# Mercurialis Perennis

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Herbal Remedy
- **Miasm:** Syphilitic Miasm
- **Temperament:** Chilly
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
Meri, wasprovedby Hesse. Like other Euphorbians it has exceedingly acrid p roperties and 
many of its symptoms resemble closely those of the more corrosive salts of mercury.  
Meri, has disorders of the muscular tissues, stomach, intestines, and bladder. Great exhaustion and 
drowsiness. Feeling of emptiness and weariness in the whol e body. Persistent pains in muscles on motion. 
Prevalence of burning symptoms, irritation of eyes and nose, tenesmus after stool. Tumor at ensiform 
appendix, very sensitive. 
Tension. Pain as if a band tied tightly across the forehead. Dragging, especially dragging down in small of 
back with rectal pains in groins and thigh as if a hernia might appear. Amenorrhea. Scanty and delayed 
menses. Dysmenorrhea, accompanied with orgasm, pains and swelling of breasts.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Better by cold. Touch aggravates. Headache worse indoors. Sunlight aggravates the eyes. Open 
air causes blinking.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Hurry in movements.
- Excited mood like into xication.
- Morose, quarrelsome.
- Fretful, ill -humored.
- Fear 
of insanity.
- Indifference to everything.
- Indifference to external things.
- Difficulty in collecting his senses.
- Coma.
- Hurry in movements.
- Excited mood like into xication.
- Morose, quarrelsome.
- Fretful, ill -humored.
- Fear 
of insanity.
- Indifference to everything.
- Indifference to external things.
- Difficulty in collecting his senses.
- Coma.

### Vertigo
- Giddiness.
- Vertigo by going downstairs.
- Whirling vertigo.
- Vertigo as if intoxicated, following 
headache.
- Feeling as if body would fall towards left side, when sitting, standing or even lying.
- COMMENTS - Cooper said, “Compared with other Euphorbians, it dries up the mucus surfaces, causing 
burning locally and a general drowsiness, while the other Euphorbians set up violent irritation and diarrhea 
from the first.
- Moreover, its action is not expended on the skin so soon as that of the others.”  
Remarkable dryness of the mouth and throat, even sugar refuses to melt in the mouth.
- Eating aggravates the 
dryness.
- The breath from the mouth is hot and dries the lips.
- Hot or cold breath in the nose.
- Con scious of 
having a nose, “she feels as if she has two noses.” 
 
 
Head confused as if inflated.
- Numbness of he ad and dullness of mind.
- Vertigo as if intoxicated.
- Vertigo by 
going downstairs.
- Rolling, throbbing, trembling and orgasm in all the veins.
- The liver and spleen are influenced, 
warmth in spleen.
- Tension in rectum and back.

### Head
- Head confused as if inflated.
- Tension and heaviness of head with sensation of heat.
- Burning on vertex.
- Aching in forehead better by cold and pressure.
- Shooting in left forehead and temple, worse coming indoors.
- Numbness of occiput and vertex after a blow on head.
- Scalp feels tense and numb, is moved with difficulty.
- Head confused as if inflated.
- Tension and heaviness of head with sensation of heat.
- Burning on vertex.
- Aching in forehead better by cold and pressure.
- Shooting in left forehead and temple, worse coming indoors.
- Numbness of occiput and vertex after a blow on head.
- Scalp feels tense and numb, is moved with difficulty.

### Eyes
- Pain, burning, forcing -out sensation in eyes.
- Watery eyes.
- Dilated pupils with great sensitiveness of 
eyes to light.
- Asthenopia, as of a cloud, veil or cobweb before sight.
- Eyelids feel heavy and dry, difficult to 
move them.
- Weakness of upper lids.
- Trembling and twitching of upper lids.
- Blinking of eyes.

### Face
- Feeling of coldness, tension in face and head.
- Great redness of cheeks.
- Lips dry and parched with 
increased thirst.

### Mouth
- Dryness of mouth, difficult to move tongue, impedes chewing.
- Burning in mouth and tongue.
- Nose - Crawling andburning of nose.
- Sensa tion of heat rising from stomach into nose.
- The breath from nose 
is cold.
- Conscious of having a nose, nostrils feel sore.
- Feels as if she had two noses.

### Throat
- Burning dryness in throat.
- Ulcers on palate, tonsils and back of pharynx.
- Tongue - Tongue feels heavy and dry, numb, insensible, with loss of taste.
- Burning blis ters on tongue, inside 
of lips and cheek s, forming very painful spreading ulcers.
- Tongue painful if it touches palate as if there were 
blisters on it.

### Chest
- Sticking in left, throbbing in right chest.
- Pressure and painfulness on chest in forepart and in stomach 
with dyspnea.
- Orgasm in the heart region.
- Constriction.
- Whirling and rushing, throbbing in heart, stomach and upper 
abdomen.
- Palpitations with oppression, as if chest would be constricted after stooping.
- Kidneys - Burning, prickling, crawling in urethra and prepuce, with crawling in anus and tearing and dragging 
in small of back.
- Frequent urging with burning, urination somewhat increased.
- Breath hot, almost burning, lips almost made sore by it.
- stertorous, difficult breathing, especially right 
side.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Chilly feeling or burning in stomach.
- Belching relieves.
- Vomits food as soon as eaten.
- Tumor inside 
pit of stomach size of hen's egg, worse pressure, cannot bear clothing.
- Temperature - Cold over the whole body with hot flush in face.
- Goosebumps on the cold right arm, extending 
over whole 
body.
- Chill on going to bed in evening.
- Heat with intense thirst, perspiration in morning.
- Abdominal pulsation.
- Violent twanging in left hypochondrium.
- Warmth, gn awing, and pressure in 
spleen, worse lying down.
- Gnawing from pit of stom ach to gallbladder.
- Rumbling, movings and workings in 
abdomen, emission of much flatus.
- Increased thirst with dry lips and mouth.
- Great dryness in mouth while eating.
- After eating, biting, 
burning on tongue, nausea, vomiting.

### Urinary & Genital
- Dragging in inguinal region, at times sticking pain, worse walking, at times extending down into 
spermatic cord, sometimes one, sometimes both.
- Amenorrhea.
- Menses scanty and delayed.
- Menses shorter with abdomin al cramp too late.
- Menses 
profuse, violent orgasm of blood, great anxiety so that she nearly fainted, oppressed breathing, heat over 
whole body, especially head and face, anxious sweat.
- Dysmenorrhea, accompanied with orgasm, pains and 
swelling of breasts.

### Extremities
- Tired and weary.
- Weakness of arms and legs as if she would fall to left without vertigo.
- Tearing, 
stitching, burning and smarting pains in limbs, almost in the skin, especially of hands and feet.
- Jerking, sticking, 
drawing tearings throughout upper limbs.
- Pressive tearing pain in tibia.
- Jerking tearing in left patella.
- Painful 
ache in knees.
- Liver - Pressure in liver region extending to spleen.
- Sticking pain in liver.

### Neck & Back
- Flushes of heat in back.
- Aching in nape.
- Drawing tearing along right scapula, extending into upper arm.
- Tensive dragging and dragging tearing in small of back, with anal symptoms.
- Causations - Blow on the head.

### Skin
- Pimples on chin with biting, itching.
- Burning, itching, tearing on skin.

### Sleep
- Frequent yawning and weariness.
- Dizzy sleepiness.
- Sleep unrefreshing, full of dreams, of animals.

### Generalities
- Heaviness in head as if pressed on pillow with a weight.