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Magnesia Carbonica

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General

General action :

Gastro-intestinal catarrh, flatulence, sour eructations, sour-smelling stools and sour perspiration.

Marked tendency to neuralgia, especially about the face, similar to other salts of Magnesia.

Generalities

Emaciation ; relaxation of the whole body.

General painfulness of the whole body.

Sensitiveness, particularly to cold, or soreness of the skin.

Weakness, worse in the morning after a good sleep than in the evening, noticed even while sitting.

Uneasiness in all the limbs in the evening after sitting a long time ; must get up and walk about.

Some of the symptoms are worse in the evening and at night, as well as during rest.

Amelioration during walking in the open air.

Head

Dull aching, < mental work.

Sticking pains in the side of the head on which he is lying.

Hair falls out freely ; scalp is scaly, with an itching in wet weather.

Eyes

Lids agglutinated in the morning.

Inflammation and dimness of the cornea.

Black spots before the eyes.

Tearing pains above the margin of the right orbit.

Ears

Deafness ; sensitiveness to noise.

Diminished hearing, especially in the house, with roaring and whizzing in the ears.

Face

Tearing pains, worse at night, in one side of the face, > when sitting up in bed, or on getting out of bed ; a boring as with a hot iron, with anxiety.

Face ache ; must constantly run about all night, holding the side of the face or moving the head ; intolerable when quiet.

Mouth

Toothache from driving in a carriage.

Burning pain in the teeth in the evening, and at night in bed, driving him out of bed ; intolerable when quiet.

Shooting pains in the teeth after eating.

Toothache, with great restlessness.

Toothache during pregnancy.

Toothache, < cold.

Dryness in the mouth at night.

Vesicular eruption in the mouth and on the tongue.

Sour or bitter taste.

Bloody saliva.

Throat

Sticking pains in the throat when walking and swallowing.

Stomach

Great desire for vegetables.

Desire for fruit and acids generally.

Thirst for water at night.

Food tastes like straw.

Constrictive pain in the stomach, with sour eructations.

Heartburn, with belching, sour taste, etc.

Nausea, even while eating, followed by retching and vomiting of bitter, sour water.

Abdomen

Numerous flatulent symptoms ; rumbling, gurgling, griping, followed by a thin, green diarrhoea.

Dragging towards the pelvis as before menstruation.

Stool

Diarrhoea greenish, or frothy, or of green mucus, with distended abdomen, cutting and pressure.

Stools often have a sour odor ; sometimes contain bloody mucus, associated with acid dyspepsia.

Urinary Organs

Urine increased, pale or greenish.

Sexual Organs

Menstruation delayed ; at times scanty and brief, at others more profuse, at night than by day ; with dragging pains, > pressure on abdomen, or stooping.

Menstruation, preceded by abdominal pains, associated with pale face, followed by acrid leucorrhoea.

Menses flow after the pains, and during sleep at night ; discharge often dark, glutinous, adhesive.

Respiratory organs :

Spasmodic cough at night from tickling in the larynx or trachea.

Expectoration salty ; sometimes bloody ; at times of clots of blood or mucus having a sweet taste.

Constrictive or cutting pains in the chest, with dyspnoea.

Back

Stiffness in the neck.

Violent bruised pain in the back at night.

Extremities

Tearing pains in the shoulders, and crawling extending to fingers.

Skin

Itching over the whole body.

Eruptions, vesicular, on hands and fingers ; small red, desquamating tetter.

Itching generally > scratching (not always).

Skin dry.

Sleep

Nights usually sleepless ; more tired in the morning than at night.

Anxious, vivid dreams.

Fever

Chilliness in the evening.

Fever at night, internal, anxious, with restlessness and dread of uncovering.

Perspiration sour or greasy, offensive.