Magnesia muriatica
as H.C. Allen recorded it in Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica, 1899
MAGNESIUM MURIATICUM
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Keynotes
Magnesia muriatica
Chloride of Magnesia. Mg. Cl.
Especially adapted to diseases of women; spasmodic and hysterical complaints, complicated with uterine diseases; who have suffered for years from attacks of indigestion or biliousness.
Children : during difficult dentition are unable to digest milk ; it causes pain in stomach and passes undigested; puny, rachitic, who crave sweets.
Great sensitiveness to noise (Ign., Nux, Then).
Headache : every six weeks, in forehead and around the eyes; as if it would burst; < from motion and in open air; > from lying down, strong pressure (Puls.), and wrapping up warmly (Sil., Stron.).
Great tendency of head to sweat (Cal., Sanic., Sil.).
Continual rising of white froth into the mouth.
Eructations, tasting like rotten eggs, like onions (breath smells of onions, Sinap.).
Toothache; unbearable when food touches the teeth.
Pressing pain in liver, when walking and touching it, liver hard, enlarged, < lying on right side (Mer., Kali c.).
Constipation : stool hard, scanty, large, knotty, like sheep’s dung; difficult to pass; crumbling at verge of anus (Am.m.,Nat. m.) ; of infants during dentition.
Urine; pale, yellow, can only be passed by bearing down with abdominal muscles; weakness of bladder.
Menses : with great excitement at every period ; flow black, clotted; spasms and pains < in back when walking, extend into thighs ; metrorrhagia, < at night in bed, causing hysteria (Act., Caul.).
Leucorrhoea : after exercise ; with every stool ; with uterine spasm; followed by metrorrhagia; two weeks after menses for three or four days (Bar., Bov., Con.).
Palpitation and cardiac pains while sitting, > by moving about (compare. Gels.).
children.
What the other books say about Magnesia muriatica
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Magnesia muriatica in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Magnesia muriatica in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
- Magnesia muriatica in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
- Magnesia muriatica 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 muriatica — Keynotes, pp. 174–175. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/allen/magnesia-muriatica. 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.