Magnesium muriaticum: Magnesium chloride is the principal magnesium compound in seawater.
- VERMEULEN Frans
Mag-m.
Agreement is made more precious by disagreement.
[Pubilius Syrus]
Signs
Magnesium chloride.
SUBSTANCE White, odourless, deliquescent solid compound, or colourless and odourless flakes or crystals. Very soluble in water and freely soluble in alcohol. Decomposes when slowly heated to 300o C producing toxic and corrosive fumes including chlorine. Dissolves in water, with the formation of much heat. Gives off irritating or toxic fumes in a fire. Compared to the powdered metal, magnesium chloride is only very slightly reactive, being neither a fire hazard nor an explosion hazard. Magnesium chloride attacks fused silica when melted.
OCCURRENCE Magnesium chloride is the principal magnesium compound in seawater. It occurs naturally as the mineral bischofite. It is manufactured as a by-product of the potash industry, from natural brines, from seawater, and in the presence of an organic reducing agent. Recovery from brines and potash manufacture is achieved by concentrating the liquor by solar evaporation and then fractional crystallization of other salts. The resulting mixture of magnesium chloride and magnesium sulphate [epsom salts] is traditionally called 'nigari'.
USES For fireproofing wood; in disinfectants; various magnesia cements; fire extinguishers; dressing cotton fabrics; in floor-sweeping compounds; carbonizing wool; manufacture of parchment paper or artificial leather; as addition to casein glue; as a reagent in analytical chemistry. 1
FOOD Used in the food industry for colour retention and as a firming agent for canned vegetables [mainly peas]; as a coagulant of soy milk with magnesium sulphate to make tofu; as an ingredient in organic processed food products; in sugar beet processing; as a buffer and neutralizer in non-alcoholic beverages; and in infant formula. Also serves as a supplemental source of magnesium.
TOXICOLOGY Affects mainly the kidneys, but may also cause irritation of eyes, digestive tract [nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea], respiratory tract, and skin. Inhalation of the fumes may result in metal fume fever, which is characterized by flu-like symptoms, metallic taste, fever, chills, cough, weakness, chest pain, muscle pain and increased white blood cell count. Magnesium salts are slowly absorbed, so that only abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhoea may follow ingestion of them. However, if elimination is blocked by bowel or renal blockage, CNS depression, lack of reflexes, and hypocalcemia may occur.
MEDICINE In 1915, a French surgeon, Prof. Pierre Delbet, M.D. , discovered the beneficial effects of a magnesium chloride solution in the treatment of external wounds. After many in vitro and in vivo experiments, he found that this solution was not only good for external applications but that it had also powerful immuno-stimulant properties. The oral solution, moreover, proved to have a general tonic effect on the organism. Delbet claimed very good results for an array of disorders: colitis, cholecystitis, muscular cramps, acne, eczema, psoriasis, chilblains, allergies [hayfever, asthma, urticaria, anaphylactic reactions] and diseases typical of the aged such as impotency, prostatic hypertrophy, cerebral and circulatory disturbances. Later clinical and experimental studies led him to the conclusion that magnesium chloride has a very good effect on prevention of cancer and that it was able to cure several precancerous conditions: leucoplasia, hyperkeratosis, chronic mastitis, etc. He stated his ideas and studies on magnesium chloride in a book entitled Politique Preventive du Cancer, published in 1944. "Very extensive conclusions for the physiologic significance and the therapeutic evaluation of magnesium salts [magnesium chloride] have been drawn by P. Delbet from studies and analysis. Animals which have been fed with a scurvy-producing diet remain alive about twice as long when magnesium salts are injected or added to the diet. From this he concludes a favourable effect on the metabolism through magnesium according to the nature of vitamin. Delbet perceives magnesium as particularly important in respect to germination; in the plant magnesium is very abundant in the seed and more is found in the corm than in the straw. Mice become sterile in the absence of magnesium. Sperm are especially rich in magnesium and the introduction of magnesium is supposed to stimulate sexual function. In children the thymus is rich in magnesium, in the adult, the brain and testes, and with old age the calcium in the testes increases; on the contrary, magnesium diminishes. A number of old-age phenomena were favourably influenced according to his report when magnesium was regularly introduced; old people become more able to work, sexual function is stimulated, muscle stiffness is lessened or removed, likewise senile tremor and pruritus senilis. Studies on the healthy with the use of magnesium chloride solution gave an increase in well being and general activity. ... Indeed, even Parkinsonian syndromes and ataxia were said to improve under the introduction of magnesium salts. But Delbet goes still farther. Proceeding from favourable magnesium effects in skin diseases, warts, papilloma, polyps, he presents a study on mice with artificial tumours and reports a favourable influence. Defect of magnesium in the diet favours the development of carcinoma. ... Corresponding to his theory of magnesium deficiency the therapy is a continuous introduction of magnesium as a nutrient material. ... A confirmation of the very extensive assertions of Delbet must be awaited."2
DIABETES "Researchers at Columbia University report that as many as one in three diabetics may lack magnesium. It is believed that a lack of magnesium leads to increased insulin resistance, i.e. a faulty metabolism of carbohydrates that causes unoxidized sugar to accumulate in the blood and urine [diabetes mellitus]. Although the increase in insulin resistance caused by magnesium deficiency is most pronounced in diabetics it can also occur in non-diabetics. Furthermore, it is now clear that magnesium absorption is impaired in diabetics thus setting up a vicious cycle of magnesium deficiency and insulin resistance. The researchers believe that insulin-dependent diabetics can benefit substantially from oral supplementation with magnesium [hydroxide or chloride]. They also point out that magnesium supplementation [six weeks of magnesium chloride, 384 mg/day] has been found to lower systolic blood pressure in type II diabetics [by about 7 mm Hg]. [Tosiello, Hypomagnesemia and diabetes mellitus. Arch. of Internal Med., Vol. 156, June 10, 1996, pp. 1143-48]."3
HEART "Researchers at the University of North Carolina have found that magnesium injections lower the frequency and severity of ventricular arrhythmias in patients with heart failure. Twenty-one men and nine women aged 49 +9.6 years participated in the double-blind, placebo-controlled crossover experiment. The active treatment consisted of one injection of 0.3 mEq/kg magnesium chloride in 5 per cent dextrose in water followed by continuous infusion of a dextrose/water magnesium chloride solution [0.08 mEq/kg per hour] over 24 hours. The placebo treatment was similar except that the magnesium chloride was omitted from the dextrose/water solution. The number of PVCs [premature ventricular contractions] per hour was reduced by 53 per cent in the magnesium group as compared to the placebo group; the number of episodes of ventricular tachycardia was reduced by 69 per cent and in the patients who did have such episodes the heart rate was significantly lower than during placebo treatment [143 beats/minute vs. 179 beats/minute]. The researchers recommend that a larger study be undertaken to determine if oral administration of magnesium would have similar benefits. [Sueta, Effect of acute magnesium administration on the frequency of ventricular arrhythmia in patients with heart failure. Circulation, Vol. 89, No. 2, Feb. 1994]."4
BYPASS SURGERY "Patients having undergone coronary bypass surgery often suffer from ventricular dysrhythmias and decreased stroke volume immediately after the operation. Medical doctors at the Sinai Hospital of Baltimore have now found that supplementation with magnesium markedly decreases the frequency of these serious complications. One hundred patients were studied over a 6-month period; 50 were given an intravenous infusion of magnesium chloride [2 grams] immediately after the operation while the other 50 were given a placebo. The magnesium treated patients suffered significantly fewer ventricular dysrhythmias [16% vs. 34%] than did the untreated patients. [Journal of the American Medical Association, November 4, 1992, pp. 2395-2402]."5
PROVINGS •• [1] Hahnemann - 5 provers, including Ng., "an anonymous observer"; method: unknown.
•• [2] Mezger - 16 provers [8 females, 8 males], 1959; method: repeated doses of 12x for 22-43 days.
Hahnemann explains the reason for his proving thus: "I cannot at present offer much information concerning this medicine, but chronic patients may expect from it much benefit, when we consider the great use which has been afforded in chronic [psoric] ailments by sea-baths, merely by the action of this salt on the nerves of the skin; for in the North Sea, at least, one pound of seawater contains almost an ounce of this salt. Some part of the use of sea-baths may, however, we grant, be ascribed to the journey to these places, the effect of removal from business, which is often burdensome, and the effect of the dashing of the waves against the bathers."
[1] Merck Index. [2] Leeser, Textbook of Hom. MM: Inorganic Medicinal Substances. [3-5] International Health News Database, Summaries of the latest research concerning magnesium.
Affinity
NERVES. LIVER. Digestion. Pelvic organs [uterus; rectum]. Women. * Right side. Left side.
Modalities
Worse: LYING ON RIGHT SIDE. Night. Noise. Sea bathing. Eating. Salt foods. MILK. Warm room. Closing the eyes.
Better: HARD PRESSURE [tight bandage > headache]. Lying bent. Hanging down. Gentle motion. Cool, open air [except in headache].
Main symptoms
M ANXIOUS, HURRIED feeling; can't relax.
• "Fanciful delusion: As if while she was reading in a book, another person was reading after her, and compelled her to read more quickly, with humming and buzzing around her; when she raised her head up she seemed to see great clouds and rocks above her, which afterwards disappeared again; then anguish, apprehensiveness and restlessness, so that she could not contain herself; by continuing to look around her all these things disappeared, but recurred twice more on renewing her reading." [Hahnemann]
M Peace.
• "They want others to be happy and satisfied, and they may go to excessive lengths to bring this about. They will suppress their own emotions for the sake of others." [Vithoulkas]
• "Magnesia muriatica is good remedy for children exposed to family conflicts [for example, when the parents are fighting or in the midst of a divorce and the children become epileptic or asthmatic]. Magnesia muriatica subjects reject the mother [aggravation at the sea] and the father [aggravation from the sun]. They are searching for a true friend, the shepherd who will guide them to paradise. Their faith, however, is not very sound, and they fall apart in our violent world." [Grandgeorge]
• "Patients needing this remedy usually want everything to be peaceful. They are the 'peacemakers'. The whole idea of aggression and violence is completely unacceptable. The normal and natural assertion of self in the daily hustle and bustle of life poses a great challenge to these people, because all anger and conflict are interpreted through the lens of past abandonment. Present anger, either one's own or that of others, may lead to further abandonment."1
M Service and sacrifice.
• "All those who need Magnesia remedies seem to have a strong desire to control themselves and the world around them. Mag-m. patients want to please and take care of everyone, including you, the prescriber. ... People who need Mag-m. will often gravitate toward a service-type of occupation, such as counselling and social work. They are helpers and chronic caretakers, both at home and in their work. It is very important to them that everyone in the world is taken care of. ... Very frequently, the patients started cooking and cleaning at a very early age, inappropriately 'nurturing' the family and making sure that everyone's needs were being met. ... The child is willing to sacrifice the normal and natural activities of childhood, in order to be 'good', loveable, and acceptable. He or she pulls in the natural and spontaneous personality and ceases to be. The personality is expendable, as long as the substituted behaviour motivates others to want them around."2
M Strong sense of RESPONSIBILITY.
• "They easily overload themselves with too many tasks, and then become very anxious when they find themselves unable to keep up. They become overwrought with nervous energy trying to meet the demands and then find themselves unable to sleep properly." [Vithoulkas]
• "These people are not well-suited for all the irritation and problems that arise from taking on responsibilities. And this will give them a lot of anxiety and a lot of worrying. At night, when they lie down to go to sleep, then the anxiety comes on. Overwhelming anxiety." [Morrison]
M DEPRESSION.
• "Magnesia mur. seems characterized by a particularly marked depressive tendency. A dark gloom has settled which may be temporarily interrupted by explosions of violence. Since the picture reminds one of Natrum muriaticum [but is far in excess of the Nat-m. depression], one may wonder whether there is not a certain accentuation of a depressive character inherent in the chloride ion. Magnesia mur. deserves attention in psychiatric conditions." [Whitmont]
G TIRED on waking.
[Confirmed in proving Mezger.]
[wakes in an almost toxic state; head feels stuffed; indisposed to talk; needs an hour to come to herself].
• "The worst unrefreshing sleep of all the remedies in our materia medica." [Morrison]
• "She cannot open her eyes, for quite a while in the morning, for sleepiness."
• "She is still sleepy in the morning, and it is hard for her to get wide awake, for a long time." [Hahnemann]
G CHILLY, but craving for open air.
G Thirst; day and night.
G Desire for sweets.
• "Inclination to titbits; he sees a piece of cake and at once furtively breaks off a piece to eat." [Hahnemann]
G < MILK, fat food, salt. [Stomach symptoms < milk, in proving Mezger.] G < NIGHT. [esp. anxiety, but also pains and colics] • "He woke up at 2 a.m. and could not go to sleep for an hour; his restlessness drove him out of his bed and made him walk about in his room; at the same time sourish taste in his mouth." • "In the evening in bed, as soon as she closes her eyes, restlessness in the whole body." • "At night, great restlessness, she keeps rolling about and cannot go to sleep for heat." [Hahnemann] G > Hard PRESSURE [bandaging].
< Touch. G < SEASIDE; sea-bathing. [= congestion chest, constipation, cough, urticaria] • "After bathing for five minutes in the North Sea, she became so weak, as if all her vital spirits had left her, she could hardly speak for weakness [after several hours]." [Hahnemann] P Headache > binding head.
[If around the eyes > pressure on eyeballs].
And Thirst.
And Eructations.
P Eruptions face, esp. pimples and acne.
< Before menses. Itching at night. [1] Morrison, Three Cases of Magnesia Muriatica; IFH 1996. Rubrics Mind Ailments from discord between friends, parents [1]. Aversion to answering, in morning [1/1]. Anxiety, in evening in bed on closing eyes [2/1]. Feels obliged to comply to the wishes of others [1/1]. Delusions, he is friendless [1], he is on a journey [1], he is neglected [1], someone walks behind him [1]. Excitement during menses [2]. Fear, of robbers [1], of spiders [1]. Homesickness with silent ill humour [1]. Cannot support injustice [1]. Desire to nibble [1]. Aversion to quarrelling [1]. Restlessness, evening in bed [3], driving out of bed [1], during menses [1]. Repetition of thoughts [1]. Head Boiling sensation on side lain on [1/1]. Pain, from listening to reading and talking [2/1], > hard external pressure [2], > sneezing [1].
Eye
Dryness from looking at fire [1/1]. Lachrymation from looking at fire [2].
Vision
Colours, green [1]; red, at night [1]. Lost, when looking at near objects [1/1].
Hearing
Impaired during menses [1].
Mouth
Taste, sour, at night [1].
Stomach
Eructations, during headache [3]. Pain, from speaking [1]. Thirst, during coryza [1], with headache [3]. Trembling from conversation [1/1].
Abdomen
Pain, right hypochondrium, < lying on painful side [2], extending to back [3]; dragging, right hypochondrium, when lying on left side [2]. Rectum Constipation, during dentition [1/1], at seaside [1]. Female Menses, black, pitch-like [2]; copious, < sitting [1], > walking [1]. Pain, uterus, > pressure on back [2/1], extending down thighs [1].
Respiration
Difficult, in mountains [1; Coca*].
Chest
Palpitation, > exertion [1/1], > lying on left side [1; Ign.], > motion [2].
Limbs
Numbness, upper limbs, right, when lying on left side [2/1].
Sleep
Sleeplessness, from coryza [1], during menses [1], from thirst [1].
Dreams
Body parts, having one side of face cut away [1/1]. Lost in a forest [1]. Rubbish is falling on her [1/1].
Skin
Eruptions, urticaria, at seaside [1].
Food
Aversion: [1]: Meat [*]; sweets [*].
Desire: [2]: Sweets; vegetables. [1]: Delicacies.
Worse: [3]: Milk. [2]: Fat; fruit. [1]: Butter; cold drinks [*; = pain in stomach]; cold food; fish; fruit [*; = diarrhoea]; hot food; meat; salt; tobacco [*; < nausea]; warm food; wine [*; < heartburn]. Better: [1]: Cold food; hot food. * Repertory additions Mezger, Eine Neuprüfung mit Magnesium muriaticum; AHZ, 1974 Heft 3.
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| Magnesium muriaticum |
Agreement is made more precious by disagreement.
[Pubilius Syrus]
Signs
Magnesium chloride.
SUBSTANCE White, odourless, deliquescent solid compound, or colourless and odourless flakes or crystals. Very soluble in water and freely soluble in alcohol. Decomposes when slowly heated to 300o C producing toxic and corrosive fumes including chlorine. Dissolves in water, with the formation of much heat. Gives off irritating or toxic fumes in a fire. Compared to the powdered metal, magnesium chloride is only very slightly reactive, being neither a fire hazard nor an explosion hazard. Magnesium chloride attacks fused silica when melted.
OCCURRENCE Magnesium chloride is the principal magnesium compound in seawater. It occurs naturally as the mineral bischofite. It is manufactured as a by-product of the potash industry, from natural brines, from seawater, and in the presence of an organic reducing agent. Recovery from brines and potash manufacture is achieved by concentrating the liquor by solar evaporation and then fractional crystallization of other salts. The resulting mixture of magnesium chloride and magnesium sulphate [epsom salts] is traditionally called 'nigari'.
USES For fireproofing wood; in disinfectants; various magnesia cements; fire extinguishers; dressing cotton fabrics; in floor-sweeping compounds; carbonizing wool; manufacture of parchment paper or artificial leather; as addition to casein glue; as a reagent in analytical chemistry. 1
FOOD Used in the food industry for colour retention and as a firming agent for canned vegetables [mainly peas]; as a coagulant of soy milk with magnesium sulphate to make tofu; as an ingredient in organic processed food products; in sugar beet processing; as a buffer and neutralizer in non-alcoholic beverages; and in infant formula. Also serves as a supplemental source of magnesium.
TOXICOLOGY Affects mainly the kidneys, but may also cause irritation of eyes, digestive tract [nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea], respiratory tract, and skin. Inhalation of the fumes may result in metal fume fever, which is characterized by flu-like symptoms, metallic taste, fever, chills, cough, weakness, chest pain, muscle pain and increased white blood cell count. Magnesium salts are slowly absorbed, so that only abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhoea may follow ingestion of them. However, if elimination is blocked by bowel or renal blockage, CNS depression, lack of reflexes, and hypocalcemia may occur.
MEDICINE In 1915, a French surgeon, Prof. Pierre Delbet, M.D. , discovered the beneficial effects of a magnesium chloride solution in the treatment of external wounds. After many in vitro and in vivo experiments, he found that this solution was not only good for external applications but that it had also powerful immuno-stimulant properties. The oral solution, moreover, proved to have a general tonic effect on the organism. Delbet claimed very good results for an array of disorders: colitis, cholecystitis, muscular cramps, acne, eczema, psoriasis, chilblains, allergies [hayfever, asthma, urticaria, anaphylactic reactions] and diseases typical of the aged such as impotency, prostatic hypertrophy, cerebral and circulatory disturbances. Later clinical and experimental studies led him to the conclusion that magnesium chloride has a very good effect on prevention of cancer and that it was able to cure several precancerous conditions: leucoplasia, hyperkeratosis, chronic mastitis, etc. He stated his ideas and studies on magnesium chloride in a book entitled Politique Preventive du Cancer, published in 1944. "Very extensive conclusions for the physiologic significance and the therapeutic evaluation of magnesium salts [magnesium chloride] have been drawn by P. Delbet from studies and analysis. Animals which have been fed with a scurvy-producing diet remain alive about twice as long when magnesium salts are injected or added to the diet. From this he concludes a favourable effect on the metabolism through magnesium according to the nature of vitamin. Delbet perceives magnesium as particularly important in respect to germination; in the plant magnesium is very abundant in the seed and more is found in the corm than in the straw. Mice become sterile in the absence of magnesium. Sperm are especially rich in magnesium and the introduction of magnesium is supposed to stimulate sexual function. In children the thymus is rich in magnesium, in the adult, the brain and testes, and with old age the calcium in the testes increases; on the contrary, magnesium diminishes. A number of old-age phenomena were favourably influenced according to his report when magnesium was regularly introduced; old people become more able to work, sexual function is stimulated, muscle stiffness is lessened or removed, likewise senile tremor and pruritus senilis. Studies on the healthy with the use of magnesium chloride solution gave an increase in well being and general activity. ... Indeed, even Parkinsonian syndromes and ataxia were said to improve under the introduction of magnesium salts. But Delbet goes still farther. Proceeding from favourable magnesium effects in skin diseases, warts, papilloma, polyps, he presents a study on mice with artificial tumours and reports a favourable influence. Defect of magnesium in the diet favours the development of carcinoma. ... Corresponding to his theory of magnesium deficiency the therapy is a continuous introduction of magnesium as a nutrient material. ... A confirmation of the very extensive assertions of Delbet must be awaited."2
DIABETES "Researchers at Columbia University report that as many as one in three diabetics may lack magnesium. It is believed that a lack of magnesium leads to increased insulin resistance, i.e. a faulty metabolism of carbohydrates that causes unoxidized sugar to accumulate in the blood and urine [diabetes mellitus]. Although the increase in insulin resistance caused by magnesium deficiency is most pronounced in diabetics it can also occur in non-diabetics. Furthermore, it is now clear that magnesium absorption is impaired in diabetics thus setting up a vicious cycle of magnesium deficiency and insulin resistance. The researchers believe that insulin-dependent diabetics can benefit substantially from oral supplementation with magnesium [hydroxide or chloride]. They also point out that magnesium supplementation [six weeks of magnesium chloride, 384 mg/day] has been found to lower systolic blood pressure in type II diabetics [by about 7 mm Hg]. [Tosiello, Hypomagnesemia and diabetes mellitus. Arch. of Internal Med., Vol. 156, June 10, 1996, pp. 1143-48]."3
HEART "Researchers at the University of North Carolina have found that magnesium injections lower the frequency and severity of ventricular arrhythmias in patients with heart failure. Twenty-one men and nine women aged 49 +9.6 years participated in the double-blind, placebo-controlled crossover experiment. The active treatment consisted of one injection of 0.3 mEq/kg magnesium chloride in 5 per cent dextrose in water followed by continuous infusion of a dextrose/water magnesium chloride solution [0.08 mEq/kg per hour] over 24 hours. The placebo treatment was similar except that the magnesium chloride was omitted from the dextrose/water solution. The number of PVCs [premature ventricular contractions] per hour was reduced by 53 per cent in the magnesium group as compared to the placebo group; the number of episodes of ventricular tachycardia was reduced by 69 per cent and in the patients who did have such episodes the heart rate was significantly lower than during placebo treatment [143 beats/minute vs. 179 beats/minute]. The researchers recommend that a larger study be undertaken to determine if oral administration of magnesium would have similar benefits. [Sueta, Effect of acute magnesium administration on the frequency of ventricular arrhythmia in patients with heart failure. Circulation, Vol. 89, No. 2, Feb. 1994]."4
BYPASS SURGERY "Patients having undergone coronary bypass surgery often suffer from ventricular dysrhythmias and decreased stroke volume immediately after the operation. Medical doctors at the Sinai Hospital of Baltimore have now found that supplementation with magnesium markedly decreases the frequency of these serious complications. One hundred patients were studied over a 6-month period; 50 were given an intravenous infusion of magnesium chloride [2 grams] immediately after the operation while the other 50 were given a placebo. The magnesium treated patients suffered significantly fewer ventricular dysrhythmias [16% vs. 34%] than did the untreated patients. [Journal of the American Medical Association, November 4, 1992, pp. 2395-2402]."5
PROVINGS •• [1] Hahnemann - 5 provers, including Ng., "an anonymous observer"; method: unknown.
•• [2] Mezger - 16 provers [8 females, 8 males], 1959; method: repeated doses of 12x for 22-43 days.
Hahnemann explains the reason for his proving thus: "I cannot at present offer much information concerning this medicine, but chronic patients may expect from it much benefit, when we consider the great use which has been afforded in chronic [psoric] ailments by sea-baths, merely by the action of this salt on the nerves of the skin; for in the North Sea, at least, one pound of seawater contains almost an ounce of this salt. Some part of the use of sea-baths may, however, we grant, be ascribed to the journey to these places, the effect of removal from business, which is often burdensome, and the effect of the dashing of the waves against the bathers."
[1] Merck Index. [2] Leeser, Textbook of Hom. MM: Inorganic Medicinal Substances. [3-5] International Health News Database, Summaries of the latest research concerning magnesium.
Affinity
NERVES. LIVER. Digestion. Pelvic organs [uterus; rectum]. Women. * Right side. Left side.
Modalities
Worse: LYING ON RIGHT SIDE. Night. Noise. Sea bathing. Eating. Salt foods. MILK. Warm room. Closing the eyes.
Better: HARD PRESSURE [tight bandage > headache]. Lying bent. Hanging down. Gentle motion. Cool, open air [except in headache].
Main symptoms
M ANXIOUS, HURRIED feeling; can't relax.
• "Fanciful delusion: As if while she was reading in a book, another person was reading after her, and compelled her to read more quickly, with humming and buzzing around her; when she raised her head up she seemed to see great clouds and rocks above her, which afterwards disappeared again; then anguish, apprehensiveness and restlessness, so that she could not contain herself; by continuing to look around her all these things disappeared, but recurred twice more on renewing her reading." [Hahnemann]
M Peace.
• "They want others to be happy and satisfied, and they may go to excessive lengths to bring this about. They will suppress their own emotions for the sake of others." [Vithoulkas]
• "Magnesia muriatica is good remedy for children exposed to family conflicts [for example, when the parents are fighting or in the midst of a divorce and the children become epileptic or asthmatic]. Magnesia muriatica subjects reject the mother [aggravation at the sea] and the father [aggravation from the sun]. They are searching for a true friend, the shepherd who will guide them to paradise. Their faith, however, is not very sound, and they fall apart in our violent world." [Grandgeorge]
• "Patients needing this remedy usually want everything to be peaceful. They are the 'peacemakers'. The whole idea of aggression and violence is completely unacceptable. The normal and natural assertion of self in the daily hustle and bustle of life poses a great challenge to these people, because all anger and conflict are interpreted through the lens of past abandonment. Present anger, either one's own or that of others, may lead to further abandonment."1
M Service and sacrifice.
• "All those who need Magnesia remedies seem to have a strong desire to control themselves and the world around them. Mag-m. patients want to please and take care of everyone, including you, the prescriber. ... People who need Mag-m. will often gravitate toward a service-type of occupation, such as counselling and social work. They are helpers and chronic caretakers, both at home and in their work. It is very important to them that everyone in the world is taken care of. ... Very frequently, the patients started cooking and cleaning at a very early age, inappropriately 'nurturing' the family and making sure that everyone's needs were being met. ... The child is willing to sacrifice the normal and natural activities of childhood, in order to be 'good', loveable, and acceptable. He or she pulls in the natural and spontaneous personality and ceases to be. The personality is expendable, as long as the substituted behaviour motivates others to want them around."2
M Strong sense of RESPONSIBILITY.
• "They easily overload themselves with too many tasks, and then become very anxious when they find themselves unable to keep up. They become overwrought with nervous energy trying to meet the demands and then find themselves unable to sleep properly." [Vithoulkas]
• "These people are not well-suited for all the irritation and problems that arise from taking on responsibilities. And this will give them a lot of anxiety and a lot of worrying. At night, when they lie down to go to sleep, then the anxiety comes on. Overwhelming anxiety." [Morrison]
M DEPRESSION.
• "Magnesia mur. seems characterized by a particularly marked depressive tendency. A dark gloom has settled which may be temporarily interrupted by explosions of violence. Since the picture reminds one of Natrum muriaticum [but is far in excess of the Nat-m. depression], one may wonder whether there is not a certain accentuation of a depressive character inherent in the chloride ion. Magnesia mur. deserves attention in psychiatric conditions." [Whitmont]
G TIRED on waking.
[Confirmed in proving Mezger.]
[wakes in an almost toxic state; head feels stuffed; indisposed to talk; needs an hour to come to herself].
• "The worst unrefreshing sleep of all the remedies in our materia medica." [Morrison]
• "She cannot open her eyes, for quite a while in the morning, for sleepiness."
• "She is still sleepy in the morning, and it is hard for her to get wide awake, for a long time." [Hahnemann]
G CHILLY, but craving for open air.
G Thirst; day and night.
G Desire for sweets.
• "Inclination to titbits; he sees a piece of cake and at once furtively breaks off a piece to eat." [Hahnemann]
G < MILK, fat food, salt. [Stomach symptoms < milk, in proving Mezger.] G < NIGHT. [esp. anxiety, but also pains and colics] • "He woke up at 2 a.m. and could not go to sleep for an hour; his restlessness drove him out of his bed and made him walk about in his room; at the same time sourish taste in his mouth." • "In the evening in bed, as soon as she closes her eyes, restlessness in the whole body." • "At night, great restlessness, she keeps rolling about and cannot go to sleep for heat." [Hahnemann] G > Hard PRESSURE [bandaging].
< Touch. G < SEASIDE; sea-bathing. [= congestion chest, constipation, cough, urticaria] • "After bathing for five minutes in the North Sea, she became so weak, as if all her vital spirits had left her, she could hardly speak for weakness [after several hours]." [Hahnemann] P Headache > binding head.
[If around the eyes > pressure on eyeballs].
And Thirst.
And Eructations.
P Eruptions face, esp. pimples and acne.
< Before menses. Itching at night. [1] Morrison, Three Cases of Magnesia Muriatica; IFH 1996. Rubrics Mind Ailments from discord between friends, parents [1]. Aversion to answering, in morning [1/1]. Anxiety, in evening in bed on closing eyes [2/1]. Feels obliged to comply to the wishes of others [1/1]. Delusions, he is friendless [1], he is on a journey [1], he is neglected [1], someone walks behind him [1]. Excitement during menses [2]. Fear, of robbers [1], of spiders [1]. Homesickness with silent ill humour [1]. Cannot support injustice [1]. Desire to nibble [1]. Aversion to quarrelling [1]. Restlessness, evening in bed [3], driving out of bed [1], during menses [1]. Repetition of thoughts [1]. Head Boiling sensation on side lain on [1/1]. Pain, from listening to reading and talking [2/1], > hard external pressure [2], > sneezing [1].
Eye
Dryness from looking at fire [1/1]. Lachrymation from looking at fire [2].
Vision
Colours, green [1]; red, at night [1]. Lost, when looking at near objects [1/1].
Hearing
Impaired during menses [1].
Mouth
Taste, sour, at night [1].
Stomach
Eructations, during headache [3]. Pain, from speaking [1]. Thirst, during coryza [1], with headache [3]. Trembling from conversation [1/1].
Abdomen
Pain, right hypochondrium, < lying on painful side [2], extending to back [3]; dragging, right hypochondrium, when lying on left side [2]. Rectum Constipation, during dentition [1/1], at seaside [1]. Female Menses, black, pitch-like [2]; copious, < sitting [1], > walking [1]. Pain, uterus, > pressure on back [2/1], extending down thighs [1].
Respiration
Difficult, in mountains [1; Coca*].
Chest
Palpitation, > exertion [1/1], > lying on left side [1; Ign.], > motion [2].
Limbs
Numbness, upper limbs, right, when lying on left side [2/1].
Sleep
Sleeplessness, from coryza [1], during menses [1], from thirst [1].
Dreams
Body parts, having one side of face cut away [1/1]. Lost in a forest [1]. Rubbish is falling on her [1/1].
Skin
Eruptions, urticaria, at seaside [1].
Food
Aversion: [1]: Meat [*]; sweets [*].
Desire: [2]: Sweets; vegetables. [1]: Delicacies.
Worse: [3]: Milk. [2]: Fat; fruit. [1]: Butter; cold drinks [*; = pain in stomach]; cold food; fish; fruit [*; = diarrhoea]; hot food; meat; salt; tobacco [*; < nausea]; warm food; wine [*; < heartburn]. Better: [1]: Cold food; hot food. * Repertory additions Mezger, Eine Neuprüfung mit Magnesium muriaticum; AHZ, 1974 Heft 3.
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