Marrow of the femur was flushed in 1% sodium citrate solution at 37 °C and fixed in acetic acid/ethanol (1:3).

g. in 1965 at Minamata and Niigata in Japan, has been shown to cause considerable genotoxic damage, directly or indirectly, to human beings, noticeable even in successive generations. Merc Sol 200 can be used for stomach complaints, abdomen complaints, hands complaints, leg complaints, and back complaints. Mercury is however highly poisonous and can enter the body through the respiratory tract, the digestive tract or directly through the skin. Chromosome aberations of various nature have been pooled into two categories: the ‘major’ type comprising aberrations like break, fragments, ring, polyploidy etc.

G–J) Bone marrow smears showing micronucleated erythrocytes: ( G and H) polychromatic and ( I and J) normochromatic erythrocytes.

Homeopathy medicines need to be selected with caution as it can make your complaints better or worse. It should be only used when physical and mental symptoms both match with the symptoms of the patient.

When I think of Mercury I think of The Mad Hatter – in the Alice in Wonderland Story who is Hurried, Impulsive and Forgetful.

This aligns seamlessly with the principles of the Complementary Medical Association, which advocates for compassionate, natural and integrative approaches to health.

In both Merc Sol-30- and Merc Sol-200-fed mice the mitotic indices were found to be elevated right from 6 h through to 96 h, the Merc Sol-200 showing a little more mitotic index enhancing ability than Merc Sol-30 ( Table 1, Figs 2 and ​ and3 3). Exposure to Mercury is not so uncommon, even in todays age; but it is more hidden as an ingredient in various medications and products. The same trend of a generally lower mitotic index shown in mercuric chloride-treated mice as compared to untreated normal ones and increase in the drug-fed series was also noticed in the combined pre- and post-fed mice. Thus, the administration of the ultra-diluted homeopathic drug was found not only to reduce the mercuric chloride-induced genotoxicity (Merc Sol-200 showing slightly more pronounced effects), but the results of the present study would also lend support to the contention that one way through which the potentized homeopathic drugs act could indeed be by way of regulating expression of certain genes ( 8, 23, 24) and that the principle of ‘like cures like’ also holds true in the present case, as shown convincingly in the case of Arsenicum album against arsenic intoxication ( 8).