MERCURIUS


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


      Vivus or Solubilis.

Symptoms

      1. Light-haired subjects of lax fibre; earth or dirty-yellow, rough complexion. Anti-syphilitic, second stage.

2. Mental slowness but states changeable; (a) memory and will power deficient; answers (questions slowly; despondency; (b) hurry and anxiety; loquacity, esp. in delirium; time passes slowly.

3. Weakness and weariness in all the limbs with pronounced tremor, esp. of hands; goes on to paresis and paralysis; with great restlessness.

4. Suppurative conditions; low potencies hasten, high potencies abort suppuration; of glands; eruptions of many kinds.

5. Superficial ulcerations; spreading, everted edges, cheesy base, readily bleed, discharge excoriating; esp. about the mouth and throat.

6. Ptyalism; profuse, soapy, stringy saliva; foetid metallic taste. Tongue swollen, flabby, showing teeth imprints, coated gen. moist yet intense thirst present

7. All mucous membranes have free secretion of slimy muco-pus, often with ulceration; discharge first thin, excoriating then thicker and more bland; gen. greenish; naso-pharyngeal region and colon esp. affected; dysenteric stools with much blood and tenesmus, not (>) stool.

8. Profuse sweating without (>) esp. in fevers.

9. Bone diseases with boring pains (<) night; exostosis.

10. Patient (<) both heat and cold; at every change esp. to damp weather; all night, warmth of bed; lying right side; joints also (<) touch, pressure and movement.

Notes. In skin affections Mercurius Soluble is to be preferred. Mercurius Cyan. invaluable in diphtheria. Mercurius Biniod. in left sided-Mercurius Protiod. in right-sided throat conditions. Incompatible with Silica.

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.