MEZEREUM


MEZEREUM signs and symptoms from the Characteristic Materia Medica by William Burt of the homeopathic medicine MEZEREUM …


SPHERE OF ACTION

This remedy belongs to the cerebro-spinal group, affecting more especially the sentient nervous system. Upon the abdominal viscera, it increases the secretions of the whole intestinal tract, producing copious watery stools, with more or less gripping pains, nausea, vomiting and gastro-enteritis.

Also has a special action upon the periosteum.

GRAND CHARACTERISTICS.

Periostitis and swelling of the bones, especially on the tibia, with most violent nightly pains in the bones.

Boring, pressing pains, coming like lightning, which leave the parts numbed.

Violent nightly toothache.

Digestive Organs.-Violent pain and pressure in the stomach after eating most simple things, like broth, milk, bread.

Chocolate-colored vomiting, with hard lumps in the epigastrium.-HEMPEL.

Cholera infantum, with nausea, vomiting and watery diarrhoea; with emaciation.

Prolapsed rectum, which remains strangulated; very painful when touched.-HEMPEL.

Nervous rheumatism, with flying pains.

Rheumatic neuralgia; worse at night.

Great emaciation, muscles of the face tensely drawn like strings.-HEMPEL.

Flying, stitching pains are CHARACTERISTICS of this remedy.

William Burt
William H. Burt, MD
(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