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 +====== MERCURIUS SULPHURICUS ======
 +<span tc1>​{{anchor:​s1}}Mercurius Sulphuricus. {{anchor:​s2}}(Turpethum.)</​span>​
 +
 +<span grade2>​{{anchor:​s3}}Sulphate of Mercury. {{anchor:​s4}}Turpeth Mineral. {{anchor:​s5}}Hg SO4.</​span>​
 +
 +{{anchor:​s6}}Introduced by Hering, proved by himself, 3d trit. {{anchor:​s7}}(MSS),​ Neidhard (App. N. A. J. H., p. 281), Raymond, Dake (N. A. J. H., vol. 3, p. 180), Berridge, Croker (N. Hom. Rev., vol. 14, p. 108).
 +
 +====== CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. ======
 +
 +{{anchor:​s9}}- <span grade2>​Hydrothorax</​span>,​ Lippe, Miller (Montreal).
 +
 +====== MIND. [1] ======
 +
 +{{anchor:​s11}}Low spirited, with chilliness and yawning.\\ {{anchor:​s12}}Ill humor after eating.
 +
 +====== SENSORIUM. [2] ======
 +
 +{{anchor:​s14}}Giddiness while standing, after headache; confusion in head.\\ {{anchor:​s15}}Fullness in head, with occasional stitches.
 +
 +====== INNER HEAD. [3] ======
 +
 +{{anchor:​s17}}Dull pain in forehead.\\ {{anchor:​s18}}Pain in head under coronal suture, on waking in morning, during forenoon confined to right frontal region; pains dull, extending deep into brain, agg. when exercising.\\ {{anchor:​s19}}Sharp pain in right parietal protuberance;​ darting pains in other parts of head.\\ {{anchor:​s20}}Soreness all through head, after breakfast and on moving about.
 +
 +====== OUTER HEAD. [4] ======
 +
 +{{anchor:​s22}}Violent itching of hairy scalp.
 +
 +====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ======
 +
 +{{anchor:​s24}}Oppression over eyes, continuing for several hours.\\ {{anchor:​s25}}Eyes agg. from sunlight.
 +
 +====== SMELL AND NOSE. [7] ======
 +
 +{{anchor:​s27}}Sneezing:​ in sunshine; with fluent coryza.\\ {{anchor:​s28}}Swelling and soreness of tip of nose.\\ {{anchor:​s29}}Itching of nose.
 +
 +====== UPPER FACE. [8] ======
 +
 +{{anchor:​s31}}Pale,​ anxious countenance.\\ {{anchor:​s32}}Burning in ears and face, after a chill.
 +
 +====== LOWER FACE. [9] ======
 +
 +{{anchor:​s34}}Swelling of parotid gland.
 +
 +====== TEETH AND GUMS. [10] ======
 +
 +{{anchor:​s36}}Gums and palate dark bluish color; ulcerated margins.
 +
 +====== TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] ======
 +
 +{{anchor:​s38}}Taste:​ pasty, insipid; bad after rising; brassy, metallic.\\ {{anchor:​s39}}Tongue:​ tinged down middle greenish yellow; furred, moist, swollen; covered with dry black fur; coated heavily white, yellowish at root; enlarged papillae stand up like red points, with flat taste.\\ {{anchor:​s40}}Burning,​ smarting, stinging on tip of tongue (l. side in evening).\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s41}}Soreness on tip of tongue.</​span>​\\ {{anchor:​s42}}Dryness of tongue and throat.
 +
 +====== INNER MOUTH. [12] ======
 +
 +{{anchor:​s44}}Mouth clammy and full of mucus in morning.\\ {{anchor:​s45}}Dryness in mouth and fauces.\\ {{anchor:​s46}}Burning sensation in mouth and throat.\\ {{anchor:​s47}}Soreness in mouth and throat; salivation.\\ {{anchor:​s48}}Tongue and inside of mouth red, inflamed, feeling raw.\\ {{anchor:​s49}}Lips,​ gums, fauces, mouth and tongue swollen; look dry and black.
 +
 +====== PALATE AND THROAT. [13] ======
 +
 +{{anchor:​s51}}In throat: pain; sense of heat and constriction;​ burning; scalding.
 +
 +====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ======
 +
 +{{anchor:​s53}}Constant sickness; vomiting of ingesta.\\ {{anchor:​s54}}Violent yellow vomiting, every ten minutes.\\ {{anchor:​s55}}Vomiting and diarrhea.
 +
 +====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ======
 +
 +{{anchor:​s57}}Pain in epigastrium and abdomen; weight; stomach tender to pressure.\\ {{anchor:​s58}}Stomach so irritable nothing remains on it an instant.\\ {{anchor:​s59}}Digestion impeded; after supper, distressing feeling all night, that unless stomach was relieved a fit would ensue; vomiting with relief.\\ {{anchor:​s60}}Acidity of stomach.
 +
 +====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ======
 +
 +{{anchor:​s62}}Coldness or burning in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:​s63}}Awoke at 1 A. M. with severe pains along duodenum and down into umbilical region.\\ {{anchor:​s64}}Much griped.\\ {{anchor:​s65}}After drinking coffee, pain in abdomen as if diarrhea would set in.\\ {{anchor:​s66}}Soreness in inguinal glands.
 +
 +====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ======
 +
 +{{anchor:​s68}}Brown loose stools.\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s69}}Stools loose, watery, causing severe burning and soreness of anus.</​span>​\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s70}}Very profuse watery evacuations (relieving dyspnea).</​span>​ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s71}}~</​span>​ <span grade3>​Hydrothorax.</​span>​\\ {{anchor:​s72}}Watery stools pouring from him and burning anus, like boiling water.\\ {{anchor:​s73}}Diarrhea early in morning; stools burst out in a hot stream of yellow water.\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s74}}Violent purging; rice water motions, some yellow.</​span>​\\ {{anchor:​s75}}After diarrheic stools sensation of fullness as from congestion to legs, especially feet; they feel numb when standing.\\ {{anchor:​s76}}Hard,​ scanty and delayed stools.
 +
 +====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ======
 +
 +{{anchor:​s78}}Urine:​ increased in quantity; desire not as frequent as usual; great urging, with inability to void usual quantity, late in afternoon; scanty and scalding, but clear; dark, becoming turbid, with a scum on it.
 +
 +====== MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] ======
 +
 +{{anchor:​s80}}Involuntary emissions and lascivious dreams.\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s81}}Gonorrhea or syphilis, with intense congestion to parts.</​span>​\\ {{anchor:​s82}}Swelling of testicles.
 +
 +====== VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] ======
 +
 +{{anchor:​s85}}Heat and roughness in larynx, hoarseness.\\ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s86}}Increased expectoration of mucus from larynx and trachea.</​span>​
 +
 +====== RESPIRATION. [26] ======
 +
 +{{anchor:​s88}}Pain in chest prevents him from breathing.\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s89}}Great dyspnea; has to sit; cannot lie down; breathing quick and short.</​span>​ <span grade2>​{{anchor:​s90}}~</​span>​ <span grade3>​Hydrothorax.</​span>​\\ {{anchor:​s91}}Dyspnea in children; hydrothorax.\\ {{anchor:​s92}}Dyspnea and chest symptoms, agg. in afternoon.\\ {{anchor:​s93}}Mercurial fetor of breath.
 +
 +====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ======
 +
 +{{anchor:​s95}}Pressure on chest.\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s96}}Burning in chest.</​span>​\\ {{anchor:​s97}}Pain in right side of chest, extending to scapula, can scarcely breathe, agg. from 4 to 5 P. M.\\ <span grade4>​{{anchor:​s98}}Hydrothorax;​ dyspnea, breathing quick and short, has to sit, cannot lie down; swollen extremities;​ stools loose, watery, causing severe burning and soreness of anus; burning in chest.</​span>​ {{anchor:​s99}}[Obs. "When it acts well it produces a profuse, watery diarrhea with great relief to patient. {{anchor:​s100}}It is as important as <span sita>​Arsen.</​span>​ in hydrothorax.{{anchor:​s101}}"​ --Lippe.].\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s102}}Dropsy of chest, especially if occurring from heart or liver disease.</​span>​
 +
 +====== HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] ======
 +
 +{{anchor:​s104}}Pulse:​ 90, tremulous; 130, tremulous and irregular; slow and small; regular, but small and weak; reduced, with flat taste.
 +
 +====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ======
 +
 +{{anchor:​s106}}Stiffness in arms.\\ {{anchor:​s107}}Violent beating in left arm, commencing above elbow in course of brachial nerve and extending along radial nerve to wrist, followed by pain similar to that produced by a blow upon arm below insertion of deltoid muscle; pain affected principally radial side of forearm, thumb, index finger, at 8.{{anchor:​s108}}30 A. M.\\ {{anchor:​s109}}Numbness of forearm and hand, also of right hand.\\ {{anchor:​s110}}Shooting pains in wrists and along metacarpal bones.\\ {{anchor:​s111}}Hands icy cold, with blue nails.
 +
 +====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ======
 +
 +{{anchor:​s113}}Pain and lameness of knees, noticed particularly when walking.\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s114}}Edematous swelling of legs.</​span>​\\ {{anchor:​s115}}Ulcers on ankles.\\ {{anchor:​s116}}Aching in calf of right leg.\\ {{anchor:​s117}}Numbness in hollow of right foot.\\ {{anchor:​s118}}Foot sweat, with soreness at ends of nails.\\ {{anchor:​s119}}After four weeks, pains that remain are in limbs, especially legs, causing a weak, wearied feeling and pain and stiffness in right knee, especially when stepping down a step; for a few days a bloated, hot feeling in feet, like rheumatic gout, and for two days a slight swelling and painfullness on inner side of left ankle, as if a boil was likely to form there; a tendency for feet to become inflamed, as if likely to become blistered by boots, when walking, it seems at soles, especially outer toes; it is rather of a burning character; for two days the tarso-metatarsal joint of right big toe seemed inclined to inflame, as if rheumatic gout would set in.
 +
 +====== LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] ======
 +
 +{{anchor:​s121}}Tormented by pain and cramps in limbs at night.
 +
 +====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ======
 +
 +{{anchor:​s125}}Has to sit, cannot lie down: great dyspnea.\\ {{anchor:​s126}}Standing:​ giddiness; feet feel numb.\\ {{anchor:​s127}}Stepping down a step: pain and stiffness in right knee.\\ {{anchor:​s128}}Moving about: soreness all through head.\\ {{anchor:​s129}}Exercising:​ pains extending deep into brain.\\ {{anchor:​s130}}Walking:​ pain and lameness of knees.
 +
 +====== NERVES. [36] ======
 +
 +{{anchor:​s132}}Debility,​ with sleepiness.\\ {{anchor:​s133}}Sense of considerable weakness.\\ {{anchor:​s134}}Uneasiness,​ late in afternoon.\\ {{anchor:​s135}}Restlessness.\\ {{anchor:​s136}}Pains all over, especially in lower part of back and limbs.
 +
 +====== SLEEP. [37] ======
 +
 +{{anchor:​s138}}Frequent yawning.\\ {{anchor:​s139}}Restless night, with dreams and delirium.\\ {{anchor:​s140}}Wakefullness after midnight; dreams.\\ {{anchor:​s141}}Dreams:​ of traveling amid perplexities;​ lascivious; vivid, of fires, exerting himself to extinguish them; viewing a person hung and another cut up, seeing blood and mangled remains.\\ {{anchor:​s142}}Awakes with headache in morning.
 +
 +====== TIME. [38] ======
 +
 +{{anchor:​s144}}Morning:​ pain in head on waking; mouth clammy and foul; diarrhea early.\\ {{anchor:​s145}}At 8.30 A. M.: violent pain in left arm.\\ {{anchor:​s146}}During forenoon: pain confined to right frontal region.\\ {{anchor:​s147}}At 1 A. M.: awoke with severe pain along duodenum and down into umbilical region.\\ {{anchor:​s148}}Afternoon:​ great urging, with inability to void usual quantity of urine; dyspnea and chest symptoms; uneasiness, chills.\\ {{anchor:​s149}}Evening:​ pain on side of tip of tongue.\\ {{anchor:​s150}}Night:​ distressing feeling in stomach; pain and cramps in limbs; restless, with dreams and delirium; excessive sweat.\\ {{anchor:​s151}}After midnight: wakefullness;​ dreams.
 +
 +====== FEVER. [40] ======
 +
 +{{anchor:​s153}}Creeping chills ascending back; when they reached neck a general shudder ensued.\\ {{anchor:​s154}}Chilliness running up back, with yawning and depression of spirits, followed by dull pain in forehead, burning in face and ears and slight fever.\\ {{anchor:​s155}}Chilliness,​ restlessness and heaviness in upper part of abdomen, frequent yawning and diminished secretion of urine (in afternoon).\\ {{anchor:​s156}}Chills:​ with nausea, from 10 A. M. to 2 P. M.; late in afternoon; from 12 M. to 1.{{anchor:​s157}}30 P. M.; every other day.\\ {{anchor:​s158}}Skin cold and clammy.\\ {{anchor:​s159}}Whole body feels cold externally.\\ {{anchor:​s160}}Icy coldness of hands and blueness of nails.\\ {{anchor:​s161}}Burning heat of face and ears after a chill.\\ {{anchor:​s162}}Painful burning over whole body, especially in face, but not on feet, with violent thirst.\\ <span grade3>​{{anchor:​s163}}Excessive sweat at night.</​span>​
 +
 +====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ======
 +
 +{{anchor:​s165}}Every ten minutes: violent yellow vomiting.\\ {{anchor:​s166}}From 4 to 5 P. M.: burning in chest, extending to scapula.\\ {{anchor:​s167}}From 12 M. to 1.{{anchor:​s168}}30 P. M.: chills.\\ {{anchor:​s169}}From 10 A. M. to 2 P. M.: chills, with nausea.\\ {{anchor:​s170}}For several hours: oppression over eyes.\\ {{anchor:​s171}}Every other day: chills.\\ {{anchor:​s172}}For two days: a slight swelling and painfullness on inner side of left ankle; tarso-metatarsal joint of big toe seemed inclined to inflame.\\ {{anchor:​s173}}For a few days: a bloated, hot feeling in feet.
 +
 +====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ======
 +
 +{{anchor:​s175}}Right:​ pain in frontal region; sharp pain in parietal protuberance;​ numbness of hand; aching in calf of leg; numbness in hollow of foot; pain and stiffness in knee; big toe as if rheumatic gout would set in.\\ {{anchor:​s176}}Left:​ side of tip of tongue pains; violent beating in arm; pain and swelling of inner side of ankle.
 +
 +====== SENSATIONS. [43] ======
 +
 +{{anchor:​s178}}Most pains feel as if a dull stick pressed on parts and was moving in diverse curved lines, feels as if this pain was in bones.\\ {{anchor:​s179}}As if diarrhea would set in; as if stools were boiling water; as if a boil was likely to form on ankle; as if feet were likely to become blistered by boots; as if rheumatic gout would set in in foot; all over, especially in lower part of back and limbs.\\ {{anchor:​s180}}Pain:​ in head under coronal suture; in throat; in epigastrium and abdomen; in chest; in left arm; in knees; in right knee; on inner side of left ankle; in limbs.\\ {{anchor:​s181}}Severe pain: along duodenum and down into umbilical region.\\ {{anchor:​s182}}Sharp pain: in right parietal protuberance.\\ {{anchor:​s183}}Violent beating: in left arm.\\ {{anchor:​s184}}Darting pains: in parts of head.\\ {{anchor:​s185}}Shooting pains: in wrists and metacarpal bones.\\ {{anchor:​s186}}Occasional stitches: in head.\\ {{anchor:​s187}}Aching:​ in calf of right leg.\\ {{anchor:​s188}}Cramps:​ in limbs.\\ {{anchor:​s189}}Dull pain: in forehead.\\ {{anchor:​s190}}Painful burning: over whole body.\\ {{anchor:​s191}}Heat:​ in throat; in larynx.\\ {{anchor:​s192}}Burning,​ smarting, stinging: on tip of tongue.\\ {{anchor:​s193}}Burning:​ in ears and face; of mouth and throat; in abdomen; of anus; in chest; in feet.\\ {{anchor:​s194}}Soreness:​ all through head; of tip of nose; on tip of tongue; in mouth and throat; in inguinal glands; of anus; at end of nails.\\ {{anchor:​s195}}Raw feeling: of tongue and inside of mouth.\\ {{anchor:​s196}}Distressing feeling: in stomach.\\ {{anchor:​s197}}Constriction:​ in throat.\\ {{anchor:​s198}}Oppression:​ over eyes.\\ {{anchor:​s199}}Dryness:​ of tongue and throat; in mouth and fauces.\\ {{anchor:​s200}}Confusion:​ in head.\\ {{anchor:​s201}}Fullness:​ in head; in feet and legs.\\ {{anchor:​s202}}Pressure:​ on chest.\\ {{anchor:​s203}}Lameness:​ of knees.\\ {{anchor:​s204}}Stiffness:​ in arms; in right knee.\\ {{anchor:​s205}}Numb feeling: in legs and feet; of forearm and hand; in hollow of right foot.\\ {{anchor:​s206}}Coldness:​ in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:​s207}}Itching:​ of hairy scalp; of nose.
 +
 +====== TISSUES. [44] ======
 +
 +{{anchor:​s209}}Induration of glands.\\ {{anchor:​s210}}Rheumatic pains.
 +
 +====== TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] ======
 +
 +{{anchor:​s214}}Pressure:​ stomach tender.
 +
 +====== SKIN. [46] ======
 +
 +{{anchor:​s216}}Psoriasis;​ lepra.
 +
 +====== RELATIONS. [48] ======
 +
 +{{anchor:​s218}}Antidoted by <span grade2>​Hepar.</​span>​\\ {{anchor:​s219}}Compare:​ <span grade2>​Sulphur</​span>,​ with which <span grade2>​Merc. sul</​span>​ has many symptoms in common, more even than with <span grade2>​Cinnb.,​ Arsen.</​span>​ and <span grade2>​Digit.</​span>​ in hydrothorax,​ especially occurring in heart or renal disease.
 +
 +----
 +
 +====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ======
 +^ Source: | [[en:​mm:​hering:​start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 07, 1888 |
 +^ Description:​ | Clinical materia medica of [[en:​rem:​r523|Mercurius sulphuricus]] |
 +^ Remedies: | [[en:​rem:​r523|Mercurius sulphuricus]] |
 +^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. |
 +^ Year: | 1888 |
 +^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting |
 +^ Attribution:​ | Legatum Homeopathicum |}
  
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