Aqua Marina

(Sea Water)

Pharmacy - aq-mar. Aqua marina. Sea water. Isotonic plasma. Marine plasma. Aqua marina is a sea water taken miles from the coast of Dieppe and some depth below surface, filtered and diluted with twice as much pure fresh water. Dilutions.

Historical dose: Tincture and all potencies.

Clinical

• Addison's disease
• Anxiety
• Biliousness
• Constipation
• Coryza
• Eczema
• Emaciation
• Flatulence
• Gastroenteritis
• Goiter
• Headache
• Hypoglycemia
• Hyperthyroid
• Loeffler's syndrome
• Lupus
• Lymphadenitis
• Nausea
• Phlegm
• Polyneuritis
• Seasickness
• Seaside effects
• Thyroid problems
• Tuberculosis
• Varicose ulcers

Homeopathic

Aqua marina is a great blood purifier and vitalizer. Potentized sea water in weakness, lack of reaction, symptoms are worse by the seaside. For the treatment of diseases of skin, kidneys, and intestines.

Lymphadenitis. Goiter. Lupus, eczema, varicose ulcers. Scrofulous disorders of children. Gastroenteritis and tuberculosis. Aq-mar acts primarily on the blood, as in toxic, scrofulous conditions, enteritis. It helps detoxify in cancer cases.

Aq-mar has been principally used in high potencies for the effects of residence near the sea, which causes biliousness, constipation, headache, etc. It has been used in wine glassful doses and also in potencies as a remedy for seasickness. Worse at seaside or on the sea. Subject anxious and in a feverish state with fetid sweating and head pains. Thoracic pains and back pains, cough with watery or mucus sputum tasting of rust.

Neuralgic pains down right temple and forehead. Face ache left side, cold water intolerable. Sensation of a hair or fishbone in throat, tickling and urging to swallow, causing cough, which does not relieve.

Pain on swallowing, extending to ear and temples. Nausea and nauseous sensation in stomach and abdomen. "Constant hawking and raising of phlegm tough and white like cotton."

General and genital weakness, despite arousal of desires. Vesicular rashes. Alcoholic polyneuritis with mental troubles. Addison's disease. Emaciation. Hypoglycemia. Overactive thyroid. Hypersecretion from the thyroid. Perspiration. Trembling. Fatigue in the morning, feeling feverish at 10 a.m.

Mind

• Absent-minded
• Slowness of mind
• Intellectual concentration difficult
• Feels tormented
• Agitated
• Tormented by lewd thoughts
• Fear of madness
• Impression of being spied upon
• Finds salvation in religion

Anxiety aggravated by talking. Anxiety in company. Anxiety by iced drinks. Anxiety worse perspiration. Anxiety improved between 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. Delusion of being watched (Ars.). Aversion to bathing.

Abdomen

Flatulence, sensitivity, pain aggravated at the tip of the xiphoid cartilage. Pains at 11 p.m., worsened by pressure and agitation. Pain better with exercise (Coloc.).

Back

Vertebral column affected. Pains in the neck, back, and thorax, stiff, heavy, or prickling pains. Aggravated by hot drinks, heat, pressure contact. Pain at the nape of the neck with stiffness and difficulty in turning the head. Arthritis of the spine. Arthrosis of the spine. Arthritis of the scapula and shoulder.

Chest

Thoracic pain situated at the level of the third intercostal space, right against the sternum. Pain in the lowest three intercostal spaces in the morning when rising, worse with pressure. Pain at the tip of the shoulder blade in the evening.

Constitutions

Hypersensitive subjects, tubercular with a congestion of the veins and mucous membranes in the phosphoric or carbo-phosphoric type with an unstable nervous system.

Ears

Stinging pain in right ear in the evening. Transient stitches.

Face

Face ache on left side of upper and lower jaw, extending under lower jaw to right side. The pain was acute like toothache. Cold water was intolerable.

Food

Appetite and thirst increased, especially at 11:30 a.m. after eating. Aversion to fish. Desires salt, farinaceous food. Worse with salt, cold drinks. Better with salt, ice cold drinks.

Head

Headaches with vertigo, aggravated by pressure, eating, heat, movement, improved after sleep. Localized head pains in the forehead and occipital region and felt when thinking about them. Occipital headaches, vertigo, buzzing in ears, with visual and psychosomatic complaints. Acute, pressure, neuralgic pain above right frontal portion of head (from inhalation by an atomizer). Severe neuralgic pains down right temple and above right frontal protuberance, very acute and vanishing without a trace, appearing after ten or thirty minutes in left side of neck (near edge of trapezius muscle, immediately from inhalation by an atomizer).

Limbs

Pain in the right arm from the elbow to the fingertips. Pain in the lower limbs, tenderness at the limbs. Offensive smelling perspiration of the hands, feet, and axilla. Pain on exerting pressure on muscles. Trembling of the limbs. Involuntary movement of the legs when they are touching the ground.

Liver

Slight hepatic deficiency.

Lungs

Early tuberculosis. Loeffler's syndrome. Morning cough with cold, watery sputum. Rusty, dirty taste at the back of throat. Difficulty expectorating. Expectoration mucus like cotton.

Male

Libido maintained, but sexual impotence. Seminal discharge followed by weakness, sleepiness, and the need to stretch out as a result of muscular pains. Impotence. Increased sexual desire without erections.

Modalities

Better from eating. Better rest. Worse from movement. Worse pressure and heat. Worse afternoon and evening. Worse neuralgic pain in anterior portion of head. Pain in right ear, worse evening. Face pain, worse cold water. Aversion to bathing.

Mouth

White, yellowish mucous. Lips dry, especially at night, split in the middle of the lower lip. Breath fetid, spitting of blood and burning in the mouth. Pain on swallowing, ameliorated by gulping, aggravated by cold drinks. Red rash, painful around the chin. Mucus like cotton (Puls.). Pain as from a splinter.

Nose

Coryza with watery flow, blocking the left nostril. Coryza better with tea. Peeling of having a cold at the root of the nose only. Thick, fetid mucus, falling into the back of the throat. Aggravated after eating, by respiration and sleep. Burning and heaviness in the eyelids. Spasmodic rhinitis. Purulent rhinitis. Frontal sinusitis. Obstruction first of right nostril, then of left. Sneezing in morning on waking.

Rectum

Heaviness, pain before and during defecation, even when stools soft. Anal burning, heavy bleeding when first going to stool. Stools hard at first, then soft in great quantities. Evacuation of small worms.

Skin

Itching of the toes, the inner side of the thighs, and the bends of the arms and legs. Vesicular rash on the face, cheeks, and chin. Fetid sweating of the feet and hands. Acrocyanosis. Eczema of the palms.

Stomach

Epigastric pain, aggravated by pressure and hot applications. Seasickness. Nausea and nauseous sensation in stomach and abdomen with eructation of wind.

Throat

Sore throat after eating. Pain in the right tonsil, improved by pressure and sleep. Throat congested, especially on the left and trickling of mucus. Mucus fetid when swallowing. Sensation as if a small substance were in the throat causing a desire to cough, but not benefited by coughing. Pain on swallowing, extending into ear and temples.

Vertigo

Vertigo with buzzing in ears. Vertigo with visual disturbances and occipital headaches.

Comments

Aqua marina has been used for thyroid problems because of the iodine content of seawater. For people aggravated by seawater; headaches, constipation, and seasickness. Mentals are slow and apathetic.

Great fatigue in the morning (Mag-m., Nat-m). Neuralgic pains in the face. Great weakness after sex. They have offensive perspiration (Sil.), offensive sweat on hands, feet, and under the arms.

Seeping of fetid mucus, worse when getting up in the morning. Sore throat with sensation of foreign substance in throat. Pain in the right tonsil, aggravated after eating, ameliorated by pressure and during the night.

Acute, paroxysmal, neuralgic pain in right anterior portion of head all the afternoon and evening (from inhalation by atomizer).

Relations

Compare: (1) Nat-m. (2) Chloroform - but in addition to its chief ingredient, seawater contains in solution every inorganic substance in the world, also Silica marina.

References

Boericke. Clarke. Julian.