Medusa
Animal
The Medusa patient presents with marked inflammatory and oedematous reactions of the skin and mucous membranes resembling the contact effects of jelly-fish. There is a particular affinity for the lacteal glands and urinary system. Urticaria and vesicular eruptions are characteristic presentations.
Key symptoms
- Whole face puffed and oedematous including eyes, nose, ears, and lips
- Numbness, burning, and pricking heat of skin
- Vesicular eruption especially on face, arms, shoulders, and breasts
- Nettle-rash (urticaria)
- Marked action on lacteal glands; establishes milk secretion
- Suppression of urine relieved after taking remedy
Jelly-fish
Whole face puffed œdematous-eyes, nose, ears, lips.
Skin
Numbness; burning, pricking heat. Vesicular eruption especially on face, arms, shoulders, and breasts. Nettlerash (Apis; Chloral; Dulc).
Female
Marked action on lacteal glands. The secretion of milk was established after lack of it in all previous confinements.
Relationship
Compare: Pyrarara, Physalia (urticaria); Urtica, Homar, Sep.
Medusa (various species). Jelly-fish. Sea-nettles. Class, Acalephæ. Tincture of living animal taken in summer.
Clinical
Lactation, abnormal. Nettle-rash. Urine, suppression of.
Characteristics
The effects of encountering jelly-fish whilst bathing are well known. These have been studied experimentally, and in addition the effects of drinking two cupfuls of a decoction, warm, by a woman affected with disease of the stomach and leucorrhœa has been recorded. In this case there was rapidly produced œdema, anxiety, and difficult speech. Secretion of urine, which had been suspended for days, returned, and milk came into the breasts three years after the birth of her last child. Pricking heat and numbness of skin of face, arms, breasts, and vesicular eruption; followed later by desquamation.
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