Materia Medica

Ruber

Mercuric Sulphide

For certain forms of ciliary neura!gia and ulceration upon a syphilitic base, this remedy is most effective.

Head

Congestion to head ; face purple red.

Eyes

Pains from laclirymal duct around eye to temple, from inner canthius across brozus to car. Sc- vere shiooting pain in bones of orbit, especially running from inner to outer canthius in the bone. Redness of hol eye. Lids granulated; canthi and lids red.

Nose

Pressive sensation, as from heavy spectacles. Pain about root, extending into bones on each side. [Aur.; Kal. hyd.]

Throat

Stringy mucus passed through posterior nares into throat. Dryness of mouth and throat; must rinse the mouth. Fiery-looking ulcers in mouth and

Male

Prepuce swollen; warts on it which bleed easily; testicles enlarged; buboes; angry-looking chancres. Syphilides, squamous and vesicular.

Female

Leucorrhcea. Feeling of pressure in vagina.

Extremities

Pain in forearm from elbow down, in- m lowers; coldness of joints.

Skin

Very fiery-red looking ulcers. Nodes on shin- bones. Buboes. Condyloma, easily bleeding.

Modalities

IWorsc, lying on right side (feels as if contents of body were being dragged over to that side).

Relationships

Compare: Hepar; Nitr. ac.; Thuja; Sep. Antidotes: Hepar; Sulph.

Dose

First to third trituration.

Source: Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 8th ed. by William Boericke (1922), p. 238. Public domain.

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