Mercurius Iodatus Flavus
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General
MERCURIUS IODATUS FLAVUS. [Merc. i. f.] Protoiodide of mercury. American Prover's Union.
Mind
► Lively, talkative, good-natured. ► Destructive mood. ► Anxiety, low-spiritedness, etc., retard the action of remedy.
Sensorium
► Dizzy : when reading ; when rising from a chair.
Inner Head
► Shooting pains in the temples. ► Dull headache over the eyes, with pain at the root of nose. ► Throbbing pain in the forehead or temples. ► Dull heavy aching at the base of the brain ; with 11 : 48.
Eyes
► Generally, excessive photophobia. ► Black motes before the eyes ; opacities of the vitreous. ► Throbbing, aching, nightly pains. ► Keratitis, with ulceration commencing at the corneal margin ; with 11.
Ears
► Sudden, sharp pains in the ear. ► Throbbing, boring, from within outward, deep in left ear.
Nose
► Septum nares sore ; sharp pains. ► Much mucus descends into the throat, causing hawking ; spots in nose feel sore ; constant inclination to swallow.
Face
► Dull aching and soreness in bones of the face ; also in jaws.
Teeth
► Molar teeth feel too long ; worse bringing them together. ► Grinding and drawing pains in teeth ; wants to press them together. ► Stiffness of the jaws.
Tongue, Etc
► Tongue coated : thick yellow at the base ; bright yellow at the back part, tips and edges red (with many affections).
Mouth
► Mouth, lips and tongue dry and sticky.
Throat
► Throat dry, with frequent, empty swallowing. ► Easily detached patches on the inflamed pharynx and fauces ; worse in the right tonsil ; salivary glands much swollen ; fetid discharge ; with 11. ► Much tenacious mucus in throat ; hawking causes gagging. ► Sensation of a lump in the throat.
Desires And Aversions
► Appetite variable ; disgust at seeing food. ► Excessive thirst, occasionally for acid drinks.
Nausea And Vomiting
► Nausea, faintness, with dizziness and suffocation about the heart.
Stomach
► Weak, empty feeling at the stomach, nausea. ► Bruised, burning pain at the stomach. ► Cutting pains, with nausea and inclination to vomit.
Hypochondria
► Stitches in region of liver, better by pressure with hand ; pains about liver, right side of chest and back ; soreness under right scapula, worse motion and at night.
Abdomen
► Hardness of the abdomen, as from flatulence. ► Burning at the umbilicus, as from a hot coal. ► Faint, sick feeling in the hypogastrium before stool. ► Indolent bubo.
Stool, Etc
► Cutting, colicky pains, followed by diarrhoea, or discharge of fetid flatus ; stools thin, light brown, frothy. ► Frequent urging to stool. ► Black discharges, with or without blood. ► Stools tough, like putty, with much straining.
Urine
► Copious, dark red ; scanty.
Male Sexual Organs
► Copious seminal emissions, preceded by lewd dreams. ► Hard chancre (given at once it prevents secondary symptoms). ► Painless chancres, with great swelling of inguinal glands, not disposed to suppurate.
Female Sexual Organs
► Yellow leucorrhoea, especially with children.
Pregnancy
► Morning sickness.
Larynx
► Loss of voice, hoarseness.
Cough
► Loose, rattling cough, bronchi loaded with mucus ; sputum copious and yellow.
Lungs
► Stitches through the right side of the chest.
Heart And Pulse
► Sharp pains at the heart. ► Sudden spasmodic action of the heart. ► Pulse weak, irregular and labored.
Neck And Back
► Neck stiff ; soreness in occiput, worse when lying. ► Sharp pains in the back.
Upper Limbs
► Arms stiff and sore, worse when moved. ► Arms and hands numb.
Lower Limbs
► Weariness in the legs, tingling. ► Dull, boring pains in the legs, worse at night. ► Heavy, laming pains in the calves, with pain in left knee-joint. ► Lame feeling in the feet.
Position, Etc
► Exercise generally relieves. ► Motion : 32.
Rising : 2.
Lying : 31.
Nerves
► Very tired feeling ; especially of the limbs. ► Faint feeling, worse in church.
Sleep
► Sleeplessness until 1 A.M. ► Dreams are frightful.
Time
► Night : 5, 33, 37, 46.
Temperature And Weather
► Sensitive to the cold air. ► The open air relieves unpleasant sensation. ► Worse : in cold, damp weather ; in Spring.
Chill, Fever And Sweat
► Chills, with trembling all over.
Sides
► Right : 13, 18, 28.
Left : 6, 16, 33.
Within outward : 6.
Tissues
► Glands swollen, indurated.
Contact, Injuries, Etc
► Pressure : 10, 18.
Skin
► Hard papulae over the body. ► Itching, pricking all over, worse at night. ► Bright red, fine eruption on chest and abdomen. ► Milk crust in children of syphilitic taint.