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M-aust from Murphy --
PHARMACY - Mag-aust. Magnetis polus australis. South Pole of the Magnet.
Potencies of alcohol saturated with emanations of the south pole. Historical
dose: All potencies. Planets: Saturn.
HISTORY - South pole of magnet is useful for ingrown toe nails. Clarke
has cured so many cases of ingrown toenail with Mag-aust. 2,000c., that he
invariably gave it in the first place when there are no symptoms plainly
indicating another remedy. Here are the symptoms from Hahnemann which led to
this use: Sore pain on the inner side of the nail of the big toe when
walking, as if the nail had grown into the flesh on the side, very painful
on being slightly touched and the shoe presses on the toes and on the nail
of the big toe when walking, as from corns.
MAGNETIS POLUS AUSTRALIAS
The accurate response to these symptoms on the part of the attenuated
Mag-aust. proved to Clarke the possibility of attenuating and so fixing this
"energy" for use as an ordinary homeopathic remedy.
HOMEOPATHIC -- Mag-aust. has severe pain in inner side of nail of the
big toe. Ingrown toenails. Easy dislocation of joints of foot, feet are
painful when letting them hang down. Dryness of eyelids. Aching in patella,
shooting in soles. Sore pain on the inner side of the nail of big toe, worse
walking or slight touch. Drawings in fingers, joints of fingers, feet and
ankles. Sharp pulsative pains in roots of nails, as if about to suppurate.
Pains with pinching or burning, lancinations in different parts of the body.
Contusive pains in limbs and joints, as if the patient had been lying on
flints.
Liability to suffer from a chill. Tendency of nose, ears, hands and
feet to be frozen by a moderate degree of coldness. Sudden lassitude when
walking with anxiety and heat or sudden inclination to sleep. Lightness of
whole body.
CLINICAL - Borborygmi. Colds. Coughs. Dislocation, easy. Frost-bite.
Heart, palpitations. Hernia. Ingrown toe-nails. Levitation. Menorrhagia.
Toothache. Varicose veins. Vertigo. Wisdom tooth.
Modalities - The symptoms are worse when walking in open air, worse
when sitting, worse hanging limb down.
MIND - Morose and ill-humor with aversion to conversation. Dislike to
society and to laughing faces. Passion and rage. Instability of ideas.
Abdomen - Pinching in abdomen caused by a current of air. Noisy
borborygmi and grumbling in abdomen. Pressive, flatulent colic with
pinchings and inflation of abdomen. Sensation, as if inguinal ring were
dilated, preparatory to the rupture with painful sensibility of that part,
when coughing.
Back - Pressive, burning pain in loins during repose and movement.
Pain, as of a fracture or wrenching pain in joint of sacrum and lumbar
vertebra.
Chest - Oppression of the chest, as if the respiration were tremulous
and produced an impression of coolness. Drawing pressure in both sides of
sternum with anguish of conscience, which allows no rest.
Eyes - Dryness and smarting in eyelids, especially when moving them,
worse morning and evening. Lachrymation. Amblyopia.
Female - Menses premature and profuse. Metrorrhagia.
Head - Great rush of blood to brain early in morning in bed. Heaviness,
tingling and digging in head. Shocks in head, sometimes with tearing.
Heart - Violent palpitation of the heart with great heat in cardiac
region. Palpitation of the heart during which it seems that it is not the
heart that palpitates.
Kidneys - Involuntary emission of urine from paralysis of bladder
sphincter, especially at night. Emission of urine, drop by drop with torpor
of urethra. Very feeble stream of urine. Frequent emission of urine at
night.
Lungs - Coughs and coryzas with expectoration of greenish mucus and
shortness of breath. Paroxysms of fetid cough at night, when sleeping. Want
to take full inspirations like sighing with involuntary deglutition.
Male - Strong disposition to emission. Emission (very unusual) in a
hemiplegia patient, paralysis worse after the emission. Impotence with
sudden cessation of all enjoyment in the moment of greatest excitement. Pain
in penis, as if some tissues were torn or plucked away. Painful retraction
of testes at night. Swelling of testes with tearing shocks and sensation of
contraction.
Mouth - Metallic taste, at one time sweetish, at another acidulous, on
and under the tongue. Accumulation of watery saliva in the mouth. Speech
embarrassed, as by a swelling of the tongue.
Rectum - Stools, soft, loose feces, preceded by gripings. Evacuation of
liquid feces with a sensation as if flatus were about to be discharged.
Contractions and painful constriction in rectum and anus, which hinder the
expulsion of wind.
Sleep - Urgent inclination to sleep, evening and morning, closing of
the eyes without power to sleep. Sleeplessness with over-excitement before
midnight. Confused, frightful dreams. Prolonged dreams on the same subject
with fatigue. Dreams of incendiary fires. Slow, noisy, snoring expiration
before midnight after midnight inspiration is of the same character. Lying
on the back during the night. Congestion in head in morning, which compels
lying with head high.
Stomach - All kinds of food appear insipid. Extreme indifference to
food, drink and tobacco-smoke. Bulimia at noon and evening, sometimes during
the febrile shiverings. Aching in scrobiculus during mental exertion.
Teeth - Tearing, jerking toothache, worse by hot things.
Temperature - Excessive dread of open air, which penetrates to the very
marrow of the bones, even when the weather is hot with ill-humor and
inclination to weep. Shuddering with cloudiness before eyes, trembling and
tossing of limbs without shivering, followed by heat in head and face.
Throat - Burning sensation in gullet.
Vertigo - Vertigo, as from intoxication with staggering gait.
COMMENTS - Berridge reports this case: Miss X. had for three weeks
aching in middle of front of left lower leg (where she has had varicose
veins for eight months), when standing or when the leg is hanging down,
removed by placing it horizontally, frequent feeling of hot water running
down affected part, but only when leg is down, at times throbbing there when
leg hangs down. Mag-aust. 100,000c, one dose.
The hot-water feeling never returned, the pain ceased in two days.
Pinching, squeezing sensations and bruised pains predominate. Faintness
comes on when walking and is worse when sitting. There is great rush of
blood to the brain early in the morning in bed.
COMPARE - (1) Mag-amb., Galv., Electr. in fetid cough, Caps. (2) Rush
of blood to head, Asterias. (3) Toe-nails, Graph., Sil., Nit-ac., Thuj.
RELATIONS - Antidoted by: Mag-arct., Ign., Zinc.
SOURCES - Clarke. Phatak.
M-p-a (Murphy)
PHARMACY - Mag-Ambr. Magnetis poli ambo. The Magnet. Trituration of
Sugar of Milk after exposure of the influence of the both poles of the
magnet. Dilution of distilled water similarly exposed. Historical dose: All
potencies. Planets: Moon, Saturn.
HISTORY - The effect of the Magnet as a whole and of each pole
separately was tested by Hahnemann and the symptoms are mainly from his
pathogenesis. In his preface he says he does not expect "ordinary
mechanical, materialistic and atomistic heads" to be able to regard diseases
as "immaterial alternations of the vitality or pure dynamic derangements of
our state of health and medicinal powers as merely virtual, almost
spiritual, forces."
Hahnemann asks how they can reconcile with their materialistic notions
the fact that "a single imponderable spark from a Leyden jar gives a shock
to the strongest man and yet to ascertainable ponderable substance is
communicated to his body?"
General symptoms of the magnet produced by touching either magnetic
pole indiscriminately while handling the magnet or by laying the whole of
the magnetic surface upon the body. Sensations of coldness are marked. There
is coldness where the magnet is applied. The eyeball feels cold, as if it
were a lump of ice in the socket. On the other hand there is a sensation as
if the blood was rushing towards the point touched by the magnet.
HOMEOPATHIC -- Mag-Ambr. has burning sensation in the limbs and joints.
Burning lancinations across all parts of body in different directions. Pains
as if broken in joints, when cartilages of two bones touch. Shooting and
jerkings. Headaches as if a nail were driven in. Tendency of old wounds to
bleed afresh.
Wrenching pain in the limbs. Shuddering, which traverses the whole
body. Shaking in the body with fright or shocks, which cause violent bending
and straightening of the body, sometimes with the loss of consciousness.
Long-lasting swoons during which she feels her pains, but is not able to
speak or move.
CLINICAL - Fainting. Hemorrhage. Orchitis. Paraphimosis. Prolapsed
anus. Rheumatism. Toothache. Ulcers.
Modalities - The symptoms are worse by motion and on awaking. The
toothache is worse from cold and on contact with anything cold. Touch worse
pain in joints. Heat better uncovering.
MIND - Busy precipitation. Absence of mind. Irresolution. Inadvertence.
Tendency to anger and rage.
Abdomen - Pressure and anxious fullness in abdomen, especially during
mental exertion. Noisy, gas, grumbling and borborygmi in abdomen. Production
of much flatus. Flatulent colic. Expulsion of flatulence with painful
pressure.
Back - Jerking in the spine, as from something alive. Painful
sensibility of the joint of the sacrum in morning in bed, when lying on side
or by day, when stooping. Wrenching pain in shoulder-joint or pain as from
the starting of a tendon in wrist.
Chest - Burning insupportable lancinations in muscles of chest.
Ears - Humming in ears. Diminution of hearing.
Eyes - Itching in eyes, especially the lids. Pupils dilated.
Scintillation of white light, beyond the range of vision in the twilight.
Sparks before the eyes.
Face - Perspiration on face without heat in morning. Jerking tearing in
upper jaw. Violent burning lancination in muscles of face in evening.
Swelling of lips with salivation in evening. Small pimples with pain like
that of a wound, on lips.
Female - Menses premature, profuse and of too long duration.
Food - Fetid breath. Metallic taste in mouth. Insipid taste of tobacco
and beer. Many things have a moldy taste. Speedy satiety. Good appetite in
evening.
Head - Headache from over-strained memory and reflection. Pain, as of a
bruise in head, on waking in morning. Digging, stupefying headache, which is
immediately dispersed by movements of flatus. Head pain, as if a nail were
driven into the head, as if caused by a wound, especially after a fit of
anger. Jerking tearing in head, appearing at intervals. Rushing or buzzing
noises in whole head.
Limbs - Drawing pains in joints and muscles of arms often from head to
fingers. Tearing jerking in muscles of arms after remaining some time in the
cold. Red spots in palms like vesicles. Attacks of cramp in calves of legs
and toes after waking in morning. Burning lancinations in heels and in corns
on the feet.
Lungs - Paroxysms of dry cough at night. Spasmodic cough, especially
after midnight, when awake or during reflection. Nocturnal dyspnea, excited
by mucus in trachea, which is easily detached in morning.
Male - Burning sensation in region of spermatic vesicles, which excites
sexual desire. Dullness of sexual feeling and aversion to sex. Erection
without amorous thoughts. Retraction of prepuce behind the glans. Swelling
of epididymis with pain during movement and when touched.
Nose - Aberration of smell, a smoky or moldy scent is perceived.
Rectum - Constipation, as from contraction of rectum. Painless diarrhea
with flatulence. Hemorrhoids, smarting pain in anus after evacuation with
constriction in rectum. Blind hemorrhoids. Prolapsed rectum.
Skin - Tendency of old wounds to bleed afresh. Ulcers painful like new
wounds. Small furunculi. Small pustules with lancinating, drawing pain.
Sleep - Disturbed sleep with talking, snoring and continued tossing.
Waking at 3 a.m. and falling into a drowsy lethargy towards sunrise. Lying
on the back with the hand under the head, the legs wide apart and the mouth
half open with snoring respiration. Amorous, lascivious dreams. Jerking of
the body before going to sleep. After waking in morning, headache with pain,
as of a fracture in all the joints, which forces constant change in position
of limbs.
Stomach - Abortive risings. Risings with smell and taste of horn
scrapings. Sour regurgitation, when stooping. Stomach-ache with cramp
towards upper part, agitation, which allows no rest whatever, heaviness of
tongue, paleness of face and coldness of body.
Teeth - Toothache after drinking anything cold or from contact with
cold air. Pressive, jerking toothache in isolated shocks. Toothache in
carious teeth with swelling of gums.
Temperature - Dry heat with need to be uncovered, at night and in
morning in bed.
Vertigo - Vertigo, especially in evening after lying down, as if about
to fall or as from concussion in head. Vertigo with staggering, when
walking, objects seem to waver before eyes.
COMMENTS - Clarke's experience with the magnetism is confined to
Mag-aust. 2,000c., but that is sufficient to give him confidence in
prescribing potencies of these remedies when their indications arise. The
leading symptoms of Mag-Ambr. are: Burning lancinations throughout the body,
pains as if broken in joints, where cartilages of two bones touch, shootings
and jerkings, disturbed sleep, headache as if a nail were driven in.
The Mag-Ambr. symptoms of the provings Hahnemann says they "occurred
from various powerful magnets brought in contact with various sensitive
individuals without distinction of the poles. They were observed in
experiments conducted for half a year for the purpose of ascertaining the
proper and most efficacious mode of stroking the steel with magnets in which
a horse-shoe magnet, capable of lifting a weight of twelve pounds, was held
in the hands, which were held in contact with both poles for an hour at a
time," with additional symptoms from Andry, Thouret, Unzer and De Harsu.
"Although each of the poles presents something peculiar in its power of
altering the human health, yet each of them seems, when applied twice of
oftener to produce alternating actions which resemble those of the opposite
pole" (Hahnemann).
For curative purposes Hahnemann had recommended a much milder
application of the magnet. (The popular use of electric rings for rheumatism
is analogous to this.) The method of attenuating media saturated with
emanations from the magnet does not seem to have occurred to Hahnemann.
COMPARE - (1) Mag-arct., Mag-aust., Ferr. magnet., Mang. ox. (2) Burnt
smell in nose, Anac. (3) Prolapsed anus, Podo., Caust., Ign. (4) Bell.,
Lyc., Nux-v., Petr., Puls., Stram., Sabina, Teucr.
RELATIONS - Antidoted by: Ign., Electr., Galv., Zinc. (imposition of
Zinc plate).
SOURCES - Clarke.
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