Mercurius sulphuricus (Turpethum)

Mind and Disposition

Low-spirited; with chilliness and yawning.

Ill-humor after eating.

Head

Sensation of giddiness while standing, after headache.

Fulness in the head with occasional stitches.

Soreness and heaviness through the head (after breakfast and when walking about).

Ears

Burning in the ears and in the face, after a chill.

Swelling of the parotid gland.

Nose

Fluent coryza with sneezing.

Swelling and soreness of the tip of the nose.

Itching of the nose.

Face

Pale, anxious looking countenance.

Burning heat of the face and ears after the chill.

Mouth and Throat

Gums black and ulcerated.

The mouth is clammy and full of mucus in the morning.

Burning, smarting, stinging pain on the tip of the tongue (left side, in the evening).

Soreness, as if scalded on the tip of the tongue.

The tongue is coated white heavily, yellowish at the root or the tongue, the enlarged papillæ stand up like red points, with flat taste in the mouth and a reduced pulse.

Heat and sensation of constriction in the throat.

Dryness of the tongue and throat.

Burning in the mouth and throat.

Ptyalism.

Stomach and Abdomen

Vomiting and diarrhœa.

Coldness or burning in the abdomen.

Stool and Anus

After drinking coffee, pain in the abdomen as if diarrhœa would set in.

Stools soft and earlier in the morning than usual.

Sudden and violent pressing to stool while walking, compelling him to stand still, causing an anxious perspiration; later the stools are forcibly gushing out in a hot burning stream of yellow water; followed by great debility, hiccough and belching.

After the diarrhœic stools sensation of fulness as from congestions to the legs, especially the feet, they feel numb when standing.

Urinary Organs

Diminished secretion of urine, does not micturate frequently but has constant pressure; urine dark, becoming turbid with a scum on it.

Increased secretion of urine, without a sediment.

Sexual Organs

Gonorrhœa and syphilitic diseases, with great congestions to the parts.

Swelling of the testicles.

Respiratory Organs

Roughness in the throat, and hoarseness.

Sensation of heat in the larynx.

Increased expectoration of mucus from the larynx and trachea.

Pain in the chest prevents him from breathing.

Pain in the right side of the chest, extending to the scapula, can scarcely breathe, worse from 4 to 5 P.M.

Pressure on the chest.

Dyspnœa; in children: Hydrothorax.

Extremities

Upper. Numbness in the left forearm and hand, later numbness in the right hand.

Hands icy cold with blue nails.

Stiffness in the arms.

Lower. Pain in the knees and lameness, especially when walking.

Foot-sweat with soreness at the ends of the nails.

Ulcers on the ankles.

Generalities

Most of the pains feel as if a dull stick pressed on the parts and were moving in diverse curved lines, feels as if this pain were in the bones.

Debility with sleepiness.

Rheumatic pains.

Sleep

Frequent yawning and great sleepiness in the afternoon.

Sleeplessness after midnight.

Awakens with headache in the morning.

Fever

Chilliness running up the back, with yawning and depression of spirits, followed by dull pain in the forehead, burning in the face and ears and slight fever.

Chilliness, restlessness and heaviness in the upper part of the abdomen, frequent yawning and diminished secretion of urine (in the afternoon).

Chill with nausea from 10 A.M. till 2 P.M.

Chill every other day.

The whole body feels cold externally.

Icy coldness of the hands.

Painful burning over the whole body, especially in the face but not on the feet, with violent thirst.

Skin

Induration of the glands.

Psoriasis: Lepra.

Conditions

In the sunshine sneezing.

The dyspnœa and chest symptoms are worse in the afternoon.

In hydrothorax it has proved a successful remedy where the dyspnœa and swollen extremities had yielded to no other remedy.