- Source: Derived from the fresh bark of Daphne🌿 DaphneMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. mezereum, a shrub in the Thymelaeaceae family,.
- Harvested before flowering and prepared for homeopathic use through tinctureConcentrated liquid raw extractA mother tincture prepared by soaking botanical, animal, or mineral raw materials in alcohol and water. and serial dilutionPotentized liquid homeopathic medicineA solution prepared by repeatedly diluting and shaking (succussing) a substance to enhance healing power while removing toxicity. to enhance therapeutic action while eliminating toxicity, in accordance with homeopathic pharmacopeia standards.
- Traditional Context: Historically employed in homeopathy for dermatological, neurological,.
- Musculoskeletal, mucosal, and psychological disorders, particularly those involving intense itching, neuralgicRelating to sharp nerve painDescribe symptoms or pain that radiates along the path of one or more nerves. pains, and bone affections.
- It is noted for symptoms such as vesicular eruptions,.
- Burning neuralgiaSharp nerve pain along a nerve pathIntense, shooting, or burning pain that radiates along the course of one or more nerves., and bone pains, often aggravated by warmth, touch, or night, and ameliorated by cool air, open air, or rest.
- Modern Context: Indicated for dermatological conditions (e.g., eczemaItchy, inflamed skin conditionAn inflammatory skin rash causing dry, red, itchy, and sometimes cracking or blistered skin patches., herpes zoster),.
- Neurological conditions (e.g., postherpetic neuralgia, trigeminal neuralgia), musculoskeletal conditions (e.g., periostitis, osteoarthritis🩺 OsteoarthritisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options.), mucosal conditions (e.g., stomatitisInflammation of the mouth liningInflammation of the mucous membranes inside the mouth, causing painful sores, redness, or swelling., conjunctivitis🩺 ConjunctivitisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options.),.
- And psychological conditions (e.g., generalized anxiety disorder🩺 Generalized Anxiety DisorderClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., adjustment disorder🩺 Adjustment DisorderClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options.).
- It suits patients with acute or chronic symptoms characterized by intense itching, neuralgic pains, bone pains, crusting eruptions, or restlessness, typically exacerbated by warmth, touch, or night, and often seen in individuals with sensitive, chillyHypersensitive to cold temperaturesA constitutional state of feeling exceptionally cold, lacking vital heat, and needing warmth or heavy blankets. constitutions.
- The remedy is particularly relevant for those with dermatological or neurological conditions, often presenting with symptoms like vesicular eruptions or burning neuralgia, commonly observed in patients with herpes zoster, postherpetic neuralgia, or eczema triggered by cold, stress, or suppressed eruptions.
- COMMENTS-A case reported in Allen's Appendix recorded the history of apale girl, 14, having been advised to use mezereum leaves to make her f at and rosy, went into the woods and used them freely on her cheeks and surrounding parts.
- Burning soon set in, the whole face swelled enormously, especially the nose, eyelids and hairy scalp.
- Severe and painful sneezing, delirium🩺 DeliriumClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., dull, unbearable, pressing pains in forehead, a nauseous dryness in throat and constant irritation to dry cough.
- The face soon showed the appearance of erysipelas🩺 ErysipelasClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. bullosum, nostrils closed, she could only breathe through her mouth, febrileFeverish or marked by feverRelating to or characterized by an elevated body temperature or fever symptoms. pulse, burning urine.
- Oil and compresses were applied, and after the second day desquamationPeeling or shedding of skin layersThe shedding or peeling of the outer layers of the skin, typically in scales or sheets, following inflammation or infection. occurred in large areas.
- Health did not return.
- Debility followed, with loss of vitality, mental de pression bordering on idiocy.
- Then typhoid fever🩺 Typhoid FeverClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., lasting fully for three months to which she finally succumbed.
- Poisoning has also been observed from the effects of the berries, causing dryness and burning of throat and stomach, intense thirst, a narcotic state, coma, and convulsions of eyes and upper limbs.
- In a child of four, poisoned with the berries, the lips swelled, the tongue was furred and swollen, protruding, with difficult swallowing.
- The tongue remained quite raw when other symptoms had passed away.
- Mez is one of Hahnemann's anti-psoric remedies.
- Ulcers, with thick, yellowish, white🌿 WhiteMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. scabs.
- Vesicles, itch and burn.
- Lint dressings stick to them and when they are torn away, bleeding occurs.
- Burning vesicles on the sides of the fingers and ulcers on finger joints.
- Canker sores with a scab, pus (Rhus-t.🌿 Rhus-T.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines., Nat-m.).
- Herpes zoster, shingles🩺 ShinglesClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. itch and burn and form scabs.
- Herpes zoster, during the eruption and for the neuralgia remaining after, especially if the pains are burning.
- Vaccination eczemas.
- Psoriasis🩺 PsoriasisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. and eczema, itching, worse in bed and from touch.
- Intolerable itching, migratory itching.
- Skin is scabby looking, with an itch underneath the scab that aggravates.
- Pimples on ankles and backs of feet, horrid taste and clamminess of mouth in morning.
- Pimples better by hard scratching.
- Dry crust on the scalp and falling out of hair, accompanied with short sight.
- Bone pains, particularly of the long bones.
- The least touch is intolerable.
- Affinity for the facial bones and teeth (Merc.🌿 Merc.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.).
- Decay attacks the roots or sides of the teeth, rather than the crowns (Merc.).
- Toothache is worse at night, from touch, even with the tongue.
- Better by holding the mouth open and drawing in air.
- Neuralgia about the eyes, the pains radiate and shoot downward.
- Sensation in the eye as if a cold wind were blowing in it.
- Hypersensitiveness of the ear to air.
- Feeling as if air went through the ear to the throat.
- Stitching, burning and itching in the rectum and anus.
- During stool, the rectum prolapsed and the sphincter closes upon the protruded part.🌿 Part.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.
- Sluggish bowels.
- ConstipationInfrequent or difficult bowel movementsA condition where stool is dry, hard, and difficult or painful to pass. after confinement.
- Constricting tendency in the t hroat, stomach and tendons.
- Enlarged testicles (Clem.🌿 Clem.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.).
- The leg is shortened with pain in the hip.🌿 Hip.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.
- Tension in muscles of the chest.
- Pain and stiffness in muscles of neck.
- Cramp🌿 CrampMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.-like contraction over chest and back and across front of chest.
- Cooper noted that green🌿 GreenMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. discharges were particularly characteristic.
- Carroll Dunham recorded a notable case of deafness, due to suppressed psora.
- A youth, age 17, deaf since four and incapacitated thereby, secluded himself and brooded over his trouble.
- Membranes thickened.
- At the age of three, he had an eruption of thick, whitish scabs, hard, almost horny, covering the whole scalp.
- There were fissures through which exuded on pressure a thick, yellowish pus, often very offensive.
- There was much itching and disposition to tear off the scabs with the fingernails, worse at night.
- The allopathic treatment was vigorous, a tar cap was placed on the head and when firmly adherent to the scabs was violently torn off, scabs and all, leaving the whole scalp raw.
- This was painted wit h a saturated solution of Arg-n.
- The eruption did not reap pear, but from that time the child was deaf.
- The eruption was the very counterpart of an eruption observed in a provingTesting a remedy on healthy volunteersThe systematic method of administering a substance to healthy subjects to observe and record the symptoms it produces. by Wehle.
- Mez.
- 30c, three globulesSmall medicated sugar pillsTiny spherical pills made of sucrose/lactose, used as a carrier for liquid homeopathic dilutions. in a powder of sugar of milk🌿 MilkMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines., was given on February 3, March 1, and September 28, 1857 and January 26, 1858.
- Improvement set in slowly after the first dose, which was only repeated when the effect of each preced ing dose seemed to be exhausted.
- Finally, the hearing was for all practical purposes completely restored.
- The action of Mez in catarrhalRelating to membrane inflammation and mucusRelating to catarrh, which is inflammation of mucous membranes with increased watery discharge. cases is illustrated in the case of Miss M. R., 39, a brunette, who had chronic catarrhInflammation of mucous membranes with dischargeExcessive buildup of mucus in the nose or throat, associated with inflammation of the mucous membrane..
- The left ear had long been deaf and the right had begun to fail.
- There were noises in the ears.
- Drum membranes retracted and scarred.
- The naso-pharynx mucus membrane was granular and irritable.
- There was excessive sensitiveness to the air, even of a fan and oc casionally a sensation as if air went through to the throat.
- A dose of Mez given before each meal entirely relieved the symptoms.
- T. S. Hoyne collected many cases illustrating the action of the remedy including a case of a woman treated by W. E. Payne.
- She had no rest when alone, wanted company.
- Ideas vanished while talking, could not repeat what had been learne d by heart.
- Looked through the window for hours without being conscious of objects around.
- Did not know what she was doing, forgot what she was about to utter, looked ill-humored pale, wretched, fallen away.
- Apprehensiveness at pit of stomach, as when exp ecting some very unpleasant intelligence.
- All symptoms relieved in a single night by Mez.
- 20c.
- S. R. Geiser noted the case of a man, 28, who had a violent neuralgia, boring pain in left lower jaw bone, extending to temple and ear.
- Pain was worse at night, better from pressure.
- Mez.
- 3c relieved in two hours.
- J. W. Vance recorded the history of H. G., stout, healthy-looking, left supra-orbital neuralgia recurring daily at 9 a.m increasing until noon, declining until 4 p.m., when it entirely departed leaving no soreness behind.
- Pain caused flow of tears.
- Mez.
- 1c cured permanently after other remedies had failed.
- Hempel noted the case of a toothache in the incisor of a woman.
- Tooth felt elongated, loose, excessively sensitive with sensation as if being raised out of its socket.
- Upper part of tooth was excessively painful.
- Mez.
- 200c cured in a few hours.
- Oehme noted the case of Mrs. X., who had pain in her right eye tooth, daily increasing.
- Felt too long.
- Pains much worse by pressure on crown and outside root.
- Mez.
- 2c cured.
- Oehme also recorded a case in which the fastenings of a hammock broke and a woman on it fell, striking her sacrum and coccyx on the stump of a tree.
- She suffered excru ciating pain.
- Arn was applied locally.
- In a few weeks she came home and the coccyx was still so tender she could not sit, only lie or stand.
- Arn internally and externally for two weeks had no influence.
- Mez.
- 2c cured in five days.
- Cooper noted the case of a woman, 48, who had rheumatismJoint, muscle, or tissue painInflammatory pain, stiffness, and swelling in joints, muscles, or surrounding connective tissues. which came on ten years before in her ha nds from wearing wet gloves and extended later to arms and knees.
- She had stiffness on walking with loss of muscular power, worse in hot weather, “pins and needles” in fingers on elevating arms.
- Could not grasp things, sometimes one hand burned when the other was cold, menopausal flushings.
- Great relief from Mez tincture.
- Cooper also noted that Daphne laureola, the British representative of the genus, cured scald-head when Mez failed to work.
- The symptoms in this case were worse by day, whereas Mez has w orse at night.
- The pains of D laureola come on in the morn ing and affect the entire head or whole left side.
- Guai pains are also worse by day and better by warmth.
- H. B. Esmond cured with Mez.
- 3x a youth, 17, who had been afflicted with “salt rheum” as long as he could remember.
- It was absent in summer, but every autumn, as soon as cold weather came, his face, neck, hands and forearms would break out and continue sore until warm weather returned.
- Mez cured a girl, 18, getting thin with headache across forehead, temples and eyes, a throbbing with sickness of stomach and water🌿 WaterMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. brash, always worse by movement, bowels very confined, menses never appeared.
- H. Noah Martin noted a patient that said “my stools are as hard as stone and as large a my arm.
- I feel as if they would split me open.
- They come in sections like mouthfuls and I becomes much exhausted and tremble with weakness.
- Every stool is immediately preceded by chills and followed by long stitches up rectum.” Mez.
- 12c produced a natural stool in twelve hours.
- Temperature-Chill of single parts as if dashed with cold water.
- Chill alternating with flushes of heat.🌿 Heat.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.
- General weakness.
- Great tendency to get remittent or typhoid fever.
- Ague.
- Burning and heat in abdomen.
- Swelling of glands with large abdomen in children.
- Contraction of diaphragm.
- Pressure in inguinal ring.
- Dull or severe pain in region of spleen.
- Stitches in left hypochondrium.
- Flatulent colicSevere fluctuating pain in the abdomenSevere, often fluctuating pain in the abdomen caused by gas, spasm, or obstruction in the intestines, common in infants. with shivering and difficult respiration.
- Loss of appetite.
- Constant longing for food.
- Confusion after eating.
- Thirst during chill.
- Aversion to meat.
- Craving for bacon, ham, fat, coffee, wine.
- Desire for acid drinks.
- Beer tastes bitter🌿 BitterMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. and causes vomiting.
- Worse from wine.
- Itching temporarily better from wine and coffee
