Mezereum

▲   GENERAL

General

Skin symptoms, affections of bones, and neuralgias most important, especially about teeth and face. Bruised, weary feeling in joints, with drawing and stiffness. Pains of various kinds, with chilliness and sensitiveness to cold air. Bone pains. Eruptions after vaccination. Burning, darting sensation in the muscles, subsultus tendinum. Pains shoot upward and seem to draw patient up out of bed. Semi-lateral complaints. Patient is very sensitive to cold air.

Dose

Sixth to thirtieth potency.

▲   MODALITIES ETC

Worse

WORSE, cold air; night, evening until midnight, warm food, touch, motion.

Better

BETTER, open air.

▲   RELATIONSHIPS

Compare

Compare: Dirca Palustris - Leather wood - (a gastro-intestinal irritant inducing salivation, emesis and purgation; cerebral hyperaemia; neuralgic pains, with depression, palpitation, and dyspnoea); Merc Viv ^Merc.; Phytolacca Decandra ^Phyt.; Rhus Tox ^Rhus; Guaiacum ^Guaiac.; Syphilinum (Luesinum) ^Syph.

Antidotes

Antidotes: KALI-Hyd.; Merc Viv ^Merc.

▲   MIND

Mind

Emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition

indifference, apathy, etc.

unhappy; sadness, mental depression

Intellectual faculties; impaired thinking; absent-minded (see forgetful)

Insecure, uncertain, scared

anxiety

fear; arising from stomach

Preoccupied; absorbed, buried in thought

▲   HEAD

Head

Hard work to talk

Affections of external head; scaly eruption, white scabs

Head covered with Thick, leathery crusts, under which pus collects

Violent neuralgia about face and teeth, running towards ear, at night; Worse, eating; better near hot stove

Roots of teeth decay

Teeth feel elongated.

Brain; inflammation of brain; at spine

Sensitive; brain

Headache

Headache; worse from talking

Stupefying headache in right side

Pain, headache

evening

from emotions; after stress (see anger)

from certain movements; movement in general

from certain movements; on moving head

from touch

burning

pressing (see bursting, pulling); temples; left

sore bruised, sensitive to pressure

after stress

Scalp

Hair; sticks together

Skin and scalp

out-break on skin

out-break on skin; crusts, scabs

white; with thick white pus beneath

itching

▲   EYES

Eyes

Ciliary neuralgia after operations

Especially after removal of eyeball

Pains radiate and shoot downward, With cold feeling and stiffness of bone.

Dryness

▲   EARS

Ear

Feel too much open, As if tympanum was exposed to the cold air and it blew into the ear

Desire to bore fingers in.

Sensation of fullness

▲   FACE

Face

Red

Eruption around mouth, with coryza.

Skin

discoloration; red

out-breaks on skin

crusty, scabby

itching

moist

▲   NOSE

Nose

Post-nasal adenoids.

Discharge

Sneezing, coryza, interior of nose, excoriated

▲   MOUTH

Mouth

Pain; burning, raw and smarting

Gums and teeth

Teeth

decay, hollow

feel as if on edge

sensation of elongated teeth

pain; left

pain; when biting; when biting teeth together

▲   THROAT

Throat

Dryness

Feels hot

Pain; burning

Scraping

▲   CHEST

Respiration

Soreness and burning in bones of thorax

Constriction across chest

Cough; worse, eating, irritation lower than can be reached, on taking a warm drink.

▲   COUGH

Cough

Violent

▲   SKIN

Skin

Eczema; Intolerable itching; chilliness with pruritus; worse in bed

Ulcers itch and burn, surrounded by vesicles and shining, fiery-red areola

Zona, with burning pain

BONES, especially long bones, inflamed and swollen; caries, exostosis; pain worse night, touch, damp weather (Merc Viv ^Merc; Syphilinum (Luesinum) ^Syph) Eruptions ulcerate and form thick scabs under which purulent matter exudes

Abnormal growths

ulcers; crusty

ulcers; discharges; whitish

ulcers; discharges; yellow

ulcers; itching

ulcers; red with red circle

ulcers; surrounded by blisters

Itching

without visible out-break on skin

Out-breaks on skin

crusty

moist

peeling in scales

discharging, moist

dry

eczema

herpetic

zoster, zona

itching

rash (see granular)

like nettle rash; nodular

like nettle rash; after scratching

Pain; burning; from perspiration

▲   BACK AND NECK

Back

Skin

out-breaks on skin

itching

▲   ABDOMEN

Abdomen

Stomach; Desire for ham-fat

Burning in tongue, extending to stomach

Mouth waters

Gastric ulcer with much burning.

Swelling of glands with large abdomen in children

Pressure in inguinal ring

Flatulent colic, with shivering and difficult respiration.

Stomach; apprehension in stomach

Nausea

Nausea felt in throat; better, eating

Vomiting

Chronic gastritis; burning, corroding pain; nausea, vomiting, chocolate color

▲   RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Rectum, anus, stool

Constipation, with hepatic and uterine inertia

Rectum

Constipation after confinement

Prolapse of rectum

Diarrhoea, with small, white particles

Green discharges

Constriction of anus; stitches and prolapse of rectum.

Stool

Hard

Large

▲   GENITALS ETC

Urine

Red flakes float on top of urine

Hot, bloody

Biting, burning in forepart of urethra at the close of micturition

Haematuria preceded by cramp pain in the bladder

After urinating, a few drops of blood are passed.

Sediment; fluffy, woolly

Male

Male; Enlargement of testicles

Genitals

Leucorrhoea like albumen; very corroding.

Violent sexual desire

Gonorrhoea, with hematuria.

Menses

Female; Menses too frequent, soon, profuse

▲   EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Extremities, limbs

Pain in neck and back; worse, motion and at night; intolerant of all touch

PAIN and burning in tibia and long bones

Legs and feet go to sleep

Pain in hip and knee.

Coldness; upper limbs; hands; during chill

Pain

during chill

hip; jerking

pressing; upper arm

Skin

itching; lower limbs

itching; leg

out-break on skin

desquamating (peeling in scales)

upper limbs

upper limbs; desquamating (peeling in scales)

hand; back of hand; eczema

hand; back of hand; blisters; itching

hand; between index finger and thumb; blisters; itching

foot; desquamating (peeling in scales)

Weakness

hand

hand; while writing

▲   FEVER AND CHILL

Fever and chill

On going into the cold air

Chilliness (see also whole body; temperature)

External; in spots

With pain

With fever, but chill predominating

Single parts

In warmth; in warm room; not relieved in warm room, nor by a warm heater

Intense heat

Intense heat; during sleep

Perspiration with heat

Heat comes on during sleep

Stages of chill, heat and sweat; chill then sweat, without intervening heat

▲   GENERALITIES

Sleep and dreams

Falling asleep; during heat

Sleep between heat of fever

Sleepiness, tiredness; during the heat

Perspiration

Single parts

During sleep

Generalities

Evening

Inflammation

bones

bones; around the bone

Jerking; muscles

Pain

burning externally; internally

burning externally; bones

sudden, sharp; muscles; burning in muscles

Symptoms not symmetrical; left

Twitching

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