Mephitis

[Shannon Brown]

Hello all!

I have a patient for whom I am seriously considering
Mephitis, but it is
under-represented in the repertory and Referenceworks.
Does anyone have
any references, articles, cases or other information
about this remedy?

Thanks,

Shannon Brown, ND
Portland, OR

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[Sara Klein Ridgley PhD]

Shannon Brown wrote:
A DICTIONARY OF PRACTICAL
MATERIA MEDICA
By John Henry CLARKE, M.D.
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Mephitis.

Mephitis putorius. Skunk. N. O. Mustelidæ. Alcoholic dilution of the
liquid contained in the anal glands.

Clinical.?Asthma. Blindness. Choking, easy. Cold, sensitiveness to.
Eyes, affections of. Laryngismus. Sight, weak. Whooping-cough.

Characteristics.?Mephitis was proved by Hering in the 30th. Among the
symptoms he developed was "choking while eating or drinking," and "cough
on reading aloud, while talking, and after drinking; caused by choking."
Lower ribs painful to touch or pressure, esp. colic from cold. > Cold washing.
Ice-water by
movement.?Uneasiness in (l.) arm, which is, as it were,
insensible.?Trembling in arm on resting upon it.?Jerking in
hand.?Distressing sensation in first phalanx of finger, which renders it
needful to stretch and crack it.

23. Lower Limbs.?Drawing and rheumatic pains in thighs, hip, and foot,
but chiefly in leg.?Contusive pains in knee.?Cramp-like and sudden pain
in (l.) foot, which causes patient to hop.?Uneasiness in legs, as if
they were about to go to sleep.?Lancinations in foot.?Pain in heel,
resembling gout.?Pricking or sensation of pinching in great toe (as if
it were being pinched off).?Burning in little toe.?Constant pains and
burning in corns.

24. Generalities.?Rheumatic pains.?Shifting pains, with want to
urinate.?Occasionally a sensation as if struck by electric
sparks.?Convulsions.?Sensation of paralysis, esp. during the
pains.?Great dejection and lassitude, during which the muscles are
painful when touched or exercised.?Indolence, with desire to stretch,
and stretching.?Internal agitation of whole body, with sensation of
unspeakable uneasiness.?Slight quivering of the nerves, as far as
interior of bones, causing a good deal of anxiety.?Many symptoms
manifest themselves in morning.

26. Sleep.?Great inclination to sleep, so great that patient will fall
asleep even when in company.?Diurnal sleepiness, with sound sleep at
night.?Frequent yawning, which causes tears to flow.?Very vivid dreams,
the recollection of which is retained.?Dreams of fire, water,
distressing losses, of spitting of blood, &c.?Nightmare.?Asthma during
sleep.?Waking at night, with rush of blood to, and heat in limbs (lower
legs).?Somnolent heaviness in morning, with burning in eyes and tearing
in limbs; greatly > by a change of position.?Frequent and early waking,
often with a feeling of good health.

27. Fever.?Coldness in evening, with want to make water, and colic, as
if preceding diarrhoea.?Heat in head, in genital organs and in legs, at
night.?Increased heat, esp. in morning, with skin less sensitive to cold
and cold water.?Washing with cold water is found very agreeable.
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PURE MATERIA MEDICA
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MEPHITIS.

Mephitis putorius; M. chinga, Tied.

Class, Mammalia.

Order, Carnivora. Family, Mustelidæ.

Common names, Skunk, stinkthier.

Authorities. Hering, Corresp. Blatt., symptoms obtained from 30th
dilution, and several from inhaling the substance while preparing the
dilutions. (Dr. Neidhard's report of the effect of the substance on a
young man "afflicted with symptoms of consumption," producing a
spasmodic cough with a crowing sound, lasting all night and returning
several times, N. Am. J. of Hom., 3, 505, is not admitted).

MIND. ? Emotional. ? Excited mood, with warmth of the head, [1]. ? (Very
talkative, almost as if intoxicated), [1]. ? Fretful about trifles or
only fancied occurrences, [1]. ? Intellectual. ? Disinclination to work,
with inclination to stretch, [1]. ? Aversion to mental labor, on account
of distracting fancies, [1].

HEAD. ? Confusion and Vertigo. ? Dull confusion of the head, as if it
became enlarge, with ill-humor and nausea, [1]. ? Vertigo on stooping;
suddenly while sitting; on various motions of the head; or on turning
over in bed, [1]. ? General Head. ? Feeling of heaviness; a dull
pressure, especially in the occiput, as if here and there pressed in
with the finger, [1]. ? Headache on riding a carriage, [1]. [10.] ?
Violent headache follows fulness, which presses upward, [1].

EYE. ? Red vessels in the eyes, [1]. ? Pain as from exerting the eyes,
[1]. ? Pain as if something were in the eye, [1]. ? Heat, burning and
burning pressure in the eyes, especially in the morning and evening,
[1]. ? Stitches as if with needles in the eyes, [1]. ? Pain above the
eyes, [1]. ? Pressure upon the lids, a burning in the margins as if
styes would develop, [1]. ? *Redness of the conjunctivæ, as if injected
with blood, [1]. ? Pain in the eyes on turning them in various
directions, [1]. ? Vision. [20.] ? Weakness of vision; also, usually,
pain in the eyes or head, [1]. ? Dimness of vision, [1]. ?
Short-sighted; he is unable to distinguish letters; they run together,
[1]. ? (Night-blindness), [1].

EAR. ? Earache, [1]. ? Tearing in the ear, or in the jaws and teeth, [1].

NOSE. ? Fluent coryza and cough, with soreness of the chest, [1]. ?
Nose-bleed, [1]. ? Nose dry, [1]. ? Long-lasting irritation to sneeze, [1].

MOUTH. [30.] ? Pains in the hollow back teeth, especially of the lower
jaw; sudden jerking in the roots of the teeth; tearing drawing, [1]. ?
Coppery taste in the mouth, [1].

THROAT. ? Distressing irritation to ineffectual hawking, [1]. ? Choking
while drinking and talking, [1]. ? Pain in the right side of the throat,
[1]. ? Tension in the cervical muscles of the right side, [1].

STOMACH. ? Appetite. ? Appetite at one time great, at another slight,
[1]. ? No appetite in the morning, not even for smoking, [1]. ?
Eructations. ? Eructations relieving the flatulent troubles, [1]. ?
Hiccough-like eructations, [1]. ? Nausea. [40.] ? Nausea, with a feeling
as if the head were distended; with emptiness, [1]. ? Nausea, with
scraping in the palate, [1]. ? Stomach. ? Feeling of emptiness and
nausea, [1]. ? Pressure in the stomach, with colic, [1].

ABDOMEN. ? Pain in the hepatic region, [1]. ? Pain as from flatulence in
the left side, [1]. ? Colic as in diarrhoea, without stool, [1].

STOOL. ? Diarrhoea, [1]. ? Stool infrequent but thin, [1].

URINARY ORGANS. ? Urging to urinate, very frequent micturition,
especially at night; urine clear, [1]. [50.] ? Urine turbid, with
sediment, in the morning after the evening fever, [1].

SEXUAL ORGANS. ? Warmth of the genitals, [1]. ? Soreness of the female
genitals, with swelling of the labia, [1].

RESPIRATORY ORGANS. ? Cough on reading aloud, while talking, and after
drinking; caused by choking, [1].

CHEST. ? Rheumatic pain in the right side, [1]. ? Sore pain behind the
last ribs and posteriorly, extending up into the chest internally, on
deep breathing or moving the back, [1]. ? Pain in the lowest ribs of the
left side, to touch, pressure, especially on coughing and sneezing, [1].

BACK. ? Stitches in the spine on moving, [1]. ? Weariness in the small
of the back, in the morning, [1].

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES. ? Trembling of the arm, on resting upon it, [1].
[60.] ? Uneasiness in the left arm, which seems insensible, [1]. ?
Rheumatic pains in the arms; paralytic drawing pains, better on moving,
[1]. ? Tearing a bruised feeling in the bones of the arms, [1]. ? In the
first joint of the index finger, a disagreeable feeling, that obliges
him to stretch and crack it, [1].

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES. ? Woke at night with rush of blood to the legs;
heat in them, [1]. ? Drawing rheumatic pains in the thighs and hip,
especially in the lower leg, extending down to the foot, [1]. ? The
knees feel beaten, [1]. ? *Uneasiness in the both lower legs, as if they
would become insensible, [1]. ? Sudden cramplike pain in the left foot,
that compels him to hop, [1]. ? Stitches in the foot, [1]. [70.] ? Pain
like gout in the heel, [1]. ? Burning in the little toe, [1]. ?
Throbbing like a pinching in the great toe, [1]. ? Burning and pain in
the corns, [1].

GENERAL SYMPTOMS. ? Great weakness and weariness, whereby the muscles
are painful to touch and motion, [1]. ? Prostrated and sleepy after
eating, [1]. ? Uneasiness of the whole body internally, with an
indescribable extremely unpleasant sensation, [1]. ? Paralyzed
sensation, especially with the pains, [1]. ? Pain in the back and all
the limbs, with paralysis, [1]. ? Wandering pains, with desire to
urinate, [1]. [80.] ? Rheumatic pains of various kinds in different
provers, [1]. ? Frequent sensations like electric shocks, [1]. ? Very
fine nervous vibrations causing great uneasiness, as if extending into
the interior of the bones, [1]. ? In the evening vertigo, headache,
symptoms in the eyes, toothache, colic, a feeling of coldness,
uneasiness, [1]. ? Some of the symptoms rapidly alternate with others
quite different, during the first days; afterwards they become more
constant, until at last, after several weeks, they disappear, [1]. ?
Smelling Camphor relieved for only a short time, without removing the
symptoms, [1]. ? Washing in ice-cold water is very agreeable, [1].

SKIN. ? Pimples on the forehead, lower jaw, back, nates, and the inner
side of the thighs, [1]. ? Itching, heat, redness, and erysipelas, with
vesicles on the right external ear, [1]. ? Itching on the scalp, face,
and chin, [1]. [90.] ? Itching on the scrotum, [1].

SLEEP AND DREAMS. ? Sleepiness. ? Frequent yawning, so that the eyes
fill with tears, [1]. ? Sleepiness, sleep in the midst of society, [1].
? Sleep the greater part of the day, after good sleep at night, [1]. ?
Extremely sleepy in the morning, stretching for an hour as if stupefied,
with burning in the eyes, tearing in all the limbs; he was uncommonly
refreshed by turning upon the other side, [1]. ? Sleeplessness. ? *Woke
earlier than usual in the morning, [1]. ? Dreams. ? Very vivid
remembered dreams of water, fire, spitting, blood, of disheartening
loss, [1]. ? Nightmare, [1].

FEVER. ? Chilliness. ? Pressure and chills in the abdomen, as from
taking cold, with a feeling of coldness, shivering, and desire to
urinate, better by a warm stove, [1]. ? Coldness and desire to urinate,
with colic as before diarrhoea; in the evening, [1]. ? Heat. [100.] ?
Increased warmth, especially in the morning; is less chilly in the cold
air, and does not dread cold water, [1]. ? Warmth in the head, genitals,
and legs, at night, [1].

CONDITIONS. ? Aggravation. ? (Morning), No appetite; weariness in small
of back; warmth. ? (Evening), Vertigo, etc.; coldness, etc. ? (Night),
Frequent micturition; rush of blood to legs; warmth in head. ? (Motion),
Pains in arms. ? (Riding in carriage), Headache. ? Amelioration. ?
(Washing in ice-cold water), Is very agreeable.
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