Magnesia Muriatica
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General EN
Magnesia Muriatica.
Chloride of magnesium. Magnesia chloride. Mg Cl2. Solution. Trituration.
Clinical EN
Biliousness. Bladder, paresis of. Cardialgia. Cold. Constipation. Deafness. Diarrhoea. Dysmenorrhoea. Dyspepsia. Foot-sweat. Headache. Heart, affections of. Haemorrhoids. Heartburn. Home-sickness. Hysteria. Leucorrhoea. Liver, affections of. Menstruation, painful. Nocturnal emissions. Ozaena. Palpitation. Pregnancy, nausea of. Smell, disordered. Spleen, enlarged. Stomach, disorders of. Taste, disordered. Tinea ciliaris. Urine, straining to pass. Uterus, pain in; induration of. Waterbrash. Whooping-cough.
Characteristics EN
Whilst Mag. c. and Mag. sul. are recognised old-school remedies, I can find no mention of Mag. mur. or Mag. Phos. in modern text-books. Mag. m. first appeared in Hahnemann's Chronic Diseases. The general feature of Mag. c. appears in many symptoms, notably those of nervous disturbance and hysteria.
The salt, says Guernsey, "is found in many mineral waters, and in seawater. It has a very bitter taste, and is decomposed by heat." The note about the sea-water is important. Mag. m. is like Nat. mur., and Aq. mar. in the relation to seaside effects. Nat. m. is particularly indicated in constipation," biliousness," and generally disordered health, which appear as soon as the patient goes to the seaside.
Mag. m. is indicated when excessive weakness is felt after a sea-bath. The chief Localities of its action are: Head; r. hypochondrium; inner region of liver; rectum and large intestine; bladder; uterus; heart; feet. It is especially suited to: Diseases of women; spasmodic and hysterical complaints complicated with uterine diseases. Headache at menstrual period in hysterical women.
Women after suffering months or years from attacks of indigestion or biliousness. Enlargement and congestion of liver Puny, rickety children during dentition. Men with disordered livers; and sexual disorders. Teste, who places Mag. m. in his Ferrum group, says that Mag. m. and Mag. c.
"have been used for the cure of cachexia occasioned by long and painful diseases." He says he has seen Mag. m. produce great improvement in this case: "Hydrarthrosis of left knee, with emaciation of left thigh, consequent on a wandering neuralgia, which, after having commenced in the form of cystitis with (non-venereal) discharge from urethra, had successively invaded the shoulder, left elbow, eyes, and lastly, knees, where it had become seated." A connection between liver disorder and nasal obstruction has often been traced, and Mag. m. has a large number of symptoms in both.
The nasal symptoms have led to its successful use in ozaena. One case cured had redness, swelling and scaliness of nose, and sweat about the head and feet. Mag. m. is one of the leading remedies in foot-sweat. Burning in soles, evening, must put feet out of bed.
In liver affections there is enlargement, sensitiveness < from touch, and < lying on r. side; tongue large, coated, indurated. It is especially suited to liver affections in children who are puny and rickety, and have eruptions about the eyes. The constipation of Mag. m. is very distinctive, and has led to the cure of many extremely obstinate cases. The characteristic stool is knotty and conglomerate, like sheep's.
It may remain in this condition, or it may crumble at the anus. Painful urging before stool; burning at anus after. As well as intestinal atony, there is atony of bladder: urine can only be passed by bearing down with abdominal muscles. The hysterical symptoms are marked: spasms, fainting, globus.
Bearing down in uterine region; uterine spasms. Menses black or pitch-like, accompanied by pains in back when walking, pains in thighs when sitting. Leucorrhoea after every stool or following uterine spasms. Hysterical headaches.
Patient is anxious, restless, always < by mental exertion; during or after dinner seized with nausea, eructations, trembling and faint spells, > by eructations. Palpitation < when quiet, > moving about. Perversions of taste and smell are marked in Mag. m., and I have frequently restored with it loss of taste and smell after influenza. Among the Sensations of Mag. m. are: As if some one was reading after her.
As if boiling water was on side of head. As if hair pulled. As if tongue burnt; mouth scalded. Stools as if burnt.
The pains are mostly boring and spasmodic contractive pains; dragging down. There is much burning and heat. R. M.
Skinner reports (Med. Adv., xxiv. 383) this case: A farmer had been treated allopathically three months for chills, which were checked, but the man did not feel well. Spleen very large, sensitive, felt heavy when he walked or rode. Constipated, goes three or four days without a stool.
It was for this that he sought advice. Abdomen distended. hard, especially in ileo-caecal region. Cold on left side and a crawling feeling, like a cold snake. Beating in umbilical region as if his heart beat there.
Mag. m. 20 one dose on the tongue. At 8 p.m. the bowels began to act and went on acting with the exception of one hour till 3 a.m. He complained next morning that the medicine had "almost killed him," and he looked thin and tired. No further medicine was given, and in ten days he had no complaint, and the spleen was normal in size and without tenderness.
In a large proportion of Mag. m. cases the Conditions will give the leading indications. There is general hyperaesthesia and < by touch or pressure; but the head pains are > by hard pressure; eye pains > by pressure, and the menstrual pains > by pressing on back. There is great sensitiveness to cold and disposition to catch cold, > wrapping up head warmly; but the skin eruptions on face, head, and eyes are < in warm room; cough < in room. Most symptoms except headache are > in open air.
Sea-bathing = bloody expectoration; great weakness. Rest <; motion > (this is especially marked and peculiar in reference to palpitation). < Lying down. Palpitation is > lying on left side.
Liver symptoms < lying right side, < on side lain on. [Also lying on left side = sensation of something (liver) dragging to that side.] Rumination < while walking. < At meals (fainting). > By eructations (nausea and trembling). < After coitus (pain in testes and cords).
Mental exertion <.
Relations EN
Antidoted by: Cham., also Camph., Ars., Nux. It antidotes: Merc. (metrorrhagia). Compatible: Bell., Sul., Nat. m., Pul., Sep.
Compare: Hysteria, Mosch., Asaf., Val., and Castor. Uterine spasms, Ign. (Mag. m. may have induration); Caust. and Secale (both have continuous spasm).
Erections and burning in penis, Pic. ac., Nat. m. Enlarged liver, < by touch and lying on right side, Merc. Foot-sweat and head-sweat, Sil. (Sil. is offensive); scrofulous and rickety children, headache > wrapping, Sil.
Congestion of liver, enlargement, feeling of weight and pressure, Ptelea (Ptel. is > lying right side). Rumination, Sul. (Mag. m. is while walking). Nervous restlessness, Zn.
> Motion, Rhus. Heart symptoms > by motion, Gels. Lips chapped and serrated, Nat. m. < After coitus, Kal. c., Bro.
Enlarged liver of children, Calc. ars. Sensitiveness to noise, Ign., Nux, Ther. Eructations tasting like onions (Sinap., breath smells of onions). Leucorrhoea two weeks after menses, Bar., Bov., Con.
Menstrual headache, Mag. c. (Mag. m. more hysteria).
Causation EN
Sea-bathing.
Mind EN
Uneasiness and lachrymose humour
Peevishness and chagrin
Aversion to conversation; prefers solitude
Repugnance to exertion
Nervous excitability, with tendency to weep readily
Excited; unhappy; fitful; emotional
Fearful and inclined to weep
Anxiousness in room, > in open air
While reading, felt as if some one was reading after her, and she must keep reading faster and faster.
Head EN
Stupefaction as from intoxication
Vertigo in morning, on rising, and during dinner; disappears in open air
Heaviness in head, with a dizziness which causes falling down
Pains, > by covering up head
Sensation of numbness in forehead
Compressive sensation in head from both sides, with a hot feeling, and with beating in forehead when pressing upon it
Tearing and stitches in temples, with great sensitiveness of vertex, as if the hair were raised by pulling
Tearing and stitches in r. temple, extending to eye; necessity to press eyes together
Griping and raging in both temples, with a feeling as if he would become dizzy and lose consciousness; disappearing on pressing the head with both hands, in evening after lying down (5th day)
Tensive pressure in forehead and sinciput, with confusion and cloudiness in head, principally on awaking and when lying;
> from exercise in open air and when wrapping head up warm
Squeezing, as from a claw, and noise in temples, in evening, in bed, with sensation as if vertigo and loss of consciousness were coming on
Jerking, or shooting and pulsative tearings, in head
Congestion, with heat, painful humming, and ebullition in head
Painful undulation and whizzing as of boiling water on side upon which one rests
Quotidian headache
Nervous pullings in head and face, extending to teeth, with a sensation of confusion in head
Throbbing, jerking tearing in occiput
Boils on head
Great sensitiveness of scalp
Nodes on occiput, tearing, painful to touch
Tendency of head to sweat.
Eyes EN
Inflammation and burning pain in eyes, with redness of sclerotica
Lachrymation and burning in eyes, when looking at anything in broad daylight
Nocturnal agglutination of eyelids
Yellow colour of sclerotica
Green halo round candle in evening.
Ears EN
Pulsation in ear
Dulness and hardness of hearing, as if something were placed before ear
Shootings, acute pullings, and boring in ears
Itching of herpes behind ears
Great sensitiveness to noise
Buzzing in ears.
Nose EN
Scabs in nostrils, sometimes with painful sensibility of nose, when touched
Excoriation of nostrils
Discharge of corrosive serum from nose
Stoppage of nose, with want of breath
Pain as from excoriation, and of burning in nose
Swelling, redness, induration, and heat of lower part of nose, which are < in morning
Troublesome dryness of nose
Nocturnal obstruction of nose
Coryza, with loss of taste and smell; and emission of yellow and fetid mucus on blowing nose
Ulcerated nostrils
Loss of smell.
Face EN
Pale, yellowish, or earthy complexion
Drawing pains in nerves of face
Tension in face, with cramp-like pain in bones of face
Facial eruption
Pimples on forehead, itching in evening
Lips cracked
Sensation of roughness on internal surface of lips, when touched by tongue
Large and transparent vesicles on the red of the lips (of lower lip, itching, afterwards burning).
Teeth EN
Toothache, aggravated to highest degree by contact of food
Sensation of elongation in upper incisors
Painful swelling and easy bleeding of gums.
Mouth EN
Dryness of mouth at night
Dryness of mouth and throat without thirst
Rhagades in tongue with violent burning
Tongue coated white early in morning
Copious accumulation of serous saliva in mouth
Sensation in interior of mouth as if it had been burnt
Burning in tongue as from fire
Tongue coated white early in morning; or tip and edges clean, large, flabby, yellow
Bad taste, with poor appetite.
Throat EN
Sensation, as if throat were excoriated and raw, < in evening, and at night
Hawking up of viscid and thick mucus from the throat, often mixed with blood and very tenacious
Dryness and roughness of the throat with hoarse voice.
Appetite EN
Frequent thirst
Violent thirst (3 a.m.)
Bulimy and craving in stomach, followed by nausea
Hunger, without knowing what is wanted
Poor appetite, with bad taste in mouth
Desire for dainties.
Stomach EN
Regurgitation of food, while walking
Violent hiccough during and after dinner, which = pain in stomach
Sensation as if a ball were ascending from abdomen into oesophagus;
> by eructations
Increased hunger, followed by nausea
Eructations tasting like rotten eggs, like onions
Nausea, esp. in morning, on first rising
Frequent nausea with fainting, day and night
Constant nausea, earthy colour of face and nervous excitability, with tendency to shed tears
Aching in stomach, with nausea
Tension, and pain as from ulceration, and as from a bruise in stomach, with excessive sensitiveness to touch
Throbbing in pit of stomach
Heat in stomach
Painful commotion in stomach, when walking and in the act of planting the foot.
Abdomen EN
Movings about in epigastric region, then in lower abdomen, > by emission of flatus, forenoon
After each dose burning in pit of stomach, spreading to throat; if she has waterbrash it disappears
Fermentation in abdomen
Tension and shooting in hepatic region
Affections of r. hypochondrium; inner region of liver
Congestion of l. lobe of liver
Burning in r, hypochondrium, up to r. scapula; when putting foot forward in walking
Aching pains in liver, also when walking, or pressing the part, < lying on r. side
Hardness and tightness of abdomen
Violent and constant distension of abdomen, with constipation
Painful hardness of abdomen, and esp. of r. side
Cramp-like pains in abdomen, esp. in evening, and sometimes followed by leucorrhoea
Tearing in abdomen
Dragging down from region of r. ovary to thigh
Cuttings, pinchings, and acute drawing in abdomen
Stinging shootings in the muscles of the abdomen
Colic (in the evening) in hysteric persons, extending to thighs, followed by fluor albus.
Stool And Anus EN
Hard, difficult, slow, and insufficient evacuations
Obstructions of bowels from induration of faeces
Haemorrhoids pain during normal stool
Burning and smarting in anus during and after stool
Stools crumbling as if burnt
Stool crumbles at verge of anus
Faeces knotty, like sheep-dung
Violent tenesmus, with scanty evacuation, or only an emission of flatus
Chronic tendency to diarrhoea
Violent diarrhoea of mucus and blood
Greenish, yellowish, or brownish evacuations
Faeces coated with mucus and blood
Ejection of taenia.
Urinary Organs EN
Frequent want to urinate, day and night, with scanty emission
An emission can be accomplished only by contraction (bearing down) of the abdominal muscles
Torpor of urethra
Urine, pale-yellow, followed by burning in urethra
Urine passes only by drops, always some seeming to remain behind
High-coloured urine, loaded with lithates, accompanies the uterine symptoms.
Male Sexual Organs EN
Violent itching in genital organs and in scrotum, extending as far as the anus
Frequent erections; early in morning with burning in penis
Burning in back after coition
Pain in testicles (on touching or moving them) and cords (with swelling) after unrequited sexual excitement
Nocturnal involuntary emissions, with or without dreams; scrotum relaxed and loose, often covered with sweat; constipation; indigestion; biliousness; itching at anus
Scrotum relaxed.
Female Sexual Organs EN
Catamenia too early and too copious
Suppressed menses
Black and coagulated blood during catamenia
During catamenia: paleness of face, with pains in loins and depression; fainting; pain in l. leg
Cramps in uterus, sometimes with pains extending to thighs, and leucorrhoea
Leucorrhoea, esp. during movement, or preceded by cramps in abdomen
Scirrhous induration of uterus
Leucorrhoea immediately after stool.
Respiratory Organs EN
Hoarseness, with roughness and dryness of throat
Hoarseness in the morning after rising
Tingling in larynx
Bloody expectoration brought on by sea-bathing
Dry cough, in evening, and at night, with burning pain and sensation of excoriation in chest
Cramp-like cough at night, with violent tickling in throat.
Chest EN
Oppression of chest, in region of heart
Oppression in pit of stomach
Sudden feeling of weight in chest, with obstructed respiration during dinner
Tension and contraction in chest.
Heart EN
Shootings (stitches) in heart, which impede respiration
Pain at apex of heart, a pricking as of needles and pins, with pain under l. scapula as if knife were hacking the bone
Palpitation of heart, when seated, disappearing on motion.
Neck And Back EN
Swelling of glands of neck
Pain as from bruises above and in small of back and both hips, with sensitiveness of the parts to touch
Shooting, tearing, and burning pains in the back
Contractive and cramp-like pains in loins
Tearing stitches in loins
Burning in back after coitus
Drawing in loins after a stool
Gnawing in spinal cord
Burning and bruised feeling between scapulae
Tearing in r. scapula, then in hip; in both scapulae.
Limbs EN
Lancing, drawing, and tearing in extremities (Possart).
Upper Limbs EN
Drawing and paralytic tearings in shoulder-joint, extending as far as arm and hand, < by movement.—Numbness of arms in morning, on waking; or in evening in bed.
Lower Limbs EN
Great lassitude in legs, even when seated
Heaviness of legs
Jerking tearings in hips
Uneasiness and tension in thighs
Aching pain, or paralytic pulling in the knee
Cramps in calves, at night
Burning pain in soles, in evening
Sweating of feet.
Generalities EN
Boring or contractive cramp-like pains Paralytic drawing and tearing in limbs Indurations after inflammations Attacks of spasms, and of hysterical weakness
Hysteria, which may occur several times in a day or night Liability to take cold Bodily weakness, which sometimes appears to proceed from stomach Sensation of uneasiness (soreness), and of painful weariness, in whole body, with acute sensibility to least noise
General uneasiness in evening in bed, as soon as she closes her eyes Sensation as of boiling water on side on which one rests The majority of the symptoms present themselves when the patient is seated, or at night, and are generally > by movement Uneasiness in evening in bed on closing the eyes.
Skin EN
Tingling in different parts of the skin
Formication of the skin (face, chest, and soles of feet)
Itching pimples, with burning pain after scratching
Pustular eruptions
Eruption of small red papulae
Furunculi
Swelling of the glands.
Sleep EN
Great inclination to sleep during day, with yawning and indolence
Retarded sleep and sleeplessness, caused by heat, with thirst, and great agitation in whole body on shutting the eyes
Anxious and frightful dreams, with talking and cries during sleep
Sleep unrefreshing; tired in morning
Jerking in body, when lying awake at night
Nightmare.
Fever EN
Shivering in evening, which disappears in bed
Chill in evening from 4 to 8, even near warm stove
Chill, followed by heat in evening till midnight
Heat in evening with perspiration only on head
Perspiration with thirst, from midnight till morning
Sweat after midnight
Pulse accelerated with ebullitions while sitting.