• Tenesmus of rectum and bladder at the same time, not ameliorated by passing stool or urine
• Stool is hot, scanty, bloody, slimy and offensive
• Urine is hot, burning in drops
• Sweats after stool and urine
• A never get done feeling

Source: Mineral kingdom
Synonyms: Mercuric chloride, Corrosive sublimate
Family: Mercury
Prover: Dr Samuel Hahnemann
Duration of Action: 2 or 3 weeks
Miasmatic Background: Syphilis in the background
Thermal Relationship: Chilly patient

Introduction and History: Mercuric chloride is a powerful disinfectant and has much greater rapidity of action, causing violent effects. This salt leads all other remedies in tenesmus of rectum. The chief effects of the chloride element in this salt appears to be to intensify the mercurial action.

Preparation: It is available from a chemist’s shop. Triturations are prepared from the salt with sugar of milk, from which higher potencies are prepared.

Seat of Action (Pharmacodynamics): It mainly acts on the rectum, bladder, kidneys, eyes, throat, mouth and bones.

Characteristic Mental Symptoms (Psychology)

1. Delirium, stupor.
2. Patient is anxious and restless, rocks hard.
3. Stares at people who talk to him and does not understand them.
4. Difficult thinking. Disturbed speech.

Characteristic Physical Guiding Symptoms

Tenesmus: It has severe tenesmus of the rectum which is incessant and is not relived by stool.

Iritis: Iritis, of syphilitic type. It is muddy in colour, thick and neither contracts nor dilates.

Burning: Burning Soreness of eyes. Excessive photophobia and acrid
lachrymation.

Tenesmus: Tenesmus of bladder. Stabbing pain extending up the urethra into the bladder.

Urine: Urine is hot, burning, passed drop by drop, scanty, suppressed, bloody, with greenish discharge and is albuminous.

Gonorrhoea: Gonorrhoea with thick, greenish discharge.

Urging to stool: Continuous urging to stool and urine, a never ending feeling.

Stools: Stools are hot, bloody, slimy, offensive with cutting pains and shreds of mucous membrane.

Tonsillitis: Burning, sore, red, painful swelling of tonsils, covered with ulcers; causes difficulty in swallowing.

Important Characteristic Features

Dysentery: It is a very useful medicine for dysentery. In dysentery there is much violence, copious bleeding and great anxiety. Can scarcely leave the stool a second; great tenesmus of rectum and bladder. Constant urging to stool and urination. Great burning in rectum. It specially occurs from May to November.

General Modalities

Aggravation: After urination and stool, swallowing, at night, from cold, in autumn, hot days, cool nights, acids, from sex, from May to November.

Amelioration: While at rest, from motion.

Remedy Relationships

Antidotes: Calc-s is antidotal to Bichloride poisoning.

Comparison

Tenesmus not relieved by stool: Merc-c.

Tenesmus relived by stool: Nux-v.

Tenesmus of bladder: Canth, Lil-t, Merc-c.

Dosage: Low to 30c or higher.

Repetition: Can be repeated after every stool in dysentery. Single dose is the rule.

Therapeutic Value: Bright’s disease, Dysentery, Intussception, Iritis, Miscarriage, Pemphigus, Syphilis, Tenesmus.