MERCURIUS CORROSIVUS

MERCURIUS CORROSIVUS

(Corrosive Sublimate)

Merc-c.

This salt excels in treating tenesmus of the rectum, which is incessant and not relieved by stool, often involving the bladder as well. It is used for Bright’s disease, gonorrhea in the second stage with continuous tenesmus, and slowly destroys the kidneys’ secreting portions. It’s effective for albuminuria in early pregnancy (use Phos. later and at full term).

Head: Delirium, stupor, frontal pain, head congestion with burning cheeks, and drawing pain in the skull’s periosteum.

Eyes: Pain behind the eyeballs as if forced out, phlyctenulae, deep corneal ulcers, severe photophobia, acrid lachrymation, and iritis (ordinary or syphilitic, used with atropin locally). Severe night pain, burning, shooting, tearing, minimal pus formation, muddy-colored iris, thick and unresponsive to light. Also treats retinitis albuminuric, ophthalmia neonatorum, and severe burning, soreness of eyes with red, excoriated lids (blepharitis).

Ears: Violent pulsations, fetid pus (otorrhea).

Nose: Excessive coryza, ozena with septum perforation (Kali-bi.), rawness, smarting in nostrils, post-nasal swelling, dry, red mucous membrane with bloody mucus.

Face: Swollen, red, puffy, black swollen lips, sordes, and facial neuralgia within the bones.

Mouth: Loose teeth, purple, swollen, spongy gums (scorbutic), swollen, inflamed tongue (glossitis), salivation, pyorrhea, ptyalism, salty and bitter taste.

Throat: Red, swollen, painful, intensely inflamed, swollen uvula, painful swallowing, severe post-nasal pain radiating to ears, burning pain with great swelling, worse with slight external pressure. All glands around thorax swollen.

Stomach: Incessant, green, bilious vomiting, very sensitive epigastrium.

Abdomen: Bruised sensation, painful caecal region and transverse colon (intussusception, ulcerative colitis), bloated, very painful to touch.

Rectum: Dysentery with incessant tenesmus not relieved by stool. Hot, bloody, slimy, offensive stool with cutting pains and shreds of mucous membrane.

Urinary: Intense burning in the urethra (urethritis), hot, burning, scanty or suppressed urine, bloody, greenish discharge, albuminous. Tenesmus of bladder, stabbing pain extending up the urethra into the bladder (cystitis), perspiration after micturition.

Male: Enormously swollen penis and testicles (balanitis, orchitis), chancres with phagedenic appearance (syphilis), gonorrhea with red, swollen urethral orifice, sore and hot glans, greenish, thick discharge.

Respiratory: Pain in the larynx as if cut with a knife, aphonia, cough with hemoptysis, rapid and intermittent pulse, stitches through the side of the chest.

Fever: Chilly from slightest exposure, profuse perspiration with cold surfaces.

Modalities: Worse in the evening, at night, and from acids. Better while at rest.

Relationship: Compare with Ars., Lach., Leonurus cardiaca (Mother-wort) which influences pelvic organs, allays spasm, nervous irritability, promotes secretion, and reduces febrile excitement. It’s valuable for suppressed menses and lochia, dysentery, vomiting, severe abdominal pains, and violent thirst. Also, compare with Monsonia ovata (an African plant used for dysentery in material doses).

Antidote: Calcium sulphide is antidotal to Bichloride poisoning. Use intravenous injection of 7 1/2 grains in 7 1/2 ozs. boiled water.

Dose: Sixth potency. In solution 1:1000, hypodermically injected under the conjunctiva for choroiditis with progressive myopia to immediately stop severe aching pain behind the eyeballs (Dr. G. D. Hallet).