MERCURIUS



LEADING INDICATIONS.

      (1) Cachexia, anaemia, exhaustion, emaciation.

(2) Salivation; stomatitis.

(3) Increase and alteration of secretions, which become thin and excoriate.

(4) Ulceration of skin and mucous membranes.

(5) Perspiration which do not relieve and are foul smelling.

(6) Thirst, with moisture of mouth and tongue.

(7) Aggravation of all symptoms at night and from the warmth of the bed.

(8) Moist eczema and intertrigo.

(9) Nocturnal bone pains.

(10) Low-grade suppurations, which are acrid and blood- stained.

(11) Tremors of coarse character that tend to become convulsive.

(12) Green, bloody or mucous stools with tenesmus, “a cannot get done feeling.”

(13) Foul body smell (med., psor.).

(14) Mercurial symptoms occurring in syphilis.

(15) Catarrhs of mucous membranes, with increased mucus.

(16) Light-haired persons with lax skin and muscles (dark- haired, nitric ac.).

AGGRAVATION.

      -From both heat and cold, warmth of bed, at night, draughts, bending forwards (stomach complaints), after eating, lying on the right side, touch and pressure, motion and exertion, sweat food, lamplight and firelight (eyes).

AMELIORATION :

      From rest, weeping, coitus.

The salts of mercury have the same general therapeutic applications as the pure metal, but they are modified by the acid ion and are thereby made especially suitable in certain conditions. We will now consider them with regard to their particular provinces.

Edwin Awdas Neatby
Edwin Awdas Neatby 1858 – 1933 MD was an orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy to become a physician at the London Homeopathic Hospital, Consulting Physician at the Buchanan Homeopathic Hospital St. Leonard’s on Sea, Consulting Surgeon at the Leaf Hospital Eastbourne, President of the British Homeopathic Society.

Edwin Awdas Neatby founded the Missionary School of Homeopathy and the London Homeopathic Hospital in 1903, and run by the British Homeopathic Association. He died in East Grinstead, Sussex, on the 1st December 1933. Edwin Awdas Neatby wrote The place of operation in the treatment of uterine fibroids, Modern developments in medicine, Pleural effusions in children, Manual of Homoeo Therapeutics,