My understanding of Merc-sol
NATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOMOEOPATHY 2003 Jan / Feb VOL V NO 1.
Dr Rashmi Nagar
'Merc
Short Case I
Some years back, an eight year old boy came to me with
excessive salivation at night. Mother added that it left yellow stains on the
pillow. Rest of the history was not very contributory. There was F/h/o hare lip
and cleft palate.
Based on this syphilitic background and the characteristic
salivation, a few doses of Merc-sol 200 were given, which completely
cured his complaint within one week.
Case II
Another recent case is of a 10 year old boy with chronic
recurrent tonsillitis. He was advised surgery as allopathic Rx has not helped
him.
Chief Complaint: Recurrent tonsillitis
High Fever - 101 to 102oF
Cough < night with every attack
Appetite-N Thermals-N Bladder/ Bowels-N Sometimes soils undergarments
Past History cold, cough
Family History Mo - Thyroid
Personal History
Sleep-N. Dreams-N
Perspiration-N
FTND, Thermals-extremes of weather
All vaccines given
Mile stones = N
Mind: He is a quiet, obedient child, intelligent with
good school grades. He is very helpful to people and affectionate at home. Fears
water because of breathlessness due to respiratory affections. His hobbies are
cricket and other games.
His file was thick as he had undergone a battery of
investigations done under various paediatricians. All investigations were
normal.
O/E He had large tonsils with red throat. No fever, sinusitis
or chest congestion.
Various routine tonsillitis medicines came to my mind till
the mother said ‘Doctor he keeps washing his hands frequently, I don’t know
if it is psychological.’
This led me to the prescription of ‘Merc-sol’ as a
miasmatic antisyphillitic medicine.
He was given Agraphis-neutans 200 as he used to
breathe through the mouth and Merc-sol 200 one dose as miasmatic.
However his complaint of washing hands still remained. On
consulting Kent’s repertory, there are only 2 medicines for ‘washing hands
frequently’ under generalities - Syphilinum and Phosphorous.
Since the mother later said that he soils his undergarment,
probably he feels dirty and washes his hands often. One dose of Phos 200
was given.
4 days later, he did not have dirty garments and he did not
wash his hands all the time!
He is still under observation, but the initial result is very
encouraging.
Phosphorous is also mentioned under ‘anus wide open’and
it is complimentary to Merc.
My understanding of Merc-sol
Whatever the complain, but if we have indications of
a) syphilitic miasm/traits
b) night aggravation
c) extremes of weather <
d) chilly patient
e) mostly present with common c/o salivation, gingivitis, dysentery or
tonsillitis, Merc-sol surely helps.
