HOMEOPATHIC DRUG PICTURE OF MEDORRHINUM

1. MEDORRHINUM.

2. • Potencies made from the gonorrheal virus.
• There are two preparations ;
• The acute and
• Chronic.
• From the virus of the acute stage to the
chronic, or gleet stage, both of which are
supposed to contain the gonococcus.

3. • Nosode of Gonorrhoea.
• Attenuations of the Virus.

4. • Introduced by Swan.

5. CLINICAL
• Asthma.
• Clonic spasms.
• Corns.
• Diabetes.
• Dysmenorrhoea.
• Epilepsy.
• Eyes, inflammation of.

6. • Favus. Gleet.
• Gonorrhoea, suppressed.
• Gonorrhoeal rheumatism. Headache,
neuralgic.
• Liver abscess of.
• Masturbation.
• Ovaries, pains in.
• Pelvic cellulitis.

7. • Polypi.
• Priapism.
• Psoriasis palmaris.
• Ptosis. Renal colic.
• Rheumatism.
• Sciatica.
• Shoulder, pains in.
• Stricture.
• Urticaria.
• Warts.

8. SYMPTOMS.
• Mind :
• Great weakness of memory.
• Dullness of memory and desire to procrastinate,
because business seemed so lasting, or as if it
never could be accomplished.
• Entirely forgot what she had read, even previous
line.
• Forgetfulness of names, later of words and initial
letters.
• Cannot remember names ; has to ask name of her
most intimate friend ; forgets her own.

9. • Cannot spell right ; wonders how the word "how"
is spelled.
• Reads a letter and thinks the words look queer
and are spelled wrong.
• Time moves too slowly.
• Dazed feeling ; a far off sensation, as though
things done today occurred a week ago.
• Momentary loss of thought, caused by sensation
of tightness in brain.
• Loses constantly the thread of her talk.

10. • In conversation he would occasionally stop,
and on resuming make remark that he could
not think what word he wanted to use.
• Seems to herself to make wrong statements,
because she does not know what to say next,
begins all right but does not know how to
finish ; weight on vertex, which seems to affect
mind.
• Great difficulty in stating her symptoms, loses
herself and has to be asked over again.
• Difficulty in concentrating his thoughts or
mind on abstract subjects.

11. • Could not read or use mind at all from pain in head.
• Thinks some one is behind her, hears whispering ; sees
faces that peer at her from behind bed and furniture.
• Persons come in, look at her, whisper, and say "come."
• One night saw large people in room ; large rats
running ; felt a delicate hand smoothing her head from
front to back.
• Fears he is going to die.

12. • Sensation as if all life was unreal, like a dream.
• Wild and desperate feeling, as of incipient
insanity.
• Cannot speak without crying.

13. • Is always anticipating ; feels most matters
sensitively before they occur and generally
correctly.
• Anticipates death.
• Dread of saying the wrong thing when she has
headache.

14. • Everything startles her, news coming to her
seems to touch her heart before she hears it.
• Woke at an early hour with a frightened
sensation, as if something dreadful had
happened ; heavy weight and great heat in
head ; could not rest in bed ; felt as if she must
do something to rid her mind of this torture.
• Fear of the dark.

15. • Feeling as if he had committed the
unpardonable sin and was going to hell.

16. • Indisposed to work or make mental effort ;
• desire for rest and dread of change ;
• noise,
• confusion,
• disorderliness of surroundings distressing ;
• depression and much anxiety, especially after
sleep ; irritable if the room is not light enough to
make everything distinct ;
• craving for stimulants, but cannot endure the
effects, for they cause a wild, crazy feeling in
brain after the first sleep ;
• same effect from using eyes.

17. • Usually depressed ;
• easily tired ;
• disinclined to any exertion,
• and yet often unable to keep still ;
• forgetful ;
• unable to think connectedly ;
• mind wanders from subject, even in reading ;
cannot think at all if hurried.

18. • Always wakens tired in the morning ;
• hates to do anything that must be done, even
nice things ;
• gets nervous and excited about ridding and
driving as soon as the time is fixed.
• Constant state of anguish.

19. • Time moves slowly to it, therefore it is
hurried.

20. • Feeling of desperation ; did not care if he went to
heaven or hell.
• Cross through day, exhilarated at night, wants to play.
• Irritated at little things.
• Nerve trembling, with worry.
• Very impatient.
• Reading and writing make her nervous and enrage her.
• Great selfishness.

21. Head
• Vertigo :
• when stooping ;
• several times during day sudden attacks,
• seemingly in vertex,
• with danger of falling ;
• things did not seem to go round,
• but there was a sensation and fear of falling,
• only slightly > lying down, < on movement ;
• always woke with it ;
• as if intoxicated ;
• walks zigzag ;
• in occiput extending to vertex,
• with sensation of enlargement of occiput.

22. • Head light, not exactly dizzy.
• Sensation of tightening in head, causing intense
vertigo.
• Tensive pains in head.
• Tensive pains in head, with a wild sensation as if
she would go crazy, with a sensation as if she
would do something desperate in spite of
herself ; afraid to be alone.

23. • Intense itching of scalp.
• Great quantities of dandruff.
• Hair lustreless, dry and crispy.
• Dryness and electrical condition of hair ; it will not remain
brushed.
• Great deal of fugitive itching in scalp.
• Sharp itching of scalp, whiskers and eyebrows.
• Severe pain at the base of the brain, running to the vertex,
in two cases suffering from retroflexion.

24. • Frontal headache ; with nausea ; feeling of a
tight band across forehead,
• < leaning head forward ; as if front half of
brain would come through forehead ; as if skin
was drawn tight ; with fluent coryza, with
pressure back of eyes, as if they would be
forced out ; extending over brain to neck.
• Wandering neuralgia of head, worse in cold
damp weather.

25. • Brain seems weary ; slightest sound annoys
and fatigues her.
• Neuralgia first in left temple and parietal
bone, then in right, next day in left eye.
• Wakes with headache over eyes and in
temples ; < from sunlight.

26. • Sharp pains come and go suddenly.
• No part of head is free from pain. Pain
aggravated from light, and on coughing.
• Burning pains deep in, as if in brain. Extreme
tension of scalp.
• Band across forehead. Pain in occiput and
nape, aggravated on motion.
• Intense itching of scalp.
• Herpetic eruptions on scalp; ringworm.
Copious dandruff. Hair dry and crispy.

27. Eyes
• Flickering before the eyes.
• Blurred vision, and black or brown spots in the
field of vision.
• Objects look double, or small. Sees imaginary
objects. Eyes feel drawn.
• Tension in the muscles.
• Pain in eyes on turning them. Sensation of sand
in eyes.
• Sensation of sticks.
• inflammation of conjunctiva with ulceration of
the cornea. Blepharitis with much swelling.

28. • Lids stuck together in the morning.
• Margins red and excoriated.
• Ptosis.
• Smarting of lids.
• Eyelashes fall out.
• Swelling under eyes.

29. Ears
• Impaired hearing and total deafness.
• Imagines he hears voices or people in
conversation, At first the hearing is very
acute.
• Pain along Eustachian tubes into ears.
• Crawling in ears.
• Itching in ears.
• Stitching pains in ears.

30. Nose
• This remedy cures obstinate nasal catarrh, also
post nasal obstruction with loss of smell.
• Mucus, white or yellow.
• very high and a discharge from the urethra
which had been suppressed many years before
came back and acted like a chronic gleet, and
finally subsided without other treatment.
• Bleeding from the nose, and bloody nasal
discharge.
• Nose sensitive to inhaled air.
• Itching and crawling in nose.

31. • The greenish yellow, waxy, sickly face of the
sycotic patient looks like that of
the Arsenic patient, but strange to
say, Arsenic does not otherwise correspond
to the symptoms, but may be mistaken for it.
• The skin shines, and is often covered by
blotches and there are fever blisters about
the mouth.
• Herpes on the face.
• Epithelioma of wing of nose, or on lip.
• Rheumatic pains and stiffness of face.
• Swelling of the submaxillary glands.

32. Mouth
• The teeth are always sensitive when chewing.
• The taste is perverted, and the tongue is foul
and white at base.
• The mouth is full of canker sores.
• Ulcers in the mouth and on the tongue.
• The breath is foul.
• Stringy mucus in mouth and throat.
• Mouth dry and feels burnt.
• Catarrh of throat, and thick white mucus is
constantly drawn from posterior nares.

33. Stomach
• Ravenous hunger, even after eating.
• Unquenchable thirst.
• Craves stimulants, tobacco, sweets, green fruit, ice, sour
things, oranges, ale, salt.
• Nausea after eating, and after drinking water.
• Vomiting of mucus and bile, Sour and bitter vomiting.
• Violent retching.
• Vomiting without nausea.
• Gnawing in stomach, not relieved by eating or drinking.
• Trembling in stomach.
• Clawing in stomach, aggravated by drawing up the knees.
• Sinking in stomach.
• Agonizing pains in stomach.

34. Liver
• Terrible pains in liver.
• Grasping pains in liver and spleen.
• It has cured ascites.
• Pulsation felt in abdomen.
• Pain and swelling of the inguinal glands.
• A young man who had been in good flesh and
health took gonorrhoea.
• He was treated by injection.
• Soon he began to lose flesh.

35. • He suffered from pain in the groin, which
compelled him to walk bent.
• He became pale and waxy; stiff and lame all
over, and was very sensitive to cold.
• Took cold frequently, which seemed never to
get quite well.
• After Med. very high the discharge returned,
and he seemed quite well.
• Pain in spermatic cords.

36. Infants
• This remedy has cured many cases of marasmus
in infants that had inherited sycosis from a
parent.
• Children of a sycotic father are especially subject
to attacks of vomiting and diarrhoea, and
emaciation.
• They resist well selected chronic remedies, or
are only palliated by well selected remedies.
• After Med. high they thrive, and remedies act
better.

37. Stools
• Constipation.
• Can pass stool only by leaning far back when
straining at stool.
• Inactivity of the rectum.
• Round balls, and hard lumpy stool.
• Oozing of moisture at the anus, smelling like
fishbrine.

38. Urine
• Scanty, high-colored, strong-smelling urine in a
patient suffering from rheumatic lameness and
stiffness.
• Sensitive to cold, with tenderness of the soles.
• In albuminous urine with hyaline casts when the
patient is waxy and there is oedema of feet and
ankles, and the soles so tender he can scarcely
walk on them, the skin of soles is bluish and hot;
also when the swollen legs are so sore he cannot
have them touched, or endure the pressure to
ascertain whether the swelling will or will not
pit on pressure.

39. • In the above conditions Med. will act promptly if
there has been gonorrhoeal history.
• Inflammation of bladder, prostate gland or
kidneys.
• Copious mucus in urine.
• Renal colic.
• Parenchymatic inflammation of the kidneys.
• Copious pale urine.
• Frequent urination at night.
• Loses urine in bed.
• Inactivity of the bladder and feeble stream of
urine.
• It has cured many cases of polyuria.

40. Genitals
• Nocturnal emissions and impotency in young
men who have had gonorrhoea several times,
especially if treated by injections.
• Prolonged gleety discharge with rheumatic
symptoms and declining health.
• For gonorrhoeal rheumatism it is a most
important remedy.
• It controls the rheumatic symptoms and
restores the discharge.

41. • It has cured induration of testes, and pain in
the spermatic cords.
• Pain in left spermatic cord, left sciatic nerve
and lumbago from every exposure to a draft
in one who suffered from gonorrhoea several
years ago and was cured by Med. 10 M. at
long intervals.

42. • Chronic pain in ovarian region.
• Sterility.
• Painful menstruation.
• Obstinate leucorrhoea.
• Enlarged ovaries.
• Violent itching of vulva and vagina.
• Profuse menses.
• Drawing in sacrum as if menses would come
on, Cutting like knives in whole pelvic region.

43. Respiration
• Is difficult.
• Suffocation and short breath on slight exertion.
• Asthma in children of sycotic parents (Nat. s.).
• Spasms of the glottis with clucking in the larynx;
air expelled with difficulty, but inhaled with
ease.
• Several cases of asthma have been cured by this
remedy.
• Dryness of the larynx causes spasms and cough
on falling asleep.

44. • Most obstinate catarrh of air passages with
copious viscid expectoration has been cured
by this remedy.
• Cannot cough deep enough to reach the
phlegm (Caust.).
• The cough is ameliorated by lying on the
abdomen, is aggravated at night.
• The expectoration is yellow, white or green,
viscid, difficult to raise.
• Cough worse in a warm room.

45. • Many of the patients that need this remedy
look sick, pale, and walk stooped as if about
to go into phthisis.
• Dry cough, with rattling in chest. Great heat,
even burning in chest.
• Many pains in chest.
• Rheumatic, sharp pains through chest on
exposure to damp cold air.

46. • When patients who have suffered from
gonorrhoea seem to be taking on a phtisical
complex of symptoms and the paucity of
individualizing symptoms makes the remedy
doubtful, this remedy will bring better
reaction, and sometimes be the remedy for
many months.

47. • Intense pain in chest on coughing.
• Sensation of coldness in chest and mammae.
Stitching pain in chest.
• The chest is sore to touch, and aggravated by
the motion of breathing.

48. • The heart manifests all the symptoms usual
to rheumatic constitutions.
• Dyspnea; fluttering heart; palpitation.
• The pains are acute, cutting, stitching;
aggravated by motion.
• Burning in heart, extending to left arm.

49. Back
• Back: "Lame back" is the common complaint
of these patients.
• It is generally a lumbago, or it is a lumbo-
sacral pain, and often extends into the lower
limbs.
• Crural or sciatic pains.
• Drawing in nape and back.
• Pain across the back, from left to right
shoulders.

50. • Great heat in the upper part of spine.
• Stiffness in the back on rising, or beginning to
move.
• Pains all aggravated in cold damp weather.
• Tender spine, Soreness in region of kidneys.

51. Sleep
• Can sleep only on the back with hands over
head.
• Sleeps on her knees with face forced into the
pillow.
• Terrible dreams of ghosts and dead people; she
dreads the nights.
• Sleepy but cannot sleep.
• Sleeplessness fore part of night.
• Copious night sweats.