MAGNESIUM CARBONICUM

MAGNESIUM CARBONICUM

(Carbonate of Magnesia)

Mag-c.

Gastro-intestinal catarrh with notable acidity. Beneficial for those who have been using this drug to sweeten the stomach. Often indicated in children; whole body smells sour and prone to boils. Suitable for “worn out” women with uterine and climacteric disorders, experiencing numbness, distention, and nervous prostration. Highly sensitive to minor stimuli like start, noise, or touch. Addresses affections of the antrum of Highmore, and effects of shock, blows, or mental distress. Symptoms include numbness, nerve prostration, constipation after nervous strain, and sensitivity to cold winds or weather, or from excessive worry. Causes intense neuralgic pains.

Head: Sticking pain on the side of the head on which one lies, as if the hair is being pulled; worsens with mental exertion. Scalp itching, especially in damp weather. Pain above the right orbit margin. Black motes before the eyes.

Ears: Diminished hearing. Sudden, variable deafness. Numbness of the outer ear, distention in the middle ear, and subdued tinnitus.

Face: Tearing pain on one side; worsens in quiet and must move about. Toothache, especially during pregnancy; worse at night, with cold, and in quiet. Teeth feel too long. Issues from cutting wisdom teeth (Cheir.). Pain in the malar bone, worsens during rest and night. Swelling of the malar bone with pulsating pain, worse with cold wind exposure.

Mouth: Dry at night with a sour taste. Vesicular eruption and bloody saliva. Sticking pain in the throat with hawking up of fetid, pea-colored particles.

Stomach: Desire for fruit, acids, and vegetables. Sour eructations and vomiting of bitter water. Craving for meat.

Abdomen: Rumbling and gurgling with dragging sensation towards the pelvis. Heavy, contractive, and pinching pains in the right iliac region.

Stool: Preceded by griping, colicky pain. Green, watery, frothy like frog pond scum. Bloody mucus in stools (dysentery). Milk passes undigested in nursing children. Sour stools with tenesmus (Rheum). Constipation after mental shock or severe nervous strain.

Female: Sore throat before menses. Before menses, coryza and nasal obstruction. Menses are late and scanty, thick, dark, like pitch with mucoid leucorrhea. Menstrual flow occurs only during sleep, more profuse at night or when lying down, and ceases when walking.

Respiratory: Tickling cough with salty, bloody expectoration (hemoptysis). Constrictive chest pains with dyspnea and soreness during motion.

Extremities: Tearing pain in shoulders as if dislocated. Painful right shoulder, unable to raise it (Sang.). Whole body feels tired and painful, especially legs and feet. Swelling in the bend of the knee.

Sleep: Unrefreshing; more tired upon rising than when retiring.

Fever: Chilly in the evening with fever at night. Sour, greasy perspiration.

Skin: Earthy, sallow, and parchment-like; emaciation. Itching vesicles on hands and fingers. Nodosities under the skin. Sore and sensitive to cold.

Modalities: Worse in warmth of bed, temperature changes, cold wind or weather, every three weeks, and during rest. Better in warm air and walking in open air.

Relationship: Antidotes: Ars., Merc. Complementary: Cham. Compare: Rheum, Kreos., Aloe, Cheiranthus cheiri (deafness, otorrhea, nose stopped up at night from cutting wisdom teeth).