(Carbonate of Magnesia)
Gastrointestinal catarrh, with marked acidity.
Often used with advantage for complaints arising in people who have been
taking this drug to sweeten the stomach. Is frequently indicated in
children; whole body smells sour, and disposed to boils. Broken-down,
"worn-out" women, with uterine and climacteric disorders. With numbness and
distention in various parts and nerve prostration. Sensitive to the least
start, noise, touch, etc. Affections of the antrum of Highmore. Effects of
shock, blows, mental distress. Sense of numbness; nerve prostration;
tendency to constipation after nervous strain; sensitive to least
touch, it causes starting, or cold winds or weather or from excess of
care and worry with constipation and heaviness. Intense neuralgic
pains. | ||
| Head. Sticking
pain in the side of the head on which he lies, as if the hair was pulled;
worse, mental exertion. Itching of scalp worse in damp weather. Pain above
margin of right orbit. Black motes before eyes. | ||
| Ears.
Diminished hearing. Deafness; comes suddenly and varies. Numbness of outer
ear. Feeling of distention of middle ear. Subdued tinnitus. | ||
| Face. Tearing
pain in one side; worse, quiet; must move about. Toothache, especially
during pregnancy; worse at night; worse, cold and quiet. Teeth feel too
long. Ailments from cutting wisdom teeth. Pain in malar bone, worse during
rest, night. Swelling of malar bone with pulsating pain, worse exposure to
cold wind. | ||
| Mouth. Dry at
night. Sour taste. Vesicular eruption; bloody saliva. Sticking pain in
throat; hawking up fetid, pea colored particles. | ||
| Stomach. Desire
for fruits, acids, and vegetables. Eructations sour, and vomiting of
bitter water. Craving for meat. | ||
| Abdomen.
Rumbling, gurgling. Dragging towards pelvis. Very heavy;
contractive, pinching pain in right iliac region. | ||
| Stool. Preceded
by griping, colicky pain. Green, watery, frothy, like a frog pond's
scum. Bloody mucous stools. Milk passes undigested in nursing
children. Sour, with tenesmus. [Rheum]
Constipation after mental shock or severe nervous strain. | ||
| Female. Sore
throat before menses appear. Before menses, coryza and nasal stoppage.
Menses too late and scanty, thick, dark, like pitch; mucous
leucorrhea. Menses flow only in sleep; more profuse at night, or when lying
down; cease when walking. | ||
| Respiratory.
Tickling cough, with salty, bloody expectoration. Constrictive pains
in chest, with dyspnea. Soreness in chest during motion. | ||
| Extremities.
Tearing in shoulders as if dislocated. Right shoulder painful, cannot raise
it. Whole body feels tired and painful, especially legs and feet. Swelling
in bend of knee. | ||
| Skin. Earthy,
sallow and parchment-like; emaciation. Itching vesicles on hands and
fingers. Nodosities under skin. Sore; sensitive to cold. | ||
| Fever. Chilly
in evening. Fever at night. Sour, greasy perspiration. | ||
| Sleep.
Unrefreshing; more tired on rising than on retiring. | ||
| Modalities.
Worse, warmth of bed; change of temperature; cold wind or weather;
every three weeks; rest. Better, warm air; walking in open
air. | ||
| Relationship.
Antidote: Ars.; Merc. Complementary: Cham. Compare: Rheum | ||
| Dose. Third to
thirtieth potency. |