Lithium muriaticum


Lithium muriaticum signs and symptoms of the homeopathy medicine from the Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica by J.H. Clarke. Find out for which conditions and symptoms Lithium muriaticum is used…


      “Dilute Muriatic Acid was saturated with the caustic and Carbonate of Lithium and evaporated,” Solution.

Clinical

Heartburn. Heart, pains in. Nose, sore. Tongue, numb.

Characteristics

Hering, who proved *Li. c., proved also this salt. He put one drop on his tongue. It had a salt taste, but different from common salt, a fatty-salt taste. The tongue became numb as if fat were on it. Pains in the head, back teeth, and heart. Gohrwisch, who took the 3rd dilution, had pains in heart region and notably: Hot, burning uprising in the throat and pit of stomach like heartburn. He also had pains in teeth. The tip of the nose was red, sore, and somewhat swollen.

Relations

*Compare: Li. Carb.

Head

Painful dulness right side of head, also left, with heat of face. Pain in middle of vertex. Pain in forehead above right eye. Dull pain through whole head.

Eyes

Spasmodic twitching of right upper lid.

Nose

Difficult breathing through nose as in catarrh. Tip of nose red, sore, and somewhat swollen, with a rather sensitive pain, disappeared without suppurating.

Face

Frequent heat in face.

Mouth

Painful dulness in left lower back teeth. Pains in hollow teeth left side _ Salty taste but not like common salt. Upper surface of tongue numb, as if fat were on it.

Throat

Uprising of something acid and stringy in throat, frequently.

Stomach

Increased appetite. Uprising of food and sour water. Warmth in stomach, more left side. Frequent eructations. Hot, burning uprising in throat and pit of stomach like heartburn. Feeling of heat and weakness of stomach, as after a purge, as though diarrhoea would ensue.

Stool

Prickling in anus.

Chest

Sharp but not violent pain in lower left chest, transient, frequently recurring.

Heart

Pain in upper and inner part of heart.

Back and neck

Dull pressure from between shoulders and lower down on each side of spine between shoulders and small of back. Constant pain in back, worse after remaining seated long in one position. Aching between shoulders extending through to chest.

Upper Limbs

Trembling pain in left humerus, extending upward from middle, at different intervals, as if something were dropping or slipping outward.

Lower Limbs

Throbbing in right ankle.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica