MEZEREUM


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


For the irresolute, of a phlegmatic temperament.

Hypochondriacal and despondent; indifferent to everything and everybody; angry at trifles and perfectly harmless things, but is soon sorry for it.

Violent headache, after slight vexation; it was painful on the slightest touch.

The head is covered with a thick, leather-like crust, under which thick and white pus collects here and there; hair is glued together; pus after a time is ichorous, becomes offensive, breeds vermin Ulcers covered with thick, whitish-yellow scabs, under which thick yellow pus collects.

Linen or charpie sticks to the ulcers; when it is torn away they bleed.

Vesicles appear around the ulcers, itch violently, burn like fire; fiery-red areola around, shining like fire.

Neuralgic burning pains, after zona.

Hypochondriac and despondent.

Obstinate jerking of the muscle of the left upper lid.

A sensation as though air were distending the right external meatus.

Violent burning in the mouth, throat, and pharynx.

Heat and scraping in the fauces.

Stools: fermented; undigested; sour; offensive; after suppression of an eruption of thick crusts covering thick pus.

The skin of the face is of a deep inflammatory redness, and the eruption is “far” and moist.

Vesicles appear around the ulcers, itching violently and burning like fire.

The child scratches the face continually; it becomes covered with blood.

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.