- Source: Derived from the nosode prepared from the discharge of gonorrhea🩺 GonorrheaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. (Neisseria gonorrhoeae), processed through serial dilutionPotentized liquid homeopathic medicineA solution prepared by repeatedly diluting and shaking (succussing) a substance to enhance healing power while removing toxicity. and succussionVigorous shaking of homeopathic dilutionThe process of vigorously shaking a liquid homeopathic solution against a firm surface during dilution to potentize it. for homeopathic use to eliminate infectious material and enhance therapeutic action, in accordance with homeopathic pharmacopeia standards.
- Traditional Context: Historically employed in homeopathy for constitutional, psychological,.
- Musculoskeletal, genitourinary, and systemic disorders, particularly those involving chronic disease states, mental restlessness, and pelvic complaints.
- It is noted for symptoms such as hurriedness, joint pains, urinary issues, and a history of sycotic miasmUnderlying chronic disease predispositionAn inherited or acquired constitutional weakness (Psora, Sycosis, Syphilis, or Tubercular) that makes one prone to certain diseases., often aggravated by night,.
- Heat, or damp weather, and ameliorated by open air, motion, or lying on the stomach.
- Modern Context : Indicated for psychological conditions (e.g., bipolar disorder,.
- Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder), musculoskeletal conditions (e.g., rheumatoid arthritisJoint inflammation causing pain and stiffnessPainful inflammation and stiffness of the joints, often worsening with age.,.
- Fibromyalgia🩺 FibromyalgiaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options.), genitourinary conditions (e.g., chronic pelvic pain, recurrent urinary tract infections), respiratory conditions (e.g., asthma🩺 AsthmaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., chronic sinusitis🩺 Chronic SinusitisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options.), and systemic conditions (e.g.,.
- Chronic fatigue syndrome, autoimmune disorders).
- It suits patients with acute or chronic symptoms characterized by mental restlessness , joint pains , pelvic discomfort , hurriedness, or chronic fatigue, typically exacerbated by night, heat, or damp weather, and often seen in individuals with intense, sensitive constitutions.
- The remedy is particularly relevant for those with a history of chronic infections, suppressed discharges, or familial predisposition to sycotic tendencies, often presenting with psychological symptoms like impulsivity or mood swings alongside physical symptoms like arthritis or urinary complaints, commonly observed in patients with bipolar disorder🩺 Bipolar DisorderClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options.,.
- Chronic pelvic pain, or chronic fatigue triggered by stress, damp environments, or suppressed immune responses.
- COMMENTS-An often prescribed poly crest remedy, especially if there is a history of a gonorrhea infection.
- Never well since suppressed gonorrhea.
- Symptoms are similar to Thuj and Ars., but they work on different levels and can interrelate.
- Generally, Ars is a less serious Med., and where Med is given for an acute, Thuj would work for the chronic.
- Confusion.
- Slow answering q uestions.
- Developmental problems.
- Difficulty con centrating.
- Restlessness.
- Hyperactivity, wildness.
- Temper tantrums and fits.
- Intense nervous sensibility, especially to touch of garment or a lock of hair by any one not en rapport.
- Sensibility is very exalted almost to clairvoyance.
- Over excited.
- Starting at slightest sound.
- Spacey.
- Unpredictable, unstable, fitful and changeable.
- A disintegrated person, unharnessed.
- Lack of purpose or function in their life, concerned with fulfilling passions, particularly sexual passion🌿 PassionMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines..
- Full of extremes.
- Can become obsessive, violent.
- Schizophrenia, manic-depression with uncontrolled nature.
- Often violent, paranoid, can have persecution complexes.
- Anticipation or panic attacks.
- Fear of losing control, about their mind not functioning correctly, of going insane (Cann-i., Calc-c.).
- Fear that something bad will happen, anticipates that something will go wrong, especially with their health.
- Think themselves incurable.
- Children can have severe nightmares and deep fe ars about monsters or people getting them.
- Delusion that someone is in their bedroom.
- Exaggerated sexual development.
- Gener ally precocious children, may begin mastur bating at an early age.
- Chronic masturbation.
- Preoccupation with sex, sexual fantasies.
- History of sexual diseases such as vagi nitis, bladder infections, herpes, gonorrhea.
- Often a history of promiscuity, history of gonorrhea.
- Attracted to the culture of sex, drugs, and wild behavior.
- Alcoholism.
- May be helpful for AIDS, stimulates the immune function and lessons recurring infections.
- Tremor, spasms.
- State of collapse, with a desire to be fanned.
- The pains seem to tighten the whole body, especially the thighs.
- There is scarcely a spot on the body that is not full of pain.
- Acute arthritis with painful, swollen joints.
- Obstinate rheumatismJoint, muscle, or tissue painInflammatory pain, stiffness, and swelling in joints, muscles, or surrounding connective tissues..
- Sequela of acute rheumatism.
- InsomniaPersistent inability to fall or stay asleepA sleep disorder marked by difficulty falling asleep, waking up too early, or unrefreshing sleep. from too much energy.
- Blood pressure or heart conditions.
- Chronic, recurring infections.
- Discharges, sensitivity.
- Conjunctivitis🩺 ConjunctivitisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
- Vaginitis🩺 VaginitisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., urethritis🩺 UrethritisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., uterine fibroids🩺 Uterine FibroidsClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
- Fishy odor to the vaginal discharge.
- Multiple allergies, especially allergies with discharges since gonorrhea.
- Sore throats, earaches, sinus problems.
- Severe asthmaChronic respiratory disease causing difficulty breathingA condition characterized by spasms in the bronchi of the lungs, causing difficulty in breathing, typically from an allergic reaction or hypersensitivity..
- Great sensitiveness to draft of air, takes cold easily.
- Cough is better lying on face or stomach.
- Generally worse motion, better rest.
- Worse stretching out, leaning head forward.
- ConstipationInfrequent or difficult bowel movementsA condition where stool is dry, hard, and difficult or painful to pass. is better leaning far back, can only pass stool so Worse storms and damp weather.
- Better by the sea.
- Worse from sunrise to sunset, always brighter in evening🌿 EveningMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines., worse in early morning hours (Syph is worse from sunset to sunrise).
- Craves oranges and orange juice, particularly in children.
- Craves unripe fruit, alcohol and marijuana.
- Craves tobacco (Staph, Thuj, Ars.), often as a nervous habit.
- Many cases of stunted growth and arrested development in children are due to latent gonorrhea and syphilis🩺 SyphilisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
- On this hypothesis, Clarke cured extremely offensive body odors in children with Med.
- Negerath of New York and Angus Macdonald in England have pointed out a causal connection between post-partum pelvic cellulitis🩺 CellulitisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. and latent gonorrhea in the husband.
- Macdonald published several fatal cases.
- The effects of the poison, constitutional or acute, may be taken as data for homeopathic prescriptions, but the virus also has had an extensive provingTesting a remedy on healthy volunteersThe systematic method of administering a substance to healthy subjects to observe and record the symptoms it produces. in the potencies and symptoms have been largely verified in practice.
- Burnett noted several cures with Med.
- 1,000c, including fits at every menstrual pe riod, coming on in the early morning.
- Clonic spasms, the legs suddenly shoot up from the bed.
- Rheumatism of the right wrist.
- Sycotic asthma, worse from 2 a.m to 4 a.m.
- Psoriasis🩺 PsoriasisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. palmaris.
- Polyps having their origin in a chronic suppurating discharge.
- Albuminuria where the urine contains some mucus as well.
- Masturbation in chi ldren.
- Burnett regarded Med as “a remedy of pus and catarrhs.” Clarke cured with Med.
- 200c a most aggravated case of constipation on learn ing that the patient was obliged to lean far back on the seat or he could not get rid of the stool.
- He was passing u rine containing long white🌿 WhiteMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. mucus shreds.
- He had gonorrhea many years before.
- Deschere published a Med case in which Miss S., 23, had chronic blepharitis🩺 BlepharitisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. since eleven.
- Her suffering was intense.
- Light, especially gaslight, was intolerable and this prevente d her from going into society.
- She could not read in the evening, and in the morning the lids would be closed and she suffered much on getting them separated.
- There was much discharge.
- Before coming under Deschere she had been under strict homeopathic trea tment all the time.
- Deschere remembered treating her father for gonorrhea before his marriage Medorrhinum and he suspected the taint had reappeared in this form.
- Med was given in high potencyStrength level of a remedyThe dilution and succussion scale of a remedy (e.g., 6C, 30C, 200C, 1M), indicating its energetic concentration., single doses repeated as the effect of each wore off and she was entirely cured.
- Skinner traced a case of favus to the same hereditary cause.
- It had resisted all the external applications that allopaths could devise and which had such an appalling odor that the patient, a little boy, had to be isolated from the family.
- It was cured with Med.
- 1,000c.
- McLaren related in Hahn.
- Advoc acase in which a young French Canadian of delicate constitution, after working in a factory all winter, began coughing in spring and run ning down in health.
- He returned home and came under McLaren's care in May.
- The cough persisted and prostrationExtreme physical weakness or exhaustionA state of extreme physical weakness, collapse, or exhaustion, often accompanying severe illness. increased in spite of carefully selected remedies and the patient took to his bed.
- It was then observed by McLaren that the cough and general condition was better from lying on the face.
- This, coupled with a knowledge of there being a syphilitic taint in the boy's parentage, suggested Med., which was given.
- The next day a profuse gonorrheal discharge appeared and the cough and all the threatening symptoms promptly disappeared.
- Exposure to contagion had occurred several weeks before, but from lack of vitality the disease could not find its usual expression and was endangering the patient's life.
- Ernest Nyssens quoted some important observations by old-school authorities on constitutional gonorrhea.
- Wertheim, in a case of gonorrheal cystitisInflammation of the urinary bladderInflammation of the urinary bladder, typically caused by a bacterial urinary tract infection, causing painful urination., watched the entrance of the gonococcus into the blood stream.
- With the gonococcus taken from the blood of this patient he made cultures to the fifth generation.
- A youth who had never had a venereal disease voluntee red for inoculation with this.
- The sub-acute urethritis which resulted was so grave and in spite of all, became compli cated so cruelly with cystitis, epididymitis🩺 EpididymitisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., prostatitis🩺 ProstatitisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., synovitis andpleuro-pneumonia🩺 PneumoniaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., that Wertheim asked whether the gonococ cus did not redouble its virulence by passing into the blood.
- Jullien and Sibut witnessed a case in Saint Lazare Hospital in which Louisa M., 17, entered the hospital June 8th with urethravaginitis and was treated with tampons of Ichtyhol dissolved in glycerine (1 to 5).
- The urethritis ran a normal course until July 6, when the patient complained of sufferings in the abdomen.
- She had them for the previous week, but had made no complaint until the pain became so acute that an injec tion of morphine was needed.
- Rectal temperature 100.2.
- Tongue coated.
- Right side abdominal pain.
- In spite of rigid contraction of the rectal muscles there seemed to be a swelling deep down, but the observers were not certain it was not a swelling of the muscles themselves.
- Intestinal functions were normal, rectum empty.
- An eruption of roseola spots appeared on the body, abdomen and chest, so exactly like those of typhoid that the possibility of this was discussed.
- There was also acute pain in muscle of right calf.
- This pain persisted th e following day when the abdominal pains had disappeared.
- July 9, the right knee was painful, swollen.
- At the same time, synovitis of left wrist, dorsal aspect.
- Temperature normal.
- July 10, very few and slight traces of the eruption.
- Right arm the seat of acute sharp pain, especially at the level of the deltoid “V,” deep down near the bone at the insertion of the tendon, (probably a hygroma).
- On examining the Achilles tendon, there was pain at the level of the left ankle, nothing to the right at the same level, but the pain was, above all, acute along the inner border of the right tibia to five or six centimeters from the flat surface.
- This part was edematous and painfully sensitive.
- Another painful spot in the abdo men was behind the right anterior superio r iliac spine and beside the navel (probably muscular).
- The urethral discharge contained abundant bacilli beside only gonococci.
- Treatment by daily injection of one centigram of Merc-c was commenced.
- The next day there was sharp fever, coated tongue.
- The abdominal pains were muscular.
- Trace of albumen in the urine.
- The next night there was delirium🩺 DeliriumClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. and nosebleed in the morning.
- This case went on to recover.
- Another case, also in a girl of seventeen of tubercular history, complicated with syphilis, presented the same order of symptoms, along with the nosebleed, hemoptysisCoughing up blood from lungsThe spitting or coughing up of blood or blood-stained mucus originating from the respiratory tract., albuminuria, endocarditisInflammation of the inner heart liningAn infection or inflammation of the inner lining of the heart chambers and valves. with suffocative attacks and violent palpitationsSensation of rapid or irregular heartbeatA noticeably rapid, strong, or irregular heartbeat due to agitation, exertion, or physical conditions., ending in permanent disablement.
- These cases may be regarded as provings of Med from the homeopathic standpoint.
- The rheumaticRelating to joint or muscle painDescribe pain, stiffness, or inflammation affecting joints, muscles, or connective tissues. symptoms are of extreme intensity and Med will cure many cases where the symptoms correspond.
- Following Burnett, there have been cures of many cases of dysmenorrhea🩺 DysmenorrheaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. using it.
- Gilbert traced rickets to hereditary gonorrhea.
- In these cases, there are often glandular enlargements and the patient is better at seaside.
- In such cases he gave Med.
- When there was syphilitic paresis and the patient was better in the mountains, he gave Syph.
- In acute bowel troubles in rickety children he found Med of great value.
- Thomas Wildes considered that favus, scald-head and ophthalmiaSevere eye inflammationInflammation of the eye, especially conjunctivitis. tarsi simplex (margins scaly, scurfy, often angry red, falling of lashes) were due to suppressed gonorrhea in one or both parents.
- The red, angry condition of skin may extend from face or scalp, down neck and back to perineum and genitals.
- A girl, 11, had been treated by many physicians with salves and ointments to the general impairment of her health.
- Her face was mottled with a profusion of red scurfy sores, eyelids involved and nearly denuded of lashes.
- Hairy scalp was one diffuse mass of thick yellow🌿 YellowMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. scabs from beneath which oozed a highly offensive mixture of ichor and sebum.
- Passing down neck, back, perineum and involving genitals and pubes was a fiery red band as broad as the child's hand, oozing a pale yellow serum🌿 SerumMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. that caused the clothing to stick to the body.
- Wildes told the mother he could cure the case, but it would certainly get worse the first three months.
- This was not objected to Med.
- 100,000c was given, one dose on the tongue.
- The external appearance grew rapidly worse, but appetite, sleep and general health steadily improved and in nine months she was completely well.
- In another case, a child, 6, was, since infancy, horribly disfigured with tinea capitis.
- The scalp was a mass of dense scabs exuding fetid ichor, the only semblance of hair being a few distorted stumps ending in withered roots.
- One dose cured in a few months and, when Wildes was writing, the patient was a healthy and extremely talented young lady and the possessor of a luxuriant head of chestnut🌿 ChestnutMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. hair.
- Wildes thinks that suppression of favus, when derived from gonorrhea in the father, leads to hydrocephalus, capillary bronchitisInflammation of the bronchial tubesInflammation of the mucous membrane in the bronchial tubes, typically causing bronchospasm and coughing., severe teething diarrheaFrequent, loose, and watery stoolsA state of having three or more loose or liquid bowel movements per day., cholera🩺 CholeraClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. infantum, etc.
- If derived from the grandfather, suppression leads to tuberculosis🩺 TuberculosisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. and lingering diseases.
- A fiery red rash develops about the anus in babies a few days old, constipation with hard, dry stools.
- “Baby's water🌿 WaterMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. scalds it terribly.” Wildes regarded the latent gonorrheal miasm as the true explanation of many of the disease manifestations included by Hahnemann under Psora.
- Burnett, in a way, confirmed this, as he traced gout🩺 GoutClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. to a sycotic origin.
- Wildes regarded Med too strong a remedy to give in acute cases whether of gonorrhea , rheumatism or scarlatinaScarlet fever bacterial infectionAnother term for scarlet fever, an acute contagious bacterial disease causing a red rash., on account of the intensity of the aggravationWorsening of symptomsAn increase in severity or intensity of symptoms, often caused by environmental factors or after taking a remedy. it is liable to cause, though single doses are often useful when there is a tendency to sinking in dangerous cases of cholera infantum.
- Wildes traced to the same source vascular meningitis🩺 MeningitisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. in infants and cerebrospinal meningitis.
- In the former, the efficacy of Med is doubtful, but in the latter it is very efficacious after Cimic has allayed the first acute symptoms.
- In the convalescent stage, Lyc was his chief remedy.
- Wildes quoted from old-school authorities the following conditions traceable to latent gonorrhea communicated from husband to wife: ovarian tumors, endometritis, oo phoritis, metritis, parametritis, salpingitis, and even peritonitis🩺 PeritonitisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
- Temperature-Creeping chills running down back and all over body in a zigzag course.
- Shivering chills with boring pains in chest.
- Chills after urinating, great coldness and shivering.
- Chilliness when bladder is too full, better urination.
- Cold skin but blood feels hot.
- Burning heat with sweat, wants to uncover, but is chilled.
- Flushes of heat, alternating with chills.
- Great internal heat after dinner and after slight exertion, as if blood was boiling hot in veins.
- Flashes of heat in face and neck.
- Wants to be fanned all the time (Carb-v.).
- Heaviness in lower abdomen.
- Rests more comfortably lying on abdo men.
- Grasping pain in liver and spleen.
- Burning in epigastrium.
- Agonizing pain in solar plexus, applies his hands to stomach and to lumbar region.
- Left inguinal glands sensitive and slightly swollen.
- Grinding colicSevere fluctuating pain in the abdomenSevere, often fluctuating pain in the abdomen caused by gas, spasm, or obstruction in the intestines, common in infants. better bracing feet, lying on abdo men.
- Bilious colic with frequent vomiting and nausea.
- FlatulenceGas accumulation in stomach or intestinesThe presence of excessive air or gas in the digestive tract, causing bloating and wind. with numbness.
- Ravenous hunger soon after eating.
- Craving for ice, salt, sweets, sour things, refreshing things, green🌿 GreenMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. fruits, oranges.
- Desires fat, fish, tobacco, ale.
- Craving for liquors, which she used to dislike.
- Excessive thirst, dreams of drinking water tastes like perfume.
- Nausea after drinking water.
- Cough, worse sweet🌿 SweetMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. things
