Magnesia Carbonica

Magnesium Carbonate. Mg CO^, SII2O.

Introduced by Hahnemann and proved by himself, Sehreter and Wahle (Chronische Krankheiten, vol. 4) ; also by Nenning and Hartlaub (Hartlaub and Trinks' Materica Medica, vol. 2, p. 257).

Clinical Authorities Scrofulous inflammation of eyes, Riickert, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 272 ;

Lenticular cataract, Payr, Kane's Eec, 1870, p. 107 ; Neuralgia facialis, Kane's Rec, 1871, p. 183; Toothache, Hahnemann, Gross, Lobethal, Atto- myr, Riickert, Riick. Kl.

Erf., vol. l,p. 4G4; Odontalgia rheumatica, Hirsch, Raue's Rec, 1874, p. 104; Inordinate appetite for meat, Curtis, Hom. Phys., vol. 2, p. 403;

Pain in I. hypochonclrium, and toothache, C. Hg., MSS. ; Diarrhoea, Hartmann, Wurda, Riick. Kl.

Erf., vol. 1, p. 837; Crowell, Cin. Med. Adv., vol. 3, p. 83;

Infantile diarrhcea, Ostrom, Org., vol. 3, p. 206 ; Diarrhoea of young children, Clifton, Hom. Rev., vol. 21, p. 423; Cholera infantum.

Hale, Hom. Clin., vol. 3, p. 22; Asearides, Guernsey, Raue's Rec, 1870, p. 221 ; Menorrhagia, Dunham, N.

E. M. G., vol. 5, p. 6 ; Metrorrhagia, Clifton, Hom.

Rev,, vol. 21, p. 423 ; Nausea during pregnancy, Schroen, Riick. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 383;

Cough, B., Riick. Kl. Erf., vol.5, p. 724; Affection of knee, Berridge, Hom.

Phys., vol. 3, p. 101 ; Nervous affection, Curtis, Hom. Phys., vol. 2, p. 402.

^ Mind. Uneasiness, with trembling of hands and absence of

Anxious and warm through whole body, especially in

happen; all day, > after going to bed. Sad mood, with indisposition to talk; sad and disconsolate.

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Much < from talking or mental exertion.

Changeable; gloomy, vexed, ill humored, then talkative.

^ Sensorium, Vertigo: when kneeling; when standing, as if

everything was turning around; in evening; as if about

to faint ; in morning after rising, with inclination to

vomit and accumulation of water in mouth.

Frequent sudden falling, with consciousness, when stand- ing or walking.

Heaviness and dizziness in head; early in morning, when rising, going off after a walk. ^ Inner Head. Dulness of head from mental exertion.

■ Pressure and j)ulsating in forehead.

I Congestion to head: with pressive frontal headache; especially when smoking.

■ Pressing headache from mental exertion and when

among many people. ■Violent, darting headache, after vexation (1 to 10 p.m.).

■ Lancinating headache, early in morning, after rising. I I Sticking headache.

■ Heat in head and hands, with redness of face, alternating

with paleness. ^ Outer Head. ■Bruised sensation of vertex.

■ Pain on top of head, as if hair was pulled.

■ Dandruff on scalp, itching during wet and rainy weather.

■ Falling off of hair, tetter on scalp; itching violently in

rainy weather. Hard nodosity on r. temple. ,

* Sight and Eyes. ■ Black spots or motes before eyes.

■ Burning of eyes and dimness of vision.

■ ■Lenticular cataract (occasionally received Sulphur).

■ Obscuration of cornea.

■ Swelling of eyeball.

■ Dryness of eyes, or profuse lachrymation.

■ Inflammation of eyes, with redness, burning, stinging and

obscuration of sight, or dim sigh tedn ess.

■ Scrofulous ophthalmia, with opacities on cornea.

■ Agglutination of lids in morning, with pressure in eyes. ^ Hearing and Ears. Great sensitiveness of ear to noise.

■ Whizzing, buzzing, fluttering in r. ear.

■ Hardness of hearing and ringing in ears.

■ Inflammation of ears, with external redness and sensation

of great soreness. ^ Smell and Nose. ■Bleeding from nose in morning, more from r. side. ■Vesicular eruption in nose, with pressing pain.

■ Dry coryza or obstruction of nose, waking one at night. ^ Upper Face. iFace: dirty, dark yellow; frequent conges- tion to head ; pale, earthy ; alternately red and pale.

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I Tension on face, as if white of egg had dried on it.

I Nightly tearing, digging and boring in malar bone, in- supportable during rest and driving one from place to place; swelling of malar bone, with pulsating pain.

■ Obliged to run from room to room all night on account

of pain in face, to hold painful side and constantly wag head; as soon as she remained quiet pains returned.

iNeuralgia facialis, 1. side, shooting like lightning; < from touch, draft, change of temperature; cannot stay in bed,, must walk floor.

I Hard nodosities, bloatedness and swelling of face. ^ Lower Face. ' i Herpetic eruption around lower part of mouth.

I I Hard little nodosities in corners of mouth. ^" Teeth and Gums, i Beating and stinging in teeth after eating.

iToothache: while riding in a carriage, < in cold; at night, compelling one to rise and walk about, pain in- supportable while at rest; during pregnancy; mostly burning, tearing, drawing, twitching, or great ulcerative pain, with twitching in fingers and feet; from teeth to temples, commencing only in evening in bed; with swelling of gums and inflamed mucous membrane.

■ Insupportable tearing pain generally from a hollow tooth,.

IToothache : at one time in one, at another in several ap- parently sound teeth ; severe boring in r. side of lower jaw, with tearing pain through r. side of face, extending to region of temple; stiffness of muscles of neck and throat; painful side swollen; pain slight during day, very severe at night ; as soon as she gets into bed, must get up and walk about.

iPains tearing and extending into 1. temple; teeth ex- tremely sensitive to slightest touch of tongue, feel too long ; increase of saliva ; < at night. ^Odontalgia rheu- matica.

I Awakens from sleep with intolerable pain ; burning in all teeth of r. side ; hot sensation in mouth ; burning, throb- bing pains, extending to malar bone and to ear ; temple sensitive to slightest touch ; drawing out sensation in ear; several hollow teeth on r. side; pains begin in afternoon, grow very severe in evening on getting warm in bed ; menses regular.

IToothache of pregnant women; throbbing pain with

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occasional stitches; ulcerative pain when teeth are

■ Looseness of teeth, with swelling of gums.

■ Slow eruption of teeth ; emaciation. Caries of lower teeth.

I Burning vesicles on gums, on inside of cheeks, tongue, lips and palate, they bleed from least contact. " Taste and Tongue, b Bitter or sour taste in mouth.

I I Bitter taste, tongue coated white; mouth and teeth full of tough, white mucus, going off after rinsing of mouth.

■ Frequent, sudden stammering speech.

■ Aphthae.

13 Throat. ■Stinging in throat when talking and swallowing; much mucus. I I Burning in throat and palate, with dryness and rough- ness, as if scraped by an awn.

■ Frequent rising of mucus in throat (morning), with rough-

ness and dryness of fauces.

■ Soft, fetid tubercles, of color of peas, are hawked up.

" Appetite, Thirst. Desires, Aversions. ■ Inordinate appe- tite for meat in children of tuberculous parentage.

■ Violent thirst for water, especially in evening aiid at night.

■ Desire for: meat; bread; fruit; acid drinks.

■ Aversion: to green food; rehshes meat.

^" Hiccough, Belching. Nausea and Vomiting. ■■Heart- burn ; belching ; eructations sour or greasy ; sour taste and sour vomiting.

■ Much loathing, without desire to vomit.

■ Nausea: and vertigo Mdiile eating, followed by retching

and vomiting of a bitter salt water ; while riding in a carriage.

■ Sour vomiting with colic.

'" Scrobiculum and Stomach. ■ Feeling of emptiness and qualmishness in stomach; > after dinner.

■ Great amount of wind, which is sour when eructated.

■ Aching and contractive pain, with sour eructations.

■ Constrictive pain in stomach.

■ Ulcerative pain in stomach, with great sensitiveness to

pressure.

■ Meteorism of stomach when it is sensitive to touch; no

eructation.

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■Sour eructations and pyrosis after cabbage, potatoes, and

other gross food. iMilk is refused, or if taken, causes pain in stomach. I I From indigestion, disposition to furuncles and headache;

tongue coated dirty yellow. ^^ Hypochondria, l Hardness with stitches in hepatic region.

■ Insupportable pain in 1. hypochondriac region through

■ Cutting and pinching in abdomen; griping before stool.

■ Pressing, spasmodic, contracting, colicky pains; > by

green stools. '1 I Colic, followed by leucorrhoea. I Great heaviness in bloated abdomen.

■ Pressing towards pelvis, as if menses would come on, with

cutting in abdomen.

■ Abdomen excessively distended; profuse emission of

flatus, with relief

■ Violent audible rumbling, gurgling, and moving back

and forth, with fine cutting in abdomen all day. ■Affection of 1. abdominal ring; inguinal hernia. ^'^ Stool and Rectum. 'Stools: green, like scum on a frog pond ; sour, frothy ; with white, floating lumps, like tal- low; bloody, mucous; green, mucous; greenish yellow ; brown, fluid ; green and frothy; of a liver colored fluid ; followed by tenesmus and burning; of greenish water, with great distension of abdomen.

■ The bloody mucus is found mixed with green, watery

stool, sinking to bottom of vessel and adhering there; but the watery stool occurs alone. ^Dysentery. ^Infan- tile diarrhoea.

■ Lienteria of sucklings ; milk passes undigested.

■ Diarrhoea, with violent cutting colic and pressure, as

many as seven or eight times a day, for eight days.

■ ■Griping and rumbling in whole abdomen, followed by

diarrhoea, thin and green, without tenesmus.

■ ■Diarrhoea; preceded by cutting colic; much wind in

bowels. I I Green, watery diarrhoea regularly every three weeks.

■ Watery, yellowish brown diarrhoea, containing white pnr-

ticles, looking as if chopped up; vomiting of mucus; extreme and rapid emaciation. ■Stools off'ensive and watery, containing floating masses of green scum; some straining, and during stool child did not wish to be touched. ^Infantile diarrhoea.

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llSour eructations; whole child smells sour; great thirst, especially evenings. ^Cholera infantum.

■ Diarrhoea of young children; milk causes pain in stom-

ach, is rejected, or passes bowels undigested; stools green, sour smelling; colicky pains.

I I Constant, sour, rather whitish, water}^ diarrhoea. ^In- fantile remittent fever.

I I Stool only every second day.

1 Costive; frequent, ineffectual urging, with small stools, or only flatus; stitches in anus; stool hard as a stone; frequent effort to pass a natural looking stool ; stitches in anus and rectum.

■ Before stool: colic; cutting and pinching in abdomen;

general heat; rumbling; emission of flatus.

■ During stool: colic; urging; tenesmus.

■ After stool: tenesmus; burning at anus.

■ Woke about 4 a.m. with intolerable pain in rectum, as if

pierced with needles.

■ Ascarides and lumbrici.

I I Always < after walking some distance, sufferings being i^roportionate to extent of walk; prickings in rectum after walking. ^Ascarides. ^^ Urinary Organs. ■Urine: increased, pale, watery or green; with white sediment.

■ Involuntary urination while walking or rising from a seat.

■ Burning, smarting during urination.

^^ Male Sexual Organs. ■Sexual desire diminished; erec- tions wanting.

■ Prostatic fluid so easily discharged that even emission

of flatus causes it.

■ Inguinal and scrotal hernia.

^^ Female Sexual Organs. ■Menses: late, scanty; stop in afternoon; flow acrid, dark, pitchlike; profuse and too early, flowing more at night and at first on rising, also between uterine pains; blood thick, dark, glutinous, like pitch, difficult to wash off".

■ Before menses: coryza and obstructed nostrils, sore throat,

laborlike pains, cutting colic, backache, weakness, chil- liness.

■ At commencement of menses, heavy headache, coryza,

pale face, drawing pain in sides and great lassitude.

■ During menses: violent pains in abdomen; weakness,

chilliness, headache, paleness of face, pain in small of back, or spasmodic, pressing pain in abdomen.

■ ■Menses flow more profusely during night, with dragging

pains; > on pressing on abdomen and on stooping.

■ Menses lessen or cease to flow in afternoon.

■ Flow dark, very profuse, but much more profuse during

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night and at first rising than during day; on rising in morning, contractive pain in abdomen, and sharp up- ward stitches in rectum, followed by discharge of coag- ula from vagina.

iMilk always causes distress in stomach and sour risings; subject to frequent diarrhoea. ^Metrorrhagia.

iLeucorrhoea: acrid, white, mucous, preceded by colic; watery after menses; thin, scanty, with pinching around navel; smarting in afternoon, when walking or sitting.

■ Frequent itching of pudendum.

"* Pregnancy. Parturition. Lactation, a b Toothache dur- ing pregnancy, more during night. iDuring pregnancy: constant nausea, no vomiting; sour taste.and sour vomiting ; appetite for certain kinds of food ; earthy color of face ; tendency to cry ; stitches in. 1. side under short ribs; all symptoms < every third week ; much roughness, or stinging, or burning in throat,, with desire to vomit ; eructations tasting of rotten eggs.

-^ Voice and Larynx. Trachea and Bronchia, i Sudden stammering ; occasional aphasia.

"^ Cough. iCough: spasmodic, at night; from tickling in

larynx ; sputum, mornings and during day, yellow, thin

or tough mucus, or dark blood, tasting saltish ; < in.

evening until after midnight.

I Fits of spasmodic cough at night in persons much

troubled with ascarides. I Expectoration of soft tubercles big as a pea and very offensive in smell.

"^ Inner Chest and Lungs, l Oppression of chest, with sen- sation of constriction.

■ Soreness in chest and region of heart; stitches.

I I Stitch from without inward in prsecordial region. ^'^ Neck and Back, l Stiffness in neck.

iPain in back and small of back at night, as if broken.

iSudden, violent, concussive, tearing, stitching pain in coccygeal region as if spine was bent back. ^^ Upper Limbs. iMuch pain in head' and r. shoulder; she can scarcely raise r. arm.

I Pain as from dislocation of shoulder joint when mov- ing it.

iRheumatic pain in shoulders (at night), with tingling down to fingers ; pain prevents least movement.

■ Lameness of r. arm, with pain in shoulder, without

swelling or soreness. Tubercle on wrist pouring out clear water when pressed.

■ Chapping of skin of hands.

Spreading, corroding, stinging vesicles on hands and fingers.

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I Red, inflammator}^ swelling of fingers. I I Heat of fingers (in fever). '" Lower Limbs, i Restlessness in legs.

• Drawing pains in legs and feet.

I Itching of buttocks, with red spots after scratching.

I Pains around 1. knee, like something tight; 1. calf hard; hard swelling in hollow of knee; cannot put 1. foot to ground when walking, but only when standing, ^ilffec- tion of knee.

■ Painful swelling in bend, of knee.

• Restlessness in limbs, in evening after sitting long.

Lying down : pain in 1. hypochondriac region < ; external coldness.

Lying in bed : feet painful.

Must support back with hands and get up and walk about: pain in 1. hypochondriac regioif.

Head thrown back, or leg drawn up, 1. leg perfectly straight.

Sitting: smarting leucorrhoea ; restlessness in limbs ; sen- sation of being tired.

Kneeling: vertigo.

Standing: vertigo; frequent sudden falling, with conscious- ness; epileptic attacks.

Rising from seat: involuntary urination.

Can scarcely raise r. arm : pain in shoulder.

Least movement impossible : pain from shoulder to fingers.

*of shoulder joint, pain as from dislocation.

After a walk: heaviness and dizziness of head >.

Walking: frequent sudden falling, with consciousness; pains <; prickings in rectum; involuntar}'' urination; smarting leucorrhoea ; cannot put 1. foot to ground ; knees painful; tires much.

Must walk floor: neuralgia facialis.

Driving from one place to another: tearing pain in malar bone.

Obliged to run from room to room and wag head all night on account of pain in face. ^^ Nerves. H Pains: neuralgic, lightninglike, < 1. side; in- supportable during repose, must get up and walk about.

I Spasms.

■ Epileptic attacks; while standing or walking, he fre-

quently falls down suddenly, with consciousness.

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I Head thrown back, or leg drawn up, 1. leg perfectly

straight; seems sore and cries about being moved; lumbar vertebrae sensitive to touch ; has no power over 1. leg and but little strength in 1. hand; will eat nothing but meat, nor drink anything but soup made of meat ; stools large, crumbling, infrequent. ^Nervous affection,

I I Sensation of being tired, especially in feet and when sit- ting ; aching, restless.

I A short walk tires much.

iFlaccidity, laxness of body.

B I Disposed to neuralgia. ^^ Sleep. iSleepiness during day.

■ Sleeplessness, from nightly oppression in abdomen.

Restless sleep with frequent waking.

llUnrefreshing sleep, more tired in morning than when lying down in evening.

I I Awakes about 2 to 3 a.m., and cannot fall asleep again.

I Dreams: anxious, with starts and crying out in sleep; of dead persons; of fire; of thieves. ^^ Time. 2 to 3 a.m. : awakes and cannot fall asleep again.

4 A.M.: woke with intolerable pain in rectum.

Morning: after rising, vertigo; heaviness and dizziness in head; lancinating headache; agglutination of lids; bleed- ing from nose; dryness of mouth; frequent rising of mucus in throat.

Morning: on rising, contractive pain in abdomen; sputum yellow, thin, or tough mucus, or dark blood; more tired than in evening.

Day: menstrual flow less; sputum yellow, thin or tough mucus, or dark blood; sleepiness.

All day: anxious, with perspiration; trembling, anguish, fear; toothache slight; fine cutting in abdomen.

Afternoon: toothache begins; menses stop; smarting leu- corrhoea; heat <.

Evening: vertigo, as if about to faint; toothache com- mences; thirst for water; cough < until after midnight; restlessness in limbs after sitting long; external coldness.

1 to 10 P.M. : violent, darting headache.

Night: wakened by obstruction of nose; toothache <; in- crease of saliva < ; dryness of mouth; thirst for water; pain in 1. hypochondriac region; menses flow more; spasmodic cough; pain in back and small of back; rheu- matic pain in shoulders ; cramps in calves.

12 P.M. till morning: sweat, with thirst. ^^ Temperature and Weather. Eating warm food : anxious and warm through whole body.

Warmth of bed: toothache <.

Going to bed: > anxiety.

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Great aversion to uncovering.

Wet and rainy weather : itching of scalp.

Change of temperature : neuralgia facialis <.

Draft: neuralgia facialis <.

Cold water: > toothache for a short time; toothache <.

Cold : toothache < . ^•^ Fever. I Chill and chilliness: with external coldness in evening and after lying down, slowly going off, followed by heat; in bed as if dashed with cold water ; great aversion to uncovering.

Chill: running down back; > by out door exercise.

1 1 Great internal heat, at night, restless, aversion to un- covering.

iHeat: one (r.) sided; mostly in forenoon, often with sweat on head.

I I Redness, burning and thirst for half an hour, often with sweat on head.

■Sweat: greasy, oily, stains yellow; difficult to wash off; sour, putrid smelling.

■ Sweat, with thirst, after 12 p.m. till morning. *^ Attacks, Periodicity. Seven or eight times a day for eight days : diarrhoea and colic.

Nightly : tearing, digging and boring in malar bone ; op- pression in abdomen.

Every second day : stool.

For one week : sleeplessness.

Every three weeks : green watery diarrhoea ; all symptoms <.

1 I All the symptoms aggravated every third week. *^ Locality and Direction. Right : hard nodosity on temple ; bleeding from nose <r. side; whizzing, buzzing, flutter- ing in ear; severe boring in side of lower jaw ; tearing pain in side of face; several hollow teeth on side; tooth- ache in upper and lower jaw; much pain in shoulder; lameness of arm ; heat on side.

Left: neuralgia facialis; pain from teeth to temple; in- supportable pain in hypochondriac region ; affection of abdominal ring; stitches in side under short ribs ; pains around knee; calf hard; cannot put foot to ground; neuralgic pains < on side ; has no power over leg and but little strength in hand.

From without inward : stitch in prsecordial region. ^ Sensations. As if everything was turning around ; as if about to faint; as if hair was pulled ; as if white of egg had dried on face; teeth as if too long; throat as if scraped by an awn; as if menses would come on; par- ticles of diarrhoea look as if chopped up; as if rectum was pierced with needles; back as if broken; as if spine was bent back; shoulder as if dislocated; as of some- thing tight around knee; as if dashed with cold water.

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Pain: on top of head; in face; over umbilicus; in back';

in small of back; in shoulder joint; in shoulder; around

to back. Insupportable tearing pain : generally from a hollow tooth,

region. Burning, tearing, drawing, twitching or great ulcerative

in chest and region of heart. Stitch : in prsecordial region.

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■ Spasmodic affections of stomach and intestines, increased

secretion from mucous membranes, and glands of stom- ach and intestines.

■ Defective digestion; emaciation, swelling of glands, ab-

Hold painful side of face: obliged to.

Pressure: stomach very sensitive: over umbilicus causes pain; on abdomen menstrual flow > ; on tubercle on wrist causes pouring out of water from it.

Scratching: causes red spots on buttocks; lessens itching of skin.

Riding in a carriage : toothache; nausea. ■^^Skin. iSour smell of whole body.

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I I Violent itching over whole body.

lltching and dryness of skin; itching > by scratching.

I I Large stinging nodosities under skin.

I Painful, small, red herpes, scaling off.

■ Spreading blisters.

■Small bloodboils (lower legs) with headache and yellow tongue. ''^Stages of Life, Constitution, n Adapted to persons, es- pecially children, of irritable disposition, nervous tem- perament; lax fibre ; sour smell.

Child, set. 16 mos., suffering three weeks; diarrhoea.

Boy, £et. 4; ascarides.

Boy, £et. 8, dark complexion, large head and very small limbs; nervous affection.

Girl, £et. 11; scrofulous inflammation of eyes.

Girl, set. 22; toothache.

Woman, set. 24, blonde, sanguine temperament, excitable; toothache.

Young woman, suffering four months; affection of knee.

Woman, set. 27, fair and stout, married six years, but never pregnant, menstruation normal before marriage, irregular soon after, appearing at intervals of three or four months, and continuing for twelve to sixteen weeks; menorrhagia.

It antidotes : Acet. acid. sCompatible: Caustic, Phosphor., Pulsat., Sepia, Sulphur.

Chamom.

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