Comparison
Mag-c + Mag-m. + Mag-p. + Mag-s.
[Neil MacKillop]
Used in practice: indicates in a general way a thin, emaciated,
sensitive, almost neurotic individual, worn out, exhausted; in other words =
done. This in a general way
is the make - up of the Mg person.
Mag-c. the worn out, done appearance
predominates;
Mag-c. was the first of the Mg salts proved by H.
Mag-c.: has violent thirst but more often in the
evening and at night.
Mag-m. there is a slow, sluggishness of
everything, the liver and the circulation in general. Symptoms of
gastrointestinal tract.
Mag-m.: different picture. Stool hard and knotty,
difficult to pass or they may be crumbly at the anus or covered with blood and
mucus. Feces may accumulate to such
an extent as to cause obstruction. In Mag-c.
there is an absence of tenesmus but in Mag-m. there is violent tenesmus
with burning and smarting at the anus.
Mag-m.: has dryness of the mouth at night, but has
little or no thirst with the dryness but in this drug we get a peculiar thirst
which comes on with intensity at 3 h.
In considering the female symptoms we find under Mag-c.
- menses delayed, scanty, but more profuse at night than by day; discharge dark
like pitch. any pain present
during the menses is ameliorated by pressure on the abdomen and by
stooping. In Mag-m. we find hysteria with marked globus and diarrhea. In Mag-p. pain precedes
the flow with great weakness. In Mag-s. the
characteristic feature is the thick dark, often black flow.
Mag-p. thinness, the emaciation etc., the neurotic
characteristics predominate;.
Mag-p.: stool thick, brown and watery, changing color from brown to almost white and latterly covered with
blood. May be spasmodic retention of urine during stool with desire to urinate
on standing erect (dysentery in later stages) when there is a catarrhal
condition of the bowels left as a sequel. In the acute stages of dysentery
Nat-s comes
in with the liquid stool intermixed with blood and here the blood
predominates in the stool.
Mag-s.: diarrhea with
great thirst. Key-symptom: thirst. When a chill is present it is followed by
thirst though sometimes this thirst marks the beginning of the chill.
Thirst < in the early morning, > after breakfast, though it may be
present in the evening as well (during menses). LOSS of appetite with this
thirst. The very thought
of food seems to upset at times and aversion to meat.
Child: puny, sickly due to defective nutrition, the reason for this
being hard to discover. It may be because it refuses to take milk which is the
natural food of childhood,
or if persuaded to take it, colicky pains come on in the pit of the
stomach and the milk is passed undigested. Colicky pains forcing the child to
draw its legs up, very
similar to that of Coloc.
The child is one of lax fiber, obviously of a
nervous type and decidedly anxious and irritable, but above all sour. A
definite craving for meat is present. In the stools often worms are found.
Stools children as in adults: green and slimy, like the scum of a frog
pond. Sometimes it looks as if there were lumps of tallow floating in the
stool. Indication for Mg.
DD.: Cham. a yellowish - green stool, like chopped eggs.
Calc. rejection of milk, and sweating of the forehead and the feet and distented abdomen. The adult is "the acid dyspeptic
type". Starchy foods seem to upset him (potatoes). Cabbage and in general,
all starchy foods seem to produce a warmth which seems to increase in
intensity: anxious and warm in the whole body (head) eating
warm food.
H.: This is the first important rubric, he lays great stress on it so we
find in the adult what has been called acid dyspepsia predominates as a
symptom; acid risings into the mouth often with vertigo, nausea, retching and
even vomiting. The stomach feels sore and pressure elicits hypersensitiveness,
common to all Magnesias. There is great rumbling: of
gas in the abdomen and there is loss of tone in the abdominal muscles, with a
lack of firmness in the underlying viscera with splashing on percussion with
frequent passage of frothy liquid stools which smell sour. In fact, in
the child everything about its make - up is sour: breath/catarrh (result of
errors of diet)/perspiration.
When there is abdominal pain it takes the form of colic and griping
which is > bending forward.
The Effect of the Mg Salts on the Nervous System
Mag-c.: the nerves come in for special attention;
as regards the face we find a tearing in the left zygoma
at night. It forces here to sit up in bed, but even that is not enough.
She gets out of bed and rushes from room to room holding the painful
side and wagging the head, and whenever she remains quiet back it comes in its
full intensity.
When it comes to toothache we find a similar state of affairs, - pain
radiating to the temple and driving the patient out of bed.
Mag-m: heaviness in the head with reeling and the
feeling almost of loss of consciousness. Sometimes the headache is so intense
that it feels as if the head would burst, somewhat > hard pressure from both
hands. Wrapping up the head also seems to help a neuralgic headache round the
eyes < for motion and < for fresh air, but > for pressure. This type
of headache is often associated with liver symptoms. predominating to the
hepatic region - pressing pain in the liver; seems to be hard and enlarged.
Mag-p.: the pains are more of a nervous nature.
the abdominal pains are of a more general hypersensitive nature more in the
nature of a colic generally radiating from the navel, ameliorated by bending
double or from deep pressure of the hands and by hot applications and often
associated with a watery diarrhoea.
Mental and Emotional Symptoms
Mag-c.: definite uneasiness together with a
decided fear (manifested in various ways from a general trembling of the hands
to a generalized trembling. All day this fear, almost amounting to anguish, is
apparent). There is no desire to talk for talking, or any mental exertion
whatsoever, simply makes the condition <. The trembling and fear seem to
pass off on going to bed at night.
Mag-m.: not the same turmoil of mind, there is the
desire for solitude with the disinclination to talk. Here also mental exertion
seems to tire easily and although there is anxiety this is relieved in the open
air. But there is a softness about this drug that does not appear in the carbonate,
shown by a tearful outlook.
Mag-p.: the mind dwells more on the actual pain
than the other Mg salts. One cannot lead him into any other train of thought. The
pain is there and the patient keeps lamenting that it is still there and
nothing seems to shift it. All sorts of nerve pains are found, intercostal, neuralgia, sciatica, tic douloureux.
It has proved an excellent remedy in writer's cramp and in shingles. A constant
state of nerve tension and the paroxysms of pain are so sudden that he almost
lies waiting for them. After they seem to come in waves, cutting or boring into
the body and changing from one place to another to such a degree as to make the
poor sufferer sob and even scream out and lament against them.
Mag-p.: difficulty in concentrating. Everything
has got to be noted down. mental effort also tires and if a student there is
marked disinclination to settle down to studying, Mag-p.:
patient can never be a "swot" (= Streber)
until he has had a few doses of Mag-p. If he should
be forced to make an effort with the shadow of an examination coming nearer and
nearer to him his mind may suddenly seem to be clearer but when he begins to
study he has great difficulty in warding of that insidious feeling of
drowsiness which seems to overcome him.
Mag-s.: As in all magnesias
there is apprehension with general uneasiness in fact it may lead almost to
complete prostration till she is almost beside herself with anxiety.
All kinds of figments of the imagination are present even to believing
that she sees persons who are not there. Everything somehow seems to be wrong.
No use trying to calm her for she only flies into a passion, then tends to pass
into a state of anxious weeping. Of the use of this drug in the treatment of
diabetes there can be no doubt and this can probably be traced to its diuretic
action with great thirst which tends to pass of after breakfast. A dislike to
meat, so differing from Mag-c.
Comparison of the Outstanding Symptoms of the Mg Salts
As it is only in details that we get any difference between the Mg salts
we must make Mag-c. the central study and compare the
symptoms of the others with it and in a paper like this only the outstanding
symptoms can possibly be given.
[Clarke]
One leading note is sensitiveness, mental and bodily, sensitive to touch,
sensitive to air. To be considered in the treatment of the effects of shock,
blows or mental disorders.
A characteristic symptom often found in children as well as adults, is
that the least touch causes starting. Often this is to be found in children with
dilated stomachs, whose condition has been brought about by unhygienic
conditions and improper feeding. These are children of lax fire, who smell sour
and are sour, children of a highly nervous temperament and who are very
irritable whose faces are pale and of an earthy color,
red # pale. Often toothache (after eating, after a bus journey, greatest
intensity at night). Teeth have been late in erupting, often with herpetic
eruptions round the lower point of the mouth. “As if teeth too long”, with a
sour bitter taste in the saliva with a dry mouth.
[Farrington]
Almost all the symptoms of Mag-c., seem to
centre around the gastro - intestinal organs and that all other symptoms depend
upon this action more or less.
Coloc.: no green, slimy stool
Rheum.: stool sour, slimy and frothy, followed by colic
Child Cham.: cries for different things and rejects its favorite toys.
Sleep in Mag-c. is never refreshing. In child
with the strong craving for meat, look for a tubercular family history. In the
female during pregnancy there is toothache (Ratan.)
and a grand indication in this remedy is that the flow of the menses is only at
night (Am-m.), or lying down and ceases when walking.
[Clarke]
"As if white of egg dried on the face”. “As if teeth are too long”.
Throat as if scraped by an awn. As if rectum pricked by needles. Back as if
broken". Pain in the right deltoid (Sang.) may be present. Like some other
drugs Mag-c. has a periodicity every 2ndnd day and
every 3 weeks. In Mag-m. periodic every 6 weeks. As
regards the eye symptoms there is nothing of very great importance though cures
have been reported in cataract, but in Mag-m. there
is a green halo round the candle in the evening. In Mag-p.,
however, eye symptoms are more marked (horizontal double vision, rainbow colors, nystagmus and ptosis, photophobia). In Mag-s.
pain in the eyes “As if protruding from the orbits when looking aside”.
In Mag-m.: is a slow sluggishness of
everything. It is more often indicated in (hysterical) women than the
carbonate, < after dinner; rises from the table suffering from nausea. Their
digestion has slowed up. The liver is sluggish and even enlarged and there are
pains in the liver, < for touch and lying on the r. side. After dinner too
in addition to the nausea, there are noisy eructations
with a feeling of faintness, or with a headache which has the sensation of
boiling water in the head and has to be relieved by pressure of the hands
against the temples. Globus is also present and is
relieved by eructation which can be easily understood when one considers the
laxness and distention of the stomach. We must also
expect with the liver disturbance and with the interference with the portal
circulation that the lower extremities should suffer. A vicious circle is set
up involving the heart with consequent dysponea and
oedema of the legs and feet. We find this liver condition also present in
rickety children. We find too as an irritating symptom, palpitation of the
heart, < when the patient is quiet and in this it resembles Gels. very
closely and differs from Digitalis. There are also uterine symptoms of a
spasmodic nature with pitch - like menses with pain in the back. The Mg salts
have a distinct effect on the nervous system. Thus we find that although all
the Mg salts affect the intestinal track and the nervous system the carbonate
or phosphate are indicated in repeated attacks of neuralgia. In people of lax,
debilitated fiber, Mag-m.
takes its place in hysteria. The stools in Mag-mur
are crumbly as if burnt. A symptom that has often proved useful in the Mag-m.: during dinner or after, the mouth fills with water
and heat mounts up to the face. This by the way, is one of the symptoms of
dysentery, not in the acute stages, but much later when one has been left with
a certain degree of colitis due probably to the fact that one, or more, small
portions of the lower bowels have been stripped of their endothelial lining so
the Mg salts ought to prove useful in the treatment of dysentery.
Farrington: Mag-p.: the fact that the Magnesias acted as tonics to the nervous system lead Schüssler to Mag-p. as a nerve
tonic and in his tissue remedies we get an excellent proving of this remedy. Wheeler
in his recent book suggests that the use of Bell. in the relief of paroxysmal
pains is probably due to the Mag-p. contained in it
(paroxysms/shooting/lightning - like cramps paralysis in other words a leader
in this remedy is the paroxysmal character of the pains < at night/cold
air/cold water/touch/motion; >: warmth; She seems to be continually talking
to others about her pains. Here we get the brain fag. The schoolboy gets so
easily tired that he cannot study. For the type of headache, called the nervous
headache, it is often indicated. The ptosis observed
in this remedy is not due to any organic trouble, but simply due to tired
nerve. The nervous spasms > by heat. It must never be forgotten in the
hiccough which comes at a late stage of carcinoma, or for that matter hiccough,
no matter what the cause and also in spasmodic retention of urine which is
loaded with phosphates while the urine of Mag-m. is
highly colored and that of the Mag-c.
pale green with a dense white sediment/nocturnal enuresis, and the Mag-s. also pale green/nocturnal enuresis. The gastric pain
in the phosphate is relieved by drinking hot water and this symptom does not
appear in any of the other Magnesias. The phosphate
patient does not like cold water (morning) as it sets up colic and this colic
is of the same character as all the other pains in the phosphate - cutting,
drawing, cramping, in fact the Mag-p. does not like
the cold at all and often brushing the teeth with cold water is intolerable. Royal
called Mag-p. his homoeopathic opiate.
Now let us consider the symptoms of the sulphate, so well known to the
old school as "Epsom Salts". An advertisement as to their virtues
reads thus: "They relieve acidity and sweeten a sour stomach at once. The
stomach starts digesting food right away and finishes its work with perfect
ease. You feel nothing - no heartburn, no flatulence, not a twinge of your old
stomach pain.
Try them to - day". How does it differ from the other Magnesias? It has got the softness and the lack of tone of
the others with the tearfulness, the uneasiness, the pains in the malar bones the hypersensitiveness, the urinary symptoms,
but it differs from the carbonate in its dislike for meat. In the sulphate
there is more weeping, resembling to a certain extent that of Puls., foreboding anxiety too is prominent; melancholy and
apprehension with, as mentioned before, the tendency to fly into a passion and
to take everything in bad part. A peculiar symptom is stinging in the fauces more between than during acts of deglutition and in
this it closely resembles Ign. throat symptoms > swallowing solids and <
for liquids and in this Ign. resembles Mag-p., whose
throat symptoms are < for swallowing fluids. While Mag-s.
> walking, Mag-c. even a short walk seems to tire.
Both have lassitude - Mag-c. affects the feet mostly
when seated, while in Mag-s. there is more tendency
to stagger and with the lassitude there is a peculiar sick feeling with dry
warmth of the skin and intense thirst.
General:
Mag-c. shows the effects of mental distress,
vexation and fits of passion; the results of injudicious feeding and the bad
effects of milk; and above all the green frothy stools.
Mag-m. has the ailments arising from a sluggish
liver and a sluggish circulation with the stools dry and knotty.
Mag-p. intensity of nerve involvement shows
adverse reactions to cold winds, cold bathing, standing in cold water, working
with cold things and amelioration from warmth
Mag-s. produces marked urinary symptoms + intense
thirst and loss of appetite.
[Barbara Levin Krupp]
Based on the works of Rajan Sankaran, David Warkentin, Val Ohanian, Eric Sommermann, and Jan
Scholten.
Magnesium wants to be a salt, it is best in relationships. It needs to
bond and does it easily. There is the sense that without bonding they won’t
survive. There is the feeling
of being bereft. This mineral is full of cares and worries about not
getting the love it needs. These people often feel that something critical is
missing from them.
On the physical level, Mg is a key element in cardiac functioning:
affects blood pressure, arrhythmia and heart disease. There is also a spasmodic
element to Magnesium.
There are Magnesium shortages in women at the time of hormonal changes
and in men at times of great physical stress. People who need Mag tend to be averse to leafy, green vegetables. Tend to
be malnourished on some level, as a result they have problems with absorption,
of taking in what they need. All Magnesiums have hot
feet like Sulphur,
> uncovered.
Magnesiums have abandonment issues:
Mag-c. sensitive to parents;
Mag-m. sensitive to friends;
Mag-p. gets irritable. All are sensitive to
fighting and confrontation.
Mag-s. gets insulted;
Mag-c.: Tubercular miasm STOMACH AFFINITY
Mag-c. is the child.
Relates most directly to absorption of nutrients. It is known as “the
orphan’s remedy”. The basic feeling is “nobody loves me” and “I’m not going to
make it, have to worry about everything, have to look out for myself because
there is no one to look out for/after me”. Sense of blame comes up in this
state. Cannot tolerate confrontation. can become mediators as adults, but the
flip side is they can become explosive. Can look hard and sour or soft and
needy.
Failure to thrive infants; cannot absorb nutrients or milk. This remedy
has its major affinity with digestive issues, stomach problems.
Mental/emotional. Feeling of not getting the love they need to survive. Hate
quarrels and confrontation; will do anything to keep the peace. Very anxious;
many worries. Hates violence and aggression yet can be violent and have a
temper. Very susceptible to noise.
Generals: Susceptible to upper respiratory illness. Tissues flabby; feel
weak in muscles. Tends to cramping and spasms. Sour in general: sweat/stool. <:
3 h./hormones/cold; Toothache before menses. > pressure/lying down. <
open air. Averse to fruit + vegetables.
Head: Headaches; face aches; better from pressure. Trigeminal neuralgia.
Stomach (main system involved); Stomach pain, cramping. Slow digestion.
Constipation/diarrhea. Irritable bowel. < milk.
Averse to or crave green vegetables. Dislikes fruit. Craves bread and
farinaceous food.
Female organs: KEYNOTE: menses, bleed at night, not during day.
Sleep: < 3 h., up for a couple of hours, wakes up tired.
Mag-m. LIVER AFFINITY
Mag-m. more the teen-age stage of life.
Mental/emotional: Feeling of being friendless; loneliness related to
this. Dreams of being lost in the woods: nobody loves me, I am all alone in the
world. In a divorce situation, the fighting before the divorce < than the
divorce itself. Anxiety at night; restless and hard time falling asleep.
Depression. Adults can appear quiet, sad, passive.
Because it is a liver remedy, looks prematurely old and worn out (Lyc). Delusion friendless; wither away.
Generals: Cold remedy < cold. > open air. < lying down. <
waking up, tired and hung over feeling.
Head: Many headaches, long-lasting. > hard pressure/lemon water (fits
with liver affinity. lemon cleans out system).
Skin: Dry skin. Many wrinkles, deep furrows.
Stomach/abdomen: Liver problems; right-sided pain. Gallstone, colic. Gas
and bloating
Rectum: Constipation
Stool: hard/dry.. Food cravings. desires fruit; craves vegetables.
Reproduction: painful periods; sick before menses; irregular. uterus
infection with retention of urine.
Sleep: Restless. Wakes with a jolt at 3 h. Unrefreshed,
hung over feeling.
Mag-p. NERVOUS SYSTEM AFFINITY
Mental/emotional. Edgy, sensitive, irritable. Sensitive to feeling
abandoned and deprived. Fears similar to Phos.:
thunderstorms, darkness and abandoned.
Generals: > heat and pressure (wrapped in a blanket and
hugged)/rubbed and massaged. Right-sided.
Head: Headaches and neuralgias with shooting pain. Right-sided pain,
> heat and pressure. Major remedy for tooth pain.
Stomach/abdomen. KEY – cramping,
colic, intense pain, > pressure and bending over.
Reproductive organs: Big PMS remedy; high reactivity and weepiness at
time of menses. Menses painful, > heat and pressure.
Extremities: Sciatica, right-sided; > heat and pressure; < cold. Cramping
in hands and feet; writer’s cramps – > heat and pressure.
Mag-s. SKIN, MUSCLE AFFINITY
Philosophical and intellectual, lofty pursuits. Feeling of being
abandoned and feeling of entitlement. Can be angry at parents for not
supporting them through adulthood.
Most explosive of Magnesium salts (except for Mag-n.
and Mag-cyan). Magnesium salts. Anxiety is focused on
health – like Ars. Tends to be hot like Sulphur.
Mental/emotional. Feeling abandoned. Sense of entitlement. Wants to be
independent yet feels entitled to be cared for. Anxiety about health. Can be
explosive if needs
are not met. Will be giving to others, but angry if they don’t get
something back.
Generals: Oversensitive to pain. > open air, likes to walk in the
open air. Not as lazy as Sulph.
Stomach/abdomen: Extremely thirsty (most thirsty of all Magnesium
salts). Aversion to fat, meat; natural vegetarians.
Rectum: Diarrhea after anger. Stools smell
sour, not aware of sour smells like Sulph. Problems
with milk: pains and cramps from drinking milk.
Reproductive: Everything < with menses. Achy and headache with
period.
Sleep: Wakes up in the middle of the night with heart palpitations.
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