Magnesia Carbonica
Carbonate of Magnesia
Abdomen
William Boericke 1922
Rumbling, gurgling. Dragging towards pelvis. Very heavy; contractive, pinching pain in right iliac region. Stool. — Preceded by griping, colicy 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.
Compare
William Boericke 1922
Rheum; Kreos.; Aloes; Cheiranthus — Wall flower — (deafness, otorrhoea, nose stopped up at night from irritation of cutting misdom-tecth.)
Dose
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Third to thirtieth potency.
Ears
William Boericke 1922
Diminished hearing. Deafness; comes suddenly and varies. Numbness of outer car. Feeling of distention of middle ear. Subdued tinnitus.
Extremities
William Boericke 1922
Tearing in shoulders as if dislocated. Right shoulder painful, cannot raise it. [5‘anp.] Whole body feels tired and painful, especially legs and feet. Swelling in bend of knee*
Face
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Tearing pain in fine side; worse, quiet; must ipidFve about. Toothache, especially during pregnancy; ifcorse at night; worse, cold and quiet. Teeth feel too
Female
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Sore throat before menses appear. Before menses, coryza and nasal stoppage. Menses too late and scanty, thick, dark, like pitch ; mucous leucorrhoea. Menses flow only in
Fever
William Boericke 1922
Chilly in evening. Fever at night. Sour, greasy perspiration. 476 MAGNESIA CARBONICA — MAGNESIA MURIATICA
Guiding symptoms
William Boericke 1922
Gastro-intestinal catarrh, with marked acidity. Often used with advantage for complaints arising in people who have been taking this drug to sweeten thfe
Head
William Boericke 1922
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
Modalities
William Boericke 1922
Worse, warmth of bed; change of temperature; every three weeks; rest. Better, warm air; walking in open air.
Mouth
William Boericke 1922
Dry at night. Sour taste. Vesicular eruption; bloody saliva. Sticking pain in
Relationships
William Boericke 1922
Antidotes : Ars.; M ere. Complementary : Cham.
Respiratory
William Boericke 1922
Tickling cough, with salty, bloody expectoration. Constrictive pain.s in chest, with dyspnoea. Soreness in chest during motion.
Skin
William Boericke 1922
Earthy, sallow and parchment-like; emaciation. Itching vesicles on hands and fingers. Nodosities under
William Boericke 1922
Sore; sensitive tpticold.
Sleep
William Boericke 1922
more profuse at night [Amm. m.], or when lying down; cease when walking.
William Boericke 1922
Unrefreshing; more tired on rising than on retiring.
Stomach
William Boericke 1922
Desire for fruit, acids, and vegetables. Eructations sour, and vomiting of bitter water. Craving for meat.
William Boericke 1922
Is frequently indicated in children; whole body smells sour, and disposed to boils. Broken-down women, with uterine and climacteric disoiders. 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 or from excess of care and worry with constipation and heaviness. Intense neuralgic pains.
Teeth
William Boericke 1922
[Cheiranthus.] Pain in malar bone, worse during rest, night. Swelling of malar bone with pulsating pain, worse exposure to cold wind.
Throat
William Boericke 1922
hawking up fetid, pea-colored particles.
References
This monograph is an original summary faithful to the classical tradition. It condenses material from these public-domain sources:
- James Tyler Kent, Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica (1905)Primary remedy pictures; characteristic mental and general symptoms. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
- William Boericke, Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica and Repertory (1927)Reproduced here in full — the complete classical repertory-style monographs. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
- Constantine Hering, The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica (1879–1891)Confirmed symptom aggregates behind the section organization. · Public domain
- Timothy Field Allen, Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica (1874–1879)Provings background referenced by the verification tradition. · Public domain
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