MEZEREUM
BY
Dr.Abdul Rahiman
PG-I
Under Guidance of Dr.Surekha Mam
Date: 05/08/2021
• Also Known as : Daphne mezereum.
Chamaelia germanica.
Mezereon,
Spurge Olive.
• Habitat: Hilly woods over nearly whole of
Europe and Russian Asia.
• Family: Thymelaceae
• Part Used : Tincture of fresh bark gathered just
before the plant flowers in February and
March.
Toxicological Facts
• Daphne mezereum is very toxic because of the
compounds mezerein and daphnin present especially
in the berries and twigs.
• If poisoned, victims experience a choking sensation.
• Handling the fresh twigs can cause rashes
and eczema in sensitive individuals.
• Despite this, it is commonly grown as an ornamental
plant in gardens for its attractive flowers.
Clinicals
• Skin symptoms,
• Affections of bones,
• And neuralgias especially about teeth and face most important,
• Ear, affections of
• Erythema
• Herpes zoster.
• Impetigo.
• Tinea capitis.
• Tinea versicolor.
• Irritation.
• Pityriasis.
• Mercury, effects of. Neuralgia.
• Teeth, affections of
• Tongue, affections of;
• swelling of. Ulcers.
• Eruptions after vaccination.
• Pains of various kinds, with chilliness and
sensitiveness to cold air.
Characterisitics
• Hahnemann records this: A robust man took Mezereum bark for
some ailment, and continued it after the ailment disappeared.
• Soon, unbearable itching set in all over body, could not sleep a
moment.
• Thirty-six hours after discontinuing it the itching was still increasing,
• Then a few grains of Camphor removed it.
• Mezereum is the vegetable analogue of, and is one of the most
important antidotes to, Mercurius. Merc. and Mez. antidote one
another.
• Mind, skin, eyes, mucous membranes and bones are affected in
much the same way by both; they have the same sensitiveness to
• Nash mentions an exception to the < by warmth.
• In a man whom he cured with Mez. of obstinate
facial neuralgia, the pains were brought on or
greatly < by eating,
• And the only relief the man could get was by
holding the painful side close to a hot stove.
Only radiated heat was of any use, hot cloths,
wet or dry, gave no relief whatever.
• Mez. affects the long bones more markedly than
others, and the least touch is intolerable;
• but it has, like Merc., a strong affinity for the
facial bones and teeth. With Mez.
• Mez. is one of Hahnemann's anti-psorics, and it meets many psoric
manifestations.
• Carroll Dunham has recorded (Science of Therapeutics, 462) a notable case of
deafness, due to suppressed psora.
• A Youth, 17, deaf since four, and incapacitated thereby, secludes himself and
broods over his trouble. Membranes thickened.
• At the age of three he had an eruption of thick, whitish scabs, hard, almost
horny, covering the whole scalp. There were fissures through which exuded on
pressure a thick, yellowish pus, often very offensive. Much itching and
disposition to tear off the scabs with the finger-nails, < at night.
• The treatment (allopathic) was vigorous: A tar cap was placed on the head, and
when firmly adherent to the scabs was violently tom off, scabs and all, leaving
the whole scalp raw. This was painted with a saturated solution of Arg. nit. The
eruption did not reappear, but from that time the child was deaf.
• The eruption was the very counterpart of an eruption observed in a proving by
Wehle. Mez. 30, three globules in a powder of sugar of milk, was given on each
of these dates─February 3, March 1, and September 28, 1857, and January 26,
1858. Improvement set in slowly after the first dose, which was only repeated
when the effect of each preceding dose seemed to be exhausted. Finally the
hearing was for all practical purposes completely restored.
• Miss M. R., 39, brunette, had chronic catarrh. The
left ear had long been deaf, and the right had
begun to fail.
• There were noises in the ears. Drum membranes
retracted and scarred.
• The symptoms were: Excessive sensitiveness to
the air, even of a fan, and occasionally a sensation
as if air went through to the throat.
• Mucous membrane of naso-pharynx granular and
irritable.
• A dose of Mez. given before each meal entirely
relieved the symptoms.
• The ulcers of Mez. have thick, yellowish, white
scabs. Vesicles appear now and then, and itch
and burn.
• Lint dressings stick to them, and when they
are torn away bleeding occurs.
• Burning vesicles on the sides of the fingers;
and ulcers on finger-joints.
