Materia Medica de A a Z

MAGNESIA MURIATICA (mag-m)

A liver remedy with pronounced characteristic constipation. Chronic liver affections with tenderness and pain, extending to spine and epigastrium, worse after food. Especially adapted to diseases of women, with a long history of indigestion and uterine disease; children who cannot digest milk. Evil effects of sea bathing.

Head

Sensitive to noise; bursting headache; worse, motion, open air; better, pressure, and wrapping up warmly (Sil; Stront). Much sweating of head (Calc, Sil). Facial neuralgia pains, dull, aching, worse damp weather, slightest draft, better pressure heat.

Nose

Nostrils ulcerated, Coryza. Nose stopped and fluent. LOSS OF SMELL AND TASTE, following catarrh. Cannot lie down. Must breathe through mouth.

Mouth

Blisters on lips. Gums swollen, bleed easily. Tongue feels burnt and scalded. Throat dry, with hoarseness.

Stomach

Appetite poor, had taste in mouth. Eructations like rotten eggs. Continued rising of while froth into mouth CANNOT DIGEST MILK. Urine can be passed only by pressing abdominal muscles.

Abdomen

Pressing pain in liver; worse lying on right side. LIVER ENLARGED WITH BLOATING OF ABDOMEN; yellow tongue. Congenital scrotal hernia. Must use abdominal muscles to enable him to urinate.

Urine

Urine difficult to void. Bladder can only be emptied by straining and pressure.

Bowels

Constipation of infants during dentition; only passing small quantity; STOOLS KNOTTY, like sheep's dung, CRUMBLING AT VERGE OF ANUS. Painful smarting hæmorrhoids.

Female

Menses black, clotted. Pain in back and thighs. Metrorrhagia; worse at night. Great excitement at every period. Leucorrhoea with every stool and after exercise. Tinea ciliaris, eruptions in face and forehead worse before menses.

Heart

Palpitation and cardiac pain WHILE SITTING; BETTER BY MOVING ABOUT (Gels). Functional cardiac affections WITH LIVER ENLARGEMENT.

Respiration

Spasmodic dry cough; worse forepart of night, with burning and sore chest.

Extremities

Pain in back and hips; in arms and legs. Arms "Go to sleep" when waking in morning.

Sleep

Sleep during day; restless at night on account of heat and shock: anxious dreams.

Modalities

Worse: immediately after eating, lying on right side: FROM SEA BATHING.

Better: from pressure, motion: open air, except headache.

Relationship

Antidotes: Camph; Cham.

Compare: Nat-m; Puls; Sep; Amm m (Am-m); Nasturtium equaticum (Nast - Water-cress — (useful in scorbutic affections and constipation, related to strictures of urinary apparatus; supposed to be aphrodisiacal in its action. Is also antidotal to tobacco (Tab) narcosis and sedative in neurotic affections, neurasthenia, hysteria. Cirrhosis of liver and dropsy).

Dose

5 drops of tincture. Third to 200th potency.