About German Homeopathy Mercurius Solubilis Dilution

Also known as Quicksilver(Mercurius  - Hydrargyrum), Hydrargyrum Oxydulatum Nitro Ammoniatum, Mercurius Solubilis Hahnemanni

Its main action is on the lymphatic system and the other spheres are the serous and mucous membranes, glands, bones, joints, etc. It is clinically indicated in cases of ulcerations of mouth and throat, falling of the hair, skin eruptions, abscesses, buboes and destructive inflammations.

What doctors recommend Mercurius Solubilis for?

Dr KS Gopi recommends

1. Mercurius Solubilis 30 is effective remedy for leucorrhoea which is acrid  with intense itching and burning in parts that is worse at night. Itching can also get worse while urinating and the patient has to wash off the parts with cold water after urination. The colour of the  vaginal discharge is mainly greenish and bloody
2. Profound reading disorder and disturbed speech. Child has poor self confidence, memory weak, forgets everything. Loss of will power and slow in answering. Profuse  salivation from mouth.

Dr Vikas Sharma recommends

1. For excessive trembling of the tongue is accompanied by profuse saliva in the mouth. This makes speech very difficult and voice shaky.
2. Merc Sol not only hastens the healing of ulcers and reduces the pain, but it also eradicates the tendency of frequent mouth ulcers. It is (for most homeopathic physicians) the first line of treatment for mouth ulcers. It is indicated for all kind of ulcers whether small or big and in severe cases where the mouth is inflamed with burning with pyorrhea
3. treats acrid vaginal discharge with pain in leucorrhea
4. treats hair loss due to eruptions on scalp where the discharge from eruptions is fetid and accompanied by burning type of pains in scalp.
5. great help for patients of Parkinson’s Disease with vigorous trembling of hands.
6. Mercurius Solubilis and Mezereum are natural Homeopathic remedies for the treatment of leg pain due to shin splints when the pains are worse at night time.
7. best natural Homeopathic medicines for treatment of Acne scars and is mainly given to patients who perspire profusely and the perspiration is very offensive
8. Mercurius Solubilis is prescribed for patients in whom bleeding from rectum occurs with loose stool and extremely chilly feeling.
9. beneficial for tenesmus (ulcerative colitis) in Inflammatory Bowel Disease and fistula where the stool is slimy, bloody

Mercurius Solubilis Patient Profile

Mouth: Increased salivation with sweet metallic taste in the mouth. Saliva is thick, viscid and foul smelling with coppery taste. Trembling of the tongue causing speech difficulties. Swollen, spongy and receding gums with bleeding, painful and sore on touching and chewing. Painful alveolar abscesses and caries of the teeth where the crown is affected, with looseness and sensation as if the teeth are elongated. Furrowed tongue with heavy, thick, moist coating, yellow, flabby and imprints of teeth. Tongue feels as if burnt, with ulcers and fetid odor from mouth. Moist tongue and mouth with increased thirst.

Throat: Swelling and congestion of the throat with bluish-red appearance and persistent desire to swallow. Painful and putrid sore throat with ulcers and inflammation where the pain extends to ear on swallowing. Abscess of the tonsils with suppuration causing difficulty in swallowing. Soreness and rawness of the throat with burning sensation and complete aphonia.

Male: Vesicular eruptions and ulcers on the parts with coldness and offensive, thick perspiration. Inflammation of testicles and lymph nodes of the groins. Intense itching of the prepuce with irritation and nightly emissions stained with blood.

Extremities: Weakness of limbs with excessive sweating and prostration. Severe bone-pains in the limbs which gets worse at night. Very sensitive to cold with oily perspiration. Nervous weakness of the extremities, with trembling of the hands from paralysis agitans. Oedematous swelling of feet and legs with severe pain in the joints.

Skin: Skin constantly moist with excessive, offensive and thick perspiration especially at night. Skin complaints such as vesicular and pustular eruptions, ulcers with irregular shape and undefined edges with small pimples around the main eruption. Itching, worse from warmth of bed. Thick scaly eruptions on the scalp of babies with yellowish-brown crusts. Swelling of glands during every attack of cold. Inflammation of testicles and the lymphatic nodes in the groins.

Modalities: Worse at night, wet, damp weather, lying on right side, sweating, warm room and warm bed.

Dosage: Please note that the dosage of single homoeopathic medicines varies from drug to drug depending upon the condition, age, sensitivity and other things. In some cases they are given as regular doses as 3-5 drops 2-3 times a day whereas in other cases they are given only once in a week, month or even in a longer period. We strongly recommend that the medication should be taken as per the physician's advice.

Mercurius Solubilis as per Boeric Materia Medica

Every organ and tissue of the body is more or less affected by this powerful drug; it transforms healthy cells into decrepit, inflamed and necrotic wrecks, decomposes the blood, producing a profound anćmia. This malignant medicinal force is converted into useful life saving and life preserving service if employed homeopathically, guided by its clear cut symptoms. The lymphatic system is especially affected with all the membranes and glands, and internal organs, bones etc. Lesions produced by mercury very similar to those of syphilis. Very often indicated in the secondary stage of syphilis where there is a febrile chloro-anćmia, rheumatoid pains behind sternum, around joints, etc; ulcerations of mouth and throat, falling of the air, the eruptions and ulcerations of mouth and throat, etc. These are the special conditions and stages to which Mercur is homeopathic and where the 2x will do surprising work. Again, hereditary syphilis manifestations, are within its range; bullć, abscesses, snuffles, marasmus, stomatitis or destructive inflammations. Tremors everywhere. Weakness with ebullitions and tremblings from least exertion. All Mercury symptoms are worse at night, from warmth of bed, from damp, cold, rainy weather, worse during perspiration. Complaints increase with the sweat and rest; all associated with a great deal of weariness, prostration, and trembling. A human "thermometer". Sensitive to heat and cold. Parts are much swollen, with raw, sore feeling; the profuse, oily perspiration does not relieve. Breath, excretions and body smell foul. Tendency to formation of pus, which is thin, greenish, putrid; streaked with thin blood.

Mind.--Slow in answering questions. Memory weakened, and loss of will-power. Weary of life. Mistrustful. Thinks he is losing his reason.

Head.--Vertigo, when lying on back. Band-feeling about head. One-sided, tearing pains. Tension about scalp, as if bandaged. Catarrhal headaches; much heat in head. Stinging, burning, fetid eruptions on scalp. Loss of hair. Exostosis, with feeling of soreness. Scalp tense; oily sweat on head.

Eyes.--Lids red, thick, swollen. Profuse, burning, acrid discharge. Floating black spots. After exposure to glare of fire; foundrymen. Parenchymatous keratitis of syphilitic origin with burning pain. Iritis, with hypopyon.

Ears.--Thick, yellow discharge; fetid and bloody. Otalgia, worse warmth of bed; at night sticking pains. Boils in external canal (Calc pic).

Nose.--Much sneezing. Sneezing in sunshine. Nostrils raw, ulcerated; nasal bones swollen. Yellow-green, fetid, pus-like discharge. Coryza; acrid discharge, but too thick to run down the lip; worse, warm room. Pain and swelling of nasal bones, and caries, with greenish fetid ulceration. Nosebleed at night. Copious discharge of corroding mucus. Coryza, with sneezing; sore, raw, smarting sensation; worse, damp weather; profuse, fluent.

Face.--Pale, earthy, dirty-looking, puffy. Aching in facial bones, Syphilitic pustules on face.

Mouth.--Sweetish metallic taste. Salivary secretions greatly increased; bloody and viscid. Saliva fetid, coppery. Speech difficult on account of trembling tongue. Gums spongy, recede, bleed easily. Sore pain on touch and from chewing. Whole mouth moist. Crown of teeth decay. Teeth loose, feel tender and elongated. Furrow in upper surface of tongue lengthwise. Tongue heavy, thick; moist coating; yellow, flabby, teeth-intended, feels as if burnt, with ulcers, Fetid odor from mouth, can smell it all over room. Alveolar abscess, worse at night. Great thirst, with moist mouth.

Throat.--Bluish-red swelling. Constant desire to swallow. Putrid sore throat; worse right side. Ulcers and inflammation appearing at every change in weather. Stitches into ear on swallowing; fluids return through nose. Quinsy, with difficult swallowing, after pus has formed. Sore, raw, smarting, burning throat. Complete loss of voice. Burning in throat, as from hot vapor ascending.

Stomach.--Putrid eructations. Intense thirst for cold drinks. Weak digestion, with continuous hunger. Stomach sensitive to touch. Hiccough and regurgitation. Feels replete and constricted.

Abdomen.--Stabbing pain, with chilliness. Boring pain in right groin. Flatulent distention, with pain. Liver enlarged; sore to touch, indurated. Jaundice. Bile secreted deficiently.

Stool.--Greenish, bloody and slimy, worse at night, with pain and tenesmus. Never-get-done feeling. Discharge accompanied by chilliness, sick stomach, cutting colic, and tenesmus. Whitish-gray stools.

Urine.--Frequent urging. Greenish discharge from urethra; burning in urethra on beginning to urinate. Urine dark, scanty, bloody, albuminous.

Male.--Vesicles and ulcers; soft chancre. Cold genitals. Prepuce irritated; itches. Nocturnal emissions, stained with blood.

Female.--Menses profuse, with abdominal pains. Leucorrhśa excoriating, greenish and bloody; sensation of rawness in parts. Stinging pain in ovaries (Apis). Itching and burning; worse, after urinating; better, washing with cold water. Morning sickness, with profuse salivation. Mammć painful and full of milk at menses.

Respiratory.--Soreness from fauces to sternum. Cannot lie on right side (Left side, Lycop). Cough, with yellow muco-purulent expectoration. Paroxysms of two; worse, night, and from warmth of bed. Catarrh, with chilliness; dread of air. Stitches from lower lobe of right lung to back. Whooping-cough with nosebleed (Arnica) Cough worse, tobacco smoke.

Back.--Bruised pain in small of back, especially when sitting. Tearing pain in coccyx; better, pressing on abdomen.

Extremities.--Weakness of limbs. Bone-pains and in limbs; worse, night. Patient very sensitive to cold. Oily perspiration. Trembling extremities, especially hands, paralysis agitans. Lacerating pain in joints. Cold, clammy sweat on legs at night. Dropsical swelling of feet and legs.

Skin.--Almost constantly moist. Persistent dryness of the skin contra indicates mercurius. Excessive odorous viscid perspiration; worse, night. General tendency to free perspiration, but patient is not relieved thereby. Vesicular and pustular eruptions. Ulcers, irregular in shape, edges undefined. Pimples around the main eruption. Itching, worse from warmth of bed. Crusta lactea; yellowish-brown crusts, considerable suppuration. Glands swell every time patient takes cold. Buboes. Orchitis (Clemat, Hamam, Puls).

Fever.--Generally gastric or bilious, with profuse nightly perspiration; debility, slow and lingering. Heat and shuddering alternately. Yellow perspiration. Profuse perspiration without relief. Creeping chilliness, worse in the evening and into night. Alternate flashes of heat in single parts.

Modalities.--Worse, at night, wet, damp weather, lying on right side, perspiring; warm room and warm bed.

Relationship.--Compare: Capparis coriaccea (polyuria, glandular affections, mucous diarrhśa; influenza); Epilobium--Willow herb--(chronic diarrhśa with tenesmus and mucous discharges; ptyalism, dysphagia; wasting of body and much debility; cholera infantum); Kali hyd (in hard chancre); Mercur acet (Congestion with stiffness, dryness and heat of parts affected. Eyes inflamed, burn and itch. Lack of moisture. Throat dry, talking difficult. Pressure in lower sternum; chancre in urethra; tenia capitis favosa margin of ulcers painful): Mercurius auratus (psoriasis and syphilitic catarrh; brain tumors; lues of nose and bones; ozćna; swelling of testicles); Mercurius bromatus (secondary syphilitic skin affection); Mercurius nitrosus-Nitrate of Mercury--(especially in postular conjunctivitis and keratitis; gonorrhśa and mucous patches, with sticking pains; syphilides); Mercurius phosphoricus (nervous diseases from syphilis; exostoses); Mercurius precipitatus ruber (suffocative attacks at night on lying down while on the point of falling asleep, obliged to jump up suddenly which relieves; gonorrhśa; urethra felt as a hard string; chancroid; phagedenic ulcer and bubo; pemphigus, mucous patches, eczema with rhagades and fissures, barber's itch; blepharitis, internally and externally; leaden heaviness in occiput, with otorrhśa); Mercurius tannicus (syphilides in patients with gastro-intestinal diseases, or, if very sensitive, to ordinary mercurial preparations); Erythrinus-South American Red Mullet Fish--(in pityriasis rubra and syphilis; red rash on chest; pityriasis); Lolium temulentum (in trembling of hands and legs); Mercur cum kali (inveterate colds, acute facial paralysis). Henchera-Alum root--(Gastro-enteritis nausea, vomiting of bile and frothy mucus; stools watery, profuse, slimy, tenesmus, never-get-done feeling. Dose, 2 to 10 drops of tincture).

Compare: Mez; Phos; Syph; Kali mur; Aethiops.

Antidote: Hep; Aur; Mez.

Complementary: Badiaga.

Dose.--Second to thirtieth potency.

About German Homeopathy remedies: These medicines are made and bottled in Germany. They are shipped to India and sold through authorised distributors. German brands available in India currently are Dr Reckeweg, Schwabe Germany (WSG) and Adel (Pekana)