Mercurius

Quicksilver. The Element.

Keynotes

Best adapted for light-haired persons ; skin and muscles lax.

In bone diseases, pains worse at night : glandular swellings with or without suppuration, but especially if suppuration be too profuse (Hep., Sil.). Cold swellings ; abscesses, slow to suppurate. Profuse perspiration attends nearly every complaint, but does not relieve; may even increase the suffering (profuse perspiration relieves, Nat. m.,Psor., Ver.) . Great weakness and trembling from least exertion. Breath and body smell foul (Psor.). Hurried and rapid talking (Hep.).

Catarrh: with much sneezing; fluent, acrid, corrosive ; nostrils raw, ulcerated ; yellow-green, fetid, pus-like; nasal bones swollen; < at night and from damp weather.

Toothache: pulsating, tearing, lacerating, shooting into face or ears ; < in damp weather or evening air, warmth of bed, from cold or warm things; > from rubbing the cheek.

Crowns of teeth decay, roots remain (crowns intact, roots decay, Mez.).

Ptyalism; tenacious, soapy, stringy, profuse, fetid, coppery, metallic-tasting saliva.

Tongue: large, flabby, shows imprint of teeth (Chel., Pod., Rhus); painful, with ulcers; red or white.

Intense thirst, although the tongue looks moist and the saliva is profuse (dry mouth, but no thirst. Puls.).

Mumps, diphtheria, tonsillitis with profuse offensive saliva; tongue large, flabby with imprint of teeth; mapped tongue (Lach., Nat., Tarax.).

Diphtheria: tonsils inflamed, uvula swollen, elongated, constant desire to swallow; membrane thick, gray, shred-like borders adherent or free.

Dysentery : stool slimy, bloody, with colic and fainting; great tenesmus during and after, not > by stool, followed by chilliness and a “cannot finish” sensation. The more blood, the better indicated.

Quantity of urine voided is larger than the amount of water drunk; frequent urging to urinate.

Nocturnal emissions stainedwith blood (Led., Sars.).

Leucorrhoea: acrid, burning, itching with rawness; always worse at night; pruritus, < from contact of urine which must be washed off (Sulph.).

Morning sickness; profuse salivation, wets the pillow in sleep (Lac. ac.).

Mammae painful, as if they would ulcerate at every menstrual period (Con., Lac c.) ; milk in breasts instead of the menses.

Cough : dry, fatiguing, racking ; in two paroxysms, worse at night and from warmth of bed; with utter inability to lie on right side.

Affects lower lobe of r. lung; stitches through to back (Chel., Kali c.).

Suppuration of lungs, after haemorrhages of pneumonia (Kali c.).

Ulcers on the gums, tongue, throat, inside of the cheek, with profuse salivation ; irregular in shape, edges undefined; have a dirty, unhealthy look; lardaceous base surrounded with a dark halo ; apt to run together (syphilitic ulcers are circular, attack the posterior parts of mouth, throat, and have well-defined edges, are surrounded with a coppery hue, and do not extend from their primary seat).

Trembling extremities, especially hands; paralysis agitans.

Relationship p. 187

Follows well: after. Bell., Hep., Lach., Sulph., but should not be given before or after Silicea.

If given in low (weak) potencies hastens rather than aborts suppuration.

The bad effects of Mer. are antidoted by Aur., Hep., Lach., Mez., Nit. ac., Sulph., and by a strong (high) potency of Mer., when the symptoms correspond.

Compare : Mezereum, its vegetable analogue for bad effects of large doses or of too frequent repetition.

Ailments from sugar, insect stings, vapors of arsenic or copper. Diseases occurring in winter.

Aggravation. — At night ; wet, damp weather (Rhus) ; in autumn, warm days and cold, damp nights; lying on right side; perspiring.

Mercury is < by heat of, but > by rest in, bed. Arsenic is > by heat of, but < by rest in, bed.

Mercurius Solubilis p. 190

Hahnemann's Soluble Mercury. Black Oxide.

Nervous affections after suppressed discharges especially in psoric patients (Asaf.).

Glandular and scrofulous affections of children.

Otorrhoea: bloody, offensive discharge, with stabbing tearing pain; < r. side, at night and lying on affected side.

Furuncles and boils in external meatus (Pic. ac.).

Polypi and fungous excrescences in external meatus (Mar. V., Thuja).

Acrid nasal secretion, having odor of old cheese; nostrils, red, raw, ulcerated.

Epistaxis : when coughing; at night during sleep; hangs in a dark clotted string from the nose, like an icicle.

Gonorrhoea: with phimosis or chancroids; green discharge, < at night; urging to urinate; intolerable burning in forepart of urethra when passing last few drops; prepuce hot, swollen, oedematous and sensitive to touch; of a torpid character, with threatening or suppurating bubo.

Chancre : primary ; regular indurated Hunterian, with lardaceous base ; with cheesy bottom and inverted red edges ; with phimosis or paraphimosis ; deep, round, penetrating, eating through fraenum and prepuce; bleeding, painful, yellowish fetid discharge.

Hahnemann’s remedy for syphilis and diseases of the genito-urinary tract. Is rarely indicated if the tongue is dry.

Diseases of the skin; intolerable biting, itching, over body, as from insect bites, < in evening and from warmth of bed; becomes pleasant on scratching.

Weakness and weariness of limbs; sore, bruised.