Magnesia Muriatica

HOMEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA
by William BOERICKE, M.D.

MAGNESIUM MURIATICUM
Muriate of Magnesia
(MAGNESIA MURIATICA)

A liver remedy with pronounced characteristic constipation. Chronic liver affections with tenderness and pain, extending to spine and epigastrium, worse after food. Especially adapted to diseases of women, with a long history of indigestion and uterine disease; children who cannot digest milk. Evil effects of sea bathing.

Head.--Sensitive to noise; bursting headache; worse, motion, open air; better, pressure, and wrapping up warmly (Sil; Stront). Much sweating of head (Calc, Sil). Facial neuralgia pains, dull, aching, worse damp weather, slightest draft, better pressure heat.

Nose.--Nostrils ulcerated, Coryza. Nose stopped and fluent. Loss of smell and taste, following catarrh. Cannot lie down. Must breathe through mouth.

Mouth.--Blisters on lips. Gums swollen, bleed easily. Tongue feels burnt and scalded. Throat dry, with hoarseness.

Stomach.--Appetite poor, had taste in mouth. Eructations like rotten eggs. Continued rising of while froth into mouth Cannot digest milk. Urine can be passed only by pressing abdominal muscles.

Abdomen.--Pressing pain in liver; worse lying on right side. Liver enlarged with bloating of abdomen; yellow tongue. Congenital scrotal hernia. Must use abdominal muscles to enable him to urinate.

Urine.--Urine difficult to void. Bladder can only be emptied by straining and pressure.

Bowels.--Constipation of infants during dentition; only passing small quantity; stools knotty, like sheep's dung, crumbling at verge of anus. Painful smarting hćmorrhoids.

Female.--Menses black, clotted. Pain in back and thighs. Metrorrhagia; worse at night. Great excitement at every period. Leucorrhśa with every stool and after exercise. Tinea ciliaris, eruptions in face and forehead worse before menses.

Heart.--Palpitation and cardiac pain while sitting; better by moving about (Gels). Functional cardiac affections with liver enlargement.

Respiration.--Spasmodic dry cough; worse forepart of night, with burning and sore chest.

Extremities.--Pain in back and hips; in arms and legs. Arms "Go to sleep" when waking in morning.

Sleep.--Sleep during day; restless at night on account of heat and shock: anxious dreams.

Modalities.--Worse, immediately after eating, lying on right side: from sea bathing. Better, from pressure, motion: open air, except headache.

Relationship.--Antidotes: Camph; Cham.

Compare: Nat m; Puls; Sep; Amm m; Nasturtium equaticum -Water-cress--(useful in scorbutic affections and constipation, related to strictures of urinary apparatus; supposed to be aphrodisiacal in its action. Is also antidotal to tobacco narcosis and sedative in neurotic affections, neurasthenia, hysteria. Cirrhosis of liver and dropsy).

Dose.--5 drops of tincture. Third to 200th potency.