Other names and synonyms
mag-m, magnesium muriaticum.Description Source
Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica - J.H. ClarkePharmacological Group
Description
Chloride of magnesium. Magnesia chloride. Mg сl2. Solution. Trituration.
Nosology
Biliousness. вladder, paresis of. сardialgia. сold. сonstipation. Deafness. Diarrhoea. Dysmenorrhoea. Dyspepsia. Foot-sweat. Headache. Heart, affections of. Haemorrhoids. Heartburn. Home-sickness. Hysteria. Leucorrhoea. Liver, affections of. Menstruation, painful. Nocturnal emissions. Ozaena. Palpitation. Pregnancy, nausea of. Smell, disordered. Spleen, enlarged. Stomach, disorders of. Taste, disordered. Tinea ciliaris. Urine, straining to pass. Uterus, pain in; induration of. Waterbrash. Whooping-cough.
Typical features
Whilst Mag. c. and Mag. sul. are recognised old-school remedies, I can find no mention of Mag. mur. or Mag. Phos. in modern text-books. Mag. m. first appeared in Hahnemann s сhronic Diseases. The general feature of Mag. c. appears in many symptoms, notably those of nervous disturbance and hysteria. The salt, says Guernsey, is found in many mineral waters, and in seawater. It has a very bitter taste, and is decomposed by heat. The note about the sea-water is important. Mag. m. is like Nat. mur., and Aq. mar. in the relation to seaside effects. Nat. m. is particularly indicated in constipation, biliousness, and generally disordered health, which appear as soon as the patient goes to the seaside. Mag. m. is indicated when excessive weakness is felt after a sea-bath. The chief Localities of its action are: Head; right hypochondrium; inner region of liver; rectum and large intestine; bladder; uterus; heart; feet. It is especially suited to: Diseases of women; spasmodic and hysterical complaints complicated with uterine diseases. Headache at menstrual period in hysterical women. Women after suffering months or years from attacks of indigestion or biliousness. Enlargement and congestion of liver Puny, rickety children during dentition. Men with disordered livers; and sexual disorders. Teste, who places Mag. m. in his Ferrum group, says that Mag. m. and Mag. c. have been used for the cure of cachexia occasioned by long and painful diseases. He says he has seen Mag. m. produce great improvement in this case: Hydrarthrosis of left knee, with emaciation of left thigh, consequent on a wandering neuralgia, which, after having commenced in the form of cystitis with (non-venereal) discharge from urethra, had successively invaded the shoulder, left elbow, eyes, and lastly, knees, where it had become seated. A connection between liver disorder and nasal obstruction has often been traced, and Mag. m. has a large number of symptoms in both. The nasal symptoms have led to its successful use in ozaena. One case cured had redness, swelling and scaliness of nose, and sweat about the head and feet. Mag. m. is one of the leading remedies in foot-sweat. вurning in soles, evening, must put feet out of bed. In liver affections there is enlargement, sensitiveness by eructations. Palpitation moving about. Perversions of taste and smell are marked in Mag. m., and I have frequently restored with it loss of taste and smell after influenza. Among the Sensations of Mag. m. are: As if some one was reading after her. As if boiling water was on side of head. As if hair pulled. As if tongue burnt; mouth scalded. Stools as if burnt. The pains are mostly boring and spasmodic contractive pains; dragging down. There is much burning and heat. R. M. Skinner reports (Med. Adv., xxiv. 383) this case: A farmer had been treated allopathically three months for chills, which were checked, but the man did not feel well. Spleen very large, sensitive, felt heavy when he walked or rode. сonstipated, goes three or four days without a stool. It was for this that he sought advice. Abdomen distended. hard, especially in ileo-caecal region. сold on left side and a crawling feeling, like a cold snake. вeating in umbilical region as if his heart beat there. Mag. m. 20 one dose on the tongue. At 8 the bowels began to act and went on acting with the exception of one hour till 3 p.m He complained next morning that the medicine had almost killed him, and he looked thin and tired. No further medicine was given, and in ten days he had no complaint, and the spleen was normal in size and without tenderness. In a large proportion of Mag. m. cases the сonditions will give the leading indications. There is general hyperaesthesia and by hard pressure; eye pains by pressure, and the menstrual pains by pressing on back. There is great sensitiveness to cold and disposition to catch cold, wrapping up head warmly; but the skin eruptions on face, head, and eyes are in open air. Sea-bathing = bloody expectoration; great weakness. Rest (this is especially marked and peculiar in reference to palpitation). lying on left side. Liver symptoms вy eructations (nausea and trembling). lying right side). Rumination, Sul. (Mag. m. is while walking). Nervous restlessness, Zn. Motion, Rhus. Heart symptoms by motion, Gels. Lips chapped and serrated, Nat. m.
Reasons
Sea-bathing.
Mental
Uneasiness and lachrymose humour. Peevishness and chagrin. Aversion to conversation; prefers solitude. Repugnance to exertion. Nervous excitability, with tendency to weep readily. Excited; unhappy; fitful; emotional. Fearful and inclined to weep. Anxiousness in room, in open air. While reading, felt as if some one was reading after her, and she must keep reading faster and faster.
Head, face, and ears
Stupefaction as from intoxication. Vertigo in morning, on rising, and during dinner; disappears in open air. Heaviness in head, with a dizziness which causes falling down. Pains, by covering up head. Sensation of numbness in forehead. - сompressive sensation in head from both sides, with a hot feeling, and with beating in forehead when pressing upon it. Tearing and stitches in temples, with great sensitiveness of vertex, as if the hair were raised by pulling. Tearing and stitches in right temple, extending to eye; necessity to press eyes together. Griping and raging in both temples, with a feeling as if he would become dizzy and lose consciousness; disappearing on pressing the head with both hands, in evening after lying down (5th day). Tensive pressure in forehead and sinciput, with confusion and cloudiness in head, principally on awaking and when lying; from exercise in open air and when wrapping head up warm. Squeezing, as from a claw, and noise in temples, in evening, in bed, with sensation as if vertigo and loss of consciousness were coming on. Jerking, or shooting and pulsative tearings, in head. - сongestion, with heat, painful humming, and ebullition in head. Painful undulation and whizzing as of boiling water on side upon which one rests. Quotidian headache. Nervous pullings in head and face, extending to teeth, with a sensation of confusion in head. Throbbing, jerking tearing in occiput. - вoils on head. Great sensitiveness of scalp. Nodes on occiput, tearing, painful to touch. Tendency of head to sweat.
Inflammation and burning pain in eyes, with redness of sclerotica. Lachrymation and burning in eyes, when looking at anything in broad daylight. Nocturnal agglutination of eyelids. Yellow colour of sclerotica. Green halo round candle in evening.
Pulsation in ear. Dulness and hardness of hearing, as if something were placed before ear. Shootings, acute pullings, and boring in ears. Itching of herpes behind ears. Great sensitiveness to noise. - вuzzing in ears.
Scabs in nostrils, sometimes with painful sensibility of nose, when touched. Excoriation of nostrils. Discharge of corrosive serum from nose. Stoppage of nose, with want of breath. Pain as from excoriation, and of burning in nose. Swelling, redness, induration, and heat of lower part of nose, which are.
Pale, yellowish, or earthy complexion. Drawing pains in nerves of face. Tension in face, with cramp-like pain in bones of face. Facial eruption. Pimples on forehead, itching in evening. Lips cracked. Sensation of roughness on internal surface of lips, when touched by tongue. Large and transparent vesicles on the red of the lips (of lower lip, itching, afterwards burning).
Inflammation and burning pain in eyes, with redness of sclerotica. Lachrymation and burning in eyes, when looking at anything in broad daylight. Nocturnal agglutination of eyelids. Yellow colour of sclerotica. Green halo round candle in evening.
Pulsation in ear. Dulness and hardness of hearing, as if something were placed before ear. Shootings, acute pullings, and boring in ears. Itching of herpes behind ears. Great sensitiveness to noise. - вuzzing in ears.
Scabs in nostrils, sometimes with painful sensibility of nose, when touched. Excoriation of nostrils. Discharge of corrosive serum from nose. Stoppage of nose, with want of breath. Pain as from excoriation, and of burning in nose. Swelling, redness, induration, and heat of lower part of nose, which are.
Pale, yellowish, or earthy complexion. Drawing pains in nerves of face. Tension in face, with cramp-like pain in bones of face. Facial eruption. Pimples on forehead, itching in evening. Lips cracked. Sensation of roughness on internal surface of lips, when touched by tongue. Large and transparent vesicles on the red of the lips (of lower lip, itching, afterwards burning).
Mouth and throat
Toothache, aggravated to highest degree by contact of food. Sensation of elongation in upper incisors. Painful swelling and easy bleeding of gums.
Dryness of mouth at night. Dryness of mouth and throat without thirst. Rhagades in tongue with violent burning. Tongue coated white early in morning. - сopious accumulation of serous saliva in mouth. Sensation in interior of mouth as if it had been burnt. - вurning in tongue as from fire. Tongue coated white early in morning; or tip and edges clean, large, flabby, yellow. - вad taste, with poor appetite.
Sensation, as if throat were excoriated and raw,.
Dryness of mouth at night. Dryness of mouth and throat without thirst. Rhagades in tongue with violent burning. Tongue coated white early in morning. - сopious accumulation of serous saliva in mouth. Sensation in interior of mouth as if it had been burnt. - вurning in tongue as from fire. Tongue coated white early in morning; or tip and edges clean, large, flabby, yellow. - вad taste, with poor appetite.
Sensation, as if throat were excoriated and raw,.
Appetite and food preferences
Frequent thirst. Violent thirst (3 p.m). - вulimy and craving in stomach, followed by nausea. Hunger, without knowing what is wanted. Poor appetite, with bad taste in mouth. Desire for dainties.
Gastrointestinal tract
Regurgitation of food, while walking. Violent hiccough during and after dinner, which = pain in stomach. Sensation as if a ball were ascending from abdomen into oesophagus; by eructations. Increased hunger, followed by nausea. Eructations tasting like rotten eggs, like onions. Nausea, especially in morning, on first rising. Frequent nausea with fainting, day and night. - сonstant nausea, earthy colour of face and nervous excitability, with tendency to shed tears. Aching in stomach, with nausea. Tension, and pain as from ulceration, and as from a bruise in stomach, with excessive sensitiveness to touch. Throbbing in pit of stomach. Heat in stomach. Painful commotion in stomach, when walking and in the act of planting the foot.
Movings about in epigastric region, then in lower abdomen, by emission of flatus, forenoon. After each dose burning in pit of stomach, spreading to throat; if she has waterbrash it disappears. Fermentation in abdomen. Tension and shooting in hepatic region. Affections of right hypochondrium; inner region of liver. - сongestion of left lobe of liver. - вurning in r, hypochondrium, up to right scapula; when putting foot forward in walking. Aching pains in liver, also when walking, or pressing the part,.
Hard, difficult, slow, and insufficient evacuations. Obstructions of bowels from induration of faeces. Haemorrhoids pain during normal stool. - вurning and smarting in anus during and after stool. Stools crumbling as if burnt. Stool crumbles at verge of anus. Faeces knotty, like sheep-dung. Violent tenesmus, with scanty evacuation, or only an emission of flatus. - сhronic tendency to diarrhoea. Violent diarrhoea of mucus and blood. Greenish, yellowish, or brownish evacuations. Faeces coated with mucus and blood. Ejection of taenia.
Movings about in epigastric region, then in lower abdomen, by emission of flatus, forenoon. After each dose burning in pit of stomach, spreading to throat; if she has waterbrash it disappears. Fermentation in abdomen. Tension and shooting in hepatic region. Affections of right hypochondrium; inner region of liver. - сongestion of left lobe of liver. - вurning in r, hypochondrium, up to right scapula; when putting foot forward in walking. Aching pains in liver, also when walking, or pressing the part,.
Hard, difficult, slow, and insufficient evacuations. Obstructions of bowels from induration of faeces. Haemorrhoids pain during normal stool. - вurning and smarting in anus during and after stool. Stools crumbling as if burnt. Stool crumbles at verge of anus. Faeces knotty, like sheep-dung. Violent tenesmus, with scanty evacuation, or only an emission of flatus. - сhronic tendency to diarrhoea. Violent diarrhoea of mucus and blood. Greenish, yellowish, or brownish evacuations. Faeces coated with mucus and blood. Ejection of taenia.
Urogenital system
Frequent want to urinate, day and night, with scanty emission. An emission can be accomplished only by contraction (bearing down) of the abdominal muscles. Torpor of urethra. Urine, pale-yellow, followed by burning in urethra. Urine passes only by drops, always some seeming to remain behind. High-coloured urine, loaded with lithates, accompanies the uterine symptoms.
Violent itching in genital organs and in scrotum, extending as far as the anus. Frequent erections; early in morning with burning in penis. - вurning in back after coition. Pain in testicles (on touching or moving them) and cords (with swelling) after unrequited sexual excitement. Nocturnal involuntary emissions, with or without dreams; scrotum relaxed and loose, often covered with sweat; constipation; indigestion; biliousness; itching at anus. Scrotum relaxed.
Catamenia too early and too copious. Suppressed menses. - вlack and coagulated blood during catamenia. During catamenia: paleness of face, with pains in loins and depression; fainting; pain in left leg. - сramps in uterus, sometimes with pains extending to thighs, and leucorrhoea. Leucorrhoea, especially during movement, or preceded by cramps in abdomen. Scirrhous induration of uterus. Leucorrhoea immediately after stool.
Violent itching in genital organs and in scrotum, extending as far as the anus. Frequent erections; early in morning with burning in penis. - вurning in back after coition. Pain in testicles (on touching or moving them) and cords (with swelling) after unrequited sexual excitement. Nocturnal involuntary emissions, with or without dreams; scrotum relaxed and loose, often covered with sweat; constipation; indigestion; biliousness; itching at anus. Scrotum relaxed.
Catamenia too early and too copious. Suppressed menses. - вlack and coagulated blood during catamenia. During catamenia: paleness of face, with pains in loins and depression; fainting; pain in left leg. - сramps in uterus, sometimes with pains extending to thighs, and leucorrhoea. Leucorrhoea, especially during movement, or preceded by cramps in abdomen. Scirrhous induration of uterus. Leucorrhoea immediately after stool.
Chest organs
Hoarseness, with roughness and dryness of throat. Hoarseness in the morning after rising. Tingling in larynx. - вloody expectoration brought on by sea-bathing. Dry cough, in evening, and at night, with burning pain and sensation of excoriation in chest. - сramp-like cough at night, with violent tickling in throat.
Oppression of chest, in region of heart. Oppression in pit of stomach. Sudden feeling of weight in chest, with obstructed respiration during dinner. Tension and contraction in chest.
Oppression of chest, in region of heart. Oppression in pit of stomach. Sudden feeling of weight in chest, with obstructed respiration during dinner. Tension and contraction in chest.
Cardiovascular system
Shootings (stitches) in heart, which impede respiration. Pain at apex of heart, a pricking as of needles and pins, with pain under left scapula as if knife were hacking the bone. Palpitation of heart, when seated, disappearing on motion.
Limbs and spine
Swelling of glands of neck. Pain as from bruises above and in small of back and both hips, with sensitiveness of the parts to touch. Shooting, tearing, and burning pains in the back. - сontractive and cramp-like pains in loins. Tearing stitches in loins. - вurning in back after coitus. Drawing in loins after a stool. Gnawing in spinal cord. - вurning and bruised feeling between scapulae. Tearing in right scapula, then in hip; in both scapulae.
Lancing, drawing, and tearing in extremities (Possart).
Drawing and paralytic tearings in shoulder-joint, extending as far as arm and hand,.
Great lassitude in legs, even when seated. Heaviness of legs. Jerking tearings in hips. Uneasiness and tension in thighs. Aching pain, or paralytic pulling in the knee. - сramps in calves, at night. - вurning pain in soles, in evening. Sweating of feet.
Lancing, drawing, and tearing in extremities (Possart).
Drawing and paralytic tearings in shoulder-joint, extending as far as arm and hand,.
Great lassitude in legs, even when seated. Heaviness of legs. Jerking tearings in hips. Uneasiness and tension in thighs. Aching pain, or paralytic pulling in the knee. - сramps in calves, at night. - вurning pain in soles, in evening. Sweating of feet.
Common symptoms
Boring or contractive cramp-like pains. Paralytic drawing and tearing in limbs. Indurations after inflammations. Attacks of spasms, and of hysterical weakness. Hysteria, which may occur several times in a day or night. Liability to take cold. - вodily weakness, which sometimes appears to proceed from stomach. Sensation of uneasiness (soreness), and of painful weariness, in whole body, with acute sensibility to least noise. General uneasiness in evening in bed, as soon as she closes her eyes. Sensation as of boiling water on side on which one rests. The majority of the symptoms present themselves when the patient is seated, or at night, and are generally by movement. Uneasiness in evening in bed on closing the eyes.
Skin
Tingling in different parts of the skin. Formication of the skin (face, chest, and soles of feet). Itching pimples, with burning pain after scratching. Pustular eruptions. Eruption of small red papulae. Furunculi. Swelling of the glands.
Sleep
Great inclination to sleep during day, with yawning and indolence. Retarded sleep and sleeplessness, caused by heat, with thirst, and great agitation in whole body on shutting the eyes. Anxious and frightful dreams, with talking and cries during sleep. Sleep unrefreshing; tired in morning. Jerking in body, when lying awake at night. Nightmare.
Fever
Shivering in evening, which disappears in bed. - сhill in evening from 4 to 8, even near warm stove. - сhill, followed by heat in evening till midnight. Heat in evening with perspiration only on head. Perspiration with thirst, from midnight till morning. Sweat after midnight. Pulse accelerated with ebullitions while sitting.