Magnetis polus australis
Imponderable
Magnetis Polus Australis is particularly suited to individuals with ingrowing toenails and varicose vein complaints, where symptoms are markedly worse when the affected limb hangs down. It also suits those with faintness on walking, bruised sensations, and haemorrhagic or menorrhagic tendencies.
Key symptoms
- Sore pain on inner side of big toenail when walking as if nail grown into flesh
- Toenails penetrating the flesh; ingrowing toenails
- Varicose veins with aching and sensation of hot water running down the leg when hanging
- Violent palpitation of the heart with great heat in cardiac region
- Easy dislocation of joint of foot on making a false step
- Feet painful and throbbing when hanging down while sitting
- Sudden lassitude when walking with anxiety and heat
Worse (aggravation)
- Walking in open air
- Sitting
- Hanging limb down (varicose vein symptoms)
Better (amelioration)
- Placing leg horizontally (varicose vein pain)
- Uncovering
South Pole of the Magnet. Attenuations of media saturated with emanations of the pole.
Clinical
Cough. Dislocation, easy. Frost-bite. Heart, palpitation of. Hernia. Ingrowing toe-nails. Levitation. Menorrhagia. Varicosis.
Characteristics
I have cured so many cases of ingrowing toenail with M. p. aust. 2m, that I invariably give it in the first place when there are no symptoms plainly indicating another remedy. Here are the symptoms in Hahnemann's Schema which led to this use: "Sore pain on the inner side of the nail of the big toe when walking, as if the nail had grown into the flesh or, the side, very painful on being slightly touched (8h);" and "the shoe presses on the toes and on the nail of the big toe when walking, as from corns." The accurate response to these symptoms on the part of the attenuated M. p. aust. proved to me the possibility of attenuating and so fixing this "imponderable" for use as an ordinary homœopathic remedy. Swan has collected a number of cases from different authors in Org., …
Phatak's chapter on Magnetis polus australis is available in the app.
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