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Mezereum

30CMezereum
Daphne Mezereum · Spurge Olive · "The Post-Herpetic Neuralgia Remedy"
mez.PolychrestPlantUncommonPsoric
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🎯 Acts primarily on the skin, bones, and nerves, particularly for neuralgic pains and skin eruptions that form thick, pus-filled crusts.
📖 Boericke writes:
Skin symptoms, affections of bones, and neuralgias 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 neuralgia 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
Ciliary neuralgia 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 pruritus; worse in bed.
skin
Eruptions ulcerate and form thick scabs under purulent matter exudes (Chrysophanic acid).
skin
🩺 Systems & Indications
👤HEAD
Indicated for severe facial neuralgia and scalp conditions characterized by thick, pus-filled crusts.
Hard work to talk.
Headache; worse from talking.
Stupefying headache in right side.
Affections of external head; scaly eruption, white scabs.
Head covered with thick, leathery crusts, under which pus collects, Violent neuralgia about face and teeth, running towards ear, at night; worse, eating; better near hot stove.
Roots of teeth decay.
Teeth feel elongated.
🔑 Modalities
↓Worse from
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💊 Dosage & Potency
Sixth to thirtieth
Centesimal
🕒As directed
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🚫 Antidotes
Mercurius Solubilis →
🔄 Compare With
Phytolacca Decandra →Rhus Toxicodendron →Guajacum Officinale →Mercurius Solubilis →Syphilinum →Dirca Palustris →
📚 Sources & References

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