Medorrhinum

by C.M. Boger — A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica

REGION

Mind.
Nerves.
Mucous membranes.
Lymphatics.
Cellular tissue: Lungs. Pelvis. Small joints.
Spine.
Kidneys.
Left ovary.

WORSE

Damp; cold.
Daytime.
3-4 A.M.
After urinating.
Touch.
Close room.
Before storms.

BETTER

LYING ON ABDOMEN.
Bending backward.
Stretching out.
Fresh air.
Being fanned.
Uncovering.
Hard rubbing.
Seaside.
Dampness.
Sunset (Coca. Lil-t. Sele.).
Stiff

, puffy, achy, sore and rheumatic. Dwarfish. Many pains. SYCOTIC TAINT, poor reaction. Joints feel loose. Profuse, acrid discharges; causing itching (Tell.). Fishy odors. Nephritis. Small, very sore aphthæ, blisters, etc. Burnings. Burning at root of tongue. Formication; internal. Numbness. Tremor. Emaciation. Sour children. Offensiveness. Tumors. Loss of power in joints. .................... Memory weak, can't concentrate; forgets words, names; can't finish sentences. Mental confusion. Wild feeling. Meanness. Cruelty. Things seem strange. Tells it over again. Hurried; and anxious; and irritable; and sensitive. Forgetful; of names; of her errand. Suicidal. Fearsome. Apprehensive; anticipates events. Persistent ideas or alternating states, or erratic. Impulsive, abrupt or rude. Many ideas; but uncertain of execution; non-commital. Sensitive, nervous and hurried. Feels far off, unreal; some one behind her. Sad, tearful and fearful. Dismal out-look (Cimi.); > weeping. Vertigo; < in vertex. Head tight; tense pains; pulls hair. Occiput pains to behind eyes. Tousled heads. Coryza with loss of taste and smell. Post-nasal discharge. Face, grayish, greasy, greenish; yellow at edge of hair. Red spiderlets on face (r). Acne on face; < after menses. Water tastes like perfume. Exhaled breath feels hot. Craves stimulants. Morning nausea. Vomiting of pregnancy. Heavy lower abdomen or prostate. Grinding colic; must brace feet. Dysmenorrhœa. Leans back to force a stool; then shivers. Cholera infantum. Fiery red, moist, violently itching anus. Scalding ammoniacal urine. Air hunger. Cough, > lying on face. Sore, oozing or icy nipples. Cutting, crawling, burning above (l) scapula. Fingertips burn and crack. Heavy legs. Tender, itching ball and soles. Sleeps in knee - chest position. A short nap seems a long one, but > (Nux-v.). Cold skin, but blood feels hot (Sec-c.). Burning heat, with sweat; wants to uncover, but is chilled thereby. Burning feet. Sweat easy; toward morning. Hay fever. Body smells badly to her; can't wash it off (Lac-c.). Teeth soft, crumbly. Aphthæ under tongue. Burning in epigastrium. Flatulence with numbness. Dark fluid from rectum. Drawing in ovaries, > pressure. Sycotic sterility. Dysmenorrhœa. Profuse, dark, clotted, foul menses (Psor.). Blistering leucorrhœa (Am-c. Kre.). Pruritus, > rubbing. Lungs feel stuffed with cotton. Can't exhale. Asthma; sycotic; infantile. Sensation as of a cavity in chest or heart. Heat in spine. Spine sore and tender. Arms hairy. Hot palms. Bites nails. Leg cramps, > stretching leg. Itching soreness. Condylomata. Sycotic red node. Deep red spots.

Follows: Rhus-t.

Related: Bar-c. Nat-m. Psor. Thu.

Medorrhinum across the other classic books

Medorrhinum appears in 9 of the 13 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.

Allen HC — The keynotes that separate this remedy from its nearest neighbours.
“The Gonorrhoeal Virus. (A Nosode.) For the constitutional effects of mal-treated and suppressed gonorrhoea, when the best selected remedy fails to relieve or permanently improve. For persons suffering from gout, rheumatism, neuralgia and diseases of the spinal cord and its membranes - even organic lesions ending in…”
Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“The Gonorrhœal Virus A powerful and deep-acting medicine, often indicated for chronic ailments due to suppressed gonorrhœa. For women with chronic pelvic disorders. Chronic rheumatism . Great disturbance and irritability of nervous system. Pains intolerable; tensive; nerves quiver and tingle. Children dwarfed and…”
Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“DRY, clear or cold weather, Agg. HEAT, burning, etc. LYING, ON ABDOMEN, AMEL. PUFFINESS”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Glinicum. Nosode of Gonorrhœa. Attenuations of the Virus. Asthma / Clonic spasms / Corns / Diabetes / Dysmenorrhœa / Epilepsy / Eyes, inflammation of / Favus / Gleet / Gonorrhœa, suppressed / Gonorrhœal rheumatism / Headache, neuralgic / Liver, abscess of / Masturbation / Ovaries, pains in / Pelvic cellulitis / Polypi…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Gonorrhœal Virus. A Nosode. Introduced by Swan. All the provings and cures were made with high potencies. The provers were Ren Dell, Finch, Swan, Farrington, Cleveland, Higgins and others. Other authorities, for symptoms clinical and pathogenetic, mentioned in Berridge's MSS., prepared for Swan's Materia Medica, are…”
Kent — The mental and general picture — who the patient is, before what the remedy cures.
“Children: One of the many uses of this remedy is in the inherited complaints of children. The physician of long and active experience meets many obstinate cases in children. The infant soon emaciates and becomes marasmic, or a child becomes asthmatic, or suffers with vicious catarrh of nose or eyelids, or has ringworm…”
Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common name: the gonorrhoeal virus. For the constitutional effects of mal-treated and suppressed gonorrhœa, when the best selected remedy fails to relieve or permanently improve (A.). BURNING OF HANDS AND FEET (Lach., Phos., Sep., Sulph.); WANTS THEM UNCOVERED AND FANNED (N.). Great heat and soreness, with enlargement…”
Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“The gonorrhœal virus, is undoubtedly a great remedy. Any one who has had much to do with gonorrhœa well knows the severe form of rheumatism, which is often the consequence of the introduction of this disease product into the system. I have seen some remarkable results from the use of this remedy in chronic forms of…”

Medorrhinum in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Medorrhinum in 938 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in EXTREMITIES (172), MIND (94), BACK (47), CHEST (46), HEAD (44).

RECTUM - DIARRHOEA - suppressed gonorrhoea,after
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Leg - rheumatic - gonorrhoea,after
EXTREMITIES - SWELLING - Knee - gonorrhoea,after
FEMALE GENITALIA - INFLAMMATION - Ovaries - suppressed gonorrhoea,after
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - thunderstorm agg.
ABDOMEN - PAIN - Liver - extending - right shoulder
STOMACH - PAIN - night - 2 a.m.
EXTREMITIES - HEAT - Foot - burning - uncovers them
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Joints - rheumatic - gonorrhoea,aftersuppressed
EXTREMITIES - SENSITIVE - Foot - sole
EXTREMITIES - UNCOVER,inclination to - Feet
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - rheumatic - gonorrhoea,after suppressed
FACE - WAXY
GENERALITIES - GONORRHOEA,suppressed
EXTREMITIES - HEAT - Foot - burning
MALE GENITALIA - INFLAMMATION - Testes - gonorrhoea,from suppressed
CHEST - PHTHISIS pulmonalis - sycotic
CHEST - PHTHISIS pulmonalis - incipient
STOMACH - PAIN - violent
CHEST - PHTHISIS pulmonalis - pituitous

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