Mercurius solubilis
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Main symptoms
- Every organ and tissue of the body is more or less affected by this powerful drug; it transforms healthy cells into decrepit, inflamed and necrotic wrecks, decomposes the blood, producing a profound anaemia.
- This malignant medicinal force is converted into useful life saving and life preserving service if employed homoeopathically, guided by its clear cut symptoms.
- The lymphatic system is especially affected with all the membranes and glands, and internal organs, bones etc.
- These are the special conditions and stages to which Mercur is homoeopathic and where the 2x will do surprising work.
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- Tremors everywhere.
- Weakness with ebullitions and tremblings from least exertion.
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- Slow in answering questions.
- Memory weakened, and loss of will-power.
- Weary of life.
- Mistrustful.
- Thinks he is losing his reason.
What makes it better or worse
Worse
Symptoms by body part
Head
Dizziness, when lying on back. Band-feeling about head. One-sided, tearing pains. Tension about scalp, as if bandaged. With mucus headaches; much heat in head. Stinging, burning, fetid rashes on scalp. Loss of hair. Exostosis, with feeling of soreness. Scalp tense; oily sweat on head.
Eyes
Lids red, thick, swollen. Profuse, burning, acrid discharge. Floating black spots. After exposure to glare of fire; foundrymen. Parenchymatous keratitis of syphilitic origin with burning pain. Iritis, with hypopyon.
Ears
Thick, yellow discharge; fetid and bloody. Earache, worse warmth of bed; at night sticking pains. Boils in external canal.
Nose
Much sneezing. Sneezing in sunshine. Nostrils raw, ulcerated; nasal bones swollen. Yellow-green, fetid, puslike discharge. Runny nose (cold); acrid discharge, but too thick to run down the lip; worse, warm room. Pain and swelling of nasal bones, and caries, with greenish fetid ulceration. Nosebleed at night. Copious discharge of corroding mucus. Runny nose (cold), with sneezing; sore, raw, smarting sensation; worse, damp weather; profuse, fluent.
Face
Pale, earthy, dirty-looking, puffy. Aching in facial bones, Syphilitic pustules on face.
Mouth
Sweetish metallic taste. Salivary secretions greatly increased; bloody and viscid. Saliva fetid, coppery. Speech difficult on account of trembling tongue. Gums spongy, recede, bleed easily. Sore pain on touch and from chewing. Whole mouth moist. Crown of teeth decay. Teeth loose, feel tender and elongated. Furrow in upper surface of tongue lengthwise. Tongue heavy, thick; moist coating; yellow, flabby, teeth-intended, feels as if burnt, with ulcers, Fetid odor from mouth, can smell it all over room. Alveolar abscess, worse at night. Great thirst, with moist mouth.
Throat
Bluish-red swelling. Constant desire to swallow. Putrid sore throat; worse right side. Ulcers and inflammation appearing at every change in weather. Stitches into ear on swallowing; fluids return through nose. Quinsy, with difficult swallowing, after pus has formed. Sore, raw, smarting, burning throat. Complete loss of voice. Burning in throat, as from hot vapor ascending.
Stomach
Putrid belching. Intense thirst for cold drinks. Weak digestion, with continuous hunger. Stomach sensitive to touch. Hiccough and regurgitation. Feels replete and constricted.
Abdomen
Stabbing pain, with feeling cold. Boring pain in right groin. Flatulent distention, with pain. Liver enlarged; sore to touch, indurated. Jaundice. Bile secreted deficiently.
Stool
Greenish, bloody and slimy, worse at night, with pain and constant urge to pass stool. Never-get-done feeling. Discharge accompanied by feeling cold, sick stomach, cutting colic, and constant urge to pass stool. Whitish-gray stools.
Urine
Frequent urging. Greenish discharge from urethra; burning in urethra on beginning to urinate. Urine dark, scanty, bloody, albuminous.
Male
Cold genitals. Prepuce irritated; itches. Nocturnal emissions, stained with blood.
Female
Menses profuse, with abdominal pains. White vaginal discharge excoriating, greenish and bloody; sensation of rawness in parts. Stinging pain in ovaries. Itching and burning; worse, after urinating; better, washing with cold water. Morning sickness, with profuse excess saliva. Mammae painful and full of milk at menses.
Respiratory
Soreness from fauces to sternum. Cannot lie on right side. Cough, with yellow muco-purulent phlegm coughed up. Paroxysms of two; worse, night, and from warmth of bed. Mucus discharge, with feeling cold; dread of air. Stitches from lower lobe of right lung to back. Whooping-cough with nosebleed. Cough worse, tobacco smoke.
Back
Bruised pain in small of back, especially when sitting. Tearing pain in coccyx; better, pressing on abdomen.
Extremities
Weakness of limbs. Bone-pains and in limbs; worse, night. Patient very sensitive to cold. Oily perspiration. Lacerating pain in joints. Cold, clammy sweat on legs at night. Dropsical swelling of feet and legs.
Skin
Almost constantly moist. Persistent dryness of the skin contra indicates mercurius. Excessive odorous viscid perspiration; worse, night. General tendency to free perspiration, but patient is not relieved thereby. Vesicular and pustular rashes. Ulcers, irregular in shape, edges undefined. Pimples around the main rash. Itching, worse from warmth of bed. Crusta lactea; yellowish-brown crusts, considerable pus formation. Glands swell every time patient takes cold. Buboes. Orchitis.
Fever
Generally gastric or bilious, with profuse nightly perspiration; debility, slow and lingering. Heat and shuddering alternately. Yellow perspiration. Profuse perspiration without relief. Creeping feeling cold, worse in the evening and into night. Alternate flashes of heat in single parts.
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