Magnesia Muriatica



water on side upon which one rests. Quotidian headache. Nervous pullings in head and face, extending to teeth, with a sensation of confusion in head. Throbbing, jerking tearing in occiput. Boils on head. Great sensitiveness of scalp. Nodes on occiput, tearing, painful to touch. Tendency of head to sweat.

Eyes

Inflammation and burning pain in eyes, with redness of sclerotica. Lachrymation and burning in eyes, when looking at anything in broad daylight. Nocturnal agglutination of eyelids. Yellow color of sclerotica. Green halo round candle in evening.

Ears

Pulsation in ear. Dulness and hardness of hearing, as if something were placed before ear. Shootings, acute pullings, and boring in ears. Itching of herpes behind ears. Great sensitiveness to noise. Buzzing in ears.

Nose

Scabs in nostrils, sometimes with painful sensibility of nose, when touched. Excoriation of nostrils. Discharge of corrosive serum from nose. Stoppage of nose, with want of breath. Pain as from excoriation, and of burning in nose. Swelling, redness, induration, and heat of lower part of nose, which are worse in morning. Troublesome dryness of nose. Nocturnal obstruction of nose. Coryza, with loss of taste and smell, and emission of yellow and fetid mucus on blowing nose. Ulcerated nostrils. Loss of smell.

Face

Pale, yellowish, or earthy complexion. Drawing pains in nerves of face. Tension in face, with cramp-like pain in bones of face. Facial eruption. Pimples on forehead, itching in evening. Lips cracked. Sensation of roughness on internal surface of lips, when touched by tongue. Large and transparent vesicles on the red of the lips (of lower lip, itching, afterwards burning).

Teeth

Toothache, aggravated to highest degree by contact of food. Sensation of elongation in upper incisors. Painful swelling and easy bleeding of gums.

Mouth

Dryness of mouth at night. Dryness of mouth and throat without thirst. Rhagades in tongue with violent burning. Tongue coated white early in morning. Copious accumulation of serous saliva in mouth. Sensation in interior of mouth as if it had been burnt. Burning in tongue as from fire. Tongue coated white early in morning, or tip and edges clean, large, flabby, yellow. Bad taste, with poor appetite.

Throat

Sensation, as if throat were excoriated and raw, worse in evening, and at night. Hawking up of viscid and thick mucus from the throat, often mixed with blood and very tenacious. Dryness and roughness of the throat with hoarse voice.

Appetite

Frequent thirst. Violent thirst (3 a.m.) _ Bulimy and craving in stomach, followed by nausea. Hunger, without knowing what is wanted. Poor appetite, with bad taste in mouth. Desire for dainties.

Stomach

Regurgitation of food, while walking. Violent hiccough during and after dinner, which causes pain in stomach. Sensation as if a ball were ascending from abdomen into oesophagus, better by eructations. Increased hunger, followed by nausea. Eructations tasting like rotten eggs, like onions Nausea, especially in morning, on first rising. Frequent nausea with fainting, day and night. Constant nausea, earthy colour of face and nervous excitability, with tendency to shed tears. Aching in stomach, with nausea. Tension, and pain as from ulceration, and as from a bruise in stomach, with excessive sensitiveness to touch. Throbbing in pit of stomach. Heat in stomach. Painful commotion in stomach, when walking and in the act of planting the foot.

Abdomen

Movings about in epigastric region, then in lower abdomen, better by emission of flatus, forenoon. After each dose burning in pit of stomach, spreading to throat, if she has water brash it disappears. Fermentation in abdomen. Tension and shooting in hepatic region. Affections of right hypochondrium, inner region of liver. Congestion of left lobe of liver. Burning in right hypochondrium, up to right scapula, when putting foot forward in walking. Aching pains in liver, also when walking, or pressing the part, worse lying on right side. Hardness and tightness of abdomen. Violent and constant distension of abdomen, with constipation. Painful hardness of abdomen, and especially of right side. Cramp-like pains in abdomen, especially in evening, and sometimes followed by leucorrhoea. Tearing in abdomen. Dragging down from region of right ovary to thigh. Cuttings, pinchings, and acute drawing in abdomen. Stinging shootings in the muscles of the abdomen. Colic ( in the evening) in hysteric persons, extending to thighs, followed by fluor albus.

Stool & Anus

Hard, difficult, slow, and insufficient evacuations. Obstructions of bowels from induration of faeces. Haemorrhoids pain during normal stool. Burning and smarting in anus during and after stool. Stools crumbling as if burnt. Stool crumbles at verge of anus. Faeces knotty, like sheep-dung. Violent tenesmus, with scanty evacuation, or only an emission of flatus. Chronic tendency to diarrhoea. Violent diarrhoea of mucus and blood. Greenish, yellowish, or brownish evacuations. Faeces coated with mucus and blood. Ejection of taenia.

Urinary Organs

Frequent want to urinate, day and night, with scanty emission. An emission can be accomplished only be contraction (bearing down) of the abdominal muscles. Torpor of urethra. Urine, pale- yellow, followed by burning in urethra. Urine passes only by drops, always some seeming to remain behind. High coloured urine, loaded with lithates, accompanies the uterine symptoms.

Male Sexual Organs

Violent itching in genital organs and in scrotum, extending as far as the anus. Frequent erections, early in morning with burning in penis. Burning in back after coition. Pain in testicles (on touching or moving them) and cords (with swelling) after unrequited sexual excitement. Nocturnal involuntary emissions, with or without dreams, scrotum relaxed and loose, often covered with sweat, constipation, indigestion, biliousness, itching at anus. Scrotum relaxed.

Female Sexual Organs

Catamenia too early and too copious. Suppressed menses. Black and coagulated blood during catamenia. During catamenia: paleness of face, with pains in loins and depression, fainting, pain in left leg. Cramps in uterus, sometimes with pains extending to thighs, and leucorrhoea. Leucorrhoea, especially during movement, or preceded by cramps in abdomen. Scirrhous induration of uterus. Leucorrhoea immediately after stool.

Respiratory Organs

Hoarseness, with roughness and dryness of throat. Hoarseness in the morning after rising. Tingling in larynx. Bloody expectoration brought on by sea-bathing. Dry cough, in evening, and at night, with burning pain and sensation of excoriation in chest. Cramp-like cough at night, with violent tickling in throat.

Chest

Oppression of chest, in region of heart. Oppression in pit of stomach. Sudden feeling of weight in chest, with obstructed respiration during dinner. Tension and contraction in chest.

Heart

Shootings (stitches) in heart, which impede respiration. Pain at apex of heart, a pricking as of needles and pins, with pain under left scapula as if knife were hacking the bone. Palpitation of heart, when seated, disappearing on motion.

Back and neck

Swelling of glands of neck. Pain as from bruises above and in small of back and both hips, with sensitiveness of the parts to touch. Shooting, tearing, and burning pains in the back. Contractive and cramp-like pains in loins. Tearing stitches in loins. Burning in back after coitus. Drawing in loins after a stool. Gnawing in spinal cord. Burning and bruised feeling between scapulae. Tearing in right scapula, then in hip, in both scapulae.

Limbs

Lancinating, drawing, and tearing in extremities (Possart).

Upper Limbs

Drawing and paralytic tearings in shoulder-joint, extending as far as arm and hand, worse by movement. Numbness of arms in morning, on waking, or in evening in bed.

Lower Limbs

Great lassitude in legs, even when seated. Heaviness of legs. Jerking tearings in hips. Uneasiness and tension in thighs. Aching pain, or paralytic pulling in the knee. Cramps in calves, at night. Burning pain in soles, in evening. Sweating of feet.

Generalities

Boring or contractive cramp-like pains. Paralytic drawing and tearing in limbs. Indurations after inflammations. Attacks of spasms, and of hysterical weakness. Hysteria, which may occur several times in a day or night. Liability to take cold. Bodily weakness, which sometimes appears to proceed from stomach. Sensation of uneasiness (soreness), and of painful weariness, in whole body, with acute sensibility to least noise. General uneasiness in evening in bed, as soon as she closes her eyes. Sensation as of boiling water on side on which one rests. The majority of the symptoms present themselves when the patient is seated, or at night, and are generally better by movement. Uneasiness in evening in bed on closing the eyes.

Skin

Tingling in different parts of the skin. Formication of the skin (face, chest, and soles of feet). Itching pimples, with burning pain after scratching. Pustular eruptions. Eruption of small red papule. Furunculi. Swelling of the glands.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica