CINNABARIS

(MERCURIUS SULPHURATUS RUBER)

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.