Cases from our Heritage
NATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOMOEOPATHY 1997 Mar / Apr VOL VI NO 2.
T K Kasiviswanathan
'Mag-m / Mag-m / Mag-m / Mag-m / Mag-m / Mag-m
Anxiety, excitability, indisposition to talk and weepiness are prominent symptoms of Magnesium-mur but other leading symptoms may help clinch the choice of this remedy.
Case 1
A very fat lady nervous, excitable, emotional and extremely peevish at times, was earlier responding to Nat-mur, then she developed severe and bursting headaches in her forehead associated with morning nausea. Pressing her head with her hands gave her some relief. There are three remedies listed under headache better by pressing with her hands, viz Carbo-an, Glon, and Mag-mur is present against the rubric morning nausea [KR p 505]. The patient was prescribed Mag-mur 6 thrice daily and when seen after ten days was completely relieved of both the complaints.
Dr T F Stewart
Case 2
A girl, aged 19 yrs, had a feverish cold followed by Rt frontal sinusitis with severe tenderness. There was yellow nasal discharge, loss of taste and smell, feeling of raw throat in the evening, marked thirst and poor appetite with extreme weakness. All these symptoms are found in Mag-mur and she was prescribed that remedy in 30th potency - 6 doses and 18 days last she reported that her nose had cleared but still had the yellow nasal discharge, worse in a stuffy atmosphere but better in fresh air. She was then given Mag-mur 6 twice a day for few days and the yellow discharge ceased.
Dr T F Stewart
Case 3
Mag-mur is also efficacious for women who have pimples before menses. Kent has indicated only one remedy for pimples on face before menses and that is Mag-mur
A married woman, 26 yr old, complained of pimples on her face. Worse in a warm room and worse before her menses. The Kent's repertory gives the following rubrics: Eruptions - pimples, menses before agg - Dulc, Mag-mur. Pimples, warm room agg - only Mag-mur
The patient was given Mag-mur 6 thrice daily which cured her complaints in a short time.
Dr T F Stewart
Case 4
Mrs S, aged 47, a very excitable - almost hysterical - woman suffered violent occipital headaches for many yrs, which occurred every few days and lasted for 3 days; never passed a week without one. Heat and pressure gave her some relief. Bowels were constipated with no desire for a week and had to take enema. The stools were hard and small resembling sheep-dung. Craves open air and cool air. Heat flushes. Menses absent lately. Oversensitive: extremely sensitive to touch over the entire body. Dr Kent who treated the patient uses this case to illustrate the method of using his Repertory taking the strange, rare and peculiar symptoms.
The remedies in which stool is round, hard balls resembling sheep-dung and also strong craving for open air are:- Alum, Bar-carb, Carb-an, Carb-sul, Caust, Graph, Kali-s, Mag-mur, Nat-m, Nat-s, Op, Sulph.
No desire for stool for many days:- Alum, Carb-an, Carb-s, Caust, Graph, Kali-s, Mag-m, Nat-m, Nat-s, Op, Sulph and many others not related to the case.
OCCIPITAL HEADACHE : Alum, Carb-an, Carb-s, Mag-mur, Nat-mur, Op, Sep, Sulph
- JARRING AGG: Carb-s, Mag-mur, Nat-mur, Sulph
- PRESSURE AMEL: Mag-mur, Nat-mur, Sulph
- HEAT AMEL: Mag-mur
TREATMENT: March 4th - Mag-mur 10M; on 9th April Mag-mur 10M and the last dose of 50 M was given on 20th May. There were no more headaches and the patient was in good health since then.
Dr J T Kent
