Mezereum
as H.C. Allen recorded it in Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica, 1899
Daphne mezereum
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Keynotes
Mezereum
Daphne Mezereum. Thymelaceae.
For light-haired, irresolute persons of a phlegmatic temperament.
Eczema and itching eruptions after vaccination.
Hypochondriacal and despondent; indifferent to everything and every one; angry at trifles and perfectly harmless things, but is soon sorry for it.
Toothache: in carious teeth (Kreos.); feel elongated, dull pain when biting on them and when touched with tongue, < at night; > with mouth open and drawing in air; roots decay (rev. of Men).
Headache, violent after slight vexation ; painful on the slightest touch; right sided.
The head is covered with thick, leather-like crust, under which thick and white pus collects here and there; hair is glued and matted together; pus after a time is ichorous, becomes offensive and breeds vermin.
Ulcers with thick, yellowish-white scabs, under which thick, yellow pus collects.
Vesicles appear around the ulcers, itch violently, burn like fire ( Hep. ) ; shining, fiery-red areola around.
Linen or charpie sticks to the ulcers, they bleed when it is torn away.
Eczema : intolerable itching, < in bed and from touch; copious, serous exudation.
Neuralgic burning pains after zona.
Bones, especially long bones, inflamed, swollen; nightly pains going from above downwards; after abuse of Merc., after venereal diseases; caries, exostoses, tumors soften from within out.
Pain in periosteum of long bones < at night in bed, least touch, in damp weather (Mer., Phyt.).
Child scratches face continually, which is covered with blood; eruptions moist; itching worse at night; inflammatory redness of face.
touch or motion; bad effects of mercury or alcohol.
Epidemics occurring in January and February often call for Mezereum.
What the other books say about Mezereum
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Mezereum in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Mezereum in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
- Mezereum 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. Mezereum — Keynotes, pp. 190–192. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/allen/mezereum. 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.