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General EN

Magnesia Sulphurica.

Sulphate of Magnesia. Epsom Salts. Magnesia sulphate. MgSO47H2O. Trituration.

Clinical EN

Cough. Diabetes. Diarrhoea. Dysentery. Dysmenorrhoea. Enuresis. Epithelioma. Eyes, pains in. Hernia. Intermenstrual haemorrhage. Leucorrhoea. Lumbago. Menorrhagia. Neuralgia. Toothache. Warts.

Characteristics EN

The ancient reputation of Mag. sul. as a "refrigerant cathartic" under the familiar name of "Epsom Salts," or "salts" par excellence, has overshadowed its homoeopathic uses. But Mag. s. is something more than a "refrigerant cathartic." Fatal poisoning has occurred from an overdose, death apparently occurring from collapse; and the proving of the salts produced many symptoms of utter prostration. Recently old-school authorities have discovered in this "cathartic" a remedy for dysentery.

It is the chief ingredient in many laxative mineral waters and popular saline aperient mixtures. The provings bring out effects common to the other Magnesias: Tearfulness; restless uneasiness; pains in facial bones; sensitiveness to touch; > by walking. The diuretic action of the drug with great thirst has led to its successful use in diabetes.

The diarrhoea is accompanied with great thirst. The chill is accompanied or followed by thirst. Shuddering in back from below upward. The toothache is < coming into a room out of cold air, < by contact with food, whether cold or warm.

It is also > in bed. According to Med. Press (Sept. 9, 1891), eight cases of new growth having all the outward characters of epithelioma have been cured by Graves with teaspoonful doses of a solution of three drachms to the pint. Warts are allied to epithelioma, and H.

T. Webster (quoted H. R., x. 542) has cured many cases in children, giving as much of the salts as would lie on a clime (sixpenny piece) three times a day. One boy was literally covered with warts, his face being much disfigured.

One girl of 16 was cured of large warts on her hands. F. H. Pritchard (H.

M., xxxv. 691) gives his experience with Mag. s. (1/2 gr. in a teaspoonful of water) in summer diarrhoea, with vomiting of food, copious yellowish, slimy, and stinking stools, and later merely watery serum. The first sign of improvement was that the stools became bile-tinged, after which they soon became of thicker consistency. The copiousness of the stools seemed to be the cardinal indication.

Relations EN

Compare: Mag. c., Mag. m., Mag. p. In diabetes, Nat. s. Sadness, weeping, foreboding anxiety, Act. r., Pul. Stinging in fauces between acts of deglutition, Ign. Eructations, Hep. Apprehension, Lyc.

Mind EN

Melancholy and disposition to weep, with apprehension, and restless uneasiness

Tendency to fly into a passion; everything is taken in bad part

Prostration; almost beside herself with anxiety; she thought she would die; with earthy colour of face

Foreboding anxiety, as if some accident would happen

Errors of imagination; patient believes that he sees persons who are absent.

Head EN

Stupidity; head feels as if it were compressed in a vice

Vertigo (with heaviness of head and spontaneous closing of eyes), causing a tendency to fall forwards in morning, and after dinner

Boring in vertex

Pressive headache, and sensation as if head were squeezed in a vice, much < by moving eyes

Compressive pain in head, with heat in head, and redness of face

Tearing and shooting in head, esp. in temples

Congestion, with pressive pain and heat in forehead

Sensation in forehead on stooping as if something would fall forward

Sensation of wavering and shaking of brain at every movement

Shivering during the violent pains in head.

Eyes EN

Pains in eyes, as if protruding from orbits when looking aside

Violent pains in eyes, esp. r., as if it would start out of socket

Dimness of eyes, with frequent drowsiness

Burning in eyes, pains in evening and in morning, but chiefly by candle-light

Shooting pains in eyes

Lachrymation, with photophobia

Supra-orbital neuralgia, l. side.

Ears EN

Shooting pains in ears.—Tinkling in ears.

Nose EN

Pain, as from ulceration in nose, esp. when it is touched

Epistaxis, at night (with diminution of the headache)

Copious secretion of thick and yellow mucus in nose

Fluent coryza, with loss of smell, indistinct speech, and pain, as from excoriation, in nose and chest

Rough voice and frequent flow of water from nose.

Face EN

Earthy colour of face

Tearing in bones of face (r. facial bones or in l. malar bone)

Dryness and burning in lips, in evening.

Teeth EN

Odontalgia, generally in evening, sometimes on returning from a walk, or caused by hot or cold things, as well as by contact of teeth with food; the pains are generally jerking, pricking, or throbbing, and disappear in bed.

Mouth EN

Dryness of mouth, with sensation of numbness

Roughness of tongue

Vesicles on edges of tongue, with incisive pains.

Throat EN

Sore throat, with shooting pains at night, < by deglutition

Stinging in fauces, more between than during acts of deglutition

Dryness and sensation of numbness in throat

Accumulation of mucus in throat

Frequent mucus in throat, which can neither be swallowed nor hawked up

Expectoration of sour mucus.

Appetite EN

Bitterness or sweetish bitterness in mouth, esp. in morning

Thirst, esp. morning and evening

Thirst early in morning on rising, going off after breakfast

Thirst in evening, particularly during menses

Want of appetite and repugnance to all food, even when thinking of it

Dislike to meat.

Stomach EN

Empty, mucous, bitter, and putrid risings

Regurgitation of fluid, preceded by a quivering in stomach

Disgust and nausea, with accumulation of water in mouth

Vomiting, first of food, then of mucus

Sensation of coldness in stomach, with inclination to vomit, in bed, in morning.

Abdomen EN

Lancinating pains in l. hypochondrium, esp. when sitting, or in evening, before and after a meal

Tension, hardness, and fulness of abdomen even after a moderate meal

Violent shooting pains in whole abdomen, but esp. round the navel

Painful drawing in abdomen

Tension in abdomen, pressure towards groins, as if they were going to burst, when stretching body

Rumbling in abdomen, with emission of flatulence

Itching of l. inguinal region, not removed by scratching.

Stool And Anus EN

Faeces at one time hard, at another soft

Acid diarrhoea of children

Liquid stools with tenesmus

Diarrhoea preceded by rumbling in abdomen

Soft stools early after rising

Loose evacuations, with violent thirst

Ejection of ascarides during every evacuation

Neuralgia of rectum, stabbing pain, comes on two days after a material dose of Epsom salts.

Urinary Organs EN

Increased secretion of urine

Emission of urine at night (involuntary)

Emission of urine, drop by drop

Urine of a clear or greenish colour

Shootings in orifice of urethra, after emission of urine.

Male Sexual Organs EN

Frequent stinging about penis when sitting or walking.—Erections without amorous fancies or sexual desire.

Female Sexual Organs EN

Catamenia too early and too copious, with thick, black menstrual blood

Catamenia too feeble

Flow of blood in the intervals of catamenia

During the catamenia, heaviness of head and shivering; bruised pain in small of back; pain in groins

Thick and copious leucorrhoea, with contusive pain in sacrum and thighs

Burning leucorrhoea, esp. during movement.

Respiratory Organs EN

Deep hollow bass voice (as in catarrh)

Dry cough, with burning from larynx to pit of stomach

Dry cough in evening in bed, during which he falls asleep

Dry and shaking cough after waking in morning, and which compels sitting up

Cough in morning with expectoration, and pain as from excoriation, in chest, throat, and palate.

Chest EN

Pressure on chest, with impeded respiration, esp. in morning, or in bed, at night

Burning pains in chest, sometimes when coughing

Painful burning in chest when coughing, as if a piece of the lungs would come out

Oppression of chest with burning in chest when walking

Burning in middle of chest

Burning in sternum.

Neck And Back EN

Tension in nape of neck and between shoulders with stitches, particularly in morning, on rising, with great sensitiveness to touch, > by walking

Contusive pain in back, on waking in morning

Tearings in back, at night, which compels movement from side to side.

Upper Limbs EN

Jerking in arms

Tearing in shoulders and arms

Rheumatic pains in l. elbow, in l. wrist-joint

Tingling in fingers, going off by rubbing

Tearing and shooting in hands and fingers, with contraction of these parts

Trembling of hands

Tearing in tips of fingers, at nigh.

Lower Limbs EN

Nocturnal pains in legs and loins

Heaviness, at one time in hips, at another in loins

Rheumatic pain in hip, in l. femur

Tearing in legs, and esp. in thigh-bones, and shootings in toes, which are contracted.

Generalities EN

Tearings (rheumatic) in limbs, esp. at night.—Great lassitude and soreness in whole body, with trembling, and weakness of the feet.—Great languor, with staggering gait.—Bruised sensation.—A peculiar sick feeling, like exhaustion and prostration, with dry Warmth of skin and drawing pains.

Skin EN

Itching blotches, either hard or as from nettles, with burning, after scratching

Small red tetter (on arms), with violent itching

Stinging itching spots on skin with tendency to boils, < when undressing

Warts.

Sleep EN

Sleep, early in evening

Sleeplessness at night, caused by violent pains in head, abdomen, and loins (which do not allow him to lie on his back)

Many dreams, sometimes disagreeable and anxious (with starting).

Fever EN

Shivering and shuddering (in back from below upwards), esp. in evening, disappearing in bed

Chilliness with thirst, early in morning after waking

Shaking chill with violent headache in evening, 9 p.m., going off in bed, succeeded by thirst

Cold feet all day, although otherwise he feels hot

Shivering at night, with thirst until noon; perspiration in afternoon, or after lying down

Heat on sitting up in bed, with vertigo, perspiration on forehead, and redness of face

Heat of head, with coldness of rest of body

Alternations of heat and shuddering, redness and paleness of face

Perspiration at night or in morning, often accompanied by thirst.