Generalities
Considered as a vegetable mercury, it is a remedy for bilious constitution. It chiefly affects the duodenum;liver; intestines; RECTUM; right side; ovary, scapula, throat. Alternating condition; diarrhoea alternating with constipation; headache alternating with diarrhoea. Many troubles, during pregnancy. Sudden shocks, from jerking pains. Much drowsiness and desire to stretch. Sphincters relaxed.
Worse
EARLY MORNING. Eating. Hot weather. Dentition. Drinking. Acid fruits. Milk. Before, during and after stools. Motion. Mercury.
Better
Rubbing or stroking liver. Lying on abdomen.
Mind
Whining. Loquacity during chill and fever; afterwards forgets what has passed. Imagines he is going to die or be very ill. Fidgety and restless; cannot sit still.
Head
Rolling of head from side to side, with moaning; during dentition; from business worry. Headache alternating with or better by diarrhoea. Darting, pain in forehead; must close the eyes.
Eyes
Lids half closed. Jaundiced.
Face
Hot, cheeks flushed; during diarrhoea. Jaundiced.
Mouth
Offensive odour. Burning, rough or flabby, indented tongue. Intense desire to press the gums together; grinding of the teeth; at night. Bitter taste. Tongue; broad, large, moist; coated as of mustard spread on it. Loss of taste, could not tell sweet from sour. Everything tastes sour or putrid.
Throat
As of a lump in oesophagus.
Stomach
Craves acids which disagree. Vomits; hot froth, milk (infants). Hot sour eructations; smelling like rotten eggs. Constant gagging. Thirst for large quantities of cold water. Gagging in infantile diarrhoea.
Abdomen
Liver and whole abdominal viscera are sore worse during vomiting; diarrhoea; before and during menses. Sore and painful liver better rubbing. Weak, empty, sinking or sick feeling; after stools. Rubs for relief. GURGLING THROUGH BOWELS, THEN PROFUSE PUTRID STOOLS GUSH OUT PAINLESSLY. Stools; white, like water; foaming; with meal like sediment; run right through the diaper; then weakness. Summer diarrhoea. Stools; involuntary, during sleep, when passing flatus. Diarrhoea alternating, with other symptoms; constipation. Pale, hard, chalky stools. Jaundice, with gall-stones. Rectum; raw, sore, weak; prolapsed; before stools; after parturition; during pregnancy, on vomiting, on sneezing; from mental excitement. Moist foul piles. Morning diarrhoea. Diarrhoea better lying on abdomen; worse while being bathed or washed (children), eating canned fruits, acid fruits, milk.
Urinary
Frequent urination; at night, during pregnancy. Enuresis. Diabetes mellitus and insipidus.
Male
Diseases of prostate gland associated with rectal troubles.
Female
Pain in the region of the ovaries (right), down the crural nerve worse stretching the legs. Ovarian tumour, with pain extending to shoulder. Prolapse of uterus on straining or over-lifting; after parturition. As if the genitals would come out during stool. Can lie comfortably only on the abdomen during early months of pregnancy. Menorrhagia from straining. Swelling of labia during pregnancy.
Heart
Palpitation; with a clucking sensation, rising up to the throat, from emotions.
Extremities
Pain in right inguinal region, shoots down inner thigh to knee. Paralytic weakness of left side. Cramps in calves, with stools. Pain along ulnar nerve of both arms.
Sleep
Moaning and whining during sleep. Sleepy after paroxysms of malaria.
Fever
Chill at 7 a.m. Loquacity during fever. Sweat; profuse, with sleep; offensive.
Skin
Moist, warm; jaundiced.
Related
Aloe; Chin; Mercurius
Complementary
Natrum mur.