MEDORRHINUM


MEDORRHINUM symptoms of the homeopathy remedy from Homeopathic Drug Pictures by M.L. Tyler. What are the symptoms of MEDORRHINUM? Keynote indications and personality traits of MEDORRHINUM…


Introduction

      MEDORRHINUM is the sterilized and potentized product of one of those deadly acute diseases which Hahnemann recognized as basic to all chronic disease and therefore a life-sentence unless combated and “annihilated” by their appropriate homoeopathic remedies. He put forward two of these, Thuja and Nitric acid, as producing symptoms “like” those of the acute gonorrheal manifestations, and therefore potently curative; given, one or other, as most indicated.

Since his mundane work was accomplished, we have advanced yet further where he pointed; proving and employing, with tremendous effect, the disease-product itself; but tamed, after the the methods if preparation and administration he laid down, and so rendered absolutely harmless even to the new-born babe. We saw that, once, when a mother brought her infant-of-days for advice, because it constantly struggled over to lie on its face (a Medorrhinum symptom). She was in terror that it would suffocate. But, after its tiny dose of Medorrhinum it became a reformed character, and slept peacefully and normally.

Homoeopathy has, for the last 100 years employed the deadliest poisons with not only perfect safety, but with a maximum of success, But Hahnemann’s “Doctrines” in regard to their use must be observed or they would have gone the way of so many wonderful new drugs” vaunted to the skies:widely experimented with-on the sick: prescribed according to the individual fancy of the prescriber, or of someone who sponsored them: discovered to be dangerous:exposed and described in medical journals; abandoned in favour of something yet newer and more promising. And all the while Homoeopathy may have been using them for a hundred years or more, a nd continue to employ them-in suitable cases with the absolute foreknowledge of where end how they may be relied upon merely to stimulate vitality to curative reaction, and do no harm.

Medorrhinum was introduced as a homoeopathic medicine 100-odd years ago, by Dr. Swan, U.S.A., the great pioneer in the use of disease-products for the prevention and cure of disease. The drug was “proved” by a number of very eminent physicians, mostly Americans. Its most notable symptoms, elicited by provings on the healthy, and confirmed by subsequent clinical experiences i.e. its” pathogenic verified symptoms”are very many and very striking:especially those of the mental sphere. We will endeavor to draw attention to them, as they are not easily got at by the student of Materia Medica, and as they reveal the genius of the drug.

But, first, let us say emphatically-no one must think that because Medorrhinum is the remedy called for by the symptoms of any case, that therefore the patient must have had the disease. True, one has seen this nosode act brilliantly in some extreme and loathsome acute cases during the Great War. But far more commonly the taint may have filtered down through several generations;and it may be impossible to obtain really satisfactorily healthward progress and without a few intercurrent doses of Medorrhinum, suggested, of course, by symptoms “like” this those of its provings. We may rest assured that, prepared after the methods of Hahnemann, and prescribed as he directed, it is impossible, as said, to do harm there with. Moreover it can only affect creatively a patient rendered abnormally sensitive to its action by a sickness of “like” symptoms: these, possibly, only in the mental sphere-for Medorrhinum is one of the great of mental drugs.

Burnett, who had great experience of the nosodes, and by them largely won his enormous practice and the almost adoration of the patients who found in him a help nowhere else to be obtained, used to insist that :the vilest filth prepared, in the homoeopathic manner, may be not only harmless, but the purest gold-homoeopathically applied.”

Among the symptoms of Medorrhinum are some peculiar to itself-so far as we know at present. Foremost among these is its” Better at the sea-side.” It is the only drug given by Kent in his Repertory: though elsewhere we find Bromium, in black type, for the “asthma of sailors as soon as they come ashore”. This we joyfully verified in the one case that presented itself for treatment. In regard to this :better at the sea-side” one of our keen young doctors is most enthusiastic, because it has helped him again and again to do very striking work This “better at the sea”, he says, “is acknowledged to be the great characteristic of the drug” and these are among his cured cases:

Man of 60, who complained of fear of death: worse when alone: worse at night; and rheumatism which cleared up completely at the sea-side. Here Medorrhinum 30 gave practically instant relief of fears and the patient has been better altogether even since some four months.

A woman of 38:duodenal ulcer with the usual symptoms: pain two hours after food: excessive flatulence; al;ready of eight years;duration. All her digestive troubles being better at the sea-side, she was given Medorrhinum cm. This was followed by rapid improvement of all symptoms, which has held for three months.

Woman of 40., emaciated, with itching scalp, and hair falling out. She was better always at the sea-side. Coldness of breasts when the rest of the body was warm. A craving for salt-all Medorrhinum symptoms. She got Medorrhinum 10m. Itching and falling of hair ceased; patient putting on weight; with marked improvement in appearance also. He finds the indication, “physical complaints vanish at the seaside”, apart from the general tonic effect of a holiday, an extremely valuable one.

We also have seen its fine action in some rheumatoid cases, as well as in a diversity of difficult conditions; prescribed on symptoms, or on history.

One remembers a fearful eye case, from gonorrheal infection in infancy, where an elderly woman gained much sight, and where the eyes became comparatively normal in appearance, under doses, at long intervals, of Medorrhinum and Syphilinum. One remembers a doctor friend, confronted with baffling mental symptoms in an elderly woman, most distressing to her people. who gave Medorrhinum with splendid results.

Medorrhinum as said: has a wealth of mental symptoms, strange clairvoyance : curious confusions of the time sense, “as though things done today occurred a week ago”. Loss of thought: difficulty in making right statements. Starts well, then does not know how to finish. Delusions of someone behind her, whispering. Faces peer at her from behind the furniture: Persons come in, look at her, whisper, and say “come!” Sees large people in the room: large rats running: feels a delicate hand smoothing her head from front to back. Sensation as if all life were unreal, like a dream. Is always anticipating: feels matters most sensitively before they occur and generally correctly. Is in a great hurry. Anticipates death. A tendency to suicide: gets up and takes his pistol, but is prevented. Everything startles her: news coming to her seems to touch her heart before she hears it. Fear of the dark. Had committed the unpardonable sin, and was going to hell, Desperate: not caring whether she went to heaven or hell. Very impatient, very selfish.

A feeling as if she stared at everything. Ptosis of lids.

Nearly total deafness of both ears. Partial or transient deafness. Sensation of being deaf from one ear to the other: as if a tube went through head. When whistling, sound is double, with vibration as if two people whistle thirds. Noises, frying and hissing, as if in mastoid cells. A worm crawls in right ear, and commences boring anterior wall of auditory canal.

Nose sore: bleeds: as if crawling of a centipede in left nostril.

Taste coppery: tongue coated. Tongue blistered: blisters on inner surface of lips and cheeks: skin peeling off in patches.

Throat as if scraped. Salivation. Stringy mucus comes out of mouth during sleep.

Ravenous hunger immediately after eating; or absolute loss of appetite. Enormously thirsty; even dreams she is drinking. Insatiate craving for liquor, which she had hated.

Craving: for salt; sweets; green fruit; ices; sour things: oranges.

The vomiting is of thick mucus, and black bile; generally without nausea.

A paper of pins in stomach seem to force themselves through the flesh, making her double up and scream. Intense pain and tightness in stomach with desire to tear something away.

Terrible pains in liver. Grasping pain in liver and spleen.

Throbbing and thumping in region of suprarenal capsule: drawing and relaxing; and if caused by icy cold insects with claws.

Agonizing pain solar plexus; He applied right hand to stomach and left to lumbar region.

Beating of pulses in abdomen and in many regions.

Can only pass stool by leaning back. Oozing of moisture from anus, fetid like fish brine.

Bubbling sensation in kidney.

Medorrhinum is in black type in the Repertory, with Sulphur, Pulsatilla and Chamomilla, for burning soles, which are thrust out of bed at night.

One symptom which would make one consider Medorrhinum as the remedy, is the history of an acrid, offensive discharge from vagina; perhaps greenish.

Margaret Lucy Tyler
Margaret Lucy Tyler, 1875 – 1943, was an English homeopath who was a student of James Tyler Kent. She qualified in medicine in 1903 at the age of 44 and served on the staff of the London Homeopathic Hospital until her death forty years later. Margaret Tyler became one of the most influential homeopaths of all time. Margaret Tyler wrote - How Not to Practice Homeopathy, Homeopathic Drug Pictures, Repertorising with Sir John Weir, Pointers to some Hayfever remedies, Pointers to Common Remedies.