Magnesia muriatica

as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927

MAGNESIUM MURIATICUM

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General

Muriate of Magnesia A liver remedy with pronounced characteristic constipation. Chronic liver affections with tenderness and pain, extending to spine and epigastrium, worse after food. Especially adapted to diseases of women, with a long history of indigestion and uterine disease; children who cannot digest milk. Evil effects of sea bathing.

Modalities

Worse, immediately after eating, lying on right side: from sea bathing. Better, from pressure, motion: open air, except headache.

Head

Sensitive to noise; bursting headache; worse, motion, open air; better, pressure, and wrapping up warmly (Sil; Stront). Much sweating of head (Calc, Sil). Facial neuralgia pains, dull, aching, worse damp weather, slightest draft, better pressure heat.

Nose

Nostrils ulcerated, Coryza. Nose stopped and fluent. Loss of smell and taste, following catarrh. Cannot lie down. Must breathe through mouth.

Mouth

Blisters on lips. Gums swollen, bleed easily. Tongue feels burnt and scalded. Throat dry, with hoarseness.

Stomach

Appetite poor, had taste in mouth. Eructations like rotten eggs. Continued rising of while froth into mouth Cannot digest milk. Urine can be passed only by pressing abdominal muscles.

Abdomen

Pressing pain in liver; worse lying on right side. Liver enlarged with bloating of abdomen; yellow tongue. Congenital scrotal hernia. Must use abdominal muscles to enable him to urinate.

Urinary

Urine difficult to void. Bladder can only be emptied by straining and pressure. Bowels.––Constipation of infants during dentition; only passing small quantity; stools knotty, like sheep's dung, crumbling at verge of anus. Painful smarting hæmorrhoids.

Female

Menses black, clotted. Pain in back and thighs. Metrorrhagia; worse at night. Great excitement at every period. Leucorrhœa with every stool and after exercise. Tinea ciliaris, eruptions in face and forehead worse before menses.

Heart

Palpitation and cardiac pain while sitting; better by moving about (Gels). Functional cardiac affections with liver enlargement. Respiration.––Spasmodic dry cough; worse forepart of night, with burning and sore chest.

Extremities

Pain in back and hips; in arms and legs. Arms "Go to sleep" when

waking in morning.

Sleep

Sleep during day; restless at night on account of heat and shock: anxious dreams.

Relationships

Antidotes: Camph; Cham. Compare: Nat m; Puls; Sep; Amm m; Nasturtium equaticum -Water-cress–– (useful in scorbutic affections and constipation, related to strictures of urinary apparatus; supposed to be aphrodisiacal in its action. Is also antidotal to tobacco narcosis and sedative in neurotic affections, neurasthenia, hysteria. Cirrhosis of liver and dropsy).

Dose

5 drops of tincture. Third to 200th potency.

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 Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
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. William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Magnesia muriatica — General. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/magnesia-muriatica. 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.