MERCURIUS PROTO-JODATUS


MERCURIUS PROTO-JODATUS signs and symptoms from the Characteristic Materia Medica by William Burt of the homeopathic medicine MERCURIUS PROTO-JODATUS…


SPHERE OF ACTION

Through the vegetative nervous system it especially affects the lymphatic glandular system, and the parotid and submaxillary glands. The glands of the throat and its mucous membrane, seem to a special centre for the action of this remedy. Its action upon the system is somewhat similar to Mercury and Iodine, but not exactly similar to either.

Wood and Bache say: It should never be given at the same time with Iodide of Potassium, which converts it immediately into Biniodide and Metallic Mercury.

GRAND CHARACTERISTICS.

Its grand sphere of usefulness is in secondary syphilis, in diphtheritic affections and in scrofulous diseases of the glandular system.

Diseases of the glands, acute or chronic; conglobate or conglomerate; swelling of the parotids and tonsils during scarlatina.-DR. G.W. COOK.

It is the only form of mercury that ought to be used in induration1 of the parotid and cervical glands and tonsils, when these conditions attend scarlatina and measles.-DR. FRELEIGH.

Enlargement, engorgement, or torpor of the liver, or spleen during fevers, particularly those of a typhoid type.-COOK.

Enlargement of the inguinal glands and testicles during gonorrhoea or lues.-COOK.

Ganglionitis; tabes mesenterica.

Deep bone-pains, especially at night.

Worse in a warm room; better in the open air.

Always worse during rest, better when exercising actively.

Excessively tired feeling of the whole body, especially of the limbs; indisposition to do anything, and desire to lie down, with dull, aching pains in forehead and bones of the face.

Head.-Dull headache affecting the whole head. Dizziness while riding and when rising from a chair.

Neuralgia of the left side of the head.-Dr. BLAKELY.

Sharp, throbbing, boring pains, from within outwards, deep in the left ear.

The headache is always on the top of the head or right side.

Symptoms relieved during care and anxiety; soon as relieved the symptoms appear more violently.

Soreness of the bones of the face with headache.

Great soreness and stiffness of the neck.

Great deal of mucus in the nose; much of it descends through the posterior nares into the throat.

Polypus of the nose.-HEMPEL.

Digestive Organs.-Thick yellow coating at the base of the tongue: the tip and edges bright red.-Dr. BLAKELY.

Tongue coated with a thick yellow, dirty coating.

Teeth feel too long; very painful when closing the gums.

The buccal, submaxillary glands and tonsils are enlarged, inflamed, painful, throbbing, with abundant flow of tough, ropy saliva.-COOK.

It especially affects mucous membranes covered with squamous epithelium.

The functions of the mucous follicles of the entire cavity, including those at the root of the epiglottis, are so disordered as t cause them to yield, an opaque, viscid and tough substance, which is sometimes expectorated with great difficulty.-Dr. COOK.

The surface of the mucous membrane is raw, the epithelium being entirely destroyed.W.COOK.

Pseudo-membranes located upon the tonsils, tongue, uvula, velum palati, pharynx or some portion of the alimentary tract.-DR.

R.LUDLAM.

The deposit should be of a limited extent, of feeble organization, transparent, pellicular, albuminous, and easily detached.-R.LUDLAM.

To those cases in which there is but a feeble effort at a reorganization of false membrane, when it has been removed or dropped off spontaneously.-LUDLAM.

Great thirst for water in the evening.

Pain in the liver, with dizziness all day; the pain proceeds from the right to the left, producing dizziness and nausea.

Colic followed by soft, yellowish brown stools.

Copious, very thin, brown stools, accompanied by froth and wind; preceded by cutting pains in the abdomen.

Stools in the daytime are copious, soft, and of a dark or light-brown color; the stools as night are scanty, hard and black.

Stools every evening about 10p.m.

Urine dark red and copious.

Very troublesome itching over the whole body.

Be sure and make this the standard in the treatment of secondary syphilis, in the 2nd decimal trituration.

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