Materia Medica GV Note M,N

 


MAGNESIA CARBONICA (Mag-c.)

 

 GASTROINTESTINAL COMPLAINTS WITH ACIDITY

 

 MENTAL

 

FORSAKEN FEELING, feels he’s not loved by parents or friends.

 

Irritability in children.

 


PHYSICAL

 

GASTROINTESTINAL DISORDERS WITH MARKED ACIDITY.

 

SOURNESS: perspiration, taste, eructation, stool, menses, expectoration, vomiting.

 

Menses are more copious at night or when lying or only during sleep and cease while walking. Flow comes only after the pain. Coryza before and during menses.

 

< MILK (indigestion, eructations, stomach pain, diarrhoea, abdomen pain).

 

Unrefreshing sleep.

 

Neuralgic pains. Trigeminal neuralgia <left side, lying, night, rest, sitting >walking, motion, pressure, jar, open air.

 

Abdomen distention <night, soup, eating after > passing flatus.

 

Stool is frothy, watery with green scum. Lienteric stool in children.

 

MODALITIES

 

AGG.: during menses, pregnancy, evening, cabbage, night, lying after.

AMEL.: open air, walking, motion.

DES.: meat (esp. in children), bread and butter.

AVERS.: vegetables, artichokes, fruit.

 

MAGNESIA MURIATICA (Mag-m.)

 

PACIFISTS, WEAKNESS OF LIVER, <MILK

 

MENTAL

 

PACIFIST, INTOLERANT OF AGGRESSION, TRY TO RESOLVE CONFLICTS.

 

Restlessness, anxiety at evening in bed, on closing the eyes at night.

 

Unconsciousness after eating, while lying.

 

PHYSICAL

 

LIVER AFFECTIONS (inflammation, jaundice, enlarged liver).

 

UNREFRESHING SLEEP esp. in the morning.

 

< MILK. Diarrhœa, stomach/abdomen pain, indigestion.

Undigested stool after milk.

 

Periodic headache every six weeks, with vomiting and thirst. Eructations during headache. Thirsty during headache.

 

Constipation during dentition.

 

They feel old. They have an old looking expression in the face.

 

Adapted to diseases of women; spasmodic and hysterical complaints.

 

MODALITIES

 

AGG.: MILKbathing in the sea, seashore.

AMEL.: pressure, open air, motion.

DES.: indistinct - does not know what desires, vegetables, sweets.

AVERS.: MILK.

 

MAGNESIA PHOSPHORICA (Mag-p.)

  

CRAMPING, NEURALGIC PAINS >WARMTH, PRESSURE

 

MENTAL

 

Tearful, convulsive weeping.

Dullness, irritability with headache.

 

Complaining. Lamenting about her pains.

Aversion to mental work.

 

PHYSICAL

 

Acts on nerves and muscles.

 

PAINS, CRAMPS, CONVULSIONS AND SPASMODIC EFFECTS

> PRESSURE, WARMTH.

 

Pains are drawing, cutting, shooting, stitching. Sudden like "Lightening in coming and going". Wandering pains. Radiating pains from abdomen.

Cramps of fingers in musicians (playing piano or violin).

 

Neuralgic toothache > warm drinks, external warmth.

 

Flatulent cramping pain (colic), forcing the patient to bend double > by WARM APPLICATIONS and rubbing.

 

Right sided remedy.

 

MODALITIES

 

AGG.: Cold (air, drinks, bathing, becoming), uncovering, lying on right side, touch.

AMEL.: WARM (APPLICATIONS, BATHING, STOVE, HOT BATH), pressure, rubbing.

 

MANCINELLA (Manc.)

 

 FEAR OF DEVIL, OF INSANITY

 

 MENTAL

 

FEARS EVIL SPIRITS, GHOSTS, BEING TAKEN BY THE DEVIL.

This brings FEAR OF INSANITY. Delusions that she will become insane.

Afraid to pronounce the word 'devil'.

 

Superstitious (Arg-n., Con., Rhus-t., Stram.).

Obsessive thoughts. Fear of their own thoughts. Have to restrain them.

Praying, hoping God will help them.

 

Sexual thoughts, obsessions. Perverse fancies; can't put them aside.

 

 PHYSICAL

 

Allergies, postnasal catarrh.

 

Constricting pain in throat < speaking, swallowing, drinking.

Dysphagia from constriction of oesophagus. Spasms when drinking. Clothing aggravates the throat symptoms. Constriction, oppression in the chest > expectoration.

 

Flushes of heat in stomach extending upwards.

Cramping pain in abdomen after drinking water.

Vesicular, desquamating eruptions in feet. Yellow vesicles in face.

 

Shocks in cervical region < on waking.

Palpitations < evening, turning in bed.

Bloody taste after sleep.

 

 MODALITIES

 

AGG.: heat, puberty, climaxis.

AMEL.: motion.

DES.: strange things, salt.

 

 

MEDORRHINUM (Med.) 


 The Medorrhinum persons are passionate with everything they do. They are passionate with their relationships, their beliefs, their interests. They are very sexual. They enjoy sex as long as the passion lasts.

They enjoy the sea and are markedly ameliorated in the sea.

There’s usually a history of venereal disease or early heart disease in the patient’s or his parents’ history.

 

 PASSIONATE, LOVES SEA, HISTORY OF VENEREAL DISEASE

 

 MENTAL

 

Passionate, hypersexual. EXHILARATION AT NIGHT.

 

Powerful, extrovert, passionate people, egotistical. They put passion in whatever they do, they enjoy relationships, but you can also get the opposite type who is very introverted, not able to express themselves.

 

Fear that somebody is behind him.

 

Rapid thoughts. Hurried.

 

 PHYSICAL

 

PERSONAL OR FAMILY HISTORY OF VENEREAL DISEASE (SUCH AS GONORRHOEA), OF HEART AFFECTIONS IN YOUNG AGE.

 

Gonorrhoeal discharge. Urethritis. Condylomata. Herpetic eruptions in genitals.

RED RASH IN THE GENITALIA OF NEWBORNS.

 

GENERAL AMELIORATION IN THE SEA.

General amelioration in the evening.

 

Warm blooded. HOT FEET, uncovers them at night.

Painful soles, cannot walk on beach pebbles easily.

 

Sleeps on abdomen or in knee-chest position.

Asthmatic respiration > in knee-chest position.

 

Constant disposition to hawk due to mucus stuck in throat.

 

Increased sexual desire.

 

 MODALITIES

 

AMEL.: SEA (bathing, seashore), EVENING, lying on abdomen.

AGG.: cold wet weather, becoming cold.

DES.: SOURorangesACID, GREEN OR UNRIPE FRUITSSalt, fat, ice, sweets, alcoholic drinks (esp. sweet).

AVERS.: aubergine.

 

MELILOTUS ALBA (Meli.)

 

CONGESTION AND HAEMORRHAGES

 

 MENTAL

 

Psychosis, mania, insanity, delusions. Religious affections.

 

Delusions that everyone is possessed by devils, that everyone is looking at her, that he’s pursued by police or enemies, that he’s about to be arrested.

Wants to run and hide. Thinks that everyone is looking at her.

 

Inability to study, weak memory.

Ommits words and letters in writing.

 

 PHYSICAL

 

CONGESTION. Full feeling internally. Internal and external pulsation.

Blood vessels get overfilled with the sensation as if they are going to burst, which they actually do resulting to haemorrhages, epistaxis, congestion of head, of ovaries, of face.

 

Violent throbbing headaches with congestion, red, bluish face.

Fullness all over head. Headaches > with epistaxis, menstrual flow, profuse urination (Gels), application of vinegar. Black spots before the eyes, cold feet, red face, vomiting during headache.

 

Dysmenorrhoea. Menses scanty, intermit, with nausea and bearing down, sticking pain in external parts.

 

 MODALITIES

 

AMEL.: changing position, walking, open air.

AGG.: motion, change of weather, wet weather.

 

 

NATRUM CARBONICUM (Nat-c.)

 

 In this remedy the sensitivity is prominent in all levels. They are sensitive like all Natrums but they have a characteristic sensitivity to the presence of other people. They can perceive the ‘aura’ of people and sometimes they find it intolerable to stay around certain persons. They cannot explain it logically, it’s rather an intuitive reaction. They are very refined people who are moved by music, they are very giving people who like to take care of others, putting themselves second.

Physically we see strong sensitivity to certain foods (milk) and to sun.

 

 AFFECTIONS OF STOMACH, INTOLERANCE TO SUN, AVERSION TO MILK

 

 MENTAL

 

AVERSION TO CERTAIN PERSONS. SENSITIVE TO CERTAIN IMPRESSIONS. Sensitive to music.

 

Depression from errors of diet.

 

PHYSICAL

 

THE STOMACH IS MAINLY AFFECTED (indigestion, pain, nausea etc.).

Stomach pain <touch. Nausea in warm room. INDIGESTION.

 

Indigestion from farinaceous food.

 

AVERSION TO AND AGGRAVATION FROM MILK (disordered stomach, flatulence, diarrhoea, stomach pain , vomiting).

 

WORSE FROM EXPOSURE TO SUN (weakness, headache, confusion, vertigo, fever, head heaviness). SUNSTROKE.

 

Great weakness caused by summer heat.

 

Mental exertion causes or aggravates vertigo, headache, weakness, coldness of feet, asthmatic respiration etc.

 

MODALITIES

 

AGG.: SUN, heat, milk, mental exertion, cold drinks in hot weather or when heated, summer.

AMEL.: pressure, rubbing, eating after.

DES.: beer, sweets, cold drinks, potatoes.

AVERS.: MILK.

 

NATRUM MURIATICUM  (Nat-m.)

 

The characteristic of Nat-m. is the fear of rejection, of being ridiculed. They are very sensitive and vulnerable, so if they get hurt they close up, keeping their sorrow inside and eventually become hard, with no emotions to the extent that they cannot cry.

The fear of being ridiculed prevents them from doing things. If they cry they’ll be alone to avoid the ridicule to others. They are proper and perfectionists.

The grief leaves scars on them, they change and become closed and mistrustful. They think of the grief for a long time after, cannot overcome it. 

  

INTROVERTED, VULNERABLE, AILMENTS FROM GRIEF

 

MENTAL

 

Emotional vulnerability makes her reserved and oversensitive.

AILMENTS FROM GRIEF, FROM DISAPPOINTED LOVE.

 

Silent grief. Dwells on past, disagreeable circumstances. Cannot weep though sad.

 

Aversion to company. CONSOLATION AGGRAVATES. Prefers to be alone.

 

Presence of people is intolerable during urination. Cannot urinate.

 

Avoids being hurt at all cost. Fear of rejection. Fear of being ridiculed.

 

Fear of robbers.

 

Hysterical weeping. Weeping alternating with laughing. Laughing immoderately, at unsuitable times.

 

Uncontrollable emotions, falls in love with unsuitable persons.

 

 

PHYSICAL

 

SALT desire. FAT aversion. SUN aversion.

 

Headache from sun. Photosensitivity.

 

HEADACHE esp. hammering < 10:00-15:00.

 

HERPES ABOUT LIPS.

 

Sleeplessness from grief or thoughts of past disagreeable occurrences. Sleeplessness after waking.

 

Back pain >pressure, esp. lying on the back with firm pressure.

 

Sleeps on left side.

 

MODALITIES

 

AGG.: warm (air, bed, stove, room, becoming), farinaceous food, seashore.

AMEL.: perspiration, cold, lying, pressure.

DES.: SALT, fish, salty fish, bitter food and drinks, black pepper.

AVERS.: FAT, slimy food, chicken.

 

NATRUM SULPHURICUM (Nat-s.)

 

WORSE IN WARM WET WEATHER - CHEERFUL AFTER STOOL

 

MENTAL

 

Loathing life, SUICIDAL THOUGHTS by shooting but restrains himself because of grief given to relatives.

 

CHEERFUL AFTER STOOL.

 

Mental symptoms AFTER INJURIES TO HEAD OR SPINE (confusion, dullness, sadness, insanity).

 

Fastidious, too much sense of duty.

 

 

PHYSICAL

 

<WET WEATHER.

 

Feels every change in weather from dry to wet.

 

Difficult, asthmatic respiration, < 04:00 to 05:00, <wet, damp weather.

 

Diarrhoea with loud flatus, on rising and moving about.

Diarrhoea from sudden joy, after rich food, during jaundice.

 

HIP JOINT DISEASE <LEFT (almost a specific remedy).

 

Liver and gall bladder affections (inflammation, swelling, enlargement, atrophy, congestion, gall stones, etc.).

 

Warts. Condylomata red and soft.

 

Ailments after head injuries (headache, vertigo, mental symptoms).

 

Photophobia during headache.

 

MODALITIES

 

AGG.: wet weather esp. warm, farinaceous food, fruits, vegetables, potatoes.

AMEL.: after stool, diarrhoea, open air.

DES.: cold drinks, salty fish, ice, beer.

AVERS.: sour milk and yoghurt, beer, bread.

 

NITRICUM ACIDUM (Nit-ac.)

  

The Nit-ac. patient is miserable, in a state of constant dissatisfaction. They are never pleased by anything. They become nihilistic to the point that life is meaningless.

The characteristic on the physical level is the sluggish circulation, the splinter-like pains and the offensiveness of the discharges.

 

 

MISERABLE, ANXIOUS WITH STITCHING PAINS AND OFFENSIVE DISCHARGES

 

MENTAL

 

ANXIETY ABOUT HEALTH.

Fear of impending disease, cancer, death. Hypochondriacal anxiety.

 

Unforgiving, bears a grudge. Unmoved by apologies.

NIHILISTIC. Irritable, sad, cursing. Never cheerful. Suicidal disposition.

 

PHYSICAL

 

STITCHING, SPLINTER-LIKE PAINS. Their special seat of action is where mucous membranes and skin meet.

 

OFFENSIVE DISCHARGES. URINE SMELLS LIKE HORSE’S URINE.

Offensive perspirationExcoriating perspiration of feet that destroy the socks.

 

UNREFRESHING SLEEP. Waking at 2 a.m.

 

CRACKS about lips, corners of mouth. Fissured tongue.

 

Cracking in jaw when chewing, in joints, in ankle or knee while walking.

 

Warts.

 

Chilly.

 

 

MODALITIES

 

DES.: FAT, salt, indigestible things, earth, chalk, clay.

AVERS.: cheese esp. strong, eggs.

AGG.: milk, eating, jar, after stool, after coition.

AMEL.: riding, loosening clothing, lying, wet weather.