Materia Medica
Myrica
Bayberry
Bayberry (MYRICA) Marked action on the liver, with jaundice and mucous membranes. Persistent sleeplessness. Jaundice.
Mind
Despondent, irritable, indifferent. Gloomy.
Head
Scalp feels tight. Headache, with drowsiness; yellow sclerotica; aching in eyeballs. Pressure in vertex and forehead. Dull, heavy aching in temples and forehead on waking in the morning. Pain and stiffness in nape of neck.
Face
Yellow, Itching and stinging. Creeping sensation.
Mouth
Tongue furred, with bad taste in mouth, and nausea. Tenacious, thick, nauseous secretion. Tender, spongy and bleeding gums (Merc).
Throat
Constricted and rough feeling, with a constant desire to swallow. Stringy mucus; detached with difficulty.
Stomach
Taste bitter and nauseous, with offensive breath. Complete loss appetite, but with a feeling of fullness in the stomach after a hearty meal. Strong desire for acids. Weak, sinking feeling in the epigastrium, approaching nausea; increased after eating; relieved by rapid walking.
Abdomen
Dull pain in the region of the liver. Complete jaundice, with bronze-yellow skin; loss of appetite. Fullness in the stomach and abdomen. Scanty, yellow, frothy urine.
Stool
Constant discharge of flatus when walking. Urging to stool, with no other results than the expulsion of a great amount of flatus. Loose, light-colored stool; ash-colored and destitute of bile.
Urinary
Dark, frothy, scanty, high-colored, biliary.
Sleep
Disturbed, bad dreams and frequent waking; insomnia.
Extremities
Staggering gait. Pain under shoulder-blades and back of neck, in all muscles, in hollow of right foot.
Skin
Yellow and itching. Jaundice. Creeping sensation, as of insects.
Relationships
Compare: Ptel; Cornus cir; Chelid; Lept; Fagop. Antidote: Digit (jaundice).
Dose
Tincture, to third potency.