Magnesia Carbonica
Dewey, Essentials of Homœopathic Materia Medica, 1894, p. 234
Questions
What is the general action of this drug ?
It acts on the gastro-intestinal organs, producing defective nutrition and colicky pains. Give three characteristic indications for this drug. 1. Pale, sickly children, with colic and green stools. 2. Toothache of pregnancy. 3. Menses black and flow at night only.
What are the indications for Magnesia carbonica in Marasmus ?
Puny, sickly children, in whom milk causes pain when taken into the stomach, and is vomited undigested, there are griping, colicky pains; the stools are sour and green as grass; the child is improperly nourished; its mouth is full of ulcers.
What remedy has green stools looking like chopped spinach?
Aconite.