Mezereum

General

MEZEREUM. [Mezer.] Daphne mezereum. E. Stapf. Thymelaceae.

Mind

► Easily confused, unable to recollect ; thinking is difficult. ► Restless when alone, longs for company. ► Apprehensiveness felt at the pit of stomach, as when expecting unpleasant news. ► Hypochondriacal, with low-spirits and weeping. ► Indifference to everything and everybody. ► Angry at trifles : is soon sorry for it. ► Irresolute.

Sensorium

► Head feels dull, or as if drunk ; better after meals.

Inner Head

► Headache in temples and sides of head after exertion and from talking much. ► Violent headache with great sensitiveness to the least contact after slight anger. ► Headache with dulness, worse in the open air. ► Headache relieved by stooping. ► Sensation as if the upper part of the head were pithy.

Outer Head

► Head covered with a thick, leathery crust, under which pus collect and mats the hair. ► Elevated, white, chalk-like scabs, with ichor beneath ; breeding vermin. ► Burning, biting, itching on scalp, worse on vertex ; scratching changes locality ; but increases the itching, sore boils follow, worse at night and when lying down. ► Cranial bones pain, are swollen and sensitive to cold or contact ; worse from motion and in the evening ; caries ; itching, burning of scalp. ► Scalp numb, with drawing pain, generally only on one side ; worse from cold, contact, and in the evening. ► Hair covered with scurf, hair comes out in handfuls ; scalp and face itch violently, worse when warm ; white scales ; desquamation ; pityriasis.

Eyes

► Staring at one spot ; vacant look. ► Inclination to wink. ► Dryness in the eyes, with pressure in them ; they feel too large. ► Annoying twitching of the muscles of left upper lid. ► Lachrymation, with smarting in the eyes. ► Ciliary neuralgia, especially after operations on the eyes.

Ears

► Feels as if 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 the fingers into the ear. ► Chronic diffuse otitis. ► Itching behind the ears, scratching causes small elevations, when scratched off the spots feel sore.

Nose

► Ineffectual irritation to sneeze. ► Sneezing : with coryza ; with sore pain in the chest. ► The sense of smell diminished, with dryness of the nose. ► Twitching (visible) on the root of the nose. ► Fluent coryza, soreness of and scabs in the nose ; soreness and burning of the upper lip. ► Constant excoriation of the nose.

Face

► Grey, earthy complexion. ► Face swollen, burning pains, confluent vesicles ; nares closed ; erysipelas bullosum. ► Child continually scratches the face, which is covered with blood ; face and forehead hot and red ; restlessness ; irritability ; itching worse at night ; it tears off the scabs, leaving spots, on which fat pustules form. ► The ichor from scratched face excoriates other parts. ► Prosopalgia, left-sided ; from over eye to eyeball, cheek, teeth, neck and shoulder ; lachrymation ; conjunctiva injected, parts sensitive to touch. ► Neuralgic pains come quickly, and leave the part numb, worse from warmth. ► Intolerable nightly burning pains in abscess of the antrum of Highmore ; periosteum more affected than the bones, with dull, crampy pain referred to malar bone, with anguish, pale face, chilliness or cold sweat. ► Facial muscles drawn tense. ► Frequent, troublesome, muscular twitching of the right cheek.

Lower Face

► Honey-like scabs about the mouth. ► Neuralgia of inframaxillaris. ► Chin covered with elevated, white scabs.

Teeth

► Boring and stinging toothache, which extends to malar bones and temples ; chilliness. ► The teeth feel dull and elongated. ► The teeth decay suddenly, on the side, above the gums. ► The tartar on teeth becomes rough. ► Toothache, worse at night ; when touched with the tongue ; better with mouth open, and from drawing in air.

Tongue, Etc

► Thick, white coating on the tongue, with large, red, elevated papillae ; middle fissured. ► Dark redness of the fauces ; burning dryness even into larynx ; worse every winter ; syphilis.

Mouth

► Burning in the mouth and throat. ► Saliva almost always increased. ► Breath smells like rotten cheese.

Throat

► Dry feeling in throat ; some difficulty in swallowing ; constant chilliness, even in bed. ► Burning of the pharynx and oesophagus. ► Constriction of the pharynx, the food presses on the part during deglutition. ► Sensation as if the posterior part of the throat were full of mucus, the same after hawking.

Desires And Aversions

► Canine hunger noon and evening. ► Wants ham fat ; coffee, wine. ► Appetite poor.

Eating And Drinking

► Beer tastes bitter, causes vomiting. ► Generally worse from wine. ► After meals : 2. Eating : 17 ; or drinking : 27.

Nausea And Vomiting

► Nausea in throat and stomach ; vomit bitter, sour ; slimy.

Stomach

► Burning and uneasiness in stomach ; relieved by eating ; canine hunger at noon and evening.

Hypochondria

► Dull pain in region of spleen ; hardness and swelling with pressive pain.

Stool, Etc

► Many discharges of fetid flatus, more before stool. ► Stool : soft, brown, sour, fermented ; contains glistening bodies ; undigested ; worse in the evening ; also from suppressed eruption. ► During stool prolapsus recti ; anus becomes painful and constricted about the fallen rectum. ► Painful constriction, tearing and drawing at the anus, perineum and through urethra ; fissure of anus. ► Stool dark-brown, hard balls, much but painless and without straining.

Urine

► Sticking in the kidney and pain as if torn. ► In morning and forenoon frequent and copious discharges of pale urine. ► Secretion of urine diminished. ► Urine becomes flaky and has red sediment. ► Haematuria preceded by crampy pain in bladder.

Male Sexual Organs

► Violent erections and increased sexual desire. ► Testicles swollen. ► Painless swelling of the penis. ► Fine, pricking stitches in penis and at summit of glans. ► Discharge of watery mucus ; stinging and titillating through the whole urethra and perineum ; urethra sore to touch. θ Gonorrhoea.

Female Sexual Organs

► Menses : too soon, profuse and long-lasting ; scanty, with leucorrhoea and prosopalgia. ► Uterine ulcer, with smarting, burning, or prickling sensation ; discharge albuminous, sometimes tinged with blood. ► Leucorrhoea, like the white of an egg ; corroding.

Larynx

► Voice failing or interrupted. ► Burning and dryness in the trachea, with hoarseness.

Breathing

► Dyspnoea, as if from adhesions, or contraction of lungs. ► On stooping, chest feels too tight. ► Desire to take a long breath.

Cough

► Spasmodic, caused by irritation from larynx to chest ; sputa in the morning, of yellow, viscid mucus, tasting saltish, or like an old catarrh. θ Whooping-cough. ► Cough worse : evening until 12 P.M., or day and night, with tension over thorax ; when eating or drinking anything hot, must cough until food is vomited ; from beer.

Lungs

► Stitches in right side of chest, worse drawing a long breath. ► Cramp-like contraction over both chest and back.

Heart And Pulse

► Pulse full, hard, accelerated evenings ; at times intermittent ; frequent mornings, slow evenings.

Neck And Back

► Pain from stiffness of nape and external cervical muscles. ► Rheumatic pains in scapular muscles ; they feel tense and swollen, preventing motion.

Upper Limbs

► Pain in shoulder-joints, as if it would be torn asunder. ► Sore feeling in the right axilla. ► Right hand cold, left warm ; or, both cold. ► Trembling of the right hand. ► Finger-ends powerless cannot hold anything. ► Hands "go to sleep".

Lower Limbs

► Twitching pain from hip-joint to the knee. ► Right hip-joint feels sprained on walking. ► Pain in the hip, the leg is shortened. ► Cracking in the right knee, when rising in the morning. ► Drawing pains, sensation of internal heat of limb, surface being cool ; better in open air. ► The legs and feet "go to sleep". ► Stitches in the toes of the right foot. ► Pain in the periosteum of the long bones, especially the tibiae, worse at night in bed, and then the least touch is intolerable ; worse in damp weather. θ Syphilis.

Position, Etc

► Motion : 4, 31. After exertion : 3. Stooping : 3. Rising : 33. Lying : 4.

Sleep

► Great inclination to sleep, from debility. ► Sleep disturbed by violent pain in the face. ► Awakens after midnight, from vivid dreams and with nightmare ; worse on awaking.

Time

► Morning : 21, 27, 29, 33. Forenoon : 21. Noon : 14. Evening : 4, 14, 27, 29. Night : 4, 8, 10, 27, 33, 46. After night : 37. Day and night : 27.

Temperature And Weather

► Better walking in the open air : yet sensitive to cold air or to cold washing in the morning. ► Better wrapping up the head and keeping in a dark room. θ Prosopalgia. ► Warmth : 4, 8, 40. In bed : 13, 33, 46. Cold : 4. Open air : 3, 33, 40. Damp weather : 33. Drawing air in mouth : 10. Winter : 13.

Chill, Fever And Sweat

► Chill from upper arms to back and legs. ► Chill of single parts as if dashed with cold water. ► Chill even in warm room, drowsy ; lessened out-doors ; thirst ; back of the mouth dry ; much saliva in forepart ; cramp in the chest, an asthmatic constriction and oppression. ► Hands and feet cold, nails blue, hot sensation on small spot on top of head. ► External coldness, great thirst, no desire for warmth, no dread of open air, no subsequent heat. ► Chill lessened by heat. ► Heat in bed, mostly in head, one sided (left) heat. ► Burning of internal parts with external chilliness. ► Intense heat, after chill, with sleep. ► Sweat during sleep following the chill. ► Skin dripping with cold sweat.

Sides

► Right : 8, 28, 32, 38. Left : 5, 8, 18, 32, 40.

Tissues

► Emaciation of face or of diseased parts. ► Joints feel bruised, weary as if they would give way. ► Cystic osteoma, burning pains, swelling ; worse at night. ► Bones inflamed, swollen, especially shafts of cylindrical bones ; caries ; after abuse of mercury ; feel distended. ► Soreness and burning in bones of thorax.

Contact, Injuries, Etc

► Touch : 3, 4, 8, 10, 22, 33, 43. Scratching : 6, 8, 46. Boring with finger : 6.

Skin

► Roughness and scaling here and there ; skin of hands rough and dead. ► Violent itching, worse in bed, from touch ; burning and change of place after scratching. ► Eczema itching intolerably, copious serous exudation. ► Ulcerative eruption on finger-joints, itching most at night. ► Brownish miliary rash on chest, arm and thighs. ► Vesicles form a brownish scab. ► Pruritis senilis, intolerable itching. ► Ulcers, areolae sensitive ; easily bleeding ; painful at night ; pus under scabs ; burning vesicles around ulcers. ► Scabs thick, lamellated, like rupia, bloody secretion beneath ; worse on parts devoid of at. ► Neuralgia and burning after zona. ► Vesicular erysipelas. ► Scurf-like fish-scales on back, chest and thighs and scalp.

Stages And States

► Phlegmatic temperature.

Relationship

► Antidotes to Mezer. : Calc. carb. (headache) ; Nux vom. (neuralgia of eye). ► Mezer. is frequently indicated against bad effects of Mercur., Nitr ac. ; Phosphor. ; spirituous liquors.