Chloride of Magnesia-Mg Cl
General
Especially adapted to diseases of women; spasmodic and hysterical complaints, complicated with uterine diseases; who have suffered for years from attacks of indigestion or biliousness. Children: during difficult dentition are unable to digest milk; it causes pain in stomach and passes undigested; puny, rachitic, who crave sweets. Great sensitiveness to noise [Ign., Nux, Ther.]. Headache: every six weeks, in forehead and around the eyes; as if it would burst; , from motion and in open air; (>). from lying down, strong pressure [Puls.], and wrapping up warmly [Sil., Stron.]. Great tendency of head to sweat [Cal., Sanic., Sil.]. Continual rising of white froth into the mouth. Eructations, tasting like rotten eggs, like onions [breath smells of onions, Sinap.]. Toothache; unbearable when food touches the teeth. Pressing pain in liver, when walking and touching it, liver hard, enlarged, (<). lying on right side [Mer., Kali c.]. Constipation: stool hard, scanty, large knotty, like sheep's dung; difficult to pass; crumbling at verge of anus [Am. m., Nat. m.]; of infants during dentition. Urine: pale, yellow, can only be passed by bearing down with abdominal muscles; weakness of bladder. Menses with great excitement at every period; flow black, clotted; spasms and pains (<). in back when walking, extend into thighs; metrorrhagia, (<). at night in bed, causing hysteria [Act., Caul.]. Leucorrhoea: after exercise; with every stool; with uterine spasm; followed by metrorrhagia; two weeks after menses for three or four days [Bar., Bov., Con.]. Palpitation and cardiac pains while sitting, (<). by moving about [compare, Gels.].
Relations
Compare: Cham. in the diseases of children.