Medorrhinum personality in homeopathy – comprehensive study

Dr Satheesh Kumar P K  

Gonorrheal virus.
Introduced by Dr. Swan.
All the proving and cures made with high potencies.

Adaptability:
Suited to the patients having constitutional effect of maltreated or suppressed gonorrhea.
For women with chronic pelvic disorder (ovaritis, salpingitis, pelvic cellulitis, fibroids, cysts and other morbid growths of the uterus and ovary) especially if symptoms points to malignancy with or without sycotic origin.
For persons suffering from gout, rheumatism, neuralgia and diseases of the spinal cord and it’s membranes – even organic lesions ending in paralysis which can be traced to a sycotic origin.
Children – pale, rachitic, dwarfed and stunted in growth. Mentally dull and weak.

Thermal reaction:
Hot patient with localised cold spot – cold breast, cold leg in sciatica, cold feeling in lumbar region.
Miasm:  Sycosis.
Diathesis:  Rheumatic and gouty diathesis.

Medorrhinum is a remedy that goes to extreme in its pathology in all the levels – physical, mental and intellectual. It seems incapable of maintaining a neutral stable state. For example,
1. Very talkative <———————–> Very timid, less communicative.
2. Weakness of memory <——————–> Very alert and very active
(Absent minded)                                      minded.
3. Every thing done in a great hurry <———–> desire to procrastinate.
4. Cruelty to animals <————-> Extreme fond of animals.
5. Happiness <———————–> Gloominess.
6. Introspective / self-accusative <—————-> Reproaches others.
7. Anticipate death with fear of death <—————> is sure that she is
worse but has no fear of death.                         Speaks calmly about it.
8. Fear of darkness <—————->But amelioration with onset of darkness.
9. Hot patient <—————-> great sensitive to draught of cold air and take cold easily.

Mind:
1.Great weakness of memory or absent minded. 
Cannot remember very familiar names has to ask name of her most
intimate friend. In conversation he would occasionally stop and on resuming make remark that he could not think what word he wanted to use. Weakness of memory where they must write every thing down on a piece of paper and they forget where they put this piece of paper.
Conversely this patient can have a period of being very alert, and active mindedness. During this period he remembers everything and
Understands quietly.

2. Procastinative personalities or desire to procastinate.  

Because of this procastinating nature medorrhinum has great excitement while doing things. He cannot do any thing with ease. He postpones every thing and then if fails he blame others (reproaches others)

3. Clairvoyance: 

Medorrhinum feels very clear in his mind as if he sees things, which normally cannot be seen. Feel matters more sensitively before they occur and generally correctly i.e. predict the future very correctly.

4. Time passes too slowly.

In clairvoyant state of clear perception thoughts happens so fast, they run to each other so fast that each minute seems half an hour (too many thoughts in too short time).
He is in a great hurry when doing anything. In such a hurry that she
gets fatigued. Anxiety when a time is set. (Kent) — he is very hurried to arrive on time. Because he has no clear perception of time.

5. Fear of misfortune.

(It may be due clairvoyance.)
Feeling as if some thing going to happen
” Prophesying disagreeable events ”

6. Anticipation ailments from.

When a time is set, he gets very tense.
Physical sign of anxiety
1. Restlessness of feet. Feet are in constant motion while sitting.
2. Constant biting of nails – they are great nail biters
3. Constant washing of hands.
7. Fear of darkness.  Irritable if the room is not light enough to make every thing distinct.
8. Introspective, self-accusative and remorseful.
9. Impairment of mental faculties — Delusion.
Sees faces wherever he turns his eyes.
He feels that somebody is walking behind him.
Hears whispering.
Sees large people in room, large rats running.
Felt a delicate hand soothing her head from front to back.
Sensation as if all life were unreal like a dream.
10. Cruelty to animal.
He ties up his dog and beat it savagely over a minor annoyance.
He enjoys inflicting pain on animals.
Another medorrhinum patient may be the exact opposite — that is very fond of animals.  The pet became the central focus of the patient’s life consuming incredible attention and energy and perhaps interfering the patient’s occupation.
11. Desperate feeling.
Feeling as if he had committed unpardonable sin and was going to hell.
Cannot speak without crying.
Tendency to suicide. (Gets up in night take his pistol but his wife prevents him.)
12. Over sensitive both mentally and physically.
Everything startles her. ” News coming to her seems to touch her heart before she hears it “.
A word or look of seeming harshness put her in despondency for hours.
13. Great selfishness.
14. Very impatient.
He is in a great hurry in doing anything. He cannot wait, he must do immediately what he feels.
15. Mental symptoms aggravated when thinking of them.
16. All these mental symptoms are most violent during night.

Physical characteristics
1. Aggravation from sunrise to sunset.
All brighter in evening. Aggravation early morning hours is a leading characteristic of all sycotic medicines.
2. Over sensitiveness.
Every thing startles her. Nervous sensibility especially to touch of garments or a lock of hair by anyone.
4. Desires -Salt, sweets, hard green fruits, ice, sour things, orange. Desire for a combination of salt, sweets, and fat — is a good indication for medorrhinum —    Vithoulkas.
4. Peculiarities of sleep.
a) Asleep but hears everything, answers questions as if awake.
b) Bites tip of tongue during sleep.
c) Sleeps at night on her knees with face forced in pillow or sleep on back with hands overhead.
d) Profuse perspiration face and neck during sleep.
e) Sleepy but cannot sleep.
f) If she lies on either side the contents of lower part of the chest and abdomen seems to press upon each other and cause discomfort.
5. Dreams.
Horrid — of ghost and dead people.
Painful.
Exhausting.
Dreams that she is drinking.
6. Intense thirst — Even dreams that she is drinking.
7. Hot patient but great sensitiveness to draught of air and takes cold easily. At the same time there is great desire to be fanned. < Sun, by warmth of bed, entering a warm room.
8. In a state of collapse want to be fanned all the time and craves fresh air. Skin cold and bathed with cold perspiration yet throws of covers.
9. Burning of hands and feet. Wants them uncovered and fanned.
10. Tongue – Thick brown coating or white coating at base.Coated thickly in morning with bad taste.
11. Teeth — Easily decaying teeth with serrated edges. Yellowness of teeth.
12.  Eye  — Sensation as if the upper eyelid has a cartilage in it.
13.  Can only pass stool by leaning very far back.
Very painful as if there is a lump on posterior surface of sphincter; so painful as to cause tears.
14. Asthma — only > by lying on face, and protruding tongue.
15. Pain in the heart region from apex to base.
16.   Breast and nipples are sore and sensitive to touch. Breast cold as ice to touch especially the nipples, rest of the body is warm.
17.  Relief with onset of discharge.     (Leucorrhea, postnasal discharge or even a urethral discharge.)
18. Great sensitivity of the soles of the feet. They are so tender that the patient cannot walk. He is not able to cross hot sand.
19. General amelioration at sea side and aggravation when thinking of the ailments.
20. Profuse perspiration on face and upper lip.
21. Urinary — Renal colic with sensation as of passing calculi.
Pain with great craving for ice.
Nocturnal enuresis — < over work, or play.
< Extremes of heat and cold.  When best-selected remedies fails.
22. Medorrhinum symptoms are characteristically ameliorated in the evening after the onset of darkness but medorrhinum has fear of darkness.

Dr Satheesh Kumar P K   BHMS,MD(Hom)
Medical Officer, Dept. of Homoeopathy, Govt. of Kerala

4 Comments

  1. MEDO,Gonorrheal rheumatism not treated properly leads to severe liver congestion even pus heart compression force weak as if dilated,urine highly colored smelly abdomen ascites tender,hot hand burn palms but esp see knee to soles area soles tender cannot walk on desert sand in summer this area itches.chill 11 am not confuse with nat mur malarial and in afternoon fever later sweat esp knee to sole.sleep head in pillow knees up for relief tender dropsical abdomen.mind as incipient insane hypersensitive believe none trembles with worry as if someone is after his blood.EW Berridge Lippe associate has left best guidance on this serious remedy last life saving tool.Rheumatism is esp byproduct we suppress vital force symptoms by other pathies, vital organs sympathetic parasympathetic balance disturbed.earlier stage rheumatism can be nicely tackled by phyto lyco rhustox guaicum thuja like remedies which work as drainers.even ready made mixtures likes of reckeweg adel etc work better than other pathies advertised.

  2. everyone desires to be happy works to increase pleasure and to decrease pain this type motivation defined by Greeks as HEDONISM,excess of everything is bad our grandmothers knew it child for proper development should laugh but not excessive also weep to know what pain is but not excessive.Medorrhinum is strongest tool with homeopaths for violent sycosis miasm plus syphilitic damage,not convinced modern homeopaths read George Vithoulkas pendulam Medo theory ten times will not be able to compete with grandmother theory,create confusion to carry on education business long back Barker said faulty education is main reason for homeopathy not getting its true place.

  3. when going minutely medo proving by ew berridge,some key clinical symptoms are worth for easy selection.yawns sleepy,chill fever alternate frequently,inner lip blisters,nausea after eating,pale gums yellow teeth,craves salt abscess liver,watery eyes,dull mind slow in answering with left face neuralgia.lack of proper oxidation rheumatic dithesis sycotic miasm soles sensitive.thuja is cool blooded in potency heats up body temperature normalises.medo potency will remove uncalled for heat production called pitta.thuja pulse is wiry.bengali olden times practical tuned homeopaths stress equalise your body temperature these two remedies may be required in alternate.sycoticmiasm makes one dull and drowsy due to excess of hydrogen ions.

  4. As per edward c whitmont,medo is king of IMPATIENT remedies,inner mind hurried to enjoy all worldly wishes,then excess of everything leads to also extreme exhaustion,fishy smell secretions,feeling of heat burning around heart area,ayurveda claims it pitta side effects.one cannot be a saint but sayings of saints to some extent has to be followed.vithoulkas terms it pendulam going to extremes where as merc pendulam operates in narrow range.when soles burn heatup think of medorrhinum to flush out toxins of excesses.Dalmia once said you think i am too big but i cannot digest dalmia biscuit.happy are those not very rich nor very poor plus positive waves thinking.

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