ClarkePreparation prepared by precipitating Mercury from its solution in nitric acid by means of caustic ammonia. Trituration.

Sources 17 entries across 14 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Hering, Allen …

Inner Head ► Burning in head, especially in left temple ; worse at night lying in bed, better on sitting up. ► Head feels as if in a vice, with nausea ; worse in the open air, from sleeping, eating and drinking ; better in room. ► Tension over forehead, as if in a hoop ; worse at night in bed ; better after rising and from lying the hand on it. ► Inflammation of brain, with this hoop-like feeling ; burning and pulsation in forehead ; worse at night, better after riding. ► Congestion to the head. ► Head feels as if it would burst, with fulness of the brain. ► Head feels as if it was getting larger. ► Severe pains in forehead, top of head and occiput ; stitches through the head. ► Dulness in forehead, stitches through temples ; aching and weariness in nape of neck. ► Tearing in head ; heat and sweat ; worse at night, in warmth of bed ; better toward morning and while lying quietly.

Eyes ► Black points before the yes. ► Vanishing of sight for a few moments. ► Much worse from heat and glare of fire. ► Lachrymation profuse, burning, excoriating ; discharges muco-purulent, thin, acrid ; burning, tearing, sticking pains in and around eyes ; worse at night ; pimples on the cheeks. ► Ulcers of the cornea, vascular and surrounded by greyish opacity ; pus between the corneal layers. ► Iritis, syphilitic ; pains around the eye, on forehead and temples ; worse from touch at night ; throbbing, shooting pains in the eye. ► Hypopyon. ► Lids : spasmodically closed ; thick, red, swollen, erysipelatous ; sensitive to cold, heat and to touch ; raw, excoriated ; burning, as from fiery points ; margins ulcerated, scabby. ► Ciliary blepharitis, caused by working over fires or forges.

Stomach ► Pressure in stomach ; it hangs down heavily even after light, easily digested food. ► Stomach : burns, is swollen and sensitive to touch ; hard and tense. ► Weak digestion, with continuous hunger. ► The stomach feels replete and constricted.

Female Sexual Organs ► Menses too profuse ; with either sterility or easy conception ; with anxiety and colic. ► Amenorrhoea, with congestions and ebullitions. ► Deep, sore pain in the pelvis, dragging in the loins ; abdomen weak, as if it had to be held up ; prolapsus uteri et vaginae ; feels better after coitus. ► On the os uteri ; excrescences, bleeding ; deep ulcers, with ragged edges. ► Inflammation of the vagina, and still more of the external genitals, with rawness smarting and excoriated spots. ► Itching of the genitals, worse from contact of the urine. ► Leucorrhoea smarting, corroding, causing itching, purulent, containing lumps, always worse at night.

Lungs ► Burning in the chest, extending to the throat. ► Acts on lower part of right lung ; stitches through to back. ► Rush of blood to the chest. ► Stitches in the chest, through, from the right scapula ; pneumonia, with bilious symptoms. ► Sensation of dryness in the chest. ► Suppuration of the lungs after hemorrhages or after pneumonia.

Neck And Back ► Rheumatic stiffness and swelling of neck. ► Goitre becomes softened. ► Glands inflamed, swollen, with pressing pains and stitches. ► Bruised sensation of the scapulae, back and small of back. ► Stinging pains in small of the back, with sensation of weakness. ► Violent pains in spine, worse from motion. θ Meningitis. ► Pain in the sacrum, as after lying on a hard couch. ► Tearing in coccyx, better by pressing hand against the abdomen.

Limbs In General ► Arms and thighs sore to touch, can hardly move them. ► Twitching of arms and legs. ► Rheumatic and arthritic pains, tearing, stinging ; worse at night in the warm bed ; with profuse sweat, which gives no relief ; oedema of the affected parts, especially of feet and ankles ; joints swollen, pale or slightly red. ► Must move the parts because of uneasiness or of drawing-tearing pains.

Sleep ► Sleepy during the day ; sleepless at night, from ebullitions of blood and anxiety ; also from embarrassed portal circulation, with beating at pit of stomach.

Chill, Fever And Sweat ► Chill : in the morning when rising, but more generally in the evening after lying down, as from cold water poured over one ; not relieved by the warmth of the stove ; at night, with frequent urination ; alternating with heat, often only on single parts ; internal, with heat of the face. ► Heat : in bed, and chill when out of bed ; after midnight, with violent thirst for cold drinks ; anxious, with sensation of pressing together of the chest, alternating with chill ; with aversion to uncover. ► Sweat : profuse at night ; toward morning, with thirst and palpitation ; from exertion, even when eating ; evening in bed, before falling asleep ; sour, offensive, to cold, clammy, oily, and causing burning in the skin ; with all pains, but giving no relief, even aggravating the weakness ; stains linen yellow. ► Complaints often increase during sweat. ► Hectic fever, especially of children. ► Irritative fevers. ► Intermittent fever : evening chill ; heat and violent thirst, or thirst toward morning ; during sweat palpitation and nausea ; sweat fetid or sour. ► Contra-indicated in typhoid fever, except for marked icteroid or scorbutic symptoms.

Skin ► Skin chafed, sore. ► Erythema first on thighs ; at times vesicles that suppurate and spread rapidly. ► Skin dirty yellow, rough and dry ; jaundice. ► Itching all over, worse at night, when warm in bed. ► Scabies, if some of the vesicles become pustular. ► Herpes surrounded by a border of large scales. ► Herpetic spots and suppurating pustules sometimes running together ; forming dry and scaly spots, or crusts, and acrid discharges. ► Ulcers superficial, flat, readily bleeding ; base lardaceous ; worse from heat of bed and hot or cold applications, with clean cut but irregular edges. ► Boils, after pus has formed. ► Primary and secondary syphilis ; round, coppery-red spots shining through the skin. ► Zona like a girdle, from the back around the abdomen ; much itching and tendency to suppurate. ► Variola in stage of maturation ; with dysenteric symptoms.

Complementary Aconitum Napellus, Antimonium Crudum, Arsenicum Album +13

Follows well Belladonna, Hepar Sulphur, Lachesis +5

Compare Mezereum, Phosphorus, Aethusa Cynapium +15