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Mercurius Praecipitatus Albus
6XMerc-p-aMercurius Praecipitatus Albus · White Precipitate of Mercury · "The White Precipitate Skin Mercury"
MineralRareSyphilitic✨ Clarke only
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Exclusively Documented in Clarke
This remedy is documented exclusively in Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica. It does not appear in other classical references in this encyclopedia.
🎯 It acts primarily on the skin, gastrointestinal tract, and facial tissues, often manifesting symptoms of severe irritation and rapid physical decline.
📖 Clarke writes:
White Precipitate. Mercurammonium chloride. NH2HgCl. Trituration.
👤 Characteristics
Sphere of Action & Core States
•Symptoms derived entirely from poisonings
•Bilious stools
•Scalding anus
•Moistening eruption
•Vesicles on reddened, swollen skin
•Vesicles dry into scales which exfoliate
•Offensive odour
•Swollen cervical glands
Temperament & Physical Profile
•Old-mannish appearance of a child poisoned with it
•Elderly man
•Girl, aged 2
Key Characteristics & Guiding Symptoms
•Green tongue
•Eruption WORSE in winter
•Eruption WORSE from exposure to cold
•Oedematous eyelids, especially lower
•Reddened corners of eyes
•Lachrymation
•Ear involved
•Itching and burning on head preventing sleep
•Thick yellow crust on face and scalp
•Matter exuding from cracks
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Appearance of an old man in a child
Clarke
Green-coated tongue
Clarke
Bilious stools causing intense scalding of the anus
Clarke
Moist, crusty skin eruptions with offensive odor
Clarke
Swollen cervical glands associated with skin eruptions
Clarke
Vomiting of blood-stained fluid
Clarke
Constant abdominal griping and pain
Clarke
Urgent thirst
Clarke
Edematous eyelids with reddened corners
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Cold, clammy skin with general perspiration
Clarke
🩺 Systems & Indications
✨ Clarke Exclusive😶Face
Facial swelling, flushed skin, and chronic moist eczema with thick yellow crusts.
Face: much flushed
greatly swollen.
In one night a child (poisoned with 20 gr.) had undergone a remarkable change
had become in appearance "quite an old man."
🔑 Modalities
✨ Clarke Exclusive↓Worse from
Winter
moistening eruption
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Baryta Carbonica →Mezereum →
📚 Sources & References
✓ Clarke's Dictionary↗Boericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraKent's Materia MedicaAllen's EncyclopediaPhatak's Concise MM
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