Methylenum coeruleum
Methylene blue (methylthioninium chloride) · Human-made/chemical
Methylenum Coeruleum suits patients with nerve exhaustion, spastic conditions, and urinary or gonorrhoeal involvement. It is used in later stages of neurological conditions including apoplexy and in suppurative states of the kidney. The remedy is both a nerve sedative and a stimulant to mucous membranes.
Key symptoms
- Neuralgia and neurasthenia with tendency to tremor and chorea
- Diminishes tympanites, delirium, and fever in typhoid
- Acute and scarlatinal nephritis
- Urine acquires green color
- Bladder irritation antidoted by nutmeg
- Gonorrhoeal rheumatism and cystitis
- Backache and sciatica
- Epilepsy and chorea tendency
One of the Aniline Dyes (METHYLENE BLUE)
A remedy for neuralgia, neurasthenia, malaria; typhoid, here it diminishes the tympanites, delirium, and fever; pus infection. Tendency to tremor, chorea and epilepsy. Nephritis (acute parenchymatous), scarlatinal nephritis. Urine acquires a green color. Bladder irritation from its use antidoted by a little nutmeg. Surgical kidney with large amount of pus in urine. Gonorrhœal rheumatism and cystitis. Backache, sciatica. Later states of apoplexy (Gisevius).
Dose
3x attenuation. A 2 per cent solution locally, in chronic otitis with foul smelling discharge.
A 1 per cent aqueous solution for ulcers and abscesses of cornea.
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