Mercurius vivus
de H. A. Roberts — The Rheumatic Remedies
Historical reference for practitioners and students. The statements below reflect the named author’s homeopathic teaching and do not establish treatment effectiveness. This text is not medical advice and must not replace appropriate diagnosis or care.
The rheumatic or arthritic pains of Mercurius are tearing stinging, < at night in bed with profuse sweat which does not relieve.
It will be of marked assistance in these symptoms, especially in syphilitic or complicated cases affecting the joints which are red and shiny, and in old cases of gout with shining red swellings.
EYES
PAINS AROUND EYES, ON FOREHEAD AND TEMPLES.
THROBBING AND SHOOTING PAINS IN EYES.
SEVERE TEARING, BORING, CUTTING IN DAMP WEATHER.
ACRID LACHRYMATION; PUPIL DILATED AND COVERED WITH A THIN BLUISH FILM, WITH TENDENCY TO FORM ADHESIONS—ALL THIS IN RHEUMATIC IRITIS.
TEARING PAINS IN FOREHEAD AND VERTEX, SHOOTING FROM DEEP IN THE EYE; CONJUNCTIVA OF RIGHT EYE GREATLY INFLAMED AND SWOLLEN.
PHLEGMONOUS INFLAMMATION AND SWELLING OF LIDS WITH GREAT PHOTOPHOBIA; FLOW OF HOT TEARS; WHITE RING AROUND CORNEA; IRIS DISCOLOURED; PROFUSE SWEAT WITHOUT RELIEF IN GOUTY RHEUMATIC PATIENTS.
RHEUMATIC, ARTHRITIC, SYPHILITIC OR GONORRHŒAL OPHTHALMIA.
HEART
WEAKNESS AT HEART AS IF DYING; AWAKENS WITH TREMBLING AT THE HEART AND AGITATION AS IF FRIGHTENED.
ACHING PAIN AT APEX EXTENDING UPWARD TOWARD BASE OF HEART WITH CARDIAC OPPRESSION.
NECK AND BACK
RHEUMATIC STIFFNESS AND SWELLING OF NECK.
GLANDS OF NECK SWOLLEN AND PAINFUL ON SWALLOWING IN RHEUMATISM.
Bruised sensation of scapulæ, back and small of back.
Stinging pain in small of back.
Sticking pain in small of back when breathing.
Sticking pain with unsteadiness in back, knees and feet.
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES
RHEUMATIC AFFECTIONS OF SHOULDERS AND UPPER ARMS; OF CAPSULAR LIGAMENTS OF ARMS WITH SENSATION AS IF ARMS WERE TOO HEAVY.
LANCINATING IN SHOULDER JOINTS, ARMS AND WRISTS.
RED AND HOT SWELLING FROM ELBOW TO WRIST.
FINGERS OF BOTH HANDS FLEXED AND DRAWN INWARD, WHICH CANNOT BE OPENED WITHOUT MUCH EXERTION.
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES
TEARING IN HIP JOINT AND KNEE WITH PULSATING PAIN.
RHEUMATIC PAINS IN LEGS WITH STINGING, ESPECIALLY IN HIP JOINT, FEMUR AND KNEE.
Painful swelling on metatarsal bones.
Pain in left thigh with soreness to touch.
TEARING AND STITCHING IN LOWER LIMBS.
BORING AND DRAWING PAIN IN TIBIA.
TARSAL BONES OF RIGHT FOOT GREATLY SWOLLEN AND ACUTE PAIN.
Sprained pain in right tarsal joints.
SWELLING OF TARSAL BONES OF RIGHT FOOT VERY RED, VERY SENSITIVE TO TOUCH.
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL
ARMS AND THIGHS SORE TO TOUCH.
DRAWING AND TEARING IN ALL THE LIMBS.
PAINFUL STIFFNESS IN LIMBS.
RHEUMATIC AND ARTHRITIC PAINS TEARING, STINGING.
SUDDEN PAIN AND STIFFNESS OF NAPE OF NECK AND BOTH UPPER AND LOWER LIMBS, BROUGHT ON BY EXPOSURE; LIES MOTIONLESS IN BED, HAS TO HAVE ASSISTANCE TO CHANGE POSITION.
AGGRAVATIONS
TOUCH.
AT NIGHT.
DAMP WEATHER.
EVENING.
AFTER MIDNIGHT.
WARMTH OF BED.
MOVING PART.
NO AMELIORATION FROM SWEAT.
CONCOMITANTS
TREMBLING OF EXTREMITIES.
WEAKNESS AND WEARINESS.
GLANDS SWOLLEN.
DEBILITATING NIGHT SWEATS.
FETID BREATH.