MERCURIUS

Homeopathic Materia Medica & Symptoms

Kent's Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

  • Worse from extremes of temperature
  • Worse from both heat and cold
  • Worse in a warm atmosphere
  • Worse in the open air
  • Worse in the cold
  • Worse from warmth of the bed
  • Offensive breath
  • Offensive perspiration
  • Offensive urine
  • Offensive stool
  • Offensive sweat
  • Worse at night
  • Bone pains
  • Joint affections
  • Inflammatory conditions
  • Periosteal pains
  • Boring pains
  • Inflamed and swollen glands
  • Ulcers everywhere
  • Burning and stinging ulcers
  • Ulcers with lardaceous base
  • Ulcers with ashy-white appearance
  • Diphtheritic exudations on inflamed surfaces
  • Tendency to pus formation
  • Abscesses burn and sting
  • Yellow-green pus discharges
  • Thick greenish yellow gonorrhoeal discharge
  • Sweat does not relieve
  • Emaciation
  • Trembling
  • Restlessness
  • Repeated swelling and abscess formation without heat
  • Superficial ulceration inclined to spread
  • Gangrenous condition
  • Tremor of hands
  • Epileptiform fits in children
  • Twitching
  • Disorderly motions
  • Jerking
  • Convulsions
  • Hastiness
  • Hurried disposition
  • Restless disposition
  • Anxious disposition
  • Impulsive disposition
  • Slow and sluggish mind
  • Forgetfulness
  • Imbecility
  • Softening of the brain
  • Delirium
  • Desire to kill
  • Impulse to kill or commit suicide
  • Sudden anger with impulse to do violence
  • Impulsive insanity
  • Anxiety during menses
  • Sadness during menses
  • Bone pains
  • Glandular troubles
  • Catarrhs
  • Ulcerations everywhere
  • Rheumatic troubles of the scalp
  • Neuralgias
  • Brain trouble
  • Burning, stinging pains affected by weather
  • Head troubles from suppressed discharges
  • Sweating of the head in children
  • Dilated pupils
  • Rolling of the head
  • Aggravation at night
  • Lingering febrile conditions
  • Suppressed ear discharge

Allen's Keynotes

  • best adapted for light-haired persons; skin and muscles lax
  • bone diseases, pains worse at night
  • glandular swellings with or without suppuration, especially if profuse
  • profuse perspiration attends nearly every complaint but does not relieve
  • great weakness and trembling from least exertion
  • breath and body smell foul
  • catarrh: fluent, acrid, corrosive; nostrils raw, ulcerated; yellow-green, fetid, pus-like
  • catarrh: worse at night and from damp weather
  • toothache: pulsating, tearing, worse in damp weather, evening air, or warmth of bed; better from rubbing cheek
  • ptyalism: tenacious, soapy, stringy, profuse, metallic-tasting saliva
  • tongue: large, flabby, shows imprint of teeth
  • intense thirst although tongue looks moist
  • mumps, diphtheria, tonsillitis with profuse offensive saliva
  • diphtheria: membrane thick, gray, shred-like borders
  • dysentery: stool slimy, bloody, with colic and fainting
  • dysentery: great tenesmus during and after, not relieved by stool; followed by \"cannot finish\" sensation
  • quantity of urine voided is larger than amount drunk; frequent urging
  • leucorrhoea: acrid, burning, itching with rawness; worse at night
  • mammae painful as if they would ulcerate at every menstrual period
  • cough: dry, fatiguing, racking; in two paroxysms, worse at night and warmth of bed
  • cough: inability to lie on right side
  • ulcers on gums, tongue, throat; irregular shape, undefined edges, dirty look, lardaceous base
  • aggravation: at night; wet damp weather; in autumn (warm days, cold damp nights); lying on right side; perspiring

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