Magnesium Carbonicum

• ▸Sticking pain in the side of the head on which he lies, as if the hair was pulled; worse, mental exertion.
• ▸Itching of scalp worse in damp weather.
• ▸Pain above margin of right orbit.
• ▸Blank motes before eyes.

• ▸Diminished hearing.
• ▸Deafness; comes suddenly and varies.
• ▸Numbness of outer ear.
• ▸Feeling of distention of middle ear.
• ▸Subdued tinnitus.

• ▸Tearing pain in one side; worse; quiet; must move about.
• ▸Toothache, especially during pregnancy; worse at night; worse, cold and quiet.
• ▸Teeth feel too long.
• ▸Ailments from cutting wisdom teeth (Cheiranthus).
• ▸Pain in malar bone, worse during rest, night.
• ▸Swelling of malar bone with pulsating pain, worse exposure to cold wind.

• ▸Dry at night.
• ▸Sour taste.
• ▸Vesicular eruption; bloody saliva.
• ▸Sticking pain in throat; hawking up fetid, pea-colored particles.

Desire for fruit, acids, and vegetables. Eructations

sour, and vomiting of bitter water. Craving for meat.

Rumbling, gurgling. Dragging towards pelvis. Very heavy; contractive, pinching, pain in right illiac region.

• ▸Preceded by griping, colicky pain.
• ▸Green, watery, frothy, like a frog-pond's scum.
• ▸Bloody mucous stools.
• ▸Milk passes undigested in nursing children. Sour, with tenesmus (Rheum).
• ▸Constipation after mental shock or severe nervous strain.

• ▸Sore throat before menses appear.
• ▸Before menses, coryza and nasal stoppage.
• ▸Menses too late and scanty, thick, dark, like pitch; mucous leucorrhoea.
• ▸Menses flow only in sleep; more profuse at night (Amm m), or when lying down; cease when walking.

Ticking cough, with salty, bloody expectoration. Constrictive pains in chest, with dyspnoea. Soreness in chest during motion.

• ▸Tearing in shoulders as if dislocated.
• ▸Right shoulder painful, cannot raise it (Sang).
• ▸Whole body feels tired and painful, especially legs and feet.
• ▸Swelling in bend of knee.

• ▸Earthy, sallow and parchment-like; emaciation.
• ▸Itching vesicles on hands and fingers.
• ▸Nodosities under skin.
• ▸Sore; sensitive to cold.

Unrefreshing; more tired on rising than on retiring.

Chilly in evening. Fever at night. Sour, greasy perspiration.

Antidotes: Ars; Merc.

Complementary: Cham.

Compare: Rheum; Kreos; Aloes; Cheiranthus-Wall flower --(deafness, otorrhoea, nose stopped up at night from irritation of cutting wisdom-teeth).

Third to thirtieth potency.

This remedy has only been partially proved, and conics to ns now

as Hahnemann left it. The mental symptoms r?nd symptoms of some

portions of the body and particulars have not been fully brought out.

The remedy really needs reproving with high potencies upon sensitive

provers that the liner shades may be understood. 1 would not speak

of it but for the fact that it relates to a class of cases so very important that you will not be able to get along without it. It is related to

the older and deeper psoric sickness. It is deep acting and long acting and permeates the economy as thoroughly as Srilphur.

Some of the most striking general features arc; Amelioration Irom

motion ; desire for open air, yet very sensitive to cold air : wants tobe covered during all stages of fever ; daily evening fevers ; symptoms

Incurring every twenty-one days. Senvsation of Iieat and even sweat

from eating and drinking warm things ; evening thirst.

lake other Magnesias it has most violent neuralgic pains, pains

along tiie course of nerves, pains so violent that he cannot keep still,

and he moves about and is relieved hy motion. The provers felt these

pains mostly in the head and facet, hut clinical experience has demonstrated that it has violent neuralgia everywhere. We arc justified,

from the proving, in considering it as especially related to the left side

of the face; neuralgia in the night; driving him out of bed, keeping

him in constant motion. As soon as he stops moving the pain becomes

very severe, shooting, tearing and cutting.

Jt has v^aried eruptions upon the skin : dry scaly, dandrud-like eruptions upon the skin, very unhealthy hair and nails. Particularly does

it affect the teeth and roots of the teeth. In evory change of the

weather the roots of the teeth become violently painful, burn, shoot

and ache continuously. Tcxuliachc l)eforc and during mcnsiriiation.

During pregnancy she suffers all the time with toothache, tearing pains

in the left side of the face, although the roots of the teeth are perfectly sound. The hollow teeth arc unusually sensitive, and painful.

The teeth are so sensitive that they cannot be manipulated by the dentist. This is like Ant, crud„ but Magnesia carb. especially affects the

• ▸roots of the teeth, while Ant.
• ▸crucL affects the dcntiTie more particularly.
• ▸Sensitiveness of the teeth, sf^ that he cannot bile i!
• ▸pf)n ihe teeth,

and the teeth feel too long. Magnesia carb, and China, when no other

symptoms are present, are prominent remedies among the affections of

the teeth during pregnancy.

There is a kind of marasmus that you will puzzle over if you do

not know this remedy. If we analyze the remedy in general, we will

see that it produces a state of the body like that prior to tuberculosis.

He does not undergo, repair, he loses flesh, and the muscles become

flabby as if some serious divsease were coining. In children of

tuberculous parents there is that tendency to go into marasmus. The

child’s muscles are flabby, the child will not thrive in spite of feeding

and medicines. It seems to be laying the foundations for some serious

trouble. Finally, it emaciates and the back of the head begins to sink

in, as if from atrophy of the cerebellum. The appetite increases for

milk and meat and animal broths, and yet they are not digested, and

when the milk is taken it continually passes the bowel in the form of

white potter’s clay, or like putty. The stool is soft and of the consistency of jiLitty. If you go through a china factory where the men

are forming with their hands, in such wonderful manner, all sorts of

beautiful dishes, and moulds, you will sec that the original clay, as

they are manipulating it, is white. It is a perfect picture of the Magcarb. stool, composed of putty-like undigested milk.

I have observed, especially among illegitimate infants, those that

have been conceived by clandestine coition, that they have a tendency

to sinking in the back of the head. The occipital bone will sink

• ▸in, and the parietal bones jut out over it.
• ▸and there will be a depression.
• ▸That is not an uncommon thing in children that go into marasmus.
• ▸They are very likely to have a potter’s clay stool.
• ▸It does not

run, and it is not hard. The white, hard stool is quite another symptom, and the soft semi-fluid white stool leads to another class of remedies, but this pasty stool, looking as if it could be moulded into any

kind of shape, is a Magnesia carb. stool. I once had in charge an

orphanage, where we had sixty to one hundred babies on hand all the

lime. The puzzle of my life was to find remedies for the cases that

were going into marasmus. A large number of them were clandestine babies. It was a sort of Sheltering Arms for these little ones.

The whole year elapsed, and we were losing babies every week from

this gradual decline, until I saw the image of these babies in Magnesia carb., and after that many of them w^ere cured.

• ▸The Mag.
• ▸carb.
• ▸baby smells sour like the Hepar baby.
• ▸Wash it as

you will and it smells sour ; the perspiration is sour, and the whole

baby smells sour. It is not especially the stool. The stool smells

strong and pungent, putrid, and very often the whole child has a

pungent odor, like an unclean baby, though it be well washed.

The Magnesias produce inactivity of the rectum and anus — a paresis. The stool is large and hard, icquiring great straining to expel.

It is dry, hard and crumbling. The stool will remain partly expelled

and then crumble, breaking up in many pieces. Another stool that

is laid down in the books as a most striking condition of Magnesia

carb. is green ; it is the diarrhoeic stool, and the green part floats upon

the watery portion of the stool. The stool is often lumpy, and liquid.

The lumps lie in the bottom of the vessel, but floating upon the liquid

portion of the stool is the green like the scum of the frog pond. This

is recognized as one of the most striking features. “Stools green,

like scum on a frog pond ; sour, frothy ; with white floating lumps like

tallow, bloody, mucous." Floating like lumps of tallow, is more characteristic of Phosphorus, and many a time has Dulcamara cured it.

The face of the chronic adult case is pale, waxy, sickly and sallow,

and you wonder why this patient will not right up, and will not thrive.

She has a sickly countenance, her muscles are lax, she becomes so*

tired and sweats upon little exertion. She is disturbed in every

change of the weather, and is worse at the beginning of menstruation.

She seems to take cold whenever menstruation is coming on. She

says: “I know my menstrual period is coming on, because I have a

cold in my head." Magnesia carb. has coryza every month before

the monthly period. These patients take on an appearance as if going

into decline, and yet they go on year after year unable to do anything,

not able even to keep house, have a violent craving for meat and an

aversion to vegetable food, grow thin and increasingly flabby, muscles

relaxed, and with tendency to prolapsus. The walls of the abdomene

have a tendency to fall down and to be relaxed, and the rings favor

the formation of hernia. That is the kind of relaxation. The nerves

are painful, and the muscles are tired. When you have such a case

and have prescribed, and they persist in spite of every remedy, you

know that the case does not weti indicate a remedy, that the conditions are latent and there is a tendency to some grave internal disorder. The organs are threatening to break down ; the kidneys, the

heart, the lungs, or the brain arc about to undergo organic change.

We have a catarrhal state in this remedy, but it is a dry catarrh,

not much discharge. An old ulcer will dry up and become shiny and

discharge almost nothing. The nose is dry and the eyeballs are so

dry that the lids stick together and it is difficult to open the eyes. Tha

skin becomes dry and itches and burns. Tendency to dryness of the

mucous membranes and dryness of the skin. Dryness is a marked

feature of this medicine.

“Inordinate appetite for meat in children." The stomach is a

• ▸troublesome organ.
• ▸The Magnesia carb.
• ▸patient is always complaining of a sour stomach ; sour eructations.
• ▸Food comes up sour.
• ▸There

is nausea and coming up in the throat of sour food. Pains in the

stomach after eating an ordinary amount of food ; bloated after eating ; much flatulence after eating. The stomach digests the food

slowly and it becomes sour.

This remedy is especially useful if the history has been a tubercular one. Losing flesh and craving for meat in those who are tubercular or in those that arc from tubercular parents. Patients suffermagnesia I^ktAtltiA

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ing from a dry cough. Dry cough before the evening chill like Rhxts

tox. There are persons who have simply this tendency who go along

year after year in this withered state, with the little hacking cough,

not rousing up into much. Finally some favorable circumstance arises

and the tuberculosis comes on rapidly after it has remained in a sluggish state for a long time. There are a few remedies more likely to>

be associated with that condition than any others, Arsenicum, Calc,

• ▸carb.
• ▸, Lycopodium, Magnesia carb.
• ▸and Tuberc.
• ▸They fit into this

lingering state, this prelude to active phthisis. They sometimes set a

patient thriving, but, mind you, these cases are hard cases to manage.

They are difficult to find remedies for. Their trouble is so latent, the

symptoms do not come out, and sometimes you have to read between

ihc lines. They are the one-sided cases spoken of by Hahnemann.

In addition to this dry, tickling cough, which is not mentioned in

the books, we find “Cough, spasmodic at night from tickling in the

larynx.” “Sleepiness during the day and sleeplessness at night.”

When you have seen many of these cases that are threatening to go

into phthisis, you will notice that it is a general feature with all of

them. “Doctor, I am so tired in the morning ; while I sleep some in

the night, in the morning I feel as if I had not slept.” Always tired;

and relaxed. Most of these subjects are cold and chilly. This state

has not been bought out yet in the remedy, but clinically it relates to

cold and chilly patients. Patients who say that they have not much

blood.

MAGNESIA MDRIATICA.

It would seem rather strange that the two remedies to which Hahnemann gave such a good start by proving and use should be so neglected

• ▸and forgotten as Magnesia carb.
• ▸and Magnesia mur.
• ▸have been.
• ▸These

two, if used, would cure many of the liver troubles that are not now

• ▸cured.
• ▸Magnesia mur.
• ▸could cure many conditions in nervous, excitable women that now go uncured.
• ▸These remedies are neglected,

while Phosphorus and Sulphur are prescribed for almost everything.

Magnesia mur. is a deep-acting antipsoric suited to nervous patients

with stomach and liver troubles. It has enlarged glands and irritation of the nerve centres and brain. This patient is often sensitive

to cold, chilly, but he desires fresh air and <^n air. Many of the

complaints are ameliorated by the open, fresh air, but some head

symptoms are an exception. The head niust be covered, as it is so

sensitive to the open air. He is extremely restless ; only with ^eat

difficulty can he keep sfill, and if forced to keep still he becomes

anxious. Anxiety is the msirked future. Restlessness, fidgetiness

throughout the body, coupled with anxiety. This comes on at any

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•time, but it is \vor8e at night in bed and still wocse on closing the eyes

■to go to sleep. When he closes the eyes he becomes so anxious, restless and fidgety that he must throw the covers off, take a long breath

or do something. He is kept awake at night by the anxious feeling.

It was described originally by the provcr as an uneasiness, but in the

Guiding Symptoms it is spoken of as a restlessness in bed. If you

study the hysterical nature, the anxiety and restlessness, you will see

it is throughout the whole economy and should be classed under mind

and nerves. Some remedies have vertigo on closing the eyes, some

have anxiety on closing the eyes. Conium has sweat on closing the

eyes. These were the points used by keynote prescribers and some

times good results were obtained. I remember once curing an organic

stricture, which had been dilated but was no better. The patient desetribed his symptoms and the stricture was all he could think of. I

did not see his remedy and gave everything without relief. One day,

however, he told me he could not close his eyes to go to sleep without

having a profuse sweat. I gave him Conium on that keynote alone,

but it cured him of the sweat and the stricture, brought back an old

gonorrhoeal discharge and resorption of the inflammatory material

took place. A scientific prescriber would not do that ; but when he

heard that symptom he would not know it was in the nature of Cotiium

to have the stricture, and in ai^other case he would see that Conium

did not suit, and he would know when and when not to give it.

Anxious in the room, amelit^ated in the open air. Anxiety at night

in bed on closing the eyes, i^^ile reading she felt as if some one

were reading after her and sfee must read faster and faster. That

occurs in patients who are tired from being worked up to the highest

pitch and it seems as if they would fly to pieces. Any thought that

comes into the mind tends to repeat itself.

• ▸Vertigo, ameliorated walking in the open air.
• ▸Vertigo in the morning on rising.
• ▸The head symptoms are troublesome.
• ▸Silicea will be

given in cases where this rem^y should be given, because the Silicea

headache is ameliorated from wrapping up the head. This remedy

has it also. Soreness of the hair follicles. Sensation as if the hair

were pulled. Headache ameliorated from tying a bandage tight

around the head or wrapping up the head.

Yellowness all over the body. Yellow eye in jaundice and liver

troubles. Eyes inflamed. Margins of lids and eyelashes crusty ; fine

pimples and eruptions. After leaving the head symptoms, which are

relieved by warmth, we find many symptoms worse in the warm room.

Pulsatitm in the ears. Ulceration of the edges of the nostrils.

Tongue has the appearance as if it • had been burnt, excoriated and

cracked in various directions. Fissures bum like fire. Hunger, but

knows not for what. Ravenous hunger followed by nausea. Aggra-

MAGNESIA MURUTICA

vation from salt things, from eating salt food, from salt baths, frQii>

• ▸sea bathing, and at the seashore from inhaling sea air.
• ▸Chest complaints, liver complaints and constipation at sea.
• ▸Bromine has complaints of sailors when they come on shore.
• ▸Magnesia mur.
• ▸has complaints from going to sea.
• ▸When a patient has urticaria at the seashore, Arsenic will cure in Arsenic cases and will often mitigate when

it is the only symptom.

Foul eructations tasting like rotten eggs. Disordered stomach.

Stomach easily disordered. Waterbrash, vomiting. Like Magnesia

carb., it has inability to digest milk. Milk causes pain, and it is passed

undigested — lienteric stools. Fainting at the dinner table in hysterical

women.

It has many liver troubles. Enlargement and induration of the

liver, with jaundiced skin. Right lobe of liver sore, painful while

lying on it and when he turns over to the left he is uncomfortable,

as it feels as if the liver dragged over to the left. Natrum Sulph.

often cures that symptom, and Ptelea has a somewhat similar condition. These two symptoms, aggravation from lying on the right, that

is, the soreness, and aggravation from lying on the left, that is, the

dragging, come separately or together. It has much liver trouble from

lying on the liver.

Tenderness in the region of the stomach and over the bowels. Attacks of gastralgia in the evening. A strong feature in this remedy

is indigestion. The stomach becomes less and less able to digest and

• ▸finally he cannot take a mouthful of food without distress.
• ▸Abdominal dropsies.
• ▸Colic, cramps, tearing pains.
• ▸Great flatulence.
• ▸With

this kind of digestive disturbance we have a good home for tapeworm,

it hatches out easily in this patient. The most troublesome patients

I have are those who come after having had a tapeworm removed by

violent drugs. It takes a long time to restore them. If a patient will

come with his worm and all his symptoms, I will give him relief, and

he will soon be turned into order and the taj>eworm will cause no

trouble.

Constipation of infants, as in Magnesia carb. Chalky stools like

Magnesia carb. When the patient is an adult and yellow with jaundice, the stools are light colored, bileless and there is no expulsive

power.

No power to expel the contents of the bladder, so he presses with

the abdominal muscles on the full bladder and passes a little. T,q rk

of sensation in the bladder, so that sometimes he cannot tell whether

he has to urinate or not until the bladder is so full that it causes pressure. The inability to feel extends to the urethra, and he cannot tell

in the dark whether he is passing urine or not.

Metrorrhagia, with backache which is ameliorated by pressing hard

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back in the chair or lying on a hard pillow. Bearing down pains in

the pelvis, especially in hysterical women and girls.

Congestion of chest from sea bathing. Chest troubles and colds on

the chest at the seashore and from salt baths. Palpitation of the

heart, with anxiety. Anxiety and restlessness come on at rest ; he

must do something, must hurry. These symptoms are likely to come

on again in the evening when he tries to go to sleep.

Shocks through the body, like electric shocks, when wide awake,

jerking the whole frame ; twitching and jerking. Numbness in the

• ▸extremities.
• ▸Tearing pains in the upper limbs and marked restlessness in lower limbs.
• ▸Cramps in calves at night.
• ▸Paralytic drawing

and tearing in all the limbs. Burning of the soles at night in bed.

Foot-sweat is another symptom like Stlicea. Numbness of the arms

in the morning on waking.

Hysterical and spasmodic complaints. Weakness from sea bathing

or salt baths. It is the aggravation from salt. Sleep unrefreshing,

anxious dreams. Bodily state sensitive to cold, and great disposition

to take cold. Some complaints are ameliorated by fresh air, if not

too cold.