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Magnesium carbonicum

Carbonate of magnesia

20 health issues Boericke 1927

Main symptoms

  • Gastro-intestinal mucus discharge, with marked acidity.
  • Often used with advantage for complains arising in people who have been taking this drug to sweeten the stomach.
  • Is frequently indicated in children; whole body smells sour, and disposed to boils.
  • Broken-down, "worn-out" women, with uterine and climacteric disorders.
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  • With numbness and distension in various, parts and nerve extreme weakness.
  • Sensitive to the least start, noise, touch, etc.
  • Affection of the antrum of Highmore.
  • Effects of shock, blows, mental distress.
  • Sense of numbness; nerve extreme weakness; tendency to constipation after nervous strain; sensitive to least touch, it causes starting, or cold winds or weather or from excess of care and worry with constipation and heaviness.
  • Intense neuralgic pains.

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What makes it better or worse

Worse

Warmth of bedChange of temperatureCold wind or weatherEvery three weeksRest

Better

Warm airWalking in open air

Symptoms by body part

Head

Sticking pain in the side of the head on which he lies, as if the hair was pulled; worse, mental exertion. Itching of scalp worse in damp weather. Pain above margin of right orbit. Blank motes before eyes.

Ears

Diminished hearing. Numbness of outer ear. Feeling of distention of middle ear. Subdued tinnitus.

Face

Tearing pain in one side; worse; quiet; must move about. Toothache, especially during pregnancy; worse at night; worse, cold and quiet. Teeth feel too long. Ailments from cutting wisdom teeth. Pain in malar bone, worse during rest, night. Swelling of malar bone with pulsating pain, worse exposure to cold wind.

Mouth

Dry at night. Sour taste. Vesicular rash; bloody saliva. Sticking pain in throat; hawking up fetid, pea-colored particles.

Stomach

Desire for fruit, acids, and vegetables. Belching sour, and vomiting of bitter water. Craving for meat.

Abdomen

Rumbling, gurgling. Dragging towards pelvis. Very heavy; contractive, pinching, pain in right illiac region.

Stool

Preceded by griping, colicky pain. Green, watery, frothy, like a frog-pond's scum. Bloody mucous stools. Milk passes undigested in nursing children. Sour, with constant urge to pass stool. Constipation after mental shock or severe nervous strain.

Female

Sore throat before menses appear. Before menses, runny nose (cold) and nasal stoppage. Menses too late and scanty, thick, dark, like pitch; mucous white vaginal discharge. Menses flow only in sleep; more profuse at night, or when lying down; cease when walking.

Respiratory

Ticking cough, with salty, bloody phlegm coughed up. Constrictive pains in chest, with dyspnoea. Soreness in chest during motion.

Extremities

Tearing in shoulders as if dislocated. Right shoulder painful, cannot raise it. Whole body feels tired and painful, especially legs and feet. Swelling in bend of knee.

Skin

Earthy, sallow and parchment-like; emaciation. Itching vesicles on hands and fingers. Nodosities under skin. Sore; sensitive to cold.

Fever

Chilly in evening. Fever at night. Sour, greasy perspiration.

Sleep

Unrefreshing; more tired on rising than on retiring.

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