Mercurius Dulcis merc-d.

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

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

Region

Ears. Eustachian tube. Tonsils. Liver. Duodenum. Bowels. Mucous membranes. Pleura.

Worse

Acids.

Better

Cold drinks.

General

Pallid, flabby, catarrhal and bilious. Pale mucous membranes. Deficient oxidation. Reabsorbent action.

Particulars

Painful scalp. Meningitis. Rapid winking. Obstructed Eustachian tube (Kali-m. Petr.) or larchrymal duct (Fag.). Deafness from every cold. Blows lumps from nose. Indurated tongue. Increased saliva. Fetor oris. Tonsil, (r); inflamed; > cold drinks (Ap. Merc-i-f. Phyt.). Biliary stasis. Acrid, grass-green diarrhœa; of infants. Slimy, pussy expectoration. Inflamed pleura. Sweatiness.

Related

Related: Kali-m.

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

H. C. Allen · Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Medi-T HTML text; edition not stated by the mirror (first edition 1898, Allen d. 1909)

Keynote

Catarrhal affections of mucous membranes, especially of the eye and ear. Catarrhal inflammation of middle ear (Kali m.). Eustachian tube closed; catarrhal deafness and otorrhoea in psoric children; deafness of old age (Kali m.). Acute affections of prostrate after maltreated stricture. Deafness and catarrhal affections of nares, throat, and pharynx, from mercurial amalgam fillings. Diarrhoea: of children; stools grass-green; like chopped eggs; profuse, causing soreness of anus.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Calomel

General

Has marked effect on catarrhal inflammation of ear, and useful in Eustachian catarrh, deafness. Diarrhœa, with soreness of anus. Prostatitis. Remittent bilious attacks. Pallor, flabby bloatedness, and turgid flaccidity. Inflammation with plastic exudate. Especially indicated in systems disposed to remittent bilious fevers; in peritonitis and meningitis with plastic exudate. Dropsies due to combined renal and cardiac diseases, especially with jaundice (Hale). Cirrhosis of the liver, especially in the hypertrophic form. Use 1x (Jousset).

Ears

Otitis media; closure of Eustachian tube; ear troubles of scrofulous children; membrana tympani retracted, thickened and immovable.

Mouth

Offensive breath; salivation; sore gums. Ulcers. Tongue black. Constant flow of dark, putrid saliva; very offensive. Ulceration of throat, with dysphagia. Granular pharyngitis.

Stomach

Nausea and vomiting. Cyclic vomiting of infants (Cup ars; Iris).

Stool

Scanty, bloody mucus, with bile, and constant desire, without tenesmus. Dark-green, watery, with griping. Anus sore and burning. Dysentery; small stools of mucus and blood, covered with bile.

Skin

Flabby and ill nourished. Swollen glands. Phagedenic ulcers. Copper-colored eruptions.

Relationship

Compare: Kali mur.

Dose

Third to sixth trituration. For palliative (non-homeopathic) purposes, to secure evacuation of bowels, two or three-grain doses of first decimal trituration, repeated several times every hour.

Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics

E. B. Nash · Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics · homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML text (Nash d. 1917; public domain)

Leaders

Catarrhal inflammation of the Eustachian tube and middle ear. (Kali mur.)

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

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

General

Subchloride of Mercury. Calomel. Mercurous chloride. HgCl. Trituration.

Clinical

Catarrh. Condylomata. Conjunctivitis. Deafness. Diarrhœa. Eustachian tube, affections of. Gastro-malachia. Meningitis. Peritonitis, plastic . Prostatitis. Throat, sore.

Characteristics

Merc. dulc . is responsible for a large amount of the mercurialisation of the past and for some of the present. As a comparatively mild and slow-acting form of mercurial, it has none of the corrosive effects of the perchloride, but it has all the power of the metal in it nevertheless, and it has had its own share of disasters. For constipation and any affection which could be ascribed to the liver, blue pill was at one time about the only recognised remedy. Some homœopaths have adopted a modification of this by prescribing Merc. dulc . 1x in two- or three-grain doses as a direct purgative. But as Merc. dulc . has caused both constipation and diarrhœa, it is probable that the action is roughly homœopathic. The Schema is made up for the most part of toxicological and clinical symptoms; though a proving of potencies has been made. It is especially scrofulous children who are liable to remittent bilious attacks who are benefited by Merc. dulc . The keynote of Merc. dulc ., in this as in other complaints is pallor : "pallid as a corpse," and with this a "flabby bloatedness" of appearance. Pale, scrofulous children who have swelling of cervical and other glands. Skin flabby and ill-nourished. Another leading feature of Merc. dulc . is inflammation with plastic exudation. I have seen Calomel in old-school practice rapidly resolve and cure a violent meningitis, with wild delirium, in a girl of five. In this case there was probably plastic exudation on the membranes. Plastic peritonitis. Gluing up of Eustachian tube with catarrh. Scrofulous inflammation in general and particularly of the eyes. Soreness round anus is a leading indication in many affections when it occurs as a concomitant.

Relations

Antidoted by: Hep. Compare: In stringy stools, Sul. ac. Catarrhal inflammation of middle ear, Kali m. Eustachian tube closed; deafness of old age, Kali m.

Mind

Agitated. ─ Apprehensive.

Head

Heaviness across forehead. ─ Falling off of hair.

Eyes

Gummy secretion on edges of lids; later, smarting and indistinct vision. ─ Eyes: red; dry; photophobia. ─ Symptoms < after exercise, and when heated from exercise. ─ Scrofulous ophthalmia. ─ Ciliary blepharitis.

Ears

Deafness, occasioned by a swelling, which compresses Eustachian tube. ─ (Deafness of old age.). ─ Scrofulous otitis. ─ Itching in external meatus. ─ Sudden fluttering in l. ear for a few moments.

Nose

Violent epistaxis. ─ Dry, crusted nostrils. ─ Sore r. nostril.

Face

Face flushed. ─ Pallid as a corpse. ─ Swelling of cheeks. ─ Exfoliation of lower jaw and death.

Teeth

Violent burning in teeth; teeth become bare, shake, and fall out; gums swollen and bleeding when touched.

Mouth

Difficulty to open mouth. ─ Ulcers in mouth, bleeding throughout night. ─ Aphthæ on tongue. ─ Salivation sometimes with hæmorrhage. ─ Flow of horribly fetid, dark saliva, which attacks lips and cheeks; tongue and whole mouth have black appearance.

Throat

Excessive ulceration of throat. ─ Difficulty of swallowing.

Stomach

No appetite. ─ Urgent thirst. ─ Vomiting. ─ Weight and pain at epigastrium.

Abdomen

Violent pain in abdomen; griping; tenderness. ─ Bloated, hot, painful abdomen (gastro-malachia).

Stool and Anus

Diarrhœa; with vomiting. ─ Stools-watery, greenish; coppery green, like chopped eggs; grass-green; stringy; mucous, bloody, dysenteric; black with great epigastric oppression, sinking. ─ Constant disposition to stool. ─ Obstinate constipation. ─ Rectum: burning; tenesmus. ─ Soreness round anus. ─ Condylomata round anus.

Urinary Organs

Urine increased (2nd d.); diminished (3rd, 4th, and 5th d.).

Male Sexual Organs

Acute inflammation of prostate, after suppressed gonorrhœa; burning, pressing pains; intense dysuria; urine scanty. ─ Stinging and itching just back of corona glandis.

Female Sexual Organs

Broad, moist, burning condylomata around external genitals, perinæum and anus, of exceedingly offensive smell.

Chest

Great oppression in chest and in region of heart.

Limbs

Trembling of hands and feet.

Upper Limbs

Rheumatic stiffness and catching pain in muscles of legs and knee-joints. ─ Cramps in calves at night.

Skin

Desquamation of skin, esp. of hands and feet. ─ Phagedænic ulcers, with white bases, and painful and inflamed margins, in mouth, palate, face, genital and other parts. ─ Copper-coloured eruption.

Fever

Feverish heat, profuse nocturnal sweat, tearing pains in limbs, prostration of strength, and trembling. ─ Fever, sometimes hot, putrid.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

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

General

Calomel. Hg Cl.
Symptoms toxicological and clinical.
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.
- Ulceration of cornea , Norton, Oph. Therap. ; Phlyctenular conjunctivitis , Newton, Raue's Rec., 1872, p. 68 ; Otorrhœa , Lobethal, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 369 ; Catarrhal inflammation of middle ear (93 cases), Houghton, Times Retros., vol. 1, p. 24 ; Angina tonsillaris , Hendricks, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 243 ; Gastromalacia (3 cases), Bicking, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 607 ; Diarrhœa , Hofrichter, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 421 ; Kafka, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 422 ; Constipation , Gerson, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 395 ; Prostatitis , Gerson, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 545 ; Condylomata , Syphilis, Battman, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 562.

Sight and eyes

Girl, æt. 6, light complexion, pale skin, muscles soft and flabby, glands enlarged, general strumous diathesis ; a very deep ulcer on left cornea, so nearly perforated that membrane of Descemet has begun to bulge ; small ulcers and pustules on border of cornea ; pustules and maculæ on right cornea ; considerable redness and photophobia. θ Strumous ophthalmia.
Irido-choroiditis, especially if dependent upon scrofulous diathesis and general cachexia.
Inflammations occurring in pale, flabby, scrofulous subjects.
Ciliary blepharitis associated with phlyctenular ophthalmia, and accompanied by eruption on face, soreness of nose and swelling of upper lip.

Hearing and ears

Catarrhal inflammation of middle ear.
Eustachian tube and mucous membrane of pharynx affected. θ Otitis media.
Closure of Eustachian tube ; deafness of advancing years.
Catarrhal otorrhœa occurring in scrofulous children, or accompanying scrofulous inflammation of eyes, occasionally hearing is affected.

Upper face

Pallid as a corpse.

Inner mouth

Inflammation of lips and tongue.
Whole mouth filled with ulcers.
Salivation.
Whole inside of mouth, tongue and all had a very black appearance, emitting a constant flow of dark, putrid saliva, of intolerable fetor.

Palate and throat

Angina tonsillaris.
Excessive ulceration of throat.
Difficulty of swallowing.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Vomiting.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Bloated, hot, painful abdomen, particularly in region of stomach ; frequent vomiting, vomited matter smelling very sour ; milk rejected almost immediately, accompanied by much slime ; every day about twelve passages of greyish green, stringy, chopped masses ; constant restlessness ; crosses legs and draws them towards abdomen ; peculiar whimpering ; irregular febrile attacks ; emaciation ; greyish color of face, which appears long and has an old look ; distortion of mouth ; dulness of eyes. θ Gastromalacia.

Stools and rectum

Stools : watery, greenish ; black, with great epigastric oppression, sinking, etc.
Diarrhœa of children ; stools grass green, coppery green, like chopped eggs, watery, very profuse, excoriating, causing soreness of anus ; abdomen bloated ; liver enlarged ; skin pale ; face bloated ; mucous membrane of mouth pale ; aphthæ ; foul smell from mouth ; ptyalism ; glands of neck and submaxillary and inguinal glands swollen ; fever and thirst.
Symptoms thoroughly dysenteric.
Constant disposition to stool ; small discharges consisting of mucus and blood, colored with bile.
Obstinate constipation.
Burning pain in rectum.

Male sexual organs

Acute inflammation of prostate gland, particularly after maltreated gonorrhœal stricture ; both lobes enormously swollen, almost occluding rectum, with intolerably painful urinary symptoms ; severe burning, pressing pains ; scanty urine.

Female sexual organs

Broad, moist, burning condylomata around external genitals, perineum and anus, of extremely offensive smell.

Rest. position. motion

Crosses legs and draws them towards abdomen ; gastromalacia.

Fever

Ill defined gastric disturbances during second stage ; painful sensibility of whole abdomen ; watery stools, colorless, or as if mixed with flocculent matter, or like washings of flesh, occurring most often at night. θ Typhoid fever.

Attacks, periodicity

Every day : about twelve passages of greyish green, stringy, chopped masses.

Locality and direction

Right : pustules and maculæ on cornea.
Left : a very deep ulcer on cornea.

Sensations

Burning pain : in rectum.
Burning and itching : in condylomata around anus.
Soreness : of nose ; of anus.
Painfulness : of abdomen.

Skin

Eruption over whole body of round copper colored spots, in centre of which are dry papules, around which, from centre to periphery, skin exfoliates ; broad, moist condylomata around anus, with severe burning and itching. θ Syphilis.

Stage of life, constitution

Child, æt. 3 mos. ; diarrhœa.
Three children æt. 1/2-1 1/2 years ; gastromalacia.
Girl, æt. 6, light complexion, pale skin, muscles soft and flabby, glands enlarged and general strumous diathesis ; ulceration of cornea.
XX, æt. 15 ; scrofulous diathesis, suffers frequently from sore eyes ; phlyctenular conjunctivitis.
Girl, æt. 19, fat, strong ; condylomata.

Relations

Antidoted by : Hepar .
Compare : Sulph. ac . in stringy stools.