SPHERE OF ACTION
Through the great organic nervous system, it acts especially on the mucous outlets of the body, where the mucous membrane merges into the skin; the rectum, anus, vagina and mouth. It also affects the whole alimentary canal and the lymphatic glandular system. Also acts upon the skin and blood.
GRAND CHARACTERISTICS
Especially adapted to diseases depending upon the presence of some virulent poison, such as syphilitic, mercurial, and scrofulous miasms.
Secondary affections of syphilis, especially in broken and cachectic constitutions, accompanied with emaciation, debility, caries of the bones, unhealthy ulcers on the surfaces, and great derangement of the nervous system.
In syphilis its particular sphere is the mucous patches, mucous tubercles, and general weakness of constitution, denoting that the system has been poisoned by Mercury, or shattered by the disease itself.- FRANKLIN.
Easily bleeding ulcers, look like raw flesh, with zig-zaggy edges, and exuberant granulations on the base.
Old people, with great weakness and diarrhoea.-RAUE.
Herpes, condylomata, tubercles, ulcers, and syphilitic eruptions, with sore, pricking, itching pains.
Sleeps badly in the latter part of the night.
One of the best known antidotes for all diseases of a mercurial origin.
Very often useful in affections occurring after typhoid fever, especially if allopathically treated with calomel.-F.
Amelioration of all the symptoms when riding in a carriage.- HENDRICKS.
Digestive Organs.-Salivation and ulceration of the mouth from abuse of Mercury.
Spreading ulcers in the mouth and throat.
Swelling of the parotid and submaxillary glands, with bleeding of the gums.
Putrid smelling breath; mouth full of fetid ulcers; bloody saliva; mouth very dry.
Sore throat, extending up into the nose; discharges profuse, thin, purulent matter, with intermittent breathing.
Much nausea and gastric trouble, relieved by moving about, or riding in a carriage.
Constant nausea with heat in the throat.
Fat food causes nausea and acidity, the urine smelling like horse. (This is a prominent note).
Hard, difficult and scanty stool.
Diarrhoea, great pain during and after stool, as though the anus was fissured.
Inclination to looseness of the bowels; most violent cutting pain after stool, lasting for hours.
Very painful stools, with profuse discharge of blood; the pain lasts so long, it is very exhausting.
In hemorrhoids nd intestinal catarrhs, we always think of this remedy, when the liver does not secrete any bile, and when the portal vessels are compressed or wasted.-BAEHR.
Acute pain in the abdomen during stool; worse in the morning; stools brown nd slimy.
The patient is worse after twelve at night; violent cramp- like pains, as if the abdomen would burst, with constant eructations.
Old hemorrhoidal tumors, secreting much slime, and bleeding profusely after stool.
Proctalgia.-F.
Fissures of the anus; on going to stool, pain in the rectum as if something were torn away, or twitchings in the rectum, and spasmodic contraction of the anus, many hours after stool.
Smarting more in the rectum than in the anus, immediately after stool, and continuing two or three hours; sometimes prolapsus ani, or discharge of much blood, accompanies these symptoms.
Prolapsus ani, with much pain and smarting in the rectum and anus.
Typhoid hemorrhages; great sensitiveness of the abdomen; green, slimy, acrid diarrhoea, with tenesmus.
Chronic hepatitis; gland enlarged; acts favorably, even if it is a fungoid disorganization.
Urinary Organs.-The urine has an intolerably strong smell, like that of horses.
Extremely offensive urine is its greatest key-note.
Active haematuria; urging after micturition, with shuddering along the spine.
Small blisters on the orifice of the urethra and inner surface of the prepuce, forming chancre-like ulcers.
Balanitis and fig-warts, after abuse of Mercury.
Generative Organs of Women.-Menses too early, too profuse, the urine emitting an intolerably strong smell,.
Violent pressure, as if everything were coming out of the vulva, with pain in the small of the back, through the hips and down the thighs.
Flesh-colored, or greenish leucorrhoea.
Cherry-brown, and fetid leucorrhoea.
Leucorrhoea where a syphilitic taint is the basis of the affection.
Leucorrhoea, consisting of mucus, which can be drawn out.
The inguinal glands are sympathetically affected with leucorrhoea.
Stitches in the vagina, from without inwards, when walking in the open air.
Hard knots in the mammae.
Eyes.-Eyelids swollen, hard, livid; copious yellow discharge running down the cheeks.-RAUE.
Eyelashes of the right eye all point stiffly towards the nose, with ulceration of the mucous membrane of the tongue and mouth, with stiff ropy mucus.
Especially suitable, after alkalies, for lean persons with dark complexion, black hair and eyes, who are very susceptible to take cold.
(1836-1897)
Characteristic materia medica Published 1873
Physiological materia medica, containing all that is known of the physiological action of our remedies; together with their characteristic indications and pharmacology. Published 1881