MEZEREUM

MEZEREUM

(Spurge Olive)

Mez.

Skin symptoms, bone affections, and neuralgias are significant, especially around the teeth and face. Joints feel bruised and weary, with drawing and stiffness. Various pains, with chilliness and sensitivity to cold air. Bone pains. Eruptions post-vaccination. Burning, darting muscle sensations; subsultus tendinum. Pain shoots upward, seeming to draw the patient out of bed. Semi-lateral complaints. Highly sensitive to cold air.

Head: Difficult to talk. Headache worsens from talking. Stupefying headache on the right side. External head affections; scaly eruptions, white scabs. Head covered with thick, leathery crusts, under which pus collects (crusta lactea). Violent neuralgia around face and teeth, extending to the ear at night; worse eating; better near a hot stove. Tooth roots decay. Teeth feel elongated.

Eyes: Ciliary neuralgia post-surgery, especially after eyeball removal. Pain radiates downward with a cold feeling and bone stiffness.

Ears: Feel too open, as if exposed to cold air. Desire to bore fingers in.

Nose: Sneezing, coryza; interior excoriated. Post-nasal adenoids.

Face: Red. Eruptions around the mouth, with coryza.

Stomach: Desire for ham-fat. Burning in the tongue extending to the stomach. Mouth waters. Nausea in the throat; better eating. Chronic gastritis; burning, corroding pain; nausea, vomiting, chocolate color. Gastric ulcer with severe burning.

Abdomen: Swelling of glands with large abdomen in children. Pressure in the inguinal ring (hernia). Flatulent colic with shivering and difficult respiration.

Rectum: Constipation after confinement. Prolapse of rectum. Diarrhea with small, white particles. Green discharges. Constipation with hepatic and uterine inertia. Constriction of the anus; stitches and rectal prolapse.

Urinary: Red flakes in urine. Hot, bloody. Biting, burning in the forepart of the urethra at the end of urination (urethritis). Hematuria preceded by crampy bladder pain. After urinating, a few drops of blood are passed.

Male: Testicular enlargement (orchitis). Violent sexual desire. Gonorrhea with hematuria.

Female: Menses too frequent and profuse (menorrhagia). Leucorrhea like albumen; very corrosive.

Respiratory: Soreness and burning in thorax bones. Constriction across the chest. Cough; worse eating, irritation lower than can be reached, on taking a warm drink.

Back and Extremities: Pain in neck and back; worse with motion and at night; intolerant of touch. Pain and burning in the tibia and long bones. Legs and feet go numb. Hip and knee pain.

Skin: Eczema with intolerable itching; chilliness with pruritus. Worse in bed. Ulcers itch and burn, surrounded by vesicles and fiery red areola. Herpes zoster with burning pain. Inflamed and swollen bones, especially long bones; caries, exostosis; pain worse at night, with touch, and in damp weather (Merc., Syph.). Eruptions ulcerate and form thick scabs under which purulent matter exudes (Chrys-ac.).

Modalities: Worse in cold air; at night, evening until midnight, with warm food, touch, and motion. Better in open air.

Relationship: Compare: Dirca palustris-Leather wood (a gastrointestinal irritant inducing salivation, emesis, and purgation; cerebral hyperemia, neuralgic pains, with depression, palpitation, and dyspnea); Merc., Phyt., Rhus-t., Guaj., Syph.

Antidotes: Kali-i., Merc.
Dose: Sixth to thirtieth potency.