose in morning more from right side.
Vesicular eruption in the nose, with pressing pain.

Face: pale, earthy; alternately red and pale.
Tension of face, as if the white of an egg had dried on it.
Nightly tearing, digging and boring in the malar bone, insupportable during rest, and driving one from one place to another.
Swelling of the malar bone, with pulsating pain.

Herpetic eruption around the (lower part of the) mouth.
Hard, little nodosities in both corners of the mouth.

Beating and stinging in the teeth after eating.
Toothache: while riding in a carriage, worse in the cold at night; compelling on to rise and walk about, the pain in insupportable while at rest; during pregnancy; mostly burning, tearing, drawing, twitching, or great ulcerative pain, with twitching in the fingers and feet.
Teeth feel too long.
Ailments from cutting the wisdom teeth.
Looseness of the teeth, with swelling of the gums.
Slow eruption of the teeth.
Burning vesicles on the gums, on the inside of the cheeks, tongue, lips and palate, they bleed from least contact.

Taste bitter; sour.
Frequent, sudden stammering speech.

Dryness of mouth, especially at night and in the morning.
Bloody saliva.

Stinging pain in the throat when talking and swallowing.
Burning in the throat and palate, with dryness and roughness, as if scraped by an awl.
Frequent rising of mucus in the throat (morning), with roughness and dryness of the fauces.
Soft, fetid tubercles, of the color of peas, are hawked up.

Violent thirst for water, especially in the evening and at night.
Desire for: meats; bread; acid drink.

When eating: 16. After eating: 10. Eating warm food: 1.

Eructations sour; sour taste and sour vomiting.
Much loathing, without desire to vomit.
Nausea and vertigo while eating, followed by retching an vomiting of a bitter, salt water.

Constrictive pain in the stomach.
Ulcerative pain in stomach, with great sensitiveness to pressure.

Hardness and stitches in hepatic region.

Pressing, spasmodic, contractive, colicky pains; relieved by green stools.
Colic, followed by leucorrhœa.
Cutting about navel, better from emitting flatus.
Great heaviness in the bloated abdomen.

Stools: grass-green, or like the scum on a frog pond; sour, frothy; or with white, floating lumps, like tallow.
Colic before stool.
Lienteria of sucklings; the milk passes undigested.
Costive: frequent ineffectual urging, with small stools, or only flatus; stitches in the anus.
Ascarides and lumbrici.

Urine: increased, pale, watery or green; with white sediment.
Involuntary urination while walking or rising from a seat.
Burning-smarting during urination.

Sexual desire diminished; erections wanting.
Discharge of prostatic fluid when passing flatulence.
Inguinal and scrotal hernia.

Menses; late, scanty; stop in the afternoon; flow acrid, dark, pitch-like; preceded by coryza and obstructed nostrils, by labor-like pains, cutting in the abdomen, sore throat, weakness, chilliness, backache; profuse and too early, flowing more at night and at first on rising also between uterine pains.
Leucorrhœa acrid, white, mucous, preceded by colic.

Cough: Spasmodic at night; from tickling in the larynx; sputum, morning and during the day, yellow, thin or tough mucus, or dark blood, tasting saltish.

Oppression of chest, with sensation of constriction.
Sensation of soreness in chest or in region of heart.

Stiffness in the neck.
Pain in the back and small of back at night, as if broken.
Sudden piercing in the coccyx; a violent pain, as if the spine were bent back.

Pain as from dislocation in the shoulder-joint when moving.
Rheumatic pain in shoulders (at night), with tingling down to fingers; pain prevents least movement of arm.
The skin of the hands become chapped.
Spreading blisters on the hands and fingers, with stinging.
Red, inflammatory swelling of the fingers.
Heat of the fingers (in fever).

Restlessness in the legs.
Drawing pains in the legs and feet.
Itching of the buttocks, with red spots after scratching.
Painful swelling in the bend of the knee.
Knees painful in walking, the feet when lying in bed.
Cramp in the calves (at night).
Burning spot on the tibia.

Rheumatic pains in the limbs.

Always worse after long walks.
Tired feeling, especially in the feet and when sitting.
Walking: 21, 33, 36. Must walk: 10, 43. Kneeling: 2. Standing: 2, 36. Rising: 23; from a seat: 21. Cannot move the arm: 32. Rest: 10. Lying: 33. After lying down: 40.

Epileptic attacks; while standing or walking he frequently falls down suddenly, with consciousness.

Sleepiness during the day.
Sleeplessness, from nightly oppression in the abdomen.
Unrefreshing sleep, more tired in the morning than he was when lying down in the evening.
Awakes about to 2 to 3 A.M. and cannot fall asleep again.
Anxious dreams, with starts and crying out in sleep.

Morning: 3, 5, 7, 12, 27, 37. Evening: 2, 14, 37, 40. 1 to 10 P.M.: 3. Night: 12, 14, 23, 27, 31, 32, 33, 37, 40. After midnight: 27. Midnight till morning: 40.

Inclination for open air.
Averse to uncovering, with fever heat.
Worse in cold weather, better in warm air, but worse from warmth of the bed.
Cold: 10. Change of temperature: 43. Draught: 43. Wet weather: 4.

Chill and chilliness, with external coldness in the evening after lying down, slowly going off; followed by heat; chilly in bed as if dashed with cold water.
Chill: running down back lessened by out-doors exercise.
Great internal heat, at night, restless yet aversion to uncovering.
Heat, one (right) sided; heat mostly forenoon, often with sweat on the head.
Sweat greasy, stains yellow; sour, putrid-smelling.
Sweat, with thirst, after 12 P.M. till morning.

All her symptoms are aggravated every third weak.

Right: 6, 7, 40. Left: 43.

Neuralgic pains, shooting like lightning, worse on left side; worse in a draught, from changing of temperature, from touch; must get out of bed and walk the floor.

Predominantly worse from pressure; body painful.
Touch: 10. Scratching: 46. Riding: 10.
Worse when riding.

Itching and great dryness of skin; itching lessened by scratching.
Large, stinging nodosities under the skin.
Painful, small, red herpes, they scale off afterward.
Spreading blisters.
Small blood-boils (lower legs), with headache and yellow tongue.

Nervous, irritable temperament.
Often indicated with children.

Complementary to Chamom.
Antidoted by Chamom. (neuralgia); Rheum (abdominal complaints).
It may antidote Acet. ac. in overdoses.
Compare: Ipecac. (nausea and grass-green stools), Coloc. (cutting, griping, better after stool).

Pure carbonate of Magnesium is triturated for use.

In general it produces gastric and intestinal catarrh, acid eructations, sour-smelling stools and sour perspiration. ▶ Great flatulence (with is said not to be caused by calcined magnesia). ▶ One of the most interesting effects in connection with the acid most interesting effects in connection with the acid dyspepsia is the great tendency to neuralgia, marked in all the Magnesias, especially about the face.

Hep., Puls., Alumina, Calcarea c., Puls ., Coloc., Pod., etc.

Twitching in vessels of thighs, shoulders and face. ▶ Trembling in morning, amel. rising, with weakness. ▶ Burning stitches here and there. ▶ Wandering tearing in forenoon; T. during menses, now in both sides of head, now in vertex, now in nape, amel. night; jerking T. now in vertex, now in occiput, upper arms and thighs all day. ▶ Pains here and there in all parts. ▶ Jerking pains on rising from bed. ▶ Easily sprained, on bending arm backward shoulder pains as if dislocated and on touch feels bruised, and inability to turn head to left without pain. ▶ Soreness of whole body. ▶ Sensitiveness of skin of head and body, especially to cold, cold creeping through skin and chilliness through and through from every draught. ▶ Internal restlessness, with distraction of mind and trembling of hands.

Weakness; all day, with heaviness; greater in morning after a good night's sleep than in evening on lying down; in morning in bed; in morning, with discomfort and apathy; in morning on waking, amel. lying down again, with bruised feeling in hands and feet, and trembling, and on getting out of bed coldness; in afternoon, when sitting and walking, amel. standing; in evening; when walking; when eating; after eating, with pallor, nausea and vomiting of dark food; after an indigestible dinner, with sleepiness so that he suddenly fell asleep when standing and talking, with confusion of head, which made thought impossible; during menses; during menses, with sweat; after stool; after diarrhœa; after vomiting; with suffering expression and nausea; with heaviness; with discomfort, anxious warmth and sweat; sudden, when walking in open air; of mind and body.

Dizzy faintness at 9 P.M. in bed, with coldness, then nausea, afterwards frequent waking with nausea, agg. slightest motion, agg. morning after rising, with taste and eructations almost like bad eggs, pale face and coldness. ▶ Stiffness of whole body in morning on rising. ▶ Symptoms which occur when sitting are usually amel. walking (Puls.). ▶ Amelioration in open air (Alum., Puls.).

General tendency to neuralgic pains and general aggravation at night, when there is a great deal of fever and restlessness (Sul.).

Talkative in afternoon, everything prospers. ▶ Ill humor; all day, amel. evening; in forenoon; afternoon; evening; at 7 P.M.; when walking in evening; so that she does not know what she shall undertake, with constant sweat; yet humming; good humor on first day of menses, the next three days ill humor. ▶ Anxiety all day, agg. moving about, with sweat; A. at night, the bed felt like stones, with constant tossing about; at night causing late falling asleep, frequent necessity to uncover herself, which she could not endure long on account of coldness; at night, and she could not bear to have her hands covered, but if she put them out they immediately became too cold; after rising, with prostration and with stitches in whole body; when eating soup, with warmth, agg. head; tremulous A. and fright as if she apprehended some misfortune, amel. evening in bed. ▶ Sadness; and apprehension; and unwillingness to talk. ▶ Apathy in afternoon, with apprehension and compressive headache. ▶ Confusion from mental labor, with stupefaction. ▶ Forgetfulness.

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Gastro-intestinal catarrh, flatulence, sour eructations, sour-smelling stools and sour perspiration.
Marked tendency to neuralgia, especially about the face, similar to other salts of Magnesia.

Emaciation; relaxation of the whole body.
General painfulness of the whole body.
Sensitiveness, particularly to cold, or soreness of the skin.
Weakness, worse in the morning after a good sleep than in the evening, noticed even while sitting.
Uneasiness in all the limbs in the evening after sitting a long time; must get up and walk about.
Some of the symptoms are worse in the evening and at night, as well as during rest.
Amelioration during walking in the open air.

Dull aching, < mental work.
Sticking pains in the side of the head on which he is lying.
Hair falls out freely; scalp is scaly, with an itching in wet weather.

Lids agglutinated in the morning.
Inflammation and dimness of the cornea.
Black spots before the eyes.
Tearing pains above the margin of the right orbit.

Deafness; sensitiveness to noise.
Diminished hearing, especially in the house, with roaring and whizzing in the ears.

Tearing pains, worse at night, in one side of the face, > when sitting up in bed, or on getting out of bed; a boring as with a hot iron, with anxiety.
Face ache; must constantly run about all night, holding the side of the face or moving the head; intolerable when quiet.

Toothache from driving in a carriage.
Burning pain in the teeth in the evening, and at night in bed, driving him out of bed; intolerable when quiet.
Shooting pains in the teeth after eating.
Toothache, with great restlessness.
Toothache during pregnancy.
Toothache, < cold.
Dryness in the mouth at night.
Vesicular eruption in the mouth and on the tongue.
Sour or bitter taste.
Bloody saliva.

Sticking pains in the throat when walking and swallowing.

Great desire for vegetables.
Desire for fruit and acids generally.
Thirst for water at night.
Food tastes like straw.
Constrictive pain in the stomach, with sour eructations.
Heartburn, with belching, sour taste, etc.
Nausea, even while eating, followed by retching and vomiting of bitter, sour water.

Numerous flatulent symptoms; rumbling, gurgling, griping, followed by a thin, green diarrhœa.
Dragging towards the pelvis as before menstruation.

Diarrhœa greenish, or frothy, or of green mucus, with distended abdomen, cutting and pressure.
Stools often have a sour odor; sometimes contain bloody mucus, associated with acid dyspepsia.

Urine increased, pale or greenish.

Menstruation delayed; at times scanty and brief, at others more profuse, at night than by day; with dragging pains, > pressure on abdomen, or stooping.
Menstruation, preceded by abdominal pains, associated with pale face, followed by acrid leucorrhœa.
Menses flow after the pains, and during sleep at night; discharge often dark, glutinous, adhesive.

Spasmodic cough at night from tickling in the larynx or trachea.
Expectoration salty; sometimes bloody; at times of clots of blood or mucus having a sweet taste.
Constrictive or cutting pains in the chest, with dyspnœa.

Stiffness in the neck.
Violent bruised pain in the back at night.

Tearing pains in the shoulders, and crawling extending to fingers.

Itching over the whole body.
Eruptions, vesicular, on hands and fingers; small red, desquamating tetter.
Itching generally > scratching (not always).
Skin dry.

Nights usually sleepless; more tired in the morning than at night.
Anxious, vivid dreams.

Chilliness in the evening.
Fever at night, internal, anxious, with restlessness and dread of uncovering.
Perspiration sour or greasy, offensive.

MAGNESIA CARBONICA. CARBONATE OF MAGNESIA.

It is precipitated from a solution of Epsom salts (sulphate of magnesia), in a sufficiency of water, by dropping in a solution of pure mild carbonate of soda (or potash). It is washed repeatedly with a quantity of distilled water, filtered and dried on paper. It has shown itself especially useful in chronic diseases where the following symptoms were concomitant : Black spots before the eyes ; the eyes are closed in the morning by suppuration ; hardness of hearing ; toothache in pregnant women ; throbbing toothache in single stitches ; nocturnal toothache, with ulcerative pains when the teeth meet together ; the speech is frequently suddenly interrupted ; contractive pain in the stomach ; inguinal hernia ; costiveness ; lack of sexual impulse ; lack of erections ; retarded menses ; leucorrhœa ; stoppage of the nose ; stuffed coryza ; stiffness in the nape ; attacks of tearing in the top of the shoulder, also at night, with formication extending into the fingers and inability of moving the arm for pain ; sprained pain in the shoulder-joint, when moving it ; cracking of the skin on the hands ; furuncle on the leg ; itching ; frequent sudden falling down, while conscious, while standing or walking ; epileptic fits ; drowsiness by day ; insomnia from nocturnal tightness in the hypogastrium ; dreams, also anxious ones, every night. The symptoms marked (Htb. u. Tr.) are from the Reine Arzneimittellehre of Drs. Hartlaub and Trinks ; these are not marked with any name of the authors, but they have altogether the stamp of having been issued from the ever-ready symptom-factory of Ng. ; Sr., Dr. Schréter ; Whl. ; Wahle. [*].

[] This also like its two predecessors was one of the medicines of the first edition. It contains there one hundred and twenty-eight symptoms. The additions here from Schréter and Wahle are to be ascribed to provings with the thirtieth ; but the bulk of them (eight hundred and one in their original form) comes from Nenning. -Hughes*.

Trembling anguish and fear, as if evil was threatening ; it passes off in the evening in bed. [Htb. u. Tr.].

Anxious and warm in the whole body, especially in the head, while eating warm food. [Htb. u. Tr.].

Very anxious, with perspiration the whole day, especially while in motion. [Htb. u. Tr.].

Anxious and prostrated, with shooting all over the body, after rising from bed. [Htb. u. Tr.].

[5] Apprehensiveness and indisposition, in the afternoon, with a headache as if the head were screwed in a vise ; in the evening, good-humored. [Htb. u. Tr.].

Internal restlessness, with trembling in the hands, and such absence of mind, that while writing a letter, he had to rise frequently and had to write it over three times (aft. 3 w.). [Htb. u. Tr.].

Peevish, so that she does not know what to do, with perspiration (aft. 6 d.). [Htb. u. Tr.].

Very peevish, in the evening (aft. 6 d.).

Very peevish, in the evening, at seven o'clock, everything is disagreeable to her. [Htb. u. Tr.].

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Mag. c. / (Mag.) / Maggie.

Magnesia carb.,-We call for thee
When green and griping stools we see.
When backache tends the menstrual plight,
Which flowest only in the night.
A fluxion black,-that intermits
Perhaps, with epileptic fits.
In day time motion gives much ease,
But in the night in slight degrees.

Maggie,-Has green stools.

Maggie W. Rheu-po dived, for the impish Child, Madge Knight.

This Maggie,-Who is subject to backache during menses,-Is at the bank with Lady Sabin, and her maid, Cimi.

Green Stools: Mag. c., Ars., Rhen., Pod., Dul.., Ver. a., Ipe., Cham., Mag. p., Arg. n.

Backache During Menses: Mag. c., Bell., Nux v., Kal. c., Pul., Sabin., Ustil., Cimi.

Indicated in gastro-intestinal disorders, chiefly of enfeebled persons, especially women, and in diarrhoea of children, with marked acidity.

Complaints occur or are worse every third week.

Expectoration of a little solid lump no larger than a pea, of very offensive smell.

Sour eructations, chiefly of flatus.

Diarrhoea of children; stools look like the green scum of a frog-pond; masses like tallow in the green stool; stools of undigested milk in nursing children.

Menses accompanied by cutting pain; flows only when lying down; flow ceases when walking.

Worse from change of temperature; from warmth of bed; every third week.

Anxiety and fearfulness, with trembling and heat. Peevishness in evening.

Congestion to. Pressive pain over entire head, with preoccupation during mental exertion. Stitches in side upon which he lies at night. Tension in occiput. Dandruff on scalp, itching during wet weather.

Inflamed, with obscuration of cornea. Agglutinated early in morning. Swollen eyeball. Black spots before. Cataract.

Difficult hearing. Sensitive to noise. Diminution of hearing, especially in the room, with buzzing and roaring in.

Complete stoppage, compelling one to open the mouth.

Sickly, earthy countenance. Changing color. Tension, as though white of egg had dried on. Puffiness and nodular swellings on. Face - ache, nightly tearing, boring and digging in zygoma, in supportable during rest.

Ache when driving. Burning in evening and at night in bed, insupportable during rest, compelling him to get up. Ache, with great physical restlessness. Sticking in, after eating. Ache during pregnancy. Worse: Cold.

Nightly dryness in. Vesicular eruption in, and on tongue. Sticking sore throat when talking and swallowing. Stitchings in throat. Roughness in throat, as from awns of barley. Often there is a sudden faltering in speech.

Taste: Sour, in mouth. Lost, of food, it tastes like straw.

Spasm of. Pressive contraction in, with sour eructations.

Appetite: Great, for vegetables with aversion to meat. Violent thirst for water at night.

Spasmodic colic in, with discharge of leucorrhoea, or during menses.

Constipated and retained. Green, frothy diarrhoea with cutting in abdomen. Sour - smelling d. of children.

Greatly increased, pale or greenish. Involuntary discharge of. Enuresis.

Diminished sexual desire. Erections wanting.

Menses: Retarded or entirely suppressed lying. Pale face and other symptoms, during. White, acrid, mucous leucorrhoea.

Violent, from tickling in throat or thyroid region, dry in evening and at night, in morning and by day, expectoration of a yellow, thin, but tenacious, mucus, or of dark blood of a somewhat saltish taste. Spasmodic, at night. Haemoptysis.

Constriction of. Soreness in.

Violent bruised pain at night in, and in lumbar region.

Nightly tearing in shoulder, with crawling extending into fingers. Cracks in skin of hands. Sticking, spreading vesicles on hands and fingers. Inflammatory swelling and redness of fingers.

Burning spots on shin - bone. Boils on lower leg. Cramp in calves at night.

Painless twitchings here and there. Emaciation and physical relaxation, especially of children. General painfulness of entire body. Sense of great exhaustion when sitting. Sudden falling to the ground with unconsciousness. In evening, after prolonged sitting, restlessness in limbs, which necessitates rising. Most symptoms appear or are intensified in the evening and at night, as well as during rest.

Spreading vehicles on hands and fingers. Small, red, painless herpes, which afterward desquamate. Violent itching. Small boils. Dry.

Day sleepiness. Unrefreshing, at night. Crying out during. Sleeplessness from nightly oppression in abdomen. Anxious dreams.

Pulse: Somewhat accelerated, at night only. Chill: And shuddering, with external coldness in evening and after lying down, only disappearing slowly. Heat: Most in forenoon, often with sweat, but on hand only. In evening after chill. Nightly, anxious, internal, with restlessness and fear of uncovering. Sweat: During whole night, most profuse in the morning hours. Greasy, staining the linen yellow, at the same time it is sour and fetid.

Allied Remedies: Ars., Chem., Coff., Coloc, Graph., Kali - c, Mag - m., Nux-v., Puls., Rhe.

Complementary: Cham.

Painless twitching here and there.

Great sensation of fatigue whilst sitting.

Sudden falling down with consciousness.

In the evening after sitting restlessness in the limbs which compels one to walk about.

Swelling of the glands.

Catamenia retarded.

Before the catamenia there is toothache.

In the evening and at night, while standing, and during rest, most symptoms appear.

Toothache of a bothersome nature often calls for exhibition of the remedy.