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Characteristic and Peculiar Symptoms of Mercurius Solubilis Hahnemanni

1. Swollen, flabby tongue, taking imprint of the teeth; gums also swollen, spongy or bleeding; breath very offensive.

2. Sweats day and night without relief in many complaints.

3. Creeping chilliness in the beginning of a cold, or threatened suppuration.

4. Sliminess of mucous membranes.

5. Moist tongue, with intense thirst.

6. Glandular swellings, cold, inclined to suppurate; ulcers with lardaceous base.

7. Modalities: < at night (from Clarke; editor); at night in warmth of bed, while sweating, lying on right side.

8. Bone diseases; pains worse at night.

9. Dysentery: stools slimy, bloody, colic, fainting; great tenesmus during and after, followed by chilliness, and a "cannot finish sensation."

10. The more blood and pain the better indicated.

11. Affects lower lobe of right lung; stitches through to back (Chel., Kali c.).

12. Intense thirst, although the tongue looks moist and the saliva is profuse.

13. In low potencies, hastens suppuration; in high, aborts suppuration, as in quinsy.

14. The mucous membranes are everywhere affected; the discharges first thin and excoriating (catarrh of the nose, diarrhoeic, dysenteric discharges. etc.), afterwards thicker, or more bland (Pulsatilla). Worse at night (even the leucorrhoea).

15. Qualmishness (nausea; editor) and a peculiar sense of weakness and tenderness at the pit of the stomach. (From Dunham; editor)

16. The patient is sensitive to changes either to hot or cold. Other remedies are predominantly one or the other: but his remedy is both ─ < by heat and < by cold. (From Clarke; editor)

17. The patient is offensive; breath excessively fetid; sweat offensive, mawkish (having a sweet, weak, sickening taste; insipid /tasteless/ or nauseating; editor), sweetish. (From Clarke; editor)

18. Tremor. The best general remedy in paralysis agitans (Parkinson’s disease; editor). There is tremor of head, of hands, of tongue. Tremors commencing in the fingers. (From Clarke; editor)

19. It is Hahnemann's typical antisyphilitic remedy. (From Clarke; editor)

20. As regards the action on the skin, the eruptions itch; the discharge from them is acrid, excoriating adjacent surfaces. Indeed, this is a general characteristic of the secretions, from the discharge in ophthalmia to the intestinal evacuations. They cause smarting and excoriation. Intertrigo is common. (From Dunham; editor)

21. The peculiar headache — dullness in the forehead, stitches through the temples, a band around the head, and aching and weariness in the posterior cervical muscles, from the occipital ridge downward — is often found conjoined with gastric symptoms and a state of the tongue. (From Dunham; editor)

22. Qualmishness and a peculiar sense of weakness and tenderness at the pit of the stomach. (From Dunham; editor)

23. Sight and Eyes: Dread of light is very marked, especially artificial light, as gaslight or the glare of a fire.

24. Sight and Eyes: The eye troubles are all worse at night; in warmth, especially of the bed.

25. Hearing and Ears: Inflammation of internal and external ear, with stinging, tearing pains, bloody offensive discharge.

26. Nose: Nosebleed; blood coagulates in the nose and hangs down like an icicle, especially at night.

27. Anus and Stool: Violent tenesmus and continued urging after stool; a "never-get-done" feeling.

28. Male Sexual Organs: Gonorrhoea with phymosis or chancroids; green discharge, < at night.

29. Female Sexual Organs: Leucorrhoea always worse at night, greenish discharge, smarting, itching, burning after scratching.

30. Extremities: Trembling of all the limbs, especially of hands and feet.

31. Extremities: Salt rheum on hands, worse from swelling or in warmth of bed, which renders the itching and burning intolerable.


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