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Mezereum

30CMezereum
Daphne Mezereum · Spurge Olive · "The Post-Herpetic Neuralgia Remedy"
mez.PolychrestPlantUncommonPsoric
🎯 Acts primarily on the skin, bones, and nerves, particularly for pains and skin eruptions that form thick, pus-filled crusts.
📖 Boericke writes:
Skin symptoms, of bones, and most important, especially about teeth and face. Bruised, weary feeling in joints, with drawing and stiffness. Pains of various kinds, with chilliness and sensitiveness to cold air. Bone pains. Eruptions after vaccination. Burning, darting sensation in the muscles; subsultus tendinum. Pains shoot upward and seem to draw patient up out of bed. Semi-lateral complaints. Patient is very sensitive to cold air.
👤 Constitution
•Individuals who are very sensitive to cold air, often suffering from semi-lateral (one-sided) complaints and deep bone pain that worsens at night.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Pains of various kinds, with chilliness and sensitiveness to cold air.
introduction
Patient is very sensitive to cold air.
introduction
Head covered with thick, leathery crusts, under which pus collects, Violent about face and teeth, running towards ear, at night; worse, eating; better near hot stove.
head
Feel too much open, as if tympanum was exposed to the cold air and it blew into the ear.
ears
after operations.
eyes
Pains radiate and shoot downward, with cold feeling and stiffness of bone.
eyes
Mouth waters.
stomach
Green discharges.
rectum
Enlargement of testicles.
male
Eczema; intolerable itching; chilliness with ; worse in bed.
skin
Eruptions ulcerate and form thick scabs under matter exudes (Chrysophanic acid).
skin
🩺 Systems & Indications
👤HEAD
Indicated for severe facial and scalp conditions characterized by thick, pus-filled crusts.
Hard work to talk.
Headache; worse from talking.
Stupefying headache in right side.
of external head; scaly eruption, white scabs.
Head covered with thick, leathery crusts, under which pus collects, Violent about face and teeth, running towards ear, at night; worse, eating; better near hot stove.
Roots of teeth decay.
Teeth feel elongated.
🔑 Modalities
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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.

Sixth to thirtieth
Centesimal
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🚫 Antidotes
Mercurius Solubilis →
🔄 Compare With
Phytolacca Decandra →Rhus Toxicodendron →Guajacum Officinale →Mercurius Solubilis →Syphilinum →Dirca Palustris

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

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Mezereum is listed in 238 rubrics across 22 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 73 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Skin41Face26Nervous System21Generalities19Locomotor System18Modalities13Male Sexual System12Abdomen11Teeth11Ears10Head10Throat9Respiratory System6Female Sexual System6Tongue6Eyes5Stomach3Mouth3Fever2Nose2Mind2Urinary System2

See all 238 rubrics for Mezereum →