Materia Medica
Magnesia Carbonica
Carbonate of Magnesia
Gastro-intestinal catarrh, with marked acidity. Often used with advantage for complaints 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 women, with uterine and climacteric disoiders. With numbness and distention in various parts and nerve prostration. Sen- sitive to the least start, noise, touch, etc. Affections of the antrum of Highmore. Effects of shock, blows, men- tal distress. S Sense of numbness; nerve prostration; tendency to constipation after neryous strain; sensi
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. Black motes before eyes.
Ears
Diminished hearing. Deafness; comes sud- denly and varies. Numbness of outer car. Feeling of distention of middle ear. Subdued tinnitus.
Face
Tearing pain in one sivie; 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. [Cheiran- thus.l 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 eruption; bloody saliva. Sticking pain in throat ; hawk- ing up fetid, pea-coiored particles.
Stomach
Desire for fruit, acids, and vegetables. Eructations sour, and vomiting of bitter waier. Crav- ing for meat.
Abdomen
Rumbling, gurgling. Dragging to- wards pelvis. Very heavy; contractive, pinching pain in right iliac region.
Stool
Preceded by griping, colic pain. Green, watery, frothy, like a fro-pond's cum. Bloody mu- cons stools. Milk passes undi?ted in nursing children. Sour, with tenesmuis. [Rheum.] Constipation after mental shock or severe nervous strain.
Female
Sore throat before menses appear. Before menses, coryza and nasal stoppage. Menses too late and scanty, thick, dark, like pitch; mucous leucorrhoea. Menses flow only ins sleep; more profuse at night [Amm. m.], or when lying down; cease when walking.
Respiratory
Tickling cough, with salty, bloody ex- pectoration. Constrictive pains in chest, with dyspncea. Soreness in chest during motion.
Extremities
Tearing in shoulders as if dislocated. Right shoulder painful, cannot raise it. [Sang.] Whole body feels tired and painful, especially legs and feet. Swelling in bend of knee.
Skin
Earthy, sallow and parchment-like; emacia- tion. Itching vesicles on hands and fingers. Nodosities under skin. Sore; sensitive to cold.
Sleep
Unrefreshing; more tired on rising than on retiring.
Fever
Chilly in evening. Fever at night. Sour, greasy perspiration.
Modalities
Worse, warmth of bed; change of tem- perature: every three weeks; rest. Better, warm air; walking in open air.
Relationships
Antidotes: Ars.; Merc. Complementary: Cham. Compare: Rheum; Krcos.; Aloes; Cheiranthius- Wall fower — (deafness, otorrhoea, nose stopped up at night from irritation of cutting wisdon-teeth.)
Dose
Third to thirtieth potency.