Magnesia muriatica
as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931
MAGNESIUM MURIATICUM
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Keynotes
Nervous; with hepato-uterine or cardiac symptoms. Globus. Hysteria. Crampings. Dryness. Burning. Darting. Dinner causes faintness, dyspnœa, etc. Chronicity. .................... Irritable. Yellow sclera. Tinea ciliaris. Acrid, crusty ozœna. Broad, yellow, scalloped tongue; feels burnt. Loss of taste and smell. Craves sweets. Pain from liver to spine or epigastrium. Sore, enlarged liver; drags if lies on (l) side. Cramp in gall-bladder, > eating. Flatulence. STOOLS DRY; KNOTTY; of little balls, like sheep dung; gray; crumbling at anus. Must press on bladder to urinate. Profuse, dark, lumpy menses; like pitch; with cramps, backache and pains in thighs. Gushes of leucorrhœa, follow each cramp or stool. Palpitation; > motion or lying on (l) side. Throb below (l) scapula. Bruised or burning feeling in hips and back. Cramps in back, < walking; in thighs, < sitting. Dead fingertips. Tense thighs and calves; must move limbs. Ankles cold or nervous, < night. Cutting in heels. Yellow, thin, foul pus. Jaundice. Sweat on head and feet.
Worse
LYING ON RIGHT SIDE. Night. Noise. Sea bathing. Eating. Salt foods. MILK.
Better
HARD PRESSURE. Lying bent. Hanging down. Gentle motion. Cool, open air.
Region
NERVES. LIVER. Digestion. Pelvic organs: Uterus. Rectum. Women.
Relationships
Related: Nat-m. Pul. Sep.
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 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.
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Create a free accountCite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Magnesia muriatica — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/magnesia-muriatica. Author died 1935: public domain in India. The catalogue records 1931; a 1931 edition is public domain in the US from 1 Jan 2027 at the latest — the edition this transcription follows is not stated in the file. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.