Homeopathic Materia Medica

by William Boericke, M.D.

METHYLENE BLUE
One of the Aniline Dyes

A remedy for neuralgia, neurasthenia, malaria; typhoid, here it diminishes the tympanites, delirium, and fever; pus infection. Tendency to tremor, chorea and epilepsy. Nephritis (acute parenchymatous), scarlatinal nephritis. Urine acquires a green color. Bladder irritation from its use antidoted by a little nutmeg. Surgical kidney with large amount of pus in urine. Gonorrhoeal rheumatism and cystitis. Backache, sciatica. Later states of apoplexy (Gisevius).

Dose: 3x attenuation. A 2 per cent solution locally, in chronic otitis with foul smelling discharge.

A 1 per cent aqueous solution for ulcers and abscesses of cornea.

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