====== MERCURIUS SULPHURICUS ====== {{anchor:s1}}Mercurius Sulphuricus. {{anchor:s2}}(Turpethum.) {{anchor:s3}}Sulphate of Mercury. {{anchor:s4}}Turpeth Mineral. {{anchor:s5}}Hg SO4. {{anchor:s6}}Introduced by Hering, proved by himself, 3d trit. {{anchor:s7}}(MSS), Neidhard (App. N. A. J. H., p. 281), Raymond, Dake (N. A. J. H., vol. 3, p. 180), Berridge, Croker (N. Hom. Rev., vol. 14, p. 108). ====== CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. ====== {{anchor:s9}}- Hydrothorax, Lippe, Miller (Montreal). ====== MIND. [1] ====== {{anchor:s11}}Low spirited, with chilliness and yawning.\\ {{anchor:s12}}Ill humor after eating. ====== SENSORIUM. [2] ====== {{anchor:s14}}Giddiness while standing, after headache; confusion in head.\\ {{anchor:s15}}Fullness in head, with occasional stitches. ====== INNER HEAD. [3] ====== {{anchor:s17}}Dull pain in forehead.\\ {{anchor:s18}}Pain in head under coronal suture, on waking in morning, during forenoon confined to right frontal region; pains dull, extending deep into brain, agg. when exercising.\\ {{anchor:s19}}Sharp pain in right parietal protuberance; darting pains in other parts of head.\\ {{anchor:s20}}Soreness all through head, after breakfast and on moving about. ====== OUTER HEAD. [4] ====== {{anchor:s22}}Violent itching of hairy scalp. ====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ====== {{anchor:s24}}Oppression over eyes, continuing for several hours.\\ {{anchor:s25}}Eyes agg. from sunlight. ====== SMELL AND NOSE. [7] ====== {{anchor:s27}}Sneezing: in sunshine; with fluent coryza.\\ {{anchor:s28}}Swelling and soreness of tip of nose.\\ {{anchor:s29}}Itching of nose. ====== UPPER FACE. [8] ====== {{anchor:s31}}Pale, anxious countenance.\\ {{anchor:s32}}Burning in ears and face, after a chill. ====== LOWER FACE. [9] ====== {{anchor:s34}}Swelling of parotid gland. ====== TEETH AND GUMS. [10] ====== {{anchor:s36}}Gums and palate dark bluish color; ulcerated margins. ====== TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] ====== {{anchor:s38}}Taste: pasty, insipid; bad after rising; brassy, metallic.\\ {{anchor:s39}}Tongue: tinged down middle greenish yellow; furred, moist, swollen; covered with dry black fur; coated heavily white, yellowish at root; enlarged papillae stand up like red points, with flat taste.\\ {{anchor:s40}}Burning, smarting, stinging on tip of tongue (l. side in evening).\\ {{anchor:s41}}Soreness on tip of tongue.\\ {{anchor:s42}}Dryness of tongue and throat. ====== INNER MOUTH. [12] ====== {{anchor:s44}}Mouth clammy and full of mucus in morning.\\ {{anchor:s45}}Dryness in mouth and fauces.\\ {{anchor:s46}}Burning sensation in mouth and throat.\\ {{anchor:s47}}Soreness in mouth and throat; salivation.\\ {{anchor:s48}}Tongue and inside of mouth red, inflamed, feeling raw.\\ {{anchor:s49}}Lips, gums, fauces, mouth and tongue swollen; look dry and black. ====== PALATE AND THROAT. [13] ====== {{anchor:s51}}In throat: pain; sense of heat and constriction; burning; scalding. ====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ====== {{anchor:s53}}Constant sickness; vomiting of ingesta.\\ {{anchor:s54}}Violent yellow vomiting, every ten minutes.\\ {{anchor:s55}}Vomiting and diarrhea. ====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ====== {{anchor:s57}}Pain in epigastrium and abdomen; weight; stomach tender to pressure.\\ {{anchor:s58}}Stomach so irritable nothing remains on it an instant.\\ {{anchor:s59}}Digestion impeded; after supper, distressing feeling all night, that unless stomach was relieved a fit would ensue; vomiting with relief.\\ {{anchor:s60}}Acidity of stomach. ====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ====== {{anchor:s62}}Coldness or burning in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s63}}Awoke at 1 A. M. with severe pains along duodenum and down into umbilical region.\\ {{anchor:s64}}Much griped.\\ {{anchor:s65}}After drinking coffee, pain in abdomen as if diarrhea would set in.\\ {{anchor:s66}}Soreness in inguinal glands. ====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ====== {{anchor:s68}}Brown loose stools.\\ {{anchor:s69}}Stools loose, watery, causing severe burning and soreness of anus.\\ {{anchor:s70}}Very profuse watery evacuations (relieving dyspnea). {{anchor:s71}}~ Hydrothorax.\\ {{anchor:s72}}Watery stools pouring from him and burning anus, like boiling water.\\ {{anchor:s73}}Diarrhea early in morning; stools burst out in a hot stream of yellow water.\\ {{anchor:s74}}Violent purging; rice water motions, some yellow.\\ {{anchor:s75}}After diarrheic stools sensation of fullness as from congestion to legs, especially feet; they feel numb when standing.\\ {{anchor:s76}}Hard, scanty and delayed stools. ====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ====== {{anchor:s78}}Urine: increased in quantity; desire not as frequent as usual; great urging, with inability to void usual quantity, late in afternoon; scanty and scalding, but clear; dark, becoming turbid, with a scum on it. ====== MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] ====== {{anchor:s80}}Involuntary emissions and lascivious dreams.\\ {{anchor:s81}}Gonorrhea or syphilis, with intense congestion to parts.\\ {{anchor:s82}}Swelling of testicles. ====== VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] ====== {{anchor:s85}}Heat and roughness in larynx, hoarseness.\\ {{anchor:s86}}Increased expectoration of mucus from larynx and trachea. ====== RESPIRATION. [26] ====== {{anchor:s88}}Pain in chest prevents him from breathing.\\ {{anchor:s89}}Great dyspnea; has to sit; cannot lie down; breathing quick and short. {{anchor:s90}}~ Hydrothorax.\\ {{anchor:s91}}Dyspnea in children; hydrothorax.\\ {{anchor:s92}}Dyspnea and chest symptoms, agg. in afternoon.\\ {{anchor:s93}}Mercurial fetor of breath. ====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ====== {{anchor:s95}}Pressure on chest.\\ {{anchor:s96}}Burning in chest.\\ {{anchor:s97}}Pain in right side of chest, extending to scapula, can scarcely breathe, agg. from 4 to 5 P. M.\\ {{anchor:s98}}Hydrothorax; dyspnea, breathing quick and short, has to sit, cannot lie down; swollen extremities; stools loose, watery, causing severe burning and soreness of anus; burning in chest. {{anchor:s99}}[Obs. "When it acts well it produces a profuse, watery diarrhea with great relief to patient. {{anchor:s100}}It is as important as Arsen. in hydrothorax.{{anchor:s101}}" --Lippe.].\\ {{anchor:s102}}Dropsy of chest, especially if occurring from heart or liver disease. ====== HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] ====== {{anchor:s104}}Pulse: 90, tremulous; 130, tremulous and irregular; slow and small; regular, but small and weak; reduced, with flat taste. ====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ====== {{anchor:s106}}Stiffness in arms.\\ {{anchor:s107}}Violent beating in left arm, commencing above elbow in course of brachial nerve and extending along radial nerve to wrist, followed by pain similar to that produced by a blow upon arm below insertion of deltoid muscle; pain affected principally radial side of forearm, thumb, index finger, at 8.{{anchor:s108}}30 A. M.\\ {{anchor:s109}}Numbness of forearm and hand, also of right hand.\\ {{anchor:s110}}Shooting pains in wrists and along metacarpal bones.\\ {{anchor:s111}}Hands icy cold, with blue nails. ====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ====== {{anchor:s113}}Pain and lameness of knees, noticed particularly when walking.\\ {{anchor:s114}}Edematous swelling of legs.\\ {{anchor:s115}}Ulcers on ankles.\\ {{anchor:s116}}Aching in calf of right leg.\\ {{anchor:s117}}Numbness in hollow of right foot.\\ {{anchor:s118}}Foot sweat, with soreness at ends of nails.\\ {{anchor:s119}}After four weeks, pains that remain are in limbs, especially legs, causing a weak, wearied feeling and pain and stiffness in right knee, especially when stepping down a step; for a few days a bloated, hot feeling in feet, like rheumatic gout, and for two days a slight swelling and painfullness on inner side of left ankle, as if a boil was likely to form there; a tendency for feet to become inflamed, as if likely to become blistered by boots, when walking, it seems at soles, especially outer toes; it is rather of a burning character; for two days the tarso-metatarsal joint of right big toe seemed inclined to inflame, as if rheumatic gout would set in. ====== LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] ====== {{anchor:s121}}Tormented by pain and cramps in limbs at night. ====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ====== {{anchor:s125}}Has to sit, cannot lie down: great dyspnea.\\ {{anchor:s126}}Standing: giddiness; feet feel numb.\\ {{anchor:s127}}Stepping down a step: pain and stiffness in right knee.\\ {{anchor:s128}}Moving about: soreness all through head.\\ {{anchor:s129}}Exercising: pains extending deep into brain.\\ {{anchor:s130}}Walking: pain and lameness of knees. ====== NERVES. [36] ====== {{anchor:s132}}Debility, with sleepiness.\\ {{anchor:s133}}Sense of considerable weakness.\\ {{anchor:s134}}Uneasiness, late in afternoon.\\ {{anchor:s135}}Restlessness.\\ {{anchor:s136}}Pains all over, especially in lower part of back and limbs. ====== SLEEP. [37] ====== {{anchor:s138}}Frequent yawning.\\ {{anchor:s139}}Restless night, with dreams and delirium.\\ {{anchor:s140}}Wakefullness after midnight; dreams.\\ {{anchor:s141}}Dreams: of traveling amid perplexities; lascivious; vivid, of fires, exerting himself to extinguish them; viewing a person hung and another cut up, seeing blood and mangled remains.\\ {{anchor:s142}}Awakes with headache in morning. ====== TIME. [38] ====== {{anchor:s144}}Morning: pain in head on waking; mouth clammy and foul; diarrhea early.\\ {{anchor:s145}}At 8.30 A. M.: violent pain in left arm.\\ {{anchor:s146}}During forenoon: pain confined to right frontal region.\\ {{anchor:s147}}At 1 A. M.: awoke with severe pain along duodenum and down into umbilical region.\\ {{anchor:s148}}Afternoon: great urging, with inability to void usual quantity of urine; dyspnea and chest symptoms; uneasiness, chills.\\ {{anchor:s149}}Evening: pain on side of tip of tongue.\\ {{anchor:s150}}Night: distressing feeling in stomach; pain and cramps in limbs; restless, with dreams and delirium; excessive sweat.\\ {{anchor:s151}}After midnight: wakefullness; dreams. ====== FEVER. [40] ====== {{anchor:s153}}Creeping chills ascending back; when they reached neck a general shudder ensued.\\ {{anchor:s154}}Chilliness running up back, with yawning and depression of spirits, followed by dull pain in forehead, burning in face and ears and slight fever.\\ {{anchor:s155}}Chilliness, restlessness and heaviness in upper part of abdomen, frequent yawning and diminished secretion of urine (in afternoon).\\ {{anchor:s156}}Chills: with nausea, from 10 A. M. to 2 P. M.; late in afternoon; from 12 M. to 1.{{anchor:s157}}30 P. M.; every other day.\\ {{anchor:s158}}Skin cold and clammy.\\ {{anchor:s159}}Whole body feels cold externally.\\ {{anchor:s160}}Icy coldness of hands and blueness of nails.\\ {{anchor:s161}}Burning heat of face and ears after a chill.\\ {{anchor:s162}}Painful burning over whole body, especially in face, but not on feet, with violent thirst.\\ {{anchor:s163}}Excessive sweat at night. ====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ====== {{anchor:s165}}Every ten minutes: violent yellow vomiting.\\ {{anchor:s166}}From 4 to 5 P. M.: burning in chest, extending to scapula.\\ {{anchor:s167}}From 12 M. to 1.{{anchor:s168}}30 P. M.: chills.\\ {{anchor:s169}}From 10 A. M. to 2 P. M.: chills, with nausea.\\ {{anchor:s170}}For several hours: oppression over eyes.\\ {{anchor:s171}}Every other day: chills.\\ {{anchor:s172}}For two days: a slight swelling and painfullness on inner side of left ankle; tarso-metatarsal joint of big toe seemed inclined to inflame.\\ {{anchor:s173}}For a few days: a bloated, hot feeling in feet. ====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ====== {{anchor:s175}}Right: pain in frontal region; sharp pain in parietal protuberance; numbness of hand; aching in calf of leg; numbness in hollow of foot; pain and stiffness in knee; big toe as if rheumatic gout would set in.\\ {{anchor:s176}}Left: side of tip of tongue pains; violent beating in arm; pain and swelling of inner side of ankle. ====== SENSATIONS. [43] ====== {{anchor:s178}}Most pains feel as if a dull stick pressed on parts and was moving in diverse curved lines, feels as if this pain was in bones.\\ {{anchor:s179}}As if diarrhea would set in; as if stools were boiling water; as if a boil was likely to form on ankle; as if feet were likely to become blistered by boots; as if rheumatic gout would set in in foot; all over, especially in lower part of back and limbs.\\ {{anchor:s180}}Pain: in head under coronal suture; in throat; in epigastrium and abdomen; in chest; in left arm; in knees; in right knee; on inner side of left ankle; in limbs.\\ {{anchor:s181}}Severe pain: along duodenum and down into umbilical region.\\ {{anchor:s182}}Sharp pain: in right parietal protuberance.\\ {{anchor:s183}}Violent beating: in left arm.\\ {{anchor:s184}}Darting pains: in parts of head.\\ {{anchor:s185}}Shooting pains: in wrists and metacarpal bones.\\ {{anchor:s186}}Occasional stitches: in head.\\ {{anchor:s187}}Aching: in calf of right leg.\\ {{anchor:s188}}Cramps: in limbs.\\ {{anchor:s189}}Dull pain: in forehead.\\ {{anchor:s190}}Painful burning: over whole body.\\ {{anchor:s191}}Heat: in throat; in larynx.\\ {{anchor:s192}}Burning, smarting, stinging: on tip of tongue.\\ {{anchor:s193}}Burning: in ears and face; of mouth and throat; in abdomen; of anus; in chest; in feet.\\ {{anchor:s194}}Soreness: all through head; of tip of nose; on tip of tongue; in mouth and throat; in inguinal glands; of anus; at end of nails.\\ {{anchor:s195}}Raw feeling: of tongue and inside of mouth.\\ {{anchor:s196}}Distressing feeling: in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s197}}Constriction: in throat.\\ {{anchor:s198}}Oppression: over eyes.\\ {{anchor:s199}}Dryness: of tongue and throat; in mouth and fauces.\\ {{anchor:s200}}Confusion: in head.\\ {{anchor:s201}}Fullness: in head; in feet and legs.\\ {{anchor:s202}}Pressure: on chest.\\ {{anchor:s203}}Lameness: of knees.\\ {{anchor:s204}}Stiffness: in arms; in right knee.\\ {{anchor:s205}}Numb feeling: in legs and feet; of forearm and hand; in hollow of right foot.\\ {{anchor:s206}}Coldness: in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s207}}Itching: of hairy scalp; of nose. ====== TISSUES. [44] ====== {{anchor:s209}}Induration of glands.\\ {{anchor:s210}}Rheumatic pains. ====== TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] ====== {{anchor:s214}}Pressure: stomach tender. ====== SKIN. [46] ====== {{anchor:s216}}Psoriasis; lepra. ====== RELATIONS. [48] ====== {{anchor:s218}}Antidoted by Hepar.\\ {{anchor:s219}}Compare: Sulphur, with which Merc. sul has many symptoms in common, more even than with Cinnb., Arsen. and Digit. in hydrothorax, especially occurring in heart or renal disease. ---- ====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ====== ^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 07, 1888 | ^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r523|Mercurius sulphuricus]] | ^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r523|Mercurius sulphuricus]] | ^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. | ^ Year: | 1888 | ^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting | ^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}