Relations
It *antidotes: Bad effects of sugar, stings of insects, ailments from Arsenic or Copper vapours, Aurum, Ant. t, Lachesis, Belladonna, Opium, Phytolacca, Val., Chi., Dulcamara, Mez., Thuja It is *antidoted by: Aurum (suicidal mania, caries of bones, especially of patella and nose), Hepar (mental symptoms _ Anxiety, distress, suicidal and even homicidal mood _ bone pains, sore mouth, ulcers, and gastric symptoms), nitricum acidum (Periostitis, bones and fibrous tissues, bone pains worse at night, aching in shins in damp weather, ulcers in throat, especially of secondary syphilis), Chi. (Chronic ptyalism), Dulcamara (ptyalism worse by every damp change), K-i. (syphilis and mercurialism combined, bones, periosteum, glands, ozaena, thin, watery discharge, upper lip sore and raw, repeated catarrhs after Mercury, every little exposure to damp or wet air causes coryza, eyes hot, watery, swollen, neuralgic pains in one or both cheeks, nose stuffed and swollen and at same time profuse watery, scalding coryza, sore throat worse every fresh exposure), Kali-mur. (scorbutus, fetor), Asafoetida (bone affections. Asafoetida is distinguished by extreme sensitiveness of diseased parts, extreme soreness of bones round eye), Staphysagria (depressed system, wasted, sallow, dark rings round eyes, spongy gums, ulcers on tongue), Iodium (glands), Mez. (nervous system, neuralgia in face, eyes, anywhere), Belladonna, Caps., Carb-v., Ferrum, Guaiac., Stilling., Sul., Thuja, “all symptoms agreeing, Mercurius, *high” (Guernsey). *Incompatible: Silicea (Mercurius and Silicea should never be given immediately before or after each other). *Compatible after: Aco., Belladonna, Hepar, Lachesis, Sul. *Before: Arsenicum, Asafoetida, Belladonna, Calcarea, Chi., Lycopodium, nitricum acidum, Pho., Pul., Rhus, Sepia, Sul. *Compare: Belladonna (very close analogue, often complementary, commencing abscess, difficult swallowing fluids, sharp pain through tonsils, pains come suddenly), Hepar (chilliness, something sticking in fauces), Meny. (coldness in ears ), Pulsatilla (thick yellow nasal discharge _ but that of Pulsatilla, is always bland, otitis), Nux (coryza and sore throat _ Nux has *scraped feeling, Mercurius is always smarting, raw, or sore. Dysentery: with Nux tenesmus ceases after stool, with Mercurius not, there is the never-get-done feeling), Aco. (dysentery of hot days and cold nights, often precedes Mercurius, and Sul. follows in like conditions), Lept. (bilious troubles, horribly offensive stools _ the *griping of Lept. continues after stool but not tenesmus), Digitalis (gonorrhoea), Euphr. (eyes), Arsenicum (Mercurius worse by heat of, but better by rest in bed _ Arsenicum better by heat of, but worse by rest in bed), Sul. (itch, pustulous, eczematous eruptions), Spo. (orchitis), Pho. (profuse sweat without better ), Ant-c. (dirty tongue, inflammation of eyes worse glare of fire or sunshine), Arg-n. (eyes), Kali-i. (stitching pains through lungs, Mercurius r. or left and shooting in different directions, Kali., from sternum to back worse from any motion), Borax (sore mouth), Coloc. (dysentery _ Colocynthis better after stool, Mercurius worse ), Chelidonium (bilious pneumonia), Chamomilla (diarrhoea, dentition), Causticum (gonorrhoea), Mag-m. (liver pains worse touch, worse lying right side), Plumb. and Chi.s. (testes), Syphilinum (syphilis, worse heat of stove or bed, worse night): Lycopodium (hepatitis, tenderness, right to left, wash-leather tongue, sinking immediately after meals), Sul., Pulsatilla, and Chamomilla ( worse in bed at night), nitricum acidum (dark persons, Mercurius fair), Crocus (nose-bleed in tough strings), Sanguinaria (tongue as if burnt), Bryonia (wash-leather tongue, worse motion, stone in stomach), Apis (stinging pain, fetid breath, ovarian affections), Sabal. (stinging pains in ovaries), Dolichos (itching of gums, jaundice), Magnt. aust. (ulceration of nails), Psorinum and Medorrh. (foul body smell), Arnica (foul breath), Mez. (decay of teeth _ Mercurius of crowns, Mez. of roots), Ledum and Sarsaparilla (bloody seminal emissions), Sul. (pruritus vulva worse night, worse from contact with urine, which must be washed off), Lac caninum and Conium (Breasts painful, as if would ulcerate at every menstrual period), Chelidonium and Kali. c. (affect lower lobe right lung, stitches through to back), Kali. c. (suppuration of lungs after pneumonic haemorrhages ), Pic-ac. (boils in auditory meatus), Teucrium and Thuja (polypi), Cannabis indica (time passes slowly), Dulcamara (sensitive to cold and damp, cold settles in the eyes, furfuraceous eruptions), Graphites (coryza during menses, Mag-c. coryza and sore throat before and at menses, Mercurius, dull pain on forehead, with coldness, especially in women, with coryza worse before or at menses).
Causation
Fright. Suppressed gonorrhoea. Suppressed foot-sweat.
SYMPTOMS.
Mind
Great anguish, restlessness (is constantly changing from place to place), and agitation, with fear of losing the reason, or with excessive internal torment, principally in evening, or in bed at night, as if conscious of having committed some crime. (Postpartum mania, wants to throw child on fire.) _ Inclined to sopor, coma. Moral dejection, with great listlessness, discouragement, dread of labour, and disgust to life. Great indifference to everything. Does not even care to eat. Apprehensions. Desire to flee with nightly anxiety and apprehensions. Ill-humour, disposition to be angry, and to fly into a passion, great susceptibility, humour quarrelsome, mistrustful, and suspicious. Moroseness and repugnance to conversation. Groans. Continuous moaning and groaning. Excitement, and great moral irritability, with a tendency to be easily frightened. Bad effects from fright, leaving one in a state of great anxiety and worse at night. Home-sickness with nightly anxiety and perspiration. Distraction, inadvertence, difficulty of conception. Entire unfitness for meditation, and tendency to make mistakes while speaking. Answers question slowly. Weakness of memory, and will-power lost. Instability of ideas, which constantly drive away each other. Raving. Delirium, mental derangement of drunkards. Intellect weak, imbecile. Low muttering delirium. Fits of mania or dementia, with disposition to shed tears. Hurried and rapid speech. Loss of consciousness and of speech. Fury, with dread of liquids.
Head
Cloudiness, intoxication, and dizziness, principally in morning, on waking, and on getting up. Vertigo, principally on getting up, or on raising up head, or when seated, or when lying on back (vertigo with headache), as well as during or after a walk in open air, or in evening, and often with nausea, cloudiness of the eyes (everything becomes black before eyes), distressing heat, and want to lie down. Vertigo as if one were on a swing. Dull and stupid feeling with dizziness. Heaviness, fulness, and aching in head, as if forehead were squeezed by a bandage, or as though cranium were on the point of bursting (with fullness of brain). (In the evening) painful sensibility of brain, with fatigue of head by noise, better by resting head upon the arm. Compressive headache, the head feels as if it were in a vice, with nausea, worse in open air, from sleeping, eating and drinking, better in room. Violent headache, which forces compression of head between the hands. From occiput a strong, tearing, continued pain which went into forehead and there pressed. Heat and burning, or tearing and drawing pains, or shootings in head, often only semi- lateral, and extending to ears, teeth, and neck. Burning in head, especially in left temple, worse at night when lying in bed, better on sitting up. Inflammation of the brain with burning and pulsation in forehead, with sensation as if head were in a hoop, worse at night, better after rising. Weakness in head like a dulness, as if there was a vibration in forehead and turning about in a circle. Constant rotary motion of head, even when lying. Ebullition, boring, and digging shocks, and throbbings in head. Pains, as from a bruise, in brain, while in bed, in morning. Nocturnal cephalalgia. Pains in bones of head, and exostosis in the cranium. Sutures open, large head, precocious mental development. Swelling of head, soreness of the scalp, sharp and burning pains in integuments of cranium. Sensation of subcutaneous ulceration in whole head, worse at night when becoming warm in bed, better after rising. Tearing in one (left) side of head and temple, extending from neck, with insupportable heat and perspiration, worse at night and in heat of bed, better towards morning and while lying quiet. Tension over forehead as from a tape or hoop, worse at night in bed, better after rising and from laying hand on it. Congestion of blood to head with heat in it. Hydrocephalus. Sensation of tension of scalp. Scalp is painful to touch, worse when scratching, which is followed by bleeding. Tearing and stinging in bones of skull. Itching on hairy scalp, and forehead and temples, worse from scratching, when it bleeds and becomes erysipelatous. Dry, stinging, burning, fetid eruption like yellow crusts, on forepart of head and temples, when scratching inflammation and erysipelas. Exostoses, with sensation of subcutaneous ulceration on touching them, worse at night in bed. Open fontanelles with dirty colour of face, restless sleep, and sour-smelling night-sweat. Falling off of hair, mostly on sides of head and temple, with humid eruptions on head or after clammy perspirations of head, with itching at night in bed, worse from scratching, with burning, with great tendency to perspiration. Great chilliness with contractive tearing pain of the scalp, extending from forehead to neck. Fetid, sour- smelling, oily perspiration on head, and on icy-cold forehead, with burning in skin: worse at night in bed, better after rising. Dry eruption on head, small scabs in hair, sometimes with burning itching, moist scabs, with excoriation of scalp, and destruction of hair. Sweat on head and forehead, sometimes cold and viscid.
