Remedy

Mercurius corrosivus

Corrosive sublimate

17 health issues Boericke 1927

Main symptoms

  • This salt leads all other remedies in constant urge to pass stool of the rectum, which is incessant, and is not relieved by the stool.
  • The constant urge to pass stool often involves the bladder as well.
  • Destroys the secreting portions of the kidneys.
  • 'This process is slow, but sure.
  • Albuminuria in early pregnancy. (Phosph. Later and at full term.)

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Symptoms by body part

Head

Delirium, stupor. Frontal pain, congestion of head with burning in cheeks. Drawing pain in periosteum of skull.

Eyes

Pain behind eyeballs, as if forced out. Phlyctenulae; deep ulcers on cornea. Excessive sensitive to light and acrid watering eyes. Iritis, ordinary or syphilitic. (Give in association with atropin locally for prevention of adhesions.) Pain severe at night; burning, shooting, tearing. Little tendency to pus formation. Iris muddy in color, thick, and neither contracts nor dilates. Retinitis albuminuric, eye inflammation neonatorum. Lids oedematous, red, excoriated. Severe burning. Soreness of the eyes.

Nose

Excessive runny nose (cold). Ozaena, with perforation of septum nasi. Rawness and smarting in nostrils. Post-nasal swelling, mucous membrane dry, red, and covered with bloody mucus.

Ears

Violent pulsations. Fetid pus.

Face

Swollen. Red, puffy. Lips black, swollen. Sordes. Facial neuralgia within the bones.

Mouth

Teeth loose. Gums purple, swollen, and spongy. Tongue swollen and inflamed. Excess saliva. Pyorrhoea. Excess saliva. Taste salty and bitter.

Throat

Red, swollen, painful, intensely inflamed. Uvula swollen. Swallowing painful. Most pain in post-nasal with sharp pains to ears. Burning pain, with great swelling; worse, slight external pressure. All glands about thorax swollen.

Stomach

Incessant, green, bilious vomiting. Epigastrium very sensitive.

Abdomen

Bruised sensation; caecal region and transverse colon painful. Bloated; very painful to least touch.

Stool

Dysentery; constant urge to pass stool, not relieved by stool; incessant. Stool hot, bloody, slimy, offensive, with cutting pains and shreds of mucous membrane.

Respiratory

Pain in larynx as cut with knife. Aphonia. Cough, with bloody phlegm coughed up. Pulse rapid and intermittent. Stitches through side of chest.

Urine

Intense burning in urethra. Urine hot, burning, scanty orsuppressed; bloody, greenish discharge. Albuminous. Constant urge to pass stool of bladder. Stabbing pain extending up urethra into bladder. Perspiration after urinating.

Male

Penis and testes enormously swollen. Discharge greenish, thick.

Fever

Chilly from slightest exposure. Profuse perspiration; surface cold.

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