Mercuric Sulphide (MERCURIUS SULPHURATUS RUBER)
- For certain forms of ciliary neuralgia and ulceration upon a syphilitic base, this remedy is most effective.
- Sleepless during night.
Head
- Congestion to head; face purple red.
Eyes
- Pains from lachrymal duct around eye to temple, from inner canthus across brows to ear.
- Severe shooting pain in bones of orbit, especially running from inner to outer canthus in the bone.
- Redness of whole eye.
- Lids granulated; canthi and lids red.
Nose
- Pressive sensation, as from heavy spectacles.
- Pain about root, extending into bones on each side (Aur; Kal hyd).
Throat
- Stringy mucus passed through posterior nares into throat.
- Dryness of mouth and throat; must rinse the mouth.
- Fiery-looking ulcers in mouth and throat.
Male
- Prepuce swollen; warts on it which bleed easily; testicles enlarged; buboes; angry-looking chancres.
- Syphilides, squamous and vesicular.
Female
- Leucorrhea.
- Feeling of pressure in vagina.
Extremities
- Pain in forearm from elbow down, including hands.
- Pain in long bones when barometer lowers; coldness of joints.
Skin
- Very fiery-red looking ulcers.
- Nodes on shin-bones.
- Buboes.
- Condyloma, easily bleeding.
Modalities
- Worse, lying on right side (feels as if contents of body were being dragged over to that side).
Relationship
- Compare: Hepar; Nitr ac; Thuja; Sep.
- Antidotes: Hepar; Sulph.
Dose
- First to third trituration.
