Chloride of magnesium. Magnesia chloride. Mg Cl2. Solution. Trituration.
Clinical
*Biliousness. Bladder, paresis of. Cardialgia. *Cold. Constipation. Deafness. Diarrhoea. Dysmenorrhoea. Dyspepsia. Foot-sweat. Headache. Heart, affections of. Haemorrhoids. Heartburn. *Home-sickness. Hysteria. *Leucorrhoea. *Liver, *affections of. *Menstruation, *painful. Nocturnal emissions. Ozaena. Palpitation. Pregnancy, nausea of. *Smell, *disordered. Spleen, enlarged. Stomach, disorders of. *Taste, *disordered. Tinea ciliaris. Urine, straining to pass. Uterus, pain in, induration of. Water brash. Whooping-cough.
Characteristics
While *Mag.c. and *Mag.sul. Are recognized old-school remedies, I can find no mention of *Mag.m. or *Mag.phos. in modern text- books. *Mag.m. first appeared in Hahnemann’s *Chronic Diseases. The general feature of *Mag.c. appears in many symptoms, notably those of nervous disturbance and hysteria. The salt, says Guernsey, “is found in many mineral water, and in sea-water. It has a very bitter taste, and in decomposed by heat,” The note about the sea-water is important. *Mag.m. is like *Nat.mur., and *Aq. *mar in the relation to seaside effects. *Nat.m. is particularly indicated in constipation, “biliousness,” and generally, disordered health, which appear as soon as the patient goes to the seaside. *Mag.m. is indicated when excessive weakness is felt after a sea-bath. The chief *Localities of its action are: Head, right hypochondrium, inner region of liver, rectum and large intestine, bladder, uterus, heat, feet. It is *especially suited to: Diseases of women, spasmodic and hysterical complaints complicated with uterine diseases. Headache at menstrual period in hysterical women. Women after suffering months or years from attacks of indigestion or biliousness. Enlargement and congestion of liver. Puny, rickety children during dentition. Men with disordered livers, and sexual disorders. Teste, who places *Mag.m. in his *Ferrum group, says that *Mag.m. and *Mag.c. “have been used for the cure of cachexia occasioned by long and painful diseases.” He says he has seen *Mag.m. produce great improvement in this case: “Hydrarthrosis of left knee, with emaciation of left thigh, consequent on a wandering neuralgia, which, after having commenced in the form of cystitis with (non-venereal) discharge from urethra, had successively invaded the shoulder, left elbow, eyes, and lastly, knees, where it had become seated.” A connection between liver disorder and nasal obstruction has often been traced, and *Mag.m. has a large number of symptoms in both. The nasal symptoms have led to its successful use in ozaena. One case cured had redness, swelling and scaliness of nose, and sweat about the head and feet. *Mag.m. is one of the leading remedies in foot-sweat. Burning in soles, evening, must put feet out of bed. In liver affections there is enlargement, sensitiveness worse from touch, and worse, lying on right side, tongue large, coated, indurated. It is especially suited to liver affections in children who are puny and rickety, and have eruptions about the eyes. The constipation of *Mag.m. is very distinctive, and has led to the cure of many extremely obstinate cases. The characteristic stool is *knotty and conglomerate, like sheep’s It may remain in this condition, or it may crumble at the anus. Painful urging before stool, burning at anus after. As well as intestinal atony, there is atony of bladder: urine can only be passed by bearing down with abdominal muscles. The hysterical symptoms are marked: spasms, fainting, globus. Bearing down in uterine region, uterine spasms. Menses black or pitch-like, accompanied by pains in back when walking, pains in thighs when sitting. Leucorrhoea after every stool or following uterine spasms. Hysterical headaches. Patient is anxious, restless, always worse by mental exertion, during or after dinner seized with nausea, eructations, trembling and faint spells, better by eructations. Palpitation worse when quiet, better moving about. Perversions of taste and smell are marked in *Mag.m., and I have frequently restored with it loss of taste and smell after influenza. Among the *Sensations of *Mag.m. are: As if some one was reading after her. As if boiling water was on side of head. As if hair pulled. As if tongue burnt, mouth scalded. Stools as if burnt. The *pains are mostly boring and spasmodic contractive pains, dragging down. There is much burning and heat. R. M. Skinner reports (*Medorrhinum Adv., xxiv. 383) this case: A farmer had been treated allopathically three months for chills, which were checked, but the man did not feel well. Spleen very large, sensitive, felt heavy when he walked or rode. Constipated, goes three or four days without a stool. It was for this that he sought advice. Abdomen distended, hard, especially in ileocecal region. Cold on left side and a crawling feeling, like a cold snake. Beating in umbilical region as if his heart beat there. *Mag.m. 20 one dose on the tongue. At 8 p.m. the bowels began to act and went on acting with the exception of one hour till 3 a.m. He complained next morning that the medicine had “almost killed him,” and he looked thin and tired. No further medicine was given, and in ten days he had no complaint, and the spleen was normal in size and without tenderness. In a large proportion of *Mag.m. cases the *Conditions will give the leading indications. There is general hyperesthesia and worse by touch or pressure, but the head pains are better by hard pressure, eye pains better by pressure, and the menstrual pains better by pressing on back. There is great sensitiveness to cold and disposition to catch cold, better wrapping up head warmly, but the skin eruptions on face, head, and eyes are worse in warm room, cough worse in room. Most symptoms except headache are better in open air. Sea-bathing causes bloody expectoration, great weakness. Rest worse, motion better (this is especially marked and peculiar in reference to palpitation). Worse Lying down. Palpitation is better lying on left side. Liver symptoms worse lying right side, worse on side lain on. (Also lying on left side causes sensation of something (liver) dragging to that side.) Rumination worse while walking. worse At meals (fainting). better By eructations (nausea and trembling). worse After coitus (pain in testes and cords). Mental exertion worse.
Relations
*Antidoted *by: Chamomilla, also Camph., Arsenicum, Nux. It *antidotes: Mercurius (metrorrhagia). *Compatible: Belladonna, Sul., Natrum mur., Pul., Sepia *Compare: Hysteria, Mosch., Asafoetida, Val., and Castor. Uterine spasms, Ignatia (Mag.m. may have induration), Causticum and Secale (both have *continuous spasm). Erections and burning in penis, Pic. ac., Nat.m. Enlarged liver, worse by touch and lying on right side, Mercurius Foot-sweat and head-sweat, Silicea (Sil is offensive), scrofulous and rickety children, headache better wrapping, Silicea Congestion of liver, enlargement, feeling of weight and pressure, Ptelea (Ptelea trifoliata is better lying right side). Rumination, Sul.(Mag-m. is while walking). Nervous restlessness, Zn. better Motion, Rhus. Heart symptoms better by motion, Gelsemium Lips chapped and serrated, Natrum mur. worse After coitus, Kali. c., Br. Enlarged liver of children, Calc-ars. Sensitiveness to noise, Ignatia, Nux-v., Theridion Eructations tasting like onions (Sinap., breath smells of onions). Leucorrhoea two weeks after menses, Baryta, Bovista, Conium Menstrual headache, Mag-c. (Mag-m. more hysteria).
Causation
Sea-bathing.
Mind
Uneasiness and lachrymose humour. Peevishness and chagrin. Aversion to conversation, prefers solitude. Repugnance to exertion. Nervous excitability, with tendency to weep readily. Excited, unhappy, fitful, emotional. Fearful and inclined to weep. Anxiousness in room, better in open air. While reading, felt as if some one was reading after her, and she must keep reading faster and faster.
Head
Stupefaction as from intoxication. Vertigo in morning, on rising, and during dinner, disappears in open air. Heaviness in head, with a dizziness which causes falling down. Pains, better by covering up head. Sensation of numbness in forehead. Compressive sensation in head from both sides, with a hot feeling, and with beating in forehead when pressing upon it. Tearing and stitches in temples, with great sensitiveness of vertex, as if the hair were raised by pulling. Tearing and stitches in right temple, extending to eye, necessity to press eyes together. Griping and raging in both temples, with a feeling as if he would become dizzy and lose consciousness, disappearing on pressing the head with both hands, in evening after lying down (5th day). Tensive pressure in forehead and sinciput, with confusion and cloudiness in head, principally on awaking and when lying, better from exercise in open air and when wrapping head up warm. Squeezing, as from a claw, and noise in temples, in evening, in bed, with sensation as if vertigo and loss of consciousness were coming on. Jerking, or shooting and pulsative tearings, in head. Congestion, with heat, painful humming, and ebullition in head. Painful undulation and whizzing as of boiling
