Magnesia carbonica
as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927
MAGNESIUM CARBONICUM
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General
Carbonate of Magnesia Gastro-intestinal catarrh, with marked acidity. Often used with advantage for complains arising in people who have been taking this drug to sweeten the stomach. Is frequently indicated in children; whole body smells sour, and disposed to boils. Broken-down, "worn-out" women, with uterine and climacteric disorders. With numbness and distension in various, parts and nerve prostration. Sensitive to the least start, noise, touch, etc. Affection of the antrum of Highmore. Effects of shock, blows, mental distress. Sense of numbness; nerve prostration;
tendency to constipation after nervous strain; sensitive to least touch, it causes starting, or cold winds or weather or from excess of care and worry with constipation and heaviness. Intense neuralgic pains.
Modalities
Worse, warmth of bed; change of temperature; cold wind or weather; every three weeks; rest. Better, warm air; walking in open air.
Head
Sticking pain in the side of the head on which he lies, as if the hair was pulled; worse, mental exertion. Itching of scalp worse in damp weather. Pain above margin of right orbit. Blank motes before eyes.
Face
Tearing pain in one side; worse; quiet; must move about. Toothache, especially during pregnancy; worse at night; worse, cold and quiet. Teeth feel too long. Ailments from cutting wisdom teeth (Cheiranthus). Pain in malar bone, worse during rest, night. Swelling of malar bone with pulsating pain, worse exposure to cold wind.
Ears
Diminished hearing. Deafness; comes suddenly and varies. Numbness of outer ear. Feeling of distention of middle ear. Subdued tinnitus.
Mouth
Dry at night. Sour taste. Vesicular eruption; bloody saliva. Sticking pain in throat; hawking up fetid, pea-colored particles.
Stomach
Desire for fruit, acids, and vegetables. Eructations sour, and vomiting of bitter water. Craving for meat.
Abdomen
Rumbling, gurgling. Dragging towards pelvis. Very heavy; contractive, pinching, pain in right illiac region.
Stool
Preceded by griping, colicky pain. Green, watery, frothy, like a frog- pond's scum. Bloody mucous stools. Milk passes undigested in nursing children. Sour, with tenesmus (Rheum). Constipation after mental shock or severe nervous strain.
Female
Sore throat before menses appear. Before menses, coryza and nasal stoppage. Menses too late and scanty, thick, dark, like pitch; mucous leucorrhœa. Menses flow only in sleep; more profuse at night (Amm m), or when lying down; cease when walking.
Respiratory
Ticking cough, with salty, bloody expectoration. Constrictive pains in chest, with dyspnœa. Soreness in chest during motion.
Extremities
Tearing in shoulders as if dislocated. Right shoulder painful, cannot raise it (Sang). Whole body feels tired and painful, especially legs and feet. Swelling in bend of knee.
Skin
Earthy, sallow and parchment-like; emaciation. Itching vesicles on hands and fingers. Nodosities under skin. Sore; sensitive to cold.
Sleep
Unrefreshing; more tired on rising than on retiring.
Fever
Chilly in evening. Fever at night. Sour, greasy perspiration.
Relationships
Antidotes: Ars; Merc. Complementary: Cham.
Compare: Rheum; Kreos; Aloes; Cheiranthus-Wall flower ––(deafness, otorrhœa, nose stopped up at night from irritation of cutting wisdom-teeth).
Dose
Third to thirtieth potency.
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 Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
- 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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Create a free accountCite this page. William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Magnesia carbonica — General. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/magnesia-carbonica. Published 1927: public domain in the US (since 2023) and in India (author died 1929). Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.