MEZEREUM
Source indications
Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica
- Bones, affections of
- Coccygodynia
- Constipation
- Contraction of tendons
- Crusta lactea
- Ear, affections of
- Ear sensitive to air
- Erythema
- Exostoses
- Eyes, affections of
- Glands enlarged
- Gleet
- Gonorrhea
- Hematuria
- Hernia
- Herpes zoster
- Impetigo
- Irritation
- Leucorrhea
- Mercury, effects of
- Neuralgia
- Osteoma
- Pediculosis
- Pityriasis
- Prolapsus ani
- Pruritus senilis
- Rheumatism
- Scrofula
- Syphilis
- Teeth, affections of
- Tinea capitis
- Tinea versicolor
- Tongue, affections of
- Tongue swelling of
- Ulcers
- Vaccination
- Hypochondriacal humour with sadness and tears
- Anguish and inquietude especially in solitude with wish for society
- Indifference about everything and everybody around him
- Aversion to talk
- Irresolute
- Everything seems dead and nothing makes a vivid impression
- Peevishness
- Passion
- Unfitness for labour
- Weak memory
- Mental torpor
- Slow conception
- Ideas are frequently lost
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Inclination to wink with eyes
- Dryness in eyes with pressure in them
- Twitching 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
- Myopia or presbyopia
- Sparks before eyes
- Obstinate twitching of the muscles of the l. upper lid
- Pupils contracted
- Otalgia with drawing and acute pullings
- Itching and oozing eruption behind ears
- 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
- 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
- Bursting sensation in r. ear with neuralgia of whole side of head
- A rumbling in ears with feeling of fulness and pressure and dimness of sight
- Swelling of r. ear and itching as if a boil were forcing itself through concha
- Adenoids post nasal
- Deafness < when eating
- Slight otorrhoea
- Stuffiness of l. 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
- Heavy dulness in l. ear with itching in both eyelids could scratch them to pieces
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Pressive pain in throat on swallowing
- Roughness excoriation smarting scraping and lancinating in throat and palate
- Burning in throat (pharynx) and in oesophagus
- Inflammation of throat
- Constriction and contraction of pharynx
- The food presses on the part during deglutition
- 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 especially 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
- Abdomen hard and tense
- Chronic cramp-like acute pulling pressive constrictive and shooting pains in abdomen
- Stitches in l. 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 especially before the stool
- 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 faeces containing some white glistening bodies
- Scanty soft frequent evacuations
- Violent diarrhoea with insupportable pains in abdomen
- 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 l. side
- Crawling in anus much itching
- Tenesmus tearing and drawing in anus and perineum 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
- Haematuria
- 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
- 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
- Chronic leucorrhoea like white of eggs (malignant corroding) sometimes also serous
- Menses: too frequent and lasting too long
- Scanty with leucorrhoea and prosopalgia
- Suppressed menses
- During pregnancy diarrhoea and prolapsus recti
- After confinement constipation burning and stitches in rectum
- 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
- 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
- Pulse intermittent
- Pulse full tense hard
- Painful rigidity of nape of neck and of neck and external muscles
- 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 axillae (r.)
- R. hand cold (while writing) l. 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
- 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 especially 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
- 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 especially 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
- Great susceptibility to cold air
- Sensitiveness to washing with cold water in morning
- 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 especially 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 especially 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