Remedy

Cinnabaris cinnb.

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Relationships

Knerr's Drug Relationships, from Hering's Guiding Symptoms

Antidotes

chin.

Named under 3 other remedies in this book

These rows are the other remedies’, naming Cinnabaris.

Antidotes

aur-m.

Similar

am-br. aur-m.

Polar generals

Thermal

Thirst

Time

Motion

  • worse from motionKent

Rest

Position the books disagree

  • worse lying on backKent
  • worse lying on left sideKent
  • worse lying on right sideBoericke
  • better lying on right sideKent
  • better risingKent

Warmth the books disagree

  • worse from warmth (bed)Kent
  • worse from warmth (room)Kent
  • worse from warmthKent
  • better from warmthKent

Cold

  • worse from coldKent
  • worse from cold (air)Kent

Open air

Pressure the books disagree

  • worse from pressureBoger
  • better from pressureKent

Eating the books disagree

Sleep

Menses

  • worse before mensesKent

While sweating

  • worse while sweatingKent

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

C. M. Boger · Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica · 1915

Region

Blood. Naso - pharynx. Neck. Bones.

Worse

Touch. Light. Dampness.

Better

Open air. Sunshine (Stro.).

General

Pain outward along brow, encircling eyes, or like a saddle at root of nose. Nose; heavy pressure at root; < pressure of glasses; discharges foul, acrid, burning serum or dark lumps. Dry mouth, wakes from sleep. Hawks down stringy mucus or lumps of mucus drop from posterior nares. Naso-pharyngeal catarrh. Thin, white diarrhœa. Foul, acrid sweat between scrotum and thigh. Warts on prepuce. Old, hard chancres. Heart flutters, then rushes of blood to head. Nodes on shin bones. Cramp in calf, after walking. Fiery red ulcers, eruptions, etc. Sweat, < nose.

Related

Complementary: Thu. Related: Merc.

Key-Notes to the Materia Medica

Henry N. Guernsey · Key-Notes to the Materia Medica · 1887

General

We are led to use this for very red, and very fiery looking ulcers, which may occur in the throat or in any other part of the body, in the mouth, on the legs; particularly if there be nodes on the shinbones. For very angry looking chancres.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Mercuric Sulphide (MERCURIUS SULPHURATUS RUBER)

General

For certain forms of ciliary neuralgia and ulceration upon a syphilitic base, this remedy is most effective. Sleepless during night.

Head

Congestion to head; face purple red.

Eyes

Pains from lachrymal duct around eye to temple, from inner canthus across brows to ear. Severe shooting pain in bones of orbit, especially running from inner to outer canthus in the bone. Redness of whole eye. Lids granulated; canthi and lids red.

Nose

Pressive sensation, as from heavy spectacles. Pain about root, extending into bones on each side (Aur; Kal hyd).

Throat

Stringy mucus passed through posterior nares into throat. Dryness of mouth and throat; must rinse the mouth. Fiery-looking ulcers in mouth and throat.

Male

Prepuce swollen; warts on it which bleed easily; testicles enlarged; buboes; angry-looking chancres. Syphilides, squamous and vesicular.

Female

Leucorrhœa. Feeling of pressure in vagina.

Extremities

Pain in forearm from elbow down, including hands. Pain in long bones when barometer lowers; coldness of joints.

Skin

Very fiery-red looking ulcers. Nodes on shin-bones. Buboes. Condyloma, easily bleeding.

Modalities

Worse, lying on right side (feels as if contents of body were being dragged over to that side).

Relationship

Compare: Hepar; Nitr ac; Thuja; Sep.

Antidotes: Hepar; Sulph.

Dose

First to third trituration.

Text Book of Materia Medica

Adolph Lippe · Text Book of Materia Medica · 1866

Mind and Disposition

Indisposition for mental labor. Sensation of fulness of the head from mental application. Forgetfulness (forgets things he has to do). Fretful, easily provoked. Desire to be alone.

Head

Giddiness in the morning after rising, when stooping, with nausea. Fulness in the head ; the eyes are reddened. Congested sensation over the whole head, principally the forehead. Congestion of blood to the head, particularly to the vertex ; worse after eating. Intense headache ; he cannot raise his head from the pillow ; relieved by external pressure. Dull pain in the forehead, which is cold ; relieved by heat. Sensation as if touched by a cold metallic body, on a small space over the root of the nose. In the morning, after waking, pain in the forehead and top of the head ; worse when lying on the left side and back ; better and going off, when turning on the right side, and after rising. Shooting pain in the left side of the head, with increase of saliva and great flow of urine. Sensitiveness of the head to the touch -even the hairs are sore.

Eyes

Shooting pains in the inner canthus of the right eye, with burning and itching. Inflammation of the right eye ; itching, pressing and pricking at the inner angle and lower lid ; constant lachrymation on looking steadily, with profuse discharge of mucus from the nose. Flow of tears. Sticking pain about the punctum lachrymale of the upper eyelid. Redness of the whole eye, with swelling of the face.

Ears

Roaring in the ears, with swelling of the face (after eating). Scurfy eruption in the right external ear. Itching in the right ear.

Nose

Itching of the nose, with bleeding (very dark blood) after blowing it. Coryza, with lameness of the thighs and aching pain in the small of the back ; lumps of dirty yellow mucus are discharged from the posterior nares.

Face

Heat of the face, which is much swollen, mostly about the eyes.

Mouth and Throat

Both corners of the mouth are chapped. Tongue coated white in the morning. A small ulcer on the roof of the mouth, on the right side of the tip of the tongue ; on the tip of the tongue. Soreness in the roof of the mouth. Dryness in the mouth and throat at night, which causes him to drink often. Inflammation, with great dryness of the throat and mouth ; worse at night. Dryness and irritation of the throat (posterior nares, tonsils, fauces) at night, with soreness during the day ; in the morning, secretion of tenacious mucus also, in lumps, from the posterior nares. Contracting pain in the throat during empty deglutition. Fulness in the throat, causing a constant desire for swallowing. Taste bitter (in the morning). Increased flow of saliva (and of urine). Salivation. Scanty, tenacious, frothy saliva in the mouth, without thirst ; better after drinking. Dryness and putrid taste in the mouth.

Stomach and Abdomen

Appetite increased. Soreness in the stomach with dizziness and lightness in the head and tightness in the temples. Nausea, alleviated by eructations. Nausea, with water-brash (in the evening). Flashes of heat confined to the abdomen, with great flatulence (worse in the forenoon).

Stool and Anus

Soft, scanty stools twice a day, preceded by pinching ; less afterwards. Bloody dysentery. Sensation of formication in the anus, as if from a large worm. Little pimples around the anus, with burning and itching ; thin stools and tenesmus.

Urinary Organs

Frequent and increased emission of watery urine ; also daring the night. Pain, as if from a sore in the urethra when urinating ; this pain wakes him up at night.

Genital Organs

Men. Swelling of the penis. Redness and swelling of the prepuce, with painful itching. Violent itching of the corona glandis, with profuse secretion of pus. Small, shining red points on the glans penis. Blennorrhœa of the glans penis. Sycotic excrescences. Violent erections in the evening. Women. Leucorrhœa, causing, during its discharge, a pressing in the vagina.

Respiratory Organs

Hoarseness in the evening. Chest oppressed, feels contracted ; relieved by stretching himself. Dyspnœa, with heat. Pain running over the ensiform cartilage, from the seventh rib on the right side diagonally through the chest. Cough from tickling in the throat.

Back

The muscles of the back part of the neck seem as if contracted. Aching in the small of the back, as if bruised. Pain all over the back down to the loins, aggravated on drawing a long breath.

Extremities

Upper. Pain in the left shoulder, between the clavicle and, scapula ; interiorly. Pain in the middle of the upper part of the right arm, as though it would break. Periodical shooting pains in the arms. Sensation of lameness in the right arm. Numbness of the left arm, from the elbow to the end of the little finger. It feels as if the "crazy-bone" was struck. The joints of the fingers and knuckles are red (and hot). Lower. Shooting, drawing and aching pains in the thighs, from the hip-joints nearly down to the condyles ; worse at night. Violent itching on the inside of the thighs, knees and legs ; worse on the knees, especially at night. Profuse perspiration between the thighs (when walking). Rheumatic pain in the right knee-joint ; worse when walking (ascending), better at rest. Pain in the tendo Achilles and os calcis after walking. Coldness in the joints. Coldness of the feet, day and night.

Generalities

Sensation of lameness in all the limbs. Weariness, languor, tired and prostrated worse before eating, better when riding in the open air. General nervous, uneasy sensation.

Sleep

Sleepiness in the day-time and sleeplessness at night ; unconquerable desire to sleep after dinner, early in the evening (during the day). Restlessness and sleeplessness at night, from a constant flow of ideas changing from one thing to another. Restless sleep, with vivid dreams and much talking.

Fever

Pulse slower in the forepart of the day, accelerated in the evening. Coldness and chilliness in the warm room. Internal and external heat of the body during the whole night. Profuse perspiration between the thighs. Perspiration most at noon.

Skin

Itching of the nose (bleeding after blowing it), of the eye-lids, canthi (outer), ears, face (left side), palms of the hands (right), thighs (inside), knees, legs, at the anus (at night), on the shoulders (evening). Sensation as if pimples were coming out over the body. Red papulous eruption, without itching, on both elbows. Redness of the skin.

Conditions

The pains intermit in severity. Aggravations in the evening and at night, except of the perspiration, which is worse at midday ; after sleeping (headache). Amelioration in the open air, and after dinner.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1902

General

Mercuric Sulphide. Red Sulphide of Mercury. Hg S. Trituration.

Clinical

Albuminuria. Bubo. Catarrh. Chancre. Cystitis. Dysentery. Eye, inflammation of. Gleet . Gonorrhœa. Gout. Nose, external, sensitive. Priapism. Rheumatism. Sciatica. Scrofula. Sleep, abnormal . Sycosis. Syphilis. Tapeworm. Warts.

Characteristics

Cinnabar . corresponds to sycosis as well as to syphilis, and to combinations of the two. In warts on the prepuce it is more specific than Thuja ; especially for fan-shaped warts. In the mental sphere there is indolence and indisposition to mental labour. Forgetful. Fretful, easily provoked. Headache with nosebleed. General sensitiveness to touch: bones of skull, scalp, roots of hair; bridge of nose; warts bleed when touched. Sensation on bridge of nose as if touched with metallic substance, uneasy creeping and pressing sensation about nasal bones as from wearing spectacles when not used to them. Jerkings and pullings are frequent. Berridge reports this symptom cured: "Left leg feels shorter than right whilst walking." jerking in penis; occurring during sleep. Tearing stitches in glans. Burning, stinging, itching of corona glandis. Leucorrhœa, the discharge of which causes a pressure in vagina. Hæmorrhages are frequent: nose-bleed; bleeding piles. In addition to dysenteric symptoms there is obstinate constipation, stools hard and too large. Protrusion of anus during stool. Formication as from a large worm. Little pimples round anus with burning and itching. The skin is much affected. Redness predominates (colour of the drug). Red spots. Heat, redness, and swelling of face, especially about eyes. "We are led to use this for very red and very fiery-looking ulcers, which may occur in the throat or on any other part of the body, in the mouth, on the legs; particularly if there be nodes on the shin-bones. In very angry-looking chancres" (Guernsey). Eruption on posterior cervical region; on inner and lower part of thigh with itching. Warts; pimples; pustules; ulcers; violent itching and pricking, especially about joints. The back of the neck is much affected. Pain extending to occiput when head is thrown back. Pain r. side of neck on turning head. Muscles seem contracted. Glands enlarged. The symptoms are > in open air. Cold and chilly in warm room. < In summer. Most symptoms are < at night. Sweat < at noon. Generally rest > ; walking < . Headache < after sleep. After dinner > . Symptoms intermit in severity.

Relations

Antidoted by: Hepar, Nit. ac., Opium, and Sulphur. Compare: Camph. (red spots); Lach., Merc., Nit. ac., Thuja (Cinnab. is better than Thuja in warts on prepuce); compare also Sep. (warts on margin of prepuce); Ant. t. (warts at back of glans). Seneg. has > bending head backward, Clem. has headache < from same; Clem. also has vertigo on lifting head up or moving head; Cinnab. has pain in back of neck when head is thrown back.

Mind

Indisposition for mental labour. — Sensation of fulness in the head from mental application. — Forgetfulness (forgets things he has to do). — Fretful, easily provoked. — Desire to be alone.

Head

Violent and frightful attack of cephalalgia, in the sinciput and in the temples, mitigated by compression of the head. — Stupefying buzzing in the head, a little after dinner, and in the evening before lying down. — Giddiness in the morning after rising, when stooping, with nausea. — Congestion of blood to the head, particularly to the vertex; worse after eating. — Intense headache; he cannot raise his head from the pillow; relieved by external pressure. — Dull pain in the forehead, which is cold; relieved by heat. — In the morning, after waking, pain in the forehead and top of the head; < when lying on the l. side and back; > and going off, when turning on r. side, and after rising. — Shooting pain in the l. side of the head, with increase of saliva and great flow of urine. — Shooting in the teguments of the head. — Painful sensitiveness of the cranium and of the hair on being touched.

Eyes

Inflammation of the eyes, with pressive shootings and constant lachrymation when fixing them on an object. — Shooting pains in inner canthus of r. eye, with burning and itching. — Inflammation of r. eye, with profuse discharge of mucus from the nose. — Flow of tears. — Sticking pain about the punctum lachrymale of the upper eyelid. — Redness of the whole eye, with swelling of the face.

Ears

Roaring in the ears with swelling of the face (after eating). — Scurfy eruption in r. external ear. — Itching in r. ear.

Nose

Violent fluent coryza, with secretion of burning serum. — Sensation as if touched by a cold metallic body, on a small space over the root of the nose. — Itching of the nose, with bleeding (very dark blood) after blowing it. — Coryza, with lameness of the thighs and aching in the small of the back; lumps of dirty yellow mucus are discharged from the posterior nares.

Face

Heat of the face, which is much swollen, mostly about the eyes.

Mouth

Both corners of the mouth are chapped. — Tongue coated white in the morning. — A small ulcer on the roof of the mouth, on the r. side of the tip of the tongue; on the tip of the tongue. — Burning, constrictive sensation in the palate; taste bitter in the morning. — Salivation and increased flow of urine. — Putrid taste in the mouth.

Throat

Dryness and irritation of the throat (posterior nares, tonsils, fauces) at night, with soreness during the day. — In the morning, secretion of tenacious mucus from posterior nares, in lumps. — Increased dryness of mouth and throat, being obliged to moisten and rinse the mouth every time he wakes.

Appetite

Nocturnal dryness and heat in the mouth and in the throat, with much thirst. — Scanty, tenacious, frothy saliva in the mouth, without thirst; better after drinking. — Pressive contractions in the throat during deglutition. — After a meal, disagreeable sensation of swelling over the whole body, with tightness in the chest and in the stomach. — Appetite increased.

Stomach

At night, heat, which extends upwards from the stomach towards the neck and the head, and disperses on rising up in bed. — Soreness in the stomach, with dizziness and lightness in the head and tightness in the temples. — Nausea, alleviated by eructations. — Nausea, with water-brash (in the evening).

Abdomen

Flashes of heat confined to the abdomen, with great flatulence (worse in the forenoon).

Stool and Anus

Evacuations, soft and frequent, preceded by pinchings in the abdomen; less afterwards. — Bloody dysentery. — Greenish mucous diarrhœa. — Sensation of formication in the anus, as if from a large worm. — Little pimples around the anus, with burning and itching; thin stools and tenesmus.

Urinary Organs

Frequent and increasing emission of watery urine; also during the night. — Pain, as if from a sore in the urethra, when urinating; this pain wakes him up at night.

Male Sexual Organs

Swelling of the penis. — Pseudo gonorrhœa, with redness and swelling of the prepuce. — Violent itching of the corona glandis, with profuse secretion of pus. — Small, shining red points on the glans penis. — Condyloma. — Blennorrhœa. — Sycotic excrescences. — Sexual desire strongly excited, and great inclination for coition, with great appetite for eating and drinking. — Strong erections in the evening in bed. — Fetid and corrosive sweats, between the scrotum and the thighs when walking.

Female Sexual Organs

Leucorrhœa, causing, during its discharge, a; pressure in the vagina.

Respiratory Organs

Hoarseness in the evening. — Dyspnœa, with heat. — Cough from tickling in the throat. — Dry cough, in single shocks, when lying down; > by sitting up.

Chest

Chest oppressed, feels contracted; relieved by stretching himself. — Pain running over the ensiform cartilage, from the seventh rib on the r. side diagonally through the chest. — Pulsative and shooting pains in the chest, esp. when walking.

Neck and Back

Pain in back part of neck when head is thrown back, extending to occiput. — Wrenching pains in the vertebræ of the neck. — The muscles of the back part of the neck seem as if contracted. — Tearing in the side of the back, even at night on moving in the bed, > by the heat of the fire. — Aching in the small of the back, as if bruised. — Pain all over the back down to the loins, aggravated on drawing a long breath.

Upper Limbs

Pain in the l. shoulder, between the clavicle and scapula, interiorly. — Pain in the middle of the upper part of r. arm, as though it would break. — Periodical shooting pains in the arms. — Tearing in the arms when writing, > by the heat of the fire. — Sensation of lameness in r. arm. — Numbness of l. arm, from elbow to end of little finger, it feels as if the "crazy-bone" was struck. — The joints of the fingers and knuckles are red (and hot).

Lower Limbs

Painful jerking in the leg, in the evening, after sleeping. — Shooting, drawing, and aching pains in the thighs, from the hip-joints nearly down to the condyles; < at night. — Violent itching on the inside of thighs, knees, and legs; worse in the knees, esp. at night. — Profuse perspiration between the thighs (when walking). — Rheumatic pain in r. knee-joint; < when walking (ascending), > at rest. — Pain in the tendo Achillis and os calcis after walking. — Coldness in the joints. — Coldness of the feet, day and night.

Generalities

Sensation of lameness in all the limbs. — Pulling and shuddering in the arms and the legs. — Paralytic pains in the limbs, with indolence and drowsiness. — Weariness, languor, tired and prostrated; worse before eating, better when riding in the open air. — General nervous, uneasy sensation.

Skin

Itching: of the nose (bleeding after blowing it); of eyelids; canthi (outer); ears; face (l. side) palms of hands (r.); thighs (inside); knees; legs; at the anus (at night), on the shoulders (evening). — Sensation as if pimples were coming out over the body. — Red papulous eruption, without itching, on both elbows. — Redness of the skin. — Red, fiery-looking ulcers, which may occur in the throat or in any other part of the body, in the mouth, on the legs; particularly if there be nodes on the shin-bones. — Very angry-looking chancres.

Sleep

Sleepiness in the daytime and sleeplessness at night; unconquerable desire to sleep after dinner, early in the evening (during the day). — Restlessness and sleeplessness at night, from a constant flow of ideas changing from one thing to another. — Nightly sleeplessness, without causing fatigue. — Restless sleep, with vivid dreams and much talking. — Nightmare after midnight.

Fever

Pulse slower in the forepart of the day, accelerated in the evening. — Coldness and chilliness in the warm room. — Internal and external heat of the body during the whole night. — Profuse perspiration between the thighs. — Perspiration most at noon.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Constantine Hering · The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica · 1879–91

Mind

Indisposition for mental labor.
Sensation of fulness of head from mental application.
Forgetfulness (forgets things he has to do.)
Fretful, easily provoked, irritable.
Desire to be alone.
Mind clear and cheerful.
Exhilaration.

Sensorium

Dizziness : in morning after rising ; when stooping ; with nausea.

Inner head

Dulness and heaviness of head, with ringing in ears after dinner and late in evening.
Fulness in head ; eyes are reddened.
Congested sensation over whole head, principally forehead.
Congestion of blood to head, particularly to vertex ; < after eating.
Sensation as if touched by a cold metallic body, on a small space over root of nose.
Feeling like a vise or band around head, cutting, shooting pain in forehead, aching in superciliary ridge of right eye, extending to back of head, with nausea.
Pressing in forehead with sensation of congestion.
Dull pain in forehead, which is cold ; > by heat.
Tearing pain in forehead, before catamenia.
In morning, after waking, pain in forehead and top of head ; < when lying on left side and back ; > and going off when turning on right side, and after rising.
Dull pain in left temple and side of head.
Shooting pain in left side of head, with increase of saliva and great flow of urine.
Pain from back of head to forehead with vertigo, cannot grasp ideas ; shooting from occiput forward.
Intense headache ; cannot raise his head from pillow ; > by external pressure.
Headache with nosebleed.

Outer head

The bones of skull, the scalp, and even the hair are painfully sensitive to touch.
Tensive, stinging pains in ears, cheeks, temples and sides of head, extending to occiput and nape of neck, with swelling of parotids and face. θ Catarrh of bladder.

Sight and eyes

Dimness and opacity of cornea.
Marked photophobia and lachrymation, with redness.
Redness of whole eye, with swelling of face.
Shooting pains through eye into head.
Sharp, stitching, stinging, or dull, aching pain above eye, extending from internal to external canthus, or runs around eye ; pain may extend into eye or up into head.
Inflammation of right eye ; itching, pressing and pricking at inner angle and lower lid ; constant lachrymation on looking steadily, with profuse discharge of mucus from nose.
Shooting pains in inner canthus of right eye, with burning and itching.
Outer half of left eye injected and puffy ; pains severe, seeming to run around the eye, < at night.
Sticking pain about punctum lachrymale of upper eyelid.
Lids so heavy that they are kept open with difficulty, < in evening.
Asthenopia, with pain extending from inner canthus around eye, with soreness over exit of supraorbital nerve, < in morning.
Conjunctivitis and blepharitis, discharge < in morning.
Kerato-iritis and uncomplicated iritis, especially in syphilitic variety, and if condylomata are present on iris, or on lids ; < at night ; pain intermitting.
Keratitis.
Soreness along course of supraorbital nerve and corresponding side of head, < at night.
Ciliary neuralgia.

Hearing and ears

Roaring in ears, with swelling of face (after eating).
Scurfy eruption in right external ear.
Itching in right ear.

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Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

James Tyler Kent · Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica · 1905

Lecture

The symptoms are worse at night from warmth of the bed, and when perspiring, like Mercurius. Worse from both heat and cold,

Catarrhal inflammation. Fig warts ( Thuja). Ulcers. Many complaints from eating. Syphilis in all stages. Suppurating glands; chancres. It is best to study this remedy as a form of Mercurius, which has a few cunning phases of its own. It is a deep acting remedy in sycosis

The patient desires to be alone. Aversion to mental work. Forgets things which he intended to do. Mind crowded with thoughts preventing sleep.

The pains in the head are violent; worse after eating; better by heat and pressure. Fullness in the whole head. Constriction. Pain in the cold forehead, which is ameliorated by heat. Tearing in the forehead before the menstrual flow. Pain in the forehead and vertex in the morning, worse lying on the left side and back, ameliorated lying on the right side, and it passes off after rising.

Shooting pains in the left side of the head with flow of saliva and copious urine. Headache with nosebleed. Sensitive scalp and skull. Supra-orbital neuralgia.

Stitching, and dull pains in the eyes. Inflammation of the conjunctiva; worse at night. Red, congested lids. Ptosis. Weak vision. Iritis of syphilitic origin. The symptoms are worse at night. Sharp paroxysmal pains from the warmth of the bed.

Roaring in the ears after eating. Itching in the ears.

Cold spot on root of nose Pressure on the bones of the nose. Coryza with dirty yellow -mucus drawn from posterior nares. Epistaxis; pains in back and limbs.

The symptoms of the teeth are similar to Mercurius.

Tongue coated white every morning. Taste putrid, metallic and bitter. Sore ulcerated mouth. Salivation. Inflammation of mouth and throat with great thirst, worse at night. Dry mouth, and viscid mucus in the throat. Fullness in the throat, with constant desire to swallow. Dryness of the throat.

Aversion to food. Eructations, and vomiting. Tenderness of the stomach.

Syphilitic buboes.

Dysentery, worse every night; bloody mucous stools; much straining. Diarrhoea, with greenish stools, worse at night. Protrusion of anus during stool.

Copious urine. Pain as from an ulcer in urethra when urinating; it wakes him also at night. Albumin in the urine.

Inflammation of glans penis with profuse secretion of pus. Increased sexual desire. Swelling of prepuce with much itching. Warts on the prepuce and fraenum, bleeding when touched. Chancres on the prepuce of gangrenous odor. Inflamed and swollen chancres, hard, discharging pus. Indurated, or neglected chancres.

Gonorrhoea, of yellowish green discharge, much pain during flow of urine. Symptoms worse at night, and from the warmth of the bed. The patient is sensitive to both a warm room, and to cold air. Induration of testes.

Syphilitic laryngeal ulcers in a tubercular patient. Hoarseness in the evening.

Pulse fast in the evening and night.

Stiff neck with pains shooting to occiput. Stitching pains each side of spine in dorsal and lumbar regions, worse on deep breathing.

Pain in the limbs at night. Sensitive to sudden changes in the weather. Lame, bruised and stiff in all the limbs. Pains worse from motion. Syphilitic nodes on tibia.

Pain in tendo Achillis and os calcis after walking. Numbness in the feet. Cold feet, day and night. Wandering gout.

Burning itching of the skin, worse scratching. Itching all over. Redness, and red spots on the skin. Pustules. Gangrenous ulcers. Elevated ulcers.

It is antidoted by Hepar and Nitric acid . It is closely related to Thuja.

Hand Book of Materia Medica and Homœopathic Therapeutics

Timothy Field Allen · Hand Book of Materia Medica and Homœopathic Therapeutics · 1889

General

The pure Mercuric sulphide (Cinnabar) in triturated for use.

General Action and Allies

See Mercurius.

Generalities

Nervous thrill through the whole frame, agg. in joints. ▶ Excitement of nervous system. ▶ Sensation as before typhoid fever. ▶ Sensation of having taken cold. ▶ Discomfort after eating as if the body were distended, oppression across chest and abdomen. ▶ Restlessness. ▶ Weakness; in morning; in morning after restless sleep and many dreams; on going to bed, with confusion of mind; on any extraordinary mental or physical exertion, so that he must lie down, with palpitation, which was agg. lying on left side or with head low, pain in head from front to back and down spinal cord to below scapulæ, if the exertion was continued there followed nausea, vomiting, diarrhœa and pain in right hypochondrium. ▶ Heaviness, with sleepiness during the day. ▶ Aggravation in forenoon; evening; of pains and fever in evening and cold; at night in bed, of all symptoms except sweat. ▶ Amelioration in afternoon and evening; in open air and after dinner; after eating and sleep; of pains generally by continuous rest, warm bathing, galvanism and heat.

Mind

Illusion, he considers himself well. ▶ Sense of elevation on walking on open air. ▶ Exhilaration, with fulness extending from all sides of chest towards stomach and heat, with or followed by similar sensation in all joints. ▶ Cross and sullen in afternoon. ▶ Dissatisfied with himself; and every one else. ▶ Irritable; about noon, and nervous. ▶ Troubled by every noise. ▶ Nervous, uneasy, desirous of improving spiritually, but disconsolate. ▶ Melancholy, cynical. ▶ Indisposed to mental labor. ▶ Difficult to fix the attention, amel. in open air.

Head

Occasional darting inwardly through; from out in front and front to back. ▶ Aching; agg. sleep, in eyes; amel. external pressure; deep in centre; stupefying, agg. thinking, reading and pressure. ▶ Fulness; in forenoon; amel. open air, with pressure as after taking cold, and pain in region of benevolence; with heaviness and with strong pulsation in temporal arteries. ▶ Heaviness; and dullness can scarcely lift it from the pillow. ▶ Dullness in evening, agg. in forehead just over eyes. ▶ Weariness as from long mental application. ▶ Congested sensation, agg. in forehead. ▶ Sensation as of rush of blood; agg. morning with vertigo and weakness. ▶ Vertigo, with lightness of head; V., with weakness in head and staggering when walking; V. on rising at 7 A.M., amel. breakfast, with pain in forehead and soreness in eyeballs.

Forehead

Shooting, with heaviness. ▶ Sharp pain agg. right orbital region; in supraorbital region, shooting to ear and side of neck, agg. warm room and moving eyes and scalp. ▶ Aching; in sinciput; in organ of tune; region of causality; in morning after waking, agg. lying on left side and back, amel. lying or right side and pressing head into pillow, also amel. rising and washing, and in crown; in right in afternoon, agg. evening; over eyes in afternoon, agg. evening and on motion, all night; with coldness of it, amel. warm hand; heavy; throbbing, on waking, amel. pressing head on pillow. ▶ Fulness and pressure.

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A Primer of Materia Medica for Practitioners of Homœopathy

Timothy Field Allen · A Primer of Materia Medica for Practitioners of Homœopathy · 1892

Eyes

Clinical:
Inflammatory affections of the eyes, blepharitis, kerato-iritis, ulcers of the cornea, etc.; inflammations, mostly superficial or characterized by severe pain in the bones of the orbit, especially by a pain running from the inner to the outer canthus, in the bone.

Nose

Clinical:
Nasal catarrh, subacute and chronic, with pain about the root of the nose, extending into the bones on each side.

Throat

Clinical:
Angina faucium, with accumulation of stringy mucus passing through posterior nares into throat.

Sexual organs

Clinical:
Indurated bubœs, condylomata on prepuce, which bleed easily.
Enlarged testicle, resulting from gonorrhœa; chronic gonorrhœa.

Keynotes of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica

Adolph von Lippe · Keynotes of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica · 1915

Symptoms

Coldness of the joints.

Very sleepless during the night, but when he awakens in the morning he feels as if he needed no sleep.

Congestions of blood to the head.

Face purple red.

Syphilitic ulcers.