Magnesia Carbonica
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General
MAGNESIA CARBONICA. [Magn. carb.] Magnesium carbonate. Hahnemann. Mg Co3 3H2O.
Mind
► Uneasiness, with trembling of hands and absence of mind. ► Anxious and warm through the whole body, especially in the head, while eating warm food. ► Trembling, anguish and fear, as if some accident would happen ; all day, relieved after going to bed. ► Sad mood with indisposition to talk. ► Much worse from talking or mental exertion.
Sensorium
► Vertigo : when kneeling ; when standing, as if everything were turning around in the evening.
Inner Head
► Pressure in the forehead. ► Pressing headache, from mental exertion and when among many persons. ► Violent darting headache after vexation (1 to 10 P.M.). ► Lancinating headache early in the morning after rising. ► Pulsating sensation in the forehead. ► Congestion of blood to the head, especially when smoking. ► Heat in the head and hands, with redness of the face alternating with paleness.
Outer Head
► Bruised sensation of the vertex. ► Pain on the top of the head, as if the hair were pulled. ► Dandruff on scalp, itching during wet and rainy weather. ► Falling off of the hair.
Eyes
► Black motes before the eyes. ► Lenticular cataract. ► Obscuration of the cornea. ► Swelling of the eyeball. ► Dryness of the eyes ; or profuse lachrymation. ► Inflammation of the eyes, with redness, burning, stinging and obscuration of sight, or dimsightedness. ► Agglutination of lid in morning, with pressure in eyes.
Ears
► Whizzing, fluttering and buzzing in the right ear, with hardness of hearing. ► Dulness of hearing. ► Inflammation of ears, with external, redness and sensation of great soreness.
Nose
► Bleeding from nose in morning more from right side. ► Vesicular eruption in the nose, with pressing pain.
Face
► Face : pale, earthy ; alternately red and pale. ► Tension of face, as if the white of an egg had dried on it. ► Nightly tearing, digging and boring in the malar bone, insupportable during rest, and driving one from one place to another. ► Swelling of the malar bone, with pulsating pain.
Lower Face
► Herpetic eruption around the (lower part of the) mouth. ► Hard, little nodosities in both corners of the mouth.
Teeth
► Beating and stinging in the teeth after eating. ► Toothache : while riding in a carriage, worse in the cold at night ; compelling on to rise and walk about, the pain in insupportable while at rest ; during pregnancy ; mostly burning, tearing, drawing, twitching, or great ulcerative pain, with twitching in the fingers and feet. ► Teeth feel too long. ► Ailments from cutting the wisdom teeth. ► Looseness of the teeth, with swelling of the gums. ► Slow eruption of the teeth. ► Burning vesicles on the gums, on the inside of the cheeks, tongue, lips and palate, they bleed from least contact.
Tongue, Etc
► Taste bitter ; sour. ► Frequent, sudden stammering speech.
Mouth
► Dryness of mouth, especially at night and in the morning. ► Bloody saliva.
Throat
► Stinging pain in the throat when talking and swallowing. ► Burning in the throat and palate, with dryness and roughness, as if scraped by an awl. ► Frequent rising of mucus in the throat (morning), with roughness and dryness of the fauces. ► Soft, fetid tubercles, of the color of peas, are hawked up.
Desires And Aversions
► Violent thirst for water, especially in the evening and at night. ► Desire for : meats ; bread ; acid drink.
Eating And Drinking
► When eating : 16.
After eating : 10.
Eating warm food : 1.
Nausea And Vomiting
► Eructations sour ; sour taste and sour vomiting. ► Much loathing, without desire to vomit. ► Nausea and vertigo while eating, followed by retching an vomiting of a bitter, salt water.
Stomach
► Constrictive pain in the stomach. ► Ulcerative pain in stomach, with great sensitiveness to pressure.
Hypochondria
► Hardness and stitches in hepatic region.
Abdomen
► Pressing, spasmodic, contractive, colicky pains ; relieved by green stools. ► Colic, followed by leucorrhoea. ► Cutting about navel, better from emitting flatus. ► Great heaviness in the bloated abdomen.
Stool, Etc
► Stools : grass-green, or like the scum on a frog pond ; sour, frothy ; or with white, floating lumps, like tallow. ► Colic before stool. ► Lienteria of sucklings ; the milk passes undigested. ► Costive : frequent ineffectual urging, with small stools, or only flatus ; stitches in the anus. ► Ascarides and lumbrici.
Urine
► Urine : increased, pale, watery or green ; with white sediment. ► Involuntary urination while walking or rising from a seat. ► Burning-smarting during urination.
Male Sexual Organs
► Sexual desire diminished ; erections wanting. ► Discharge of prostatic fluid when passing flatulence. ► Inguinal and scrotal hernia.
Female Sexual Organs
► Menses ; late, scanty ; stop in the afternoon ; flow acrid, dark, pitch-like ; preceded by coryza and obstructed nostrils, by labor-like pains, cutting in the abdomen, sore throat, weakness, chilliness, backache ; profuse and too early, flowing more at night and at first on rising also between uterine pains. ► Leucorrhoea acrid, white, mucous, preceded by colic.
Cough
► Cough : Spasmodic at night ; from tickling in the larynx ; sputum, morning and during the day, yellow, thin or tough mucus, or dark blood, tasting saltish.
Lungs
► Oppression of chest, with sensation of constriction. ► Sensation of soreness in chest or in region of heart.
Neck And Back
► Stiffness in the neck. ► Pain in the back and small of back at night, as if broken. ► Sudden piercing in the coccyx ; a violent pain, as if the spine were bent back.
Upper Limbs
► Pain as from dislocation in the shoulder-joint when moving. ► Rheumatic pain in shoulders (at night), with tingling down to fingers ; pain prevents least movement of arm. ► The skin of the hands become chapped. ► Spreading blisters on the hands and fingers, with stinging. ► Red, inflammatory swelling of the fingers. ► Heat of the fingers (in fever).
Lower Limbs
► Restlessness in the legs. ► Drawing pains in the legs and feet. ► Itching of the buttocks, with red spots after scratching. ► Painful swelling in the bend of the knee. ► Knees painful in walking, the feet when lying in bed. ► Cramp in the calves (at night). ► Burning spot on the tibia.
Limbs In General
► Rheumatic pains in the limbs.
Position, Etc
► Always worse after long walks. ► Tired feeling, especially in the feet and when sitting. ► Walking : 21, 33, 36.
Must walk : 10, 43.
Kneeling : 2.
Standing : 2, 36.
Rising : 23 ; from a seat : 21.
Cannot move the arm : 32.
Rest : 10.
Lying : 33.
After lying down : 40.
Nerves
► Epileptic attacks ; while standing or walking he frequently falls down suddenly, with consciousness.
Sleep
► Sleepiness during the day. ► Sleeplessness, from nightly oppression in the abdomen. ► Unrefreshing sleep, more tired in the morning than he was when lying down in the evening. ► Awakes about to 2 to 3 A.M. and cannot fall asleep again. ► Anxious dreams, with starts and crying out in sleep.
Time
► Morning : 3, 5, 7, 12, 27, 37.
Evening : 2, 14, 37, 40. 1 to 10 P.M. : 3.
Night : 12, 14, 23, 27, 31, 32, 33, 37, 40.
After midnight : 27.
Midnight till morning : 40.
Temperature And Weather
► Inclination for open air. ► Averse to uncovering, with fever heat. ► Worse in cold weather, better in warm air, but worse from warmth of the bed. ► Cold : 10.
Change of temperature : 43.
Draught : 43.
Wet weather : 4.
Chill, Fever And Sweat
► Chill and chilliness, with external coldness in the evening after lying down, slowly going off ; followed by heat ; chilly in bed as if dashed with cold water. ► Chill : running down back lessened by out-doors exercise. ► Great internal heat, at night, restless yet aversion to uncovering. ► Heat, one (right) sided ; heat mostly forenoon, often with sweat on the head. ► Sweat greasy, stains yellow ; sour, putrid-smelling. ► Sweat, with thirst, after 12 P.M. till morning.
Attacks
► All her symptoms are aggravated every third weak.
Sides
► Right : 6, 7, 40. Left : 43.
Sensations
► Neuralgic pains, shooting like lightning, worse on left side ; worse in a draught, from changing of temperature, from touch ; must get out of bed and walk the floor.
Contact, Injuries, Etc
► Predominantly worse from pressure ; body painful. ► Touch : 10.
Scratching : 46.
Riding : 10. ► Worse when riding.
Skin
► Itching and great dryness of skin ; itching lessened by scratching. ► Large, stinging nodosities under the skin. ► Painful, small, red herpes, they scale off afterward. ► Spreading blisters. ► Small blood-boils (lower legs), with headache and yellow tongue.
Stages And States
► Nervous, irritable temperament. ► Often indicated with children.
Relationship
► Complementary to Chamom. ► Antidoted by Chamom. (neuralgia) ; Rheum (abdominal complaints). ► It may antidote Acet. ac. in overdoses. ► Compare : Ipecac. (nausea and grass-green stools), Coloc. (cutting, griping, better after stool).