Magnesia muriatica
Made from magnesium chloride — the bitter salt of the bitter lakes, and the classical remedy of the liver-bound, milk-worse constipation.
The whole picture, in one breath
Think of a liver and a bowel bound together: obstinate constipation that milk makes worse, pain and fullness of the right side, the yellow-coated tongue and bitter taste of the hepatic state, and the books' great liver-salt of the milk-linked constipation. The liver-bound constipation remedy: that is Magnesia muriatica.
The substance, in plain words
Magnesium chloride is the bitter salt of the bitter lakes and the sea's own bitterness — a genuine saline of the old pharmacy, its magnesium the element the body runs on. The proving gave the salt the hepatic, milk-worse portrait.
The traditional picture Classical sources
The inner state
- Irritability and gloom. Cross, low-spirited, worse with the hepatic state and the evening.
- Anxiety about health. Worry over the constipation, the right side, the digestion.
- Dullness. Heavy mind with the congested liver.
The body
- Constipation worse milk. The keynote: obstinate constipation aggravated by milk — the books' great milk-worse hepatic remedy.
- Right-sided pain and fullness. Pain, fullness and oppression of the right hypochondrium — the liver's own locality.
- Yellow-coated tongue, bitter taste. The hepatic signature — the coated yellow tongue and the bitter mouth.
- Hepatic headaches. The books add the hepatic headaches of the same state.
- Worse milk and cold damp. Milk and wet weather thicken the constipation and the liver.
- Better for the bowels moving and warmth. The reluctant evacuation and warmth ease the right side.
Modalities (worse and better factors)
| Worse from ⬇ | Better from ⬇ |
|---|---|
| milk; cold damp weather; night; rich food. | the bowels moving; warmth; rest. |
Where it acts (organ affinities)
Liver and portal system, bowels (constipation), digestion, general vitality.
Where the classical picture comes from
The bitter salt's proving gave the liver-bound, milk-worse portrait; Mag mur became the classical remedy of the hepatic constipation — the bitter lakes' salt serving the liver and bowel it binds.
The substance in real medicine Pharmacology
What this section is: the pharmacology and toxicology of the source substance. It is not clinical evidence that a homeopathic preparation of it treats any condition. What controlled trials do and do not show is set out on the Evidence page.
Magnesium chloride is genuinely the sea's and the bitter lakes' salt — and its magnesium remains one of medicine's most useful elements, from the emergency infusion that stops eclamptic seizures to the everyday osmotic laxative. The salt's chemistry is real and current; the hepatic constipation it portrayed is modern hepatology's and gastroenterology's.
Look-alikes (how the classical authors told it apart)
| Remedy | Looks similar because… | Tells it apart because… |
|---|---|---|
| Magnesia carbonica | The magnesium pair | Mag carb is the milk-colicky diarrhea; Mag mur the milk-worse hepatic constipation. |
| Chelidonium majus | Liver, right side | Chelidonium shoots to the right scapula and is food-better; Mag mur is milk-worse and bound. |
| Natrum phosphoricum | The milk and acid pair | Nat-phos is the sour, creamy-tongued child; Mag mur the bitter, liver-bound adult. |
| Alumina | Constipation without urging | Alumina's is dry, urging-less and faint; Mag mur's hepatic and milk-worse. |