Mezereum mez.

SKIN. Nerves or bones: Head. Face. Jaws. Mucous membranes: Mouth. Stomach. One side.

NIGHT. Suppressions. WARMTH OF BED, fire, etc. Cold air; drafts; damp. Motion. Touch. Mercury. Vaccination.

Wrapping up (Nerves, Bones). Eating. Open air.

Acrid secretions, pus, leucorrhœa, etc. Violent, irritative burning itching, burning smarting, burning boring, etc. with coldness of part affected. Neuralgia; after shingles. Ulcers. Effects of suppressed eczema capitis. As of a cool breeze. Sudden pains, then chilly, sore or numb. Emaciation of part. Gouty-rheumatic-syphilitic dyscrasia. One - sided symptoms, whole or partial; numbness of one side of scalp. Head pain (l), into eyes, malar bones, neck, etc., with lachrymation. Painful skull. Pains outward along brows. Eyes seem dry. Ears feel open to cool wind. Deafness. Facial neuralgias. Cracks in angles of mouth. Dry, dark red mouth. Blunt teeth. Toothache into temples; > cool air. Tongue coated along one side only. Sorethroat in winter. Gastric pain, > milk. Contracted, prolapsed rectum. Glistening particles in stool. Stubborn, leucorrhœa. Dry, tickling cough; unto vomiting; < hot things. Aching, itching in popliteæ. Internal burning with external violent itching in small areas or single parts. Intolerable itching; changes place on scratching. Pruritis senilis. Eruptions ooze acrid, gluey moisture, form thick crusts, with pus beneath, or are chalky white. Milk crust. Deep, hard, painful ulcers; acrid pus, drying into crusts; < touch and warmth. Bones seem enlarged. Periostitis. Chilly; limbs feel cold. Heat of one hand.

Complementary: Merc. Related: Ars. Guai. Kali-io. Merc.

For light-haired, irresolute persons of a phelgmatic temperament. Eczema and itching eruptions after vaccinations. Hypochondriacal and despondent; indifferent to everything and every one; angry at trifles and perfectly harmless things, but is soon sorry for it. Toothache: in carious teeth (Kreos.); feel elongated, dull pain when biting on them and when touched with tongue, < at night; > with mouth open and drawing in air; roots decay (rev. or Mer.). Headache, violent after slight vexation; painful on the slightest touch; right sided. The head is covered with thick, leather-like crust, under which thick and white pus collects here and there; hair is glued and matted together; pus after a time is ichorous, becomes offensive and breeds vermin. Ulcers with thick, yellowish-white scabs, under which thick, yellow pus collects. Vesicles appear around the ulcers, itch violently, burn like fire (Hep.); shining, fiery-red areola around. Linen or charpie sticks to the ulcers, they bleed when it is torn away. Eczema: intolerable itching, < in bed and from touch; copious, serous exudation. Neuralgic burning pains after zona. Bones, especially long bones, inflamed, swollen; nightly pains going from above downwards; after abuse of Merc., after venerial diseases; caries, exostosis, tumors soften from within out. Pain in periosteum of long bones < at night in bed, least touch, in damp weather (Mer., Phyt.). Child scratches face continually, which is covered with blood; eruptions moist; itching worse at night; inflammatory redness of face.

Compare: Caust., Guaiac., Phyt., Rhus.

Cold air; cold washing; at night; touch or motion; bad effects of mercury or alcohol. Epidemics occurring in January or February often call for Mezereum.

The remedy is often useful in cases of very violent neuralgic pains about the teeth or face, particularly if the pain be in the left bone, running toward the ear; also neuralgic pains at night in the teeth. Affections of any kind appearing on the external head, principally right side; teeth in the left side; forehead; shin bone. Collection of water in the mouth, i.e., "mouth waters." Urine with real flakes, which float about on top of the urine. Subsultus tendinum, as in typhoid fever, etc., when by putting the fingers on the wrist or on other parts of the body, the tendons are left to jump and jerk. Burning, darting sensation in the muscles, like fire darting through them.

Desquamation of; blotches on.

In the evening, or through the night.

Calc. carb., Caustic., Ignat., Lycop., Phosphor., Nux vom., Mercur., Pulsat.

Mercur.

Head covered with a thick, leathery crust, under which pus collects and mats the hair. Child scratches the face continually, which becomes covered with blood, Itching worse at night, tears off the scales, leaving raw spots on which fat pustules form. The ichor from the scratched face excoriates other parts.

Spurge Olive

Skin symptoms, affections of bones, and neuralgias most important, especially about teeth and face. Bruised, weary feeling in joints, with drawing and stiffness. Pains of various kinds, with chilliness and sensitiveness to cold air. Bone pains. Eruptions after vaccination. Burning, darting sensation in the muscles; subsultus tendinum. Pains shoot upward and seem to draw patient up out of bed. Semi-lateral complaints. Patient is very sensitive to cold air.

Hard work to talk. Headache; worse from talking. Stupefying headache in right side. Affections of external head; scaly eruption, white scabs. Head covered with thick, leathery crusts, under which pus collects, Violent neuralgia about face and teeth, running towards ear, at night; worse, eating; better near hot stove. Roots of teeth decay. Teeth feel elongated.

Sneezing, coryza, interior of nose, excoriated. Post-nasal adenoids.

Feel too much open, as if tympanum was exposed to the cold air and it blew into the ear. Desire to bore fingers in.

Ciliary neuralgia after operations. Especially after removal of eyeball. Pains radiate and shoot downward, with cold feeling and stiffness of bone.

Red. Eruption around mouth, with coryza.

Desire for ham-fat. Burning in tongue, extending to stomach. Mouth waters. Nausea felt in throat; better, eating. Chronic gastritis; burning, corroding pain; nausea, vomiting, chocolate color. Gastric ulcer with much burning.

Swelling of glands with large abdomen in children. Pressure in inguinal ring. Flatulent colic, with shivering and difficult respiration.

Constipation after confinement. Prolapse of rectum. Diarrhœa, with small, white particles. Green discharges. Constipation, with hepatic and uterine inertia. Constriction of anus; stitches and prolapse of rectum.

Red flakes float on top of urine. Hot, bloody Biting, burning in forepart of urethra at the close of micturition. Hæmaturia preceded by cramp pain in the bladder, After urinating, a few drops of blood are passed.

Menses too frequent, soon, profuse. Leucorrhœa like albumen; very corroding.

Enlargement of testicles. Violent sexual desire. Gonorrhœa, with hæmaturia.

Soreness and burning in bones of thorax. Constriction across chest. Cough; worse; eating, irritation lower than can be reached, on taking a warm drink.

Pain in neck and back; worse, motion and at night; intolerant of all touch. Pain and burning in tibia and long bones. Legs and feet go to sleep. Pain in hip and knee.

Eczema; intolerable itching; chilliness with pruritus; worse in bed. Ulcers itch and burn, surrounded by vesicles and shining, fiery-red areola. Zona, with burning pain. Bones, especially long bones, inflamed and swollen; caries, exostosis; pain worse night, touch, damp weather (Merc; Syph). Eruptions ulcerate and form thick scabs under purulent matter exudes (Chrysophanic acid).

Worse, cold air; night, evening until midnight, warm food, touch, motion. Better, open air.

Compare: Dirca palustris-Leather wood--(a gastro-intestinal irritant inducing salivation, emesis and purgation; cerebral hyperæmia; neuralgic pains, with depression, palpitation, and dyspnœa); Merc; Phyt; Rhus; Guaiac; Syph.

Antidotes: Kali hyd; Merc.

Sixth to thirtieth potency.

Pains in the long bones, especially tibia.

Facial neuralgia or toothache, when the pains are greatly < by eating or motions of the jaws, > by radiate heat.

Nose; vesicular eruptions, with excoriations, formation of thick scabs, < at night; zona.

Pains in the long bones, especially the tibia are sometimes greatly relieved by this remedy. I once cured a very obstinate case of facial neuralgia with it. The pains were brought on, or greatly aggravated, by eating, and the only relief he could get was to hold that side of his face as near as he could to a hot stove. Hot cloths, wet or dry, or any other heat applied did not relieve.

Zona. Skin diseases, etc. See Materia Medica.

Restlessness when alone and longing for company. Hypochondriac mood, with low spirits and weeping. Indifference about every thing and ever body around him. Aversion to talk, it seems to him to be hard work to utter one word. Disposed to reproach others or to quarrel. Irresolute. Unable to recollect, the mind is easily confused.

Head feels dull or as if intoxicated. Headache with chilliness, worse in the open air. Headache in the temples, and sides of the head after an exertion and from talking much. Violent headache and great sensitiveness to the least contact after a slight anger. The head is covered with a thick leather-like crust, under which thick and white pus collects here and there, and the hair is glued together. On the head great elevated white scabs, under which ichor collects in great quantity, and which begins to be offensive and breed vermin. The scabs on the head look chalky and extend to the eyebrows and the nape of the neck. Burning, biting itching on the scalp, principally on the vertex ; when scratching the locality changes but the itching, becomes worse ; this is followed by very sore boils and humid eruptions, worse at night and when lying down. Pain in the bones of the scalp (on both sides) with swelling and caries, great sensitiveness to contact, cold, motion, worse in the evening. Numbness of the scalp, with drawing pain in it, generally only on one side ; worse from cold, contact and in the evening. Ameliorated by heat. Dandruff, white, dry.

Inclination to wink with the eyes. Dryness in the eyes, with pressure in them ; the eyes feel too large. Twitching of the muscles around the eyes. Lachrymation, with smarting in the eyes. Staring at one spot.

Itching behind the ears, scratching causes small elevations, they are scratched off and feel sore. The ears feel as if they were too open and as if air were pouring into them, or at ; if the tympanum were exposed to the cold air, with a desire to bore with the fingers into the ear. Otalgia.

Twitching (visible) on the root of the nose. Fluent coryza, soreness of the nose, scabs in the nose, and soreness and burning of the upper lip. The sense of smell is diminished, with dryness of the nose.

Gray, earthy complexion. Frequent, troublesome twitching of the muscles in the middle of the right cheek. Dull cramp pain and benumbing pressure in the right malar bone, extending to the temples. Swelling of the lower lip, with rhagades. The child scratches the face constantly ; it becomes covered with blood. Face and forehead hot and red, with great restlessness and peevishness. In the night the child scratches its face, so that the bed is covered with blood in the morning ; and the face is covered with a scab, which the child keeps constantly tearing off anew, and on the spots thus left raw, large fat pustules form. The ichor from the scratched face excoriates other parts. A honey-like scab around the mouth. The skin of the face is of a deep inflammatory redness, the eruption is humid and fat.

Stinging toothache, which extends to the malar bones and temples. The teeth feel dull, and elongated. Boring, stinging in decayed teeth, extending to the malar bone. The teeth decay suddenly. The teeth pain when touched by the tongue. Burning in the mouth and throat. Burning of the pharynx and œsophagus. Constriction of the pharynx, the food presses on the part during deglutition.

Beer tastes bitter and causes vomiting. Increased appetite noon and evening. Sensation of nausea in the throat. Sensation as if the posterior part of the throat were full of mucus, the same after hawking. Unusual longing for ham fat. Burning in the stomach, mouth and throat, relieved by eating (swallowing the food). Dull pain in the region of the spleen. Many short, fetid, flatulent discharges, especially before the stool.

Constipation, stool dark brown, in knots, very hard balls, with great straining but not painful. Stools soft, brown, smelling sour. Soft stool in the evening, fermented stool, not fully digested smelling very offensive or sour. Excessive diarrhœa (small stools) with intolerable colic. Brown feces, containing some white glistening bodies. Chill before and after the stool. During the stool, prolapsus ani with constriction of the anus, which makes it very difficult to replace it. Before and after the stool, creeping in the rectum as from ascarides. Stitch in the rectum upwards (in the afternoon).

Decreased secretion of urine. In the morning and forenoon, frequent discharges of large quantities of pale urine. The urine becomes flaky and has a red sediment. Hæmaturia. Sticking in the kidney, and pain as if torn. After micturition, itching at the prepuce.

Men. Discharge of mucus from the urethra. Heat and swelling of the penis. Violent erections and increased sexual desire. Painless swelling of the scrotum. Swelling of the testicles. Women. Menses too frequent and lasting too long. Leucorrhœa, resembling albumen, malignant, corroding.

Dyspnœa, as if the chest were contracted, and as if there were adhesion of the lungs. Sensation of constriction of the (muscles of the) chest. Desire to draw a long breath. The chest feels too tight on stooping. Burning and dryness in the trachea, with hoarseness. Soreness and burning in the bones of the thorax. Stitches in the (right side of the) chest, worse from drawing a long breath. Spasmodic, violent hooping-cough, caused by an irritation in the larynx, extending to the chest, expectoration in the morning of a yellow, albuminous, tough mucus, tasting salt. The cough is worse in the evening, till midnight ; or day and night, with tension over the thorax ; when eating or drinking any thing hot (has to cough till the food is vomited up) ; from drinking beer.

Rheumatic pains in the muscles of the shoulder-blade ; they feel tense and swollen, and prevent motion.

Upper. The right arm feels sprained on top of the shoulder. The right hand cold (while writing), the left warm (in a warm room). Cold hands. Trembling of the right hand. The tips of the fingers are powerless, cannot hold anything. The hands (and feet) go to sleep continually. Lower. The right hip-joint feels, sprained on walking. Twitching of the whole right leg. Pain in the hip, the leg is shortened. The whole chin is covered with elevated white scabs. Cracking in the right knee, when rising in the morning. The legs and feet go to sleep. Stitches in the toes, of the right foot. Pain in the periosteum of the long bones, especially the tibia, worse at night in bed, and then the least touch is intolerable.

Tension in the muscles. Twitching in the muscles. Burning of the internal parts, with external chilliness. Sensitiveness to the cold air. Sensitiveness to washing with cold water in the morning.

Great inclination to sleep from debility. Sleep disturbed by violent pain in the face. Awakens after midnight, from vivid dreams and with night-mare.

Pulse full and hard ; in the evening a accelerated ; intermitting at times. Chill predominates even in the warm room. Chill with thirst and desire for heat. Chill from the upper arms, extending to the back and legs. Heat in bed, mostly in the head. Perspiration during sleep, following the chill, without previous heat. Intermittent fever; chill over the whole body, accompanied by asthmatic contraction and tightness of the chest, in front and back. During the cold stage, a peculiar thirst ; dryness in the back part of the mouth, with accumulation of saliva in the fore part without any desire to drink. During the cold stage, drowsiness in the warm room.

Inflammation and swelling of the bones, rachitis, caries. Itching in the evening when in bed, aggravated and changed to burning by touch or by scratching. Sensitiveness to touch. Ulcers : with an areola, sensitive and easily bleeding (when removing the linen, which sticks to the ulcer), painful at night, the pus tends to form an adherent scab, under which a quantity of pus collects, burning and stinging with inflammation. Vesicles around the ulcers, itching violently and burning like fire. Desquamation of the whole body. Suppuration after inflammations.

Aggravation in the evening, at night, from contact, and motion. One side of the body is generally affected. Bad consequences from the abuse of mercury. Amelioration when walking in the open air.

Daphne mezereum. Chamælia germanica. Mezereon, Spurge Olive. (Hilly woods over nearly whole of Europe and Russian Asia.) N. O. Thymelaceæ. Tincture of fresh bark gathered just before the plant flowers in February and March.

Bones, affections of . Coccygodynia. Constipation. Contraction of tendons. Crusta lactea. Ear, affections of ; sensitive to air. Erythema . Exostoses. Eyes, affections of. Glands enlarged. Gleet. Gonorrhœa. Hæmaturia. Hernia. Herpes zoster. Impetigo. Irritation . Leucorrhœa. Mercury, effects of. Neuralgia . Osteoma. Pediculosis. Pityriasis . Prolapsus ani. Pruritus senilis. Rheumatism. Scrofula. Syphilis. Teeth, affections of . Tinea capitis. Tinea versicolor. Tongue, affections of ; swelling of. Ulcers . Vaccination.

An idea of the virulence of this poison may be gathered from a case reported in Allen's Appendix : A pale girl, 14, having been advised to use Mezereum leaves to make her fat and rosy, went into the woods and used them freely on her cheeks and surrounding parts. Burning soon set in, the whole face swelled enormously, especially nose, eyelids, and hairy scalp. Severe and painful sneezing set in, delirium, dull, unbearable, pressing pains in forehead, a nauseous dryness in throat and constant irritation to dry cough. The face soon showed the appearance of erysipelas bullosum; nostrils closed, she could only breathe through mouth; febrile pulse, burning urine. Oil and compresses were applied, and after the second day desquamation occurred in large pieces. But health did not return. Debility, loss of vitality, mental depression bordering on idiocy followed; then typhoid fever, lasting fully three months, to which she finally succumbed. Poisoning has also been observed from the effects of the berries: dryness and burning of throat and stomach; intense thirst; narcotism, coma, convulsions of eyes and upper limbs were observed. In a child of four, poisoned with the berries, these symptoms occurred: Swollen lips; tongue furred and swollen, protruding, swallowing difficult. The tongue remained quite raw when other symptoms had passed away ( H. W ., xxii. 466). Hahnemann records this: A robust man took Mezereum bark for some ailment, and continued it after the ailment disappeared. Soon, unbearable itching set in all over body, could not sleep a moment. Thirty-six hours after discontinuing it the itching was still increasing, then a few grains of Camphor removed it. Mezereum is the vegetable analogue of, and is one of the most important antidotes to, Mercurius . Merc . and Mez . antidote one another. Mind, skin, eyes, mucous membranes and bones are affected in much the same way by both; they have the same sensitiveness to damp, cold, and warmth, and the same nightly aggravations. Nash mentions an exception to the < by warmth. In a man whom he cured with Mez . of obstinate facial neuralgia, the pains were brought on or greatly < by eating , and the only relief the man could get was by holding the painful side close to a hot stove . Only radiated heat was of any use, hot cloths, wet or dry, gave no relief whatever. Mez . affects the long bones more markedly than others, and the least touch is intolerable; but it has, like Merc ., a strong affinity for the facial bones and teeth. With Mez . the decay attacks the roots or sides rather than the crowns (which Merc . attacks). The toothache is < at night, < by touch, even with the tongue, and is > by holding the mouth open and drawing in air. Neuralgia about the eyes; the pains radiate and shoot downward, and if there is in addition a sensation in the eye itself as if a cold wind were blowing in it the indications will be very strong. Mez . is one of Hahnemann's anti-psorics, and it meets many psoric manifestations. Carroll Dunham has recorded ( Science of Therapeutics , 462) a notable case of deafness, due to suppressed psora. A Youth, 17, deaf since four, and incapacitated thereby, secludes himself and broods over his trouble. Membranes thickened. At the age of three he had an eruption of thick, whitish scabs, hard, almost horny, covering the whole scalp. There were fissures through which exuded on pressure a thick, yellowish pus, often very offensive. Much itching and disposition to tear off the scabs with the finger-nails, < at night. The treatment (allopathic) was vigorous: A tar cap was placed on the head, and when firmly adherent to the scabs was violently tom off, scabs and all, leaving the whole scalp raw. This was painted with a saturated solution of Arg. nit . The eruption did not reappear, but from that time the child was deaf. The eruption was the very counterpart of an eruption observed in a proving by Wehle. Mez . 30, three globules in a powder of sugar of milk, was given on each of these dates — February 3, March 1, and September 28, 1857, and January 26, 1858. Improvement set in slowly after the first dose, which was only repeated when the effect of each preceding dose seemed to be exhausted. Finally the hearing was for all practical purposes completely restored. The action of Mez . in catarrhal cases is illustrated in another case ( Amer. Hom ., xxi. 417). Miss M. R., 39, brunette, had chronic catarrh. The left ear had long been deaf, and the right had begun to fail. There were noises in the ears. Drum membranes retracted and scarred. The symptoms were: Excessive sensitiveness to the air, even of a fan, and occasionally a sensation as if air went through to the throat. Mucous membrane of naso-pharynx granular and irritable. A dose of Mez . given before each meal entirely relieved the symptoms. The ulcers of Mez . have thick, yellowish, white scabs. Vesicles appear now and then, and itch and burn. Lint dressings stick to them, and when they are torn away bleeding occurs. Burning vesicles on the sides of the fingers; and ulcers on finger-joints. With eczema there is intolerable itching, < in bed and from touch. Vaccinal eczemas are frequently of the Mez . type. Mez . is often of great service in herpes zoster, both during the eruption and for the neuralgia remaining after, especially if the pains are burning. In a lecture on Mez . by T. S. Hoyne ( Med. Vis ., xiii. 65) are collected many cases illustrating the action of the remedy. Here is a mental case (in a woman) treated by W. E. Payne: No rest when alone; wants company. Ideas vanish while talking; cannot repeat what has been learned by heart. Looks through the window for hours without being conscious of objects around . Does not know what she is about; forgets what she is about to utter; looks ill-humoured, pale, wretched, fallen away. Apprehensiveness at pit of stomach, as when expecting some very unpleasant intelligence . All symptoms relieved in a single night by Mez . 20. (I give the italics as in the original.) Among neuralgic cases are the following: ( 1 ) Man, 28, violent neuralgia, boring pain in left lower jaw-bone, extending to temple and ear. < Night, > from pressure. Mez . 3 relieved in two hours (S. R. Geiser). ( 2 ) H. G., stout, healthy-looking negro, left supra-orbital neuralgia recurring daily at 9 a.m., increasing till noon, declining till 4 p.m., when it entirely departed leaving no soreness behind. Pain = flow of tears. Mez . 1 cured permanently after other remedies had failed Q. W. Vance). ( 3 ) Mrs. X. had pain in right eye-tooth, daily increasing. Felt too long. Pains much < by pressure on crown and outside root. Mez . 2 cured (Oehme). ( 4 ) Toothache in incisor tooth in lady. Tooth feels elongated, loose, excessively sensitive, with sensation as if being raised out of its socket. Upper part of tooth excessively painful. Mez . 200 cured in a few hours (Hempel). ( 5 ) The fastenings of a hammock broke, and a lady on it fell, striking the sacrum and coccyx on the stump of a tree. She suffered excruciating pain. Arn . was applied locally. In a few weeks she came home, and the coccyx was still so tender she could not sit — only lie or stand. Arn . internally and externally for two weeks had no influence. Mez . 2 cured in five days (Oehme). — "Constipation after confinement" has proved a good indication for Mez .: "My stools are as hard as stone, and as large as my arm. I feel as if they would split me open. They come in sections like mouthfuls, and I become much exhausted and tremble with weakness. Every stool is immediately preceded by chills, and followed by long stitches up rectum." Mez . 12 produced a natural stool in twelve hours (H. Noah Martin). Green discharges according to Cooper strongly indicate Mez . It has cured a case of dry crust on scalp and falling out of hair, accompanied with short sight. Daphne laureola , the British representative of the genus, has cured scald-head when Mez . failed. The symptoms in this case were < by day, whereas Mez . has < at night. The pains of D. laureola come on in the morning and affect the entire head or whole left side: Guaiac . pains are also < by day and > by warmth (Cooper). Cooper gives me the following cases: ( 1 ) Woman, 48, had rheumatism which came on ten years before in hands from wearing wet gloves, and extended later to arms and knees; stiffness on walking with loss of muscular power, < in hot weather, "pins and needles" in fingers on elevating arms, cannot grasp things, sometimes one hand burns when other is cold, climacteric flushings. Great relief from Mez . Ø. ( 2 ) Girl, 18, getting thin, with headache across forehead, temples, and eyes, a throbbing with sickness of stomach and water-brash, always < by movement; bowels very confined; menses never appeared. Mez . cured; ( 3 ) Pimples on ankles and backs of feet, horrid taste and clamminess of mouth in morning, pimples > by hard scratching, sluggish bowels. Mez . cured. H. B. Esmond ( H. R ., vii. 41) cured with Mez . 3x a youth, 17, who had been afflicted with "salt rheum" as long as he could remember. It was absent in summer, but every autumn, as soon as cold weather came, face, neck, hands, and forearms would break out and continue sore till warm weather returned. Another indication for Mez . is hypersensitiveness of the ear to air. It has cured a case in which there was a feeling as if air went through the ear to the throat. The rectum and anus are the seat of many characteristic symptoms, stitches, burning itching. During stool the rectum prolapses and the sphincter closes upon the protruded part. This constricting tendency is noticed in the throat and stomach, and also in the tendons. The leg is shortened with pain in hip. Tension in muscles of chest. Pain and stiffness in muscles of neck. Cramp-like contraction over chest and back; and across front of chest. Sensations are: Head as if drunk; as if everything in the head would press asunder; as if skull would split; as if top of head gone; as if head bruised; as if head was in an ants' nest. Eyes as if too large; as if drawn back into head. Ears as if too open; as if air pouring into them; as if tympanum was exposed to cold air; as if air was distending right external meatus. Teeth feel too long. Hard palate, feels as if made of wood. Throat as if narrowing. As if food remained a long time in stomach. Stools feel as if they would split anus. Chest feels too tight. Limbs feel shortened. As if fire darting through muscles. As if millions of insects were crawling on him. Sensation of lightness of body. Bones are very sore and feel distended. Diseased parts wither. Mez . is suited to: Light-haired persons; phlegmatic temperament; irresolute. The plant flowers in very early spring, even when snow is on the ground, and it is suited to complaints which come on in the earliest months of the year. < From cold; damp; cold winds; sudden changes of weather; heat; warm food. Head pains are > wrapping up head. Prosopalgia > by heat of stove (not by other heat). Drawing in air > toothache. < From touch or pressure. < From motion. Lying down < itching of scalp. Stooping > headache. < Evening and night. < During menses (burning itching inner side of throat). Affections go from above downward; from within outward; and from right to left.

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Weak memory and debility. θ Prosopalgia.
Unable to recollect what has very recently occurred ; every intercurrent remark of others disturbs and confuses his ideas.
Mental dulness ; weakness of reasoning powers.
Irresolute ; mind easily confused, unable to recollect ; thinking is difficult.
No rest when alone ; wants to be in company ; ideas vanish while talking ; unable to repeat what has been learned by heart ; looks through window for hours, without being conscious of objects around ; knows not what she is about ; forgets what she is about
to utter ; looks ill humored, pale, wretched, fallen away ; apprehensiveness at pit of stomach, as when expecting some very unpleasant news.
Aversion to talk, it seems hard work to utter one word.
Hypochondriacal mood, with low spirits and weeping.
Despairs of eternal salvation.
Indifference to everything and everybody.
Hypochondriacal and despondent, takes no pleasure in anything ; everything seems to him dead and nothing makes a vivid impression upon his mind.
Inclined to get angry with others about trifles ; everything vexes him, he wants to say annoying and vexatious things ; is soon sorry for it.
Thought is difficult ; takes no interest while reading or listening ; whatever happens affects him less than usual ; mental dulness.
Very much distracted ; is unable to dwell long upon any subject.

Head feels dull or as if drunk ; > after meals and by work.
Giddiness, with contracted pupils ; vertigo and flickering before eyes ; is inclined to fall to left side, with faintness.
Blood seems to leave extremities and make her feel weak and giddy, with inability to speak.

Right sided megrim.
Pressive pain from within outward in left temple.
Headache, extending from root of nose into forehead, as if everything would press asunder ; pain in temples when touched ; heat and perspiration on head, chilliness and coldness in rest of body, in morning.
Boring in bones of occiput.
Headache after moving about and talking much, especially in temples and side of vertex.
Very violent headache ; head painful to slightest touch (after a slight vexation).
Headache : with chilliness ; < in open air ; > by stooping ; of scrofulous or syphilitic origin ; produced by suppression of eczema ; accompanying exostoses, or nocturnal bone pains, or caries of jaw ; with itching of whole body.
Sensation as if upper part of head was pithy.
Pressing pains as if skull would split.
Syphilitic affections of brain.

Numb feeling in top of head, or as if top of head was gone.
Pain in bones of skull, mostly < by touch.
Aching pain in vertex and occiput, < at night and > towards morning ; while pain lasted she groaned, wept and sobbed ; very sensitive and irritable ; during violence of pain cold shudder down back, hands cool, feet as if bruised ; simultaneously with head pains
severe pains in bones of upper arm and shin bone ; a distinct thickening of scalp could be felt in painful parts, which were sensitive to touch ; pains < on entering room, on sudden changes of weather, from cold winds and cold, damp air ; > when body began to perspire,
but if she covered herself in order to get into a sweat, pains were < at once ; when pains are < has a feeling of paralysis in limbs, cannot move them well, they feel very heavy ; if she attempts motion pain is < θ Cephalalgia
periostitica.
Cranial bones pain, are swollen and sensitive to cold and contact ; < from motion and in evening ; caries ; itching, burning of scalp.
Pains in bones of head, so severe as almost to cause fainting ; skull bones in several places elevated and symptoms seem to indicate that brain was being pressed upon either by extravasation or an exostosis. θ Syphilis.
Scalp numb, with drawing pain, generally only on one side.
Scalp on both sides of vertex painful to touch.
Burning, biting, itching on scalp, < on vertex ; scratching changes locality, but increases itching, sore boils follow, < at night and when lying down.
Dandruff, white, dry ; dry scurf on scalp.
Head covered with a thick, leather-like crust, under which thick, white pus collects here and there and hair is glued together. θ Tinea capitis.
Scabs on head look chalky, and extend to eyebrows and to nape of neck.
Elevated, white, chalk-like scabs, with ichor beneath ; breeding vermin.
Moist, itching eruption on head and behind ears.
Itching of scalp ; pain in cranial bones, < at night, with itching and burning in skin, < by rubbing ; burning in skin of vertex and temples ; itching in eyebrows ; burning, itching in nostrils and in side of ears ; pimples on scalp. θ Pityriasis
capitis.
Eruption on scalp, preceded by violent headache for six months ; scalp covered with scurf, hair comes out in handfuls ; hair of eyebrows and eyelashes drop out ; scalp and face itch violently, especially when she gets warm, and if she attempts to wash anything steam from
warm water causes her nose, eyes and face to itch ; desquamation ; she dare not approach fire from intense itching caused by doing so ; scurf comes off scalp when scratched "like fish scales ;" spots of a similar nature come out on thighs, back and chest ;
terrible irritation in vagina, which has continued for a year unaccompanied by any abnormal discharge. θ Pityriasis capitis.
A growth as large as a thaler on middle of forehead, projecting about four lines ; came and went spontaneously and suddenly ; scaly exfoliation of skin.
Dry eruption on head, with intolerable itching as if head was in an ant's nest. θ Favus.

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The principal use of this remedy is in eruptions and ulcerations.

The most violent and important of its symptoms are those of mucous membranes, skin and periosteum. The outer surfaces of the body are in a constant state of irritation; nervous feelings, biting, tingling, itching, changing place from scratching. Even when there is nothing to be seen, there is violent itching and the patient rubs and scratches until the part becomes raw and then burns; itching changes place; the part becomes cold after scratching, cold in spots. Itching changing place after scratching, especially when associated with no visible cause.

As soon as he gets warm in bed or as soon as he goes into a warm room, the itching begins. Formication, itching, biting. The patient is so nervous that he is compelled to move, to change positions.

Vesicular eruptions upon the skin, running a certain course, itching, burning like fire; dries into a crust and disappears; a new crop appears near or in the same place. Vesicles form crusts beneath which is ulceration; these crusts turn white, chalk-like, are thick, tough and leathery.

They are often elevated; fluctuation beneath the crusts; pressure causes thick, white pus, sometimes yellow-white, to ooze forth; violent itching. The pains are aggravated by cold, but the itching and restlessness are worse from beat. A child tears. at the eruption with its fingers when the crusts are present.

Scald-head; thick, white, elevated crusts; copious, white or yellow white pus, often offensive, putrid; vermin are often found among the crusts. Acrid pus eating away the hair; the eruption spreads to any part of the scalp, especially to the top; it is also found beneath the ears, and about the face and chin.

Eruptions with much itching; dark, red rash with violent itching, biting, tingling, crawling, changing place by pressure, rubbing or scratching. Cases with a history of suppressed eczema or syphilis. Eruptions upon the legs and arms, on parts with poor circulation as the ears, wrists, backs of the bands; skin eruptions followed by ulcers; discharging a thick, white, offensive matter.

Especially useful where eruptions have been suppressed by zinc ointment, mercurial salve, etc. Eruptions on the face, eyes, ears and scalp in child or adult, which have disappeared under the use of some ointment and inveterate catarrhal conditions have resulted, or in which eye symptoms have developed; conjunctiva chronically swollen, ectropion, granular lids, conjunctival surfaces like raw beef; fissures in the comers of the eye; red cicatrices about the eyes where the eruptions have been; dry spots and enlarged veins about the eyes and nose; skin feels indurated.

Ear troubles from suppressed eruptions; thickening of the mucous membranes of the ears; degeneration of the drum of the car; deafness, otorrhoea.

Offensive and troublesome catarrh of the nose; incrustations, thickening of the mucous membrane, ulceration; he hawks thick, yellow matter out of the throat; has been cauterized, atomized, etc., and yet the offensive ozoena remains. The periosteum is affected so that it breaks down. Advanced state of atrophic degeneration of the mucous membranes of the throat and nose.

In the throat, thickening, burning, chronic redness, tumefaction, smarting, soreness on swallowing; granulations and ulcerations of the throat.

Perforating ulcers of the soft palate, all due to suppressed eruptions. Give the remedy and you will have a copious eruption in the original place; if not, there will be no relief. Often the deafness cannot be cured, because the drum of the ear or the whole ear is destroyed, is white, chalky, and contains no blood-vessels; a state of atrophic catarrh, so that there is too much structural change for hearing to be restored, yet the patient can be cured.

Has all the catarrhal states, the ulcerations and patches of copper colored eruptions found in syphilis.

When outward manifestations are pronounced, its internal manifestations are scanty. It tends to manifest the sufferings of the body on the skin; it throws the physical evils to the surface, hence, the Mez. patient is in fairly good health when the eruptions are out; when they are suppressed, then catarrhal affections, bone diseases, nervous disorders, strange mental symptoms constipation, rheumatism, and joint symptoms appear; he becomes a mental wreck.

Religious or financial melancholy; melancholy which shapes itself upon the patient's business; indifference to everybody and everything; irritable; thought is difficult; memory weak; absent minded; has no rest when alone, yet averse to talking. Insanity with melancholy, sadness, and a history of eruptions that have called for Mez.

Violent headaches and brain affections; pains rending, tearing; boring; head painful to touch; syphilitic affection of the brain; headaches through the sides of the head as if in the bone; feels as if the head would be crushed (closely related to Merc. and Kali iod.).

Headache extending from the root of the nose to the forehead ( Merc. and Hepar ). Pains in the head cause faintness ( Hepar). Pains in the bones of the skull aggravated by touch; bones feel as if scraped.

The hair mats together.

"Head covered with thick, leather-like crusts, under which thick, white pus collects here and there, and glues the hair together.

Scabs on the head look chalky and extended to the eyebrows and nape of neck.

Elevated, white, chalk-like scabs with ichor beneath, breeding vermin."

Neuralgias, sciatica, pain in the spine, in the brachial plexus and down the arms; neuralgia of the face; all following suppressed eruptions.

The Mez. patient is sensitive to warm air as far as the skin and. eruptions are concerned, but very sensitive to damp or cold weather as to the neuralgias. After the eruptions have given place to internal manifestations, the patient is chilly, sensitive to the changes of the weather, worse in stormy weather; worse after a bath, because he takes cold and his internal complaints are aggravated. The eruptions are aggravated after washing.

When the eruptions are not out, the skin is hot and he wants something to cool it; he is better from cool water; there is simply a redness at this time. The itching is aggravated from bathing in warm water.

Ulceration about the roots of the teeth; a scrofulous condition of the gums, which bleed, settle away from the teeth; the teeth decay suddenly.

The face is sickly, full of ulcers, old scars, boils, etc. The anaemic face may flush up at times, but it is usually pale, gray, and waxy, expressive of a cachexia met with in some bone diseases.

Sensation of goneness, fear, apprehension, faintness in the stomach, as if something would happen; every shock, pain and hearing bad news, cause this apprehensive, hungry, faint, weak, all-gone feeling in the pit of the stomach. It comes on when the door-bell rings, if the patient is expecting the postman, while waiting at the depot for the arrival of a friend or the departure of the cars; on being introduced to sonic one, he experiences a thrill beginning in the stomach is "frightened in the stomach."

Cal., Kali carb., Phos. and Mez. have this. These "solar-plexus" individuals often have a deep cracked tongue and are hard to cure.

Worse from the warmth of the bed (hence related to Merc. and syphilis). Neuralgia worse in bed and at night, relieved by the external application of heat, but worse afterward; better in the open air.

Inflammatory rheumatism, worse from the warmth of the bed and at night; worse from touch; pains run down the bones; bursting sensation in the bones. They feel enlarged; tearing pains in the periosteum, necrosis, caries, fistulous openings discharging briny particles and large ulcers surrounded by pustules.

For light-haired, irresolute persons of a phlegmatic temperament.

Hypochondriacal and despondent; indifferent to everything and everybody; angry at trifles and perfectly harmless things, but is soon sorry for it.

Eczema: intolerable itching, < in bed and from touch; copious, serous exudation; itching eruptions after vaccination.

Child scratches face continually, which is covered with blood; eruptions moist; itching < at night; inflammatory redness of face.

Violent headache, after slight vexation; it was painful on the slightest touch; generally right side.

The head is covered with a thick, leather-like crust, under which thick and white pus collects here and there; hair is glued together; pus after a time is ichorous, becomes offensive, breeds vermin.

Toothache: in carious teeth (Kreos.); feel elongated, dull pain when biting on them and when touched with tongue, < at night; > with mouth open and drawing in air.

Ulcers covered with thick, whitish-yellow scabs, under which thick yellow pus collects.

Linen or charpie sticks to the ulcers, when it is torn away they bleed.

Vesicles appear around the ulcers, itch violently, burn like fire (Hep.); fiery-red, shining areola around.

Bones, especially long bones, inflamed, swollen; nightly pains going from above downwards; after abuse of Merc., after venereal diseases; caries; exostoses, tumors soften from within out.

Pain in periosteum of long bones < at night in bed, least touch, in damp weather (Mer., Phyt.).

Neuralgic burning pains, after zona.

Cold air; cold washing; night; contact, motion; one side (right) is usually affected; bad effects of mercury or alcohol.

Fevers tend to remittent or typhoid. Epidemics occurring in January and February often call for Mezereum.

With thirst, with dry mouth posteriorly, and much saliva anteriorly; predominates even in a warm room, with sleepiness; from upper arms extending to back and legs (Mer.). Chilliness out of bed; heat in bed (same during heat, Mer.). Asthmatic constriction and oppression of chest (oppression of chest as if the patient would smother, Apis). Chilliness, of single parts, as if dashed with cold water, especially over arms, abdomen, hips, feet, with yawning, while face and hands are warm (Led.). Great chilliness over the whole body, hands and feet very cold, with blue nails, with small hot spot on top of the head. External coldness for 36 hours, with great thirst, without desire for warmth or dread of open air, and without subsequent heat (chill 24 hours, Aran.—12 hours, Canth.). Chill > by heat (Ars., Ign.—> by drinking, Ipec., Caust.). Very sensitive to cold air—less so in hot stage.

Burning of internal parts with external chilliness. Heat of left side of body (of right side, Meny.). Following the chill, intense heat with sleep, sweat breaking out during sleep (deep sleep as chill passes off and breaks out with urticaria, Apis—falls asleep at climax of hot stage, and sweats profusely, Pod.).

Skin dripping with cold perspiration.

Thick, white coating on the tongue, with large, red, elevated papillæ (Acon., Bell.).

Full and hard; accelerated in the evening; intermittent at times; morning frequent, evening slow.

Headache; pale face; hardness and swelling of the spleen, with pressive pain in left hypochondrium; loss of appetite; sensitiveness to cold air. General weakness. Great tendency to run into remittent or typhoid, particularly the latter.

Chill; severe, long-lasting; of single parts; great thirst, no desire for heat or dread of open air, no subsequent fever.

Heat; intense, with sleep, sweat breaking out during sleep.

Sweat; drenching, cold.

Easily confused, unable to recollect; thinking is difficult.
Restless when alone, longs for company.
Apprehensiveness felt at the pit of stomach, as when expecting unpleasant news.
Hypochondriacal, with low-spirits and weeping.
Indifference to everything and everybody.
Angry at trifles: is soon sorry for it.
Irresolute.

Head feels dull, or as if drunk; better after meals.

Headache in temples and sides of head after exertion and from talking much.
Violent headache with great sensitiveness to the least contact after slight anger.
Headache with dulness, worse in the open air.
Headache relieved by stooping.
Sensation as if the upper part of the head were pithy.

Head covered with a thick, leathery crust, under which pus collect and mats the hair.
Elevated, white, chalk-like scabs, with ichor beneath; breeding vermin.
Burning, biting, itching on scalp, worse on vertex; scratching changes locality; but increases the itching, sore boils follow, worse at night and when lying down.
Cranial bones pain, are swollen and sensitive to cold or contact; worse from motion and in the evening; caries; itching, burning of scalp.
Scalp numb, with drawing pain, generally only on one side; worse from cold, contact, and in the evening.
Hair covered with scurf, hair comes out in handfuls; scalp and face itch violently, worse when warm; white scales; desquamation; pityriasis.

Staring at one spot; vacant look.
Inclination to wink.
Dryness in the eyes, with pressure in them; they feel too large.
Annoying twitching of the muscles of left upper lid.
Lachrymation, with smarting in the eyes.
Ciliary neuralgia, especially after operations on the eyes.

Feels as if too open, and as if air were pouring into them; or, as if the tympanum were exposed to the cold air, with a desire to bore with the fingers into the ear.
Chronic diffuse otitis.
Itching behind the ears, scratching causes small elevations, when scratched off the spots feel sore.

Ineffectual irritation to sneeze.
Sneezing: with coryza; with sore pain in the chest.
The sense of smell diminished, with dryness of the nose.
Twitching (visible) on the root of the nose.
Fluent coryza, soreness of and scabs in the nose; soreness and burning of the upper lip.
Constant excoriation of the nose.

Grey, earthy complexion.
Face swollen, burning pains, confluent vesicles; nares closed; erysipelas bullosum.
Child continually scratches the face, which is covered with blood; face and forehead hot and red; restlessness; irritability; itching worse at night; it tears off the scabs, leaving spots, on which fat pustules form.
The ichor from scratched face excoriates other parts.
Prosopalgia, left-sided; from over eye to eyeball, cheek, teeth, neck and shoulder; lachrymation; conjunctiva injected, parts sensitive to touch.
Neuralgic pains come quickly, and leave the part numb, worse from warmth.
Intolerable nightly burning pains in abscess of the antrum of Highmore; periosteum more affected than the bones, with dull, crampy pain referred to malar bone, with anguish, pale face, chilliness or cold sweat.
Facial muscles drawn tense.
Frequent, troublesome, muscular twitching of the right cheek.

Honey-like scabs about the mouth.
Neuralgia of inframaxillaris.
Chin covered with elevated, white scabs.

Boring and stinging toothache, which extends to malar bones and temples; chilliness.
The teeth feel dull and elongated.
The teeth decay suddenly, on the side, above the gums.
The tartar on teeth becomes rough.
Toothache, worse at night; when touched with the tongue; better with mouth open, and from drawing in air.

Thick, white coating on the tongue, with large, red, elevated papillæ; middle fissured.
Dark redness of the fauces; burning dryness even into larynx; worse every winter; syphilis.

Burning in the mouth and throat.
Saliva almost always increased.
Breath smells like rotten cheese.

Dry feeling in throat; some difficulty in swallowing; constant chilliness, even in bed.
Burning of the pharynx and œsophagus.
Constriction of the pharynx, the food presses on the part during deglutition.
Sensation as if the posterior part of the throat were full of mucus, the same after hawking.

Canine hunger noon and evening.
Wants ham fat; coffee, wine.
Appetite poor.

Beer tastes bitter, causes vomiting.
Generally worse from wine.
After meals: 2. Eating: 17; or drinking: 27.

Nausea in throat and stomach; vomit bitter, sour; slimy.

Burning and uneasiness in stomach; relieved by eating; canine hunger at noon and evening.

Dull pain in region of spleen; hardness and swelling with pressive pain.

Many discharges of fetid flatus, more before stool.
Stool: soft, brown, sour, fermented; contains glistening bodies; undigested; worse in the evening; also from suppressed eruption.
During stool prolapsus recti; anus becomes painful and constricted about the fallen rectum.
Painful constriction, tearing and drawing at the anus, perineum and through urethra; fissure of anus.
Stool dark-brown, hard balls, much but painless and without straining.

Sticking in the kidney and pain as if torn.
In morning and forenoon frequent and copious discharges of pale urine.
Secretion of urine diminished.
Urine becomes flaky and has red sediment.
Hæmaturia preceded by crampy pain in bladder.

Violent erections and increased sexual desire.
Testicles swollen.
Painless swelling of the penis.
Fine, pricking stitches in penis and at summit of glans.
Discharge of watery mucus; stinging and titillating through the whole urethra and perineum; urethra sore to touch. θ Gonorrhœa.

Menses: too soon, profuse and long-lasting; scanty, with leucorrhœa and prosopalgia.
Uterine ulcer, with smarting, burning, or prickling sensation; discharge albuminous, sometimes tinged with blood.
Leucorrhœa, like the white of an egg; corroding.

Voice failing or interrupted.
Burning and dryness in the trachea, with hoarseness.

Dyspnœa, as if from adhesions, or contraction of lungs.
On stooping, chest feels too tight.
Desire to take a long breath.

Spasmodic, caused by irritation from larynx to chest; sputa in the morning, of yellow, viscid mucus, tasting saltish, or like an old catarrh. θ Whooping-cough.
Cough worse: evening until 12 P.M., or day and night, with tension over thorax; when eating or drinking anything hot, must cough until food is vomited; from beer.

Stitches in right side of chest, worse drawing a long breath.
Cramp-like contraction over both chest and back.

Pulse full, hard, accelerated evenings; at times intermittent; frequent mornings, slow evenings.

Pain from stiffness of nape and external cervical muscles.
Rheumatic pains in scapular muscles; they feel tense and swollen, preventing motion.

Pain in shoulder-joints, as if it would be torn asunder.
Sore feeling in the right axilla.
Right hand cold, left warm; or, both cold.
Trembling of the right hand.
Finger-ends powerless cannot hold anything.
Hands "go to sleep".

Twitching pain from hip-joint to the knee.
Right hip-joint feels sprained on walking.
Pain in the hip, the leg is shortened.
Cracking in the right knee, when rising in the morning.
Drawing pains, sensation of internal heat of limb, surface being cool; better in open air.
The legs and feet "go to sleep".
Stitches in the toes of the right foot.
Pain in the periosteum of the long bones, especially the tibiæ, worse at night in bed, and then the least touch is intolerable; worse in damp weather. θ Syphilis.

Motion: 4, 31. After exertion: 3. Stooping: 3. Rising: 33. Lying: 4.

Great inclination to sleep, from debility.
Sleep disturbed by violent pain in the face.
Awakens after midnight, from vivid dreams and with nightmare; worse on awaking.

Morning: 21, 27, 29, 33. Forenoon: 21. Noon: 14. Evening: 4, 14, 27, 29. Night: 4, 8, 10, 27, 33, 46. After night: 37. Day and night: 27.

Better walking in the open air: yet sensitive to cold air or to cold washing in the morning.
Better wrapping up the head and keeping in a dark room. θ Prosopalgia.
Warmth: 4, 8, 40. In bed: 13, 33, 46. Cold: 4. Open air: 3, 33, 40. Damp weather: 33. Drawing air in mouth: 10. Winter: 13.

Chill from upper arms to back and legs.
Chill of single parts as if dashed with cold water.
Chill even in warm room, drowsy; lessened out-doors; thirst; back of the mouth dry; much saliva in forepart; cramp in the chest, an asthmatic constriction and oppression.
Hands and feet cold, nails blue, hot sensation on small spot on top of head.
External coldness, great thirst, no desire for warmth, no dread of open air, no subsequent heat.
Chill lessened by heat.
Heat in bed, mostly in head, one sided (left) heat.
Burning of internal parts with external chilliness.
Intense heat, after chill, with sleep.
Sweat during sleep following the chill.
Skin dripping with cold sweat.

Right: 8, 28, 32, 38. Left: 5, 8, 18, 32, 40.

Emaciation of face or of diseased parts.
Joints feel bruised, weary as if they would give way.
Cystic osteoma, burning pains, swelling; worse at night.
Bones inflamed, swollen, especially shafts of cylindrical bones; caries; after abuse of mercury; feel distended.
Soreness and burning in bones of thorax.

Touch: 3, 4, 8, 10, 22, 33, 43. Scratching: 6, 8, 46. Boring with finger: 6.

Roughness and scaling here and there; skin of hands rough and dead.
Violent itching, worse in bed, from touch; burning and change of place after scratching.
Eczema itching intolerably, copious serous exudation.
Ulcerative eruption on finger-joints, itching most at night.
Brownish miliary rash on chest, arm and thighs.
Vesicles form a brownish scab.
Pruritis senilis, intolerable itching.
Ulcers, areolæ sensitive; easily bleeding; painful at night; pus under scabs; burning vesicles around ulcers.
Scabs thick, lamellated, like rupia, bloody secretion beneath; worse on parts devoid of at.
Neuralgia and burning after zona.
Vesicular erysipelas.
Scurf-like fish-scales on back, chest and thighs and scalp.

Phlegmatic temperature.

Antidotes to Mezer.: Calc. carb. (headache); Nux vom. (neuralgia of eye).
Mezer. is frequently indicated against bad effects of Mercur., Nitr ac.; Phosphor.; spirituous liquors.

A tincture is made of the fresh bark of Daphne Mezereum, L.

It produces violent inflammation of all mucous membranes and of the skin; internally the inflammation is characterized by burning, externally by violent itching. ▶ In addition, its neuralgias are very marked, they attack principally the face, but occasionally other parts. ▶ The periosteum of the jaw and of the long bones becomes the seat of an inflammatory process which is followed by its legitimate results.

Mercury, Rhus t., Ars., Nit. ac., Iod., Phyto., Nux v., Zinc.

Flesh dried and shrivelled. ▶ Stretching. ▶ Tremulous condition as after too much wine. ▶ Stitches over whole body; in various parts; in evening, agg. left chest; in various parts, with crawling; hot, jerking, on various parts. ▶ Tearing in different parts when sitting. ▶ Boring in knees, tibiæ, wrists and behind ears, all day when walking and sitting; drawing B. in arms, knees, skull, bones of feet and ankles, agg. above ankle and wrist. ▶ Pain in left upper arm, right thumb-joint, left ankle and right temple, in morning after waking, with boring; P. in tibiæ and other parts of body, even when walking; shifting P., inclined to return to original spot; rheumatic, in nape, throat and occiput. ▶ Drawing pain through whole left side of body, with sensation of falling asleep, agg. hand and foot; wandering D. pain in lumbar region, occiput, shoulders, flesh of thighs and in various parts of head. ▶ Drawing or jerking, now here, now there, then aching. ▶ Cramplike constriction across lower pectoral muscles, lower part of back and upper arms, when walking in open air.

Oppression. ▶ Feeling of great lightness of body. ▶ General sick feeling; amounting to nausea on going into a close room, amel. open air. ▶ Discomfort, amel. towards noon; D., with yawning, stretching, pain in abdomen and eructations. ▶ Swollen feeling in affected parts on touch, without swelling. ▶ Sensitiveness to cold air (Ars., Kali, Dulc., Mosch., Nux v., Rhus); agg. head, and sensation when sitting in the house as of a cold wind on head. ▶ Sensitiveness to cold water in morning when washing and in teeth when drinking. ▶ Desire to walk in open air alternating with dread of open air. ▶ When walking inclination to go with upper part of body bent forward, to hurry and to sing, though everything is performed with difficult. ▶ Restlessness (Ars., Rhus t.). ▶ Indolence; after deep sleep, with weakness. ▶ Weakness; in morning on rising; in afternoon; in afternoon, and sleep for four hours, with agreeable dreams (with faceache, which never quite woke her); in evening without ability to sleep; when walking; amel. a short nap; with inclination to sleep, at least to lie outstretched; with mental depression bordering on idiocy. ▶ Aggravation in left half of body; of pains, by rest (Rhus t.); (of effects of wine). ▶ Pains rarely appeared in bed, did not disturb sleep, but reappeared after waking.

Delirium. ▶ Feels intoxicated, speaks without reflection, but very lively. ▶ Merry after dinner, inclined to sing, dances, jokes and laughs, as if intoxicated by wine; M. mood changing to depression. ▶ Cheerfulness and desire to work. ▶ Hypochondriac, everything seems dead, nothing makes a vivid impression on his mind. ▶ Sad (Ign., Nat. m.); and every trifle affects him disagreeably, indifferent to the whole world, disinclined to work. ▶ Weeping mood. ▶ Anxiety; at noon before eating, with palpitation and necessity to lie down; in evening, with trembling; in attacks in evening, with weeping, palpitation, coldness over whole body and weakness of limbs.

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Inflammation of mucous membranes and of the skin, with burning internally and itching externally.
Neuralgia, particularly of the face.
Periosteal inflammations of various bones.

Sensitiveness to cold air.
Paralytic tension and tightness of the limbs.
Jerking and twitching of the muscles.
Symptoms are usually one-sided.
General aggravation on motion and touch, and in the evening.

Hypochondriac mood.
Very ill humored.
Thought difficult, dull.
Memory weak.

Pain on the slightest touch, especially in the temples and sides, with shivering and chilliness, < open air.
One-sided stupefying headache.
Bone pain on the vertex, < touch.
Moist and itching eruption on the head.
Eruption on the scalp becomes scabby, with suppuration underneath, with itching and burning.

Inflammation, with dryness.
Smarting in the eyes compels rubbing.
Jerking of the muscles of the upper lid.
Eyeballs feel too large.

Ears feel too open, as if distended by air.
Various pains in the ears; difficult hearing, with ringing noises.

Clinical:
Deafness following the suppression of the pustular eruption on the scalp.
Inflammation, with a feeling as if the drum were exposed to the cold air.

Margins of the nostrils inflamed, painful.
Pressing asunder pain at the root of the nose, extending into the forehead, with pain in the temples, heat and sweat on the head, coldness of the rest of the body.
Nose dry, with diminished smell.
Sneezing, with fluent coryza; sore pain in the chest, followed by yellow discharge, with soreness and burning pain.

Inflammation, with pustular eruptions.
Jerkings of the muscles in the middle of the cheek.
Neuralgia, tearing and boring in one side, with burning.
Sudden pain, wakes from sleep.
Tearing or boring pains in the jaws.
Eruptions around the mouth, with fluent coryza.
Lips dry, stick together.
Lips become shiny and painful, with burning soreness.

Rapid decay of teeth; they feel too long and sore, < cold air and at night.
Shooting pains in the teeth, which involve the side of the face and extend to the temples.
Burning in the whole mouth, extending to the stomach; with salivation.

Burning and scraping; a feeling of constriction in the throat.
Irritation in the throat provokes hacking cough.
Dryness and burning in the pharynx extends to œsophagus.

Unnatural appetite, noon and evening.
Empty eructations.
Nausea felt particularly in the throat, > eating.
Vomiting of beer or of bitter green mucus; with bitter taste.
Burning in the stomach, with pain on pressure, extends transversely, < pressure.

Clinical:
A gastric ulceration, with burning; temporarily relieved by eating; vomiting of blood or even evacuation of blood with the stools.

Flatulent symptoms, with burning; abdomen hard and distended.
Tearing pains.
Severe pain in the region of the spleen.

Burning and sore pain in the rectum; diarrhœa, with abdominal pain.
Stools preceded and followed by shivering.

Clinical:
Sour, undigested diarrhœa, preceded by colic, followed by chilliness; constipation, with prolapsus of the rectum, which is difficult to reduce on account of constriction of the anus.

Blood is discharged after the urine.
Biting, burning pain in the fore part of the urethra at the close of micturition.
Urine hot, with red sediment; bloody.

Menstruation frequent and prolonged.
Vaginal discharge like the white of an egg, corrosive burning.

Hoarseness and cough and rawness in the chest.
Cough < eating, even to vomiting; worse in the evening in bed and in the morning, caused by an irritation in the trachea, which seems to be lower down than can be reached by the cough.
Constriction across chest as if the lungs were adherent.
Painful tension in the intercostal muscles.

Stiff pain in the nape of the neck and muscles of the sides, < motion.
Pain in the muscles of the back like a tension, < motion.

Trembling.
Pain in periosteum of long bones, especially in the tibiæ, < night in bed, with intolerance of all touch.
Tearing pains in the long bones, with chilliness and shivering, sensitive to cold air.
Pains in the tibiæ as if the periosteum would be torn off, after midnight, disturbing sleep.
Burning in the tibiæ.

Itching at night, after scratching; swelling when the itching becomes worse.
Desquamation over the whole body.
Old ulcers burn and sting; or become covered with scabs under which yellow matter collects.
Eczema on the face of a child, which is constantly scratched until it bleeds.

Clinical:
Herpetic or eczematous eruptions, with tendency to ulcerate and form scabs, from under which pus exudes.
Itching intolerable, aggravated by scratching, with burning, aggravated at night and by heat.
Impetiginoides eczema of the face, with formation of scabs and oozing of offensive matter.
Herpes zoster.
Psoriasis.
Lupus.

Much yawning and stretching: irresistible sleepiness during the day.
Nightmare at night.

Chill, mostly external, without desire for warmth.
Chill associated with most other symptoms.
Heat internal, even with external coldness.

MEZEREUM. DAPHNE MEZEREUM, SPURGE OLIVE. [*].

[] The pathogenesis of Mezereum belongs to the same category as Manganese. It is composed almost entirely of provings published in the Fragmenta de Viribus (1805) and the fourth volumes of the Archiv (1825) -the latter being avowedly made with the mother tincture. The only additions here are the communications from the two students, of whom "H" was Hering. Of these we have no information. (See Cyclop. of Drug Pathogenesy, III, 301.). -Hughes*.

In early spring, when the shrub is about to bloom, its bark is gathered. Originally the juice of the fresh green bark was pressed out and preserved, mixed with equal parts of alcohol, and raised to the homœopathic dynamization by shaking. This juice, when it touches the skin, causes a long continued, very painful burning. But since the medicinal virtue of this bark does not consist in its volatile parts, it will be better to dry it and powder it, and then to triturate it with 100 parts of sugar of milk, and then to potentize it like the other dry medicinal substances, as directed in the first part of this work. Dr. Stapf, the Medicinal Councilor and baronet, has given in No. 2 of the fourth volume of the Archiv a summary view of the chief properties of this very active drug. This medicine has so far proved itself useful in diseases which were accompanied by the following symptoms : Humid itching eruption on the head and behind the ears ; inflammation of the eyes ; chronic leucorrhœa ; shortening of a lower limb ; nightly itching of the body. The abbreviations of the names of my fellow observers are as follows : Frz., Dr. Franz ; C., Dr. Caspari ; Gff., Dr. Aug. Baron v. Gersdorff ; Gr., Dr. Gross ; Htb., Dr. Hartlaub ; Rkt., Th. Rueckert, Schk., Dr. Schoenke ; Tth., Dr. Teuthorn ; and H. and W., two medicinal students in Leipzig.

Very sad, every trifle affected him disagreeably ; blunted as to all impressions from without, he does not take pleasure in anything, indisposed to work.

Hypochondriac and melancholy, nothing pleases him, every thing seemed to him as if dead, and nothing made a vivid impression on him. [Frz.].

Weeps for a fortnight.

Apprehensiveness in the scrobiculus cordis, as if he expected something disagreeable. [C.].

[5] Anxiety, in the evening, with trembling of the limbs and of the whole body.

Great anguish, with violent palpitation, at noon before dinner ; she could not keep up, but had to lie down.

Restless when alone, he wishes to be in company. [H.].

Introverted, tired of life and longing for death.

With morose face, he always looks down and is very cross. [Tth.].

[10] None but disagreeable, annoying thoughts come into his mind.

Sensitive, peevish mood. [Gff.].

He looks extremely peevish, pale, cachectic and emaciated. [Gr.].

Constantly peevish and cross. [Gr.].

Disposed to reproach others. [Htb.].

[15] Inclined to quarrel. [C.].

Violent boiling over with passion about trifles, for which he is soon sorry. [Gr.].

He finds it difficult to come to a determination. [H.].

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Mez. / (2d M.) / Miser.

Mezereum,-Thee we see
Close of kin to Mercury.
All thy ailments worse at night,
All thy bones in tender plight,
Scalp with leathery crust o'erspread,
Or with dandruff thick inlaid.
Skin on which hard crusts abound,
Ulcers edged with pimples round.
Scabs and scales that itch and bleed,
Bloody urine-yea, indeed.
Every skin and gland complaint,
Showing syphilitic taint.
Ranula to this we add,
And a mind despondent-sad.

The Miser,-Has Ranula.

The Miser, Nick Amber, Came to tea.

This Miser,-Who is subject to scald head,- Is at Clem Ole's, in charge of the dames, Iris and Viola.

Ranula: Mez., Nit. a., Amb., Cal. c., Mer., Thuj. (Blue ranula, Thuj.)

Scald-Head-Favus: Mez., Clem., Ole., Cal. c., Hep., Rhus., Graph., Dul., Mer., Sul., Iris, Viol. t.

Indicated in certain affections of the skin and bones, and in neuralgia; seems best adapted to persons of light complexion, hesitating, irresolute.

Sensitiveness to cold air;

Desire for ham-fat.

Roots of the teeth decay; neuralgia of (left) face and teeth in the evening, better from dry heat (stove).

Pain in neck, back, hips, knee, long bones worse at night, from motion, during damp weather.

Head covered with thick, tough crust, under which pus collects; hair matted together; very offensive and difficult to keep clean.

Skin covered with intolerably itching, moist eczema, worse in bed; itching eruptions after vaccination.

Zona, with burning pain.

Ulcers with thick, yellowish scab, covering thick pus; ulcers bleed when

dressed.

Testicles swollen; violent sexual desire.

Worse from cold; from touch; from motion; at night.

Mental dullness. Frequent vanishing of thought. He seems intoxicated. Peevishness. Restlessness when alone, with desire for company. Hypochondriacal disposition, with low spirits and weeping.

Dizzy, as though drunken, with pressure in temples and over eyes, and dullness in head, eating.

Headache, with shivering and chilliness in open air. Unilateral numbing, pressive ache.

Burning, biting, itching, most of vertex, and changing its position from scratching, followed by smarting gatherings and a moist eruption. Bone pains on both sides of crown, often ending in swelling and caries with great sensitiveness to cold. Numbness of scalp, with drawing therein, in one, seldom both sides. Worse: Evening, cold, undressing, after lying down, touch, motion.

Pressure in, as though balls were too large. Twitchings of muscles about.

Excoriated nostrils. Diminished sense of smell. Fluent coryza, with burning and excoriation of nose and upper lip.

Pale. Squeezing, benumbing pressure in malar bones, extending into temples. Swollen, cracked lower lip.

Sticking ache, extending into malar bones and temples. Rapidly become hollow. Boring sticking in hollow t., extending up into zygoma. Dull.

Dry in back part, with saliva in anterior part. Salivation. Continuous burning, also in throat. Narrowing and constriction of pharynx. Difficult speech.

Appetite: Beer tastes bitter and causes vomiting. Great hunger at noon and in evening. Anorexia, with constant thirst.

Eructations: Frequent, empty.

Qualmishness, etc. - With shivering and collection of water in mouth. Vomits blood, bitter, watery mucus. Retching.

Burning in. Intense pressure in.

Burning in. Tense and hard. Tearing bellyache. Pains in spleen.

Flatulence: Flatulent colic, with shortness of breath and chill.

Frequent, small, diarrhoeic, with unendurable pains in abdomen. Shaking chill before and after.

Prolapsus recti during stool, which is difficult to replace on account of constriction of anus.

Diminished discharge of. Bloody. Flocculent, with reddish sediment. pale.

Gonorrhea of glans. Swelled testes.

Tightness of chest, as though it were too narrow, and with it a sensation as though lungs had become adherent.

Dry, with retching and vomiting, in evening and at night. Violent, spasmodic, excited by irritation from larynx down into chest. In morning, with expectoration of a yellow or albuminous, tenacious mucus, tasting salty, or like an old catarrh. Intense c. when lying down. Haemoptysis.

Hoarseness, with burning and dryness in.

Stitches in, worse during inspiration. Painful tension of pectoral muscles. Sore pain and burning in bones of.

Sciatica, with twitching pain and shortness of limbs.

Paralytic tension in limbs. Twitching and quivering in muscles. Burning of internal, with chill of external parts. Heaviness of limbs. Sensitive to cold air. The complaints are intensified by motion and touch. He feels worst in evening. Usually one half of body only is entirely or partly effected.

Exostoses. Caries.

Nightly itching, with swelling after scratching, which is quickly followed by violent itching. Desquamation of, over entire body. Burning and sticking in inflamed ulcers. Ulcerations terminating in suppuration.

Great day sleepiness. Awakened by nightmare after midnight.

Pulse: Full and hard, sometimes intermittent, accelerated in evening. Chill: Predominates, even in a warm room. With external coldness and thirst for cold water, but without desire for warmth. Constant thirst during, with dryness of back part of mouth and increased collection of saliva in forepart, but without desire for drink. Chilliness and shivering with most complaints. Great sensitiveness to cold air. Which runs from upper arms down back to feet. Heat: In bed, most on head. Internal, with external coldness. Sweat: With sleep, immediately after the chill, without previous heat. Cold sweats.

Allied Remedies: Arg-n., Bry., Euphor., Kali - bi., Merc., Mur - ac., Nit-ac., Phyt., Rhus-t., sil., Verbas.

Complementary: Merc.

Swelling of the bone and caries of the same.

Semi-lateral complaints.

Ailments accompanied by chilliness.

Spreading soreness and burning pain in the mucous membranes.

Stooped walk in aged persons.

Emaciation, bloodedness of the face and swelled abdomen in children.

Scrophulosis.

Inflammations on the verge of suppuration.

Violently itching eruption, worse from scratching, and when becoming warm in bed.

Burning in the skin.

Decayed teeth.

Confluence of water in the mouth.

Flaky urine.

Stomach-ache in children.

Chilliness with violent thirst, without desire to be warmed.

Prolapsus ani with constriction.

Contact and motion aggravates the condition.

There is an evening aggravation until midnight.

Aggravation from warm food like Bryonia and Pulsatilla.

Paralytic tension in the limbs and twitching of the muscles.

Burning in internal parts and quivering in external parts.

External chilliness is associated with the internal burning.

Heaviness in the limbs.

Sensitiveness to cold air is a strong indication for its use.