MEDORRHINUM

MEDORRHINUM

(The Gonorrheal Virus)

Med.
A powerful and deep-acting medicine often indicated for chronic ailments due to suppressed gonorrhea. It is used for women with chronic pelvic disorders and chronic rheumatism. It causes great disturbance and irritability of the nervous system, with intolerable, tensive pain, and quivering, tingling nerves. It can stunt children’s growth and cause chronic catarrhal conditions. Symptoms include a dirty nose, enlarged tonsils, thick yellow mucus from nostrils, and thickened lips from mouth breathing. There may be a state of collapse and trembling, with a history of sycosis. It often restores a gonorrheal discharge and intensifies all sensations, causing edema of limbs and dropsy of serous sacs, and can lead to disseminated sclerosis.

Mind: Weak memory, loses the thread of conversation, cannot speak without weeping, feels time passes too slowly, is in a great hurry, hopeless of recovery, has difficulty concentrating, fears going insane, has exalted sensibility, is nervous and restless, fears the dark and feels as if someone is behind her, feels melancholy with suicidal thoughts.

Head: Burning pain in the brain, worse in the occiput, heavy head drawn backward (like in epilepsy), headaches from jarring, exhaustion, or hard work, weight and pressure in the vertex, dry, crisp hair, itchy scalp, dandruff.

Eyes: Feels as if staring at everything, eyeballs ache, sensation of sticks in the eyes, irritated lids (blepharitis).

Ears: Partial deafness, pulsations, quick darting pains in the right ear.

Nose: Intense itching, cold tip, obstructed posterior nares, chronic nasal and pharyngeal catarrh.

Face: Pallor, acne, reddish blotches, small boils during menses.

Mouth: Brown, thick-coated tongue with blisters and canker sores on inner lips and cheeks.

Stomach: Coppery taste, sulphur eructations, ravenous hunger soon after eating, very thirsty, craving for liquor, salt, sweets, and warm drinks, pernicious vomiting during pregnancy.

Abdomen: Violent pain in the liver and spleen, more comfortable lying on the abdomen.

Rectum: Can only pass stool by leaning far back, painful lump sensation on the sphincter, fetid moisture oozing, intense anal itching.

Urinary: Painful tenesmus during urination, nocturnal enuresis, renal colic, slow urine flow.

Male: Nocturnal emissions with great weakness, impotence, gleet, sore urethra, urethritis, enlarged painful prostate with frequent painful urination.

Female: Intense pruritus, offensive profuse dark clotted menses, frequent urination during menses, sensitive spot near os uteri, thin acrid leucorrhea with fishy odor, sycotic warts on genitals, left-sided ovarian pain, sterility, metrorrhagia, intense menstrual colic, cold sore sensitive breasts.

Respiratory: Oppressed respiration, hoarseness while reading, chest and mammary pain, dry nocturnal cough, asthma, early phthisis, sore larynx, dyspnea (cannot exhale), cough relieved by lying on the stomach.

Extremities: Back pain with burning heat, heavy aching legs, restless legs at night, ankles turn easily, burning hands and feet, enlarged puffy finger joints, gouty concretions, tender heels and balls of feet, restless hands.

Sleep: Dreams of drinking, sleeps in knee-chest position.

Fever: Constant need to be fanned, chills up and down the back, cold legs, hands, and forearms, flashes of heat in the face and neck, night and hectic sweats.

Skin: Yellow, intense incessant itching, worse at night and when thinking of it, fiery red rash around the anus in babies, copper-colored spots, favus, tumors, and abnormal growths.

Modalities: Worse when thinking of the ailment, from daylight to sunset, heat, inland; better at the seashore, lying on the stomach, in damp weather.

Relationship: Compare with Galega officinalis, Lactuca virosa, Sulph., Syph., Zine.

Dose: Very high potencies are effective but should not be repeated often.