MEDORRHINUM


MEDORRHINUM homeopathic remedy keynotes and indications from the Decachords by Gladstone Clarke, of the medicine MEDORRHINUM…


Symptoms

      1. Deep-seated sycotic chronic affections esp. after maltreated or suppressed gonorrhoea, when best selected remedy falls to relieve or permanently improve.

2. Patient lachrymose; cannot speak without weeping; always anticipating events, even death; memory weak; mentally sensitive; irritable, impatient.

3. Intensely restless and fidgety legs and feet (Zincum met.); subjective trembling all over.

4. Burning of hands and feet; wants them uncovered and fanned (Lachesis, Sulphur).

5. Rheumatic and arthritic complaints of sycotic origin; puffy swelling and painful stiffness of joints, esp. knuckles; constricting pains; soreness all over.

6. Insatiate cravings; for liquor, salt, sweets, fruits, etc.; usually constipation.

7. Nocturnal enuresis; passes enormous quantities of ammoniacal, high-coloured urine in bed every night.

8. Female pelvic disorders esp. if symptoms tend to malignancy with or without sycotic origin; menorrhagia and metrorrhagia, flow profuse, dark, clotted.

9. Collapsed state; wants to be fanned; skin and sweat cold yet throws off covering; craves fresh air.

10. Modalities; (<) daylight to sunset (rev. Syphilinum); (<) heat, covering; thunder-storm; motion; (>) at seashore (rev. Natr. M.); (>) lying on the stomach esp. in respiratory complaints.

A. Gladstone Clarke
Arthur Gladstone Clarke, a christian missionary working with the North China Mission, made good practical use of the homeopathy. He learnt as a student at MSM. He published a short introduction to the use of over 100 commonly used medicines—Decachords—first published in 1925 and still in print today.