• Asthma, better from lying on the abdomen and protruding the tongue; better at sea side
• Craves ice
• Burning of hands and feet, wants them uncovered, wants to be fanned
• Constipation, better bending backwards
• Breasts cold as ice, especially the nipples, worse during menses
• Sycotic warts

Source: A nosode
Synonyms: Gonorrhoea nosode, Glinicum
Prover: Dr Swan and Dr C. Hering
Duration of Action: Not definite
Miasmatic Background: Sycotic, it is the king of sycotic remedies.

Introduction and History: Medorrhinum is prepared from the gonorrhoeal virus. It is a powerful, deep acting medicine indicated for chronic ailments due to suppressed gonorrhoea. The constitutional nature of gonorrhoeal poison has within recent years been recognized in the old school as well as new.

Preparation: It is prepared from potencies of the gonorrhoeal virus. Attenuation of the virus is prepared in water from which higher potencies are prepared.

Constitution and Physiognomy: It is suited to persons suffering from gout, rheumatism, neuralgia and diseases of the spinal cord and its membranes; even organic lesions ending in paralysis – which can be traced to a sycotic origin.

Ailments From: Suppressed gonorrhoea.

Seat of Action (Pharmacodynamics): It mainly acts on the mind, nerves and mucous membranes.

Characteristic Mental Symptoms (Psychology)

1. He is forgetful of facts, figures and names of what he has read.
2. Makes mistakes in writing, of spellings and words.
3. Time moves too slowly, everybody moves too slowly.
4. He is in a constant hurry, in such a hurry that he gets out of breath.
5. Confusion of mind, dazed, loses the idea when speaking.
6. Great difficulty in stating her symptoms, loses herself and must be asked over again.
7. Thinks someone is behind her, hears whispering.
8. Sees faces that peer at her from behind the furniture.
9. Everything seems unreal. Wild desperate feeling as if incipient insanity.
10. Weeps when talking, exhilaration in the evening.
11. Changeable state of mind – one moment sad, the next mirthful.
12. Presentiment of death. Frightened sensation on waking as if something dreadful had happened.
13. Fear of dark; anxiety about salvation.

Characteristic Physical Guiding Symptoms

Lymphatic glands: Great heat and soreness with enlargement of lymphatic glands all over the body.

Vitality: There is consumptive languor, fatigue and great general depression of vitality.

Pains: Arthritic, rheumatic pains due to a sequel of gonorrhoea. Constricting sensation seems to tighten the whole body. Feeling of soreness and a bruised sensation all over the body.

Trembling: Trembling, intense nervousness and profound exhaustion all over the body.

State of collapse: Patient wants to be fanned all the time. Craves fresh air. Skin is cold, yet throws off the covering. Skin cold and bathed with cold perspiration.

Hunger: Ravenous hunger immediately after eating.

Thirst: Constant thirst immediately after eating.

Craving: Insatiable craving for liquor which before she hated, for salt, for sweets, for ale, ice, acids, oranges, green fruits.

Asthma: Choking caused by weakness or spasm of epiglottis. Larynx stopped so that no air could enter; only better by lying on the face and protruding tongue.

Cough: Dry, incessant, severe, burning, painful cough as if mucous membrane was torn from the larynx. Deep, hollow cough as if coughing in a barrel. Worse at night, from Sweets, on lying down on the stomach.

Sputum: It is albuminous, frothy, small, green, like bitter balls, viscid and difficult to raise.

Stools: Stools are tenacious, clay-like, sluggish, cannot strain from a sensation of prolapse of rectum.

Nocturnal enuresis: Patient passes an enormous quantity of ammoniacal, high coloured urine in bed every night, worse by overwork, overplay, extremes of heat or cold; when the best selected remedy fails.

History: History of sycosis.

Menses: Menses are profuse, dark, clotted, stains difficult to wash out.

Breasts and nipples: Sore and sensitive to touch.

Rheumatism: It is at the top of shoulder and arm, pains extend to fingers, better by motion.

Restlessness: INTENSELY RESTLESS AND FIDGETY LEGS AND FEET.

Burning: Burning of hands and feet, wants them covered and fanned.

Important Characteristic Features

Respiratory affections: It is a very useful remedy for asthma in children of sycotic parents. Respiration is difficult. Suffocation and shortness of breath on slightest exertion. Spasm of the glottis with clucking in the larynx; air is expelled with difficulty, but inhaled with ease. Dryness of larynx causes spasm and cough on falling asleep. Most obstinate catarrh of air passages with copious viscid expectoration. Cannot cough deep enough to reach phlegm. The expectoration is yellow, white or green, viscid, difficult to raise. Worse in a warm room, at night. Better by lying on abdomen.

Chest affections: Patient looks sick and pale; walks stooped as if about to go into phthisis. Dry cough, with rattling in the chest. Great heat, even burning in the chest. Rheumatic, sharp pain through the chest on exposure to damp cool air. The chest is sore to touch and aggravated by the motion of breathing. Dyspnoea, fluttering heart, palpitation. Burning in heart extending to left arm. Worse on motion.

Lumbago and backache: It is a useful medicine for lumbosacral pain which often extends to the limbs. Crural or sciatic pain. Drawing in the nape and back. Pain across the back, from left to right shoulders. Great heat in upper part of spine. Stiffness in the back on rising or beginning to move. Tender spine. Worse, in cold, damp weather.

Rheumatism: Chronic rheumatic pain in limbs, in cold damp weather. The limbs are lame and stiff. Stitching pain all over the body, and in the limbs. The patient is very sensitive to pain; pain is sharp and stitching. Cold extremities. Burning in palms and soles. Trembling of the limbs. Rheumatic pain in shoulder, worse by motion. Numbness of arms and hands, worse on the left side. Burning, palms, wants them fanned. Restlessness in legs, moves them constantly. Contraction of muscles of posterior thigh, extending down the legs. Cramps in soles and calves. Weak ankles. Tenderness of soles; he had to walk on his knees.

General Modalities

Aggravation: From damp cold weather, slight touch, closed room, before storms, when thinking of his ailments, during daytime, sunrise to sunset, from heat, salt bathing, early in the morning, 3 to 4 am.

Amelioration: At the seashore, lying on the stomach, banding backwards, fresh air, being fanned, hard rubbing, sunset.

Remedy Relationships

Antidoted by: Ip.

Compatible: Sulph, especially when stool drives one out of bed.

Comparison

Burning sensation in kidneys: Berb-v, Med.

Surface cold to touch, yet cannot bear to be covered, throws off all coverings: Camph, Med, Sec.

Menses are acrid, dark, pitch-like, difficult to wash off: Mag-c, Med.

Easily offended at trifles: Ign, Med, Petr.

Dosage: High and higher potencies.

Repetition: Single dose is the rule.

Therapeutic Value: Asthma, Rheumatism, Sinusitis, Suppressed gonorrhoea.