{"id":1052,"remedy_name":"Mezereum","remedy_type":"Homeopathic Remedy","alternative_names":[""],"miasm":"Emotional Miasm","temperament":"Chilly","aggravation_time":"Morning","keynote_indications":"Source: Derived from the fresh bark of Daphne mezereum, a shrub in the Thymelaeaceae family,. harvested before flowering and prepared for homeopathic use through tincture and serial dilution to. enhance  therapeutic  action  while  eliminating  toxicity,  in  accordance  with  homeopathic. pharmacopeia standards. Traditional  Context:  Historically  employed  in  homeopathy  for  dermatological,  neurological,. musculoskeletal,  mucosal,  and  psychological  disorders,  particularly  those  involving  intense. itching, neuralgic pains, and bone affections. It is noted for symptoms such as vesicular eruptions,. burning neuralgia, and bone pains, often aggravated by warmth, touch, or night, and ameliorated by. cool air, open air, or rest. Modern  Context:  Indicated  for  dermatological  conditions (e.g.,  eczema,  herpes  zoster),. neurological  conditions (e.g.,  postherpetic  neuralgia,  trigeminal  neuralgia),  musculoskeletal. conditions (e.g., periostitis, osteoarthritis),  mucosal conditions  (e.g., stomatitis, conjunctivitis),. and  psychological conditions  (e.g., generalized anxiety disorder, adjustment disorder). It suits. patients with acute or chronic symptoms characterized by intense itching, neuralgic pains, bone. pains, crusting eruptions, or restlessness, typically exacerbated by warmth, touch, or night, and. often seen in individuals with sensitive, chilly constitutions. The remedy is particularly relevant for. those with dermatological or neurological conditions, often presenting with symptoms like vesicular. eruptions or burning neuralgia, commonly observed in patients with herpes zoster, postherpetic. neuralgia, or eczema triggered by cold, stress, or suppressed eruptions.","modalities":"Worse from: Warmth (weather, rooms, bed, drinks), touch, night, scratching, motion, cold. air, suppressed eruptions, emotional stress, spicy foods, morning.","symptoms_by_system":{"Mind":"Forgetful. Vanishing of thoughts while speaking, unable to repeat what has been learned by heart. \nIndifference to everything and everybody, looks through a window for hours without being conscious of objects \naround. Dullness of mind after sound sleep. \nApprehensive at the pit of the stomach when expecting some very unpleasant news or shock. Irresolution. \nNervous, compelled to move and change positions. Aversion to talk, it seems to be hard work to utter a w ord. \nHypochondriac and despondent. Sad ness about trifles,  when alone. Religious or financial melancholy. \nDespair of eternal salvation. Anger alternating with quick repentance. Vexed and angry at trifles. Censorious. \nReproaches or quarrels with others. Irritability during headache. Forgetful. Vanishing of thoughts while speaking, unable to repeat what has been learned by heart. \nIndifference to everything and everybody, looks through a window for hours without being conscious of objects \naround. Dullness of mind after sound sleep. \nApprehensive at the pit of the stomach when expecting some very unpleasant news or shock. Irresolution. \nNervous, compelled to move and change positions. Aversion to talk, it seems to be hard work to utter a w ord. \nHypochondriac and despondent. Sad ness about trifles,  when alone. Religious or financial melancholy. \nDespair of eternal salvation. Anger alternating with quick repentance. Vexed and angry at trifles. Censorious. \nReproaches or quarrels with others. Irritability during headache.","Vertigo":"Vertigo with contracted pupils, faintness. Vertigo and flickering before eyes, inclination to fall to left \nside. \nCOMMENTS - A case reported in Allen's Appendix recorded the history of apale girl, 14, having been advised \nto use mezereum leaves to make her f at and rosy, went into the woods and used them freely on her cheeks \nand surrounding parts. \nBurning soon set in, the whole face swelled enormously, especially the nose, eyelids and hairy scalp. Severe \nand painful sneezing, delirium, dull, unbearable, pressing pains in forehead, a nauseous dryness in throat and \nconstant irritation to dry cough. The face soon showed the appearance of erysipelas bullosum, nostrils closed, \nshe could only breathe through her mouth, febrile pulse, burning urine. \nOil and compresses were applied, and after the second day desquamation occurred in large areas. Health did \nnot return. Debility followed, with loss of vitality, mental de pression bordering on idiocy. Then typhoid fever, \nlasting fully for three months to which she finally succumbed. \nPoisoning has also been observed from the effects of the berries, causing dryness and burning of throat and \n \n \nstomach, intense thirst, a narcotic state, coma, and convulsions of eyes and upper limbs.  \nIn a child of four, poisoned with the berries, t he lips swelled, the tongue was furred and swollen, protruding, \nwith difficult swallowing. The tongue remained quite raw when other symptoms had passed away.  \nMez. is one of Hahnemann's anti-psoric remedies. Ulcers, with thick, yellowish, white scabs. Vesicles, itch and \nburn. Lint dressings stick to them and when they are torn away, bleeding occurs. Burning vesicles on the sides \nof the fingers and ulcers on finger joints. \nCanker sores with a scab, pus (Rhus-t., Nat-m.). Herpes zoster, shingles itch and burn and form scabs. Herpes \nzoster, during the eruption and for the neuralgia remaining after, especially if the pains are burning. Vaccination \neczemas. Psoriasis and eczema, itching, worse in bed and from touch. Intolerable itching, migratory itching. \nSkin is scabby looking, with an itch underneath the scab that aggravates. Pimples on ankles and backs of feet, \nhorrid taste and clamminess of mouth in morning. Pimples better by hard scratching. Dry crust on the scalp \nand falling out of hair, accompanied with short sight. \nBone pains, particularly of the long bones. The least touch is intolerable. Affinity for the facial bones and teeth \n(Merc.). Decay attacks the roots or sides of the teeth, rather than the crowns (Merc.). Toothache is worse at \nnight, from touch, even with the tongue. Better by holding the mouth open and drawing in air.  \nNeuralgia about the eyes, the pains radiate and shoot downward. Sensation in the eye as if a cold wind were \nblowing in it. Hypersensitiveness of the ear to air. Feeling as if air went through the ear to the throat. \nStitching, burning and itching in the rectum and anus. During stool, the rectum prolapsed and the sphincter \ncloses upon the protruded part. Sluggish bowels. Constipation after confinement. \nConstricting tendency in the t hroat, stomach and tendons. Enlarged testicles (Clem.). The leg is shortened \nwith pain in the hip. Tension in muscles of the chest. Pain and stiffness in muscles of neck. Cramp -like \ncontraction over chest and back and across front of chest. \nCooper noted that green discharges were particularly characteristic. \nCarroll Dunham recorded a notable case of \ndeafness, due to suppressed psora. A youth, age 17, deaf since four and incapacitated thereby, secluded \nhimself and brooded over his trouble. Membranes thickened. \nAt the age of three, he had an eruption of thick, whitish scabs, hard, almost horny, covering the whole scalp. \nThere were fissures through which exuded on pressure a thick, yellowish pus, often very offensive. There was \nmuch itching and disposition to tear off the scabs with the fingernails, worse at night. \nThe allopathic treatment was vigorous, a tar cap was placed on the head and when firmly adherent to the \nscabs was violently torn off, scabs and all, leaving the whole scalp raw. This was painted wit h a saturated \nsolution of Arg-n. The eruption did not reap pear, but from that time the child was deaf. The eruption was the \nvery counterpart of an eruption observed in a proving by Wehle. \nMez. 30c, three globules in a powder of sugar of milk, was given on  February 3, March 1, and September 28, \n1857 and January 26, 1858. Improvement set in slowly after the first dose, which was only repeated when the \neffect of each preced ing dose seemed to be exhausted. Finally, the hearing was for all practical purposes \ncompletely restored. \nThe action of Mez. in catarrhal cases is illustrated in the case of Miss M. R., 39, a brunette, who had chronic \ncatarrh. The left ear had long been deaf and the right had begun to fail. There were noises in the ears. Drum \nmembranes retracted and scarred. \nThe naso-pharynx mucus membrane was granular and irritable. There was excessive sensitiveness to the air, \neven of a fan and oc casionally a sensation as if air went through to the throat. A dose of Mez. given before \neach meal entirely relieved the symptoms. \nT. S. Hoyne collected many cases illustrating the action of the remedy including a case of a woman treated by \nW. E. Payne. She had no rest when alone, wanted company. Ideas vanished while talking, could not repeat \nwhat had been learne d by heart. Looked through the window for hours without being conscious of objects \naround. \nDid not know what she was doing, forgot what she was about to utter, looked \nill-humored pale, wretched, fallen away. Apprehensiveness at pit of stomach, as when exp ecting some very \nunpleasant intelligence. All symptoms relieved in a single night by Mez. 20c.  \nS. R. Geiser noted the case of a man, 28, who had a violent neuralgia, boring pain in left lower jaw bone, \nextending to temple and ear. Pain was worse at night, better from pressure. Mez. 3c relieved in two hours. \nJ. W. Vance recorded the history of H. G., stout, healthy -looking, left supra-orbital neuralgia recurring daily at \n9 a.m. increasing until noon, declining until 4 p.m., when it entirely departed leaving no soreness behind. Pain \ncaused flow of tears. Mez. 1c cured permanently after other remedies had failed.  \nHempel noted the case of a toothache in the incisor of a woman. Tooth felt elongated, loose, excessively \nsensitive with sensation as if being raised out of its socket. Upper part of tooth was excessively painful. Mez. \n \n \n200c cured in a few hours. \nOehme noted the case of Mrs. X., who had pain in her right eye tooth, daily increasing. Felt too long. Pains \nmuch worse by pressure on crown and outside root. Mez. 2c cured. \nOehme also recorded a case in which the fastenings of a hammock broke and a woman on it fell, striking her \nsacrum and coccyx on the stump of a tree. She suffered excru ciating pain. Arn. was applied locally. In a few \nweeks she came home and t he coccyx was still so tender she could not sit, only lie or stand. Arn. internally \nand externally for two weeks had no influence. Mez. 2c cured in five days.  \nCooper noted the case of a woman, 48, who had rheumatism which came on ten years before in her ha nds \nfrom wearing wet gloves and extended later to arms and knees. She had stiffness on walking with loss of \nmuscular power, worse in hot weather, \u201cpins and needles\u201d in fingers on elevating arms. Could not grasp things, \nsometimes one hand burned when the other was cold, menopausal flushings. Great relief from Mez. tincture. \nCooper also noted that Daphne laureola, the British representative of the genus, cured \nscald-head when Mez. failed to work. \nThe symptoms in this case were worse by day, whereas Mez. has w orse at night. The pains of D. laureola \ncome on in the morn ing and affect the entire head or whole left side. Guai. pains are also worse by day and \nbetter by warmth. \nH. B. Esmond cured with Mez. 3x a youth, 17, who had been afflicted with \u201csalt rheum\u201d as long as he could \nremember. It was absent in summer, but every autumn, as soon as cold weather came, his face, neck, hands \nand forearms would break out and continue sore until warm weather returned.  \nMez. cured a girl, 18, getting thin with headache across forehead, temples and eyes, a throbbing with sickness \nof stomach and water brash, always worse by movement, bowels very confined, menses never appeared. \nH. Noah Martin noted a patient that said \u201cmy stools are as hard as stone and as large a my arm. I feel as if \nthey would split me open. They come in sections like mouthfuls and I becomes much exhausted and tremble \nwith weakness. Every stool is immediately preceded by chills and followed by long stitches up rectum.\u201d Mez. \n12c produced a natural stool in twelve hours.","Head":"Violent headache on slighte st touch, after vexation. Headache, worse from talking. Stupefying \nheadache in right side. Numbness of one side of scalp or top of head. Pressing pains as if skull would split. \nPains on slightest touch in temples and sides. Cranial bones painful. Boring pains in bones of occiput. Violent \ncongestion to head during menopause. Affections \nof external head, scaly eruption, white scabs. Burning pain of scalp. Intolerable itching. Eczema capitis. Head \ncovered with thick, leathery crusts, under which pus collects.  Milk crusts. Exostosis. Sore boils. White \nscabs or scales. Hair falls in handfuls. Dandruff, white, dry. Violent headache on slighte st touch, after vexation. Headache, worse from talking. Stupefying \nheadache in right side. Numbness of one side of scalp or top of head. Pressing pains as if skull would split. \nPains on slightest touch in temples and sides. Cranial bones painful. Boring pains in bones of occiput. Violent \ncongestion to head during menopause. Affections \nof external head, scaly eruption, white scabs. Burning pain of scalp. Intolerable itching. Eczema capitis. Head \ncovered with thick, leathery crusts, under which pus collects.  Milk crusts. Exostosis. Sore boils. White \nscabs or scales. Hair falls in handfuls. Dandruff, white, dry.","Eyes":"Eyes feel strained.  Dryness of the eyes, they feel too large. Pains radiate and shoot downward with \ncold feeling and stiffness of bone. Pain outward along the brows. Smarting pain in eyes, with lachrymation. \nLachrymation with any pains. Ciliary neuralgia after opera tions. especially after removal of eyeball. \nInclination to wink, jerking of eyelids. Obstinate twitching of muscles of left upper lid. Eczema of lids.","Ears":"Thickening of tympanum. Ears feel too open, as if tympanum was exposed to the cold air and it \nblew into the ear. Chronic diffuse otitis. Oozing eruption behind ear. Itching behind ears, scratching  \ncauses small elevations, when scratched off the spots feel sore. Desire to bore fin gers into ears. Deafness \nafter suppression of head eruptions.","Face":"Red. Facial muscles drawn tight. Face swollen, burning pains, confluent vesicles. Boils on face. \nImpetigo. Eruptions around the mouth with coryza. Cracks in corners of mouth. Scabs about mouth. Ulcers on \nupper lip. Lips swollen, dry, scaly exter nally, painful, sore and burning. Chin cov ered with elevated, white \nscabs. Violent neuralgia about face and teeth, running towards ear, at night, worse eating, better near hot \nstove. Neuralgic pains come and go quickly and leave part numb. Sudden pains, wakes from sleep. Left-sided \nprosopalgia. Twitching of muscles, right sided. Boring pains in bones of upper jaw. Vio lent itching of face and \nscalp.","Mouth":"Salivation. Mouth waters. Taste bitter, sour, beer tastes bitter, which is vomited. Br eath smells like \nrotten cheese. Burning in mouth and throat, sometimes \nbetter eating. Ranula, worse talking and chewing, ejects a watery fluid. Dry, dark red mouth. Flat, whitish ulcers \non inner side of lips and corners of mouth. \nNose - Sneezing, coryza. Frequent sneezing with pain of excoriation in chest. Visible twitching at the root of \nnose. Interior of nose excoriated. Post nasal adenoids. \n \n \nPerspiration - During sleep, following chill. Skin drips with cold sweat.","Throat":"Dark, red, burning, sore, worse winter. Burning in mouth and throat, sometimes better eating. Burning \nin pharynx and esophagus. Throat as if dry. Sensation as if posterior part of throat were full of mucus. \nSwallowing even of fluids difficult and painful, from severe burning and raw pain. Constriction of pharynx. \nSensation of narrowing in throat. Nausea felt in throat, better eating. \nTeeth - Teeth feel dull and elongated. Teeth feel cold. Teeth pain ful on biting on them and from cold air. \nRoughness from tartar on teeth. Roots of teeth decay. Rapid decay of hollow teeth. Toothache into temples, \nbetter with mouth open and from drawing in air. Toothache in gums from cold air. Toothache from congestion \nto head. Sensation as if tooth was being lifted out of socket. \nTongue - Burning in tongue with salivation. Tongue coated along one side only. Middle of the tongue fissured. \nThick, white coating on tongue with large, red, elevated papillae.","Chest":"Stitches in chest. Sore pain in right axilla. Soreness and burning in bones of thorax. Constriction across \n \n \nchest. Con traction of diaphragm. Painful tension in intercostal muscles. Chest feels too tight on stooping. \nSensation as if ants were running over chest. Intercostal neuralgia following herpes zoster, worse at night and \nin warmth of bed. Red spots like fleabites on chest. \nConstitutions - Suited to light -haired per sons, phlegmatic temperament, irresolute. Gouty, rheumatic, \nsyphilitic miasm. \nCough - Irritation in throat causes hacking cough . Dry tickling cough, into vomiting. Cough, worse eating, on \ntaking a warm drink. Cough from beer. Must cough till food is vomited. Pulse full, hard, accelerated eve nings. Pulse at times intermittent. Pulse frequent mornings, slow \nevenings. \nKidneys - Red flakes float on to p of urine. Hematuria, hot, preceded by cramps in bladder. After urinating, a \nfew drops of blood are passed. Biting, burning in forepart of urethra at the close of urination. Dyspnea, as if from adhesions or contraction of lungs. Desire to take a long breath. Snoring in children. \nYellow, viscid, salty expectoration. Expectoration during day or tasting like an old catarrh.","Stomach & Abdomen":"Chronic gastritis, burning, corroding pain. Constant, severe pain and pressure in stomach even \nafter light foods. Induration of stomach. Stomach ulcer with much burning. Burning and corroding pain in \nstomach, better milk and eating. Constricting, pinching pain in stomach. Sensation of apprehension, fear, \nfaintness and goneness at stomach as if something was going to happen. Sensation as if food remained for a \nlong time undigested in stomach and caused pressure. Stomach pain culminates and ends with retching and \nvomiting of all food taken. Vomiting of chocolate colored substance with nausea. Vomit bitter, sour, slimy, oily \nor greasy. Water brash. \nStools - Stools preceded and followed b y shivering. Stools, hard, large, as if they would split the anus. Stool \nsoft, brown, sour, fermented, undigested, offensive. \nTemperature - Chill of single parts as if dashed with cold water. Chill alternating with flushes of heat. General \nweakness. Great tendency to get remittent or typhoid fever. Ague. Burning and heat in abdomen. Swelling of glands with large abdomen in children. Contraction of \ndiaphragm. Pressure in inguinal ring. Dull or severe pain in region of spleen. Stitches in left hypochondrium. \nFlatulent colic with shivering and difficult respiration. Loss of appetite. Constant longing for food. Confusion after eating. Thirst during chill. Aversion to meat. \nCraving for bacon, ham, fat, coffee, wine. Desire for acid drinks. Beer tastes bitter and causes vomiting. Worse \nfrom wine. Itching temporarily better from wine and coffee.","Urinary & Genital":"Testicles enlarged. Painless swelling of the penis and scrotum. Heat and swelling of penis. Itching \nglans penis. Fine, pricking, stitches in penis and tip of glans. Urethra sore. Violent sexu al desire. Gonorrhea \nwith hematuria, discharge of watery mucus. Menses scanty with face ache. Menses too frequent, too soon, too profuse. Leucorrhea like albumen, \nvery corroding. Ulceration of vagina and cervix.","Extremities":"Bone  pains  or  periosteal  tenderness,  with  a  sensation  of  soreness  or  aching,. resembling periostitis or osteoarthritis, worse with warmth, night, motion, or cold,. often in the long bones or skull. Joint  stiffness  or  swelling,  with  a  tendency  to  aggravation  in  warm  conditions,. resembling rheumatoid arthritis, worse with touch or night. Muscle  soreness  or  weakness,  with  a  sensation  of  heaviness,  resembling. fibromyalgia, worse with warmth or exertion. Tendency  to  musculoskeletal  hypersensitivity,  with  aggravation  in  warm  or. inflammatory states. Mucosal:. Oral ulceration or burning, with a sensation of rawness, resembling stomatitis or. aphthous ulcers, worse with warmth, night, or spicy foods. Conjunctival  irritation  or  burning,  with  a  tendency  to  redness  or  discharge,. resembling conjunctivitis, worse with warmth or night. Mezereum (Daphne mezereum, Spurge Olive) 1360. Nasal  irritation  or  crusting,  with  a  sensation  of  dryness  or  burning,  resembling. allergic rhinitis, worse with warmth or night. Tendency to mucosal hypersensitivity, with aggravation in warm or infectious states. Psychological:. Anxiety  or  restlessness,  with  a  sensation  of  unease  or  agitation,  resembling. generalized anxiety disorder, worse with warmth, night, or solitude. Irritability or mood swings, with a tendency to sensitivity or impatience, resembling. adjustment disorder, aggravated by warmth, stress, or suppressed emotions. Mental exhaustion or confusion, with a sensation of brain fog, resembling mild. cognitive impairment, worse with warmth or exertion. Tendency to psychological hypersensitivity, with aggravation in warm or stressed. states.","Neck & Back":"Pain in muscles of back. Pain in neck and back, worse motion and at night intolerant of all touch. Violent \nitching rash on nape. Stiff pain in nape and muscles of sides, worse motion. Rheumatic pain in ri ght scapula, \nin morning after rising. Shuddering over back and limbs, when itching is most severe. Coccyx painful after a \nfall. \nCausations - Ill effects of suppressed eczema capitis, vaccination and mercury.","Skin":"Skin wrinkled and in folds. Eruptions ulcerate and form thick scabs under which purulent matter exudes \n(Chry s-ac.). Eruptions, ooze, acrid, gluey moisture, form thick crusts, scabs with pus beneath or chalky \nwhite. Intolerable, itching, worse by warm bath, worse in bed. As if millions of insects were crawling on him. \nCrusty eruptions, white scabs,  bleeding when touched. Skin cold on places where itching is most intense. \nPruritus senilis.  Itching changes place on scratching, coldness after. Itching without eruption. Itch -like \neruption, after vaccination, depriving child of sleep. Eczema. Psoriasis. Herpes zoster with burning pain.  \nLiver spots on chest and arms become dark and desquamate. Ulcers itch and burn, surrounded by  \nvesicles and shining, fiery-red areola. Deep, hard, painful ulcers worse touch and warmth. Old ulcers burn and \nsting. Ulcers form over bony protuberances. Desquamation over whole body. Scurf like fish scales on back, \nthighs, chest and scalp.","Sleep":"Much yawning and stretching. Irresistible sleepiness during day. Sleepi ness from debility. \nSleeplessness from itching. Sleeplessness from cramps in calves. Sleep disturbed by vio lent pain in face. \nNightmare at night, awakening after midnight.","Generalities":"Head as if drunk, as if every thing in the head would press asunder. As if skull would split, as if \ntop of head gone, as if head bruised, as if head was in an ants' nest. Eyes as if too large, as if drawn back into \nhead. Throat as if narrowing. As if food remained long time in stomach. Stools feel as if they would split anus. \nLimbs feel shortened. As if fire darting th rough muscles. Sensation of lightness of body. Bones are very sore \nand feel distended. Diseased parts wither."},"schema_version":"1.0","api_provider":"Allahshafi"}