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The name of the first story is ‘ The
lake of the mountain spirits.”

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• The second story is funny one.
It was the ‘elusiveness’ of mercury.

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• The third story is about Hahnemann’s son and
hence more interesting. Friedrich Hahnemann
brought out many of the symptoms of Mercury
proving. He was extremely restless and always
on the move. He finally travelled to U.S.A. and
then disappeared without trace as if to depict the
personality of Mercury.

• These stories depict three grand characters of

Mercury – destructiveness, elusiveness and
restlessness.
• The potentized dynamic effects depict the same
to meet acute and chronic cases, to meet all
miasms in its coverage.
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 Name of drugs Abbreviations
• 1. Mercurius Solubilis -- Merc
• 2. Mercurius aceticus -- Merc-a
• 3. Mercurius auratus -- Merc-aur
• 4. Mercurius biniodatus -- Merc-I- r
• 5. Mercurius bromatus -- Merc-br
• 6. Mercurius corrosivus -- Mer-c
• 7. Mercurius cum Kali -- Merc-k-i
• 8. Mercurius cyanatus -- Merc -cy
• 9. Mercurius dulcis, calomel -- Merc-d
• 10. Mercurius iodatus flavus -- Merc-I-f
• 11. Mercurius Methylenus - Merc- meth
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• 12. Mercurius Nitrosus Merc-ns
• 13. Mercurius Oxydatus Merc-prr
• 14. Mercurius phosphorus Mercp
• 15. Mercurius pracipitatus albus Mercpra
• 16. Mercurius pracipitatus flavus Merc-pr-f
• 17. Mercurius Sulphocy- anatus Merc-s-cy
• 18. Mercurius Sulphuratus niger Merc-sul-n
• 19. Mercurius Sulphuratus ruber Cinnabaris
• 20. Mercurius Sulphuricus Merc-sul
• 21. Mercurius tanicus Merc-tn
• 22. Mercurius vivus Merc-v
• 23. Mercurialis
perennnis Merl
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• 24. Merc-i-r = Mercurius biniodatus = mercurius
iodatus rubber
• 25. Merc-c = Mercurius cor = Mercurius
sublimates
• 26. Merc-k-i = Mercurius cum kali = Mercurius
biniodatus cum kali iodato
• 26. Merc-pr-r = Mercurius Oxydatus =
Mercurious precip. ruber

• Merc-sol is not a pure merc preparation, it

contains ammonia & nit-acid.
• Cinnabaris, bin-iodide, proto-iodide, merc-cor,
merc-sol, merc-vivus are the most frequently
used.

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Mercurius is a fascinating type.
 It is probably harder to 'get a handle‘

 Dream

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 Real
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• Introvert Extrovert
• Optimist Pessimist
• Pragmatist Idealist
• Moralist Opportunist.

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• The Mercurial mind takes snapshots of the world
before it, and instantaneously classifies the
contents of the picture, and then files it away.
• This can lead to hasty judgments and even
prejudice, but having said that, the perception of
the Mercurial mind is often so quick that it
arrives at accurate conclusions in apparently
impossibly short bites of time.
• Detachment & Alienation.

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• The fool

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• The trickster

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• Ritual & Magical thinking --

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• Megalomania& Cruelty—

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∞ Has the power to take responsibilities, be the
leader & to maintain the position.
∞ Constant attack from enemies around him to
take away the power.
∞ Unable to maintain it.
∞ Unsuccessful efforts.
∞ Key – responsibility, leadership, power,
handicapped, dependence, attack & defense,
performance.

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♠ Overdoing the power : dictatorship
♠ Exaggerated arrogance
♠ Exaggerated organisation
♠ Decay of power
♠ Exaggerated responsibility
♠ Repeating strategies to hold on to power
♠ Repeating tricks to hold on to power
♠ Enemies of the king
♠ Everybody is an enemy & they are totally alone.

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♠ Exaggerated feeling of loneliness.
♠ Enemies have to be dealt with dictatorial
measures.
♠ Decline of empire.
♠ Enemies of organisation : suspicion
♠ Disturbed relationships
♠ Decline of power leads to anti social behavior.

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 MONOGRAM

• Congestive. Catarrhal. Exudative.

• Ulcerative. Suppurative. Destructive
• Glandular. Scrofulous. Scorbutic.
• Anemic. Rheumatic. Offensive
• Sensitive. Tremulous. Dropsical .
• Agile. Chaotic. Debilitated. Syphilitic

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 1. Congestive:
• Merc is basically inflammatory group of
remedies.
• Every inflammation begins with congestion and
Merc has it forcefully in its pathogenesis.
• This congestiveness has to be differentiated
from Aco, Bell or Ferr-ph.
• These three drugs have congestion in their first
stage of inflammation.
• Merc presents a furtherance of activity where
suppuration has supervened.
• An abscess in Merc is of spreading congestion-
more red, more painful, more throbbing, and
with adjacent lymphadenopathy.
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 2. Catarrhal:
• Merc causes inflammation of mucous
membranes resulting in profuse, thin, slimy,
acrid, burning, foul or thick greenish-yellow
discharges.
• Merc covers simple to malignant catarrhs in its
pathogenesis.

3. Exudative:
• Exuding the ichorous fluid, pus etc.
through affected lesions like boils, abscesses,
carbuncles, sinuses, fistulae etc. is the
characteristic of Merc.
• The exudation is usually offensive in nature.

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 4. Ulcerative:
• Merc has ulcerations; of the
mucous membranes, esp. of mouth and
throat.
• The syphilitic miasmatic dimension is
responsible for recurrent and non-healing
ulcerations; ulcers based on deep
pathologies, or metabolic basis. Syphilitic
phagadenic ulcers.

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 5. Suppurative:
• Inflammation in Merc doesn’t stop at the level of
congestion.
• Inflammatory action is intensely acute and
violent and rapidly tends to septic
disorganization.
• It is as if little resistance is offered by the
system. Defective mesenchymal system and
phagocytosis turns the condition into
suppuration.
• Merc has tendency to pus formation and the
pus is thin, green, putrid; streaked with blood.
• Suppuration in glands, ulcers or even internal
vital organs like lungs (e.g. empyema) or
kidneys (e.g. peri-nephric abscess or
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 6. Destructive:
Merc transforms healthy cells into decrepit,
inflamed and necrotic wrecks.
Merc is destructive both at body and mind
levels.
 Its lesions resemble those of syphilis.
Merc’s action is similar to that of the toxins
of infectious diseases.
 Inflammations of malignant types, and
prostration.
Appropriate Merc salt can be thought of in
cases where perforation threatens.
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 7. Glandular:
• Merc has increased glandular activity, esp. of
salivary and mucous glands.
• Lymphatic system is esp. affected with all the
membranes and glands.
• Merc has concomitant lymphadenopathy with
skin lesions like boil, abscess, ulcer etc.
• Syphilitic miasm is responsible for even
malignant glandular affections and fevers.
• Based on scrofulous diathesis, it also covers
tubercular glandular affections. Chronic
suppurating glands; cold abscesses are dealt
with Merc.
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 8. Scrofulous:
• Tuberculous disease of lymphatic nodes and of bone,
with slowly suppurating abscesses.
• Merc decomposes the blood, producing a profound
anemia.
• It thus affects the nutrition and prepares a ground for
scrofulous affections.
• Syphilitic activity further leads to cachexia.

9. Scorbutic:
• Merc has spongy and bleeding gums.
• When the general condition is impaired and metabolism
affected because of malnutrition, scorbusis may get
developed.
• Scorbusis may be a precursor of metabolic diseases like
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 10. Anaemic:
• Merc through decomposition of blood, and
through bone-narrow depression causes profound or
aplastic anemia.
• Hemorrhages, metabolic disorders, hepatic and renal
toxicity cause anemia.
• Hence Merc constitution is emaciated, pale with dark
ring around eyes.

11 . Rheumatic:
• Rheumatic diathesis is one of the features of Merc
group.
• It has both acute and chronic dimensions.
• Mercs are sensitive to both heat and cold - human
barometers and they come down with acute joint
swellings and pains consequent to weather changes.
‘Redness’ indicates Merc.
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 12. Offensive

• Merc is filthy, mentally as well as physically.

• All discharges smell horribly.
• the decomposition, the debris, the slough, the suppuration;
smell emanates from the body.
• Mercs are, hence, recognized to an observant physician.

13. Sensitive

• Mercs are very sensitive to weather changes, hence termed

as ‘human barometer’.
• The inflamed part is very sensitive and depicts all
characters of inflammation.
• The reactivity pattern is exhibited well.
• Sensitivity attracts environmental stimuli; hence modalities
or sensory stimuli / inputs are usually available.
• Sensitivity is also present at mind level.
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 14. Tremulous
• ‘Trembling’ is a marked characteristic of Merc.
Paralysis agitans – Parkinsonism -come under
pathogenetic action of Merc.
• Syphilitic expressions with a lot of pathologies at
nerves, spinal cord, and brain resulting in inco-
ordination are responsible for tremulousness.

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 16. Agile
• Merc is basically an‘active’ group.
• We get rapid development of symptoms leading
to destruction.
• When active disease processes are present,
Merc group is indicated.
• It is less indicated for remnants or for
exhaustion stage.
• That work is allotted to other groups like Carbon
etc. Usually full-blown acute or chronic diseases
are found in Merc group because of increased
sensitivity and susceptibility.
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 17. Chaotic
• The aberrant immune response as expressed in
autoimmune disorders give the character of
chaos.
• Under severe infection, the system becomes
prey and behaves in an eccentric way.
• Tubercular miasma actively dominates the
scene.
• The agile character allows the system to go into
chaos.

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 18. Debilitated
The sway of disease processes
under tubercular and syphilitic miasmatic
activities depletes the energy.
The system can’t continue for long and
succumbs.
Anemia, malnourishments add to the state
of debility.
Discharges produced do not ameliorate and
further deplete the energy.

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 19. Syphilitic
• Merc and syphilis are knot together since
antiquity.
• Merc has in its pathogenesis all stages of
syphilis-primary, secondary and tertiary.
• Low states and phagadenic condition from
syphilitic poison.
• Destructive effects on nerves.
• It covers both acute and chronic phases.
• Discharges which system develops as defense
do not help and syphilitic march is continued.
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 Comments
Merc group is an active group and hence must be
considered in all inflammatory processes characterized
by suppuration.
But once Merc action has been over, (for example in a
case of an abscess), it is better to follow with either a
constitutional remedy or a nosode.
Sul is a good remedy to complement Merc.
Merc group resembles Acid group as far as
inflammation and destruction is concerned.
But Acid group is more debilitated.
‘Struggle followed by exhaustion’ is the theme with Acid
group.
In Merc group struggle is an active process. Fight is the
theme and it is continued till decomposition occurs.
But if this state appears, better to go to Carbon group of
remedies.
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 Merc group should be compared with Spider
group. This group is slyer, nervier and has more
loss of control.
 Previously Merc was used for all and sundry as
a medicine.
 Now antibiotics and steroids are used. Now we
do not get Mercurialised constitutions to treat
homeopathically.
 But it is necessary to note that modern man is
using Mercury more than his predecessors. And
it needs to be antidoted by our potentised
Mercury
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 Constitution –
• persons with light hair, lax skin &lax
muscles.
• Predominantly cover syphilitic affectoins,
mainly lymphatic constitution.
• AILMENTS From –
• Suppression of discharges, abuse of
crude mercury, bad affects of sugar, stings,
vapors of arsenic or copper, suppressed
syphilis, winter diseases.

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• Temperament – easily frightened, hurried
& rapidity.
• Miasm – syphilis, but trases of psora &
sycosis are also found.
• Thermals – human barometer.
• Diathesis– scrofulous diathesis.

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• Characteristic symptoms –
• Mind –
• sluggishness,
• incomprehension
• restlessness
• weak memory
• mistrustful

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• Spere of action –
• mainly act on glands, bones, cns.
• Glands – it acts on lymphatic capillaries, it
diminishes prostrates & paralyzes them &
producing irritability.

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• The symptoms of the solubilis, obtained by
regular proving, and the effects of the vivus,
gathered from toxicological reports carefully
sifted and clinically verified, are sufficiently
simular to be placed under one arrangement.
• Virtually the action of the two remedies appears
to be the same, and they have not always been
distinguished in clinical reports, but in all known
instances the symptoms of the two preparations
are rendered distinguishable by the letters s.
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• I do not know enough to separate them
(merc-vivus, merc- sol ) symptomatically.
The provings have been separately placed
in allen”s encyclopaedia, I have not been
able to see any essential deference
between them – Farrington’s clinical m.m.
• Merc-sol is not a pure merc preparation, it
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• Poisoning
• 1st phase
• Acrid metallic taste & feeling of
constriction of throat.
• Hoarse voice, diee in breathing
• Hot burning pain in the mouth eollowed by
vomiting
• Diarrhoea, blood stained stools &
tenesmus.
• Circulatory collapse, nervous symptoms–
ataxia, delirium,restriction in visual eield.
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• 2nd phase ---
• Begins 1 to 3 days Ie person survives
• Glossitis, ulcerative gingivitis- 24 to 36 hrs
• Severe ineection,loosening oe teeth
&necrosis oe jaw.
• Renal necrosis-2 – 3 days
• Poly urea,albuminuria,uraemia,acidosis
• Desentery, ulceration oe colonicmucosa &
haemorrhage.

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• Fatal dose –1 to 2 grms
• Fatalperiod– 3 to 5 days
• Tt – give egg- whites, milk or animal
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• General sphere –
• 1. acridity – excoriation, burning, stinging.
• 2. pains – boring, gnawing, cutting,
tenesmus, gripping
• 3. chilliness – creeping.
• 4. debility – emaciation – faints – anaemia.
• 5. discharges – slimy, foul, acrid, thin,
thick, yellowish – green, bloody, oedema,
anasarca, ascites.
• 6. Perspiration – stains yellow, sour.
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• 7. salivation – thirst, dryness.
• 8. tremors – intention, static, athetoid.
• 9. mm, glands, skin, cellular: --
inflammation, induration, exudation,
suppuration, cracks, ulceration, necrosis,
gangrene, cancer.
• 10. fevers – remittent, septic.
• 11. mouth & throat – colds, ascending.
• 12. liver – yellowness, biliousness.
• Cause –
• suppression, ear- discharge, foot – sweat
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• Aggravations –
• Heat + cold: changing, drafts – head, cold
damp, cloudy, autumn.
• Night, sweating – during & after
• Lying on rt side, except – dyspnoea
• Sleep, loss of, during salivation
• Swallowing – throat.
• Dentition
• Sweets, coffee

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• Amelioration –
• moderate temp, altitude,
• Sleep, rest.
• Mind – restless, hasty, irritable- <
contradiction.
☺ Violence – homicidal.
☺ Impulsive – suicidal, homicidal
☺ Imbecile, idiot, stammering
tremors.
☺ Anxious, sad- fears – lascivious.
☺ Delusion- hallucinations – mania.
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• P–q–r–s
• Icicles – nose
• Pruritus vulvae < urine
• Sweats with anxiety
• Milk, breast – m.c , virgins
• merc -- cor
• Intensified mercury
• Pain, burning, constriction
• Concomitant – vesical tenesmus
• thirst
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• MERCURIUS -- Quicksilver
• In bone diseases, pains worse at night; glandular
swellings with or without suppuration, but especially if
suppuration be too profuse (Hep., Sil.).
• Profuse perspiration does not relieve; may even
increase the suffering
• Catarrh: with much sneezing; fluent, acrid, corrosive;
nostrils raw, ulcerated; yellow-green, fetid, pus-like;
nasal bones swollen; < at night and from damp weather.
• Toothache Crowns decay, roots remain
• fetid, coppery, metallic-tasting saliva.
• Tongue: large, flabby, shows imprint of teeth
• Mumps, diphtheria, tonsillitis with profuse offensive
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• Dysentery: stool slimy, bloody ,with colic and fainting
• leucorrhoea itching with rawness; always worse at
night;
• Mammae painful, ulcerate at every menstrual period
• Relations. - Follows well: after, Bell., Hep., Lach.,
Sulph., but should not be given before or after Silicea.
• If given in low (weak) potencies hastens rather than
aborts suppuration.
• Aggravation. - At night; wet damp weather (Rhus); in
autumn, warm days and cold, damp nights; lying on right
side; perspiring. Mercury is < by heat of, but > by rest
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 Mercurius Aceticus ( Sub acetate of
Mercury).
• Mercurous acetate HgC2H3O2. Trituration.
• The throat lancinations were < by coughing
rather than by swallowing. Cold water < the
inflammation of the penis; bathing with tepid
water .
• the menses which came on at the new moon,
four days before their proper time.
"Pressure in lower sternum and dyspnoea on
standing erect“. "Margins of ulcers become
painful." Hansen says that "burning in the
• urethra burning during urination and at other
times" has been confirmed in practice;
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• MERCURIUS BINIODIDE
• Mercurius iodatus ruber
• Biniodide of Mercury MgI5
• Diphtheritic and glandular affections of left
side; fauces dark red; solids or liquids
painful when swallowing; exudation slight,
easily detached; cases attending epidemic
scarlet fever, ulcers on fauces or tonsils;
glands enlarged; greenish tough lumps
from pharynx or posterior
nares. Tubercular pharyngitis.
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• Merc. biniodatus cum Kali iodatum
• It causes profuse discharge of watery
mucus from the nose with sneezing,
coughing and watering of the eyes. Take a
patient who cannot ride in an automobile
winter or summer. It is a condition that
conforms to this preparation of Iod., Merc.
and Kali. The combination consists of one
equivalent of red oxide of Merc. and 2
equivalents of Iod. of Potassium. Acute
facial paralysis from cold (Merc. sol. and
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• MERCURIUS CORROSIVUS
• Corrosive sublimate HgCl2
• Diseases of men, syphilitic; ulcers, with corroding, acrid
pus; Bright's disease. Dysentery and summer
complaints of intestinal canal, occurring from May to
November. Tenesmus: of rectum, not > by stool (<
by stool, Nux); incessant, persistent; stool hot, scanty,
bloody, slimy, offensive; shreds of mucous membrane
and terrible cutting; colicky pains. Tenesmus: of
bladder, with intense burning in urethra; urine hot,
burning, scanty or suppressed; in drops with great pain;
bloody, brown, brick-dust sediment;
albuminous. Gonorrhoea: second stage, greenish
discharge, < at night; great burning and tenesmus.
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• MERCURIUS CYANIDE -- Cyanide of Mercury
• Hg(CN2)
• Malignant diphtheria with intense redness of
fauces and great difficulty of swallowing;
pseudo-membranous formation extends all over
fauces and down throat; putrid, gangrenous
diphtheria, with phagedenic ulceration;
membranous croup. Great weakness;
extreme prostration; cannot stand up from
weakness. When it corresponds to the genus
epidemicus, like every other remedy, is effective
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• MERCURIUS DULCIS Calomel Hg2Cl2
• Catarrhal affections of mucous membranes,
especially of the eye and ear.Catarrhal
inflammation of middle ear (Kali
m.). Eustachian tube closed; catarrhal
deafness and otorrhoea in psoric children;
deafness of old age (Kali m.). Acute affections of
prostrate after maltreated stricture. Deafness
and catarrhal affections of nares, throat, and
pharynx, from mercurial amalgam
fillings. Diarrhoea: of children; stools grass-
green; like chopped eggs; profuse, causing
soreness of anus.
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• Merc. nitricus is to be studied when we
find conditions suggesting Merc. and at
the same time exhibiting the sharp sticking
pains of Nitric acid. Pustular conjunctivitis
and keratitis with burning lachrymation,
photophobia and the aforesaid sharp
sticking pain calls for Merc. nit. Coldness
also predominates under this remedy, with
a flushed face. The pains are intolerable,
driving the patient to thoughts of suicide.

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 Mercurius Praecipitatus Albus
White Precipitate.
Mercurammonium chloride.
NH2HgCl. Trituration.

The symptoms of Merc. proecip. alb. are

taken entirely from poisonings. The
• most peculiar symptoms are: Green
tongue; bilious stools scalding anus; and
• the old-mannish appearance of a child
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Mercurius Praecipitatus Ruber. Red precipitate.
Red Oxide of Mercury. HgO.
Gonorrhoea when the urethra is felt as a hard
string. Indurated ulcer, deep, with red, hard
edges and especially when spreading. Syphilitic
iritis when the pains have ceased. Pemphigus
• neonatorum and intertrigo syphilitica. Eczema,
acute or chronic, much sero-purulent or purulent
exudation, also externally (in ointment 1 to 40 of
prepared lard).
• Tinea tonsurans, circinata and sycosis.
Folliculitis barbae (internally and externally).

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• MERCURIUS SOLUBILIS Hahnemann's Soluble Mercury Block
oxide
•
Otorrhoea: bloody, offensive discharge, with stabbing tearing pain; < right
side, at night and lying on affected side.
• Furuncles and boils in external meatus (Pic. ac.).
• Polypi and fungous excresences in external meatus (Mar. v., Thuja).
• Acrid nasal secretion, nostrils, red, raw, ulcerated.
• Epistaxis: when coughing; at night during sleep; hangs in a dark
clotted string from the nose, like an circle.
• Gonorrhoea: with phymosis or chancroids; green discharge, < at
night; urging to urinate; intolerable burning in for part of urethra when
passing last few drops; prepuce oedematous.
• Chancre: primary; regular indurated Hunterian with phymosis or
paraphymosis;
• Hahnemann's remedy for syphilis and diseases of the genito-urinary
tract. Is rarely indicated if the tongue is dry.
• Disease of the skin; intolerable biting, itching, over body, as from
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 Mercurius Sulphocyanatus
• Sulphocyanide of Mercury.
• (Pharaoh's Serpents.)
• Hg (SCN)2.
Diphtheria.
Oesophagus, stricture of
Extreme redness of throat with white membrane on tonsils.

Most violent burning in fauces.

Heat and constriction in oesophagus, with difficulty in

swallowing and burning

in epigastric region and nausea.

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• MERCURIUS SULPHURICUS --- Sulphate of Mercury
HgSO4
• Hydrothorax, if occurring from heart or liver diseases;
dyspnoea, has to sit, cannot lie down. Extremities
swollen; stool loose, watery, causing severe burning and
soreness; burning in chest.
• "When it acts well it produces a profuse, watery
diarrhoea with great relief to the patient; it is as important
as Arsenicum in hydrothorax" - Lippe.
• Relations. - Compare: Ars., Cinnab., Dig., Sulph.

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 Cinnabaris
• Mercuric Sulphide.
• Red Sulphide of Mercury.
• Hg S.
corresponds to sycosis as well as to syphilis, and
to combination of the two.
• In warts on the prepuce it is more specific than
Thuja;especially for fan-shapedwarts.
• In addition to dysenteric symptoms there is
obstinate constipation, stools hard and too large.
Protrusion of anus during stool. Formication as
from a large worm. Little pimples round anus
with burning and itching.
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 Antidotes ---
• Hepar-sulph – the anxiety, distress,
suicidal mood &also bone pains, sore
mouth,ulcers,gastric symptoms.
• Nit-acid – lowertissues are attacked,
periosteum, bones & fibrous tissue, ulcers
in throat, complicated sec-syphilis.
<night, damp weather.
• Cinchona– chr. ptyalism.
• Dulcamara – salivation <damp weather
• Aurum – depression, suicidal mania,
caries of bones- palate &nose.
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• Kali- hydro iodicum– merc poisoning, pt
sick due to syphilis & mercury – lower
order of tissues are involved, upper lip
sore & raw, repeated catarrhs.< damp,
cool air.
• Kali-chloricum – gums are spongy, bleed
easily aphthous ulcer.
• Asaoetida – bone aeeections, extreme
sensitiveness around the diseased portion
of bone, iritis.

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• Mezereum – excellent when invaded
nervous system & neuralgia has
developed. ( face, eyes, body).
• Stillingia– broken down constitution with
periostial inflammations & nodes on the
bones.

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 References

o 1. Sankarans schema
o 2. ICR symposium part – 1
o 3. Homoeopathy & the elements- jan scholten
o 4. Group study – DR.J.D.Patil
o 5. Farrington clinical materia medica
o 6. Herrings guiding symptoms
o 7. Allen's key notes
o 8.Similima .com
o 9.Clarke clinical m.m.

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