Wiesbaden
Mineral
Suited to passive, atonic constitutions with torpid and nodous rheumatism and gout. Patients tend toward abdominal plethora, portal obstruction, and venous congestion. The remedy is characterised by excitant and evacuant tendencies, with a marked action on skin, nails, and hair growth.
Key symptoms
- Passive or atonic gout; torpid and nodous rheumatism
- Blood rushes violently to face; congestive tendency
- Vertigo causing falling; whirling in head while lying in bed
- Hair grows rapidly and becomes darker; falls and re-grows quickly
- Nails grow very rapidly; corns and callosities drop off
- Haemorrhages from rectum and nose that relieve other symptoms
- Profuse, copious menses or long-absent menses returning
- Body smells like rotten eggs; sweat stains linen brown
- Abdominal plethora and portal obstruction with haemorrhoidal flow
- Itching, burning, biting skin; intolerable itching all over
Worse (aggravation)
- During menses (great weakness)
- From coffee (frequent micturition)
- Lying in bed (vertigo)
- After drinking the water (fermentation in abdomen)
- Walking (rheumatic pain in right thigh)
Better (amelioration)
- By nose-bleed (relieves other symptoms)
- By haemorrhoidal flux (relieves abdominal plethora)
The Spring at Wiesbaden, in Prussia. (Contains in sixteen ounces Carbonic acid 6.416 cubic inches, Nitrogen 0.103 cubic inches; of the following solids, in grains, Nat. m. 52.49, K. mur. 1.119 Li. mur. 0.00138, Am. mur. 0.128, Calc. mur. 3.617, Mag. mur l.566, Mag. bro. 0.027, Calc. sul. 0.692, Calc. ph. 0.0029, Calc ars. 0.0015, Calc. c. 3.210, Mag. c. 0.079, Fer. c. 0.043, Mang. c. 0.004, Silicic acid 0.46, Alumina silicica 0.603; traces of Mag. iod., Stro. c., Cup. c.) Dilution.
Clinical
Amenorrhœa. Angina pectoris. Body, odour of, offensive. Constipation. Corns. Diarrhœa. Ear-wax, excessive. Epistaxis. Glaucoma. Gout. Hæmorrhage. Hæmorrhoids. Hair, rapid growth of; falling of; grows darker. Hernia, inguinal; femoral. Indigestion. Miscarriage, prevents. Rheumatism. Sterility. Vertigo; caduca. Whitlow.
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