Homeopathy Remedy Mercurius Iodatus Ruber


Mercurius Iodatus Ruber homeopathy drug symptoms from Handbook of Materia Medica and Homeopathic Therapeutics by T.F. Allen, of the homeopathic remedy Mercurius Iodatus Ruber…


      Pure deuto-iodide of Mercury (Mercuric iodide) is triturated for use.

Generalities

      Sticking in forehead, throat, l. eye and l. cheek. Tearing gnawing, (<) night, so that it disturbed sleep. Pain in head, throat and eye. Rheumatic pains, (<) r. forearm and hand, with weakness; R. pains, now here, now there, generally in limbs, mostly muscular, alternately in arms and hands, legs and feet, and occasionally in l. ear. Restlessness from midnight till morning, with constriction in diaphragm, almost like a cramp. Weakness; with bruised pain in whole body. Symptoms disappeared at noon. Amelioration towards evening.

Mind

      Merry, though the head is worse. Very cheerful in evening after pleasant things had happened. Ill-humored in morning; on waking and taste, bad; I. during toothache. Low-spirited and disposed to cry.

Head

      Aching; all day; in morning, with coryza, which ceases at noon from morning till 2 P.M. and in evening, (<) forehead, with nausea at 4 P.M., (<) fore head; at 8 P.M.; at night and next morning, later only on r. side congestion as with a cold, in afternoon changing sides, next day more congestive, in evening on r. side only, next morning in bed,(>) rising; when sitting still after sleep during the day; (<) afternoon and evening with drowsy, stolid feeling in head; with heat; with sleeplessness; and in ear; in bones, (<) occipital. Heavy pain. Heaviness, with soreness over bowels. Dullness in afternoon; D. on waking; (>) walking in open air. with pain in l. side, as reel around her.

Forehead.- Tearing gnawing pains, (<) night disturbing sleep. Sharp pain over eyes at 11 A.M. Pain; in region of comparison; over eyes; over l. side at 9 P.M., drawing and sticking at 10 P.M.; intermittent, (<) r. side from 7 till 10 P.M., next day till 9 P.M., with sticking in heart, third day at 3 P.M. Heavy pain through F. up to vertex and in out side of skull. Heaviness, and with in it the evening throbbing in r. side of head from front part to vertex. Sensation as if bound with a tight cord (Iod).

Pain in temples and jaws. Throbbing from r. side of vertex down to nose in afternoon, with heaviness. Sticking above ears at 4 P.M. Pain in l. side of head; in l. side of brain from 6 till 8 P.M. Pain in l. on waking, (>) evening; in l. half, with sensation in anus as from piles; r. side, (>) rising; p. goes from r. to l. side, (>) dinner. Pressure in cerebellum below occipital protuberance. Pustules on scalp; forming crusts.

Eyes

      Inflammation, (<) r., also with irritation from a bright light, so that he keeps it closed; I. in afternoon, with burning; of r., with lachrymation; with burning. Pressing or sticking. Pain; in and over l. Weakness and heat. Watery, swollen. Albuginea inflamed and painful. Lids affected by the catarrh. Vision dim.

Clinical Scrofulous ophthalmia, granulated lids, ulceration of cornea; particularly valuable in old cases of pannus and granulated lids.

Ears

      Wax increased. Pain in r. in morning in bed. Itching all night; I. in r.; external auditory passage. Hearing dull; in morning; in morning, returns after going out at 10 A.M., closing only for moments; (>) evening; (>) noon and 2 P.M.; r. ear opens at 2 P.M.; H better with r. ear as long as he takes every morning a shower bath; H better with r. ear disposed to put his finger in r. ear to cause pressure of air on drum, at the same time r. nostril runs, (<) evening when drinking tea; H. returns in evening after painful jerks in teeth; H. returns suddenly in r., in r., then itching in meatus externus. Singing in evening.

Nose

      Dryness is nostrils and throat; and pain. Irritation of mucus membrane causing constant snuffing. Tickling causing sneezing. Stoppage in morning or from 8 till 10 A.M.; S. of r. nostril. Much mucus in N. and throat. Coryza; in a warm room, (>) open air, with cough; (>) getting warm from walking, with dull hearing; with hoarseness; with swelling, heat and inflammation of r. side of nose. Fluent coryza in forenoon; F., (>) evening; with much sneezing. Discharge of much mucus in morning; D. of bloody mucus on blowing; of much clear mucus without coryza, with lachrymation.

Clinical Nasal polypus, involving even the orbit, entirely cured.

Face

      Sticking in cheek, Pain in l. cheek. Heavy aching in upper jaw., then in lower, (<) sides, worse in r. Lips slimy and sticking in lips.

Mouth

      Teeth. Stinging at times. Rending pain in r. Aching, (<) l.; in r. molars; in r. hollow T.; in l.at night before sleep; in all during dinner, from chewing; in r. hollow lower, then painful jerks in l. threatened after meals. Sensitiveness during breakfast. Pressed so much in sleep that the muscles were lame and tired on waking. Gums red. Gums feel sore as if he would be salivated, Gum over second r. upper, molar tender to touch as if an abscess were forming.

Blisters on point of tongue. Tongue dry. Tongue and mouth sensitive as if burnt with tea. Scalded feeling in tongue after breakfast. Burnt sensation in mouth in forenoon. Soreness of middle of inside of l. cheek. Sensation as if fibres were in mouth. Salivation; with pain in lower teeth; at noon; metallic- tasting. Taste bitter; T. flabby; T. metallic in evening; slimy on waking; bad on waking; fresh after salivation; pappy, with good appetite.

Throat

      R. parotid sore to touch and the region painful during eructations. Mucus. Disposition to hawk; hawking of mucus; H. through the day and spitting of scanty, white, tough expectoration. Superficial ulcer in patches. Painful swelling of tonsils and submaxillary glands. Sticking; and pressing. Sensation of a lump with disposition to hawk it out all day, hawked up a hard greenish lump. Soreness, (<) empty swallowing; S and inflammation, with frequent cough and expectoration, next day inflammation and swelling of l. tonsil, elongation of velum which seems to cause the cough, next day inflammation and swelling of both tonsils. Scalded feeling all day, (<) empty swallowing. Almost constant desire to make am empty deglutition from salivation and fulness in throat.

Clinical In sore throats the inflammation is worse on or confined to l. side, otherwise the symptoms are very similar to the protoiodide; it usually has the same yellow-coated tongue (though in some cases the tongue is clean); there are in general more febrile excitement and more tendency to headache that in the protoiodide.

Stomach

      Inclination to have the food more salted. Thirst for small quantities. Loud and bitter eructations. Nausea in evening, with uneasiness and laziness all over limbs and sleepiness; during meals; when passing diarrhoea; with uneasiness and laziness all over limbs at the same time with rheumatic pains, with sinking at stomach or in epigastrium, with general sick feeling with urging to stool; with headache; with sore throat. Heartburn after dinner. Pain at 10 A.M.; P. in epigastrium or pressure.

Abdomen

      Rumbling; or purring; with soreness all over abdomen and heaviness of head. Motion all night after 11 P.M. with ineffectual urging to stool. Griping forcing him to stool, large, copious, light brownish, inability to urinate as long as the stool lasted, after the stool the urging continued with itching in rectum, all around sphincter ani, which felt protruded, colic again at 11 O’clock, (>) loose light yellowish-brown, watery bloody stool. coated with mucus, then tenesmus and soreness, of bowels again after dinner, at 2 P.M., colic, with loose stool, then tenesmus, in afternoon and evening only soreness in bowels. Pain all night after 11. P.M., with diarrhoea; P., with frequent desire for stool; P. as before stool, in evening till fully asleep. Weakness in abdomen; stomach and partly extending into chest, from 6 A.M. till 3 P.M., with eructations and feeling as before stool.

Sudden cutting in liver region. Pain in r. hypochondrium, with full feeling; P. in r. hypochondrium (yesterday in l.) with drawing in anus as if haemorrhoids were coming on; sprained, in r. hypochondrium near pelvis; intermittent heavy pain in region of liver, pancreas and spleen; drawing in l. hypochondrium, afterwards lame sensation there in morning. L. waist felt sore on bending. Distention of umbilical region, with pain on pressure. Pain around umbilicus. Sprained pain in r. pelvic region in morning after a good night’s rest, (>) walking.

Stool

      Diarrhoea in morning. Soft. Easier and not so thick as usual. Four firm S. in twenty-four hours, more at night.

Urinary Organs

      Ulcers in bladder. Bearing down on bladder. Frequent desire, she cannot retain the urine a moment. Sensation in urethra as if urine were hot in morning during normal stool. Urine increased. Urine red. U. thick and dark.

Sexual Organs

      Sensitiveness of r. testicle and spermatic cord. Emissions at night; towards mornings. Desire (<) going to sleep.

Clinical It has been found useful by many physicians in true syphilis, which is doubtless due to the Iodine in the combination, though the depressing effects of the Mercury undoubtedly determine a more marked action of the Iodine than would be obtained if the Iodine were uncombined with it. Ulcers and erosions of is uteri; inflammation of cervix and uterus internally; enlarged leucorrhoea profuse greenish corrosive. Extremely valuable in inflammation and enlargement of the uterus.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.