Medorrhinum
Gonorrhea · Nosode
Medorrhinum is best suited to people who feel hurried and anxious, yet simultaneously isolated and empty, in a dreamlike, detached state. They are passionate and experience life to the limit. Behavioral extremes are not uncommon, ranging from a withdrawn, aesthetically sensitive state to an egotistical, selfish one.
Physical symptoms typically center on mucous membranes, which are prone to infection. Symptoms are generally better for a discharge of mucus, for sea air, and in the evening. In damp weather, and between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m., they tend to worsen. A thirst for cold drinks and cravings for meat, fish, salt, sweets, and unripe foods are common, as is an aversion to “slimy” foods such as eggplant or oysters.
Medorrhinum is prescribed for infections of the urinary tract, reproductive system, genitals, and respiratory tract. It is also a remedy for asthma, and may be especially effective for those who have a personal or family history of gonorrhea or early heart disease.
Key symptoms
- behavioral extremes
- hurried feeling
- extremely passionate nature
- person feels better for lying on the abdomen and in the evening
Worse (aggravation)
- Daytime
- Heat
- When thinking of ailments
- Damp weather
- From 3 AM to midday
- Jarring, exhaustion, and hard work (headache)
Better (amelioration)
- At the seashore
- Lying on stomach
- Damp weather (some symptoms)
- Night (some symptoms)
The Gonorrhœal Virus
A powerful and deep-acting medicine, often indicated for chronic ailments due to suppressed gonorrhœa. For women with chronic pelvic disorders. Chronic rheumatism. Great disturbance and irritability of nervous system. Pains intolerable; tensive; nerves quiver and tingle. Children dwarfed and stunted. Chronic catarrhal conditions in children. Nose dirty, tonsils enlarged, thick yellow mucus from nostrils; lips thickened from mouth breathing. State of collapse and trembling all over. History of sycosis. Often restores a gonorrhœal discharge. Intensity of all sensations. Œdema of limbs; dropsy of serous sacs. Disseminated sclerosis.
Mind
Weak memory. Loses the thread of conversation. Cannot speak without weeping. Time passes too slowly (Cannab ind; Arg n). Is in a great hurry. Hopeless of recovery. Difficult concentration. Fears going insane (Mancinella). Sensibility exalted. Nervous, restless. Fear in the dark and of some one behind her. Melancholy, with suicidal thoughts.
Head
Burning pain in brain; worse, occiput. Head heavy and drawn backward. Headache from jarring of cars, exhaustion, or hard work. Weight and pressure in vertex. Hair dry, crispy. Itching of scalp; dandruff.
Eyes
Feels as if she stared at everything. Eyeballs ache. Feels as if sticks in eyes. Lids irritated.
Ears
Partial deafness, pulsation in ears. Quick, darting pains in right ear.
Nose
Intense itching. Coldness of tip. Posterior nares obstructed. Chronic nasal and pharyngeal catarrhs.
Face
Pallor, acne, blotches of reddish color. Small boils break out during menses.
Mouth
Tongue coated brown and thick, blistered; canker sores. Blisters on inner surface of lips and cheeks.
Stomach
Coppery taste and eructations of sulphuretted hydrogen. Ravenous hunger soon after eating. Very thirsty. Cravings for liquor, salt, sweets, etc, warm drinks. Pernicious vomiting of pregnancy.
Abdomen
Violent pain in liver and spleen. Rests more comfortably lying on abdomen.
Stool
Can pass stool only by leaning very far back. Painful lump sensation on posterior surface of sphincter. Oozing of fetid moisture. Intense itching of anus.
Urine
Painful tenesmus when urinating. Nocturnal enuresis. Renal colic (Berb; Ocim; Pareir). Urine flows very slowly.
Female
Intense pruritus. Menses offensive, profuse, dark, clotted; stains difficult to wash out, urinates frequently at that time. Sensitive spot near os uteri. Leucorrhœa thin, acrid, excoriating, fishy odor. Sycotic warts on genitals. Ovarian pain, worse left side, or from ovary to ovary. Sterility. Metrorrhagia. Intense menstrual colic. Breasts cold, sore, and sensitive.
Male
Nocturnal emissions, followed by great weakness. Impotence. Gleet; whole urethra feels sore. Urethritis. Enlarged and painful prostate with frequent urging and painful urination.
Respiratory
Much oppression of breathing. Hoarse while reading. Pain and soreness through chest and mammæ. Incessant, dry, night cough. Asthma. Incipient consumption. Larynx feels sore. Dyspnœa; cannot exhale (Samb). Cough; better lying on stomach.
Extremities
Pain in back, with burning heat. Legs heavy; ache all night; cannot keep them still (Zinc). Ankles easily turn when walking. Burning of hands feet. Finger-joints enlarged, puffy. Gouty concretions. Heels and balls of feet tender (Thuja). Soreness of soles. Restless; better, clutching hands.
Skin
Yellow. Intense and incessant itching; worse night and when thinking of it. Fiery red rash about anus in babies. Copper-colored spots. Favus. Tumors and abnormal growth.
Fever
Wants to be fanned all the time. Chills up and down back; coldness of legs, hands, and forearms. Flashes of heat in face and neck. Night-sweat and hectic.
Sleep
Dreams she is drinking (Ars; Phos). Sleeps in knee-chest position.
Modalities
Worse, when thinking of ailment, from daylight to sunset, heat, inland. Better, at the seashore, lying on stomach, damp weather (Caust).
Relationship
Compare: (Lactation: Galega; Lactuca). Sulph; Syphil; Zinc.
Dose
The very highest potencies only of service. Must not be repeated often.
Children
One of the many uses of this remedy is in the inherited complaints of children.
The physician of long and active experience meets many obstinate cases in children. The infant soon emaciates and becomes marasmic, or a child becomes asthmatic, or suffers with vicious catarrh of nose or eyelids, or has ringworm on the scalp or face, or is dwarfed; and after some waste of time it comes to mind that the father was treated for gonorrhea that was obstinate and perhaps had condylomata on the genitalia.
This remedy will cure, or begin the recovery. The woman married several years desires to become a mother. She was healthy when she married, but now she has ovarian pains, menstrual troubles, she has lost all sexual response, is growing pale and waxy, and becoming violently sensitive and nervous.
Glinicum. Nosode of Gonorrhœa. Attenuations of the Virus.
Clinical
Asthma. Clonic spasms. Corns. Diabetes. Dysmenorrhœa. Epilepsy. Eyes, inflammation of. Favus. Gleet. Gonorrhœa, suppressed. Gonorrhœal rheumatism. Headache, neuralgic. Liver, abscess of. Masturbation. Ovaries, pains in. Pelvic cellulitis. Polypi. Priapism. Psoriasis palmaris. Ptosis. Renal colic. Rheumatism. Sciatica. Shoulder, pains in. Stricture. Urticaria. Warts.
Characteristics
Medorrh. is one of the most important of the nosodes. The constitutional nature of the gonorrhœa poison has within recent years been recognised in the old school as well as the new. Noegerath of New York and Angus Macdonald in this country have pointed out a causal connection between post-partum pelvic cellulitis and latent gonorrhœa in the husband. Macdonald published several fatal cases. The effects of the poison, constitutional or acute, may be taken as data for homœopathic prescriptions; but the virus has had an extensive proving in the potencies, and the …
The Gonorrhoeal Virus. (A Nosode.)
For the constitutional effects of mal-treated and suppressed gonorrhoea, when the best selected remedy fails to relieve or permanently improve. For persons suffering from gout, rheumatism, neuralgia and diseases of the spinal cord and its membranes - even organic lesions ending in paralysis - which can be traced to a sycotic origin. For women, with chronic ovaritis, salpingitis, pelvic cellulitis, fibroids, cysts, and other morbid growths of the uterus and ovaries, especially if symptoms point to malignancy, with or without sycotic origin. For scirrhus, carcinoma or cancer, with acute or chronic in development, when the symptoms correspond and a history of sycosis can be traced. Bears the same relation in deep-seated sycotic chronic affections of spinal and sympathetic nervous system that Psorinum does to deep-seated affections of skin and mucous membranes. Children, pale, rachitic; dwarfed and stunted in growth (Bar. c.); mentally, dull and weak. Great heat and soreness, with …
Mind
Is in great hurry; when doing anything is in such a hurry that it fatigues her.
Respiratory Organs
State of collapse, wants to be fanned all the time, craves fresh air.
Generalities
Burning of hands and feet; wants them uncovered and fanned.
Phatak's chapter on Medorrhinum is available in the app.
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