Materia Medica de A a Z

MEDORRHINUM (med)

Region

Mind. Nerves. Mucous membranes. Lymphatics. Cellular tissue: Lungs. Pelvis. Small joints. Spine. Kidneys. Left ovary.

Worse

Damp; cold. Daytime. 3-4 A.M. After urinating. Touch. Close room. Before storms.

Better

LYING ON ABDOMEN. Bending backward. Stretching out. Fresh air. Being fanned. Uncovering. Hard rubbing. Seaside. Dampness. Sunset (Coca. Lil-t. Sele.).

General

Stiff, puffy, achy, sore and rheumatic. Dwarfish. Many pains. SYCOTIC TAINT, poor reaction. Joints feel loose. Profuse, acrid discharges; causing itching (Tell). Fishy odors. Nephritis. Small, very sore aphthæ, blisters, etc. Burnings. Burning at root of tongue. Formication; internal. Numbness. Tremor. Emaciation. Sour children. Offensiveness. Tumors. Loss of power in joints..................... Memory weak, can't concentrate; forgets words, names; can't finish sentences. Mental confusion. Wild feeling. Meanness. Cruelty. Things seem strange. Tells it over again. Hurried; and anxious; and irritable; and sensitive. Forgetful; of names; of her errand. Suicidal. Fearsome. Apprehensive; anticipates events. Persistent ideas or alternating states, or erratic. Impulsive, abrupt or rude. Many ideas; but uncertain of execution; non-commital. Sensitive, nervous and hurried. Feels far off, unreal; some one behind her. Sad tearful and fearful. Dismal out-look [Cimi. (Cimic)]; amel. weeping. Vertigo; agg. in vertex. Head tight; tense pains; pulls hair. Occiput pains to behind eyes. Tousled heads. Coryza with loss of taste and smell. Post-nasal discharge. Face, grayish, greasy, greenish; yellow at edge of hair. Red spiderlets on face (r). Acne on face; agg. after menses. Water tastes like perfume. Exhaled breath feels hot. Craves stimulants. Morning nausea. Vomiting of pregnancy. Heavy lower abdomen or prostate. Grinding colic; must brace feet. Dysmenorrhoa. Leans back to force a stool; then shivers. Cholera infantum. Fiery red, moist, violently itching anus. Scalding ammoniacal urine. Air hunger. Cough, amel. lying on face. Sore, oozing or icy nipples. Cutting, crawling, burning above (l) scapula. Fingertips burn and crack. Heavy legs. Tender, itching ball and soles. Sleeps in knee-chest position. A short nap seems a long one, but amel. (Nux-v). Cold skin, but blood feels hot [Sec-c. (Sec)]. Burning heat, with sweat; wants to uncover, but is chilled thereby. Burning feet. Sweat easy; toward morning. Hay fever. Body smells badly to her; can't wash it off (Lac-c). Teeth soft, crumbly. Aphthæ under tongue. Burning in epigastrium. Flatulence with numbness. Dark fluid from rectum. Drawing in ovaries, amel. pressure. Sycotic sterility. Dysmenorrhoa. Profuse, dark, clotted, foul menses (Psor). Blistering leucorrhoa [Am-c, Kre.(Kreos)]. Pruritus, amel. rubbing. Lungs feel stuffed with cotton. Can't exhale. Asthma; sycotic; infantile. Sensation as of a cavity in chest or heart. Heat in spine. Spine sore and tender. Arms hairy. Hot palms. Bites nails. Leg cramps, amel. stretching leg. Itching soreness. Condylomata. Sycotic red node. Deep red spots.

Follows: Rhus-t.

Related: Bar-c, Nat-m, Psor, Thuj.