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Magnesium Carbonicum

30CMag Carb

Carbonate of Magnesia · "The Sour Infant Remedy"

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🎯 It acts primarily on the gastro-intestinal tract, addressing acidity, sourness, and nerve prostration.

📖 Boericke writes:

(MAGNESIA CARBONICA)

Gastro-intestinal catarrh, with marked acidity. Often used with advantage for complains arising in people who have been taking this drug to sweeten the stomach. Is frequently indicated in children; whole body smells sour, and disposed to boils. Broken-down, "worn-out" women, with uterine and climacteric disorders. With numbness and distension in various, parts and nerve prostration. Sensitive to the least start, noise, touch, etc. Affection of the antrum of Highmore. Effects of shock, blows, mental distress. Sense of numbness; nerve prostration; tendency to constipation after nervous strain; sensitive to least touch, it causes starting, or cold winds or weather or from excess of care and worry with constipation and heaviness. Intense neuralgic pains.

👤 Constitution

•Often indicated for children who smell sour, and for 'worn-out' women suffering from exhaustion or hormonal disorders.

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Sense of numbness; nerve prostration; tendency to constipation after nervous strain; sensitive to least touch, it causes starting, or cold winds or weather or from excess of care and worry with constipation and heaviness.

introduction

Eructations sour, and vomiting of bitter water.

stomach

Green, watery, frothy, like a frog-pond's scum.

stool

Milk passes undigested in nursing children.

stool

Sore throat before menses appear.

female

🩺 Systems & Indications

👤HEAD

Useful for headaches triggered by mental exertion or specific positions.

Sticking pain in the side of the head on which he lies, as if the hair was pulled; worse, mental exertion.

Itching of scalp worse in damp weather.

Pain above margin of right orbit.

Blank motes before eyes.

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💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

3rd to 30th

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Primary Dosage

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🤝 Complementary

Chamomilla →

🚫 Antidotes

Arsenicum Album →Mercurius Solubilis →

🔄 Compare With

Kreosotum →Aloe Socotrina →Rheum Palmatum →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Magnesium Carbonicum is listed in 154 rubrics across 21 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 43 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Abdomen30 Female Sexual System27 Stomach20 Teeth12 Locomotor System10 Modalities10 Nervous System8 Face6 Skin6 Fever4 Head3 Mouth3 Taste3 Eyes3 Generalities2 Respiratory System2 Ears1 Nose1 Throat1 Male Sexual System1 Mind1

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