Mezereum
(Daphne mezereum · Spurge olive)
A remedy of fierce itching and thick crusts. In the materia medica, Mezereum is associated with intensely itchy, crusting eruptions, burning nerve pains and bone aches in someone very sensitive to cold air.
Source
The bark of the mezereon shrub, also called spurge olive or February daphne
Kingdom
Plant
Abbreviation
Mez.
Home acute kit
Usually prescribed by a homeopath
The classic picture
(a remedy is chosen when the whole picture fits the person, not from a single symptom)
Intolerable itching, worse in bed and from touch; thick, leathery crusts with moisture collecting underneath
Burning, shooting nerve pains, especially of the face and teeth
Aching in the long bones, worse at night
Very sensitive to cold air; low and indifferent, angry at trifles but soon sorry
Tends to feel better
Open air
Warmth near a stove for face pains
Tends to feel worse
Cold air and cold washing
Night, evening until midnight
Touch and motion
Warm food
How it compares
(remedies that are often confused with Mezereum)
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Graphites
(Graphites)
Graphites' eruptions ooze a sticky, honey-like fluid; Mezereum forms thick crusts with pus beneath and itches more fiercely.
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Hepar sulphuris
(Hepar sulphuris calcareum)
Both chilly and touchy with sore eruptions; Hepar is splinter-like and very irritable, Mezereum crusted and intensely itchy.
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Rhus toxicodendron
(Rhus toxicodendron)
Rhus eruptions are blistery and better for hot water; Mezereum is thickly crusted and worse for cold air.
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From the classic texts
“Skin symptoms, affections of bones, and neuralgias most important, especially about teeth and face. Bruised, weary feeling in joints, with drawing and stiffness.”
“Hypochondriacal and despondent; indifferent to everything and every one; angry at trifles and perfectly harmless things, but is soon sorry for it.”
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