Selvelia

Materia Medica

Methylene Blue

One of the Aniline Dyes

One of the Aniline Dyes (METHYLENE BLUE) A remedy for neuralgia, neurasthenia, malaria; typhoid, here it diminishes the tympanites, delirium, and fever; pus infection. Tendency to tremor, chorea and epilepsy. Nephritis (acute parenchymatous), scarlatinal nephritis. Urine acquires a green color. Bladder irritation from its use antidoted by a little nutmeg. Surgical kidney with large amount of pus in urine. Gonorrhoeal rheumatism and cystitis. Backache, sciatica. Later states of apoplexy (Gisevius).

Dose

3x attenuation. A 2 per cent solution locally, in chronic otitis with foul smelling discharge. A 1 per cent aqueous solution for ulcers and abscesses of cornea.

Source: Pocket manual of homoeopathic materia medica by William Boericke (1906). Public domain, transcribed by OOREP. Also in Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 8th ed., p. 498.

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