Magnesia carbonica

as H.C. Allen recorded it in Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica, 1899

MAGNESIUM CARBONICUM

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Keynotes

Magnesia carbonica

Carbonate of Magnesia. MgCO^, gH^O.

For persons, especially children, of irritable disposition, nervous temperament (Cham.); lax fibre; sour smell of whole body (Rheum).

The whole body feels tired and painful, especially the legs and feet; aching, restless.

Spasmodic affections of stomach and intestines (Col., Mag. p.), increased secretion from mucous membranes.

Unrefreshing sleep, more tired on rising than when retiring (Bry., Con., Hep., Op., Sulph.).

Inordinate craving for meat in children of tuberculous parentage.

Heartburn : sour, belching, eructations, taste and vomiting; of pregnancy.

Pains: neuralgic, lightning-like, < left side (Col.); insupportable during repose, must get up and walk (Rhus) ; toothache, during pregnancy < at night.

Pain on vertex as if the hair were pulled (Kali n., Phos. ) .

Menses: preceded by sore throat (Lac c.), labor-like pain, cutting colic, backache, weakness, chilliness; hows only at night or when lying, ceases when walking (Am. m., Kreos. — rev. of, Lil.) ; acrid, dark, pitchlike; difficult to wash off (Med.).

Diarrhoea: preceded by cutting, doubling-up colic; occurs regularly every three weeks ; stools green, frothy, like scum of a frog-pond ; white, tallow-like masses are found floating in stool ; the milk passes 'undigested in nursing children.

When crude magnesia has been taken to “sweeten the stomach;” if the symptoms correspond, the potentized remedy will often relieve.

Aggravation. — Change of temperature; every three weeks; rest; milk, during menses.

Amelioration. — Warm air, but worse in warmth of bed (Led., Men — better in warmth of bed, Ars.).

What the other books say about Magnesia carbonica

The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.

Magnesia carbonica in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
Magnesia carbonica in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
Magnesia carbonica in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
Magnesia carbonica in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.

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Cite this page. H.C. Allen. Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica. 3rd edition (1910). Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel. Magnesia carbonica — Keynotes, pp. 172–174. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/allen/magnesia-carbonica. Published 1910: public domain in the US (before 1931) and in India (author died 1909). Replaces B. Jain's 2005 "rearranged and classified" edition (© the publisher), per the owner's decision of 13 Sep 2026. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.