Mercurius Biniodatus Cum Kali Iodatum
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General
Mercurius Biniodatus.
Mercurius iodatus ruber. Mercuric iodide. HgI2. Trituration.
Clinical
Antrum, pain in. Asthma. Coryza. Diphtheria. Eczema. Eyes, inflammation of. Haemorrhoids. Laryngitis. Liver, syphilis of. Malaria. Nose, polypus of; diseased bones of. Parotitis. Post-nasal catarrh. Quinsy. Rheumatism. Spleen, enlarged. Syphilis. Testicles, syphilitic enlargement of. Typhus fever.
Characteristics
Merc. bin. was introduced and proved by the American Provers' Union in 1856, and is an important addition to the mercurial group. It acts more intensely on the lymphatic glands and cellular tissue than Merc. v., which it otherwise closely resembles. It has been extensively tested in throat affections. It acts more on the left side, or primarily on the left.
The symptoms are < on empty swallowing; also < on swallowing food. Cases have been recorded in which small doses of Merc. bin. 3x or 2x have cut short an attack of asthma; or, if taken at bed-time, have prevented an expected attack from developing during the night. The explanation proffered is that Mercury, and especially its iodides, render the blood incapable of holding in solution large quantities of uric acid and urates, which are presumably the irritant factor in an asthmatic attack.
But the pathogenesis of Merc. bin. has oppressed breathing, and if the general Merc. conditions are present it is quite capable of acting dynamically Headache is < in open air. Eyes < by bright light; psoric eye affections. Right side of nose is inflamed.
The liver, spleen, and pancreas are affected; and also the bladder and male sexual organs. Wandering rheumatism. Troublesome dreams. It acts well in old cases of syphilis, particularly in persons of lax fibre, scrofulous, and those who have taken much Mercury.
The symptoms are < after sleep. < After dinner. < Afternoon and evening. Open air > head.
Getting warm walking > deafness. Cold air, cold washing, getting wet <. Touch and pressure <.
Relations
Antidoted by: Hep. Compatible after: Bell. Compare: In syphilitic eruptions, Bad., Carb. an., Nit. ac. Ophthalmia Jequirity. Wandering rheumatism, K. bi. < After sleep; left to right, Lach. Dreams of water, Merc. protiod. In affections of antrum. Mg. c., Merc. c.
Causation
Wetting. Washing floor. Weather changes.
Mind
The head is worse; but he is good-humoured, even merry
Low-spirited; disposed to cry
Ill-humoured and bad taste on waking in morning.
Head
Vertigo; everything seems to reel round her
Sensation as if bound by a tight cord in frontal region
Dulness in head and slight pressing pain in l. side, as during coryza;
> walking in open air
Pain in head with heat
Great heat in vertex with pulsation, 11 p.m
Small pustules on head
Pain in bones of head, chiefly occipital
Syphilitic tumour in brain.
Eyes
Inflammation, with burning, watering;
< bright light
Albuginea inflamed and painful
Psorophthalmia; trachoma; granular lids; pannus.
Ears
Hearing dull;
> evenings; ears close for a few moments at a time; coryza
Earache (r.)
Wax increased
Itching in both ears
Swelling of parotid and neighbouring glands.
Nose
Coryza: with headache; dull, hearing, > getting warm walking; r. side nose hot, swollen; much sneezing and running from head; hoarseness
Whitish yellow or bloody discharge; affection of posterior nares, with raw sensation; nasal bones diseased; turbinated bones swollen
Hawks mucus from posterior nares
Crusty eruption on wings of nose.—(Polypus l. side.)
Face
Pressive sticking; heavy aching in upper jaw
Aching pain in l. cheek and l. eye, which seems slightly inflamed
Parotitis (r.)
Lips slimy and sticky on waking
Eczema rubrum on chin.
Teeth
Fine stinging in teeth; painful jerks
Toothache < by chewing;
< after eating; with ill-humour
Gums swollen, excessively tender.
Mouth
Profuse flow of saliva, and aching in teeth of lower jaw
Taste: bitter; slimy; metallic
Mucous membrane inflamed with burning
Mucous patches
Nodules
Boils in mouth.
Throat
Much phlegm in throat and nose; hawks it out
Sensation of a lump in the throat, with disposition to hawk it out; hawks up a hard, greenish lump
Throat feels as if scalded on waking
Inflammation and swelling of l. tonsil, velum elongated causing cough, next day both tonsils involved (l. to r.)
Painful swelling of tonsils and submaxillary glands
Fauces dark red
Diphtheritic patches, and superficial ulcers in throat
Diphtheria r. side < from empty swallowing; throat sensitive to touch
Tubercular sore throat.
Appetite
Thirst for small quantities.—Wants food more salted.
Stomach
Heartburn after dinner
Loud and bitter belching
Sinking
Pain in epigastrium on pressure.
Abdomen
Aching and fulness in r. hypochondrium
Sudden cutting in liver
Heavy pain in liver, pancreas and spleen
Transient drawing pain followed by lameness in l. hypochondrium; l. waist feels sore on bending
Enlarged malarial spleens and livers
Abdomen distended at navel; sore to pressure
Colic; uneasy sore feeling
Buboes.
Stool And Anus
Stool: copious, yellow brown, and somewhat watery, and coated with mucus and slightly bloody; preceded by colic, urging and slight tenesmus remained
Pain in anus as if piles would appear
Inveterate piles.
Urinary Organs
Bright's disease
Ulcers in bladder
Frequent urgent desire
Increased flow of urine; thick and dark when passing; red.
Male Sexual Organs
Desire, esp. on going to sleep; emissions
Sensitiveness of r. testicle and cord
Sharp shooting stitches in end of penis through glans
Gonorrhoea; discharge free and mucoid; patches of induration, along urethra
Hard, red swelling in front of prepuce, and painless hard chancre in centre
Sarcocele of l. testicle; syphilis
Bubo, discharging for years; indolent chancre.
Female Sexual Organs
Yellowish leucorrhoea
Stony hardness of fibroid tumour
Great soreness in whole breast.
Respiratory Organs
Cough: from elongated uvula; with sore throat; with a little loose, whitish, slimy sputum
Profuse yellow sputum
Hoarse and husky, after getting a little wet in a shower.
Chest
Constriction across chest
Catching pain under r. breast, oppressing breathing
Swelling of bronchial glands from atmospheric changes.
Heart
Sticking pain in heart.
Neck And Back
Swollen neck glands, with toothache, scarlatina, &c.—Spine sore and painful.
Limbs
Rheumatic pains, now here, now there, mostly muscular.
Upper Limbs
Rheumatic pains in shoulder-joint
Axillary glands suppurate
Strained feeling in middle of humerus as if about to break
Palm of l. hand cracked, horny, several oozing rhagades.
Lower Limbs
Aching in bones from hips to ankles
Pains from calves up to sacrum
Unbearable pains in legs towards evening, > on moving
Pain of syphilitic ulceration in front of leg.
Skin
Pustules, with inflamed base, sore to touch; itching slightly, scab over, but pus oozes
Small fissures and cracks
Lupus
Condylomata
Freckles; liver spots
Syphilitic eruptions and ulcers.
Sleep
Dreams: frightful; of travelling; swimming; lascivious.—Symptoms appear or are < on waking.
Fever
Intense shivering, then feverishness; copious sweat at night.—Fever with grippe.