Magnetis polus arcticus
Imponderable
Magnetis Polus Arcticus suits individuals with pronounced sensations of coldness, particularly around the eyes and extremities, and with jaw and dental complaints. It is indicated in persons with somnambulistic tendencies, marked faintness, and amenorrhoea, where the north pole's contracting and cooling influence is therapeutic.
Key symptoms
- Sensation of icy coldness in the eyeball as if a lump of ice lay in the socket
- Toothache in carious teeth worse breathing through the mouth
- Sensation as if scalp adhered too closely to the skull
- Pain in left lower jaw as if out of joint with bone squeezed into socket
- Headache worse on lifting or moving the arm
- Profuse salivation at night; pillow completely wet on waking
- Peevishness and inclination to weep with shivering
Worse (aggravation)
- On waking
- Lifting or moving arm (headache)
- Breathing through the mouth (toothache)
Better (amelioration)
- Uncovering (symptoms generally)
- Open air and walking (toothache)
North Pole of the Magnet. Attenuations of saccharum lactis or water charged with the influence of this pole.
Clinical
Amenorrhœa. Clairvoyance. Hernia. Panaritium. Salivation. Sleep disturbed. Somnambulism. Toothache. Vertebræ, cervical, cracking in.
Characteristics
The symptoms of M. p. arct. were obtained by applying it in the region of the 4th to 6th dorsal vertebræ, at a distance of four or five fingers' breadth from the body. A number of well-characterised symptoms were experienced in the teeth and jaws. There was swelling, heat, and redness of one cheek. Swan reports this case cured by C. M. Conant; Mrs. S. C., 31, blonde, had pain in left lower jaw as if out of joint; < morning, on moving it; sensation as if head of bone were squeezed and crowded into socket. M. p. arct. 1m cured (Organon, iii. 343). Sensations of coldness are marked. There is coldness where the magnet is applied. The eyeball feels cold, as if it were a lump of ice in the socket. On the other hand there is a sensation as if the …
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