MERCURIUS

MERCURIUS. [Mercur.] Quicksilver. Hahnemann. The Element.

► Memory weak ; mind obtuse ; drowsy. ► Anxiety and restless change of place ; ebullitions, sweat ; apprehensive ; imaginary fears ; fears he will lose his mind ; worse evening and night ; wants to go abroad ; tries to flee from the house. ► Homesickness. ► Delirium and other mental derangements of drunkards. ► Hurried speech. ► Continuous moaning and groaning. ► Irritable, quarrelsome ; or, taciturn and indifferent. ► Suspicious, distrustful mood. ► Imbecility ; does foolish, mischievous, disgusting actions.

► Fainting after sweetish rising in the throat, followed by sleep. ► Vertigo : as if in a swing ; after stooping ; when lying on the back ; with headache and nausea ; everything turns black. ► Dull and stupid feeling, with dizziness.

► Burning in head, especially in left temple ; worse at night lying in bed, better on sitting up. ► Head feels as if in a vice, with nausea ; worse in the open air, from sleeping, eating and drinking ; better in room. ► Tension over forehead, as if in a hoop ; worse at night in bed ; better after rising and from lying the hand on it. ► Inflammation of brain, with this hoop-like feeling ; burning and pulsation in forehead ; worse at night, better after riding. ► Congestion to the head. ► Head feels as if it would burst, with fulness of the brain. ► Head feels as if it was getting larger. ► Severe pains in forehead, top of head and occiput ; stitches through the head. ► Dulness in forehead, stitches through temples ; aching and weariness in nape of neck. ► Tearing in head ; heat and sweat ; worse at night, in warmth of bed ; better toward morning and while lying quietly.

► Hydrocephalus ; body bathed in sweat. ► Sutures open, large head ; precocious or premature mental development ; dirty color of the face ; sour night-sweat. ► Exostoses on the hairy scalp, with feeling of soreness when touched ; worse at night, in bed. ► Scalp : tense ; painful to touch ; worse when scratching, which causes bleeding ; eruption, pustular, fetid, with yellow crusts ; erysipelatous ; worse on the forehead ; hairs fall out, mostly on sides and temples. ► Lacerating, tearing and stinging in the bones of the skull. ► Fetid, sour-smelling, oily sweat on the head ; on the forehead it is icy-cold ; with burning in the skin, worse at night, in bed, and after rising. ► Great chilliness, with contractive, tearing pain of the scalp, extending from forehead to neck.

► Black points before the yes. ► Vanishing of sight for a few moments. ► Much worse from heat and glare of fire. ► Lachrymation profuse, burning, excoriating ; discharges muco-purulent, thin, acrid ; burning, tearing, sticking pains in and around eyes ; worse at night ; pimples on the cheeks. ► Ulcers of the cornea, vascular and surrounded by greyish opacity ; pus between the corneal layers. ► Iritis, syphilitic ; pains around the eye, on forehead and temples ; worse from touch at night ; throbbing, shooting pains in the eye. ► Hypopyon. ► Lids : spasmodically closed ; thick, red, swollen, erysipelatous ; sensitive to cold, heat and to touch ; raw, excoriated ; burning, as from fiery points ; margins ulcerated, scabby. ► Ciliary blepharitis, caused by working over fires or forges.

► Hardness of hearing ; sounds vibrate in the ears ; obstruction momentarily better after swallowing or blowing the nose ; external meatus moist. ► Internal and external ear inflamed, with stinging, tearing pains ; purulent discharge, green, offensive, or thin, sanious ; glands swollen. ► Boils in the external canal ; also fungous growths. ► Constant cold sensation in the ears.

► Nosebleed : when coughing and during sleep blood hangs in a dark, coagulated string. ► Coryza : fluent, corrosive, with much sneezing ; nostrils bleeding, scurfy ; nose red, swollen, shining ; worse from damp weather ; at night ; from either cold or warm air ; not relieved by sweat. ► Greenish, fetid pus from the nose ; nasal bones swollen.

► Pale, yellow, earthy ; red and hot cheeks ; pale and sunken ; pale, doughy, full. ► Yellow, dirty scurf, with fetid discharge, itching and bleeding when scratched. ► Tearing in the face ; lacerating pains, salivation ; from cold or caries of the teeth. ► Swelling of one (right) side of face, with heat and toothache. ► Pimples with bluish-red areolae ; no itching.

► Lips : dry, cracked, ulcerated ; black ; burning pimples, with yellow crusts. ► Mumps on the right side ; pale swelling. ► Lockjaw from glandular swellings, with stinging pains. ► Caries of the jaw.

► Teeth feel loose, fall out. ► Toothache from caries ; or when the dentine is inflamed ; returns in damp weather or evening air ; pains tearing, lacerating, shooting into face and ears ; worse from warmth of bed, from cold or warm things ; better from rubbing the cheek. ► Gums painful touch, swollen, receding from the teeth ; edges whitish ; bleeding ; fetid odor from the mouth ; ulcers with dark red edges. ► Pulsating toothache worse at night ; gum-boil.

► Taste : bitter ; sweetish ; saltish ; putrid or slimy. ► Loss of taste. ► Speech quick, stuttering. ► Complete loss of speech. ► Tongue : dry, hard, coated black ; red and dry ; red with dark spots and burning ; moist, with intense thirst ; moist and covered with mucus ; thickly coated, dirty yellow, with foul breath ; swollen, flabby, takes imprint of teeth ; inflamed, indurated or suppurating, with sticking pains. ► Ranula, with ptyalism and sore gums.

► Inflamed, with burning, aphthous ulcers ; copious, fetid, ropy salivation ; scorbutic gums ; large blisters in the mouth. ► Much slime collects in the mouth. ► Ptyalism ; saliva fetid or tastes coppery. ► Ulceration of the salivary glands.

► Uvula swollen and elongated. ► Erysipelatous inflammation of the throat. ► Painful dryness of throat, with mouth full of saliva ; rawness, roughness and burning in throat. ► Angina, with stinging pains, worse from empty swallowing, at night and in the cold air. ► Tonsils dark red, or greenish-red, studded with ulcers ; stinging pains in fauces ; quinsy, only after pus has formed to hasten maturing. ► Syphilitic ulcers in the throat and mouth. ► Glands swollen.

► Canine hunger, even after eating ; excessive hunger, but relishes nothing. ► Loss of appetite. ► Thirst violent, burning, especially for beer and cold drinks. ► Desire for milk ; for sweets, but they disagree ; for beer ; for liquid food. ► Aversion to meat ; to wine and brandy ; to coffee ; to greasy food.

► Worse from spirituous liquors ; coffee ; cold drinks. ► After eating and drinking : 3.

► Acrid, bitter, putrid or rancid eructations, worse at night. ► Regurgitations or vomiting of food ; bitter vomit. ► Nausea, with sweet taste in the throat, vertigo, heat and headache.

► Pressure in stomach ; it hangs down heavily even after light, easily digested food. ► Stomach : burns, is swollen and sensitive to touch ; hard and tense. ► Weak digestion, with continuous hunger. ► The stomach feels replete and constricted.

► Region of the liver ; sensitive ; cannot lie on the right side ; swollen, hard, from induration of the liver ; stinging, stitching or passive pains. ► Jaundice : with violent rush of blood to the head ; bad taste ; tongue moist and furred, yellow ; soreness in the hepatic region ; from gall-stones ; with duodenal catarrh ; in the newborn ; sweat stains linen yellow.

► Tense, hard, swollen and sensitive ; fulness and tenderness across the epigastrium and hypochondria. ► Colic from cold, from the evening air, from worms. ► When lying on the right side, the intestines feel bruised. ► Enteritis, lancinating pains ; bloody, slimy stools ; sweat, without relief. ► Hard painful, hot swelling in the ileo-caecal region. θ Typhlitis. ► Peritonitis, with purulent exudation, especially with typhlitis. ► On walking, bowels shake as if loose. ► Inguinal glands swollen or suppurating.

► Stools : undigested, pitch-like, tenacious ; yellow, dark-green, mucous and bloody ; sour, excoriating the anus ; clay-colored and offensive ; slimy, bloody, preceded by anxiety, trembling, faintness ; colic ; tenesmus ; after stool, tenesmus a "cannot get done" feeling, followed by chilliness. ► Blood before, during and after, even a hard, stool. ► Constipation, stool tenacious or crumbling discharged only with violent straining ; constant, ineffectual urging, worse at night. ► Ascarides and lumbrici escape freely. ► Prolapsus ani after stool ; also, if rectum is black and bleeding. ► Large bleeding varices, which suppurate ; hemorrhage after micturition.

► Region of bladder sore to touch ; urine passes in a thin stream or in drops, and contains blood and pus. ► Urine passed involuntarily. ► Urging to urinate, with copious flow ; desire sudden, irresistible. ► Frequent, rapid urination with scanty discharge, often followed by mucus. ► Urine : dark red and turbid ; sour and pungent ; mixed with blood, white flakes and pus ; flesh-like lumps of mucus. ► Haematuria, with violent and frequent urging to urinate. ► Gonorrhoea, with phimosis or chancroids ; green discharge, worse at night.

► Lascivious excitement, with painful nightly erections. ► Pollutions, sperm mixed with blood, chilliness ; sallow face ; constipation. ► After emissions burning pain in back and icy-cold hands. ► Ulcers in the glans, with cheesy base ; chancroids. ► Children scratch and pull at the genitals all night. ► Testicles swollen, hard, shining. ► Sweat on genitals ; soreness between scrotum and thighs. ► Glans and prepuce inflamed ; phimosis.

► Menses too profuse ; with either sterility or easy conception ; with anxiety and colic. ► Amenorrhoea, with congestions and ebullitions. ► Deep, sore pain in the pelvis, dragging in the loins ; abdomen weak, as if it had to be held up ; prolapsus uteri et vaginae ; feels better after coitus. ► On the os uteri ; excrescences, bleeding ; deep ulcers, with ragged edges. ► Inflammation of the vagina, and still more of the external genitals, with rawness smarting and excoriated spots. ► Itching of the genitals, worse from contact of the urine. ► Leucorrhoea smarting, corroding, causing itching, purulent, containing lumps, always worse at night.

► Expels moles. ► Pain in the mammae at every menstrual period, as if they would ulcerate. ► Milk in the breasts, instead of the menses. ► Milk scanty, or spoiled, child refuses it ; mastitis. ► Mammae swollen, hard, with sore pains and ulcerated nipples, suppuration of the mammae.

► Hoarse, rough voice ; burning, rawness in the larynx ; fluent coryza and sore throat.

► Short-breathed on ascending or walking. ► Asthma, from fumes of arsenic ; better from tobacco smoke and in the cold air. ► Dyspnoea (sensation of spasmodic contraction when coughing or sneezing).

► Violent ; racking ; worse at night, as if the head and chest would burst, sometimes with vomiturition ; in two paroxysms, from tickling in the larynx and upper part of the chest ; only at night or only by day ; with acrid, yellowish mucus, at times mixed with coagulated blood and tasting putrid or saltish ; with shortness of breath and salivation ; but allowing him to utter an audible word ; worse at night, in the night air, when lying on either side. ► Bloody sputum in tuberculosis.

► Burning in the chest, extending to the throat. ► Acts on lower part of right lung ; stitches through to back. ► Rush of blood to the chest. ► Stitches in the chest, through, from the right scapula ; pneumonia, with bilious symptoms. ► Sensation of dryness in the chest. ► Suppuration of the lungs after hemorrhages or after pneumonia.

► Weakness at the heart, as if life was ebbing away ; awakens with trembling at the heart, and agitation as if frightened. ► Palpitation, with fear ; worse at night. ► Pulse : full and accelerated, with erethism ; frequent at night, slower by day, when slow it is weak and trembling ; imperceptible, with warmth of the body. ► Orgasm, with trembling from slight exertion.

► Rheumatic stiffness and swelling of neck. ► Goitre becomes softened. ► Glands inflamed, swollen, with pressing pains and stitches. ► Bruised sensation of the scapulae, back and small of back. ► Stinging pains in small of the back, with sensation of weakness. ► Violent pains in spine, worse from motion. θ Meningitis. ► Pain in the sacrum, as after lying on a hard couch. ► Tearing in coccyx, better by pressing hand against the abdomen.

► Red and hot (arthritic) swelling from the elbow to the wrist. ► Dorsa of the hands raw, denuded ; cracks on the joints ; burning, stinging pains. ► Moist, itch-like eruption on the hands, with nightly itching ; bleeding rhagades. ► Nails drop off.

► Tearing in hip-joints and knees, worse at night ; or, with pulsating pain ; beginning suppuration. ► The child's legs are clammy and cold, worse at night. ► Ulcers on legs, which bleed easily and become putrid, spongy and bluish. ► Cold sweat on the feet.

► Arms and thighs sore to touch, can hardly move them. ► Twitching of arms and legs. ► Rheumatic and arthritic pains, tearing, stinging ; worse at night in the warm bed ; with profuse sweat, which gives no relief ; oedema of the affected parts, especially of feet and ankles ; joints swollen, pale or slightly red. ► Must move the parts because of uneasiness or of drawing-tearing pains.

► Motion : 31. Walking : 19, 26. Ascending : 26. Changing place : 1. Exertion : 29, 36, 40. Lying : 3 ; on back : 2 ; on right side : 18, 19 ; on either side : 27. After lying down : 40. Sitting : 3. Stooping : 2. After rising : 3, 4, 40.

► Convulsions, with cries, rigidity, bloated abdomen, itching of the nose and thirst ; worse at night. ► Contraction of joints. ► Great weakness, with ebullitions and trembling from the least exertion. ► Legs paralyzed. θ Spinal meningitis. ► Limbs stiff, but can be moved by others ; paralysis. ► Paralysis agitans. ► Formication beginning in hands and feet, pains in thumbs, elbows, feet ; then trembling, muscular contractions.

► Sleepy during the day ; sleepless at night, from ebullitions of blood and anxiety ; also from embarrassed portal circulation, with beating at pit of stomach.

► Remission during the day. ► Morning : 3, 40. Evening : 1, 10, 19, 40. Night : 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 13, 16, 20, 21, 22, 23, 27, 29, 32, 33, 34, 36, 37, 40, 44, 46. Toward morning : 40. Day : 27, 29, 37.

► Worse in wet weather, and in the cool evening air. ► Worse in the Fall, with warm days and damp, cold nights. ► Cold or warm : 7. Warmth of the bed : 3, 4, 10, 34, 40, 46. Averse to uncovering, even of the hands, also : 40. Open air : 3. Evening air : 10, 19, 27. Cold : 5, 7, 8, 10, 13, 26. Cold or warm air : 7. External heat or cold : 46. Room : 3. Heat : 5, 7, 10, 46. Damp weather : 7, 10.

► Chill : in the morning when rising, but more generally in the evening after lying down, as from cold water poured over one ; not relieved by the warmth of the stove ; at night, with frequent urination ; alternating with heat, often only on single parts ; internal, with heat of the face. ► Heat : in bed, and chill when out of bed ; after midnight, with violent thirst for cold drinks ; anxious, with sensation of pressing together of the chest, alternating with chill ; with aversion to uncover. ► Sweat : profuse at night ; toward morning, with thirst and palpitation ; from exertion, even when eating ; evening in bed, before falling asleep ; sour, offensive, to cold, clammy, oily, and causing burning in the skin ; with all pains, but giving no relief, even aggravating the weakness ; stains linen yellow. ► Complaints often increase during sweat. ► Hectic fever, especially of children. ► Irritative fevers. ► Intermittent fever : evening chill ; heat and violent thirst, or thirst toward morning ; during sweat palpitation and nausea ; sweat fetid or sour. ► Contra-indicated in typhoid fever, except for marked icteroid or scorbutic symptoms.

► Right : 8, 9, 18, 28. Above downward : 4.

► Blood coagulates easily. ► Throbbing or pricking-stinging in the veins. ► Erysipelatous inflammation, especially about the joints. ► Excessive emaciation. ► All discharge are acrid. ► Oedema of face, hands and feet, with anaemia. ► Ascites, from organic lesions of liver ; anasarca after scarlatina. ► Glandular swellings with or without suppuration. ► Bone diseases, worse at night. ► Suppuration especially if too profuse.

► Touch : 4, 5, 10, 17, 18, 19, 21, 34. Pressure : 3, 31. Rubbing : 10. Scratching : 4, 8, 22.

► Skin chafed, sore. ► Erythema first on thighs ; at times vesicles that suppurate and spread rapidly. ► Skin dirty yellow, rough and dry ; jaundice. ► Itching all over, worse at night, when warm in bed. ► Scabies, if some of the vesicles become pustular. ► Herpes surrounded by a border of large scales. ► Herpetic spots and suppurating pustules sometimes running together ; forming dry and scaly spots, or crusts, and acrid discharges. ► Ulcers superficial, flat, readily bleeding ; base lardaceous ; worse from heat of bed and hot or cold applications, with clean cut but irregular edges. ► Boils, after pus has formed. ► Primary and secondary syphilis ; round, coppery-red spots shining through the skin. ► Zona like a girdle, from the back around the abdomen ; much itching and tendency to suppurate. ► Variola in stage of maturation ; with dysenteric symptoms.

► Mercur. is often indicated after Bellad., Hepar, Sulphur (as in intercurrent), Laches. ► After Mercur. are indicated : Bellad., Cinchon., Dulcam., Hepar, Nitr. ac., Sulphur. ► Mercur. and Silic. do not follow each other well. ► Antidotes : Hepar, Kali hydr., Nitr. ac., Aurum, Mezer, Carb. veg., Sulphur, Iodum, Guaiac., Dulcum., Cinchon., Staphis., Ferrum, Bellad., Laches. ► Ailments from : Arsen. or copper vapors, Aurum, Antimon., Laches., Bellad., Opium, Cinchon., Dulcam., Mezer., Sulphur, Calcar. ► Merc. praec. rub. preferable in sycosis, also in squamous syphilides, Merc. nit., in pustular syphilides, and Merc. biniod., in tubercular. ► Plantago maj. rivals Merc. in toothache : caries, tooth feels long and sore ; boring, digging pains worse by contact, in cold or in heat ; better lying in moderately cool room. Ciliary neuralgia reflex from pains in decayed teeth. Earache, twinging, sharp pains with pain in teeth. ► Merc. dulcis in preferable when there is catarrh of the eustachian tube and pharynx ; closure of the tube.