Merc, Mercurius Solubilis

• Mercurius solubilis (Mercury) is a Homeopathic Remedy. It is an inorganic chemical preparation rather than a plant-derived substance, so it has no botanical family. It is traditionally associated with mercuric ammonium compounds, particularly ammoniated mercury, although the exact composition of historical Mercurius solubilis Hahnemanni preparations can vary. Its chemistry involves mercury (Hg), ammonia-derived groups and chloride, depending on the preparation. Mercury compounds are highly toxic and can cause serious neurological and renal damage.

• Merc is a Sehgal Remedy in Sehgal Method

Merc in brief

• Merc is a Chronic/ Miasmatic remedy Polycrest.
• Main regions are Glandular tissues, Mucous membranes, Bones and Joints.
• It means the whole body except the hollow organs (digestive, respiratory, kidney and Urinary tracts).
• Merc is Catarrhal / Hemorrhagic, not dry.
• He is not stable. Many Aggs which makes him completely confused and inflamed.
• Merc is smelly and disgusting and full of Disgusts.
• Mostly it is prescribed in acute conditions. Since its chronic administration is not an easy task.
• By using miasmatic theory of viruses, more Mercs can be discovered.

Acute Merc

• Infectious condition where the patient is extremely irritable, hot and bitter.
• Offensiveness is one of the diagnostic points.
• The basic point is to recognize your own feelings. You feel that the patient's condition is serious and you should take a serious action such as inject able antibiotics and serum therapy.

Chronic Merc

• Along with Bell, is the most widely used drug for viral miasms.
• Merc is the main drug for HSV-2. Consider this famous quote about the Merc. "He is aware of his genital infection, and this has made him very Agitated/ Irritable."
• Many aggravations: Merc is always in a bad mood and does not get better under any circumstances.

General

• Feeling of burning and acidity (Ars vs. Merc)
• Catarrhal condition:
  • Green (Ars, Puls) (Merc vs. Puls), (Ars ₳ Merc)
  • White, Yellow, Salty (Sep) (Merc vs. Sep)
• Bleeding / Bloody discharge
• Purulent processes (Hep) such as inflammation and purulent abscess of glands, fistula (Hep ₳ Merc)
• Ulcers, swelling and inflammation of mucous membranes
• Extreme physical irritability, worse with tight clothing

Main regions

• Bones / Teeth: Osteomyelitis, Tenderness / Necrosis / Exostosis
• Glands (Calc, Bar-c, Puls, Sil)
• Joints (Bry, Colch, Rhus-t, Sul)
• Eyes, ears, mouth and throat
• Gallbladder
• Genitalia
• Skin

Convulsive movements

• Tremors, Tics,, Trembling runs through the remedy.
• Epileptiform fits, twitching and disorderly motions
• Incoordinate angular movements of the hands and feet.
• Jerking, twitching and trembling + Extreme restlessness
• Movements of the tongue are disordered and the child cannot talk.
• Involuntary motions which can be momentarily controlled by volition.
• So it is useful in JE, CJD, STLE and KRU miasms

Peculiar

• Shooting / Radiating pain in the teeth
• Teeth printing on the tongue
• Sore throat that radiates to the ear.
• Sialorrhea in sleep

Ulcer remedies

• Deep, deformed and disgusting with a very infectious and dirty appearance,
• Accompanied by a pungent and putrid smell and a lot of purulent and bloody secretions.
• Corrosive /Discharging/ Indurated Gangrenous wound which ends in Cellulitis / Abscess (Merc-c ₳ Merc)
  • Merc-c is a better remedy for the Superficial / Phagedenic ulcer but Merc is more useful in Purulent wounds
• So it is suggested for HSV-1, HSV-2 and MTB.

Mentality

• Merc is nervous and irritable, but compared to Nux-v, he is less bully and aggressive because he is dominated by weakness. (Merc ₳ Nux-v)
• He is frustrated and will not be satisfied under any circumstances
• His dominant emotion in chronic conditions is Disgust. Interestingly, you also do not like this patient. Even when his problems are purely physical.
• Anarchism: Reluctance to have a normal relationship is one of his moral characteristics. He himself has come to the conclusion that he is no longer able to manage the affairs that he was able to handle in the past. From now on, his behavior often becomes destructive. The anarchist, chaotic and irritable character was typical of a chronic Merc.

• Hysteric Depression + Wants to kil
  • MIND - KILL; desire to - hysterical sadness, with
  • MIND - KILL; desire to - husband; impulse to kill her beloved - menses agg.; during
  • MIND - KILL; desire to - husband; impulse to kill her beloved - razor; therefore implores him to hide his \
  • MIND - KILL; desire to - hysterical sadness, with
  • MIND - KILL; desire to - offense; sudden impulse to kill for a slight Hep, Nux-v

Sinusitis

Catarrhal	Catarrhal Frontal /Maxillary sinusitis Thick discharge that does not come down and the patient feels should swallow it	NOSE - CATARRH - extending to - Frontal sinuses NOSE - SINUSES; complaints of - Frontal sinuses FACE - PAIN - Sinuses - Maxillary Diseases - SINUSITIS, infection, nose - catarrh, of sinuses - extending to, antrum : Berb, Kali-c, Kali-i, Phos, Spig
Offensive	Green, Foul-smelling and Burning purulent discharge
salivation	Sinusitis due Colds + sneezing + salivation
Bone caries	Inflammation of the nasal bones which ends in Nasal ulcers Touch sensitivity of head and nose (Hep ₳ Merc)
Many aggs	Outdoors Sleeping Eating, drinking Heat, Cold
Tearnig pain	Toothache and feeling of elongation Tearing pain and high heat in the head Unilateral / Press-like sinusitis headaches

Miasmatic points

• Causation in most cases of Merc, are an infection (Mental crises are less common)
• Merc is very useful in IBD
• Unfortunately, today's generation is very sensitive to herpes viruses, and today we know many diseases that are somehow related to these viruses.
• So be sure to give an anti miasmatic remedies in herpes infection. We should not wait for chronic changes after acute illness and it is better to prescribe antimiasmatic remedy as soon as possible.
• The mercury in the amalgam can push the person towards chronic disease and this poisoning cannot be solved with Merc and the person must be detoxified after measuring and ensuring the poisoning.

Famous Homeopaths

Allen

• Nocturnal bone pain
• Lymphadenopathy with or without pus
• If you decide to prescribe it in infection, the pus should be copious (Hep, Sil)
• Severe, debilitating sweating often accompanies problems
• Sweating without recovery (Aggravating the disease) (Nat-m, Psor, Verat)
• Severe weakness and tremors with minimal activity

S. K. Dubey

• Agg with lying on right
• He is gradually cooling with the onset of fever
• Pneumonia (Ant-t ₳ Merc) esp in Hepatization stage
• Dry and erosive coughs (two coughs) unlike Stann and Cupr which have three coughs.
• Sore feeling in breasts during period (Lac-c, Con)
• In infections conditions, it should not be prescribed with high potency.
• Merc is a good remedy for cold abscess, when the infection progresses slowly (Calc, Carb-v, Sil)
• Bad effects of diabetes (Merc ₳ Sul)
• Bad effects of insect bites

Remedy relations

• It is antidoted by three remedies: Aur, Nit-ac, Hep
• Inimical to Sil and should not be administered before or after it.
• It is good choice after effective Coloc
• Good remedy after Bell in inflammatory conditions.

Miasms

• HSV-2
• ADV