Mercurius



Respiratory Organs

Catarrh, with febrile shivering, hypochondriacal humour, dislike to all food, and constipation. Catarrh with cough, hoarseness, fluent coryza and sore throat. Continual hoarseness and loss of voice. Nasal voice. Burning and tickling in the larynx with hoarseness. Dry cough, sometimes fatiguing and shaking, principally in bed, in evening, or at night, also during sleep, and on waking in morning, excited by a tickling, or a sensation of dryness in chest, and worse by speaking. Cough, as if caused by irritation in stomach. Convulsive cough, with retching. Spasmodic cough (whooping-cough), two paroxysms follow one another rapidly, from tickling in larynx and upper part of chest, at night, without cough during day, with expectoration of acrid yellowish mucus, which is sometimes mixed with coagulated blood, tasting putrid or salty. Cough worse in night air, at night and when lying on left side. Dyspnoea (sensation of spasmodic contraction when coughing or sneezing). Pains in head and chest when coughing, as if these parts were about to burst, or shootings in occiput, or pain as from excoriation in chest, and pain in loins. Inclination to vomit and fits of choking, when coughing. Cough with expectoration of pure blood. Bloody sputa in tuberculosis. Hoarse cough, with sensation of dryness and shootings in throat.

Chest

Difficult respiration, as from want of breath, or short and loud respiration. Breath having a bad smell. Shortness of breath when going upstairs and when walking quickly. Anxious oppression of chest, and difficulty of respiration, with want to take a deep inspiration, chiefly after a meal, or with attacks of suffocation at night, or in evening in bed, when lying down (on left side). Sensation of dryness in chest. Want of breath, with squeezing and tension in chest, and sensation, on least movement, or attempt to speak, as if life were coming to an end. Sharp pains, and sensation as if muscles of chest were bruised. Aching in chest, sometimes penetrating to back, with inability to take a full inspiration. Burning in chest, sometimes extending to throat. Soreness and burning in chest. Lancinations (as if caused by knives) in chest and sides, or as far as the back, principally when breathing, sneezing, and coughing. Stitches in right chest through from scapula, inflammation of lungs. Sensation as of a contraction and of swelling, and pain as from excoriation and ulceration, in chest. Suppuration of lungs after haemorrhages, or after pneumonia. Emphysema of lungs.

Heart

Palpitation of heart, on slightest exertion. Fainting. Fatal syncope.

Neck and Back

Burning and drawing pain in back and in nape of neck. Indurated lymphatics. Rigidity and rheumatic swelling of nape of neck, and of neck. Shootings in muscles of neck. Engorgement and inflammatory swelling of glands of neck, with shooting and pressive pains. Shooting pains, instability, and weakness in loins. Pain as from a bruise in sacrum, back, and shoulder- blades. Erysipelatous inflammation extending from back like a girdle around abdomen (zona).

Upper Limbs

Sharp (rheumatic) pains in shoulders and arms, principally at night, and when moving them. Jerking in arms and fingers. Hot and red (arthritic) swelling of elbow, as far as hand. Itching miliary eruption on arms. Furfuraceous and burning tetters on forearms and on wrist. Tremor of hands, with weakness, could neither feed nor dress himself. Cracking, weakness, and sensation of paralysis in hand. Sweat on palms. Eruption like moist itch on hands, with violent nightly itching. Cramp-like contraction of hands and fingers. Swelling of joints of fingers. Deep and bleeding fissures and rhagades in hands and finger. Cramp-like pains, and tendency to become stiff in hands when using them. Swelling of wrist, with pain on touching or moving it. Rigidity of wrists. Painful stiffness of right wrist-joint. Ulceration at the nails. Exfoliation of fingers (of finger-nails). Deadness of fingers.

Lower Limbs

Sharp and lancinating (rheumatic) pain in hip joints, as well as thighs and knees, chiefly at night, and during movement, and often with a sensation of coldness in diseased parts. Tearing in the hip-joint and knee, worse at night, or with pulsating pain, suppuration commencing. Burning in nates. Soreness between thighs and genitals. Burning in periosteum of tibia. Drawing in tibia. Great weakness, heaviness, and painful weariness in thighs and legs. Weakness and giving way in knees, could scarcely stand. Sensation of rigidity, of torpor and cramps in thighs. Itching pimples on thighs. Edematous, transparent swelling, of thighs and legs. Dropsical swelling of legs. Tension in hams, as if tendons were too short. Itching miliary eruption in legs. Tetters on thighs and legs. Contraction of legs, and cramps in calves of legs and toes. Swelling of instep or heels, with sharp or shooting pains. Wrenching pains in foot. Coldness and sweat in feet. Painful swelling of metatarsal bones. Swelling of toes. Ulceration at nails.

Generalities

Oedema of face, hands, and feet with anemia. Cellulitis with lumpiness in any region. Periostitis then necrosis. Tearing and drawing, or shooting pains in limbs, chiefly at night, in heat of bed, which renders the pain insupportable. Red and shining inflammatory swellings. Inflammations ending in exudations and suppurations. Nocturnal pains in bones. Softening of the bones, so they will bend (rickets), enlargement of, caries of, inflammation of, prickling of, tearing in. Affections of shoulder-blades, shin-bones, bones of the leg. Sufferings worse at night, or in evening, also from fresh (evening) air. Throbbings, sensation of dislocation, and arthritic pains in joints, with swelling. Rheumatic and catarrhal inflammations. Rheumatic pains, with profuse sweat, which affords no relief. The patient feels much better in morning and during repose, and especially when lying down than when seated or walking. Whole body feels as if bruised, with soreness in all bones. Great agitation in limbs, with pains in joints, principally in evening. Great fatigue, weakness, and rapid loss of strength, with great uneasiness of body and mind. Ebullition of blood, and frequent trembling, even after least exertion. Sanguineous congestions (to head, chest, and abdomen) and hemorrhages. Great tendency of limbs to become numb. Contractions of some parts. Cramps, convulsive movements, and nocturnal attacks of epilepsy, with cries, rigidity of body, distension of abdomen, itching in nose, and thirst. Sensation of coldness in outer parts, burning pain of inner parts, cutting in inner parts, darting pains in outer parts, darting in bones. Sallow-colored face. Eructations, vomiting of bile. Blackness of outer parts, bleeding from inner parts, restlessness of body, inflammation of inner parts, also of mucous membranes, secretion of mucus increased from any of mucous membranes. Scurvy, particularly where there is much salivation, wasting away of soft parts, strictures after inflammation, inflammatory swellings, parts which are usually white turn red, zona or shingles. Tonic spasms and tetanus. Cataleptic rigidity of body. Fainting fits. Paralysis of several of limbs. Emaciation and atrophy of whole body. Excitability and sensitiveness of all the organs. Cannot lie on right side.

Skin

Yellow colour of the skin, with perspiration which imparts a yellow colour to linen. Skin dirty yellow, rough and dry. (Jaundice.) _ Engorgement, inflammation, and ulceration of the glands, with pulsative and shooting pains, hard swelling, red and shining, or without any perceptible alternation in skin. Miliary, urticarial, pimpled, or pustular and purulent eruptions. Exanthema burning, pock-shaped (hence, think of this remedy in small-pox), of scarlet colour, with swelling, purulent exanthema, i.e., ulcerating, ecchymoses appear, of black and blue spots, without receiving any external injury. Erysipelas. Sphacelus, brown mortification. Tetters in general, burning, suppurating. Ulcer in general, with burning on edges, hard on edges, with bloody pus, with corroding pus, with ichorous pus, having too little pus, too thin pus, thin, tenacious, sticky pus, swollen, inflamed, looking like lard, prickling, pulsating, painful on the edges, swollen on edges. Flat, painless ulcers, pale, covered with phlegm-like pus, on scalp, skin of penis, etc. Primary and secondary syphilis, round coppery red spots shining through skin. Itching pimples, which burn after being scratched. Eruptions which resemble scabies, and which bleed readily. Wounds ulcerate easily (and become gangrened). Erysipelatous inflammations. Spots red and raised, or macule hepatice, or which resemble scorbutic spots. Small and very itchy pimples, which ulcerate, and become encrusted. Tettery, excoriated, and oozing spots, or dry, itching, and mealy tetters. Desquamation of skin. Phagedenic ulcers, or bluish, fungous, and easily bleeding, or superficial, and appearing as if bitten by insects, or secreting an ichorous and corrosive pus. Chancrous ulcers. Violent and voluptuous itching over whole body, principally in evening, or at night, worse by heat of bed, and sometimes attended by burning after scratching. Thickening of periosteum, exostosis and caries, abscess in joints, great brittleness of bones.

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