Mercurius Dulcis

COMMON NAME:

      CALOMEL.

Symptoms

      Catarrhal affections of mucous membranes, especially of the eye and ear (A.).

Otitis media (Calcarea sulph., Kali-M., Pulsatilla) (Br.).

Eustachian catarrh, with deafness and tinnitus aurium (D.).

Catarrhal deafness and otorrhoea in psoric children (Kali-M., Silicea) (A.).

Deafness of old age (Causticum, Kali-M., Phosphorus) (A.).

Salivation with sore-mouth and offensive breath (Borax, Kali-P., Lachesis, Acid nitricum, Podophyllum) (Bl.).

Cirrhosis of the liver, especially in the hypertrophic form (Br.).

DIARRHOEA: OF CHILDREN; STOOLS GRASS-GREEN (Ipecac.); LIKE CHOPPED EGGS (Chamomilla);

PROFUSE (Podophyllum); CAUSING SORENESS OF ANUS (Sulphur) (A.).

Is also of use in dysentery when the stool is small in quantity and consists of mucus and blood, covered with bile (Bl.).

Acute affections of prostate after mal-treated stricture (Aconite, Arnica, Cantharis, Ferr-P., Staphysagria) (A.).

Ulceration of throat, with dysphagia (Lachesis, Acid nitricum, Silicea) (Br.).

Blows lumps from nose (Sepia) (B.).

Slimy, pussy expectoration (B.).

Tonsil inflamed, relieved by cold drinks (B.).

Copper-coloured eruptions (Kali-I., Mezer., Syphilinum) (Br.).

Mucous membrane of mouth pale, sometimes covered with aphthous patches (R.).

Liver enlarged and tender (Chelidonium) (R.).

Swollen glands (Iodium, Lycopodium, Phytolacca) (Br.).

Scrofulous ophthalmia (Calcarea) (C.).

Ulceration of the cornea (Kali bichromicum, Natrum muriaticum, Sil) (C.).

AGGRAVATION:

      From acids; at night; and in cold weather.

AMELIORATION :

      From cold drinks; and after stool.

RELATIONSHIP:

      Similar to: Calcarea sulph., Chamomilla, Chelidonium, Ipecac., Kali-M., Lachesis, Lycopodium, Mercurius, Acid nitricum, Podophyllum, Pulsatilla, Silicea, and Sulph.

ANTIDOTES: Hepar and Podophyllum

Adolph Lippe

Adolph Lippe (born near Goerlitz, Prussia, 11 May 1812; died in Philadelphia, 23 January 1888) was a homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. Adolph got a legal education at Berlin. After completing his legal studies, Lippe became interested in homeopathy, and emigrated to the United States in 1837 to further his study. In 1838, he enrolled in the North American Academy of Homeopathy at Allentown, Pennsylvania, from where he graduated in 1841. He settled in Philadelphia, where from 1863 until 1868 he was professor of materia medica in the Homeopathic College of Pennsylvania. Besides some essays and treatises from the French, German, and Italian which became standards, Lippe was the author of:
Comparative Materia Medica (Philadelphia, 1854)
Text-Book of Materia Medica (1866)