Magnetis Polus Arcticus
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General
Magnetis Polus Australis.
South Pole of the Magnet. Attenuations of media saturated with emanations of the pole.
Clinical
Cough. Dislocation, easy. Frost-bite. Heart, palpitation of. Hernia. Ingrowing toe-nails. Levitation. Menorrhagia. Varicosis.
Characteristics
I have cured so many cases of ingrowing toenail with M. p. aust. 2m, that I invariably give it in the first place when there are no symptoms plainly indicating another remedy. Here are the symptoms in Hahnemann's Schema which led to this use: "Sore pain on the inner side of the nail of the big toe when walking, as if the nail had grown into the flesh or, the side, very painful on being slightly touched (8h);" and "the shoe presses on the toes and on the nail of the big toe when walking, as from corns." The accurate response to these symptoms on the part of the attenuated M. p. aust. proved to me the possibility of attenuating and so fixing this "imponderable" for use as an ordinary homoeopathic remedy.
Swan has collected a number of cases from different authors in Org., iii. 342. Berridge (Org., iii. 53) reports this case: Miss X. had for three weeks aching in middle of front of left lower leg (where she has had varicose veins for eight months), when standing, or when the leg is hanging down, removed by placing it horizontally; frequent feeling of hot water running down affected part, but only when leg is down; at times throbbing there when leg hangs down. M. p. aust. c.m., one dose.
The hot-water feeling never returned; the pain ceased in two days Pinching, squeezing sensations and bruised pains predominate. Faintness comes on when walking, and is < when sitting; There is great rush of blood to the brain early In the morning in bed.
The symptoms are < when walking in open air; < when sitting; < hanging limb down.
Relations
Antidoted by: M. p. arct., Ign., Zinc. Compare: Mgt., Galv., Electr. In fetid cough, Caps. Rush of blood to head, Ast. r. Toe-nails, Graph., Sil., Nit. ac., Thuj. See also under Mgt.
Mind
Moroseness and ill-humour, with aversion to conversation
Dislike to society and to laughing faces
Passion and rage
Instability of ideas.
Head
Vertigo, as from intoxication, with staggering gait
Great rush of blood to brain early in morning, in bed
Heaviness, tingling, and digging in head
Shocks in head, sometimes with tearing.
Eyes
Dryness and smarting in eyelids, esp. when moving them, < morning and evening
Lachrymation
Amblyopia.
Teeth
Tearing, jerking odontalgia, < by hot things.
Mouth
Accumulation of watery saliva in the mouth.—Speech embarrassed, as by a swelling of the tongue.
Throat
Burning sensation in gullet.
Stomach
Metallic taste, at one time sweetish, at another acidulous, on and under the tongue
All kinds of food appear insipid
Extreme indifference to food, drink, and tobacco-smoke
Bulimy at noon and evening, sometimes during the febrile shiverings
Aching in scrobiculus during mental exertion.
Abdomen
Pinching in abdomen caused by a current of air
Noisy borborygmi and grumbling in abdomen
Pressive, flatulent colic, with pinchings, and inflation of abdomen
Sensation, as if inguinal ring were dilated, preparatory to a rupture, with painful sensibility of that part, when coughing.
Stool And Anus
Soft, loose faeces, preceded by gripings
Evacuation of liquid faeces, with a sensation as if flatus were about to be discharged
Contraction and painful constriction in rectum and anus, which hinder the expulsion of wind.
Urinary Organs
Involuntary emission of urine, from paralysis of sphincter vesicae, esp. at night
Emission of urine, drop by drop, with torpor of urethra
Very feeble stream of urine
Frequent emission of urine at night.
Male Sexual Organs
Strong disposition to emission
Emission (very unusual) in a hemiplegic patient; paralysis < after the emission
Impotence, with sudden cessation of all enjoyment, in the moment of greatest excitement
Pain in penis, as if some fibres were torn or plucked away
Painful retraction of testes at night
Swelling of testes, with tearing shocks, and sensation of contraction.
Female Sexual Organs
Catamenia premature and profuse.—Metrorrhagia.
Respiratory Organs
Cough and coryza, with expectoration of greenish mucus, and shortness of breath
Paroxysms of fetid cough at night, when sleeping
Want to take full inspirations, like sighing, with involuntary deglutition.
Chest
Oppression of the chest, as if the respiration were tremulous, and produced an impression of coolness.—Drawing pressure in both sides of sternum, with anguish of conscience, which allows no rest.
Heart
Violent palpitation of the heart, with great heat in cardiac region.—Palpitation of the heart, during which it seems that it is not the heart that palpitates.
Back
Pressive, burning pain in loins, during repose and movement.—Pain, as of a fracture, or wrenching pain in joints of sacrum, and lumbar vertebrae.
Upper Limbs
Tingling along arms, like slight shocks
Painful and rapid jerking along arms
Heaviness and lassitude in arms
Gurgling along arms and veins of the arms
Tingling and throbbing in ends of fingers
Panaritium.
Lower Limbs
Jerking throbbing in tendons of ham, with contraction of legs, esp. during movement
Pressive tearing in the patella
Throbbing in muscles of feet, after walking
The knees give way during movement
Easy dislocation of joint of foot, when making a false step
The feet are painful when he lets them hang down when sitting; all over them there is a fine throbbing
Sensibility and pain, as from a wound, in nail of great toe
The toenails penetrate the flesh.
Generalities
Drawings in fingers, joints of fingers, feet, and ankles.—Lancinating pulsative pains in roots of nails, as if about to suppurate.—Pains, with pinching or burning lancinations in different parts of the body.—Contusive pains in limbs and joints, as if the patient had been lying on flints.—Liability to suffer from a chill.—Tendency of nose, ears, hands, and feet to be frozen by a moderate degree of coldness.—Sudden lassitude when walking, with anxiety and heat, or sudden inclination to sleep.—Lightness of whole body.
Sleep
Urgent inclination to sleep, evening and morning; closing of the eyes without power to sleep
Sleeplessness with over-excitement before midnight
Confused, frightful dreams
Prolonged dreams on the same subject, with fatiguing meditation
Dreams of incendiary fires
Slow, noisy, snoring expiration before midnight; after midnight inspiration is of the same character
Lying on the back during the night
Congestion in head in morning, which compels lying with head high.
Fever
Excessive dread of open air, which penetrates to the very marrow of the bones, even when the weather is hot; with ill-humour and inclination to weep.—Shuddering, with cloudiness before eyes, trembling and tossing of limbs, without shivering, followed by heat in head and face.