Nosode

Medorrhinum

The Gonorrhceal Virus

Repertory abbreviation: Med.

A powerful and deep-acting medicine, often indicated for chronic ailments due to suppressed gonorrhoea. For women with chronic pelvic disorders. ( Chronic rheuma- tism. Great disturbance and irritability of nervous sys- tem. Pains intolerable, tensive; nerves quiver and tingle. Children dwarfed and stunted. State of col- lapse and trembling all over, History of sycosis. Often restores a gonorrhceal discharge. Intensity of all sen- sations.

Mind

Weak memory. Loses the thread of conver- sation. Cannot sptak without weeping. Time passes too slowly. [Cannab. ind.; Arg. n.] Is in a great hurry. Hopeless of recovery. Fears going insane. [Man- cinella.] Sensibility exalted. Nervous, restless. Fear in the dark and of some one behind her.

Head

Burning pain in brain; worse, occiput. Head heavy and drawn backward. Headache from jarring of cars, exhaustion, or hard work. Weight and pressure in vertex. Hair dry, crispy. Itching of scalp; dandruff.

Eyes

Feels as if she stared at everything. Eyeballs ache. Feels as if sticks in eyes. Lids irritated.

Ears

Partial deafness, pulsation in ears. Quick, darting pains in right ear.

Nose

Intense itching. Coldness of tip. Posterior nares obstructed.

Face

Pallor, acne, blotches of reddish color. Small boils break out during menses.

Mouth

Tongue coated brown and thick, blistered ; canker sores. Blisters on inner surface of lips and cheeks.

Stomach

Coppery taste and eructations of sul- phuretted hydrogen. Ravenous hunger soon after eat- ing. Very thirsty. Cravings for liquor, salt, sweets, etc., warm drinks.

Abdomen

Violent pain in liver and spleen. Rests more comfortably lying on abdomen.

Stool

Can pass stool only by leaning very far back. Painful lump sensation on posterior surface of sphinc- ter. Oozing of fetid moisture. Intense itching of anus. Urine. —- Painful tenesmus when urinating. Nocturnal enuresis. Renal colic. [Berb.; Ocim.; Pareir.] Urine flows very slowly.

Male

Nocturnal emissions, followed by great weak- ress. Impotence. Gleet; whole urethra feels sore. Urethritis.

Female

Intense pruritus. Menses offensive, pro- fuse, dark, clotted; stains difficult to wash out, urinates frequently at that time. Sensitive spot near os uteri. Leu- cotrhoea thin, acrid, excoriating, fish odor. Sycotic 487 warts on genitals. Ovarian pain, worse left side, Or from ovary to ovary. Sterility. Metrorrhagia. In- tense menstrual colic. Breasts cold, sore, and sensitive. Marked action on lacieal glands. The se- cretion of milk was established after lack of it in all previous confinements.

Respiratory

Much oppression of breathing. Hoarse while reading. Pain and soreness through chest and mamma. Incessant, dry, night cough. Asthma. In- cipient consumption. Larynx feels sore. Dyspncea ; cannot exhale. [Samb.] Cough; better lying on

Extremities

Pain in back, with burning heat. Legs heavy; ache all night; cannot keep them still. [Zinc.] Ankles easily turn when walking. Burning of hands and feet. Finger-joints enlarged, puffy. Gouty concre- tions. Heels and balls of feet tender. Soreness of soles. Restless; better, clutching hands.

Skin

Ye!low. Intense and incessant itching; worse night and when thinking of it. Fiery red rash about anus in babies. Copper-colored spots. Favus. Tumors and abnormal growth. Numbness ; burning, pricking heat. Vesicular eruption, especially on face, arms, shoulders, and breasts. Nettle-rash. [Apis; Chloral.: Dulc.]

Sleep

Dreams she is drinking. [Ars.; Phos.] Sleeps in knee-chest position.

Fever

Wants to be fanned all the time. Chills up and down back; coldness of legs, hands, and forearms. Flashes of heat in face and neck. Night-sweat and hectic.

Modalities

Worse, when thinking of ailment, from daylight to sunset, heat, inland. Better, at the sea- shore, lying on stomach, damp weather. [Caust.]

Relationships

Compare: Lactation: Galega; Lac- tuca. Sulph.: Syphil.: Zinc. Compare: Pyrarara; Physalia (urti- caria) ; Urtica; Honar.; Sep.

Dose

The very highest potencies only of service. Must not be repeated often. (Jelly-fish) Whole face puffed and cedematous -- eyes, nose, ears, lips.

Source: Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 8th ed. by William Boericke (1922), p. 479. Public domain.

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