Mercurius

January 4, 2010 by H.C.Allen  

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Best adapted for light-haired persons; skin and muscles lax.
In bone diseases, pains worse at night; glandular swellings with or without suppuration, but especially if suppuration be too profuse ( Hep. , Sil. ).
Cold swellings; abscesses, slow to suppurate.
Profuse perspiration attends nearly every complaint, but does not relieve; may even increase the suffering (profuse perspiration relieves, [...]

Best adapted for light-haired persons; skin and muscles lax.

In bone diseases, pains worse at night; glandular swellings with or without suppuration, but especially if suppuration be too profuse ( Hep. , Sil. ).

Cold swellings; abscesses, slow to suppurate.

Profuse perspiration attends nearly every complaint, but does not relieve; may even increase the suffering (profuse perspiration relieves, Nat. m. , Psor. , Ver. ).

Great weakness and trembling from least exertion.

Breath and body smell foul ( Psor. ).

Hurried and rapid talking ( Hep. ).

Catarrh: with much sneezing; fluent, acrid, corrosive; nostrils raw, ulcerated; yellow-green, fetid, pus-like; nasal bones swollen; < at night and from damp weather.

Toothache: pulsating, tearing, lacerating, shooting into face or ears; < in damp weather or evening air, warmth of bed, from cold or warm things; > from rubbing the cheek.

Crowns of teeth decay, roots remain (crowns intact, roots decay, Mez. ).

Ptyalism; tenacious, soapy, stringy, profuse, fetid, coppery, metallic-tasting saliva.

Tongue: large, flabby, shows imprint of teeth ( Chel. , Pod. , Rhus ); painful, with ulcers; red or white.

Intense thirst, although the tongue looks moist and the saliva is profuse (dry mouth, but no thirst, Puls. ).

Mumps, diphtheria, tonsillitis with profuse offensive saliva; tongue large, flabby with imprint of teeth; mapped tongue ( Lach. , Nat. , Tarax. ).

Diphtheria: tonsils inflamed, uvula swollen, elongated, constant desire to swallow; membrane thick, gray, shred-like borders adherent or free.

Dysentery: stool slimy, bloody, with colic and fainting, great tenesmus during and after, not > by stool, followed by chilliness and a “cannot finish” sensation. The more blood, the better indicated.

Quantity of urine voided is larger than the amount of water drunk; frequent urging to urinate.

Nocturnal emissions stained with blood ( Led. , Sars. ).

Leucorrhoea: acrid, burning, itching with rawness; always worse at night; pruritus, < from contact of urine which must be washed off ( Sulph. ).

Morning sickness; profuse salivation, wets the pillow in sleep ([Lac. ac.]).

Mammae painful, as if they would ulcerate at every menstrual period ( Con. , Lac. c. ); milk in breasts instead of menses.

Cough: dry, fatiguing, racking; in two paroxysms, worse at night and from warmth of bed; with utter inability to lie on right side.

Affects lower lobe of right lung; stitches through to back ( Chel. , Kali c. ).

Suppuration of lungs, after haemorrhages of pneumonia ( Kali c. ).

Ulcers on the gums, tongue, throat, inside of the cheek, with profuse salivation; irregular in shape, edges undefined; have a dirty, unhealthy look; lardaceous base surrounded with a dark halo; apt to run together (syphilitic ulcers are circular, attack the posterior parts of mouth, throat, and have well-defined edges, are surrounded with coppery hue, and do not extend from their primary seat).

Trembling extremities, especially hands; paralysis agitans.

Ailments from sugar, insect stings, vapors of arsenic or copper. Diseases occurring in winter.

Relations. – Follows well: after, Bell. , Hep. , Lach. , Sulph. , but should not be given before or after Silicea.

If given in low (weak) potencies hastens rather than aborts suppuration.

The bad effects of Mer. are antidoted by Aur. , Hep. , Lach. , Mez. , Nit. ac. , Sulph. , and by a strong (high) potency of Mer. , when the symptoms correspond.

Compare: Mezereum , its vegetable analogue for bad effects of large doses or of too frequent repetition.

Mercury is < by heat of, but > by rest in, bed. Arsenic is > by heat of, but < by rest in, bed.

Aggravation. – At night; wet damp weather ( Rhus ); in autumn, warm days and cold, damp nights; lying on right side; perspiring.