Mercurius nitricus
Mercury nitrate · Mineral
The Mercurius Nitricus patient has prominent sticking and burning pains as the keynote characteristic. There is extreme anxiety and cachexia from the poisoning picture. Tremors and frequent fainting with syphilitic manifestations in skin and nerves are characteristic of this remedy type.
Key symptoms
- Sticking pains as characteristic indication throughout body
- Sticking itching as special feature
- Eye affections with burning, sticking pains, photophobia, and epiphora
- Mucous patches with sticking pains
- Gonorrhoea with frequent burning, sticking itch on corona glandis
- Extreme anxiety with delirious states
- Pains so intolerable patient calls for a knife
- Coldness predominating with nitric acid flush of face
Nitrate of Mercury. Mercuric nitrate. Hg(NO3)2. Trituration.
Clinical
Condylomata. Eyes, affections of. Gonorrhœa. Malaria. Mucous patches. Syphilis of nerves. Vegetations.
Characteristics
In the form of Liquor Hydrargyri Nitratis acidus and Unguentum Hydrargyri Nitratis of the old school this salt of mercury has achieved a reputation as "a stimulating application" to indolent ulcers, to the eyelids in ophthalmia, and in a variety of skin diseases such as herpes, ringworm, impetigo, lepra, psoriasis, rupia. The homœopathic authority for it is Hansen, who considers that sticking pains are its special indication, and also sticking itching. Eye affections with burning, sticking pains, photophobia, and epiphora. Mucous patches with sticking pains. Gonorrhœa with frequent burning, sticking itch on corona glandis and in sulcus coronarius. Vegetations. Hansen says Donner commends it in syphilis of the nerves and of the bones. The Schema is compiled from poisoning cases. Among the symptoms are cachexia; tremors; …
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