MEZEREUM

Homeopathic Materia Medica & Symptoms

Boericke's Materia Medica

Skin symptoms
affections of bones
neuralgias especially about teeth and face
bruised weary feeling in joints
drawing and stiffness
pains of various kinds
chilliness and sensitiveness to cold air
bone pains
eruptions after vaccination
burning darting sensation in the muscles
subsultus tendinum
pains shoot upward
pains seem to draw patient up out of bed
semi-lateral complaints
sensitive to cold air
hard work to talk
headache worse from talking
stupefying headache in right side
affections of external head
scaly eruption
white scabs
head covered with thick leathery crusts
pus collects under crusts
violent neuralgia about face and teeth running towards ear at night
worse eating
better near hot stove
roots of teeth decay
teeth feel elongated
sneezing
coryza
excoriated interior of nose
post-nasal adenoids
ears feel too much open
tympanum feels exposed to cold air
desire to bore fingers in ears
ciliary neuralgia after operations
especially after removal of eyeball
pains radiate and shoot downward
cold feeling and stiffness of bone around eyes
red face
eruption around mouth with coryza
desire for ham-fat
burning in tongue extending to stomach
mouth waters
nausea felt in throat better eating
chronic gastritis
burning corroding pain in stomach
nausea and vomiting chocolate color
gastric ulcer with much burning
swelling of glands with large abdomen in children
pressure in inguinal ring
flatulent colic with shivering and difficult respiration
constipation after confinement
prolapse of rectum
diarrhea with small white particles
green discharges
constipation with hepatic and uterine inertia
constriction of anus
stitches and prolapse of rectum
red flakes float on top of urine
hot bloody urine
biting burning in forepart of urethra at the close of micturition
hematuria preceded by cramp pain in the bladder
after urinating a few drops of blood are passed
menses too frequent soon profuse
leukorrhea like albumen very corroding
enlargement of testicles
violent sexual desire
gonorrhea with hematuria
soreness and burning in bones of thorax
constriction across chest
cough worse eating
irritation lower than can be reached on taking a warm drink
pain in neck and back worse motion and at night intolerant of all touch
pain and burning in tibia and long bones
legs and feet go to sleep
pain in hip and knee
eczema intolerable itching
chilliness with pruritus worse in bed
ulcers itch and burn surrounded by vesicles and shining fiery-red areola
zona with burning pain
bones especially long bones inflamed and swollen
caries
exostosis
bone pain worse night touch damp weather
eruptions ulcerate and form thick scabs under which purulent matter exudes

Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

Bones, affections of
Coccygodynia
Constipation
Contraction of tendons
Crusta lactea
Ear, affections of
Ear sensitive to air
Erythema
Exostoses
Eyes, affections of
Glands enlarged
Gleet
Gonorrhea
Hematuria
Hernia
Herpes zoster
Impetigo
Irritation
Leucorrhea
Mercury, effects of
Neuralgia
Osteoma
Pediculosis
Pityriasis
Prolapsus ani
Pruritus senilis
Rheumatism
Scrofula
Syphilis
Teeth, affections of
Tinea capitis
Tinea versicolor
Tongue, affections of
Tongue swelling of
Ulcers
Vaccination
Hypochondriacal humour with sadness and tears
Anguish and inquietude especially in solitude with wish for society
Indifference about everything and everybody around him
Aversion to talk
Irresolute
Everything seems dead and nothing makes a vivid impression
Peevishness
Passion
Unfitness for labour
Weak memory
Mental torpor
Slow conception
Ideas are frequently lost
Stupefying confusion in head as from intoxication or immoderate pollutions
Vertigo which causes falling on one side with sparkling before eyes
Headache with shuddering and shivering < in open air
Pressive and stunning headache on one side only of brain
Headache in temples and sides of head after an exertion and from talking much
Violent headache and great sensitiveness to least contact after a slight anger
Compressive or cramp-like pain as if head were being severed
Violent pulsative and pressive pains in whole head, forehead, nose and teeth < by the slightest movement
Thrilling headache with vomiting of mucus
Sensation of torpor with drawing pains in one side of head
Pains in bones of cranium < by touch
Painful sensitiveness of scalp and of hair to touch
Gnawing itching in scalp
Itching eruption on head sometimes moist
Head covered with a thick leather-like crust under which thick and white pus collects here and there and the hair is glued together
On head great elevated white scabs under which ichor collects in great quantity and which begins to be offensive and breed vermin
The scabs on head look chalky and extend to eyebrows and nape of neck
Burning biting itching on scalp principally on vertex when scratching the locality changes but the itching becomes <; this is followed by very sore boils and humid eruptions < at night and when lying down
Pains in bones of scalp (on both sides) with swelling and caries great sensitiveness to contact, cold, motion < in evening
Numbness of scalp with drawing pain in it generally only on one side < from cold contact and in evening
> by heat
Dandruff white dry
Inclination to wink with eyes
Dryness in eyes with pressure in them
Twitching of muscles around eyes
Lachrymation with smarting in eyes
Staring at one spot
Pain as if balls of eyes were too large with aching
Sensation as if eyes drawn back into head
Eyes feel strained
Smarting in internal canthi
Inflammation of eyes
Conjunctiva injected dirty red
Myopia or presbyopia
Sparks before eyes
Obstinate twitching of the muscles of the l. upper lid
Pupils contracted
Otalgia with drawing and acute pullings
Itching and oozing eruption behind ears
Hardness of hearing
Sensation of stoppage of ears
Ears feel as if they were too open and as if air were pouring into them or as if the tympanum were exposed to the cold air with a desire to bore with fingers into ear
Sensation as though air were distending the r. external meatus; afterward in l.; as if roaring would occur
Tinkling in ears sometimes with drowsiness
Deafness with headache all over head < on vertex as if the bone were breaking a splitting headache with tenderness of scalp begins across root of nose and eyes and is < at night also a sick feeling after food
Bursting sensation in r. ear with neuralgia of whole side of head
A rumbling in ears with feeling of fulness and pressure and dimness of sight
Swelling of r. ear and itching as if a boil were forcing itself through concha
Adenoids post nasal
Deafness < when eating
Slight otorrhoea
Stuffiness of l. nostril with ozena
Very deaf
Both membranes highly vascular following cold and acute headache of r. side of head deafness had lasted 2 1/2 months
Heavy dulness in l. ear with itching in both eyelids could scratch them to pieces
Twitching (visible) on root of nose
Excoriation of interior of nose
Diminution of smell with sensation of dryness in nose and sometimes ineffectual desire to sneeze
Frequent sneezings accompanied by pain of excoriation in chest
Fluent coryza with secretion of liquid and yellow (thin at times bloody) mucus excoriation and burning in nose and eruption on lips and burning of upper lip
Grey earthy complexion
Face and forehead hot and red with great restlessness and peevishness
Paleness of face
Cramp-like and stunning pressure on cheek-bone sometimes only on one side (r.) and extending to eye temple ear teeth neck and into shoulder
Drawings in jaw-bones
Continued and painful twitching in cheeks and eyelids
Frequent troublesome twitching of muscles in middle of r. cheek
Furunculi on face
Child scratches its face constantly it becomes covered with blood
In night child scratches its face so that the bed is covered with blood in morning
Face is covered with a scab which the child keeps constantly tearing off anew and on the spots thus left raw large fat pustules form
The ichor from scratched face excoriates other parts
A honey-like scab around mouth
Skin of face is of a deep inflammatory redness the eruption is humid and fat
Excoriation and burning in lips and commissures
Lips swollen and cracked with exfoliation
Swelling of lower lip with rhagades
Upper lip ulcerated with burning pain when touched
Shootings in submaxillary glands
Pains in carious teeth
The hollow teeth decay suddenly
Drawing burning or boring shootings in teeth and into cheek-bones and temples
Jerking and tearing pains in teeth
Sensation as if teeth were set on edge and too long
Toothache < by touch and by movement as well as during the shiverings in evening
Teeth pain when touched by the tongue
Ebullition of blood to the head shiverings and constipation during toothache
Teeth coated with fetid mucus
Teeth speedily become carious
Burning vesicles in gums
Burning vesicles in mouth and on tongue
Tongue swollen protruding
Tongue quite raw
Constant burning in mouth
Burning in the mouth and throat
Impeded speech
Pressive pain in throat on swallowing
Roughness excoriation smarting scraping and lancinating in throat and palate
Burning in throat (pharynx) and in oesophagus
Inflammation of throat
Constriction and contraction of pharynx
The food presses on the part during deglutition
Beer has a bitter taste and is thrown up when taken
Increased hunger at noon
Great hunger or loss of appetite
Violent hunger in afternoon and evening
Unusual longing for ham fat
Burning in the stomach mouth and throat > by eating (swallowing the food)
Repugnance to food
Frequent and empty risings especially after drinking
Sensation of nausea in throat
Sensation as if posterior part of throat were full of mucus same after hawking
Nausea with accumulation of water in mouth shuddering and trembling of whole body
Violent vomitings of greenish and bitter mucus accompanied by headache
Vomiting of blood
Aching in stomach
Burning and sensation of heat in stomach
Inflammation of stomach
Contraction of diaphragm
Abdomen hard and tense
Chronic cramp-like acute pulling pressive constrictive and shooting pains in abdomen
Stitches in l. hypochondrium
Dull pain in region of spleen
Heaviness in abdomen
Sensation of heat and burning in abdomen
Inflammation of intestines
Expansive pressure in inguinal ring
Drawing in inguinal glands
Flatulent colic with rumbling and borborygmi in abdomen difficult respiration and shivering
Many short fetid flatulent discharges especially before the stool
Difficult stools of the consistence of thick pap with urgent want to evacuate
Constipation
Constipation stool dark brown in knots very hard balls with great straining but not painful
Stools soft brown smelling sour
Soft stool in evening fermented stool not fully digested smelling very offensive or sour
Excessive diarrhoea (small stools) with intolerable colic
Brown faeces containing some white glistening bodies
Scanty soft frequent evacuations
Violent diarrhoea with insupportable pains in abdomen
During (or after) stool prolapse of rectum with constriction of anus which makes it very difficult to replace sore and painful to touch
Before and after stool creeping in rectum as from ascarides
Stitch in rectum upwards (in afternoon)
Biting sore pain in anus on walking and a burning in rectum
Pain in anus and anterior part of penis
Pinching in anus and near anus l. side
Crawling in anus much itching
Tenesmus tearing and drawing in anus and perineum and through whole urethra
Coldness and shuddering before and after the evacuation
Diminished secretion of urine
In morning and forenoon frequent discharges of large quantities of pale urine
Flock-like cloudiness and reddish sediment in urine
Haematuria
Sticking in kidney and pain as if torn
Pain as from excoriation in urethra
Discharge of mucus from urethra
Discharge of a few drops of blood after urinating
Biting burning in forepart of urethra at close of micturition
After micturition itching at prepuce
Tearing jerking and lancination in penis
Tearing and burning lancinations in the end of the glans
Heat and swelling of penis
Violent erections and increased sexual desire
Swelling of testicles
Fine pricking stitches in penis and tip of glans
Abundant secretion of smegma behind glans like gonorrhoea balani
Swelling (painless) of scrotum
Chronic leucorrhoea like white of eggs (malignant corroding) sometimes also serous
Menses: too frequent and lasting too long
Scanty with leucorrhoea and prosopalgia
Suppressed menses
During pregnancy diarrhoea and prolapsus recti
After confinement constipation burning and stitches in rectum
Hoarseness with burning and dryness in throat irritation which excites coughing rawness in chest and difficult respiration
Violent cough when lying down
Dry cough with retching and vomiting in evening and at night
Desire to draw a long breath
Spasmodic violent whooping-cough caused by an irritation in larynx extending to chest expectoration in morning of a yellow albuminous tough mucus tasting salt
Difficult respiration
Pain in chest during inspiration as if there were adhesions in lungs and the cavity of the chest were too narrow
Aching in chest
Painful tension of muscles of chest
The chest feels too tight on stooping
Pain as from excoriation and burning in sternum
Stitches in chest < during inspiration in (r.) side of chest < from drawing a long breath
Pulse intermittent
Pulse full tense hard
Painful rigidity of nape of neck and of neck and external muscles
Tearing jerking in sides of neck
Rheumatic pains in muscles of shoulder-blade
They feel tense and swollen and prevent motion
Shootings in back
Contractive and tensive pain in back extending to sacrum
Sacral pains
(Coccyx tender and sore from a fall)
Dislocating pain in shoulder-joint
R. arm feels sprained on top of shoulder
Pain as from excoriation in axillae (r.)
R. hand cold (while writing) l. warm (in a warm room)
Cold hands
Trembling in r. hand
Tips of fingers powerless cannot hold anything
The hands (and feet) go to sleep continually
Drawing and rheumatic tension in arms with paralytic weakness
Paralysis of flexors
Jerking pains in shoulders arms hands and fingers
Swelling and heat of arm and hand with twitching and pricking in muscles
Ulcers on finger-joints
Jerking in hip-joint as far as knee
Contraction of leg
R. hip-joint feels sprained on walking
Twitching of whole of r. leg
Pain in hip the leg is shortened
Whole leg covered with elevated white scabs
Cracking in r. knee when rising in morning
Legs and feet go to sleep
Stitches in toes of r. foot
Pain in periosteum of the long bones especially the tibia < at night in bed and then the least touch is intolerable
Pains in bones of thighs and legs
Tearing drawing and tension in thighs legs feet and toes
Tension and stiffness in knees
Jerking and pressive pain in tibia
Hard swelling of calves of legs
Jerking pain in toes
Violent pains in bones of feet
In bones of instep < when walking
Pain in ball of little toe
Drawing rheumatic tearing and tension in the limbs with paralytic weakness
Thrilling pains which leave a distressing sensation behind them for a long time
Drawing pains in one side of body with shivering
Pains accompanied by shivering and shuddering
Gnawing pains as from excoriation in mucous membranes
Burning in the organs of digestion
Burning of internal parts with external chilliness
Inflammation and swelling of bones especially shafts of cylindrical bones caries after abuse of Mercury
Ulceration of bones
Tension in muscles
Hot jerking stitches in various parts of body
Jerking and quivering of muscles
Drawings and sensation of weakness in joints joints feel bruised and weary as if they would give way
Contusive pain and heaviness in all limbs
Heaviness and indolence of body
Feeling of great lightness of body
General sick feeling
Bending of body in walking
Emaciation or bloatedness of body and face with enlargement of abdomen in children
Pain in the glands
Abscesses of fibrous parts or tendons
Predominance of sufferings on one side of the body
Great susceptibility to cold air
Sensitiveness to washing with cold water in morning
Sensitiveness to touch
General desquamation of skin of body
Usual liver spots on chest and arms become dark and desquamate
Red rash itching violently < in bed from touch
Burning and change of place after scratching
Cutaneous ulcers form over bony protuberances
Ulcers with thick whitish yellow scabs under which thick yellow pus collects
Skin covered with elevated white scabs
Itching especially at night (when in bed) more violent and painful (and changed to burning) after scratching the parts and sometimes with swelling of the part that has been scratched
Gnawing itching as from vermin
Miliary eruptions sometimes chronic
Furunculi
Inflamed ulcers with burning and shooting or with gnawing pain of excoriation
Inflammation and swelling of the bones rachitis caries
Ulcers: with an areola sensitive and easily bleeding when removing the linen which sticks painful at night the pus tends to form an adherent scab under which a quantity of pus collects burning and stinging with inflammation
Vesicles around the ulcers itching violently and burning like fire
Suppuration after inflammation
Great sleepiness by day with agitated and unrefreshing sleep at night
Shocks in body during sleep
Waking early (towards 2 or 3 a.m.) in consequence of nightmare
Pulse full and hard
In the evening accelerated
Intermitting at times
Chilliness shiverings and coldness of whole body especially in hands and feet with violent thirst and sometimes without a desire for warmth
Chill predominates even in warm room
Chill with thirst and desire for heat
Chill from upper arms extending to back and legs
Heat in bed mostly in the head
Intermittent fever
Chill over the whole body accompanied by asthmatic contraction and tightness of chest in front and back
During cold stage a peculiar thirst
Dryness in back of mouth with accumulation of saliva in fore part without any desire to drink
During cold stage drowsiness in the warm room
Sleep with sweat after the shiverings (without previous heat)
Fever accompanied by headache and paleness of face the splenetic region painful swollen and hard weakness and great susceptibility to cold air
Tertian fever
Violent inflammatory fever

Allen's Keynotes

for light-haired, irresolute persons of a phlegmatic temperament
eczema and itching eruptions after vaccinations
hypochondriacal and despondent
indifferent to everything and every one
angry at trifles and perfectly harmless things, but is soon sorry for it
headache violent after slight vexation
headache painful on the slightest touch
headache right-sided
head covered with thick, leather-like crust, under which thick and white pus collects here and there
hair glued and matted together
pus becomes offensive and breeds vermin
child scratches face continually, which is covered with blood
face covered with moist eruptions
itching of face worse at night
inflammatory redness of face
toothache in carious teeth
teeth feel elongated
dull pain when biting on teeth and when touched with tongue
toothache worse at night
toothache better with mouth open and drawing in air
roots of teeth decay
ulcers with thick, yellowish-white scabs, under which thick, yellow pus collects
vesicles appear around the ulcers, itch violently, burn like fire
shining, fiery-red areola around ulcers
linen or charpie sticks to the ulcers, they bleed when it is torn away
eczema with intolerable itching, worse in bed and from touch
eczema with copious, serous exudation
burning pains after shingles
bones, especially long bones, inflamed and swollen
nightly bone pains going from above downwards
bone pains after abuse of mercury or after venereal diseases
bone caries and exostosis
bone tumors soften from within out
pain in periosteum of long bones worse at night in bed, least touch, in damp weather
worse from cold air and cold washing
worse at night
worse from touch or motion
bad effects of mercury or alcohol

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