Lithium muriaticum
Lithium chloride · Mineral
Lithium Muriaticum is suited to individuals with complaints centred on the heart, teeth, and digestive tract, particularly burning heartburn and cardiac pains. It is indicated in persons experiencing dental neuralgia with a characteristic salty-fatty taste and numbness of the tongue.
Key symptoms
- Tongue numb with fatty feeling on upper surface
- Hot burning uprising in throat and pit of stomach like heartburn
- Pain in upper and inner part of the heart region
- Tip of nose red, sore, and somewhat swollen
- Dull pain in left back teeth
- Constant back pain worse after sitting long in one position
- Aching between shoulders extending through to chest
Worse (aggravation)
- Remaining seated long in one position (back pain)
"Dilute Muriatic Acid was saturated with the caustic and Carbonate of Lithium and evaporated." Solution.
Clinical
Heartburn. Heart, pains in. Nose, sore. Tongue, numb.
Characteristics
Hering, who proved Li. c., proved also this salt. He put one drop on his tongue. It had a salt taste, but different from common salt; a fatty-salt taste. The tongue became numb as if fat were on it. Pains in the head, back teeth, and heart. Gohrwisch, who took the 3rd dilution, had pains in heart region and notably: Hot, burning uprising in the throat and pit of stomach like heartburn. He also had pains in teeth. The tip of the nose was red, sore, and somewhat swollen.
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