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(Epsom Salt)
General
The skin, URINARY, and female symptoms are most marked. The purgative
action of Sulphate of Magnesia is not a quality of the drug, but
a quality of its physical state, which renders its absorption
impossible. The properties inherent in the substance itself can
only be discovered by attenuation. (Percy Wilde.)
Head.
Apprehensive; vertigo; head heavy during menses. Eyes burn, noises
in ears.
Stomach.
Frequent eructations, tasting like bad eggs. Rising of water in
mouth.
Urinary Organs.
Stitches and burning the orifice of the urethra after urinating.
Stream intermits and dribbles. The urine passed in the morning
copious, bright yellow, soon becomes turbid, and deposits a copious
red sediment. The urine is greenish as passed; is of a clear color,
and in a large quantity. Diabetes. [PHOS-AC.; LACT-AC.; ARA. BROM.]
Female.
Thick leucorrhoea, as profuse as the menses, with weary pain in
the small of the back and thighs, on moving about. Some blood
from the vagina between the menses. Menstruation returned after
fourteen days; the discharge was thick, black, and profuse. Menses
too early, intermit.
Back.
Bruised and ulcerative pain between the shoulders, with a feeling
as of a lump as large as the fist, on which account she could
not lie upon her back or side; relieved by rubbing. Violent pain
in the small of the back, as if bruised, and as before menstruation.
Extremities.
The left arm and foot fall asleep in bed, in the morning after
waking.
Skin.
Small pimples over the whole body, that itch violently. Suppressed
itch. (SULPH.) Crawling in the tips of the fingers of the left
hand; better on rubbing. WARTS. Erysipelas (applied locally as
a saturated solution). Dropsy (physiological doses).
Fever.
Chill from 9 to 10 a.m. Shuddering in back; heat in one part and
chill in another.
Relationship.
It is claimed that the addition of a small amount of MAGNES. SULPH.
to the usual hypodermic of Morphine increases the value of the
hypodermic from 50 to 100%.
Dose.
Magnes. Sulph. is of diagnostic and therapeutic value in Gallstone
colic. From 2 to 4 teaspoonfuls in glass hot water taken at onset
of a colicky attack may abort or stop the colic.
Epsom salts is one of the most active saline cathartics, operating
with little pain or nausea, especially if pure. It has but little
if any effect on intestinal peristalsis, its action causing a
rush of fluid into the intestine, which by producing a distention
of the bowel produces evacuation. It causes little or no irritation
in the intestine. In common with the other salines, it is the
classical evacuant to be employed in connection with mercurials
and anthelmintics and in cases of poisoning. Epsom salt usually
acts within from one to two hours, more quickly if taken in hot
water and in the morning before breakfast. The ordinary dose as
a mild laxative is a heaping teaspoonful; as a cathartic, two
to four teaspoonfuls. The taste may be improved, if necessary,
by the addition of a little lemon juice and sugar.
Besides its chief use as a saline cathartic, magnesium sulphate
is used to a considerable extent externally in saturated solution
as an antiphlogistic and antipruritic in erysipelas, ivy poisoning,
cellulitis and other local inflammations. Use on compresses saturated
with solution.
The pure salt to the third potency. Locally 1:4 in water in septic
conditions, erysipelas, orchitis, boils, etc.
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