Mercurius dulcis

Mercurius dulcis
(calomel)
* Has marked effect on catarrhal inflammation of ear, and useful in Eustachian catarrh,
deafness.
* Diarrhoea, with soreness of anus.
* Prostatitis.
* Remittent bilious attacks.
* Pallor, flabby bloatedness, and turgid flaccidity.
* Inflammation with plastic exudate.
* Especially indicated in systems disposed to remittent bilious fevers; in peritonitis and
meningitis with plastic exudate.
* Dropsies due to combined renal and cardiac diseases, especially with jaundice (Hale).
* Cirrhosis of the liver, especially in the hypertrophic form.
* Use 1x (Jousset).
Ears
- Otitis media; closure of Eustachian tube; ear troubles of scrofulous children; membrana
tympani retracted, thickened and immovable.
Mouth
- Offensive breath; salivation; sore gums.
- Ulcers.
- Tongue black.
- Constant flow of dark, putrid saliva; very offensive.
- Ulceration of throat, with dysphagia.
- Granular pharyngitis.
Stomach
- Nausea and vomiting.
- Cyclic vomiting of infants. [Cup. ars.; Iris.]
Stool
- Scanty, bloody mucus, with bile, and canstant desire, without tenesmus.
- Dark-green, watery, with griping.
- Anus sore and burning.
- Dysentery; small stools of mucus and blood, covered with bile.
Skin
- Flabby and ill nourished.
- Swollen glands.
- Phagedenic ulcers.
- Copper-colored eruptions.
Relationship
- Compare : Kali mur.
Dose
- Third to sixth trituration.
- For palliative (non-homoeopathic) purposes, to secure evacuation of bowels, two or threegrain doses of first decimal trituration, repeated several times every hour.