MERCURIUS CORROSIVUS


An excellent compilation of symptoms of homeopathic medicine Mercurius Corrosivus from the book Pearls of Homeopathy by M.E. Douglass, published in 1903….


Excessive coryza.

Lips black.

Lips excessively swollen and tender.

Gums swollen and spongy.

The gums bleed easily.

Taste bitter.

Salty taste n the mouth.

Great swelling of the throat that threatened suffocation.

Burning pain in throat.

Violent burning pain in the throat and oesophagus, aggravated by the slightest external pressure.

Pillars of the velum palati swollen and dark red.

Incessant, green bilious vomiting.

Great sensitiveness in the epigastric region.

Stools: bloody, slimy; containing shreds of mucous membrane; offensive.

Very distressing tenesmus, getting worse and worse; nothing passed but mucus tinged with-blood.

Tenesmus vesicae, with intense burning in the urethra, and discharge of mucus and blood, with the urine or after it.

Urine scanty, hot, bloody, retained or suppressed.

Urine passed in drops with much pain.

Flakes of albumen precipitated by heat and nitric acid.

Frequent stitches shoot through the thorax.

Painful glandular swelling about the nipple.

Faintness, weakness, and shuddering.

Cold face and hands, with small, feeble pulse.

Melford Eugene Douglass
M.E.Douglass, MD, was a Lecturer of Dermatology in the Southern Homeopathic Medical College of Baltimore. He was the author of - Skin Diseases: Their Description, Etiology, Diagnosis and Treatment; Repertory of Tongue Symptoms; Characteristics of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica.