MEZEREUM
General action :
Inflammation of mucous membranes and of the skin, with burning internally
and itching externally.
Neuralgia, particularly of the face.
Periosteal inflammations of various bones.
Generalities :
Sensitiveness to cold air.
Paralytic tension and tightness of the limbs.
Jerking and twitching of the muscles.
Symptoms are usually one-sided.
General aggravation on motion and touch, and in the evening.
Mind :
Hypochondriac mood.
Very ill humored.
Thought difficult, dull.
Memory weak.
Head :
Pain on the slightest touch, especially in the temples and sides, with
shivering and chilliness, < open air.
One-sided stupefying headache.
Bone pain on the vertex, < touch.
Moist and itching eruption on the head.
Eruption on the scalp becomes scabby, with suppuration underneath, with
itching and burning.
Eyes :
Inflammation, with dryness.
Smarting in the eyes compels rubbing.
Jerking of the muscles of the upper lid.
Eyeballs feel too large.
Ears :
Ears feel too open, as if distended by air.
Various pains in the ears ; difficult hearing, with ringing noises.
Clinical
:
Deafness following the suppression of the pustular eruption on the scalp.
Inflammation, with a feeling as if the drum were exposed to the cold air.
Nose :
Margins of the nostrils inflamed, painful.
Pressing asunder pain at the root of the nose, extending into the
forehead, with pain in the temples, heat and sweat on the head, coldness
of the rest of the body.
Nose dry, with diminished smell.
Sneezing, with fluent coryza ; sore pain in the chest, followed by
yellow discharge, with soreness and burning pain.
Face :
Inflammation, with pustular eruptions.
Jerkings of the muscles in the middle of the cheek.
Neuralgia, tearing and boring in one side, with burning.
Sudden pain, wakes from sleep.
Tearing or boring pains in the jaws.
Eruptions around the mouth, with fluent coryza.
Lips dry, stick together.
Lips become shiny and painful, with burning soreness.
Mouth :
Rapid decay of teeth ; they feel too long and sore, < cold air and
at night.
Shooting pains in the teeth, which involve the side of the face and extend
to the temples.
Burning in the whole mouth, extending to the stomach ; with
salivation.
Throat :
Burning and scraping ; a feeling of constriction in the throat.
Irritation in the throat provokes hacking cough.
Dryness and burning in the pharynx extends to śsophagus.
Stomach :
Unnatural appetite, noon and evening.
Empty eructations.
Nausea felt particularly in the throat, > eating.
Vomiting of beer or of bitter green mucus ; with bitter taste.
Burning in the stomach, with pain on pressure, extends transversely, <
pressure.
Clinical
:
A gastric ulceration, with burning ; temporarily relieved by
eating ; vomiting of blood or even evacuation of blood with the
stools.
Abdomen :
Flatulent symptoms, with burning ; abdomen hard and distended.
Tearing pains.
Severe pain in the region of the spleen.
Rectum and Stool :
Burning and sore pain in the rectum ; diarrhśa, with abdominal pain.
Stools preceded and followed by shivering.
Clinical
:
Sour, undigested diarrhśa, preceded by colic, followed by chilliness ;
constipation, with prolapsus of the rectum, which is difficult to reduce
on account of constriction of the anus.
Urinary organs :
Blood is discharged after the urine.
Biting, burning pain in the fore part of the urethra at the close of
micturition.
Urine hot, with red sediment ; bloody.
Sexual organs :
Menstruation frequent and prolonged.
Vaginal discharge like the white of an egg, corrosive burning.
Respiratory organs :
Hoarseness and cough and rawness in the chest.
Cough < eating, even to vomiting ; worse in the evening in bed and
in the morning, caused by an irritation in the trachea, which seems to be
lower down than can be reached by the cough.
Constriction across chest as if the lungs were adherent.
Painful tension in the intercostal muscles.
Neck and Back :
Stiff pain in the nape of the neck and muscles of the sides, < motion.
Pain in the muscles of the back like a tension, < motion.
Extremities :
Trembling.
Pain in periosteum of long bones, especially in the tibić, < night in
bed, with intolerance of all touch.
Tearing pains in the long bones, with chilliness and shivering, sensitive
to cold air.
Pains in the tibić as if the periosteum would be torn off, after
midnight, disturbing sleep.
Burning in the tibić.
Skin :
Itching at night, after scratching ; swelling when the itching
becomes worse.
Desquamation over the whole body.
Old ulcers burn and sting ; or become covered with scabs under which
yellow matter collects.
Eczema on the face of a child, which is constantly scratched until it
bleeds.
Clinical
:
Herpetic or eczematous eruptions, with tendency to ulcerate and form
scabs, from under which pus exudes.
Itching intolerable, aggravated by scratching, with burning, aggravated at
night and by heat.
Impetiginoides eczema of the face, with formation of scabs and oozing of
offensive matter.
Herpes zoster.
Psoriasis.
Lupus.
Sleep :
Much yawning and stretching : irresistible sleepiness during the day.
Nightmare at night.
Fever :
Chill, mostly external, without desire for warmth.
Chill associated with most other symptoms.
Heat internal, even with external coldness.
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