Mezereum

An idea of the virulence of this poison may be gathered from a case reported

in Allen's Appendix: A pale girl, 14, having been advised to use Mezereum leaves to make her fat

and rosy, went into the woods and used them freely on her cheeks and surrounding parts.

Burning soon set in, the whole face swelled enormously, especially nose, eyelids, and hairy

scalp. Severe and painful sneezing set in, delirium, dull, unbearable, pressing pains in forehead, a

nauseous dryness in throat and constant irritation to dry cough. The face soon showed the

appearance of erysipelas bullosum; nostrils closed, she could only breathe through mouth; febrile

pulse, burning urine. Oil and compresses were applied, and after the second day desquamation

occurred in large pieces. But health did not return. Debility, loss of vitality, mental depression

bordering on idiocy followed; then typhoid fever, lasting fully three months, to which she finally

succumbed. Poisoning has also been observed from the effects of the berries: dryness and

burning of throat and stomach; intense thirst; narcotism, coma, convulsions of eyes and upper

limbs were observed. In a child of four, poisoned with the berries, these symptoms occurred:

Swollen lips; tongue furred and swollen, protruding, swallowing difficult. The tongue remained

• ▸quite raw when other symptoms had passed away (H.
• ▸W.
• ▸, xxii.
• ▸466).
• ▸Hahnemann records this: A

robust man took Mezereum bark for some ailment, and continued it after the ailment

disappeared. Soon, unbearable itching set in all over body, could not sleep a moment. Thirty-six

hours after discontinuing it the itching was still increasing, then a few grains of Camphor

removed it. Mezereum is the vegetable analogue of, and is one of the most important antidotes to,

• ▸Mercurius.
• ▸Merc.
• ▸and Mez.
• ▸antidote one another.
• ▸Mind, skin, eyes, mucous membranes and

bones are affected in much the same way by both; they have the same sensitiveness to damp,

cold, and warmth, and the same nightly aggravations. Nash mentions an exception to the < by

warmth. In a man whom he cured with Mez. of obstinate facial neuralgia, the pains were brought

on or greatly < by eating, and the only relief the man could get was by holding the painful side

close to a hot stove. Only radiated heat was of any use, hot cloths, wet or dry, gave no relief

whatever. Mez. affects the long bones more markedly than others, and the least touch is

• ▸intolerable; but it has, like Merc.
• ▸, a strong affinity for the facial bones and teeth.
• ▸With Mez.
• ▸the

decay attacks the roots or sides rather than the crowns (which Merc. attacks). The toothache is <

at night, < by touch, even with the tongue, and is > by holding the mouth open and drawing in

air. Neuralgia about the eyes; the pains radiate and shoot downward, and if there is in addition a

sensation in the eye itself as if a cold wind were blowing in it the indications will be very strong.

Mez. is one of Hahnemann's anti-psorics, and it meets many psoric manifestations. Carroll

Dunham has recorded (Science of Therapeutics, 462) a notable case of deafness, due to

suppressed psora. A Youth, 17, deaf since four, and incapacitated thereby, secludes himself and

broods over his trouble. Membranes thickened. At the age of three he had an eruption of thick,

whitish scabs, hard, almost horny, covering the whole scalp. There were fissures through which

exuded on pressure a thick, yellowish pus, often very offensive. Much itching and disposition to

tear off the scabs with the finger-nails, < at night. The treatment (allopathic) was vigorous: A tar

cap was placed on the head, and when firmly adherent to the scabs was violently tom off, scabs

• ▸and all, leaving the whole scalp raw.
• ▸This was painted with a saturated solution of Arg.
• ▸nit.
• ▸The

eruption did not reappear, but from that time the child was deaf. The eruption was the very

counterpart of an eruption observed in a proving by Wehle. Mez. 30, three globules in a powder

of sugar of milk, was given on each of these dates—February 3, March 1, and September 28,

1857, and January 26, 1858. Improvement set in slowly after the first dose, which was only

repeated when the effect of each preceding dose seemed to be exhausted. Finally the hearing was

for all practical purposes completely restored. The action of Mez. in catarrhal cases is illustrated

• ▸in another case (Amer.
• ▸Hom.
• ▸, xxi.
• ▸417).
• ▸Miss M.
• ▸R.
• ▸, 39, brunette, had chronic catarrh.
• ▸The left

ear had long been deaf, and the right had begun to fail. There were noises in the ears. Drum

membranes retracted and scarred. The symptoms were: Excessive sensitiveness to the air, even

of a fan, and occasionally a sensation as if air went through to the throat. Mucous membrane of

naso-pharynx granular and irritable. A dose of Mez. given before each meal entirely relieved the

• ▸symptoms.
• ▸The ulcers of Mez.
• ▸have thick, yellowish, white scabs.
• ▸Vesicles appear now and then,

and itch and burn. Lint dressings stick to them, and when they are torn away bleeding occurs.

Burning vesicles on the sides of the fingers; and ulcers on finger-joints. With eczema there is

intolerable itching, < in bed and from touch. Vaccinal eczemas are frequently of the Mez. type.

Mez. is often of great service in herpes zoster, both during the eruption and for the neuralgia

• ▸remaining after, especially if the pains are burning.
• ▸In a lecture on Mez.
• ▸by T.
• ▸S.
• ▸Hoyne (Med.

• ▸Vis.
• ▸, xiii.
• ▸65) are collected many cases illustrating the action of the remedy.
• ▸Here is a mental case

• ▸(in a woman) treated by W.
• ▸E.
• ▸Payne: No rest when alone; wants company.
• ▸Ideas vanish while

talking; cannot repeat what has been learned by heart. Looks through the window for hours

without being conscious of objects around. Does not know what she is about; forgets what she is

about to utter; looks ill-humoured, pale, wretched, fallen away. Apprehensiveness at pit of

stomach, as when expecting some very unpleasant intelligence. All symptoms relieved in a single

• ▸night by Mez.
• ▸20.
• ▸(I give the italics as in the original.
• ▸) Among neuralgic cases are the following:

(7) Man, 28, violent neuralgia, boring pain in left lower jaw-bone, extending to temple and ear. <

• ▸Night, > from pressure.
• ▸Mez.
• ▸3 relieved in two hours (S.
• ▸R.
• ▸Geiser).
• ▸(2) H.
• ▸G.
• ▸, stout, healthy-

looking negro, left supra-orbital neuralgia recurring daily at 9 a.m., increasing till noon,

• ▸declining till 4 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸, when it entirely departed leaving no soreness behind.
• ▸Pain = flow of tears.

• ▸Mez.
• ▸| cured permanently after other remedies had failed Q.
• ▸W.
• ▸Vance).
• ▸(3) Mrs.
• ▸X.
• ▸had pain in

right eye-tooth, daily increasing. Felt too long. Pains much < by pressure on crown and outside

• ▸root.
• ▸Mez.
• ▸2 cured (Oehme).
• ▸(4) Toothache in incisor tooth in lady.
• ▸Tooth feels elongated, loose,

excessively sensitive, with sensation as if being raised out of its socket. Upper part of tooth

• ▸excessively painful.
• ▸ez.
• ▸200 cured in a few hours (Hempel).
• ▸(5) The fastenings of a hammock

broke, and a lady on it fell, striking the sacrum and coccyx on the stump of a tree. She suffered

• ▸excruciating pain.
• ▸Arn.
• ▸was applied locally.
• ▸In a few weeks she came home, and the coccyx was

still so tender she could not sit—only lie or stand. Arn. internally and externally for two weeks

• ▸had no influence.
• ▸Mez.
• ▸2 cured in five days (Oehme).
• ▸—"Constipation after confinement" has

proved a good indication for Mez.: "My stools are as hard as stone, and as large as my arm. I feel

as if they would split me open. They come in sections like mouthfuls, and I become much

exhausted and tremble with weakness. Every stool is immediately preceded by chills, and

• ▸followed by long stitches up rectum.
• ▸" Mez.
• ▸12 produced a natural stool in twelve hours (H.
• ▸Noah

Martin). Green discharges according to Cooper strongly indicate Mez. It has cured a case of dry

crust on scalp and falling out of hair, accompanied with short sight. Daphne laureola, the British

representative of the genus, has cured scald-head when Mez. failed. The symptoms in this case

• ▸were < by day, whereas Mez.
• ▸has < at night.
• ▸The pains of D.
• ▸/aureola come on in the morning

and affect the entire head or whole left side: Guaiac. pains are also < by day and > by warmth

(Cooper). Cooper gives me the following cases: (/) Woman, 48, had rheumatism which came on

ten years before in hands from wearing wet gloves, and extended later to arms and knees;

stiffness on walking with loss of muscular power, < in hot weather, "pins and needles" in fingers

on elevating arms, cannot grasp things, sometimes one hand burns when other is cold,

• ▸climacteric flushings.
• ▸Great relief from Mez.
• ▸@.
• ▸(2) Girl, 18, getting thin, with headache across

forehead, temples, and eyes, a throbbing with sickness of stomach and water-brash, always < by

movement; bowels very confined; menses never appeared. Mez. cured; (3) Pimples on ankles and

backs of feet, horrid taste and clamminess of mouth in morning, pimples > by hard scratching,

• ▸sluggish bowels.
• ▸Mez.
• ▸cured.
• ▸H.
• ▸B.
• ▸Esmond (4.
• ▸R.
• ▸, vii.
• ▸41) cured with Mez.
• ▸3x a youth, 17, who

had been afflicted with "salt rheum" as long as he could remember. It was absent in summer, but

every autumn, as soon as cold weather came, face, neck, hands, and forearms would break out

and continue sore till warm weather returned. Another indication for Mez. is hypersensitiveness

of the ear to air. It has cured a case in which there was a feeling as if air went through the ear to

the throat. The rectum and anus are the seat of many characteristic symptoms, stitches, burning

itching. During stool the rectum prolapses and the sphincter closes upon the protruded part. This

constricting tendency is noticed in the throat and stomach, and also in the tendons. The leg is

shortened with pain in hip. Tension in muscles of chest. Pain and stiffness in muscles of neck.

Cramp-like contraction over chest and back; and across front of chest. Sensations are: Head as if

drunk; as if everything in the head would press asunder; as if skull would split; as if top of head

gone; as if head bruised; as if head was in an ants' nest. Eyes as if too large; as if drawn back into

head. Ears as if too open; as if air pouring into them; as if tympanum was exposed to cold air; as

if air was distending right external meatus. Teeth feel too long. Hard palate, feels as if made of

• ▸wood.
• ▸Throat as if narrowing.
• ▸As if food remained a long time in stomach.
• ▸Stools feel as if they

• ▸would split anus.
• ▸Chest feels too tight.
• ▸Limbs feel shortened.
• ▸As if fire darting through muscles.

As if millions of insects were crawling on him. Sensation of lightness of body. Bones are very

• ▸sore and feel distended.
• ▸Diseased parts wither.
• ▸Mez.
• ▸is suited to: Light-haired persons;

phlegmatic temperament; irresolute. The plant flowers in very early spring, even when snow is

on the ground, and it is suited to complaints which come on in the earliest months of the year. <

From cold; damp; cold winds; sudden changes of weather; heat; warm food. Head pains are >

wrapping up head. Prosopalgia > by heat of stove (not by other heat). Drawing in air >

• ▸toothache.
• ▸< From touch or pressure.
• ▸< From motion.
• ▸Lying down < itching of scalp.
• ▸Stooping >

headache. < Evening and night. < During menses (burning itching inner side of throat).

Affections go from above downward; from within outward; and from right to left.

Hypochondriacal humour, with sadness and tears.—(Fearful depression, miserable

• ▸feeling).
• ▸—Anguish and inquietude, esp.
• ▸in solitude, with wish for society.
• ▸—Indifference about

everything and everybody around him.—Aversion to talk. it seems to him to be hard work to utter

one word.—Disposed to reproach others or to quarrel.—Irresolute—Everything seems dead and

• ▸nothing makes a vivid impression.
• ▸—Peevishness.
• ▸—Passion.
• ▸—Unfitness for labour—Weak

• ▸memory (mind is easily confused).
• ▸—Mental torpor.
• ▸—Slow conception.
• ▸—Ideas are frequently lost.

[This remedy is often useful in cases of very violent neuralgic pains about the

teeth or face, particularly if the pain be in the 1. bone, running toward ear; also neuralgic pains at

night in teeth —Affections of any kind appearing on external head, principally r. side; teeth in 1.

• ▸side; forehead; shin-bone.
• ▸—Collection of water in mouth, i.
• ▸e.
• ▸, "mouth waters.
• ▸".
• ▸—Urine with real

flakes, which float about on the top.—Subsultus tendinum, as in typhoid fever, &c., when by

putting the fingers on the wrist or on other parts of the body the tendons are felt to jump and

• ▸jerk.
• ▸—Burning, darting sensation in the muscles like fire darting through them.
• ▸—H.
• ▸N.

• ▸G.
• ▸].
• ▸—Drawing, rheumatic tearing, and tension in the limbs, with paralytic weakness.
• ▸—Thrilling

pains, which leave a distressing sensation behind them, for a long time.—Drawing, pains in one

side of body, with shivering.—Pains, accompanied by shivering and shuddering. —Gnawing pains,

as from excoriation in mucous membranes.—Burning in the organs of digestion.—Burning of

internal parts, with external chilliness.—Inflammation and swelling of bones; esp. shafts of

cylindrical bones; caries, after abuse of Mercury.—Ulceration of bones.—Tension in

muscles.—Hot, jerking stitches in various parts of body.—Jerking and quivering of

muscles.—Drawings and sensation of weakness in joints; joints feel bruised and weary, as if they

would give way.—Contusive pain, and heaviness in all limbs.—Heaviness and indolence of

• ▸body.
• ▸—Feeling of great lightness of body.
• ▸—General sick feeling.
• ▸—Bending of body in

walking.—Emaciation or bloatedness of body and face, with enlargement of abdomen in

• ▸children.
• ▸—Pain in the glands.
• ▸—Abscesses of fibrous parts or tendons.
• ▸—Predominance of

sufferings on one side of the body.—Symptoms < in the evening; < on touching part affected; and

on movement.—Great susceptibility to cold air.—Sensitiveness to washing with cold water in

morning.

• ▸Hard work to talk.
• ▸Headache; worse from talking.
• ▸Stupefying headache in right side.
• ▸Affections of external head; scaly eruption, white scabs.
• ▸Head covered with thick, leathery crusts, under which pus collects, Violent neuralgia about face and teeth, running towards ear, at night; worse, eating; better near hot stove.
• ▸Roots of teeth decay.
• ▸Teeth feel elongated.

Stupefying confusion in head, as from intoxication, or immoderate

pollutions.—Vertigo, which causes falling on one side, with sparkling before eyes.—Headache,

with shuddering and shivering, < in open air.—(Splitting headaches: head throbs on movement,

begins in frontal sinuses, patient gets rapidly thin, and brings up water from stomach with

straining; feels low and weak.).—Pressive and stunning headache, on one side only of

brain.—Headache in temples and sides of head after an exertion and from talking much.—Violent

headache and great sensitiveness to least contact after a slight anger.—Compressive or cramp-like

pain, as if head were being severed.—Violent, pulsative, and pressive pains in whole head,

forehead, nose, and teeth, < by the slightest movement.—Thrilling headache, with vomiting of

mucus.—Sensation of torpor, with drawing pains in one side of head.—Pains in bones of cranium,

< by touch.—Painful sensitiveness of scalp and of hair to touch—Gnawing itching in

scalp.—Itching eruption on head, sometimes moist.—Head covered with a thick leather-like crust,

under which thick and white pus collects here and there, and the hair is glued together.—On head

great elevated white scabs, under which ichor collects in great quantity, and which begins to be

offensive and breed vermin.—The scabs on head look chalky and extend to eyebrows and nape of

neck.—Burning, biting itching on scalp, principally on vertex, when scratching the locality

changes but the itching becomes <; this is followed by very sore boils and humid eruptions, < at

night and when lying down.—(Hard scabs on head six months, no irritation, much oozing with

weakness and trembling of ankles.).—Pains in bones of scalp (on both sides) with swelling and

caries, great sensitiveness to contact, cold, motion, < in evening.—Numbness of scalp, with

drawing pain in it, generally only on one side; < from cold contact and in evening.—> By

heat.—Dandruff, white, dry.

Ciliary neuralgia after operations. Especially after removal of eyeball. Pains radiate and shoot downward, with cold feeling and stiffness of bone.

Inclination to wink with eyes——Dryness in eyes, with pressure in them.—T witching of

• ▸muscles around eyes.
• ▸—Lachrymation, with smarting in eyes.
• ▸—Staring at one spot.
• ▸—Pain, as if

balls of eyes were too large, with aching.—Sensation as if eyes drawn back into head.—Eyes feel

strained.—Smarting in internal canthi—Inflammation of eyes; conjunctiva injected, dirty

red.—Three days after one dose Mez. © eyes became bloodshot, first one then the other, with

• ▸cramp in both feet and 1.
• ▸upper limb, < night.
• ▸(R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Myopia, or presbyopia.
• ▸—Sparks before

• ▸eyes.
• ▸—Obstinate twitching of the muscles of the 1.
• ▸upper lid.
• ▸—Pupils contracted.

Feel too much open, as if tympanum was exposed to the cold air and it blew into the ear. Desire to bore fingers in.

Otalgia, with drawing and acute pullings.—Itching and oozing eruption behind ears

(scratching causes small elevations, they are scratched off and feel sore).—Hardness of

hearing.—Sensation of stoppage of ears.—Ears feel as if they were too open, and as if air were

pouring into them, or as if the tympanum were exposed to the cold air, with a desire to bore with

• ▸fingers into ear.
• ▸—Sensation as though air were distending the r.
• ▸external meatus; afterward in L.
• ▸;

as if roaring would occur.—Tinkling in ears, sometimes with drowsiness.—[Cooper supplies the

following additions]: Deafness with headache all over head, < on vertex, as if the bone were

breaking, a splitting headache with tenderness of scalp, begins across root of nose and eyes and

is < at night, also a sick feeling after food (cured).—Bursting sensation in r. ear with neuralgia of

whole side of head (cured).—A rumbling in ears, with feeling of fulness and pressure and

dimness of sight (produced).—Swelling of r. ear and itching as if a boil were forcing itself

through concha (produced).—Adenoids, post nasal; deafness < when eating, slight otorrhcea,

stuffiness of 1. nostril with ozena—Very deaf, both membranes highly vascular following cold

and acute headache of r. side of head; deafness had lasted 2 1/2 months (cured).—Heavy dulness

in |. ear with itching in both eyelids, could scratch them to pieces (cured).

Sneezing, coryza, interior of nose, excoriated. Post-nasal adenoids.

Twitching (visible) on root of nose.—Excoriation of interior of nose.—Diminution of

smell, with sensation of dryness in nose, and sometimes ineffectual desire to sneeze.—Frequent

sneezings, accompanied by pain of excoriation in chest.—Fluent coryza, with secretion of liquid

and yellow (thin, at times bloody) mucus, excoriation and burning in nose, and eruption on lips,

• ▸and burning of upper lip.
• ▸—(Ozzena, 15 years, in woman, 35, <1.
• ▸nostril: ez.
• ▸3x irritated nostril,

was then omitted and discharge ceased; this occurred several times, till quite cured—After Mez.

@, sneezes many times for twenty-four hours, then gets darting pains from head to foot and is

• ▸hardly able to bear anything to touch her for three days.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸)

Red. Eruption around mouth, with coryza.

Grey, earthy complexion.—Face and forehead hot and red, with great restlessness and

peevishness.—Paleness of face.—Cramp-like and stunning pressure on cheek-bone, sometimes

only on one side (r.), and extending to eye, temple, ear, teeth, neck, and into shoulder.—Drawings

in jaw-bones.—Continued and painful twitching in cheeks and eyelids.—Frequent troublesome

twitching of muscles in middle of r. cheek.—Furunculi on face —Child scratches its face

constantly; it becomes covered with blood.—In night child scratches its face so that the bed is

covered with blood in morning; face is covered with a scab, which the child keeps constantly

tearing off anew, and on the spots thus left raw large, fat pustules form.—The ichor from

scratched face excoriates other parts.—A honey-like scab around mouth.—Skin of face is of a

deep inflammatory redness, the eruption is humid and fat.—Excoriation and burning in lips and

commissures.—Lips swollen and cracked, with exfoliation; swelling of lower lip with

rhagades.—Upper lip ulcerated, with burning pain when touched.—Shootings in submaxillary

glands.

Burning vesicles in mouth and on tongue.—Tongue swollen, protruding.—Tongue

quite raw.—Constant burning in mouth—Burning in the mouth and throat.—Impeded speech.

Pains in carious teeth.—The hollow teeth decay suddenly.—Drawing, burning, or

boring shootings in teeth, and into cheek-bones, and temples.—Jerking and tearing pains in

teeth.—Sensation as if teeth were set on edge, and too long.—Toothache < by touch and by

movement, as well as during the shiverings in evening.—Teeth pain when touched by the

tongue.—Ebullition of blood to the head, shiverings and constipation, during toothache.—Teeth

coated with fetid mucus.—Teeth speedily become carious.—Burning vesicles in gums.

Pressive pain in throat on swallowing.—Roughness, excoriation, smarting scraping,

and lancinating in throat and palate ——Burning in throat (pharynx) and in

cesophagus.—Inflammation of throat.—Constriction and contraction of pharynx; the food presses

on the part during deglutition.

• ▸Desire for ham-fat.
• ▸Burning in tongue, extending to stomach.
• ▸Mouth waters.
• ▸Nausea felt in throat; better, eating.
• ▸Chronic gastritis; burning, corroding pain; nausea, vomiting, chocolate color.
• ▸Gastric ulcer with much burning.

Beer has a bitter taste, and is thrown up when taken.—Increased hunger at

noon.—Great hunger or loss of appetite —Violent hunger in afternoon and evening.—Unusual

longing for ham fat——Burning in the stomach, mouth, and throat, > by eating (swallowing the

food).—Repugnance to food.

Frequent and empty risings, esp. after drinking.—Sensation of nausea in

throat —Sensation as if posterior part of throat were full of mucus, same after hawking.—Nausea,

with accumulation of water in mouth, shuddering and trembling of whole body.—Violent

vomitings of greenish and bitter mucus, accompanied by headache.—Vomiting of blood —Aching

• ▸in stomach.
• ▸—Burning, and sensation of heat in stomach.
• ▸—Inflammation of stomach.
• ▸—Contraction

of diaphragm.

Swelling of glands with large abdomen in children. Pressure in inguinal ring. Flatulent colic, with shivering and difficult respiration.

Abdomen hard and tense.—Chronic, cramp-like, acute, pulling, pressive,

• ▸constrictive, and shooting pains in abdomen.
• ▸—Stitches in |.
• ▸hypochondrium.
• ▸—Dull pain in region

• ▸of spleen.
• ▸—Heaviness in abdomen.
• ▸—Sensation of heat, and burning in abdomen.
• ▸—Inflammation

• ▸of intestines.
• ▸—Expansive pressure in inguinal ring.
• ▸—Drawing in inguinal glands.
• ▸—Flatulent colic,

with rumbling and borborygmi in abdomen, difficult respiration, and shivering —Many short,

fetid, flatulent discharges, esp. before the stool.

• ▸Constipation after confinement.
• ▸Prolapse of rectum.
• ▸Diarrhoea, with small, white particles.
• ▸Green discharges.
• ▸Constipation, with hepatic and uterine inertia.
• ▸Constriction of anus; stitches and prolapse of rectum.

Difficult stools, of the consistence of thick pap, with urgent want to

evacuate.—Constipation.—Constipation, stool dark brown, in knots, very hard balls, with great

straining, but not painful.—Stools soft, brown, smelling sour.—Soft stool in evening, fermented

stool, not fully digested, smelling very offensive or sour.—Excessive diarrhoea (small stools) with

intolerable colic——Brown feces, containing some white, glistening bodies.—Scanty, soft,

frequent evacuations.—Violent diarrhoea, with insupportable pains in abdomen.—[Passes large

quantities of blood by bowel with diarrhoea and sickness; is bilious (cured).—Mez. often relieves

• ▸constipation, esp.
• ▸with hepatic and uterine inertia—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸]—During (or after) stool, prolapse of

rectum with constriction of anus, which makes it very difficult to replace; sore and painful to

touch.—Before and after stool, creeping in rectum as from ascarides.—Stitch in rectum; upwards

(in afternoon).—Biting, sore pain in anus on walking, and a burning in rectum.—Pain in anus and

anterior part of penis.—Pinching in anus and near anus I. side—Crawling in anus; much

itching.—Tenesmus, tearing and drawing in anus and perinzeum, and through whole

urethra.—Coldness and shuddering, before, and after the evacuation.

Diminished secretion of urine.—In morning and forenoon, frequent

discharges of large quantities of pale urine —Flock-like cloudiness, and reddish sediment in

urine.—Heematuria.—Sticking in kidney, and pain as if torn —Pain, as from excoriation, in

urethra.—Discharge of mucus from urethra.—Discharge of a few drops of blood after

urinating. —Biting burning in forepart of urethra at close of micturition.—After micturition,

itching at prepuce.

Red flakes float on top of urine. Hot, bloody Biting, burning in forepart of urethra at the close of micturition. Haematuria preceded by cramp pain in the bladder, After urinating, a few drops of blood are passed.

Menses too frequent, soon, profuse. Leucorrhoea like albumen; very corroding.

Chronic leucorrheea, like white of eggs (malignant, corroding),

sometimes also serous.—Menses: too frequent and lasting too long; scanty with leucorrhoea and

prosopalgia; suppressed.—During pregnancy, diarrhoea and prolapsus recti.—After confinement,

constipation, burning and stitches in rectum.—(Climacteric flushings remain away for several

months.)

Enlargement of testicles. Violent sexual desire. Gonorrhoea, with haematuria.

Tearing, jerking, and lancination, in penis.—Tearing and burning

lancinations in the end of the glans.—Heat and swelling of penis —Violent erections and

increased sexual desire.—Swelling of testicles.—Fine pricking stitches in penis and tip of

glans.—Abundant secretion of smegma behind glans, like gonorrhoea balani.—Swelling (painless)

of scrotum.

Soreness and burning in bones of thorax. Constriction across chest. Cough; worse; eating, irritation lower than can be reached, on taking a warm drink.

Hoarseness, with burning and dryness in throat, irritation which

excites coughing, rawness in chest, and difficult respiration.—Violent cough, when lying

down.—Dry cough, with retching and vomiting, in evening, and at night.—Desire to draw a long

breath —Spasmodic, violent whooping-cough, caused by an irritation in larynx, extending to

chest, expectoration in morning, of a yellow, albuminous, tough mucus, tasting salt.—The cough

is < in evening till midnight; or day and night, with tension over thorax; when eating or drinking

anything hot (has to cough till the food is vomited up); from drinking beer.—Violent inclination

to cough low down in trachea; cannot loosen anything by the cough.

Difficult respiration.—Pain in chest, during inspiration, as if there were adhesions in

lungs, and the cavity of the chest were too narrow.—Aching in chest.—Painful tension of muscles

of chest.—The chest feels too tight on stooping.—Pain, as from excoriation and burning in

sternum.—Stitches in chest, < during inspiration; in (r.) side of chest, < from drawing a long

breath.

Painful rigidity of nape of neck, and of neck and external muscles; in r.

side of neck and throat, < on motion. —Tearing jerking in sides of neck.—Rheumatic pains in

muscles of shoulder-blade; they feel tense and swollen, and prevent motion.—Shootings in

• ▸back.
• ▸—Contractive and tensive pain in back, extending to sacrum.
• ▸—Sacral pains.
• ▸—(Coccyx tender

and sore, from a fall).

Dislocating pain in shoulder-joint.—R. arm feels sprained on top of

• ▸shoulder.
• ▸—Pain, as from excoriation, in axillz (r.
• ▸).
• ▸—R.
• ▸hand cold (while writing), 1.
• ▸warm (in a

• ▸warm room).
• ▸—Cold hands.
• ▸—Trembling in r.
• ▸hand.
• ▸—Tips of fingers powerless, cannot hold

anything.—The hands (and feet) go to sleep continually.—Drawing and rheumatic tension in

arms, with paralytic weakness.—Paralysis of flexors.—Jerking pains in shoulders, arms, hands,

and fingers —Swelling and heat of arm and hand, with twitching and pricking in

muscles.—Ulcers on finger-joints.

• ▸Jerking in hip-joint, as far as knee.
• ▸—Contraction of leg.
• ▸—R.
• ▸hip-joint feels

• ▸sprained on walking.
• ▸—Twitching of whole of r.
• ▸leg —Pain in hip, the leg is shortened.
• ▸—Whole leg

covered with elevated white scabs.—(Ulcer on leg with intense itching in surrounding skin and in

• ▸scalp, much < in warmth; with slight diarrhoea.
• ▸).
• ▸—Cracking in r.
• ▸knee when rising in

• ▸morning.
• ▸—Legs and feet go to sleep.
• ▸—Stitches in toes of r.
• ▸foot.
• ▸—Pain in periosteum of the long

bones, esp. the tibia, < at night in bed, and then the least touch is intolerable.—Pains in bones of

thighs and legs. —Tearing, drawing, and tension in thighs, legs, feet, and toes ——Tension and

• ▸stiffness in knees.
• ▸—Jerking, and pressive pain in tibia.
• ▸—Hard swelling of calves of legs.
• ▸—Jerking

pain in toes——Violent pains in bones of feet; in bones of instep, < when walking.—Pain in ball of

little toe.

• ▸Pain in neck and back; worse, motion and at night; intolerant of all touch.
• ▸Pain and burning in tibia and long bones.
• ▸Legs and feet go to sleep.
• ▸Pain in hip and knee.

• ▸Eczema; intolerable itching; chilliness with pruritus; worse in bed.
• ▸Ulcers itch and burn, surrounded by vesicles and shining, fiery-red areola.
• ▸Zona, with burning pain.
• ▸Bones, especially long bones, inflamed and swollen; caries, exostosis; pain worse night, touch, damp weather (Merc; Syph).
• ▸Eruptions ulcerate and form thick scabs under purulent matter exudes (Chrysophanic acid).

Sensitiveness to touch.—General desquamation of skin of body; usual liver spots on

chest and arms become dark and desquamate.—Red rash, itching violently; < in bed, from touch;

burning and change of place after scratching. —Cutaneous ulcers form over bony

protuberances.—Ulcers with thick, whitish, yellow scabs, under which thick, yellow pus

• ▸collects.
• ▸—Skin covered with elevated white scabs.
• ▸—Itching, esp.
• ▸at night (when in bed), more

violent and painful (and changed to burning) after scratching the parts, and sometimes with

swelling of the part that has been scratched.—Gnawing itching as from vermin.—Miliary

eruptions, sometimes chronic.—Furunculi.—Inflamed ulcers, with burning and shooting, or with

gnawing pain of excoriation —Inflammation and swelling of the bones, rachitis, caries.—Ulcers:

with an areola, sensitive and easily bleeding when removing the linen, which sticks, painful at

night, the pus tends to form an adherent scab, under which a quantity of pus collects, burning and

stinging with inflammation.—Vesicles around the ulcers, itching violently and burning, like

fire.—Suppuration after inflammation.

Great sleepiness by day, with agitated and unrefreshing sleep, at night——Shocks in

• ▸body during sleep.
• ▸—Waking early (towards 2 or 3 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸) in consequence of nightmare.

Pulse full and hard; in the evening accelerated; intermitting at times.—Chilliness,

shiverings, and coldness of whole body, esp. in hands and feet, with violent thirst, and sometimes

without a desire for warmth.—Chill predominates even in warm room.—Chill with thirst and

desire for heat.—Chill from upper arms, extending to back and legs.—Heat in bed, mostly in the

head.—Intermittent fever; chill over the whole body accompanied by asthmatic contraction and

tightness of chest, in front and back —During cold stage, a peculiar thirst; dryness in back of

mouth, with accumulation of saliva in fore part without any desire to drink.—During cold stage,

drowsiness in the warm room.—Sleep, with sweat, after the shiverings (without previous

heat).—Fever, accompanied by headache, and paleness of face, the splenetic region painful,

swollen, and hard, weakness and great susceptibility to cold air; tertian fever.—Violent

inflammatory fever.

• ▸Bones, affections of.
• ▸Coccygodynia.
• ▸Constipation.
• ▸Contraction of tendons.
• ▸Crusta

• ▸lactea.
• ▸Ear, affections of; sensitive to air.
• ▸Erythema.
• ▸Exostoses.
• ▸Eyes, affections of.
• ▸Glands

• ▸enlarged.
• ▸Gleet.
• ▸Gonorrhcea.
• ▸Heematuria.
• ▸Hernia.
• ▸Herpes zoster.
• ▸Impetigo.
• ▸Irritation.

• ▸Leucorrhoea.
• ▸Mercury, effects of.
• ▸Neuralgia.
• ▸Osteoma.
• ▸Pediculosis.
• ▸Pityriasis.
• ▸Prolapsus ani.

• ▸Pruritus senilis.
• ▸Rheumatism.
• ▸Scrofula.
• ▸Syphilis.
• ▸Teeth, affections of.
• ▸Tinea capitis.
• ▸Tinea

• ▸versicolor.
• ▸Tongue, affections of, swelling of.
• ▸Ulcers.
• ▸Vaccination.

• ▸Antidoted by:—Aco.
• ▸, Bry.
• ▸, Calc.
• ▸(headache), K.
• ▸iod.
• ▸, Merc.
• ▸, Nux.
• ▸/t antidotes:

• ▸Merc.
• ▸, Nit.
• ▸ac.
• ▸, Phos.
• ▸, Alcohol.
• ▸Compatible: Calc.
• ▸, Caust.
• ▸, Ign.
• ▸, Lyc.
• ▸, Merc.
• ▸, Nux, Pho.
• ▸, Puls.

• ▸Compare: In ciliary neuralgia, Spi.
• ▸(Mez.
• ▸pains radiate and shoot down, cold feeling in eye; Spi.
• ▸,

• ▸stabbing pains in or radiating from eye, eyeballs feel swollen), Thuj.
• ▸, Ced.
• ▸, Ars.
• ▸, Merc.
• ▸Protruded

• ▸and constricted rectum, Lach.
• ▸Eczema, Rhus, Anac.
• ▸Ulcers on finger-joints, Bor.
• ▸, Sep.
• ▸Feeling of

• ▸cold wind blowing in eye, Croc.
• ▸(across eye), Med.
• ▸, Syph.
• ▸, Thuj.
• ▸(out of eye).
• ▸Blinking,

• ▸Mercurialis.
• ▸Nausea in throat, Cycl.
• ▸, Phos.
• ▸ac.
• ▸, Stan.
• ▸, Val.
• ▸(in rectum, Ruta; in hypogastrium,

• ▸Puls.
• ▸).
• ▸Stitch in rectum, Ign.
• ▸, Pho.
• ▸Long bones, Angust.
• ▸Carious teeth, Kre.
• ▸Vesicles appear

• ▸round ulcers and itch, Hep.
• ▸Pains in periosteum < at night, Phyt.
• ▸, Merc.
• ▸Rheumatism and skin,

Guaiac., Anac., Rhus.

Compare: Dirca palustris-Leather wood--(a gastro-intestinal irritant inducing salivation, emesis and purgation; cerebral hyperaemia; neuralgic pains, with depression, palpitation, and dyspnoea);

Merc; Phyt; Rhus; Guaiac; Syph.

Antidotes: Kali hyd; Merc.

Sixth to thirtieth potency.

and throat with great thirst, worse at night. Dry mouth, and viscid

mucus in the throat. Fulness in the throat, with constant desire to

swallow. Dryness of the throat.

Aversion to food. Eructations, and vomiting. Tenderness of the

stomach.

Syphilitic buboes.

Dysentery, worse every night ; bloody mucous stools ; much straining. Diarrhoea, with greenish stools, worse at night. Protrusion of

anus during stool.

Copious urine. Pain as from an ulcer in urethra when urinating ;

it wakes him also at night, Albumin in the urine.

Inflammation of glans penis with profuse secretion of pus. Increased sexual desire. Swelling of prepuce with much itching.

• ▸Warts on the prepuce and fraenum, bleeding when touched.
• ▸Chancres on the prepuce of gangrenous odor.
• ▸Inflamed and swollen chancres, hard, discharging pus.
• ▸Indurated, or neglected chancres.

Gonorrhoea, of yellowish green discharge, much pain during flow

of urine. Symptoms worse at night, and from the warmth of the

bed. The patient is sensitive to both a warm room, and to cold air.

Induration of testes.

Syphilitic laryngeal ulcers in a tubercular patient. Hoarseness in

the evening.

Pulse fast in the evening and night.

Stiff neck with pains shooting to occiput. Stitching pains each side

of spine in dorsal and lumbar regibns, worse on deep breathing.

Pain in the limbs at night. ' Sensitive to sudden changes in the

weather. Lame, bruised and stiff in all the limbs. Pains worse from

• ▸motion, Syphilitic nodes on tibia.
• ▸Pain in tendo Achillis and os calcis after walking.
• ▸Numbness in the feet.
• ▸Cold feet, day and night.

Wandering gout.

Burning itching of the skin, worse scratching. Itching all over.

Redness, and red spots on the skin. Pustules. Gangrenous ulcers.

Elevated ulcers. It is antidoted by Hepetr and 'Nitric acid. It is

closely related to Thuja,

The principal use of this remedy is in eruptions and ulcerations.

The most violent and important of its symptoms are those of mucous

membranes, skin and periosteum. The outer surfaces of the body are

in a constant state of irritation ; nervous feelings, biting, tingling,

itching, changing place from scratching. Even when there is nothing

to be seen, there is violent itching and the patient rubs and scratches

until the part becomes raw and then burns ; itching changes place ; the.

im

part becomes cold after scratching, cold in spots. Itching changing

place after scratching, especially when associated with no visible cause.

As soon as he gets warm in bed or as soon as he goes into a warm

room, the itching be^ns. Formication, itching, biting. The patient

is so nervous that he is compelled to move, to change positions.

Vesicular eruptions upon the skin, running a certain course, itching, burning like fire ; dries into a crust and disappears ; a new crop

appears near or in the same place. Vesicles form crusts beneath

which is ulceration ; these crusts turn white, chalk-like, are thick,

tough, and leathery. They are often elevated ; fluctuation beneath the

crusts ; pressure causes thick, white pus, sometimes yellow-white, to

ooze forth ; violent itching. The pains are aggravated by cold, but

the itching and restlessness are worse from heat. A child tears at the

eruption with its fingers when the crusts are present.

Scald-head ; thick, white, elevated crusts ; copious, white or yellowwhite pus, often offensive, putrid ; vermin are often found among the

crusts. Acrid pus eating away the hair ; the eruption spreads to any

part of the scalp, especially to the top ; it is also found beneath the

ears, and about the face and chin.

Eruptions with much itching ; dark, red rash with violent itching,

biting, tingling, crawling, changing place by pressure, rubbing or

scratching. Cases with a history of suppressed eczema or syphilis.

Eruptions upon the legs and arms, on parts with poor circulation as

the ears, wrists, backs of the hands ; skin eruptions followed by ulcers ;

discharging a thick, white, offensive matter. Especially useful where

eruptions have been suppressed by zinc ointment, mercurial salve, etc.

Eruptions on the face, eyes, ears and scalp in child or adult, which

have disappeared under the use of some ointment and inveterate catarrhal conditions have Resulted, or in which eye symptoms have developed ; conjunctiva chronically swollen, ectropion, granular lids, conjunctival surfaces like raw beef ; fissures in the corners of the eye ; red

cicatrices about the eyes where the eruptions have been ; dry spots and

enlarged veins about the eyes and nose ; skin feels indurated.

Ear troubles from suppressed eruptions ; thickening of the mucous

membranes of the ears; degeneration of the drum of the ear; deafness, otorrhoea.

Offensive and troublesome catarrh of the nose ; incrustations, thickening of the mucous membrane, ulceration ; he hawks thick, yellow*

matter out of the throat ; has been cauterized, atomized, etc., and yet the offensive ozsena remains. The periosteum is affected so that it

breaks down. Advanced state of atrophic degeneration of the mucous membranes of the throat and nose.

In the throat, thickening, burning, chronic redness, tumefection,

smarting, soreness on swallowing; granulations and ulcerations of the

throat. Perforating ulcers of the soft palate, all due to suppressed

eruptions. Give the remedy and you will have a copious eruption in

the original place ; if not, there will be no relief. Often the deafness

cannot be cured, because the drum of the ear or the whole ear is

destroyed, is white, chalky, and contains no blood-vessels ; a state of

atrophic catarrh, so that there is too much structural change for hearing to be restored, yet the patient can be cured.

Has all the catarrhal states, the ulcerations and patches of coppercolored eruptions found in syphilis.

When outward manifestations are pronounced, its internal manifestations are scanty. It tends to manifest the sufferings of the body

on the skin ; it throws the physical evils to the surface, hence, the

Mez. patient is in fairly good health when the eruptions are out ; when

they are suppressed, then catarrhal affections, bone diseases, nervous

disorders, strange mental symptoms constipation, rheumatism, and

joint symptoms appear ; he becomes a mental wreck.

Religious or financial melancholy ; melancholy which shapes itself

upon the patient's business ; indifference to everybody and everything ;

irritable ; thought is difficult ; memory weak ; absent minded ; has no

rest when alone, yet averse to talking. Insanity with melancholy,

sadness, and a history of eruptions that have called for Mez.

Violent headaches and brain affections ; pains rending, tearing ; boring ; head painful to touch ; syi^ilitic affection of the brain ; headaches through the sides of the head as if in the bone ; feels as if the

head would be crushed (closely related to Merc, and Kali tod.).

Headache extending from the root of the nose to the forehead (Merc.

and Hepar). Pains in the head cause faintness (Hepar), Pains in

the bones of the skull aggravated by touch ; bones feel as if scraped.

The hair mats together. “Head covered with thick, leather-like

crusts, under which thick, white pus collects here and there, and glues

the hair together. Scabs on the head look chalky and extended to the

eyebrows and nape of neck. Elevated, white, chalk-like scabs with

ichor beneath, breeding vermin.”

Neuralgias, sciatica, pain in the spine, in the brachial plexus and

down the arms ; neuralgia of the face ; all following suppressed eruptions.

The Mez. patient is sensitive to warm air as far as the skin and

eruptions are concerned, but very sensitive to damp or cold weather

as to the neuralgias. After the eruptions have given place to internal manifestations, the patient is chilly, sensitive to the changes of the

weather, worse in stormy weather; worse after a bath, because he

takes cold and his internal complaints are aggravated. The eruptions

are aggravated after washing. When the eruptions are not out, the

skin is hot and he wants something to cool it ; he is better from cool