Medorrhinum
The great sycotic nosode. Intense, passionate temperament. Anticipatory anxiety. Loves thunderstorms. Craves oranges, ice, salt, sweets, fat, alcohol. Better at the seaside. Chronic conditions from suppressed gonorrhea.
Source
Prepared from gonorrheal discharge, sterilised and potentised.
Available Potencies
Get Personalized Safety Info
Sign in and complete your health profile to see safety warnings personalized to your age, sex, medications, conditions, and allergies for this remedy.
Keynote Symptoms
Passionate, intense, hurried. Time passes too slowly. Craves oranges, ice, unripe fruit, salt, sweets, fat, alcohol. Amelioration at the seaside. Loves thunderstorms, lying on abdomen. Chronic discharges — thick, acrid. History of suppressed gonorrhea or family history of sycosis. Fiery red, raw rash in babies. Nail biting.
Mind & Emotional Symptoms
Intense, passionate, hurried — everything must be done at once. Anticipatory anxiety — fears something terrible will happen. Time passes too slowly. Concentration difficult. Weeping when telling symptoms. Sensation as if someone is behind them. Tendency to cruelty in children — hurts animals. Wild, out-of-control feeling. Clairvoyant — knows what others will say.
General Symptoms
Worse from sunrise to sunset, from thinking of complaints, from damp, from inland. Better at seaside, lying on abdomen, in evening, from damp weather (paradoxically some patients). Burning of hands and feet. Chronic conditions failing to respond to well-selected remedies. Sycotic miasm underlies.
Physical Symptoms
Head
Intense burning on vertex. Headache from sunlight. Tight band feeling. Hair unmanageable, dry.
Nose
Intense itching inside nose. Chronic sinusitis with thick yellow-green discharge. Hay fever.
Throat
Recurrent sore throats. Hawks constantly. Sensation of lump.
Stomach
Ravenous hunger soon after eating. Craves oranges, ice, unripe fruit, salt, sweets, alcohol, fat. Intense thirst.
Abdomen
Chronic colitis. Bloating. Irritable bowel.
Rectum
Diarrhea — urgent, gushing, involuntary. Oozing moisture from anus. Worms. Intense anal itching.
Urinary
Chronic urethritis. Nocturnal enuresis in children. Renal colic.
Male Genitalia
History of gonorrhea. Prostatitis. Condylomata.
Female Genitalia
Intense menstrual cramps, better from flow. Ovarian pain. Sterility. Chronic vaginitis. Profuse leucorrhea, acrid. Fibroids.
Respiratory
Asthma better lying on face or at seaside. Chronic cough.
Chest
Burning in chest. Sensation of a cavity.
Extremities
Burning of palms and soles — uncovers feet at night. Leg restlessness. Ankle weakness. Rheumatism.
Skin
Warts, condylomata. Coppery eruptions. Fiery red napkin rash in infants. Intense itching worse at night. Psoriasis.
Sleep & Dreams
Sleeps on abdomen (characteristic). Restless, unrefreshing sleep. Night sweats.
Modalities
Better From
Seaside, lying on abdomen, evening, damp weather, hard pressure, stretching, bending backward
Worse From
Sunrise to sunset, thinking of complaints, damp inland, closed rooms, thunderstorms (some), during menses, urination
Constitutional Type
Intense, passionate, hurried individuals. Often fair-haired with pale complexion. Children who are wild, cruel to animals, intense. Sycotic family history (warts, gonorrhea, ovarian cysts, fibroids, heart disease).
Clinical Indications
Asthma, chronic sinusitis, condylomata, warts, ovarian cysts, fibroids, enuresis, psoriasis, chronic discharges, sterility, ADHD-like behavior in children
Comparative Materia Medica
Thuja is the chronic sycotic vegetable remedy — Medorrhinum is the nosode that deepens Thuja. Natrum sulphuricum also has sycotic symptoms but more hepatic involvement. Pulsatilla shares changeability but is milder and chilly.
Safety Information
Ipecacuanha, Nux vomica, Thuja.
As a nosode prepared from biological material, there is no material substance remaining in potencies above 12C. Safe in all potentised forms. Never used below 200C.
Find the Right Remedy
Not sure if Medorrhinum is the best match? Our Remedy Finder can help you compare remedies based on your specific symptoms, modalities, and constitutional type.