Mercurius

Characteristic symptoms

Mercurius. Aggravations at night and in bed, but this aggravation begins and ends with the night, pains increased by warmth of bed, not relieved by cold and rendered more acute by motion.— Congestions, seething of the blood ; hgemoi-rhages ; bruised pain in all the limbs, especially the thighs and pain, in all the bones ; violent pains, as if bruised in the whole body, especially the thighs ; drawing and lacerating in all the limbs, particularly at night, or with copious sweats, which do not afford any relief; the limbs go to sleep easily with numbness and loss of all sensation ; restlessness and twitchings of all limbs, with constant disposition to move them ; great exhaustion and debility, with inexpressible malaise of body and soul ; general weariness after the least work or walk ; fainting fits ; great emaciation ; aggravations of the pains in the evening and at night in bed, where they get insupportable ; nocturnal inflammatory bone-pains ; stitching pains in the limbs and joints, with feeling of coldness in the affected parts; hot inflammatory swellings ; in flamed, swollen, suppurating glands ; small itching pimples, afterwards changing to ulcers ; red, shining, pustular eruptions ; dry, rash-like, readily bleeding itch ; spongy, blueish, readily bleeding ulcers ; the linen receives a satron tinge from the imperceptible exhalation ; inflammatory swellings with slow suppuration ; falls asleep late in the night with excessive restlessness and anxiety ; frequent waking as if in fright ; much chilliness and shuddering, especially at night ; disposition to sweat and constant sweating during the pains ; profuse sour night sweat ; great restlessness, especially in the evening and at night, with anxiety and fear ; obstinate, quarrelsome, hypochondriac forebodings ; bilious headaches, arising often from slight colds and worse at night ; burning on top of the head ; nightly sticking, boring, tearing headache ; semilateral tearing and stitching in the head ; feeling of fullness in the brain, as if it would burst ; falling off of the hair with baldness; ulcerated borders of the eyelids with scurfs around the eyes ; photophobia and scintillations; stitching and tearing pains in the ears ; purulent otorrhœa ; ulceration of the concha ; bloody otorrhœa ; parotitis ; redshining swelling of the nose; pale livid complexion; yellow scurf in the face : cracks and rhagades in the corners of the lips ; swollen, ulcerated, white, indented, receding gums, with nightly burning and soreness ; looseness and falling out of the teeth ; fetid smell from the mouth ; faecal or putrid taste in mouth and throat ; incarnate red color of the mucous membranes; salt saliva; foetid saliva; burning ulcers and aphthae in the mouth ; husky voice ; canine hunger ; unquenchable thirst for cold water; weak digestion with constant hunger ; inflammation and suppuration of the inguinal glands ; much urging to stool with tenesmus ; excoriating discharges ; pains increasing before and during stool, with violent tenesmus ; pains rather increased than diminished after stool, extending to the back ; during stool hot sweat on the forehead, which soon gets cold and sticky ; chilliness between stools ; nausea and eructations during stool and burning in the anus during and after stool ; dysenteric stools, or acrid, corrosive stools of bloody mucus ; excessive emission of urine ; marked, fetid urine ; painful erections at night ; profuse menses with anguish and colic ; purulent, corrosive leucorrhœa ; dry, racking cough, as if head and chest would split ; paraplegia of the extremities, of the bladder and anus, with tendency to twitchings and shocks ; severe pains in the spine, aggravated by motion ; anaesthesia of the skin.