MEZEREUM

Source indications

Allen's Keynotes

  • for light-haired, irresolute persons of a phlegmatic temperament
  • eczema and itching eruptions after vaccinations
  • hypochondriacal and despondent
  • indifferent to everything and every one
  • angry at trifles and perfectly harmless things, but is soon sorry for it
  • headache violent after slight vexation
  • headache painful on the slightest touch
  • headache right-sided
  • head covered with thick, leather-like crust, under which thick and white pus collects here and there
  • hair glued and matted together
  • pus becomes offensive and breeds vermin
  • child scratches face continually, which is covered with blood
  • face covered with moist eruptions
  • itching of face worse at night
  • inflammatory redness of face
  • toothache in carious teeth
  • teeth feel elongated
  • dull pain when biting on teeth and when touched with tongue
  • toothache worse at night
  • toothache better with mouth open and drawing in air
  • roots of teeth decay
  • ulcers with thick, yellowish-white scabs, under which thick, yellow pus collects
  • vesicles appear around the ulcers, itch violently, burn like fire
  • shining, fiery-red areola around ulcers
  • linen or charpie sticks to the ulcers, they bleed when it is torn away
  • eczema with intolerable itching, worse in bed and from touch
  • eczema with copious, serous exudation
  • burning pains after shingles
  • bones, especially long bones, inflamed and swollen
  • nightly bone pains going from above downwards
  • bone pains after abuse of mercury or after venereal diseases
  • bone caries and exostosis
  • bone tumors soften from within out
  • pain in periosteum of long bones worse at night in bed, least touch, in damp weather
  • worse from cold air and cold washing
  • worse at night
  • worse from touch or motion
  • bad effects of mercury or alcohol