Materia Medica
Magnesia Muriatica
Muriate of Magnesia
A liver remedy with pronounced characteristic con- stipation. Chronic liver affections with tenderness ard pain, extending to spine and epigastrium, worse after fooa. Especially adapted to diseases of women, with a long history of indigestion and uterine disease; chil- dren who cannot digest milk. Evil effects of sea bathing.
Mind
Laments all the time about the pain. Inability to think clearly. Sleepless on account of indigestion.
Head
Sensitive to noise; bursting headache; worse, motion, open air; better, pressure, and wrapping up warmly. [Sil.; Stront.] Much sweating of head. [Calc.; Sil.] Vertigo on moving, falls forward on closing eyes, better walking in open air. Aches after mental labor, with chilliness; always better warimth. . [Sil.] Sensation as if contents were liquid, as if parts of brain were changing places, as of a cap on head.
Eyes
Supraorbitai pains; worse, right side; re- lieved by warmth applied externally. Increased lachry- mation. Twitching of lids. . Nystaginus, strabismus, ptosis. Eyes hot, tired, vision blurred, colored lights before eyes.
Ears
Severe neuralgic pain; worse behind right ear; worse, by going into cold air, and washing face and neck zeith cold water.
Nose
Nostrils ulcerated. Coryza. Nose stopped and fluent. Loss of smell and taste, following catarrh. Cannot lie down. Must breathe through mouth.
Mouth
Blisters on lips. Gums swollen, bleed easily. Tongue feels bunt and scalded. Throat dry, with hoarseness. Toothache; better by heat and hot liquids. Ulceration of teeth, with swelling of glands of face, throat, and neck, and swelling of tongue. Complaints of teething children. Spasms without febrile symptoms.
Throat
Soreness and stiffness, especially right side ; parts seem puffy, with chilliness, and aching all over.
Stomach
Appetite poor, bad taste in mouth. 477 Eructations like rotten eggs. Continued rising of white froth into mouth. Cannot digest milk. Urine can be passed only by pressing abdominal muscles. Hiccough, with retching day and ight. Thirst for very cold drinks.
Abdomen
Pressing pain in liver; worse lying on right side. Liver enlarged with bloating of abdomen; yellow tongue. Congenital crotal hernia. Must use abdominal muscles to enable him to urinate. Enteralgia, relieved by pressure. Flatu- lent colic, forcing patient to bend double; relieved by rubbing, warmth, pressure; accompanied with belching of gas, which gives no relief. Bloated, full sensation in abdomen; must loosen clothing, walk about, and con- stantly pass flatus. Constipation in rheumatic subjects due to flatulence and indigestion.
Urinary
Urine difficult to void. Bladder can only be emptied by straining and pressure. Bowels. — Constipation of infants during dentition; only passing small quantity; stools knotty. like sheep's dung, crumbling at vcrge of nus. Painful smarting haemorrhoids.
Female
Menses black, clotted. Pain in back and thighs. Metrorrhagia; worse at night. Great excitement at every period. Leucorrhcea with every stool and after exercise. Tinea ciliaris, eruptions in face and forehead worse before menses. Menstrual colic. Membranous dysmenor- rhoea. Menses too early, dark, stringy. Swelling of ex- ternal parts. Ovarian neuralgia. Vaginismus.
Respiratory
Spasmodic dry cough; worse forepart of night, with burning and sore chest. Asthmatic oppression of chest. Dry, tickling cough. Spasmodic cough, with difficulty in ly- ing down. Whooping-cough. [Corall.] Voice hoarse, larynx sore and raw. Intercostal neuralgia.
Heart
Palpitation and cardiac pain while sitting; better by mozing about. [Gels.] Angina pectoris. Nervous spasmodic palpi- tation. Constricting pains around heart.
Extremities
Pain in back and hips; in arms and legs. Arms "go to sleep' when waking in morning. Inivoluntary shaking of hands. Pa- ralysis agitans. Cramps in calves. Sciatica; feet very tender. Darting pains. Twitchings. Chorea. Writers' and layers' cramp. Tetanic spasms. Weakness in arms and hands, finger-tips stiff and numb. General muscular weakness.
Sleep
Sleep during day; restless at night on account of heat and shock; anxious dreams.
Fever
Chilliness after dinner, in evening. Chills run up and dozwn the back, with shivering, followed by a suffocating sensation.
Modalities
Worse, immediately after eating, lying on right side; from sea bathing. Better, from pressure, motion; open air, except headache. Worse, right side, cold, touch. Better, warmth, bending doubfe, pressure, friction.
Relationships
Antidotes: Camph.; Cham. Compare: Nat. m.: Puls.; Sep.; Amm. m.; Nastur- tium aquaticum (cirrhosis of liver and dropsy). Compare: Kali phos.; Colocy.; Silica; Zinc.; Diosc. Antidotes: Bell.: Gels ; Lach.
Dose
Third to 200th potency. (Phosphate of Magnesia) The great anti-spasmodic remedy. Cramping of mus- cles with radiating pains. Neuralgic pains relieved by warmth. Especially suited to tired, languid, exhausted subjects. Indisposition for mental exertion. Goitre. First to twelfth potency. Sometimes the highest potencies are preferable. Acts especially well, given in hot water