Mercurius Corrosivus

Common Name: Corrosive Sublimate 

Causes & Symptoms for Mercurius Corrosivus

• Mercurius Corrosivus is chief remedy for mouth ulcers and pyorrhea. Teeth loose with spongy and swollen gums. Tongue is swollen and inflammed with profuse salivation. Salty and bitter taste in mouth.
• Mercurius Corrosivus is also useful in throat affections. 
• Uvula is inflammed and swollen with difficulty in swallowing. Rapidly spreading ulcers with burning pain. All the glands of the throat are swollen. Worse by external pressure. 
• Ulcers are deep and spread very rapidly are well relieved by it.
• Mercurius Corrosivus is also indicated in dysentry and urinary troubles. 
• It is useful in dysentry occuring mostly during summer. Stools are copious, bleeding, slimy containing streaks of mucus membrane. Stools are very offensive with frequent evacuation.
• Mercurius Corrosivus also helps in urinary trouble with tenesmus of bladder with burning in urethra. Urine is hot, burning, scanty or suppressed. Urine is voided drop by drop with great pain in urethra extending to up in to the bladder.
• Mercurius Corrosivus is useful in Diarrhoea which is yellow, green, bilious, bloody along with membranous shreds of faeces with mucus and dark clotted blood, which is not relieved by the stool.
• Burning in rectum and anus during stool is well relieved by Mercurius Corrosivus.
• Painful bloody discharges, with vomiting of stringy mucus, green bitter substances like coffee-grounds, coagulated blood or of bile is relieved  by Mercurius Corrosivus.

Head

Delirium, stupor. 

There is Frontal pain, congestion of head with burning in cheeks.

Eyes

It relieves Pain behind eyeballs. 

Mercurius Corrosivus is useful in Excessive photophobia and acrid lachrymation. 

It also helps in Iritis, ordinary or syphilitic, relieves Pain severe at night which is burning, shooting, tearing.  

It relieves Severe burning and Soreness of the eyes.

Nose

Mercurius Corrosivus is useful in Excessive coryza with perforation of septum nasi. 

It relieevs Rawness and smarting in nostrils. 

Post-nasal swelling, mucous membrane dry, red, and covered with bloody mucus is well checked by Mercurius Corrosivus.

Ears

It is indicated in complaint of Violent pulsations, Fetid pus from the ears.

Mouth

Teeth loose, Gums purple, swollen, and spongy, Tongue swollen and inflamed indicates Mercurius Corrosivus. 

It is useful in complaint of excessive Salivation, Pyorrhea, Ptyalism, Taste salty and bitter.

Throat

Throat is Red, swollen, painful, intensely inflamed, Uvula swollen. 

Swallowing painful is relieved by it. 

Most pain in post-nasal with sharp pains to ears. 

It relieves Burning pain, with great swelling; worse, slight external pressure. 

All glands about thorax swollen.

Stomach

Incessant, green, bilious vomiting is checked by Mercurius Corrosivus. 

Epigastrium very sensitive.