Mercurius solubilis

Mercurius solubilis
(quicksilver)
* Every organ and tissue of the body is more or less affected by this powerful drug; it
transforms healthy cells into decrepit, inflamed and necrotic wrecks, decomposes the blood,
producing a profound anaemia.
* This malignant medicinal force is converted intouseful life saving and life preserving
service if employed homoeopathically, guided by itsclear cut symptoms.
* The lymphatic system is especially affected withall the membranes and glands, and
internal organs, bones etc.
* Lesions produced by mercury very similar to those of syphilis.
* Very often indicated in the secondary stage of syphilis where there is a febrile chloroanaemia, rheumatoid pains behind sternum, around joints, etc.; ulcerations of mouth and
throat, falling of the air, the eruptions and ulcerations of mouth and throat, etc.
* These are the special conditions and stages to which Mercur is homoeopathic and where the
2x will do surprising work.
* Again, hereditary syphilis manifestations, are within its range; bullae, abscesses, snuffles,
marasmus, stomatitis or destructive inflammations.
* Tremors everywhere.
* Weakness with ebullitions and tremblings from least exertion.
* All Mercury symptoms are worse at night, from warmth of bed, from damp, cold, rainy
weather, worse during perspiration.
* Complaints increase with the sweat and rest; allassociated with a great deal of weariness,
prostration, and trembling.
* A human "thermometer".
* Sensitive to heat and cold.
* Parts are much swollen, with raw, sore feeling; the profuse, oily perspiration does not
relieve.
* Breath, excretions and body smell foul.
* Tendency to formation of pus, which is thin, greenish, putrid; streaked with thin blood.
Mind
- Slow in answering questions.
- Memory weakened, and loss of will-power.
- Weary of life.
- Mistrustful.
- Thinks he is losing his reason.
Head
- Vertigo, when lying on back.
- Band-feeling about head.
- One-sided, tearing pains.
- Tension about scalp, as if bandaged.
- Catarrhal headaches; much heat in head.
- Stinging, burning, fetid eruptions on scalp.
- Loss of hair.
- Exostosis, with feeling of soreness.
- Scalp tense; oily sweat on head.
Eyes
- Lids red, thick, swollen.
- Profuse, burning, acrid discharge.
- Floating black spots.
- After exposure to glare of fire; foundrymen. Parenchymatous keratitis of syphilitic origin
with burning pain.
- Iritis, with hypopyon.
Ears
- Thick, yellow discharge; fetid and bloody.
- Otalgia, worse warmth of bed; at night sticking pains.
- Boils in external canal. [Calc. pic.]
Nose
- Much sneezing.
- Sneezing in sunshine. Nostrils raw, ulcerated; nasal bones swollen.
- Yellow-green, fetid, puslike discharge.
- Coryza; acrid discharge, but too thick to run down the lip; worse, warm room.
- Pain and swelling of nasal bones, and caries, with greenish fetid ulceration.
- Nosebleed at night.
- Copious discharge of corroding mucus.
- Coryza, with sneezing; sore, raw , smarting sensation; worse, damp weather; profuse,
fluent.
Face
- Pale, earthy, dirty-looking, puffy.
- Aching in facial bones, Syphilitic pustules on face.
Mouth
- Sweetish metallic taste.
- Salivary secretions greatly increased; bloody and viscid.
- Saliva fetid, coppery.
- Speech difficult on account of trembling tongue.
- Gums spongy, recede, bleed easily.
- Sore pain on touch and from chewing.
- Whole mouth moist.
- Crown of teeth decay.
- Teeth loose, feel tender and elongated.
- Furrow in upper surface of tongue lengthwise.
- Tongue heavy, thick; moist coating; yellow, flabby, teeth-intended, feels as if burnt, with
ulcers, Fetid odor from mouth, can smell it all over room.
- Alveolar abscess, worse at night.
- Great thirst, with moist mouth.
Throat
- Bluish-red swelling.
- Constant desire to swallow.
- Putrid sore throat; worse right side.
- Ulcers and inflammation appearing at every change in weather.
- Stitches into ear on swallowing; fluids return through nose.
- Quinsy, with difficult swallowing, after pus hasformed.
- Sore, raw, smarting, burning throat.
- Complete loss of voice.
- Burning in throat, as from hot vapor ascending.
Stomach
- Putrid eructations.
- Intense thirst for cold drinks.
- Weak digestion, with continuous hunger.
- Stomach sensitive to touch.
- Hiccough and regurgitation.
- Feels replete and constricted.
Abdomen
- Stabbing pain, with chilliness.
- Boring pain in right groin.
- Flatulent distention, with pain.
- Liver enlarged; sore to touch, indurated.
- Jaundice.
- Bile secreted deficiently.
Stool
- Greenish, bloody and slimy, worse at night, withpain and tenesmus. Never-get-done
feeling.
- Discharge accompanied by chilliness, sick stomach, cutting colic, and tenesmus.
- Whitish-gray stools.
Urine
- Frequent urging.
- Greenish discharge from urethra; burning in urethra on beginning to urinate.
- Urine dark, scanty, bloody, albuminous.
Male
- Vesicles and ulcers; soft chancre.
- Cold genitals.
- Prepuce irritated; itches.
- Nocturnal emissions, stained with blood.
Female
- Menses profuse, with abdominal pains.
- Leucorrhoea excoriating, greenish and bloody; sensation of rawness in parts.
- Stinging pain in ovaries. [Apis.]
- Itching and burning; worse, after urinating; better, washing with cold water.
- Morning sickness, with profuse salivation.
- Mammae painful and full of milk at menses.
Respiratory
- Soreness from fauces to sternum.
- Cannot lie on right side. [Left side, Lycop.]
- Cough, with yellow muco-purulent expectoration.
- Paroxysms of two; worse, night, and from warmth of bed.
- Catarrh, with chilliness; dread of air.
- Stitches from lower lobe of right lung to back.
- Whooping-cough with nosebleed. [Arnica]
- Cough worse, tobacco smoke.
Back
- Bruised pain in small of back, especially when sitting.
- Tearing pain in coccyx; better, pressing on abdomen.
Extremities
- Weakness of limbs.
- Bone-pains and in limbs; worse, night.
- Patient very sensitive to cold.
- Oily perspiration.
- Trembling extremities, especially hands, paralysis agitans.
- Lacerating pain in joints.
- Cold, clammy sweat on legs at night.
- Dropsical swelling of feet and legs.
Skin
- Almost constantly moist.
- Persistent dryness of the skin contra indicates mercurius.
- Excessive odorous viscid perspiration; worse, night.
- General tendency to free perspiration, but patient is not relieved thereby.
- Vesicular and pustular eruptions.
- Ulcers, irregular in shape, edges undefined.
- Pimples around the main eruption.
- Itching, worse from warmth of bed.
- Crusta lactea; yellowish-brown crusts, considerable suppuration.
- Glands swell every time patient takes cold.
- Buboes.
- Orchitis. [Clemat., Hamam, Puls.]
Fever
- Generally gastric or bilious, with profuse nightly perspiration; debility, slow and lingering.
- Heat and shuddering alternately.
- Yellow perspiration.
- Profuse perspiration without relief. Creeping chilliness, worse in the evening and into night.
- Alternate flashes of heat in single parts.
Modalities
- Worse, at night, wet, damp weather, lying on right side, perspiring; warm room and warm
bed.
Relationship
- Compare : Capparis coriaccea (polyuria, glandular affections, mucous diarrhoea; influenza);
Epilobium- Willow herb-(chronic diarrhoea with tenesmus and mucous discharges; ptyalism,
dysphagia; wasting of body and much debility; cholera infantum); Kali hyd. (in hard chancre)
- ; Mercur. acet. (Congestion with stiffness, dryness and heat of parts affected. Eyes
inflamed, burn and itch. Lack of moisture. Throat dry, talking difficult. Pressure in lower
sternum; chancre in urethra; tenia capitis favosa margin of ulcers painful)
- : Mercurius auratus (psoriasis and syphilitic catarrh; brain tumors; lues of nose and bones;
ozaena; swelling of testicles); Mercurius bromatus (secondary syphilitic skin affection);
Mercurius nitrosus-Nitrate of Mercury-(especially in postular conjunctivitis and keratitis;
gonorrhoea and mucous patches, with sticking pains;syphilides); Mercurius phosphoricus
(nervous diseases from syphilis; exostoses); Mercurius praecipitatus ruber (suffocative attacks
at night on lying down while on the point of falling asleep, obliged to jump up suddenly
which relieves; gonorrhoea; urethra felt as a hard string; chancroid; phagedaenic ulcer and
bubo; pemphigus, mucous patches, eczema with rhagades and fissures, barber's itch;
blepharitis, internally and externally; leaden heaviness in occiput, with otorrhoea); Mercurius
tannicus (syphilides in patients with gastro-intestinal diseases, or, if very sensitive, to ordinary
mercurial preparations); Erythrinus-South American Red Mullet Fish-(in pityriasis rubra and
syphilis; red rash on chest; pityriasis); Lolium temulentum (in trembling of hands and legs);
Mercur. cum kali (inveterate colds, acute facial paralysis).
- Henchera-Alum root-(Gastro-enteritis nausea, vomiting of bile and frothy mucus; stools
watery, profuse, slimy, tenesmus, never-get-done feeling. Dose, 2 to 10 drops of tincture).
- Compare : Mez.; Phos.; Syph.; Kali mur.; Aethiops.
- Antidote : Hep.; Aur.; Mez.
- Complementary : Badiaga.
Dose
- Second to thirtieth potency.