MERCURIUS



Weakness in the teeth.

The front teeth as if dislocated.

Pain of the incisors.

Pain of the front teeth; when he draws air into the mouth, pain shoots into the teeth.

270.Pain of the front incisors when he draws cold air into the mouth, or drinks cold or warm fluids, but only so long as this is done.

Toothache as from teeth on edge.

At night severe toothache, and when that went off great chilliness through the whole body.

Tearing in the roots of all the teeth, all day.

Tearing toothache after midnight and particularly in the morning.

275. Tearing toothache, that darts into the ears, especially at night on account of it he cannot remain in bed; he must sit up all night.

Drawing toothache, even in the front teeth, in the morning.

Jerking toothache, especially at night.

Toothache, pulsating jerks from the teeth of the lower jaw into the ear and from the upper jaw, into the head, with painfulness of the gums from 9 p.m., only ceasing on lying down and going to sleep.

Toothache like strong stitches.

280. In the evening frightful stitches in a tooth.

During sleep at night she grinds her teeth, and bites them so strongly, together that it causes pain, which wakes her up.

Loss of speech and consciousness for twelve hours. [Fr. H_n.]

Loss of speech and voice (This condition lasted three days, and was almost completely removed by hyoscyamus, so that on the fourth day she could say everything, and with her proper voice, only she had some difficulty in doing so.);she hears everything well, but can only reply by signs and grimaces, and though she endeavoured to bring the vocal organs into action, she was unable to speak a single word even in a low voice, or emit a sound, with sunken features and weeping about her condition she cannot sleep and feels very exhausted; but she has appetite for all sorts of food, and thirst for beer; faeces and urine are passed easily. [Fr. H-n.]

The open air is painful and strange to the tongue.[Fr. H -n.]

285. Tongue white furred, with whitish swollen gums, that bleed when touched. [Lr.]

Tongue thickly furred. [Hbg.]

Tongue white as if covered with fur, specially in the morning. [Fr. H-n.]

The tongue is insensible and as if covered with fur. [Fr. H-n]

Very rough tongue. [Fr H-n. ]

290. Great swelling of the tongue. [ Fr. H-n.]

Swelling of the tongue.

Swelling of the white furred tongue.

Tongue much swollen, white furred.

A formication on the tongue.

295. Pain like needle-pricks, in the tip of the tongue.

On the upper part of the tongue a longitudinal furrow, in which is pricking as from pins.

The tongue pains as if cracked, with burning pain.

Very painful, ulcerated border of the swollen tongue.

Tongue swollen and ulcerated, hollow internally. [Fr. H-n.]

300. The tongue is swollen and so soft on the edges, that it is shaped indentations corresponding to the intervals betwixt the teeth, and these indentations look ulcerated. [Fr. H-n. ]

The anterior half of the tongue is so hard that when struck with the finger-nails it causes a rattling noise, it is quite dry. [Fr. H-n.]

The tongue on the right side of the hyoid bone feels sore and stiff (6th d.). [Rl.]

The interior of the mouth, especially the inside of the cheeks gets a bluish colour. [Fr. H-n. ]

Ulcers on the inside of the cheeks.

305. At night burning in the mouth.

Vesicles in the mouth. [Fr. H-n.]

The mouth was all sore in the inside. [Stf.]

On the inside of the cheeks round, raised, white blisters; owing to which the skin became detached, with burning pain. [Hbg. ]

Ulcers and fissures in the mouth, which give pain of a violent burning, smarting character, particularly in the evening. [Fr. H-n. ]

310. A kind of aphthae in the mouth. [Fr.H-n.]

Aphthae in the mouth.

Constant dryness in the mouth.

He draws much mucus from the posterior nares into the throat; he must hawk it out.

Sore throat; feeling as if something stuck in the throat.

315. Pain in the throat, as if an apple-core were sticking in it.

Sensation as if he had something in the throat, which he must swallow down. [St f.]

Difficulty of swallowing; with great difficulty and with violent straining he got something down. [Hbg.]

Pain in the throat on swallowing, and hoarseness. [Fr. H-n.]

Roughness on the palate, which gives smarting pain when touched by the tongue, as if the palate were sore. [Lr.]

  1. Dryness in the palate as if caused by heat. [Lr.]

Something hot rises to her throat. [Fr.. H-n.]

Pain in the throat like aching.

Burning first down the oesophagus, then in the abdomen.

Swallowing is difficult and painful, as if he had burnt the back of his throat, or had swallowed boiling oil.

325. After a moderate dinner, a glowing hot vapour rose up out of the abdomen into the throat, whereby the throat became always more painful and violent thirst ensued.

Something hot rises up to her throat.

Pain in the throat as from dryness.

Anteriorly on the tongue very slimy, and posteriorly in the throat very dry.

Pain at the back of the throat, as from excessive dryness.

330. So dry in the glottis that he must always swallow.

Throat always dry, it is painful, as if it were narrowed posteriorly; there was aching in it when he swallowed, and yet he must always swallow, because his mouth was always full of water.

Acute pricking pain in throat, as if a pin were hanging in the gullet.

On swallowing stitches in the back of the throat, that penetrate even into the ears.

Shooting at the back of the palate.

335. When swallowing shooting pain in the tonsils.

Great elongation and swelling of the uvula. [Fr. H-n.]

On blowing the nose pain on the side of the throat, also internally in the gullet, aching and as if swollen. [St f.]

When the liquid reaches the level of the larynx, she cannot get it down lower, it flows out again through the nose. [Htn.]

Constant aching pain in the oesophagus, about the level of the larynx, which becomes more violent while eating, and causes a sensation as if she must swallow over a raw place, with burning pain there. [Htn.]

340. He feels as if a worm rose up so that he must always swallow, whereby it goes off somewhat, but he does not feel anything pass down. [Fr. H-n.]

Blood comes up into the throat and out of the mouth, without vomiting or coughing. [Fr. H-n.]

Ulceration of the tonsils, with sharp shooting pains in the pharynx when swallowing.

The orifice of the excretory duct of the salivary gland between the back teeth is swollen, white, ulcerated and very painful.

Discharge of viscid, faetid saliva, especially at certain hours of the night or of the evening.

345. Pain and swelling of the salivary glands.

Swelling of the glands of the neck and parotids, so that the jaws are closed, and cannot be moved on account of pain.

Swelling and burning aching pain in the parotid gland, which went off in the cold and returned in the warmth; if he touched it with woollen stuff, he always had inclination to cough.

Shooting pain in the cervical glands.

By fits, an aching pain in the oesophagus, as if an ulcer would come there.

350. Sensation in the gullet as if sore, on the right side of the throat, also when not swallowing.

He ejects much saliva. [Fr. H-n. ]

Constant spitting. [Stf.]

Flow of very acid saliva. [Gss. ]

Spitting of very slimy saliva. [Stf.]

355. Accumulation of soapy saliva, that is often rather slimy, and draws out into long threads. [Hbg.]

Very foetid smell from the mouth, more remarked by others than by the patient himself. [Fr. H-n. ]

Taste of the food not exactly bad, but such as occurs in intermittent fever.

Butter has a disagreeable taste to him.

The tasteless mercurial oxyde commences to have a perceptible, then a very marked disagreeable taste (metallic, earthy, clayey, soapy, putrid, sourish)-at last this becomes intolerable.

360. In the morning, bitter taste in the mouth.

In the morning, great bitterness in the mouth.

Bitterness in the mouth, particularly after drinking coffee.

Ejection of viscid mucus, that tastes bitter.

Bitterness in the mouth, especially when not at a meal, and when not eating or drinking anything.

365. The food does not taste bitter, but before and after he has bitter taste in the mouth.

Constant bitterness in the mouth, whilst bread is eructated of a sour taste.

Bitterness on the lips and tongue, whilst eating and at other times [Fr. H-n.]

Rye bread tastes bitter. [Fr. H-n.]

Putrid taste in the mouth, worst in the morning. [Fr. H-n.]

370. Metallic taste in the mouth that almost makes him vomit.[Hbg.]

Slimy and salt taste of all food and drink, even of water.[Fr. H-n. ]

Very salt on the lips. [Fr. H-n.]

Salt taste on the tongue for several days. [Fr.. H-n. ]

Salt expectoration. [Fr. H-n.]

375. He has a taste of matter in the throat.

Salt taste in the mouth.

Sweet taste in the mouth. [Rl.]

Sweet taste on the tip of the tongue. [ Rl. ]

Sweet taste in the mouth, and illusory sensation in the body, as if it were made of something sweet.

380. Putrid, very disagreeable taste in the throat.

Taste of rotten eggs in the mouth when he moves the tongue, and then involuntary swallowing.

Faeculent foul taste in the mouth, and the saliva tastes salt.

Beer made with hops tastes sour.

Samuel Hahnemann
Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843) was the founder of Homoeopathy. He is called the Father of Experimental Pharmacology because he was the first physician to prepare medicines in a specialized way; proving them on healthy human beings, to determine how the medicines acted to cure diseases.

Hahnemann's three major publications chart the development of homeopathy. In the Organon of Medicine, we see the fundamentals laid out. Materia Medica Pura records the exact symptoms of the remedy provings. In his book, The Chronic Diseases, Their Peculiar Nature and Their Homoeopathic Cure, he showed us how natural diseases become chronic in nature when suppressed by improper treatment.