Magnesium carbonicum

Common name: carbonate of magnesia.

Useful for persons, especially children, of irritable disposition and nervous temperament (Cham., Nux-V., Staph.) (A.).

Painless twitching, here and there.

In the evening, after sitting, restlessness in the limbs, which compels one to walk about.

Swelling of the glands (Bell., Calc., Graph., Hep., Iod., Kali-I., Lyc., Merc.).

Great sensation of fatigue whilst sitting.

The knees are painful when walking (Bry.) (G.).

Oedema of the feet up to the calves (G.).

Sudden falling down with consciousness (Cupr., Nux-V., Sulph.).

Sad and disconsolate (G.).

Insupportable pains during repose; she must get up and walk about (G.).

Craves open air (Apis, Puls.) (B.).

Sudden deafness (B.).

Paroxysmal cough (Bell., Dros.) (B.).

Toothache of a bothersome nature often calls for exhibition of the remedy (Cham., Coff., Merc., Puls.).

TOOTHACHE AT NIGHT, COMPELLING ONE TO RISE AND WALK ABOUT; PAIN INSUPPORTABLE WHILE AT REST; WORSE IN COLD (C.).

Toothache of pregnancy (Acon., Bell., Calc., Cham., Hyos., Lyss., Merc., Nux-M., Nux-V., Puls., Rat., Rhus-T. Sep., Staph. Tab.) (D.).

Labour-like pain, cutting colic, backache, weakness and chilliness during menses (A.).

It should be remembered in acid dyspepsia, with heartburn (Bl.).

The tongue is coated dirty yellow (G.).

Doubling up colic, relieved after stool (Nux-V.) (N.).

Starchy foods disagree, as does milk (Bl.).

The child is improperly nourished; its mouth is full of ulcers (Bor.) (D.).

Sour smell of the whole body (Rheum).

Pale, sickly children, with colic and green stools (D.).

White, tallow-like masses are found floating in the stool (A.).

Diarrhœa occurs regularly every three weeks (A.).

THE STOOLS ARE SOUR AND GREEN AS GRASS (Merc.) (D.).

THE STOOLS ARE GREEN AND FROTHY-LIKE THE SCUM OF A FROG-POND (A.).

Diarrhœa, preceded by cutting, doubling up colic (Nux- V.) (A.).

When milk is taken into the stomach it causes pain and is vomited undigested (in puny, sickly children) (D.).

Many stools day and night (G.).

Sour vomiting (Lyc., Nat-P.) (G.).

Griping, cutting, rumbling in the whole abdomen, followed by thin, green stools (N.).

Disposition to furuncles and headache (G.).

Inordinate craving for meat in children of tuberculous parentage (A.).

Unrefreshing sleep; more tired on rising than when retiring (Bry., Con., Hep., Op., Sulph.) (A.).

Dreams anxious; for dead persons; of fire; and of thieves (G.).

Heart-burn: Sour, belching, eructations, taste and vomiting; of pregnancy (A.).

Ailments from cutting wisdom teeth (Bell., Merc., Sil.) (Br.).

Sticking pain in the throat; hawking up fetid, pea-coloured particles (Br.).

Desire for fruits, acids and vegetables (Br.).

Pains in the top of the shoulder-joints, generally left side, which prevent raising the arm (G.).

Whole body feels tired and painful, especially legs and feet (Br.).

Face dirty, dark yellow (Bt.).

Nightly tearing, digging and boring in the cheek bones; insupportable during rest, and driving from one place to another (C.).

Pressive headache; rush of blood to the head (Bell., Glon., Nat-M.) (C.).

Tetter on the scalp, itching during wet, rainy weather (C.).

Chilly in the evening; fever at night; sour, greasy perspiration (Br.).

Tickling cough, with salty, bloody expectoration (Br.).

Constrictive pain in the chest with dyspnœa (Cact., Naja, Phos.) (Br.).

Catamenia retarded (Cycl., Graph., Nat-M., Puls., Sep.).

Before the catamenia there is toothache (Am-C., Ant-C., Bar-C., Nat-M., Phos., Puls., Sulph., Thuj.).

MENSES BLACK AND FLOW AT NIGHT ONLY (D.).

Has a sorethroat during every menstruation (G.)

Menses dark, acrid and thick; washed out with great difficulty (G.).

Menses flow only in the absence of pain and at night (G.).

Too frequent and too profuse menstruation (Dn.).

Menses too late, and too scanty (G.).

Mucous leucorrhœa (Hydr.) (G.).

Menses flow when lying, cease when walking (N.)

AGGRAVATION: In the evening; at night; while standing; during rest; before and during menses; every third week; from milk; from warmth of bed; from change of temperature; and during pregnancy.

AMELIORATION: After stool; in warm air; and from walking in the open air.

RELATIONSHIP: Antidotes: Ars., Cham., Merc., Nux-V. and Puls.

Complementary to: Cham.