Murex.
Murex purpurea. Purple-fish. N. O. Gasteropoda. Trituration of desiccated
juice. Trituration or tincture of fresh juice. (The fresh preparation is to be preferred,
though the dried is the usual one.)Clinical.─
Abortion. Breasts, pains in. Cervix
uteri, affections of. Climacteric sufferings. Diabetes.
Dysmenorrhśa. Leucorrhśa. Menorrhagia. Metrorrhagia. Nymphomania. Pregnancy, affections
of. Uterus, prolapse of.
Characteristics.─
Petroz first proved the
Purple-fish, Murex, which, like the Ink-fish, Sepia, produces the chief intensity of its action in the female
generative sphere. They are chiefly distinguished in that Murex
produces frantic sexual desire, and tends to have excessive hćmorrhage with large clots, Sepia having, in general, scanty flow. Another leading feature of
Murex is: Consciousness of the womb; sore pain in
uterus. In addition there are cutting pains confined to the cervix and os. The sinking,
all-gone sensation is very well marked in both remedies, and also the feeling of bearing
down and prolapse. Murex has a sensation of dryness and
constriction in the womb. The pains are frequently diagonal and shoot from ovary to opposite
breast. Another peculiar symptom of Murex is: A feeling
as if something were pressing on a sore spot in the pelvis. This is analogous to a general
sensitiveness to touch. The least contact with the parts causes violent sexual excitement.
The cervix is sensitive to the examining finger. The slightest touch causes bleeding of
excoriation on cervix. (May be thought of in cauliflower excrescences.) There is excessive
secretion of urine, and frequent necessity to rise at night to urinate. This nightly
polyuria, with the hungry craving of Murex and other
symptoms, has led to its successful use in diabetes. Murex is
suited to: the melancholic, or sanguine, lymphatic temperament; to climacteric
sufferings. There is very great depression of spirits, a sort of deep hypochondriacal state.
If there is leucorrhśa, the spirits are > when
leucorrhśa is <, and vice
versâ. Walking is difficult, all joints are weak, during pregnancy. > Putting head back. <
By exertion. > Pressure and support. < Night. < After sleep.
Must lie down from weakness, but lying down < all
symptoms.
Relations.─
Compare:
Uterine congestion, cervix affected, Sep. (Sep. is passive; Murex feels disgust and despair
at her sexual desires). Shooting pains in uterus, prolapse, melancholy, Aur. (Aur. has
induration). Nocturnal polyuria, Kre. Sexual erethism, Lil. t., Plat., Orig. Dragging down,
Bell. Prolapsus uteri, Ćsc. h., Sec., Plat., Bell., Lil. t., Nux, Nux m., Pod., Pul., Sep.
Consciousness of womb, Helon., Hdrfb. Climacteric, Lach., Sep., Sul. > Throwing head back, Seneg.
SYMPTOMS.
1. Mind.─
Anxious, apprehensive, timorous; great
sadness towards evening, with repugnance to conversation, and compression of ideas.─(She
is happier when leucorrhśa is <, and vice versâ.).─Weakness of memory, with
difficulty in finding words to express his thoughts.
2. Head.─
Confusion in head, with unfitness for
labour; sometimes with inclination to sleep, or dulness of head.─Heaviness
in head, as in sultry weather; or else frequent, alternating from time to time with great
clearness of thought.─Headache, in morning, on awakening, which
disappears on rising.─Pain in occiput, sometimes very acute.─Pain
in l. temple.─Aching pain in forehead, or in forehead and r. temple,
cramp-like squeezing at back of head, requiring the hand to be placed upon it, or the head
to be thrown back, which > the pain.
4. Ears.─
Cramp-like squeezing behind ears.─Noise
in ears, with aggravation of heaviness of head.
5. Nose.─
Distressing coldness of nose all day.
6. Face.─
Burning sensation of one cheek, r. in
evening, l. in morning.
11. Stomach.─
Hunger, sometimes in morning only,
and unfelt during a meal.─Awful hunger and emptiness, even after a meal.─Tensive
pain in r. hypochondrium.─Colic, sharp pain, as from a cutting blow in
l. side of hypogastrium, which continues painful throughout evening.
13. Stool and Anus.─
Difficult evacuations;
constipation, during more than five days.─Pressure in anus, like painful
lancinations.─Sensation of heavy weight pressing on rectum; swelling of
hćmorrhoids.─During stool: bloody leucorrhśa; discharge of pure blood
by vulva.
14. Urinary Organs.─
Frequent want to urinate
during day; at night, with emission of colourless urine.─Fetid urine,
almost like valerian, with a white sediment, and discharge of a small quantity of mucus
after urination.─Slight discharge of blood when making water.
16. Female Sexual Organs.─
Extreme irritation of
genital parts, with ardent sexual desire to a degree almost maniacal; slightest touch
reawakens desire.─Sensation of dryness, and of constriction in uterus;
pulsation; incisive pain, as if caused by cutting instruments.─Violent
pains in r. side, crossing abdomen to l. breast.─Violent lancination in
l. side, in evening.─Distinct feeling of womb.─Burning,
shooting, and stitching pains in cervix.─Knife-thrusts in uterus as if
os were cut.─Stitches on l. side of uterus from below upward.─Feeling
as if something pressing on a sore spot in pelvis, r. side of uterus, going into abdomen to
thorax.─Violent bearing down with symptoms of prolapse, > by crossing legs.─Sensation of weight
and of expansion in labia majora.─Sensation of weight in vagina during
the abdominal pains.─Menstruation too profuse.─Hćmorrhages.─Expels
large coagula.─During the profuse menstruation, sensation of
constriction at uterus.─Leucorrhśa: serous; greenish; thick; becoming
sanguineous; reappearance of sanguineous leucorrhśa while at stool.─Violent
pains, acute lancinations in breasts.─During pregnancy: leucorrhśa;
sensation of pelvic bones getting loose.
17. Respiratory Organs.─
Voice changed, hoarse.─Cough:
in morning while fasting; dry, hard, with oppression of chest.
18. Chest.─
Wheezing in chest, when breathing, in
evening.─Pain in chest, as if it had been bruised.─Lancinating
and burning pains below false ribs on l. side, towards back.─Sensation
as of a snake creeping over entire region of short ribs.
19. Heart and Pulse.─
Palpitation of heart and
throbbing of arteries.
20. Back.─
Lumbago, sometimes burning, and with
pain like excoriation.─On extending the body, esp. in bed, pain in hips
and lumbar region.─Pains in pelvic region.─Sensation
as if bones of pelvis getting loose.
22. Upper Limbs.─
Pain in forearm, below elbow.─Heat
in hands.
23. Lower Limbs.─
Great weakness and fatigue in
legs, which sometimes fail and compel patient to seat himself.─Intolerable
creeping pain in r. hip.─In thighs: violent contusive pain; burning heat
in forepart; acute pain, in forepart, on raising body, which renders contact with anything
insupportable; sensation of throbbing in forepart of thighs.
24. Generalities.─
Great fatigue; for several days
symptoms more violent when seated than when walking; they cease while walking, and reappear
on sitting down.
25. Skin.─
Skin dry, as if about to crack.
26. Sleep.─
Drowsiness, sometimes with sadness.─Urgent
inclination to sleep, towards 9 p.m.─Sleep interrupted by pains, like
those of catamenia.─Awakening with fright, with urgent want to make
water, and abundant emission.─Distressing dreams, from which patient
sometimes awakens with a start.® 2000
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