Understanding Magnesia carb.

 

Dr. Claudio C. Araujo M.D. F.F.Hom. (Lon.) et al.

The Mag-c. patient is anxious and there’s always “something to do” or “someplace else” to reach - but she couldn’t manage to do it. And it comes with a sensation of frustration in her longings: At the party she couldn´t dance enough, her dress was not ready in due time for the ball. Even after a long journey she didn’t reach this so far and distant place. She is unable to find her way, even inside her house.

A misfortune is about to reach her and she’s trembling with fear, as any accident should happen at no time.

She is apprehensive and afraid and sad, unable to fall asleep, night after night, anxiously unease and with a sensation of heat all over her body.

There’s an object for her nearby misfortunes: her family. The text says that she’s afraid of losing her loving ones, she dreamed that her mother is dead, her relatives are dead or getting sick, she dreams with funerals and with her own grave.

Her apprehensions could also be related to her fears: fear of thieves, fear of being killed, of getting caught due to her misdeeds.

Her relationship with her relatives could not be a calm one. Even being someone so much afraid of losing her family and her parents, she feels vexed by her mother, she feels vexed by people around her. “Everything frets her” - says the text, “everything is disagreeable”. For her own point of view, friends, and relatives they all brought to her life only humiliation and ill humor.

She is obliged to marry someone she didn’t love. To understand that text we must go back in time when girls were given to husbands only to get married through a social contract between their families. Love was not the main subject, but social obedience and responsibility. But Mag-c. don’t want to cope with that fate, she wanted a different life.

So, this might be the beginning of our history: 

Could we admit that Mag-c. doesn’t want to grow up? As a matter of fact, it seems that she doesn’t want to assume her social responsibilities, she wants to stay as a child.

Dream that she had become a child three years old, which rejoiced her very much (first day), [4]. 

Further on in her life, Mag-c. - like any other womae of the nineteen century - should assume the social obligations as a wife and mother of her children. But Mag-c. doesn’t want to. Again, we must remember that, in the XIX century, all clothes were sewed by the women themselves.

Dream of flowers, clothes, and other things; she had to make up the clothes, but was not inclined to do it, and besides did not understand how

Confusion and stupefaction of mind from mental labor 

She wants to stay forever in the evergreen garden of her childhood. Life is so dangerous outside! Crowded with thieves, dangers, floods, fire, she doesn’t want to get herself burned, she doesn’t want the duties of a grown-up woman.

So, were does she wants to stay? A group of dreams can describe her longings, her childhood past, the place she always wanted to stay:

Dream that she went fishing and enjoyed herself, 

Dream of gathering fruit in a garden, 

Dream of very small horses, that she exerted herself to reflect upon, after midnight.

Dream of flowers, clothes, and other things; she had to make up the clothes, but had

no inclination to do it, and besides did not understand how; she also saw many foreign plants, but during this she became soaked with rain.

A Mag-c. prover had a very exotic dream:

Dream that she burnt her back by someone throwing hot roast pigeons at her. 

Roast (DreamBible.com)

Negatively, roast in a dream may be a sign that you are enjoying playing with power that cares about nothing except noticing yourself having it easy. Enjoying playing with someone else's feelings while witnessing them never able to escape your dominance.

Pigeons

It may also reflect jealousy of other people having happy endings to their problems when your problems aren't getting solved. Feelings about people you think are stupid getting married. Happiness derived from excessive religious faith or excessive honesty that drives you solve problems for the mere purpose of feeling like a good person. Good deeds that cover up problems instead of addressing them directly. 


If we may use this interpretation of the dream, we must assume that she is been accused or forced to abandon her selfish nature. She must give up her position and surrender to life, to her duties, to responsibility. 

Punishment is about to reach her in due time. She is angry, violent, vexed, because she knows, deep in her heart, that she isn’t doing the right thing. She knows that life must go on, she must get older and mature, assuming her responsibilities for her own family.

Dream of her hair falling out, which made her very sad.

Conflict had aroused early, in the very beginning of her life: she wants to stay as a little child, she is so dependent of her parents and relatives. At the same time, she is so angry that the same family she loved so much wanted her to grow up! That’s why there is love and anger toward her family. She wants to stay as a child, but she hates of being asked to grow.

The non-absorptive child

We may suppose: and if the children cases described by Kent were in big trouble only due to the intake of common milk?

We may assume that babies that have been fed or should have been fed with breast milk were left in Kent’s orphanage. Did they develop dis-absorptive problems due to the intake of cow’s milk? We may admit how fat this milk should be at that time. 

Their clinical problems were related to milk and not to the absence of their mother’s affection and love.

And Mag-c. was found by Kent as a remedy that could adapt the bowels of the little ones, helping them of been able to digest cow’s milk.

They couldn’t eat meat, for the same reason. The milk and the meat both have the same origin. Both were promoting the same difficulties and so turning their bowels unable to absorb proteins. And then we have the children - now sick due to the intake of cow’s milk - weak children now heading to the marasmus clinical picture.

It’s now easy to understand what had happened to the children in the orphanage, and why Magnesia carb was their remedy. Being able to digest common milk belongs to human natural development, to change from a nursling to a child that has left her mother’s milk and has now all the digestive enzymes and gastric juices to feed herself from other sources of alimentation than mother’s milk.

Mag-c. didn’t grow up. The child Magnesia kept herself as a babe, a nursling. So, common milk, meat and any kind of food would be poison for her. She has kept herself undeveloped. The symptoms described by the proving show us bowels suffering from their incapacity to digest proteins other than their mother’s.

Kent took the cases and found out their bowels and stool clinical pictures described in Hering’s Materia Medica belonged to Magnesia carb. Doing so he managed to help and cure the infants, for they to grown up and live their lives. 

Groups in Magnesia carb.

Symptoms from Hahnemann, Allen, Hering & Kent

Dr. Claudio C. Araujo M.D., F.F.Hom. (Lon.)

Humor

Jolly

Very talkative; everything prospers (first afternoon); not so good-humored (second day), [4]. 

Jolly, very unimportant dreams (second day), [4]. 

Dream of happiness and dancing, in which she enjoyed herself very much (second day), [4]. 

Anxiety

Uneasiness, with trembling of hands and absence of mind.

Anxious and warm through whole body, especially in head, while eating warm food.

Anxious, with perspiration all day.

Anxious and too warm in bed for several nights; she could not fall asleep for a long time (after twenty-nine days), [4]. 

Very anxious, with perspiration, all day, especially on moving about, [4]. 

She was very anxious several nights in succession, and the bed felt as hard as though she were lying upon stones, so that she constantly tossed about (after twelve days), [4]. 

Anxiety and warmth over the whole body, especially in the head, while eating soup, [4].

For several nights was unable to fall asleep for a long time on account of anxiety; was frequently obliged to uncover herself, which she could not long endure on account of coldness, [4]. 

Anxiety and uneasiness at night in bed; she could not bear to have a limb covered, and yet out of bed it immediately became too cold (after four days), [4]. 

Anxiety for several nights; she could not bear to have her hands under the covers, though if she put them out they immediately became too cold (after twenty-three days), [4]. 

Anxious dreams at night, [1]. 

Confused, anxious dreams (twenty-fourth day), [4].

Sadness

Sad mood, with indisposition to talk; sad and disconsolate.

Sad and apprehensive (after two hours and a half), [4]. 

Sad, but unremembered dream (thirty-third day), [4]. 

Vexed, ill-humored

Changeable; gloomy, vexed, ill humored, then talkative.

Unwilling to talk, gloomy, and apprehensive (after one hour and a quarter), [4]. 

She is gloomy and unwilling to talk (after two hours), [4]. 

Ill-humored, and yet singing, soon disappearing (after two hours), [4]. 

Very ill-humored, everything frets her; worse while walking (second evening), [4]. 

Very ill-humored at 7 P.M., everything is disagreeable, [4]. 

Very ill-humored all day, everything that she looks at vexes her; better in the evening, [4]. 

Better humored in the afternoon than in the forenoon, [4]. 

Very fretful mood (ninth day), [4]. [20.] 

Peevish, fretful mood (fourth afternoon), [4]. 

Very fretful in the evening (after six days), [1]. 

So fretful that she does not know what she shall undertake, with constant perspiration (twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth days), [4]. 

Completely out of sorts, increasing as time goes on, [4]. 

On the first day of the menses good humor; on the three following days fretfulness, [4]. 

Dream of being vexed (twenty-sixth day), [4]. 

Dream that she got into a passion (eleventh day), [4]. 

Dream that she had become vexed with her mother (first day), [4]. 

A vivid, unremembered dream during the morning sleep, in which she cried aloud (third day), [4]. 

With Oneself

Apprehension and misfortune

Trembling, anguish and fear, as if some accident would happen; all day, > after going to bed. 

Apathetic mood with apprehension in the afternoon, with compressive headache; in the evening very good-humored, [4]. 

Tremulous anxiety and fright, as if she apprehended some misfortune, disappearing in the evening in bed (sixth day), [4]. 

Dream that she was at a ball where they did not dance enough; also at first she could not get ready with her dress (twenty-fifty day), [4]. 

Dream of her hair falling out, which made her very sad (seventh day), [4]. 

Dream that she made a long journey, and at last could go no farther, at which she became very anxious, at 3 A.M., [4]. 

Anxious dream, as if he was unable to find his way in his own house, [1]. 

Dream that he had an epileptic fit, [1]. 

If he lies upon the back or right side at night, he starts up, and raves and screams out of a frightful dream, [1].

Towards the Others

Thieves

Dreams anxious, with starts and crying out in sleep; of dead persons; of fire; of thieves.

Dream of thieves who broke into the house and tried to kill her (sixteenth day), [4].

Dream that she had something contraband, and wanted to snatch it away from those looking at it, and lock it up (eighth day), [4]. 

 

Misfortunes of relatives

 

Anxious dreams of the misfortunes of relatives (twenty-ninth day), [4]. 

Dream that she was sadly disturbed in company, where especially her grandmother was taken with spasms, and at last had apoplexy, [4]. 

Sad dream of dead relatives (twenty-third day), [4]. 

Dream that she was weeping about the death of a near relative (eighth day), [4]. 

About midnight, a dream that her mother had died, at which she woke, and believed that she was still weeping (tenth day), [4]. 

Dream that she saw her dead grandmother (twenty-second day), [4]. 

 

Fights

 

Dream of fights, in which she herself participated (twenty-second day), [4]. 

Nightly starting up and screaming in a dream, in which he quarreled with a beggar, [1].

 

Funerals

 

Dream of a funeral; she was obliged to dress the hair of the company; also of balls and marriages, [4]. 

Dream of a grave in a cemetery, into which, after voluntary preparation, she was to be thrown (ninth day), [4]. 

 

Dreams of masks in fools' clothes, which they soiled (ninth day), [4]. 

 

After midnight she dreamed that she was to marry one she did not like, which she violently resisted; she cried aloud, wept, and sobbed, without waking (thirty-second day), [4]. 

With the Environment

 

Horses, flowers and fishing

 

Dream that she went fishing and enjoyed herself, [4]. 

Dream of gathering fruit in a garden, [4]. 

Dream of very small horses, that she exerted herself to reflect upon, after midnight (fourth day), [4].

Dream of flowers, clothes, and other things; she had to make up the clothes, but had no inclination to do it, and besides did not understand how; she also saw many foreign plants, but during this she became soaked with rain (fourteenth day), [4]. 

 

Fire

 

Anxious dream of a fire, being arrested, etc. (thirty-third day), [4]. 

Anxious dream of a bright fire, at which she shrieked out violently and cried "fire" (twenty-seventh day), [4]. 

Dream that she burnt her back by some one throwing hot roast pigeons at her (nineteenth day), [4]. 

Frightful dream, that she burnt her cheek by the light, [4]. 

 

Danger

 

Dream of danger by water (seventh day), [4]. 

Dream of a flood, which flowed across the market-place, from which she woke in fright (fifth day), [4]. 

Dream of the dangerous carrying of glasses (seventh day), [4]. 

 

Indifferent, historical dream (eighteenth day), [4]. 

 

Work

 

Confusion and stupefaction of mind from mental labor, [1]. 

A pleasant dream of receiving money (twenty-fifth day), [4]. 

Dream that she invested money in a lottery (ninth day), [4]. 

Childhood

Dream that she had become a child three years old, which rejoiced her very much (first day), [4]. 

Anxious dream, that a child was bathing in boiling water, [4]. 

Inordinate appetite for meat in children of tuberculous parentage.


Stools offensive and watery, containing floating masses of green scum; some straining, and during stool child did not wish to be touched. θ Infantile diarrhœa.

Diarrhœa of young children; milk causes pain in stomach, is rejected, or passes bowels undigested; stools green, sour smelling; colicky pains.

Constant, sour, rather whitish, watery diarrhea. θ Infantile remittent fever.

The bloody mucus is found mixed with green, watery stool, sinking to bottom of vessel and adhering there; but the watery stool occurs alone. θ Dysentery. θ Infantile diarrhœa.

Lienteria of sucklings; milk passes undigested.

Kent: There is a kind of marasmus that you will puzzle over if you do not know this remedy. If we analyze the remedy in general, we will see that it produces a state of the body like that prior to tuberculosis.

He does not undergo, repair, he loses flesh, and the muscles become flabby as if some serious disease were coming. In children of tuberculous parents there is that tendency to go into marasmus. The child's muscles are flabby, the child will not thrive in spite of feeding and medicines. It seems to be laying the foundations for some serious trouble.

Finally, it emaciates and the back of the head begins to sink in, as if from atrophy of the cerebellum. The appetite increases for milk and meat and animal broths, and yet they are not digested, and when the milk is taken it continually passes the bowel in the form of white potter's clay, or like putty.

I have observed, especially among illegitimate infants, those that have been conceived by clandestine coition, that they have a tendency to sinking in the back of the head. The occipital bone will sink in, and the parietal bones jut out over it, and there will be a depression. That is not an uncommon thing in children that go into marasmus. They are very likely to have a potter's clay stool. It does not run, and it is not hard.

The white, hard stool is quite another symptom, and the soft semi-fluid white stool leads to another class of remedies, but this pasty stool, looking as if it could be moulded into any kind of shape, is a Magnesia carb. stool. I once had in charge an orphanage, where we had sixty to one hundred babies on hand all the time. The puzzle of my life was to find remedies for the cases that were going into marasmus. A large number of them were clandestine babies. It was a sort of Sheltering Arms for these little ones.

The whole year elapsed, and we were losing babies every week from this gradual decline, until I saw the image of these babies in Magnesia carb. and after that many of them were cured.

The Mag. carb. baby smells sour like the Hepar baby.

Wash it as you will and it smells sour; the perspiration is sour, and the whole baby smells sour. It is not especially the stool. The stool smells strong and pungent putrid, and very often the whole child has a pungent odor, like an unclean baby, though it be well washed.

Male Sexuality

Sexual desire diminished; erections wanting.

Prostatic fluid so easily discharged that even emission of flatus causes it.

Female Sexuality

Kent: During pregnancy she suffers all the time with toothache, tearing pains in the left side of the face, although the roots of the teeth are perfectly sound. The hollow teeth are unusually sensitive, and painful. The teeth are so sensitive that they cannot be manipulated by the dentist.

Intellectual

Much < from talking or mental exertion.

Very forgetful and not very good-humored (after eighteen days), [4].

She wished to talk in a dream, but could not, and was distressed on account of it (seventeenth day), [4]. 

Talking in sleep after midnight (ninth day), [4]. 

Loud talking in sleep in the morning, therewith she beat her head against the wall and woke, but knew nothing of it (tenth day), [4].