- There is some confusion about the identity of this drug in books.
- Tur peth is correctly given by Allen.
- Hering, who proved and introduced it, calls it Turpethum and Turpeth mineral.
- The Pharmacopeia of the American🌿 AmericanMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. Institute of Homeopathy describes the white🌿 WhiteMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. sulphate, HgSO4, under the heading Mercurius sulphuricus, but says it is mentioned in Allen's Encyclopedia, v ol.
- 6., p.
- 325, whereas it is Turpeth, the yellow🌿 YellowMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. precipitate, which is there spoken.
- Merc-s has intense dyspneaDifficulty or shortness of breathLaborious or painful breathing, often associated with respiratory or cardiac conditions., must sit up.
- Respiration rapid, short, burning in chest.
- Cardiac pain and weakness.
- HydrothoraxFluid accumulation around the lungsA non-inflammatory accumulation of serous fluid in the pleural cavity (around the lungs). (Ars.🌿 Ars.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.).
- Debility with sleepiness.
- RheumaticRelating to joint or muscle painDescribe pain, stiffness, or inflammation affecting joints, muscles, or connective tissues. p ains.
- Most pains feel as if a dull stick pressed on the parts and were moving in diverse curved lines, feels as if this pain were in the bones.
- EdemaSwelling caused by excess fluid in tissuesA condition characterized by an excess of watery fluid collecting in the cavities or tissues of the body. of legs.
- Sneezing from direct rays of sun.
- Sore tip of tongue.
- Scanty, clear, scalding urine.
- Watery stool s, burning in anus.
- DiarrheaFrequent, loose, and watery stoolsA state of having three or more loose or liquid bowel movements per day. early in the morning, stool bursts out in a hot stream of yellow matter.
- Intense evacuations like rice-water🌿 WaterMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines..
- COMMENTS-Lippe is the chief clinical authority for Merc-s.
- He considered it as important as Ars in dropsies of the chest.
- The symptoms on which it has been prescribed are clinical and have been well confirmed.
- Among them is “Pain in right chest extending to scapula, he can scarcely breathe, worse 4 p.m to 5 p.m.” When Merc-s acts well, said Lippe, “it produces a profuse watery diarrhea with great relief to the patient.” It is particularly suited to hydrothorax depending on liver or heart disorders.
- Other confirmed symptoms include sore ness of tip of tongue.
- Scanty and scalding urine, but clear.
- Worse in afternoon, 4 p.m to 5 p.m.
- Better by profuse diarrhea (dyspnea).
- After diarrhea stools, there is numbness of legs.
- Temperature-Chilliness running up back with yawning and depression of spirit, followed by dull pain in forehead, burning in face and ears and slight fever.
- Chilliness, r estlessness and heaviness in upper part of abdomen, frequent yawning and diminished secretion of urine, in afternoon.
- Coldness or burning in abdomen.
- Wakes at 1 a.m with severe pains along duodenum to umbilical region.
- Soreness in inguinal glands
