• Look of long suffering and sourness, tiredness, weakness, fatigue
• Needs peace and peaceful surroundings. Pacifist
• Strong sense of duty and responsibility
• Anxiety at night in bed, when not doing anything or when not active
• Worse at sea
• Diarrhoea or abdominal pains from milk

source: Mineral kingdom
Synonyms: Muriate of magnesia, Magnesium chloride

Introduction and History: This drug finds no mention in the old school textbooks, while Magnesia carbonica and Magnesia sulphurica feature there. Magnesia muriatica first appeared in Hahnemann’s Chronic Diseases. It is found in many mineral waters and sea waters. Thus it is an indicated remedy for ill effects of sea bathing. This salt has a bitter taster and is decomposed by heat.

Characteristic Mental Symptoms (Psychology)

1. Aversion to quarrels; peacemaker. Passivity.
2. Nervous excitability with tendency to weep easily.
3. Feels someone was reading after her and she must keep reading faster and faster.
4. Exaltation of fancies while reading.
5. Anxiety at night in bed; on lying down, on closing eyes, worse reading, worse evening or supper, better in open air.
6. Delusion that he is friendless.
7. Convinced he looks old or has suddenly aged.
8. Kleptomania, steals dainties.
9. Sensitive to voices.
10. Shrieking during sleep.

Characteristic Physical Guiding Symptoms

1. Adapted to women with spasmodic and hysterical complaints, complicated by uterine diseases; who have suffered for years from attacks of indigestion or biliousness.
2. Children, during dentition are unable to digest milk. It causes pain in stomach and is passed undigested in puny rachitic children who crave sweets.
3. Salt, salty food, salt baths, even living at sea shore, all aggravate; weakness after sea bathing. Takes on cold at the sea shore. Catches cold easily.
4. Open air ameliorates all complaints except headaches.
5. It is an after dinner remedy. Complaints like, faintness, fits, dyspnoea, nausea, trembling, occur after dinner.
6. Shocks throughout the body like electric shocks.
7. Hypersensitivity and hyperaesthesia, worse touch or pressure.

Important Characteristic Features

Head: Sensitive to noise; bursting headache; worse, motion, open air; better pressure and wrapping up warmly (Sil, Stront-c). Much sweating on head. (Calc, Sil). Facial neuralgia; pains dull, aching, worse in damp weather, slightest draft, better pressure and heat.

Mouth: Toothache unbearable when food touches teeth.

Tongue: Broad yellow, scalloped, continuous rising of white froth in the mouth.

Nose: Nostrils ulcerated. Coryza. Nose stopped and fluent. LOSS OF SMELL AND TASTE, following catarrh. Cannot lie down. Must breathe through the mouth.

Mouth: Blisters on lips. Gums swollen, bleed easily. Tongue feels burnt and scalded. Throat dry, with hoarseness.

Stomach: Appetite poor, bad taste in mouth. Eructations taste like rotten eggs. Continuous rising of white froth in the mouth. CANNOT DIGEST MILK. Urine can be passed only by pressing abdominal muscles.

Abdomen: Pressing pain in liver; worse lying on right side. LIVER ENLARGED WITH BLOATING OF ABDOMEN; yellow tongue. Congenital scrotal hernia. Must use abdominal muscles to enable him to urinate.

Urinary: Urine difficult to void. Bladder can only be emptied by straining and pressure.

Bowels: Constipation of infants during dentition; only passing a small quantity; STOOLS KNOTTY, like sheep’s dung, CRUMBLING AT VERGE OF ANUS. Painful smarting haemorrhoids.

Female: Menses black, clotted. Pain in back and thighs. Metrorrhagia; worse at night. Great excitement at every period. Leucorrhoea with every stool and after exercise. Tinea ciliaris, eruptions on face and forehead, worse before menses.

Heart: Palpitation and cardiac pain WHILE SITTING: BETTER BY MOVING ABOUT (Gels). Functional cardiac affections WITH LIVER ENLARGEMENT.

Respiratory: Spasmodic dry cough; worse forepart of night, with burning and sore chest.

Extremities: Pain in back and hips; in arms and legs. Arms ‘go to sleep’ when waking in the morning.

Sleep: Sleep during the day; restless at night on account of heat and shock; anxious dreams.

General Modalities

Aggravation: Immediately after eating, lying on right side, FROM SEA BATHING, noise, night, salt food, mental exertion.

Amelioration: Hard pressure, lying bent, milk, touch, gentle motion, cool open air, hanging down the affected parts.

Remedy Relationships

Antidote to: Merc, TOBACCO narcosis and sedative in neurotic affections, neurasthenia, hysteria, cirrhosis of liver and dropsy.

Antidoted by: Camph, Cham, Ars, Nux-v.

Compare: Nat-m; Puls; Sep: Am-m; Nast (useful in scorbutic affections and constipation, related to strictures of urinary apparatus; supposed to be aphrodisiacal in its action).

Potency: 3x, 6x, 12x, 30, 200, 1000.

Dosage: 5 drops of tincture, third to two hundredth potency.

Therapeutic Value: Anxiety, Chronic fatigue syndrome, Cirrhosis, Constipation, Diarrhoea, Headache, Hepatitis, Neuralgia.