Magnesia Muriatica mag-m.

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

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Region

NERVES. LIVER. Digestion. Pelvic organs: Uterus. Rectum. Women.

Worse

LYING ON RIGHT SIDE. Night. Noise. Sea bathing. Eating. Salt foods. MILK.

Better

HARD PRESSURE. Lying bent. Hanging down. Gentle motion. Cool, open air.

General

Nervous; with hepato - uterine or cardiac symptoms. Globus. Hysteria. Crampings. Dryness. Burning. Darting. Dinner causes faintness, dyspnœa, etc. Chronicity.

Particulars

Irritable. Yellow sclera. Tinea ciliaris. Acrid, crusty ozœna. Broad, yellow, scalloped tongue; feels burnt. Loss of taste and smell. Craves sweets. Pain from liver to spine or epigastrium. Sore, enlarged liver; drags if lies on (l) side. Cramp in gall-bladder, > eating. Flatulence. STOOLS DRY; KNOTTY; of little balls, like sheep dung; gray; crumbling at anus. Must press on bladder to urinate. Profuse, dark, lumpy menses; like pitch; with cramps, backache and pains in thighs. Gushes of leucorrhœa, follow each cramp or stool. Palpitation; > motion or lying on (l) side. Throb below (l) scapula. Bruised or burning feeling in hips and back. Cramps in back, < walking; in thighs, < sitting. Dead fingertips. Tense thighs and calves; must move limbs. Ankles cold or nervous, < night. Cutting in heels. Yellow, thin, foul pus. Jaundice. Sweat on head and feet.

Related

Related: Nat-m. Pul. Sep.

Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica

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Keynote

Especially adapted to diseases of women; spasmodic and hysterical complaints, complicated with uterine diseases; who have suffered for years from attacks of indigestion or biliousness. Children: during difficult dentition are unable to digest milk; it causes pain in stomach and passes undigested; puny, rachitic, who crave sweets. Great sensitiveness to noise (Ign., Nux, Ther.). Headache: every six weeks, in forehead and around the eyes; as if it would burst; < from motion and in open air; > from lying down, strong pressure (Puls.), and wrapping up warmly (Sil., Stron.). Great tendency of head to sweat (Cal., Sanic., Sil.). Continual raising of white froth in mouth. Eructations, tasting like rotten eggs, like onions (breath smells of onions, Sinap.). Toothache; unbearable when food touches the teeth. Pressing pain in liver, when walking and touching it, liver hard, enlarged, < lying on right side (Mer., Kali c.). Constipation: stool hard, scanty, large, knotty, like sheep's dung; difficult to pass; crumbling at verge of anus (Am. m., Nat. m.); of infants during dentition. Urine; pale, yellow, can only be passed by bearing down with abdominal muscles; weakness of bladder; Menses: with great excitement at every speed; flow black, clotted; spasms and pains < in back when walking, extend into thighs; metrorrhagia, < at night in bed, causing hysteria (Act., Caul.). Leucorrhoea: after exercise; with every stool; with uterine spasm; followed by metrorrhagia; two weeks after menses for three or four days (Bar., Bov., Con.). Palpitation and cardiac pains while sitting. < by moving about (compare, Gels.).

Relations

Compare: Cham. in the diseases of children.

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Stool

Very costive, only passing a very small quantity of feces; obstructions of the bowels from induration of the feces; stools knotty.

Generalities

Affections of the right hypochondrium; inner region of the liver. Poor appetite; bad taste in the mouth; eructations; indurations after inflammations; hysteria, which may occur several times in a day or night.

Worse

In the night.

Better

From pressure from without.

Remedies following

Bellad., Lycop., Natr. mur., Pulsat., Sepia.

Antidote

Camphor.

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Red line symptom

Constipation; stools hard and knotty like sheep's dung, or crumbling as if burnt, especially in puny, rachitic children, with enlarged abdomen, or in infants during. dentition. Indigestion of children during dentition; milk causes pain in stomach and passes undigested.

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Common name

Muriate of Magnesia (MAGNESIA MURIATICA)

General

A liver remedy with pronounced characteristic constipation. Chronic liver affections with tenderness and pain, extending to spine and epigastrium, worse after food. Especially adapted to diseases of women, with a long history of indigestion and uterine disease; children who cannot digest milk. Evil effects of sea bathing.

Head

Sensitive to noise; bursting headache; worse, motion, open air; better, pressure, and wrapping up warmly (Sil; Stront). Much sweating of head (Calc, Sil). Facial neuralgia pains, dull, aching, worse damp weather, slightest draft, better pressure heat.

Nose

Nostrils ulcerated, Coryza. Nose stopped and fluent. Loss of smell and taste, following catarrh. Cannot lie down. Must breathe through mouth.

Mouth

Blisters on lips. Gums swollen, bleed easily. Tongue feels burnt and scalded. Throat dry, with hoarseness.

Stomach

Appetite poor, had taste in mouth. Eructations like rotten eggs. Continued rising of while froth into mouth Cannot digest milk. Urine can be passed only by pressing abdominal muscles.

Abdomen

Pressing pain in liver; worse lying on right side. Liver enlarged with bloating of abdomen; yellow tongue. Congenital scrotal hernia. Must use abdominal muscles to enable him to urinate.

Urine

Urine difficult to void. Bladder can only be emptied by straining and pressure.

Bowels

Constipation of infants during dentition; only passing small quantity; stools knotty, like sheep's dung, crumbling at verge of anus. Painful smarting hæmorrhoids.

Female

Menses black, clotted. Pain in back and thighs. Metrorrhagia; worse at night. Great excitement at every period. Leucorrhœa with every stool and after exercise. Tinea ciliaris, eruptions in face and forehead worse before menses.

Heart

Palpitation and cardiac pain while sitting; better by moving about (Gels). Functional cardiac affections with liver enlargement.

Respiration

Spasmodic dry cough; worse forepart of night, with burning and sore chest.

Extremities

Pain in back and hips; in arms and legs. Arms "Go to sleep" when waking in morning.

Sleep

Sleep during day; restless at night on account of heat and shock: anxious dreams.

Modalities

Worse, immediately after eating, lying on right side: from sea bathing. Better, from pressure, motion: open air, except headache.

Relationship

Antidotes: Camph; Cham.

Compare: Nat m; Puls; Sep; Amm m; Nasturtium equaticum -Water-cress--(useful in scorbutic affections and constipation, related to strictures of urinary apparatus; supposed to be aphrodisiacal in its action. Is also antidotal to tobacco narcosis and sedative in neurotic affections, neurasthenia, hysteria. Cirrhosis of liver and dropsy).

Dose

5 drops of tincture. Third to 200th potency.

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Leaders

Constipation, stools knotty or lumpy, like sheep dung; crumbling at the verge of the anus.

Nervous headache, > from pressure (Puls.); on wrapping the head up warmly (Sil.).

Palpitation of heart when the patient is quiet, > when moving about.

Urine; pale yellow; can only be passed by bearing down with abdominal muscles; weakness of bladder.

Adapted to nervous, hysterical women inclined to spasms.

This salt of Magnesia seems to act differently from the Magnesia carb., for while the latter most characteristically produces diarrhea, and we find it oftenest useful there, the former constipates. It has a peculiar form of constipation. The stools are hard, difficult, slow, insufficient, knotty, like sheep's dung, and crumble at the verge of the anus. Sometimes can only be passed by bearing down with the abdominal muscles. The remedies most resembling it in this form of constipation are Natrum mur. and Ammonium mur. and now that I think of it I might as well mention here another similarity between Ammonium mur. and Magnesia carb. which is characteristic, viz.: The menstrual flow is worse at night. I forgot this when writing of Magnesia carb. Perhaps it will be all the better remembered for this interruption. With the Magnesia mur. menstruation is very painful; accompanied with severe cramps, which may increase to general spasms of a hysterical nature. This nervous condition, if found coupled with the peculiar constipation above described, will be a sure indication for the use of this remedy. Again it has a peculiar nervous headache, which is better from strong pressure (Pulsatilla), or wrapping head up warmly (Silicea). This headache also is often hysterical. The spasms in connection with uterine troubles may find rival remedies in Actæa racemosa and Caulophyllum, the tout ensemble must decide. Magnesia mur. is a liver remedy, and in some symptoms resembles Mercurius, notably, the tongue takes imprint of the teeth and the aggravation from lying on the right side. But the stools of these remedies are characteristically very different. Again, while Mercurius is best adapted to acute affections of this organ, Magnesia mur is more so to the chronic. Ptelea, liver troubles are worse when lying on the left side. A very peculiar symptom of Magnesia mur., often confirmed is: Palpitation of the heart when the patient is quiet, relieved when moving about.

Children cannot digest milk during dentition (Sepia).

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Mind and Disposition

Anxiousness in the room, relieved in the open air. Fearful and inclined to weep. Disinclination to talk, prefers solitude.

Head

Vertigo in the morning on rising, during dinner, going of in the open air. Stupefaction and dulness of the head. Compressive sensation in the head, from both sides, with a hot feeling, and with beating in the forehead when pressing upon it. Tearing and stitches in the temples, with great sensitiveness of the vertex, as if the hair were raised by pulling. Heaviness in the head with reeling, as if one would fall down. Sensation of numbness in the forehead the head feels dull ; worse in the morning when awaking and when lying ; better from exercise in the open air and when wrapping the head up warm. Congestion of blood to the head with painful undulation and whizzing as of boiling water on the sides upon which one rests.

Eyes

Inflammation of the eyes, with violent burning and redness of the white of the eyes. When looking into the light, lachrymation and burning of the eyes. Nightly agglutination of the eyes. Yellow color of the white of the eyes.

Ears

Pulsation in the ears. Hardness of bearing and deafness, as if something were lying before the ear. Itching of old herpes behind the ears.

Nose

Redness and swelling of the nose. Swelling of the wings of the nose. Sore pain and burning of the nostrils. Scurf in the nostrils painful to the touch. Ulcerated nostrils. Distressing dryness of the nose. At night the nose is obstructed. Coryza with loss of smell and taste, and discharge of yellow fetid mucus. Discharge of acrid, corrosive water from the nose.

Face

Pale, yellowish complexion. Severe cramp pains in the bones of the face. Eruptions on the face. Pimples on the forehead, itching in the evening. Sensation of roughness on the inner side of the upper lip when touching it with the tongue. Large water blisters on the margin of the vermilion border of the lower lip, itching, afterwards burning. Chapped lips.

Mouth and Throat

Toothache, almost insupportable if the food touches the teeth. Sensation as if the upper cuspidati were elongated. Painful swelling and easy bleeding of the gums. Dryness of the mouth and throat without thirst. The whole inner mouth feels as if it were scalded. The surface of the tongue feels burnt, it burns like fire. Rhagades in the tongue with violent burning. Accumulation of water in the mouth. Tongue coated white, early in the morning. Dryness and roughness of the throat with hoarse voice. Hawking up, with difficulty, of thick, tough mucus (sometimes mixed with blood).

Stomach and Abdomen

Hunger, but does not know for what. Violent thirst (3 A.M.). Increased hunger followed by nausea. Rising of the ingesta, while walking. Violent hiccough, during and after dinner, which causes pain in the stomach. Rising as of a ball from the stomach to the throat, relieved by eructation. Nausea (in the morning after rising). Nausea with faintness. Tension, sensation of great soreness as if bruised in the abdomen, with external sensitiveness to the touch. Throbbing in the pit of the stomach. Distended abdomen, with constipation. Painful induration in the abdomen, especially on the right side. Pressing pain in the liver, when walking and touching it, worse when lying on the right side. Tearing in the abdomen. Tingling stitches in the abdominal muscles. Colic (in the evening) in hysteric persons, extending to the thighs, followed by fluor albus.

Stool and Anus

Constipation, stool hard, difficult and insufficient. Knotty stool like sheep's dung. Much pressure to stool with scanty evacuations or passage of flatus only. Diarrhœa, discharges of mucus and blood. The feces are covered with blood and mucus.

Urinary Organs

Frequent desire to urinate clay and night, with charge. The urine can only be emitted by bearing abdominal muscles. The urine pale-yellow, followed by burning in the urethra. Numbness in the urethra.

Sexual Organs

Men. Itching on the genitals and on the scrotum, extending as far as the anus. Frequent erections ; early in the morning, with burning the penis. After an embrace burning pain in the back. Women. Menses too early and too profuse. Suppressed menses. Menstrual blood black, clotted. During menstruation paleness of the face, pain in of the back, debility. Uterine spasms, extending into the thighs and fall fluor albus. Leucorrhœa, especially after exercise or preceded spasms. Scirrhous indurations on the uterus. Leucorrhœa immediately after stool.

Respiratory Organs

Hoarseness, with roughness and dryness in the throat. Hoarseness in the morning after rising. Tingling in the larynx. Dry cough evening and night, with burning and soreness in the chest. Spasmodic cough at night, with tingling in the larynx. Bloody expectoration brought on by sea-bathing. Oppression in the pit of the stomach. Sudden heaviness on the chest with oppression of breathing (while dining). Tension and constriction of the chest. Stitches in the heart, arresting the breath. Palpitation of the heart while sitting, going off on motion. Congestion of blood to the chest from bathing in the sea.

Back and Neck

Pain as from bruises above and in the small of the back and both hips, with sensitiveness of the parts to touch. Contractive, spasmodic pain in the small of the back. Stitches, tearing and burning in the small of the back. Swelling of the glands on the neck.

Extremities

Upper. Rheumatic pain in the shoulder-joint, extending down the arm to the hands, aggravated on motion. The arms go to sleep when awaking in the morning. Lower. Sensation of great fatigue, in the legs, even while sitting. Heaviness in the legs. Twitching, tearing in the hips. Restlessness and tension in the thighs. Pressing pain in the knees. Cramps in the calves at night. Burning of the soles of the feet (in the evening). Foot-sweat. Tearing stitches in the loins.

Generalities

Boring and spasmodic, contractive pains. Paralytic drawing and tearing in the limbs. Hysterical complaints and spasms. Weakness as if it came from the stomach. General sensation of soreness, with great sensitiveness to noise.

Sleep

Sleepiness during the day with yawning. Goes to sleep late and sleeplessness on account of nightly heat, with thirst and great restlessness of the body when closing the eyes. Shocks through the body at night while waking. Anxious, frightful dreams, with talking and crying out during sleep. Nightmare.

Fever

Pulse accelerated, with ebullitions while sitting. Chill in the evening from 4 to 8, even near the warm stove. Chill followed by heat in the evening till midnight. Heat in the evening with perspiration only on the head. Perspiration with thirst, from midnight till morning. Morning sweat.

Skin

Swelling of the glands. Formication on the skin (face, chest and soles of the feet). Blood-boils.

Conditions

Liability to take cold. Most of the symptoms appear while sitting, and at night and are relieved on motion and by exercise.

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General

Chloride of magnesium. Magnesia chloride. Mg Cl 2 . Solution. Trituration.

Clinical

Biliousness . Bladder, paresis of. Cardialgia. Cold . Constipation. Deafness. Diarrhœa. Dysmenorrhœa. Dyspepsia. Foot-sweat. Headache. Heart, affections of. Hæmorrhoids. Heartburn. Home-sickness . Hysteria. Leucorrhœa. Liver, affections of. Menstruation, painful . Nocturnal emissions. Ozæna. Palpitation. Pregnancy, nausea of. Smell, disordered . Spleen, enlarged. Stomach, disorders of. Taste, disordered . Tinea ciliaris. Urine, straining to pass. Uterus, pain in; induration of. Waterbrash. Whooping-cough.

Characteristics

Whilst Mag. c . and Mag. sul . are recognised old-school remedies, I can find no mention of Mag. mur . or Mag. Phos . in modern text-books. Mag. m . first appeared in Hahnemann's Chronic Diseases . The general feature of Mag. c . appears in many symptoms, notably those of nervous disturbance and hysteria. The salt, says Guernsey, "is found in many mineral waters, and in seawater. It has a very bitter taste, and is decomposed by heat." The note about the sea-water is important. Mag. m . is like Nat. mur ., and Aq. mar . in the relation to seaside effects. Nat. m . is particularly indicated in constipation," biliousness," and generally disordered health, which appear as soon as the patient goes to the seaside. Mag. m . is indicated when excessive weakness is felt after a sea-bath. The chief Localities of its action are: Head; r. hypochondrium; inner region of liver; rectum and large intestine; bladder; uterus; heart; feet. It is especially suited to: Diseases of women; spasmodic and hysterical complaints complicated with uterine diseases. Headache at menstrual period in hysterical women. Women after suffering months or years from attacks of indigestion or biliousness. Enlargement and congestion of liver Puny, rickety children during dentition. Men with disordered livers; and sexual disorders. Teste, who places Mag. m . in his Ferrum group, says that Mag. m . and Mag. c . "have been used for the cure of cachexia occasioned by long and painful diseases." He says he has seen Mag. m . produce great improvement in this case: "Hydrarthrosis of left knee, with emaciation of left thigh, consequent on a wandering neuralgia, which, after having commenced in the form of cystitis with (non-venereal) discharge from urethra, had successively invaded the shoulder, left elbow, eyes, and lastly, knees, where it had become seated." A connection between liver disorder and nasal obstruction has often been traced, and Mag. m . has a large number of symptoms in both. The nasal symptoms have led to its successful use in ozæna. One case cured had redness, swelling and scaliness of nose, and sweat about the head and feet. Mag. m . is one of the leading remedies in foot-sweat. Burning in soles, evening, must put feet out of bed. In liver affections there is enlargement, sensitiveness < from touch, and < lying on r. side; tongue large, coated, indurated. It is especially suited to liver affections in children who are puny and rickety, and have eruptions about the eyes. The constipation of Mag. m . is very distinctive, and has led to the cure of many extremely obstinate cases. The characteristic stool is knotty and conglomerate , like sheep's. It may remain in this condition, or it may crumble at the anus. Painful urging before stool; burning at anus after. As well as intestinal atony, there is atony of bladder: urine can only be passed by bearing down with abdominal muscles. The hysterical symptoms are marked: spasms, fainting, globus. Bearing down in uterine region; uterine spasms. Menses black or pitch-like, accompanied by pains in back when walking, pains in thighs when sitting. Leucorrhœa after every stool or following uterine spasms. Hysterical headaches. Patient is anxious, restless, always < by mental exertion; during or after dinner seized with nausea, eructations, trembling and faint spells, > by eructations. Palpitation < when quiet, > moving about. Perversions of taste and smell are marked in Mag. m ., and I have frequently restored with it loss of taste and smell after influenza. Among the Sensations of Mag. m . are: As if some one was reading after her. As if boiling water was on side of head. As if hair pulled. As if tongue burnt; mouth scalded. Stools as if burnt. The pains are mostly boring and spasmodic contractive pains; dragging down. There is much burning and heat. R. M. Skinner reports ( Med. Adv ., xxiv. 383) this case: A farmer had been treated allopathically three months for chills, which were checked, but the man did not feel well. Spleen very large, sensitive, felt heavy when he walked or rode. Constipated, goes three or four days without a stool. It was for this that he sought advice. Abdomen distended. hard, especially in ileo-cæcal region. Cold on left side and a crawling feeling, like a cold snake. Beating in umbilical region as if his heart beat there. Mag. m . 20 one dose on the tongue. At 8 p.m. the bowels began to act and went on acting with the exception of one hour till 3 a.m. He complained next morning that the medicine had "almost killed him," and he looked thin and tired. No further medicine was given, and in ten days he had no complaint, and the spleen was normal in size and without tenderness. In a large proportion of Mag. m . cases the Conditions will give the leading indications. There is general hyperæsthesia and < by touch or pressure; but the head pains are > by hard pressure; eye pains > by pressure, and the menstrual pains > by pressing on back. There is great sensitiveness to cold and disposition to catch cold, > wrapping up head warmly; but the skin eruptions on face, head, and eyes are < in warm room; cough < in room. Most symptoms except headache are > in open air. Sea-bathing = bloody expectoration; great weakness. Rest < ; motion > (this is especially marked and peculiar in reference to palpitation). < Lying down. Palpitation is > lying on left side. Liver symptoms < lying right side, < on side lain on. [Also lying on left side = sensation of something (liver) dragging to that side.] Rumination < while walking. < At meals (fainting). > By eructations (nausea and trembling). < After coitus (pain in testes and cords). Mental exertion < .

Relations

Antidoted by: Cham., also Camph., Ars., Nux. It antidotes: Merc. (metrorrhagia). Compatible: Bell., Sul., Nat. m., Pul., Sep. Compare: Hysteria, Mosch., Asaf., Val., and Castor. Uterine spasms, Ign. (Mag. m. may have induration); Caust. and Secale (both have continuous spasm). Erections and burning in penis, Pic. ac., Nat. m. Enlarged liver, < by touch and lying on right side, Merc. Foot-sweat and head-sweat, Sil. (Sil. is offensive); scrofulous and rickety children, headache > wrapping, Sil. Congestion of liver, enlargement, feeling of weight and pressure, Ptelea (Ptel. is > lying right side). Rumination, Sul. (Mag. m. is while walking). Nervous restlessness, Zn. > Motion, Rhus. Heart symptoms > by motion, Gels. Lips chapped and serrated, Nat. m. < After coitus, Kal. c., Bro. Enlarged liver of children, Calc. ars. Sensitiveness to noise, Ign., Nux, Ther. Eructations tasting like onions (Sinap., breath smells of onions). Leucorrhœa two weeks after menses, Bar., Bov., Con. Menstrual headache, Mag. c. (Mag. m. more hysteria).

Causation

Sea-bathing.

Mind

Uneasiness and lachrymose humour. ─ Peevishness and chagrin. ─ Aversion to conversation; prefers solitude. ─ Repugnance to exertion. ─ Nervous excitability, with tendency to weep readily. ─ Excited; unhappy; fitful; emotional. ─ Fearful and inclined to weep. ─ Anxiousness in room, > in open air. ─ While reading, felt as if some one was reading after her, and she must keep reading faster and faster.

Head

Stupefaction as from intoxication. ─ Vertigo in morning, on rising, and during dinner; disappears in open air. ─ Heaviness in head, with a dizziness which causes falling down. ─ Pains, > by covering up head. ─ Sensation of numbness in forehead. ─ Compressive sensation in head from both sides, with a hot feeling, and with beating in forehead when pressing upon it. ─ Tearing and stitches in temples, with great sensitiveness of vertex, as if the hair were raised by pulling. ─ Tearing and stitches in r. temple, extending to eye; necessity to press eyes together. ─ Griping and raging in both temples, with a feeling as if he would become dizzy and lose consciousness; disappearing on pressing the head with both hands, in evening after lying down (5th day). ─ Tensive pressure in forehead and sinciput, with confusion and cloudiness in head, principally on awaking and when lying; > from exercise in open air and when wrapping head up warm. ─ Squeezing, as from a claw, and noise in temples, in evening, in bed, with sensation as if vertigo and loss of consciousness were coming on. ─ Jerking, or shooting and pulsative tearings, in head. ─ Congestion, with heat, painful humming, and ebullition in head. ─ Painful undulation and whizzing as of boiling water on side upon which one rests. ─ Quotidian headache. ─ Nervous pullings in head and face, extending to teeth, with a sensation of confusion in head. ─ Throbbing, jerking tearing in occiput. ─ Boils on head. ─ Great sensitiveness of scalp. ─ Nodes on occiput, tearing, painful to touch. ─ Tendency of head to sweat.

Eyes

Inflammation and burning pain in eyes, with redness of sclerotica. ─ Lachrymation and burning in eyes, when looking at anything in broad daylight. ─ Nocturnal agglutination of eyelids. ─ Yellow colour of sclerotica. ─ Green halo round candle in evening.

Ears

Pulsation in ear. ─ Dulness and hardness of hearing, as if something were placed before ear. ─ Shootings, acute pullings, and boring in ears. ─ Itching of herpes behind ears. ─ Great sensitiveness to noise. ─ Buzzing in ears.

Nose

Scabs in nostrils, sometimes with painful sensibility of nose, when touched. ─ Excoriation of nostrils. ─ Discharge of corrosive serum from nose. ─ Stoppage of nose, with want of breath. ─ Pain as from excoriation, and of burning in nose. ─ Swelling, redness, induration, and heat of lower part of nose, which are < in morning. ─ Troublesome dryness of nose. ─ Nocturnal obstruction of nose. ─ Coryza, with loss of taste and smell; and emission of yellow and fetid mucus on blowing nose. ─ Ulcerated nostrils. ─ Loss of smell.

Face

Pale, yellowish, or earthy complexion. ─ Drawing pains in nerves of face. ─ Tension in face, with cramp-like pain in bones of face. ─ Facial eruption. ─ Pimples on forehead, itching in evening. ─ Lips cracked. ─ Sensation of roughness on internal surface of lips, when touched by tongue. ─ Large and transparent vesicles on the red of the lips (of lower lip, itching, afterwards burning).

Teeth

Toothache, aggravated to highest degree by contact of food. ─ Sensation of elongation in upper incisors. ─ Painful swelling and easy bleeding of gums.

Mouth

Dryness of mouth at night. ─ Dryness of mouth and throat without thirst. ─ Rhagades in tongue with violent burning. ─ Tongue coated white early in morning. ─ Copious accumulation of serous saliva in mouth. ─ Sensation in interior of mouth as if it had been burnt. ─ Burning in tongue as from fire. ─ Tongue coated white early in morning; or tip and edges clean, large, flabby, yellow. ─ Bad taste, with poor appetite.

Throat

Sensation, as if throat were excoriated and raw, < in evening, and at night. ─ Hawking up of viscid and thick mucus from the throat, often mixed with blood and very tenacious. ─ Dryness and roughness of the throat with hoarse voice.

Appetite

Frequent thirst. ─ Violent thirst (3 a.m.). ─ Bulimy and craving in stomach, followed by nausea. ─ Hunger, without knowing what is wanted. ─ Poor appetite, with bad taste in mouth. ─ Desire for dainties.

Stomach

Regurgitation of food, while walking. ─ Violent hiccough during and after dinner, which = pain in stomach. ─ Sensation as if a ball were ascending from abdomen into œsophagus; > by eructations. ─ Increased hunger, followed by nausea. ─ Eructations tasting like rotten eggs, like onions. ─ Nausea, esp. in morning, on first rising. ─ Frequent nausea with fainting, day and night. ─ Constant nausea, earthy colour of face and nervous excitability, with tendency to shed tears. ─ Aching in stomach, with nausea. ─ Tension, and pain as from ulceration, and as from a bruise in stomach, with excessive sensitiveness to touch. ─ Throbbing in pit of stomach. ─ Heat in stomach. ─ Painful commotion in stomach, when walking and in the act of planting the foot.

Abdomen

Movings about in epigastric region, then in lower abdomen, > by emission of flatus, forenoon. ─ After each dose burning in pit of stomach, spreading to throat; if she has waterbrash it disappears. ─ Fermentation in abdomen. ─ Tension and shooting in hepatic region. ─ Affections of r. hypochondrium; inner region of liver. ─ Congestion of l. lobe of liver. ─ Burning in r, hypochondrium, up to r. scapula; when putting foot forward in walking. ─ Aching pains in liver, also when walking, or pressing the part, < lying on r. side. ─ Hardness and tightness of abdomen. ─ Violent and constant distension of abdomen, with constipation. ─ Painful hardness of abdomen, and esp. of r. side. ─ Cramp-like pains in abdomen, esp. in evening, and sometimes followed by leucorrhœa. ─ Tearing in abdomen. ─ Dragging down from region of r. ovary to thigh. ─ Cuttings, pinchings, and acute drawing in abdomen. ─ Stinging shootings in the muscles of the abdomen. ─ Colic (in the evening) in hysteric persons, extending to thighs, followed by fluor albus.

Stool and Anus

Hard, difficult, slow, and insufficient evacuations. ─ Obstructions of bowels from induration of fæces. ─ Hæmorrhoids pain during normal stool. ─ Burning and smarting in anus during and after stool. ─ Stools crumbling as if burnt. ─ Stool crumbles at verge of anus. ─ Fæces knotty, like sheep-dung. ─ Violent tenesmus, with scanty evacuation, or only an emission of flatus. ─ Chronic tendency to diarrhœa. ─ Violent diarrhœa of mucus and blood. ─ Greenish, yellowish, or brownish evacuations. ─ Fæces coated with mucus and blood. ─ Ejection of tænia.

Urinary Organs

Frequent want to urinate, day and night, with scanty emission. ─ An emission can be accomplished only by contraction (bearing down) of the abdominal muscles. ─ Torpor of urethra. ─ Urine, pale-yellow, followed by burning in urethra. ─ Urine passes only by drops, always some seeming to remain behind. ─ High-coloured urine, loaded with lithates, accompanies the uterine symptoms.

Male Sexual Organs

Violent itching in genital organs and in scrotum, extending as far as the anus. ─ Frequent erections; early in morning with burning in penis. ─ Burning in back after coition. ─ Pain in testicles (on touching or moving them) and cords (with swelling) after unrequited sexual excitement. ─ Nocturnal involuntary emissions, with or without dreams; scrotum relaxed and loose, often covered with sweat; constipation; indigestion; biliousness; itching at anus. ─ Scrotum relaxed.

Female Sexual Organs

Catamenia too early and too copious. ─ Suppressed menses. ─ Black and coagulated blood during catamenia. ─ During catamenia: paleness of face, with pains in loins and depression; fainting; pain in l. leg. ─ Cramps in uterus, sometimes with pains extending to thighs, and leucorrhœa. ─ Leucorrhœa, esp. during movement, or preceded by cramps in abdomen. ─ Scirrhous induration of uterus. ─ Leucorrhœa immediately after stool.

Respiratory Organs

Hoarseness, with roughness and dryness of throat. ─ Hoarseness in the morning after rising. ─ Tingling in larynx. ─ Bloody expectoration brought on by sea-bathing. ─ Dry cough, in evening, and at night, with burning pain and sensation of excoriation in chest. ─ Cramp-like cough at night, with violent tickling in throat.

Chest

Oppression of chest, in region of heart. ─ Oppression in pit of stomach. ─ Sudden feeling of weight in chest, with obstructed respiration during dinner. ─ Tension and contraction in chest.

Heart

Shootings (stitches) in heart, which impede respiration. ─ Pain at apex of heart, a pricking as of needles and pins, with pain under l. scapula as if knife were hacking the bone. ─ Palpitation of heart, when seated, disappearing on motion.

Neck and Back

Swelling of glands of neck. ─ Pain as from bruises above and in small of back and both hips, with sensitiveness of the parts to touch. ─ Shooting, tearing, and burning pains in the back. ─ Contractive and cramp-like pains in loins. ─ Tearing stitches in loins. ─ Burning in back after coitus. ─ Drawing in loins after a stool. ─ Gnawing in spinal cord. ─ Burning and bruised feeling between scapulæ. ─ Tearing in r. scapula, then in hip; in both scapulæ.

Limbs

Lancing, drawing, and tearing in extremities (Possart).

Upper Limbs

Drawing and paralytic tearings in shoulder-joint, extending as far as arm and hand, < by movement. ─ Numbness of arms in morning, on waking; or in evening in bed.

Lower Limbs

Great lassitude in legs, even when seated. ─ Heaviness of legs. ─ Jerking tearings in hips. ─ Uneasiness and tension in thighs. ─ Aching pain, or paralytic pulling in the knee. ─ Cramps in calves, at night. ─ Burning pain in soles, in evening. ─ Sweating of feet.

Generalities

Boring or contractive cramp-like pains. ─ Paralytic drawing and tearing in limbs. ─ Indurations after inflammations. ─ Attacks of spasms, and of hysterical weakness. ─ Hysteria, which may occur several times in a day or night. ─ Liability to take cold. ─ Bodily weakness, which sometimes appears to proceed from stomach. ─ Sensation of uneasiness (soreness), and of painful weariness, in whole body, with acute sensibility to least noise. ─ General uneasiness in evening in bed, as soon as she closes her eyes. ─ Sensation as of boiling water on side on which one rests. ─ The majority of the symptoms present themselves when the patient is seated, or at night, and are generally > by movement. ─ Uneasiness in evening in bed on closing the eyes.

Skin

Tingling in different parts of the skin. ─ Formication of the skin (face, chest, and soles of feet). ─ Itching pimples, with burning pain after scratching. ─ Pustular eruptions. ─ Eruption of small red papulæ. ─ Furunculi. ─ Swelling of the glands.

Sleep

Great inclination to sleep during day, with yawning and indolence. ─ Retarded sleep and sleeplessness, caused by heat, with thirst, and great agitation in whole body on shutting the eyes. ─ Anxious and frightful dreams, with talking and cries during sleep. ─ Sleep unrefreshing; tired in morning. ─ Jerking in body, when lying awake at night. ─ Nightmare.

Fever

Shivering in evening, which disappears in bed. ─ Chill in evening from 4 to 8, even near warm stove. ─ Chill, followed by heat in evening till midnight. ─ Heat in evening with perspiration only on head. ─ Perspiration with thirst, from midnight till morning. ─ Sweat after midnight. ─ Pulse accelerated with ebullitions while sitting.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

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

Mind

Disinclined to talk, prefers solitude.
Tearful, inclined to weep ; sad and homesick.
Anxious in room, > in open air.
Worse from mental exertion.
Excited ; unhappy ; fitful ; emotional.
While reading, felt as if some one was reading after her and she must read faster and faster.

Sensorium

Sensation of numbness in forehead, head feels dull ; < in morning when awaking and when lying ; > from exercising in open air and wrapping up head.
Congestion of blood to head, with painful undulation and whizzing, as of boiling water on side upon which one rests.
Heaviness in head, reeling, as if one would fall.
Vertigo : in morning, on rising ; during dinner ; going off in open air.

Inner head

Every six weeks, pain in forehead and around eyes ; feels as if head would burst ; must lie down ; < from motion and in fresh air ; > from strong pressure and wrapping up head ; anorexia ; bitter taste ;
eructations ; waterbrash ; region of stomach and liver sensitive to pressure ; liver hard and enlarged ; cannot lie on right side ; has stool only after injections ; passes small, yellowish grey balls ; bilious look to urine, with much mucus ; tongue
thick coated, tip and edges clear ; great thirst ; no fever. θ Cephalalgia.
Compressive sensation in head, from both sides, with a hot feeling, and with beating in forehead when pressing upon it.
Tearing and stitches in temples, with great sensitiveness of vertex, as if hair was raised by pulling.
Griping, raging, in temples, with a feeling as if he would become dizzy and lose consciousness, > on pressing head, in evening after lying down.
Sharp sticking and tearing in right side of head, extending to eye, which she was obliged to press together.
Headache, > from tying a bandage tight around head, or wrapping up head.

Outer head

Tendency of head to sweat.
Nodosities on occiput, tearing, painful to touch.

Sight and eyes

When looking into light, lachrymation and burning of eyes.
Yellow color of sclerotica.
Eyes inflamed, violent burning and redness of sclerotica.
Nightly agglutination of lids.
Tinea ciliaris, accompanied by a pimply eruption on face, comes and goes ; < after supper and in a warm room, and on women before menses.

Hearing and ears

Deafness, as if something was lying before ear.
Pulsation in ears.
Itching of old herpes behind ears.

Smell and nose

Distressing dryness of nose.
Violent coryza, at one time stopped, at another fluent, dulness of head and complete loss of taste and smell.
Coryza ; yellow, fetid mucus, or acrid, corrosive water ; nose obstructed at night.
Ulceration of edges of nostrils ; picks affected parts ; sweat about head and feet. θ Ozæna.
Rawness of inner surface of alæ nasi and of septum narium ; yellow scurfs in nose ; watery, acrid, mucous discharge, corroding upper lip ; obstruction of nose ; sore pain and burning < from deep breathing, sneezing or touch ; < in morning ; face pale,
yellowish.
Redness and swelling of nose or of alæ.

Upper face

Pale, yellowish, earthy complexion ; suffering, sickly look.
Severe cramp pains in bones of face ; prosopalgia.
Eruptions, pimples and blotches on face and forehead ; < nights, in warm room, and before menses.

Lower face

Chapped lips.
Large vesicles on margin of vermillion border of lower lip, itching, afterwards burning.

Teeth and gums

Toothache almost insupportable when food touches teeth.
Upper incisors seem too long and very sensitive.
Painful swelling and easy bleeding of gums.
Slow dentition, with distended abdomen and constipation.

Taste, speech, tongue

Tongue feels burnt, mouth scalded.
Rhagades on tongue, with violent burning.
Tongue coated white early in morning ; or tip and edges clean, large, flabby and yellow. θ Induration of liver.

Inner mouth

Whole inner mouth feels as if scalded.
Sensation of roughness on inner side of upper lip when touching it with tongue.
Dryness of mouth and tongue without thirst.
Accumulation of water in mouth.
Continual rising of white froth into mouth.

Palate and throat

Dryness and roughness in throat, hoarse voice.
Rising of ball from stomach to throat, > by eructation.
Difficult hawking of thick, tough (blood mixed) mucus.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Hunger, but knows not for what ; ravenous, followed by nausea ; inclination to nibble ; desire for sweets ; for vegetables ; < from salt things.
Loss of appetite.
Violent thirst (3 A. M.).

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Hiccough : during and after dinner, so severe as to cause vomiting ; region of stomach painful, particularly to pressure.
Regurgitation while walking.
Eructations : tasting like onions ; like rotten eggs ; relieve faintness and nausea, at dinner.
Waterbrash ; stomach and liver sensitive.
Water rises from stomach into mouth, with nausea.
Nausea : in morning, after rising ; with accumulation of water in mouth ; and faintness, succeeded by coldness and weakness in stomach.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Weakness, as if emanating from stomach.
Oppression and throbbing in pit of stomach.
Children are unable to digest milk, it causes pain in stomach and passes undigested. θ Dentition.
Eroding pain in stomach, going off after eating and coming on again at termination of digestion ; tongue clean, too red. θ Cardialgia.
She is roused from sleep at one o'clock at night by a pain in stomach as if it was cut to pieces ; rising into throat of a ball, with suffocating arrest of breathing, and tossing about in bed and on floor for two hours, at last > by eructation.
Severe cardialgia ; attacks vary in duration ; pains pressing, disappear while eating and reappear about an hour afterwards ; palpitation, particularly when sitting, > by getting up and walking about ; in sleeping must lie on l. side ;
on awaking and for about an hour after breakfast feels quite well, then cardialgia sets in and occurs several times during day ; stool hard like sheep dung ; leucorrhœa before menses ; menses fourteen days late.
Severe itching and burning in nose, lower part of which is red and sensitive ; daily attacks of headache, pain in forehead, > from motion, particularly in open air ; horripilations ; loss of appetite, constant satiety ; fat food cannot be tolerated ; tongue
coated ; constipation.

Hypochondria

Pressing pain in liver, when walking and touching it, < lying on right side, liver hard and enlarged.
Can lie only on back or affected side, in any other position pain in liver < ; after eating, pain, flatulency, oppression of chest ; dirty, yellow tongue ; grey, hard, difficult stool, every three or four days ; pulse small, weak,
slow ; debility ; apprehensive, lachrymose. θ Affection of liver.
Weight in hypochondriac region ; cannot lie on left side on account of sensation as of something dragging over to that side. θ Affection of liver.
Hemorrhoids ; much irritation about anus ; stools knotty and slimy ; enlargement and tenderness of right ovary ; dragging down pain from right ovary to thigh. θ Affection
of liver.
Stools large and lumpy, covered with slimy mucus of various colors, from light yellow to green, and dark green or leaden ; appetite irregular ; pains in epigastric region about an hour before food ; yellowish hue of face ; abdomen large ; bowels move once a week.
θ Affection of liver.
Chronic induration of liver, pressive pain extending to back and stomach ; face dark yellow ; tongue dirty, yellowish ; bowels distended and hard, with pressure and heaviness ; stool hard, grey ; urine turbid ; dyspnœa ; palpitation ; œdema of
feet up to calves of legs ; weak, emaciated ; fearful, easily frightened. θ Affection of liver.
Attacks of gastralgia every evening ; tenderness in hypogastric region ; anteversion of uterus ; enlargement of liver ; stools very dark, occurring once in four days ; heavy weight in right hypochondrium, could not rest on right side. θ Derangement
of liver.
Recurring attacks of indigestion, biliousness, constipation, with large, hard motions like balls and inability to lie on right side ; catamenia too profuse, often and long, with excessive uterine pains ; disposed to eat frequently, on account of gnawing at pit of stomach, >
by small quantity of food, but made < by more. θ Enlargement and congestion (induration) of liver.
Dull, aching, tensive pain in hypochondriac region, going through to right scapula ; inability to lie on right side, doing so causes more pain ; dyspnœa ; irregular action of heart, sometimes beating loudly ; urine scanty and high colored, slightly albuminous ;
feet and legs œdematous ; epigastric and right hypochondriac region tender to touch ; colicky pains and flatulency in abdomen ; stools of bullet shaped masses every three or four days ; area of liver dulness greatly increased laterally and downward ; free edge of it
felt extending two and a half inches below ribs and bulging outward, but feeling hard. θ Enlargement and congestion of liver.
Hepatic affections with tendency to hemorrhages from various organs.
Marked enlargement of liver, accompanied by ascites.

Abdomen and loins

Drawing pain in abdomen at night.
Tearing in abdomen ; tearing stitches in loins.
Cramps in abdomen.
Colic in evening, extending to thighs, followed by fluor albus ; hysteria.
Colic at 1 A. M., had to lie crooked ; could not endure covering.
Chronic, painful hardness of right side of abdomen.
Distended abdomen with constipation.
Abdomen tense, sore as if bruised, sensitive to touch.
Rumbling, cutting, pinching in abdomen.
Tingling, stinging in abdominal muscles.
Troubles from tapeworm.

Stools and rectum

Diarrhœa : of mucus and blood ; in evening and at night ; pain in stomach ; great chilliness after getting into bed ; chronic looseness.
Since parturition, five weeks ago, diarrhœa, particularly in morning ; chilliness during stool ; loss of appetite ; rumbling in abdomen.
Stools : covered with mucus and blood ; greenish, papescent ; in large, hard lumps ; crumbling at verge of anus ; abdomen distended ; hard, knotty, like sheep dung ; insufficient, delayed ; crumbling at verge of anus and seem as if burnt.
She was obliged to hurry to stool, which was crumbly and as if burnt, with sticking pains in rectum, followed by burning in anus.
A child, æt. 2, for several months diarrhœa and cough, finally constipation, great effort and pain to bring forth a stool, which crumbles to pieces as soon as it escapes rectum.
Constipation since last confinement, two years ago ; stools large and in hard lumps ; bowels move about every eight days ; every few days has much pain and distress in hypogastric region ; pale and weak, otherwise well.
Poor, puny, rachitic children, with enlargement of abdomen ; liver unduly large ; appetite irregular, fond of sweets ; stools small, hard, dry, passed with difficulty. θ Constipation.
Constipation of infants during dentition.
Absence of desire for stool ; atony as with the bladder.
Much pressure to stool ; passage scanty or only flatus.
Before stool : painful urging.
During stool : painful urging and occasional discharge of mucus ; pressure with scanty passage or only flatus ; burning at anus and pain as if from excoriation.
After stool : burning at anus, shuddering for a short time.

Urinary organs

Frequent desire to urinate day and night, with scanty discharge.
Urine can only be passed by bearing down with abdominal muscles ; atony of bladder.
Urine passed only by drops, some always seem to remain.
Urine pale yellow, followed by burning in urethra.
Numbness of urethra.

Male sexual organs

Frequent erections ; early in morning, with burning in penis.
After an embrace, burning pain in back.
Nocturnal involuntary emissions with or without dreams ; scrotum relaxed and loose and often covered with perspiration ; constipation ; indigestion ; biliousness ; itching at anus.
Itching on genitals and scrotum, extending as far as anus.
Scrotum relaxed.

Female sexual organs

Bearing down in ovarian region.
Scirrhous indurations of os uteri.
Uterine diseases complicated with hysterical complaints.
Uterine spasms extend to thighs, followed by fluor albus.
Menses : with great excitement at every period ; flow black, clotted ; profuse and early or late, with violent pains, < in back when walking and in thighs when sitting, pale face, debility, nervous excitement ; suppressed.
Metrorrhagia < at night in bed, causing hysteria.
Menstrual pains > by having back pressed.
Leucorrhœa : watery, thick, followed immediately by discharge of blood ; after exercise ; with every stool ; following uterine spasm ; followed by metrorrhagia ; < in morning after urinating ; two weeks after menstruation, lasting three or four
days ; profuse, continuing almost without intermission.
Metrorrhagia of old maids, blood clotted ; after abuse of mercury.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

Nausea and vomiting during pregnancy ; hepatic disorder previous to marriage, or uterine spasms with metrorrhagia.
Labor pain, interrupted by hysterical spasms.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Hoarseness, with roughness and dryness of throat ; in morning after rising.
Tingling in larynx.

Respiration

Oppressed breathing, greater after a meal.
Globus hystericus and oppression of breath.

Cough

Dry cough evening and night, with burning and soreness in chest.
Spasmodic cough at night, with tickling in throat.
Spasmodic cough caused by tickling in throat ; no expectoration in evening or at night ; during day, watery but at the same time tough, yellowish, occasionally purulent expectoration, of fatty taste and offensive odor and at times mixed with lumps of blood ; < evening
until midnight, rest, sitting, lying in bed, deep breathing, air of room, eating, ascending steps, speaking, fatty foods or fruit. θ Whooping cough.
Bloody expectoration brought on by sea bathing.

Inner chest and lungs

Sudden heaviness of chest, with oppression of breathing, at dinner.
Tension and constriction of chest.
Constrictive pain in chest and scapulæ.
Congestion of blood to chest from bathing in sea ; bloody expectoration ; great weakness.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Stitches in heart, taking away breath.
Palpitation of heart and cardiac pain while sitting, going off on motion.
Pulse accelerated, with ebullitions while sitting.

Neck and back

Swelling of cervical glands.
Pain as from bruises, above and in small of back and both hips, with sensitiveness of parts to touch ; also during menses.
Contractive, spasmodic pain in small of back.
Stitches, tearing and burning in small of back.

Upper limbs

Rheumatic pain in shoulder joint, extending down arm to hands ; < from motion.
Tearing pains in shoulders, arms, wrists and hands.
The arms "go to sleep" when awaking in morning.

Lower limbs

Sensation of great fatigue in legs, even while sitting.
Heaviness in legs.
Twitching, tearing in hips.
Restlessness and tense feeling in thighs, must move legs for relief.
Pressing pain in knees.
Cramps in calves at night.
Burning in soles, evenings.
Foot sweat.

Limbs in general

Much weakness in limbs. θ Uterus displaced.
Paralytic drawing and tearing in limbs.

Rest. position. motion

Rest : cough <.
Lying : dulness of head < ; griping, raging in temples ; cough <.
Must lie down : pain in forehead.
Must lie crooked : colic.
Cannot lie on right side : liver sensitive.
Must lie on left side : palpitation.
Cannot lie on left side : something (liver) seems to drag to that side.
On side upon which one rests : sensation as of boiling water.
Can lie only on back or affected side : pain in liver.
Sitting : palpitation ; pains in thighs ; cough < ; pulse accelerated, with ebullitions ; great fatigue in legs.
Motion : headache < ; pain in forehead > ; palpitation > ; rheumatic pain in shoulder, arm and hand <.
Must move legs : restlessness >.
Exercise in open air : > dulness of head ; leucorrhœa.
Getting up and walking : palpitation >.
Walking : regurgitation ; pressing pain in liver ; pains in back.
Ascending steps : cough <.
Tossing about in bed and on floor for two hours : pain in stomach.

Nerves

General sensation of soreness, with great sensitiveness to noise.
Hysterical and spasmodic complaints ; uterine troubles.
Many spasms day and night, sleeplessness ; fainting fits at table, nausea and trembling, > by eructations. θ Hysteria.
Weakness and chill, < during hysterical paroxysm.
Great weakness from a sea bath.
Weakness of body as if coming from stomach.
Fainting fits at dinner, nausea and trembling, > by eructations.

Sleep

Sleepiness during day, with yawning and sluggishness.
Goes to sleep late ; sleeplessness on account of nightly heat, with thirst.
Restlessness of body as soon as she closes eyes ; evening in bed.
Shocks through body at night, while waking.
Sleep unrefreshing ; tired in morning.
Anxious, frightful dreams, with talking and crying out during sleep.

Time

Morning : dulness in head < ; on rising vertigo ; burning in nose ; tongue coated white ; nausea ; diarrhœa ; frequent erections ; leucorrhœa < ; roughness and dryness of throat ; arms "go to sleep ;" is tired.
At 1 A. M. : pain in stomach ; colic.
At 3 A. M. : violent thirst.
Day : frequent desire to urinate ; expectoration watery but tough ; many spasms ; sleepiness.
At dinner sudden heaviness of chest, with oppression of breathing ; fainting fits.
From 4 to 8 P. M. : chill <.
After supper : tinea ciliaris <.
Evening : after lying down, pain in temples ; colic in evening ; diarrhœa ; dry cough ; cough < till midnight ; burning in soles ; in bed, restlessness of body ; heat.
Evening till 12 P. M. : heat.
Night : obstruction of nose ; eruption on face and forehead ; drawing pain in abdomen ; diarrhœa ; frequent desire to urinate ; metrorrhagia < in bed ; dry cough ; spasmodic cough ; cramps in calves ; many spasms ; shocks through
body.
From 12 P. M. till morning : sweat.

Temperature and weather

Sensitive to cold air.
Great disposition to take cold.
Warm wrapping up of head : > dulness of head ; > pain in forehead.
Warm room : tinea ciliaris < ; eruption on face and forehead <.
Near stove : chill.
In room : cough <.
After getting into bed : great chilliness ; chill >.
Open air : anxious feeling > ; dulness > ; vertigo > ; headache < ; pain in forehead > ; chill >.
Sea bathing : bloody expectoration ; great weakness.
Aversion to uncovering.

Fever

Chill : even near stove ; < from 4 to 8 P. M. ; > in open air or in bed ; chill followed by heat, evening, until 12 P. M.
Evening heat, thirst ; averse to uncovering.
Sweat : on head or feet ; with thirst, from 12 P. M. till morning.

Attacks, periodicity

One hour before food : pain in epigastric region.
For one hour after breakfast : feels quite well, then cardialgia.
Several times during day : cardialgia.
Daily : attacks of pain in head.
Every evening : gastralgia.
Nightly : agglutination of lids ; heat, with thirst.
Every three or four days : difficult stools.
Once in four days : stool.
Once a week : bowels moved.
Every eight days : bowels move.
Fourteen days late : menses.
Two weeks after menstruation : leucorrhœa for three or four days.
Since parturition five weeks ago : diarrhœa.
Every six weeks : pain in forehead and around eyes.

Locality and direction

Right : tearing in side of head ; tenderness of ovary ; dragging pain from ovary ; weight in hypochondrium ; could not rest on side ; pain in scapula ; hypochondrium tender to touch ; painful hardness of abdomen.
Left : must lie on side ; cannot lie on side.

Sensations

Boring and spasmodic, contractive pains.
General sensation of soreness, with great sensitiveness to noises.
Sensation as if some one was reading after her and she must read faster and faster ; as if boiling water was on side of head ; as if one would fall down ; as if head would burst ; as if hair was raised by pulling ; as if he would become dizzy and lose
consciousness ; as if something was lying before ear ; upper incisors as if too long ; tongue as if burnt ; inner mouth as if scalded ; rising as of a ball from stomach to throat ; as if stomach was cut to pieces ; as of something dragging over to
hypochondriac region ; abdomen as if bruised ; stools as if burnt ; as if from excoriation ; pain as if bruised in small of back and hips ; weakness as if coming from stomach.
Pain : in forehead and around eyes ; in stomach ; in liver ; in epigastric region ; in uterus ; in hypogastric region ; in small of back and both hips.
Insupportable pain : in teeth.
Violent pains : in back and thighs.
Severe cardialgia.
Severe cramp pains : in bones of face.
Tearing : in temple ; in nodosities on occiput ; in abdomen ; in small of back ; in shoulders, arms, wrists and hands ; in hips.
Sharp sticking and tearing : in right side of head to eye.
Tearing stitches : in loins.
Paralytic drawing and tearing : in limbs.
Griping, raging : in temples.
Contractive, spasmodic pain : in small of back.
Beating : in forehead.
Stitches : in temple ; in heart ; in small of back.
Eroding pain : in stomach.
Sore pain : in nose.
Cutting, pinching : in abdomen.
Gnawing : at pit of stomach.
Cramps : in abdomen ; in calves.
Colicky pains : in abdomen.
Violent burning : of rhagades on tongue ; of nose.
Burning pain : in back.
Drawing pain : in abdomen.
Dragging down pain : from right ovary to thigh.
Bearing down : in ovarian region.
Dull, aching, tensive pain : in hypochondriac region, going through to right scapula.
Stitching pains : in rectum.
Rheumatic pain : in shoulder joints to arm and hands.
Pressing pain : in stomach ; in liver ; to back and stomach ; in knees.
Constrictive pain : in chest and scapulæ.
Throbbing : in pit of stomach.
Painful undulating and whizzing : in head.
Painful hardness : of right side of abdomen.
Painful swelling : of gums.
Tingling, stinging : in abdominal muscles.
Soreness : of abdomen ; in chest ; all over.
Burning : of eyes ; of nose ; of vesicles on lip ; in anus ; in urethra ; in penis ; in chest ; in small of back ; in soles.
Hot feeling : in head.
Rawness : of inner surface of alæ nasi.
Irritation : about anus.
Tenderness : of right ovary ; in hypogastric region.
Roughness : on inner side of upper lip ; of throat.
Tickling : in throat.
Tingling : in larynx.
Dryness : of nose distressing ; of mouth and tongue ; of tongue.
Sensitiveness : of teeth ; of stomach and liver ; of lower part of nose.
Compressive sensation : in head.
Tension and constriction : of chest.
Oppression : in pit of stomach ; in chest.
Great fatigue : in legs.
Much weakness : in limbs ; from a sea bath.
Weakness : in stomach.
Pulsation : in ears.
Distress : in hypogastric region.
Restlessness and tense feeling : in thighs.
Restlessness : of body.
Dull feeling : in head.
Numbness : in forehead ; of urethra.
Heaviness : in head ; in bowels ; on chest ; in legs.
Twitching : in hips.
Formication : over whole body.
Itching : of old herpes behind ears ; of vesicles on lip ; in nose ; at anus ; on genitals ; on scrotum.
Coldness : in stomach.

Tissues

Swelling of glands ; engorged glands.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Touch : nodosities on occiput painful ; burning in nose < ; of food against teeth pain insupportable ; of upper lip with tongue, sensation of roughness ; pressing pain in liver ; right hypochondrium tender ; abdomen sensitive ; small of
back and hips sensitive.
Cannot endure covering : colic.
Pressure : stomach and liver sensitive ; causes beating in forehead ; pain in eye > ; griping, raging in temples ; stomach painful ; on back > menstrual pains.
Strong pressure : pain in forehead.
Tying tight bandage around head : headache >.

Skin

Blood-boils ; eruption of pustules or small red papillæ.
Formication over whole body.

Stage of life, constitution

Especially suitable for diseases of women ; spasmodic and hysterical complaints complicated with uterine diseases.
Women after suffering months or years from attacks of indigestion or biliousness ; enlargement and congestion of liver.
Children, especially during dentition ; puny, rachitic.
Boy, æt. 1 ; much straining at urination.
Child, æt. 2, for several months diarrhœa and cough ; after diarrhœa stopped, constipation and cough.
Girl, æt. 4, suffering two years ; affection of liver.
Young woman, æt. 17 ; cardialgia.
Girl, æt. 18, after disappearance of an eruption which came every winter upon upper and lower lips ; affection of nose.
Woman, æt. 19, small, blonde, sensitive, suffering four years ; affection of liver.
Girl, æt. 20, suffering several years ; affection of stomach.
Young woman, æt. 20, anemic ; chronic diarrhœa.
Woman, æt. 20, mother of one child ; constipation.
Young woman, æt. 23, anemic, a week previously vomited about a cupful of blood and suffered thereafter from pains in stomach and anorexia, removed by Ipec. and Nux vom. ; diarrhœa.
Woman, æt. 24, tall, strong, dark hair, suffering five years ; affection of liver.
Young man, stout, healthy looking ; cardialgia.
Woman, æt. 26, pale, weak, confined two years ago ; constipation.
Woman, suffering one month ; affection of liver.
Woman, suffering two years ; affection of liver.
Woman, æt. 35, previously strong, now somewhat anemic, after parturition ; diarrhœa.
Woman, æt. 36, mother of two children, during childhood had ague ; periodical attacks of pain in stomach and enlargement of liver.
Man, æt. 40, Russian, strong, hardened by much travel, after inflammation of liver ten years ago ; induration of liver.
Man, æt. 48, sallow, choleric, attacks return every six weeks, suffering several years ; cephalalgia.
Woman, æt. 51, wife of gravedigger, five years ago suffered from leucorrhœa, cured by Sepia ; gastric disturbances.
Woman, æt. 52, suffering two months ; affection of liver.
Woman, æt. 58, had been subject to repeated attacks of biliousness and disturbance of functions of liver for several years, attended with dyspepsia and constipation ; enlargement and congestion of liver.
Woman, æt. 60, dark hair, strong, suffering one and a half years ; palpitation of heart.

Relations

Antidoted by : Arsen., Camphor ., Chamom ., Nux. vom .
It antidotes : Mercur . (metrorrhagia).
Compatible : Bellad., Lycop., Natr. mur., Pulsat., Sepia .
Compare : Baryta, Bryon., Calc., Graphit., Kali carb., Nitr. ac., Phosphor., Sulphur .

Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

James Tyler Kent · Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Séror HTML text (Kent d. 1916; public domain)

Lecture

It would seem rather strange that the two remedies to which Hahnemann gave such a good start by proving and use should be so neglected and forgotten as Magnesia carb. and Magnesia mur. have been.

These two, if used, would cure many of the liver troubles that are not now cured. Magnesia mur. could cure many conditions in nervous, excitable women that now go uncured. These remedies are neglected, while Phosphorus and Sulphur are prescribed for almost everything.

Magnesia mur. is a deep-acting antipsoric suited to nervous patients with stomach and liver troubles. it has enlarged glands and irritation of the nerve centres and brain. This patient is often sensitive to cold, chilly, but be desires fresh air and open air.

Many of the complaints are ameliorated by the open, fresh air, but come head symptoms are an exception. The head must be covered, as it is so sensitive to the open air. He is extremely restless; only with great difficulty can he keep still, and if forced to keep still, he becomes anxious. Anxiety is the marked feature. Restlessness, fidgetiness throughout the body, coupled with anxiety.

This comes on at any time, but it is worse at night in bed and still worse on closing the eyes to go to sleep. When he closes the eyes he becomes go anxious, restless and fidgety that he must throw the covers off, take a long breath or do something.

He is kept awake at night by the anxious feeling. It was described originally by the prover as an uneasiness, but in the Guiding Symptoms it is spoken of as a restlessness in bed. If you study the hysterical nature, the anxiety and restlessness, you will see it is throughout the whole economy and should be classed under mind and nerves.

Some remedies have vertigo on closing the eyes, some have anxiety on closing the eyes. Conium has sweat on closing the eyes. These were the points used by keynote prescribers and some times good results were obtained. I remember once curing an organic stricture, which had been dilated but was no better.

The patient described his symptoms and the stricture was all he could think of. I did not see his remedy and gave everything without relief. One day, however, he told me he could not close his eyes to go to sleep without having a profuse sweat. I gave him Conium on that keynote alone but it cured him of the sweat and the stricture, brought back an old gonorrheal discharge and resorption of the inflammatory material took place.

A scientific prescriber would not do that; but when he heard that symptom he would not know it was in the nature of Conium to have the stricture, and in another case he would see that Conium did not suit, and he would know when and when not to give it.

Anxious in the room, ameliorated in the open air. Anxiety at night in bed on closing the eyes. While reading she felt as if some one were reading after her and she must read faster and faster. That occurs in patients who are tired from being worked up to the highest pitch and it seems as if they would fly to pieces. Any thought that comes into the mind tends to repeat itself.

Vertigo, ameliorated walking in the open air. Vertigo in the morning on rising. The head symptoms are troublesome. Silicea will be given in cases where this remedy should be given, because the Silicea headache is ameliorated from wrapping up the head. This remedy has it also. Soreness of the hair follicles. Sensation as if the hair were pulled. Headache ameliorated from tying a bandage tight around the head or wrapping up the head.

Yellowness all over the body. Yellow eye in jaundice and liver troubles. Eyes inflamed. Margins of lids and eyelashes crusty; fine pimples and eruptions. After leaving the head symptoms, which are relieved by warmth, we find many symptoms worse in the warm room.

Pulsation in the ears. Ulceration of the edges of the nostrils. Tongue has the appearance as if it had been burnt, excoriated and cracked in various directions. Fissures hum like fire. Hunger but knows not for what. Ravenous hunger followed by nausea. Aggravation from salt things, from eating salt food, from salt baths, from sea bathing, and at the seashore from inhaling sea air.

Chest complaints, liver complaints and constipation at sea. Bromine has complaints of sailors when they come on shore. Magnesia mur. has complaints from going to sea.

When a patient has urticaria at the seashore, Arsenic will cure in Arsenic cases and will often mitigate when it is the only symptom.

Foul eructations tasting like rotten eggs. Disordered stomach. Stomach easily disordered. Waterbrash, vomiting. Like Magnesia carb., it has inability to digest milk. Milk causes pain, and it is passed undigested lienteric stools. Fainting at the dinner table in hysterical women.

It has many liver troubles. Enlargement and induration of the liver, with jaundiced skin. Right lobe of liver sore, painful while lying on it and when he turns over to the left he is uncomfortable, as it feels as if the liver dragged over to the left.

Natrum Sulph. often cures that symptom, and Ptelea has a somewhat similar condition. These two symptoms, aggravation from lying on the right, that is, the soreness, and aggravation from lying on the left, that is, the dragging; come separately or together. It has much liver trouble from lying on the liver.

Tenderness in the region of the stomach and over the bowels. Attacks of gastralgia in the evening, A strong feature in this remedy is indigestion. The stomach becomes less and less able to digest and finally he cannot take a mouthful of food without distress.

Abdominal dropsies. Colic, cramps, tearing pains. Great flatulence. With this kind of digestive disturbance we have a good home for tapeworm, it hatches out easily in this patient. The most troublesome patients I have are those who come after having had a tapeworm removed by violent drugs. It takes a long time to restore them. If a patient will come with his worm and all his symptoms, I will give him relief, and he will soon be turned into order and the tapeworm will cause no trouble.

Constipation of infants, as in Magnesia carb. Chalky stools like Magnesia carb. When the patient is an adult and yellow with jaundice, the stools are light colored, bileless and there is no expulsive, power.

No Power to expel the contents of the bladder, so he presses with the abdominal muscles on the full bladder and passes a little. Lack of sensation in the bladder, so that sometimes he cannot tell whether, he has to urinate or not until his bladder is so full that it causes pressure. The inability to feel extends to the urethra, and he cannot tell in the dark whether he is passing urine or not. Metrorrhagia, with backache which is ameliorated by pressing hard back in the chair or lying on a hard pillow. Bearing down pains in the pelvis, especially in hysterical women and girls.

Congestion of chest from sea bathing. Chest troubles and colds on the chest at the seashore and from salt baths. Palpitation of the heart with anxiety. Anxiety and restlessness come on at rest; he must do something, must hurry. These symptoms are likely to come on again in the evening when he tries to go to sleep.

Shocks through the body, like electric shocks, when wide awake, jerking the whole frame; twitching and jerking. Numbness in the extremities. Tearing pains in the upper limbs and marked restlessness in lower limbs. Cramps in calves at night. Paralytic drawing, and tearing in all the limbs. Burning of the soles at night in bed. Foot-sweat is another symptom like Silicea. Numbness of the arms in the morning on waking.

Hysterical and spasmodic complaints. Weakness from sea bathing or salt baths. It is the aggravation from salt. Sleep unrefreshing, anxious dreams. Bodily state sensitive to cold, and great disposition to take cold.

Some complaints are ameliorated by fresh air, if not too cold.

The Therapeutics of Fevers

H. C. Allen · The Therapeutics of Fevers · 1902 Library of Congress printing (Allen d. 1909; public domain)

Characteristic

Especially suitable to diseases of women; spasmodic and hysterical complaints complicated with uterine diseases; who have suffered for years from attacks of indigestion or biliousness.

Children: during difficult dentition are unable to digest milk; it causes pain in stomach and passes undigested; crave sweets.

Sensation of soreness, with great sensitiveness to noise (Ign., Nux, Ther.).

Headache: every six weeks; in forehead and around the eyes; as if it would burst; < from motion and in open air; > lying down, strong pressure, wrapping up warmly (Sil., Stron.).

Tendency of head to sweat (Cal., Sanic., Sil.).

Continual rising of white froth into the mouth.

Toothache; unbearable when food touches the teeth.

Eructations; tasting like onions (breath smells of onions, Sinap.).

Constipation: stool large, hard; knotty, like sheep dung; difficult to pass; crumbling at verge of anus (Am. m., Nat. m.); of infants during dentition.

Urine: pale yellow; can only be passed by bearing down with abdominal muscles; weakness of bladder.

Menses: with great excitement at every period; flow black, clotted; spasms and pain extend into thighs; metrorrhagia, < at night in bed, causing hysteria (Act., Caul., Xan.).

Leucorrhœa: after exercise; with every stool; with uterine spasm; followed by metrorrhagia; two weeks after menses (Bar., Bov.).

Great tendency to foot-sweat (Sil., Sanic.).

Aggravation

At night; when riding on horseback; sea bath-ing (great weakness); cold.

Amelioration

Warmth; in bed; exercise.

Type

Quotidian. Same time every day. Headache every six weeks.

Time

4, 6, 7, 8 P. M.—4 to 8 P. M. worse (Hep., Lyc., Sab.—pains commencing at 4 or 5 P. M., worse until midnight, diminishing after, and ceasing at daylight, Syph.).

Chill

With shaking, not relieved by warmth of stove; less-ened in the open air and in bed. Shivering over the whole body, with icy cold feet. Chilliness, with goose-flesh, frequent yawn-ing, cutting in abdomen and constant desire for stool. Chilliness in the evening, that disappears after lying down, followed before midnight by heat, and after midnight, sweat, with thirst lasting till morning.

Heat

With thirst, in the evening; averse to uncovering.

Flushes of heat, with vertigo. Heat of head, with redness of face, without external warmth, with internal shivering and desire for stool.

Sweat

Without thirst, after midnight, till morning; averse to uncovering. Early morning with thirst and dryness of the mouth.

Tongue

Coated white in morning, or tip and edges clean.

Taste sour at night. Desire for sweets.