Mercurius corrosivus

Violent effects. Burning, internal; throat, stomach, rectum, neck of bladder, kidneys, etc. Inflammation, with swelling and constriction. Constriction of throat, rectum, bladder, etc. Cracks, on palms, soles, angles of mouth, etc. Erosive discharges; acrid, fluent coryza, lachrymation, etc. Phagedena. Syphilis. .................... Anxious and restless; rocks hard. Difficult thinking. Disturbed speech. Stupid. Aching temples, < looking sidewise. Photophobia. Iritis. Keratitis. Gluey nasal discharge. Swelled nose. Pale about mouth. Patchy tongue. Nightly toothache. Red, swollen uvula. Astringent, taste, regurgitation, etc. Sore, painful swelling in l. throat, < heat; sharp pains into ears, < pressure. DYSPHAGIA. Insatiable thirst. Vomits slime and blood. Cramp in epigastrium. Distended, sensitive stomach. Gastritis. Cutting colic. Painful flatulence. Continuous urging to stool and urine (Canth. Lil-t. Sabi.); A NEVER GET DONE FEELING. SCANTY, BLOODY, SHREDDY OR SLIMY STOOLS, WITH TORMENTING TENESMUS. Passes pure blood or bloody water. Bleeding kidneys. Dysentery. Spasm of rectum, during coition. HOT URINE, PASSED DROP BY DROP, or scanty, frequent, dribbling; < sitting. Urethra bleeds after urinating. Nephritis; slow; of pregnancy. Cystitis. Gonorrhœa. Phimosis. Chordee. Hard chancres. Breathes as through a metallic tube. Cold skin. Chilly, after stool. Sweats from every motion; partial; < forehead and lower parts; foul, at night.

AFTER: URINATING. STOOL. Swallowing. Night. Cold. Autumn. Hot days; cool nights. Acids.

RECTUM. Bladder. Eyes. THROAT: Uvula. Fauces. Palate. Kidneys. Bones (Flat).

Related: Ars. Canth. Merc-p-r.

Mercurius corrosivus

Corrosive sublimate. HgCk-

Diseases of men, syphilitic; ulcers, with corroding, acrid pus; Bright’s disease.

Dysentery and summer complaints of intestinal canal, occurring from May to November.

Tenesmus: of rectum, not > by stool (< by stool, Nux) ; incessant, persistent; stool hot, scanty, bloody, slimy, offensive; shreds of mucous membrane and terrible cutting, colicky pains.

Tenesmus : of bladder, with intense burning in urethra ; urine hot, burning, scanty or suppressed ; in drops with great pain; bloody, brown, brick-dust sediment ; albuminous.

Gonorrhoea; second stage, greenish discharge, < at night; great burning and tenesmus.

Corrosive Sublimate This salt leads all other remedies in tenesmus of the rectum, which is incessant, and is not relieved by the stool. The tenesmus often involves the bladder as well. Bright's disease. Gonorrhœa; second stage, with continuous tenesmus. Destroys the secreting portions of the kidneys. This process is slow, but sure. Albuminuria in early pregnancy (Phosph later and at full term).

Worse, evening, night, acids, Better, while at rest.

Delirium, stupor. Frontal pain, congestion of head with burning in cheeks. Drawing pain in periosteum of skull.

Swollen. Red, puffy. Lips black, swollen. Sordes. Facial neuralgia within the bones.

Pain behind eyeballs, as if forced out. Phlyctenulæ; deep ulcers on cornea. Excessive photophobia and acrid lachrymation. Iritis, ordinary or syphilitic (Give in association with atropin locally for prevention of adhesions). Pain severe at night; burning, shooting, tearing. Little tendency to pus formation. Iris muddy in color, thick, and neither contracts nor dilates. Retinitis albuminuric, ophthalmia neonatorum. Lids œdematous, red, excoriated. Severe burning. Soreness of the eyes.

Violent pulsations. Fetid pus.

Excessive coryza. Ozæna, with perforation of septum nasi (Kali bich). Rawness and smarting in nostrils. Post-nasal swelling, mucous membrane dry, red, and covered with bloody mucus.

Teeth loose. Gums purple, swollen, and spongy. Tongue swollen and inflamed. Salivation. Pyorrhea. Ptyalism. Taste salty and bitter.

Red, swollen, painful, intensely inflamed. Uvula swollen. Swallowing painful. Most pain in post-nasal with sharp pains to ears. Burning pain, with great swelling; worse, slight external pressure. All glands about thorax swollen.

Incessant, green, bilious vomiting. Epigastrium very sensitive.

Bruised sensation; cecal region and transverse colon painful. Bloated; very painful to least touch.

Dysentery; tenesmus, not relieved by stool; incessant. Stool hot, bloody, slimy, offensive, with cutting pains and shreds of mucous membrane.

Intense burning in urethra. Urine hot, burning, scanty or suppressed; bloody, greenish discharge. Albuminous. Tenesmus of bladder. Stabbing pain extending up urethra into bladder. Perspiration after urinating.

Penis and testes enormously swollen. Chancres assume phagedænic appearance. Gonorrhœa; urethra orifice red, swollen; glans sore and hot. Discharge greenish, thick.

Pain in larynx as cut with knife. Aphonia. Cough, with bloody expectoration. Pulse rapid and intermittent. Stitches through side of chest.

Chilly from slightest exposure. Profuse perspiration; surface cold.

Compare: Ars; Lach; Leonurus-Mother-wort (Influences pelvic organs, allays spasm and nervous irritability, promotes secretion and reduces febrile excitement. Valuable in suppressed menses and lochia; dysentery; vomiting, frightful pains in abdomen, violent thirst. Tongue dry and cracked). Monsonia––An African plant belonging to the Geraniaceæ––(Used for dysentery in material doses). Antidote: Calcium sulphide is antidotal to Bichloride poisoning. Use intravenous injection of 7 1/2 grains in 7 1/2 ozs boiled water.

Sixth potency. In solution 1:1000, hypodermically injected under conjunctiva in choroditis with progressive myopia. Stops immediately the severe aching pain behind eye-balls (Dr. G. D. Hallet).

Mercurius Corrosivus

Merc. cor. has more excoriation and burning, more activity and excitement.

Merc. is slower and more sluggish. Merc. cor. is violent and active in its movements, it takes hold and runs its course with greater activity. So with a mercury base we have often to prefer this salt. In the eye symptoms there is more excoriation. The pains, burning, smarting, etc., in the eruptions and ulcers are more violent. In Merc. we have slow spreading ulcers, but in Merc. cor. there is great eating; it will spread over an area as large as your hand in a night. He has the mercurial odor and sweat, and he is sallow; he needs mercury, but a more active preparation than Merc. viv.

Merc. cor. has decided symptoms of its own, but they are limited. You cannot tell the ptyalism, or the lardaceous ulcers apart.

In sore throat, if it is a Merc. case, the ulcers are spreading rapidly and burning and smarting like coals of fire, you would say that Merc. is not so intense as this. You need Merc. cor. for the violence, the intense burning, and the rapid spread. The throat is enormously swollen, the glands are swollen, and the thirst is insatiable. In dysentery there is more violence; copious bleeding; great anxiety, can scarcely leave the stool a second, great tenesmus of rectum and bladder; urging to urination and stool is constant; great burning in the rectum. It is a violent case of dysentery. I would prefer Merc. in ordinary Merc. cases, but if this patient is not relieved he will not live, and Merc. cor. is needed here.

In the urinary organs the symptoms are violent. Albuminuria is more marked in Merc. cor. than in Merc. It is one of the most frequently indicated remedies in the albuminuria of pregnancy and a very useful remedy when gout is present. From slight irritation of the foreskin of the male organ, the mucous membrane and skin contract and phimosis takes place.

Merc. cor. relieves the itching and burning, and causes the purse-string to let up. It is seldom indicated in gonorrhoea, but is called for when there is greenish yellow or bloody watery discharge, with violent burning and urging to urination and to stool, and violent painful erections. Chancres spread with great rapidity. Stitching, rending, tearing pains, here and there, especially in the chest.