Mercurius Corrosivus
Corrosive Sublimate
Abdomen
William Boericke 1922
Bruised sensation: caical region and transverse colon painful. Bloated ; very painful to least touch. Stool. — Dysentery; tenesmus, not relieved by stool; incessant. Stool hot, bloody, slimy, offensive, with cutting pains and shreds of mucous membrane.
Chest
William Boericke 1922
Urine. — Intense burning in urethra. Urine hot, burning, scanty or suppressed; bloody, greenish discharge. Albuminous. [Helon.; Tereb.; Uran. n.; Ammon, bens.; Ars.] Tenesmus of bladder. Stabbing pain extending up urethra into bladder. Perspiration after urinating.
Compare
William Boericke 1922
Ars.; Lack.; Lconurus — Motherwort (Influences pelvic organs, allays spasm and nervous irritability, promotes secretion and reduces febrile excitement. Valuable in suppressed menses and lochia; (dysentery; vomiting, frightful pains in abdomen, violent thirst. Tongue dry and cracked). Antidote: Calcium sulphide is antidotal to Bichloride poisoning. Use intravenous injection of 7^ grains in 7^ ozs. boiled water. Silicea.
Dose
William Boericke 1922
Sixth potency. In solution 1 : 1000, hypodermically injected under conjunctiva in choroditis with progressive myopia. Stops immediately the severe aching pain behind eyeballs. (Dr. G. D. Hal let.)
Ears
William Boericke 1922
Burning pain, zmth great swelling; worse, slight external pressure. All glands about thorax swollen.
William Boericke 1922
Violent pulsations. Fetid pus.
Eyes
William Boericke 1922
Pain behind eyeballs, as if forced out. Phlyctenulae; deep ulcers on cornea. Excessive photophobia and acrid lachrymation. Iritis. Pain severe at night; burning, shooting, tearing. Little tendency to pus formation. Iris muddy in color, thick, and neither contracts nor dilates. Retinitis albuminuric, ophthalmia neonatorum. Lids aedematous, red, excoriated. Severe burning. Soreness of the
Face
William Boericke 1922
Swollen. Red, puffy. Lips black, swollen. Sordes. Facial neuralgia within the bones.
Fever
William Boericke 1922
Chilly from slightest exposure. Profuse perspiration ; surfaces cold. 504 MERICURIUS COR. — METHYLENE BLUE — MEZEREUM
Guiding symptoms
William Boericke 1922
This salt leads all other remedies in tenesmus of the rectum, which is incessant, and is not relieved by the stool. The tenesmus often involves the bladder as well. Bright’s disease. Gonorrhoea; second stage, with continuous tenesmus. Destroys the secreting portions of the
Head
William Boericke 1922
Delirium, stupor. Frontal pain, congestion of head, with burning in cheeks. Drawing pain in periosteum of skull.
Kidneys
William Boericke 1922
This process is slow, but sure. Albuminuria in early pregnancy. (Phosph. later and at full term.)
Male
William Boericke 1922
Penis and testes enormously swollen. Chancres assume phagedaenic appearance. Gonorrhoea; urethral orifice red, swollen; glans sore and hot. Discharge greenish, thick.
Modalities
William Boericke 1922
Worse, evening, night, acids. Better, while at rest.
Mouth
William Boericke 1922
Teeth loose. Gums purple, swollen, and spongy. Tongue swollen and inflamed. Salivation. Pyorrhoea. Ptyalism. Taste salty and bitter.
Nose
William Boericke 1922
Excessive coryza. Ozaena, with perforation ol septum nasi. [Kali bkh.] Rawness and smarting jjyjjj^ilostrils. Post-nasal swelling, mucous membrane dry, and covered with bloody mucus.
Respiratory
William Boericke 1922
Pain in larynx as cut with knife. Aphonia. Cough, with bloody expectoration. Pulse rapid and intermittent. Stitches through side of
Stomach
William Boericke 1922
Incessant, green, bilious vomiting. Epigastrium very sensitive.
Throat
William Boericke 1922
Red, szcollctt, painful, intensely inflamed. Uvula swollen. SzL'ulloztnny painful. Most pain is po.^inasal zxnth sharp pains io
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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