Mercurius cyanatus
as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927
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General
Cyanide of Mercury Acute infections, pneumonia, nephritis. Its action is similar to that of the toxines of infections diseases. Great and rapid prostration, tendency toward hæmorrhages, from the different orifices, of dark fluid blood, cyanosis, rapid respiration and heart action, albuminuria and twitching and jerking of muscles. Typhoid pneumonia. Livid states from great struggling, where suffocation is imminent and paralysis of lung threatening; great sweat. Affects most prominently the buccal cavity. This, together with marked prostration, gives it a place in the treatment of diphtheria, where it has achieved unquestioned great results. Malignant types, with prostration. Coldness and nausea. Syphilitic ulcers when perforation threatens.
Head
Great excitement, fits of passion; fury; talkativeness. Atrocious headache. Eyes sunken; face pale.
Mouth
Covered with ulcerations. Tongue pale. Free salivation. Fetor of breath. Pain and swelling of salivary glands. Astringent taste. Ulcerations of mouth have a gray membrane.
Throat
Feels raw and sore. Mucous membranes broken down, ulcerated. Looks raw in spots, especially in public speakers. Hoarseness, and talking is painful. Necrotic destruction of soft parts of palate and fauces. Intense redness of fauces. Swallowing very difficult. Dark blood from nose. Diphtheria of the larynx and nose (Kali bich).
Stomach
Nausea, vomiting, bilious, bloody; hiccough; abdomen painful, tender to pressure.
Rectum
Intolerable pain. Redness around anus. Frequent hæmorrhage; stools with tenesmus. Discharge of fetid liquid with gangrenous odor. Black stools.
Urinary
Amber color, painful, albuminous, scanty. Nephritis with great debility and chilliness. Suppression of urine.
Skin
Moisture, with icy coldness.
Dose
Sixth to thirtieth potency. Aggravation is apt to occur from potencies below the sixth.
What the other books say about Mercurius cyanatus
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Mercurius cyanatus in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
- Mercurius cyanatus in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
- Mercurius cyanatus 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). Mercurius cyanatus — General. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/mercurius-cyanatus. 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.