Cinnabaris
Mercuric sulfide (HgS, cinnabar) · Hydrargyrum sulphuratum rubrum, Mercuric sulfide, sulfide of mercury, quicksilver. · Mineral
Cinnabaris is best suited to people who are nervous, uneasy, sad, weak, and weary. They do not want to use their brains, and may become forgetful, often feeling that their heads are “full” from mental use. At night a stream of constantly changing thoughts runs through their heads. They are usually sensitive to touch and to the slightest noise, preferring to be left alone.
This remedy has a classic affinity with genital and rectal ulceration and warts, and its profile is similar to that of Merc. sol. (see page 85). Key symptoms include fiery red ulcers on the skin and the mucous membranes, warts that bleed easily, pimples, pustules, and red skin eruptions that tend to itch violently.
The head is a focus for other symptoms that may be helped by the remedy. These include headaches with congestion; red, inflamed eyes; catarrh in the nose and throat; and a dry, sore throat. Sleep patterns may be disrupted, with noticeable restlessness and sleeplessness, although there is often a marked lack of tiredness.
Cinnabaris may also be used to treat women who experience very painful menstruation and pregnancy, or great pains during labor.
Key symptoms
- Aur; Kal hyd
- warts
- Very fiery-red
Worse (aggravation)
Better (amelioration)
Mercuric Sulphide (MERCURIUS SULPHURATUS RUBER)
For certain forms of ciliary neuralgia and ulceration upon a syphilitic base, this remedy is most effective. Sleepless during night.
Head
Congestion to head; face purple red.
Eyes
Pains from lachrymal duct around eye to temple, from inner canthus across brows to ear. Severe shooting pain in bones of orbit, especially running from inner to outer canthus in the bone. Redness of whole eye. Lids granulated; canthi and lids red.
Nose
Pressive sensation, as from heavy spectacles. Pain about root, extending into bones on each side (Aur; Kal hyd).
Throat
Stringy mucus passed through posterior nares into throat. Dryness of mouth and throat; must rinse the mouth. Fiery-looking ulcers in mouth and throat.
Male
Prepuce swollen; warts on it which bleed easily; testicles enlarged; buboes; angry-looking chancres. Syphilides, squamous and vesicular.
Female
Leucorrhœa. Feeling of pressure in vagina.
Extremities
Pain in forearm from elbow down, including hands. Pain in long bones when barometer lowers; coldness of joints.
Skin
Very fiery-red looking ulcers. Nodes on shin-bones. Buboes. Condyloma, easily bleeding.
Modalities
Worse, lying on right side (feels as if contents of body were being dragged over to that side).
Relationship
Compare: Hepar; Nitr ac; Thuja; Sep.
Antidotes: Hepar; Sulph.
Dose
First to third trituration.
The symptoms are worse at night from warmth of the bed, and when perspiring, like Mercurius. Worse from both heat and cold,
Catarrhal inflammation. Fig warts (Thuja). Ulcers. Many complaints from eating. Syphilis in all stages. Suppurating glands; chancres. It is best to study this remedy as a form of Mercurius, which has a few cunning phases of its own. It is a deep acting remedy in sycosis
The patient desires to be alone. Aversion to mental work. Forgets things which he intended to do. Mind crowded with thoughts preventing sleep.
The pains in the head are violent; worse after eating; better by heat and pressure. Fullness in the whole head. Constriction. Pain in the cold forehead, which is ameliorated by heat. Tearing in the forehead before the menstrual flow. Pain in the forehead and vertex in the morning, worse lying on the left side and back, ameliorated lying on the right side, and it passes off after rising.
Mercuric Sulphide. Red Sulphide of Mercury. Hg S. Trituration.
Clinical
Albuminuria. Bubo. Catarrh. Chancre. Cystitis. Dysentery. Eye, inflammation of. Gleet. Gonorrhœa. Gout. Nose, external, sensitive. Priapism. Rheumatism. Sciatica. Scrofula. Sleep, abnormal. Sycosis. Syphilis. Tapeworm. Warts.
Characteristics
Cinnabar. corresponds to sycosis as well as to syphilis, and to combinations of the two. In warts on the prepuce it is more specific than Thuja; especially for fan-shaped warts. In the mental sphere there is indolence and indisposition to mental labour. Forgetful. Fretful, easily provoked. Headache with nosebleed. General sensitiveness to touch: bones of skull, scalp, roots of hair; bridge of nose; warts bleed when touched. Sensation on bridge of nose as if touched with metallic substance, uneasy creeping and pressing sensation about nasal bones as from wearing spectacles when not used to them. Jerkings and pullings are frequent. Berridge reports this symptom cured: "Left leg feels shorter than …
Sight and Eyes
Pain above the eye, extending from external to internal canthus, or pain that runs around the eye, usually above, but sometimes below, worse at night.
Male Sexual Organs
Redness and swelling or warts on prepuce, itching, bleeding, and sensitive.
Male Sexual Organs
Red, swollen chancres with hard, elevated edges; not sensitive; discharging thin pus.
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