{"id":12029,"remedy_name":"Magnesia Sulphurica","remedy_type":"Homeopathic Remedy","alternative_names":[""],"miasm":"Syphilitic Miasm","temperament":"Chilly","aggravation_time":"Morning","keynote_indications":"The ancient reputation of Mag -s. as a \u201crefrigerant cathartic\u201d under the familiar name of \n\u201cEpsom Salts,\u201d or \u201csalts\u201d par excellence, has overshadowed its homeopathic uses. \nRecently old -school authorities have discovered in this \u201ccathartic\u201d a remedy for dysenter y. It is the chief \ningredient in many laxative mineral waters and popular saline aperient mixtures.  \nMag-s. is of diagnostic and therapeutic value in gallstone colic. The physiological dosage from 2 to 4 \nteaspoonfuls in glass hot water taken at onset of a colicky attack may abort or stop the colic. \nEpsom salts is one of the most active sa line cathartics, operating with little pain or nausea, especially if pure. \nIts action causing a rush of fluid into the intestine, which by producing a distention of the bow el produces \nevacuation. \nIt causes little or no irritation in the in testine. In common with the other salines, it is the classical \u00e9vacuant to \nbe employed in connection with mercurials and anthelmintics and in cases of poisoning. \nIt usually acts within fr om one to two hours, more quickly if taken in hot water and in the morning before \nbreakfast. \nThe ordinary dose as a mild laxative is a heaping teaspoonful, as a cathartic, two to four teaspoonfuls. The \ntaste may be im proved, if necessary, by the addition of a little lemon juice and sugar. Use on compresses \nsaturated with solution. \nBesides Mag-s. chief use as a saline cathartic, magnesium sulphate is used to a considerable extent externally \nin saturated solution as an antiphlogistic and anti-itching in erysipleas, poison ivy poisoning, cellulitis and other \nlocal inflammations. \nPercy Wilde noted that the purgative action of Mag -s. is not a quality of the drug, but a quality of its physical \nstate, which renders its absorption impossible. The properties inherent in the substance itself can only be \ndiscovered by potency. \nThe skin, urinary and female symptoms are most marked. Greenish urine with red sediment. Profuse dark \nintermittent menses. Thick leucorrhea as profuse as menses. As of a lump between shoul ders. Back feels \nbroken. Left arm and foot numb. Crawling in fingertips. Small pimples all over the body which itch violently. \nWarts, large, soft. \nMag-s. has a depressive condition with hypersensitivity. Dysthyroidism. Tendency to spasms in the hollow \norgans. Liver weakness. Intermittent discomfort with prolonged periods of relief.\nCOMMENTS - Poisonings from Mag -s. hav e occurred from overdoses, death apparently occurring from \ncollapse. The provings of the salts produced many symptoms of utter prostration.  \nThe provings bring out effects common to the other magnesia. Tearfulness, restless uneasiness, pains in facial \nbones, sensitive- \nMagnesia sulphurica ness to touch, better by walking. The diuretic action of the drug with great thirst has led \nto its successful use in diabetes. \nDiarrhea, accompanied with great thirst. Toothache, worse coming into a room out of cold air, worse by contact \nwith food, whether cold or warm, better in bed. Chill, accompanied or followed by thirst. Shud dering in back \nfrom below upward. \n \n \nAccording to Med. Press in Sept. 9,1891, eight cases of new growth having all the outward characters of \nepithelioma were cured by Graves with teaspoonful doses of a solution of three drachms to the pint.  \nWarts are allied to epithelioma, and H. T. Webster cured many cases in children, giving as much of the salts \nas would lie on a dime three times a day. One bo y was literally covered with warts, his face being much \ndisfigured. One girl of 16 was cured of large warts on her hands. \nF. H. Pritchard gave his experience with Mag-s. (1\/2 grains in a teaspoonful of water) in summer diarrhea with \nvomiting of food, copious yellowish, slimy and stinking stools and later merely watery serum. The first sign of \nimprovement was that the stools became bile-tinged after which they soon became of thicker consistency. The \ncopious stools seemed to be the cardinal indication.\nTemperature - Chill from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. Chilliness with thirst, early in morning after waking. Shaking chill \nwith violent headache in evening, succeeded by thirst. Shuddering in back, heat in one part and chill in another. \nCold feet all day, although otherwise he feels hot. Heat of head with coldness of rest of body. Alternation of \nheat and shuddering, redness and paleness of face. Sharp pains in left hypochon drium. Tension, hardness and fullness of abdomen after a meal. \nViolent shooting pains in whole abdomen, around the navel. Painful drawing in abdomen. Rumbling in \nabdomen with emission of flatulence. Itching of left inguinal region, not removed by scratching. Intense thirst, morning and evening. Want of appetite and repugnance to all food, even when thinking \nof it. Desire for fruits, green salad and refreshing dishes. Aversion to sausages, meat, fats and fatty foods.","modalities":"Better from movement in the fresh air. Better from wash ing in cool water. Better from rubbing. \nBetter walking. Worse morning. Worse on awaking. Worse from traveling on a train. Worse in a closed vehicle.","symptoms_by_system":{"Mind":"Apprehensive. Anxious, as though about to be struck by misfortune. Prostration from anxiety. \nForeboding anxiety, as if some accident would happen. Irritable with a fear o f dying. Hypersensitive to pain \n(Cham., Mag-p.). \nDepression. Melancholy and disposition to weep and restlessness. Bad -tempered with nervous tension. \nTendency to fly into a passion, every thing is taken in bad part. Misunderstands everything. Errors of imagi-\nnation. Sees people who are absent. Apprehensive. Anxious, as though about to be struck by misfortune. Prostration from anxiety. \nForeboding anxiety, as if some accident would happen. Irritable with a fear o f dying. Hypersensitive to pain \n(Cham., Mag-p.). \nDepression. Melancholy and disposition to weep and restlessness. Bad -tempered with nervous tension. \nTendency to fly into a passion, every thing is taken in bad part. Misunderstands everything. Errors of imagi-\nnation. Sees people who are absent.","Vertigo":"Vertigo, heaviness and numbness of the whole head. Vertigo during menses.","Head":"Headache with feeling of fullness in the head, blood in the head and a prickling, drawing, piercing \nsensation. Headache with feeling of fullness in the head, blood in the head and a prickling, drawing, piercing \nsensation.","Eyes":"Burning in eyes. Shooting pains in eyes. Pains in eyes, as if protruding from orbits. Lachrymation with \nphotophobia. Dimness of eyes with frequent drowsiness. Supra-orbital neuralgia, left side.","Ears":"Noises, tinkling in ears. Shooting pains in ears.","Face":"Face discolored, gray. Earthy color o f face. Tearing in bones of face. Dryness and burning in lips, in \nevening.","Mouth":"Dryness and sweetish bitterness of the mouth, especially in the morn ing. Dryness of mouth with \nsensation of numbness. Roughness of tongue. Vesicles on edges of tongue with incisive pains. Toothache.  \nNose - Congestive pain. Nasal discharge with painful ulceration inside the nose. Copious secretion of thick \nand yellow mucus in nose. Fluent coryza with l oss of smell. Nosebleed, at night. Rough voice and frequent \nflow of water from nose. \nPerspiration - Perspiration at night or in morning, accompanied by thirst. Hands moist from sweating.","Throat":"Deep, hollow, bass voice. Sore throat on swallowing and pricking pains spreading to the ear. Sore \nthroat, with shooting pains at night, worse by swal lowing. Dryness and sensation of numb ness in throat. \nAccumulation of mucus in throat.","Chest":"Pricking pain in the heart, ame1 iorated by sitting and resting and aggravated by heat. Palpitations and \nbreathlessness from physical exercise. Wakes at night with palpitations, following sleep filled with nightmares.","Stomach & Abdomen":"Frequent belchings, tasting like bad eggs. Regurgitation of fluid, preceded by a quivering in \nstomach. Disgust and nausea with accumulation of water in mouth. Vomiting, first of food, then  of mucus.","Urinary & Genital":"Kidneys - Stream intermits and dribbles. The urine passed in the morning copious, bright yellow, soon \nbecomes turbid and deposits a copious red sediment. The urine is greenish as passed is of a clear color and \nin a large quantity. Diabetes (Ph-ac\u201e Lac-ac.). Stitches and burning in the orifice of the urethra after urinating. Respiration panting after exercise. Laryngeal cough on waking, sometimes spasmodic and dry, \nsometimes with spu tum. Dry and shaking cough after waking in morning, and which c ompels sitting up. \nExpectoration of sour mucus.\nUrethritis. Prostatitis. Frequent stinging about penis when sitting or walking. Erections without amorous \nfancies or sexual desire. Premenstrual nausea. Menses too early or late, scanty or heavy. Blood thick and black. Discomfort \nduring menses. Thick leucorrhea, as profuse as the menses with weary pain  in the small of the back and \nthighs, on moving about. Some blood from the vagina between the menses.","Extremities":"Sciatic pains, aggravated at night and during rest, ameliorated by walking. Chronic, non-inflammatory \nrheumatism of the hip. The left arm and foot fall asleep in bed in the morning after waking.  \nLiver - Pain in the liver region, especially on breathing. Painful sensitivity in the  region of the gallbladder. \nNightly attacks on the liver and gallbladder.","Neck & Back":"Pains in the lumbar region. Lumbago. Violent pain in the small of the back, as if bruised and as before \nmenstruation. Bruised and ulcerative pain between the shoulde rs with a feeling as of a lump as large as the \nfist, on which account she could not lie upon her back or side, relieved by rubbing. \nConstitutions - Allergic, tubercular types with nervous hyper-excitability.","Skin":"Generalized itching over the whole body, worse in bed. Eczema and vesicular eczemas.  Miliary \neruptions with burning and itching. Small pimples over the whole body, that itch violently. Boils. Suppressed \nscabies (Sulph.). Crawling in the tips of the fingers of the left hand, better on rubbing. Warts. Erysipelas. \nDropsy. Acne on the back. Epithelioma.","Sleep":"Extreme sleepiness in the daytime. Sleepy, early in evening. Sleeplessness at night, caused by violent \npains in head, abdomen and loins. Wakes at 3 a. m. with difficulty in falling asleep again. Many dreams at \nnight, sometimes disagreeable and anxious. Sleep with worrying, with palpitations."},"schema_version":"1.0","api_provider":"Allahshafi"}