Magnesia Muriatica.
Chloride of magnesium. Magnesia chloride. Mg Cl2.
Solution. Trituration.Clinical.─
Biliousness.
Bladder, paresis of. Cardialgia. Cold. Constipation.
Deafness. Diarrhśa. Dysmenorrhśa. Dyspepsia. Foot-sweat. Headache. Heart, affections of. Hćmorrhoids.
Heartburn. Home-sickness. Hysteria. Leucorrhśa. Liver, affections of. Menstruation, painful.
Nocturnal emissions. Ozćna. Palpitation. Pregnancy, nausea of. Smell,
disordered. Spleen, enlarged. Stomach, disorders of. Taste,
disordered. Tinea ciliaris. Urine, straining to pass. Uterus, pain in; induration
of. Waterbrash. Whooping-cough.
Characteristics.─
Whilst Mag.
c. and Mag. sul. are recognised old-school
remedies, I can find no mention of Mag. mur. or Mag. Phos. in modern text-books. Mag. m.
first appeared in Hahnemann’s Chronic Diseases. The
general feature of Mag. c. appears in many symptoms,
notably those of nervous disturbance and hysteria. The salt, says Guernsey, “is found
in many mineral waters, and in seawater. It has a very bitter taste, and is decomposed by
heat.” The note about the sea-water is important. Mag. m.
is like Nat. mur., and Aq. mar.
in the relation to seaside effects. Nat. m. is
particularly indicated in constipation,” biliousness,” and generally disordered
health, which appear as soon as the patient goes to the seaside. Mag.
m. is indicated when excessive weakness is felt after a sea-bath. The chief Localities of its action are: Head; r. hypochondrium; inner
region of liver; rectum and large intestine; bladder; uterus; heart; feet. It is especially suited to:
Diseases of women; spasmodic and hysterical complaints complicated with uterine diseases.
Headache at menstrual period in hysterical women. Women after suffering months or years from
attacks of indigestion or biliousness. Enlargement and congestion of liver Puny, rickety
children during dentition. Men with disordered livers; and sexual disorders. Teste, who
places Mag. m. in his Ferrum
group, says that Mag. m. and Mag.
c. “have been used for the cure of cachexia occasioned by long and painful
diseases.” He says he has seen Mag. m. produce
great improvement in this case: “Hydrarthrosis of left knee, with emaciation of left
thigh, consequent on a wandering neuralgia, which, after having commenced in the form of
cystitis with (non-venereal) discharge from urethra, had successively invaded the shoulder,
left elbow, eyes, and lastly, knees, where it had become seated.” A connection between
liver disorder and nasal obstruction has often been traced, and Mag.
m. has a large number of symptoms in both. The nasal symptoms have led to its
successful use in ozćna. One case cured had redness, swelling and scaliness of nose, and
sweat about the head and feet. Mag. m. is one of the
leading remedies in foot-sweat. Burning in soles, evening, must put feet out of bed. In
liver affections there is enlargement, sensitiveness <
from touch, and < lying on r. side; tongue large,
coated, indurated. It is especially suited to liver affections in children who are puny and
rickety, and have eruptions about the eyes. The constipation of Mag.
m. is very distinctive, and has led to the cure of many extremely obstinate
cases. The characteristic stool is knotty and conglomerate, like sheep’s. It may remain in this condition, or
it may crumble at the anus. Painful urging before stool; burning at anus after. As well as
intestinal atony, there is atony of bladder: urine can only be passed by bearing down with
abdominal muscles. The hysterical symptoms are marked: spasms, fainting, globus. Bearing
down in uterine region; uterine spasms. Menses black or pitch-like, accompanied by pains in
back when walking, pains in thighs when sitting. Leucorrhśa after every stool or following
uterine spasms. Hysterical headaches. Patient is anxious, restless, always < by mental exertion; during or after dinner seized with
nausea, eructations, trembling and faint spells, > by
eructations. Palpitation < when quiet, > moving about. Perversions of taste and smell are marked in Mag. m., and I have frequently restored with it loss of taste and
smell after influenza. Among the Sensations of Mag. m. are: As if some one was reading after her. As if boiling
water was on side of head. As if hair pulled. As if tongue burnt; mouth scalded. Stools as
if burnt. The pains are mostly boring and spasmodic
contractive pains; dragging down. There is much burning and heat. R. M. Skinner reports (Med. Adv., xxiv. 383) this case: A farmer had been treated
allopathically three months for chills, which were checked, but the man did not feel well.
Spleen very large, sensitive, felt heavy when he walked or rode. Constipated, goes three or
four days without a stool. It was for this that he sought advice. Abdomen distended. hard,
especially in ileo-cćcal region. Cold on left side and a crawling feeling, like a cold
snake. Beating in umbilical region as if his heart beat there. Mag.
m. 20 one dose on the tongue. At 8 p.m. the bowels began to act and went on
acting with the exception of one hour till 3 a.m. He complained next morning that the
medicine had “almost killed him,” and he looked thin and tired. No further
medicine was given, and in ten days he had no complaint, and the spleen was normal in size
and without tenderness. In a large proportion of Mag. m.
cases the Conditions will give the leading indications.
There is general hyperćsthesia and < by touch or
pressure; but the head pains are > by hard pressure;
eye pains > by pressure, and the menstrual pains > by pressing on back. There is great sensitiveness to cold
and disposition to catch cold, > wrapping up head
warmly; but the skin eruptions on face, head, and eyes are <
in warm room; cough < in room. Most symptoms except
headache are > in open air. Sea-bathing = bloody expectoration; great weakness. Rest <; motion > (this is
especially marked and peculiar in reference to palpitation). <
Lying down. Palpitation is > lying on left side.
Liver symptoms < lying right side, < on side lain on. [Also lying on left side = sensation of something (liver) dragging to that side.]
Rumination < while walking. <
At meals (fainting). > By eructations (nausea and
trembling). < After coitus (pain in testes and
cords). Mental exertion <.
Relations.─
Antidoted by:
Cham., also Camph., Ars., Nux. It antidotes: Merc.
(metrorrhagia). Compatible: Bell., Sul., Nat. m., Pul.,
Sep. Compare: Hysteria, Mosch., Asaf., Val., and Castor.
Uterine spasms, Ign. (Mag. m. may have induration); Caust. and Secale (both have continuous spasm). Erections and burning in penis, Pic. ac., Nat.
m. Enlarged liver, < by touch and lying on right
side, Merc. Foot-sweat and head-sweat, Sil. (Sil. is offensive); scrofulous and rickety
children, headache > wrapping, Sil. Congestion of
liver, enlargement, feeling of weight and pressure, Ptelea (Ptel. is > lying right side). Rumination, Sul. (Mag. m. is while
walking). Nervous restlessness, Zn. > Motion, Rhus.
Heart symptoms > by motion, Gels. Lips chapped and
serrated, Nat. m. < After coitus, Kal. c., Bro.
Enlarged liver of children, Calc. ars. Sensitiveness to noise, Ign., Nux, Ther. Eructations
tasting like onions (Sinap., breath smells of onions). Leucorrhśa two weeks after menses,
Bar., Bov., Con. Menstrual headache, Mag. c. (Mag. m. more hysteria).
Causation.─
Sea-bathing.
SYMPTOMS.
1. Mind.─
Uneasiness and lachrymose humour.─Peevishness
and chagrin.─Aversion to conversation; prefers solitude.─Repugnance
to exertion.─Nervous excitability, with tendency to weep readily.─Excited;
unhappy; fitful; emotional.─Fearful and inclined to weep.─Anxiousness
in room, > in open air.─While
reading, felt as if some one was reading after her, and she must keep reading faster and
faster.
2. Head.─
Stupefaction as from intoxication.─Vertigo
in morning, on rising, and during dinner; disappears in open air.─Heaviness
in head, with a dizziness which causes falling down.─Pains, > by covering up head.─Sensation of
numbness in forehead.─Compressive sensation in head from both sides,
with a hot feeling, and with beating in forehead when pressing upon it.─Tearing
and stitches in temples, with great sensitiveness of vertex, as if the hair were raised by
pulling.─Tearing and stitches in r. temple, extending to eye; necessity
to press eyes together.─Griping and raging in both temples, with a
feeling as if he would become dizzy and lose consciousness; disappearing on pressing the
head with both hands, in evening after lying down (5th day).─Tensive
pressure in forehead and sinciput, with confusion and cloudiness in head, principally on
awaking and when lying; > from exercise in open air
and when wrapping head up warm.─Squeezing, as from a claw, and noise in
temples, in evening, in bed, with sensation as if vertigo and loss of consciousness were
coming on.─Jerking, or shooting and pulsative tearings, in head.─Congestion,
with heat, painful humming, and ebullition in head.─Painful undulation
and whizzing as of boiling water on side upon which one rests.─Quotidian
headache.─Nervous pullings in head and face, extending to teeth, with a
sensation of confusion in head.─Throbbing, jerking tearing in occiput.─Boils
on head.─Great sensitiveness of scalp.─Nodes on
occiput, tearing, painful to touch.─Tendency of head to sweat.
3. Eyes.─
Inflammation and burning pain in eyes,
with redness of sclerotica.─Lachrymation and burning in eyes, when
looking at anything in broad daylight.─Nocturnal agglutination of
eyelids.─Yellow colour of sclerotica.─Green halo
round candle in evening.
4. Ears.─
Pulsation in ear.─Dulness
and hardness of hearing, as if something were placed before ear.─Shootings,
acute pullings, and boring in ears.─Itching of herpes behind ears.─Great
sensitiveness to noise.─Buzzing in ears.
5. Nose.─
Scabs in nostrils, sometimes with
painful sensibility of nose, when touched.─Excoriation of nostrils.─Discharge
of corrosive serum from nose.─Stoppage of nose, with want of breath.─Pain
as from excoriation, and of burning in nose.─Swelling, redness,
induration, and heat of lower part of nose, which are <
in morning.─Troublesome dryness of nose.─Nocturnal
obstruction of nose.─Coryza, with loss of taste and smell; and emission
of yellow and fetid mucus on blowing nose.─Ulcerated nostrils.─Loss
of smell.
6. Face.─
Pale, yellowish, or earthy complexion.─Drawing
pains in nerves of face.─Tension in face, with cramp-like pain in bones
of face.─Facial eruption.─Pimples on forehead,
itching in evening.─Lips cracked.─Sensation of
roughness on internal surface of lips, when touched by tongue.─Large and
transparent vesicles on the red of the lips (of lower lip, itching, afterwards burning).
7. Teeth.─
Toothache, aggravated to highest degree
by contact of food.─Sensation of elongation in upper incisors.─Painful
swelling and easy bleeding of gums.
8. Mouth.─
Dryness of mouth at night.─Dryness
of mouth and throat without thirst.─Rhagades in tongue with violent
burning.─Tongue coated white early in morning.─Copious
accumulation of serous saliva in mouth.─Sensation in interior of mouth
as if it had been burnt.─Burning in tongue as from fire.─Tongue
coated white early in morning; or tip and edges clean, large, flabby, yellow.─Bad
taste, with poor appetite.
9. Throat.─
Sensation, as if throat were
excoriated and raw, < in evening, and at night.─Hawking
up of viscid and thick mucus from the throat, often mixed with blood and very tenacious.─Dryness
and roughness of the throat with hoarse voice.
10. Appetite.─
Frequent thirst.─Violent
thirst (3 a.m.).─Bulimy and craving in stomach, followed by nausea.─Hunger,
without knowing what is wanted.─Poor appetite, with bad taste in mouth.─Desire
for dainties.
11. Stomach.─
Regurgitation of food, while
walking.─Violent hiccough during and after dinner, which = pain in stomach.─Sensation as if a ball
were ascending from abdomen into śsophagus; > by
eructations.─Increased hunger, followed by nausea.─Eructations
tasting like rotten eggs, like onions.─Nausea, esp. in morning, on first
rising.─Frequent nausea with fainting, day and night.─Constant
nausea, earthy colour of face and nervous excitability, with tendency to shed tears.─Aching
in stomach, with nausea.─Tension, and pain as from ulceration, and as
from a bruise in stomach, with excessive sensitiveness to touch.─Throbbing
in pit of stomach.─Heat in stomach.─Painful
commotion in stomach, when walking and in the act of planting the foot.
12. Abdomen.─
Movings about in epigastric region,
then in lower abdomen, > by emission of flatus,
forenoon.─After each dose burning in pit of stomach, spreading to
throat; if she has waterbrash it disappears.─Fermentation in abdomen.─Tension
and shooting in hepatic region.─Affections of r. hypochondrium; inner
region of liver.─Congestion of l. lobe of liver.─Burning
in r, hypochondrium, up to r. scapula; when putting foot forward in walking.─Aching
pains in liver, also when walking, or pressing the part, <
lying on r. side.─Hardness and tightness of abdomen.─Violent
and constant distension of abdomen, with constipation.─Painful hardness
of abdomen, and esp. of r. side.─Cramp-like pains in abdomen, esp. in
evening, and sometimes followed by leucorrhśa.─Tearing in abdomen.─Dragging
down from region of r. ovary to thigh.─Cuttings, pinchings, and acute
drawing in abdomen.─Stinging shootings in the muscles of the abdomen.─Colic
(in the evening) in hysteric persons, extending to thighs, followed by fluor albus.
13. Stool and Anus.─
Hard, difficult, slow, and
insufficient evacuations.─Obstructions of bowels from induration of fćces.─Hćmorrhoids
pain during normal stool.─Burning and smarting in anus during and after
stool.─Stools crumbling as if burnt.─Stool crumbles
at verge of anus.─Fćces knotty, like sheep-dung.─Violent
tenesmus, with scanty evacuation, or only an emission of flatus.─Chronic
tendency to diarrhśa.─Violent diarrhśa of mucus and blood.─Greenish,
yellowish, or brownish evacuations.─Fćces coated with mucus and blood.─Ejection
of tćnia.
14. Urinary Organs.─
Frequent want to urinate, day
and night, with scanty emission.─An emission can be accomplished only by
contraction (bearing down) of the abdominal muscles.─Torpor of urethra.─Urine,
pale-yellow, followed by burning in urethra.─Urine passes only by drops,
always some seeming to remain behind.─High-coloured urine, loaded with
lithates, accompanies the uterine symptoms.
15. Male Sexual Organs.─
Violent itching in
genital organs and in scrotum, extending as far as the anus.─Frequent
erections; early in morning with burning in penis.─Burning in back after
coition.─Pain in testicles (on touching or moving them) and cords (with
swelling) after unrequited sexual excitement.─Nocturnal involuntary
emissions, with or without dreams; scrotum relaxed and loose, often covered with sweat;
constipation; indigestion; biliousness; itching at anus.─Scrotum
relaxed.
16. Female Sexual Organs.─
Catamenia too early and
too copious.─Suppressed menses.─Black and coagulated
blood during catamenia.─During catamenia: paleness of face, with pains
in loins and depression; fainting; pain in l. leg.─Cramps in uterus,
sometimes with pains extending to thighs, and leucorrhśa.─Leucorrhśa,
esp. during movement, or preceded by cramps in abdomen.─Scirrhous
induration of uterus.─Leucorrhśa immediately after stool.
17. Respiratory Organs.─
Hoarseness, with
roughness and dryness of throat.─Hoarseness in the morning after rising.─Tingling
in larynx.─Bloody expectoration brought on by sea-bathing.─Dry
cough, in evening, and at night, with burning pain and sensation of excoriation in chest.─Cramp-like
cough at night, with violent tickling in throat.
18. Chest.─
Oppression of chest, in region of
heart.─Oppression in pit of stomach.─Sudden feeling
of weight in chest, with obstructed respiration during dinner.─Tension
and contraction in chest.
19. Heart.─
Shootings (stitches) in heart, which
impede respiration.─Pain at apex of heart, a pricking as of needles and
pins, with pain under l. scapula as if knife were hacking the bone.─Palpitation
of heart, when seated, disappearing on motion.
20. Neck and Back.─
Swelling of glands of neck.─Pain
as from bruises above and in small of back and both hips, with sensitiveness of the parts to
touch.─Shooting, tearing, and burning pains in the back.─Contractive
and cramp-like pains in loins.─Tearing stitches in loins.─Burning
in back after coitus.─Drawing in loins after a stool.─Gnawing
in spinal cord.─Burning and bruised feeling between scapulć.─Tearing
in r. scapula, then in hip; in both scapulć.
21. Limbs.─
Lancing, drawing, and tearing in
extremities (Possart).
22. Upper Limbs.─
Drawing and paralytic tearings
in shoulder-joint, extending as far as arm and hand, <
by movement.─Numbness of arms in morning, on waking; or in evening in
bed.
23. Lower Limbs.─
Great lassitude in legs, even
when seated.─Heaviness of legs.─Jerking tearings in
hips.─Uneasiness and tension in thighs.─Aching pain,
or paralytic pulling in the knee.─Cramps in calves, at night.─Burning
pain in soles, in evening.─Sweating of feet.
24. Generalities.─
Boring or contractive
cramp-like pains.─Paralytic drawing and tearing in limbs.─Indurations
after inflammations.─Attacks of spasms, and of hysterical weakness.─Hysteria,
which may occur several times in a day or night.─Liability to take cold.─Bodily
weakness, which sometimes appears to proceed from stomach.─Sensation of
uneasiness (soreness), and of painful weariness, in whole body, with acute sensibility to
least noise.─General uneasiness in evening in bed, as soon as she closes
her eyes.─Sensation as of boiling water on side on which one rests.─The
majority of the symptoms present themselves when the patient is seated, or at night, and are
generally > by movement.─Uneasiness
in evening in bed on closing the eyes.
25. Skin.─
Tingling in different parts of the
skin.─Formication of the skin (face, chest, and soles of feet).─Itching
pimples, with burning pain after scratching.─Pustular eruptions.─Eruption
of small red papulć.─Furunculi.─Swelling of the
glands.
26. Sleep.─
Great inclination to sleep during day,
with yawning and indolence.─Retarded sleep and sleeplessness, caused by
heat, with thirst, and great agitation in whole body on shutting the eyes.─Anxious
and frightful dreams, with talking and cries during sleep.─Sleep
unrefreshing; tired in morning.─Jerking in body, when lying awake at
night.─Nightmare.
27. Fever.─
Shivering in evening, which disappears
in bed.─Chill in evening from 4 to 8, even near warm stove.─Chill,
followed by heat in evening till midnight.─Heat in evening with
perspiration only on head.─Perspiration with thirst, from midnight till
morning.─Sweat after midnight.─Pulse accelerated
with ebullitions while sitting.® 2000
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