(Chloride of Magnesia)
A liver remedy with pronounced characteristic
constipation. Chronic liver affections with tenderness and pain, extending
to spine and epigastrium, worse after food. Especially adapted to diseases
of women, with a long history of indigestion and uterine disease; children
who cannot digest milk. Evil effects of sea bathing. | ||
| Head. Sensitive
to noise; bursting headache; worse, motion, open air; better, pressure, and
wrapping up warmly. [Sil.] Much sweating of head. [Calc.; Sil.] Facial neuralgia
pains, dull, aching, worse damp weather, slightest draft, better pressure
heat. | ||
| Nose. Nostrils
ulcerated. Coryza. Nose stopped and fluent. Loss of smell and taste,
following catarrh. Cannot lie down. Must breathe through mouth. | ||
| Mouth. Blisters
on lips. Gums swollen, bleed easily. Tongue feels burnt and scalded. Throat
dry, with hoarseness. | ||
| Stomach.
Appetite poor, bad taste in mouth. Eructations like rotten eggs. Continued
rising of white froth into mouth. Cannot digest milk. Urine can be
passed only by pressing abdominal muscles. | ||
| Abdomen.
Pressing pain in liver; worse lying on right side. Liver enlarged with
bloating of abdomen; yellow tongue. Congenital scrotal hernia. Must use
abdominal muscles to enable him to urinate. | ||
| Urine. Urine
difficult to void. Bladder can only be emptied by straining and
pressure. | ||
| Bowels.
Constipation of infants during dentition; only passing small quantity;
stools knotty, like sheep's dung, crumbling at verge of anus.
Painful smarting hemorrhoids. | ||
| Female. Menses
black, clotted. Pain in back and thighs. Metrorrhagia; worse at night.
Great excitement at every period. Leucorrhea with every stool and after
exercise. Tinea ciliaris, eruptions in face and forehead worse before
menses. | ||
| Heart.
Palpitation and cardiac pain while sitting; better by moving about.
[Gels.] Functional cardiac affections with liver
enlargement. | ||
| Respiratory.
Spasmodic dry cough; worse forepart of night, with burning and sore
chest. | ||
| Extremities.
Pain in back and hips; in arms and legs. Arms "go to sleep" when waking in
morning. | ||
| Sleep. Sleep
during day; restless at night on account of heat and shock; anxious
dreams. | ||
| Modalities.
Worse, immediately after eating, lying on right side; from sea
bathing. Better, from pressure, motion; open air, except
headache. | ||
| Relationship.
Antidote: Cham. Compare: Nat-m.; Puls.; Sep. | ||
| Dose. 5 drops
of tincture. Third to two hundredth potency. |