Materia Medica
Mezereum
Spurge Olive
Skin symptoms, affections of bones. and neuralgias most important. especially about teeth and face. Bruised, weary feeling in joints, with drawing and stiff- ness. Pains of various kinds, with chilliness and sen- 505 sitiveness 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.
Head
Hard work to talk. Headache; worse from talking. Stupefying headache in right side. Affections of external head; scaly eruption, white scabs. Head covered with thick, leathery crusts, under uhich pus collects. Violent neuralgia about face and teeth, run- ning towards ear, at right; worse, eating; better, near hot stove. Roots of teeth decay. Teeth feel elomgated.
Eyes
Ciliary neuralgia. after operations. Espe- cially after removal of eyeball. Pains radiate and shoot downward, with cold feeling and stiffness of bone.'
Ears
Feel too much open, as if tympanuin vas exposed to the cold air and it ble into the ear.
Nose
Sneezing, coryza, interior of nose, ex- coriated. Post-nasal adenoids.
Face
Red. Eruption around mouth, with coryza.
Stomach
Desire for ham-fat. Burning in tongue, extending to stomach. Mouth waters. Nausea felt in throat; better, eating. Chronic gastritis; burning, cor- roding pain; nausea, vomiting, chocolate color. Gastric ulcer with much burning. Nausea; pain in stomach and bowels; flatulence.
Abdomen
Swelling of glands with large abdomen in children. Pressure in inguinal ring. Flatulent colic, with shivering and difficult respiration.
Rectum
Constipation after confinement. Pro- lapse of rectum. Diarrhcea, with small, white particles. Green discharges. Constipation, with hepatic and uterine inertia. Constriction of anus; stitches and prolapse of Urine.-- Red fakes float on top of urine. Hot, bloody. Biting, burning in forepart of urethra at the close of micturition. Hematuria preceded by cramp pain in the bladder. After urinating, a few drops of blood are passed.
Male
Enlargement of testicles. Violent sexual de- sire.( Gonorrhoea, with hcmaturia.
Female
Menses too frequent, soon, profuse. Leucorrhoea like albumen; very corroding.
Respiratory
Soreness and burning in bones of thorax. Constriction across chest. ( Cough; worse, eat- ing, irritation lower than can be reached, on taking a warm drink.
Extremities
Pain in neck and back; worse, motion and at night; intolerant of all touch. P'ain and burning in tibia and long bones. . Legs and fert go to
Skin
Eczema; intolerable itching; chilliness with pruritus; worse in bed. Ulcers itch and burn, sur- rounded by vesicles and shining, fiery-red areola. Zona, with burning pain. l Bonrs, especially long bones, in- famed and swollen; caries, exostosis; pain worse night, touch, damp weather. [Merc.: Syph.] Eruptions ulcer- ate and form thick scabs under rehich purulent matter cxudcs.
Sleep
Pain in hip and knee.
Modalities
W'orse, cold air ; night, evening until midnight, warm food, touch, motion. Better, open air.
Relationships
Compare: Dirca palustris — Leather wood — a gastro-intestinal irritant inducing salivation, emesis and purgation (neuralgic pains, with depression. palpitation, and ( dyspnoea) ; Mtrc.: Phyt.: Rhus; Guaiac.; Syph. Antidotes: Kali hyd.; Mc"t.
Dose
Sixth to thirtieth potency. (Yerba Buena) A California plant acting on stomach and bowels. Used as a tea to cure colic and relieve flatulence. Tincture.