Homeopathy Remedy Manganum


Manganum homeopathy drug symptoms from Handbook of Materia Medica and Homeopathic Therapeutics by T.F. Allen, of the homeopathic remedy Manganum…


      Triturations of the acetate or carbonate are used. (The symptoms of both are here combined.)

General Action

      A “blood” remedy to be compared with Ferrum in part. Its power to produce paralysis of the lower half of the body seems undoubted; its action on the skin is also very pronounced and interesting.

Allies. Arsen., Ferrum

Generalities

      Stitches are mostly dull; pinching S. in several parts, (<) inside of thighs; drawing, jerking tearing, in various parts. Burrowing in bones nightly. Pain in touch; as if suppurating in all parts on touch, with heat of chest and cheeks. Drawing tensive pains in several parts, as from a tight band. Tension in various parts or cramplike drawing and tearing. Swollen feeling in head, hands and feet at 4 P.M., after walking in open air. Discomfort in whole body, (<) stomach, with fretfulness. Inclination to stretch all day. Uneasiness of mind and body as if something troubled him. Bubbling in various muscles, with waving sensation.

Weakness; in forenoon; at 4 P.M.; at 8 P.M., he could hardly keep awake. Paralysis, first of lower limbs (Arsenicum); (<) lower limbs, so that he staggers and inclines to run forward if he tries to walk, slight weakness of arms, weakness of voice, vacancy of countenance from paralysis of facial muscles, and from the same cause saliva is apt to escape from mouth, (<) speaking.

Clinical Preparations of this drug have been found very useful in general anaemia, almost taking the place of Iron, especially when there is tendency to early but scanty menstruation or when there is tendency to menstrual discharge between the periods. Chronic rheumatism wandering from place to place. Periostitis.

Mind

      Weeping mood. Ill humor; at every trifle in morning, with wrinkled forehead, even the speaking of others excited him; at 4.30 P.M., and sad; afternoon, contemplative, dull, with general discomfort; about everything she thinks of; so that he was not pleased with the most joyous music, but was almost cheered by the saddest music; and discontented with himself, solicitous about the future, he talked little, thought he was weak in mind and made mistakes in speaking in every sentence. Embittered, implacable mood. Anxiety, with short breath and profuse sweat. Uneasiness as if he apprehended something sad. Distraction. Memory weak.

Head

      Shattering in brain on shaking head; in brain on motion, with pain in head and upper abdomen. Aching in house; (>) open air; from above downward over whole brain late in evening and on waking in night; drawing tensive, here and there. Throbbing as if brain would suppurate at 2.30 P.M., (>) open air, returning in the house. Confusion when sitting, with gloominess of it and general weakness. Heaviness morning and evening, with sensitiveness of scalp; in forenoon, so that he could hardly hold it up, with fretfulness; at 4 P.M., and feeling larger than usual; at 3 P.M., (>) open air, returning in the house, with Dullness, pain and internal heat in it. Rush of blood when sitting, standing, walking and lying, with internal heat in face without redness. Vertigo when sitting and standing, obliged to steady himself to prevent falling forward.

Forehead – Contractive sticking here and there in forepart of head, (<) temples, (<) open air; drawing S. in sinciput on going into open air, (<) in the house, with general shaking chilliness; drawing S. in F. extending into ear, ending at tympanum as a sticking outward, (<) forenoon on walking rapidly, (>) standing still; intermittent S. in l. side. Shattering like a sticking above r. eye on rapid walking, even in the house. Tearing from l. eminence to temple when talking; T. in l. bone, (<) moving frontal muscles; drawing T. from above r. eye. Boring inward between l. brow and root of nose. Pain in upper part of bone; stupefying P. becoming internal sticking and boring.

Temples. – Sticking in l. bone. Tearing in l. on walking in open air. Digging, extending to eyes and forehead, (>) stooping, returning on sitting upright and bending backward. Sharp pain above l. on getting up and walking, (>) sitting down again. Drawing pain in bones.

Sides. – Sticking externally beneath l. parietal bone, extending to all sides of skull; in l. parietal bone extending forward, on stooping. Tearing in r. and (<) deep in r. ear, on rising from stooping; drawing, in l.; sticking, deep internally from posterior and lower part of l. parietal bone to in front of vertex, when standing at 8 A.M. and at the same hour next day. Pain in one. Itching spot anteriorly on r. parietal bone on stooping, (>) rising, returning on stooping and scratching, with burning.

Occiput. – Sticking externally on r. bone extending to fifth cervical vertebra, in morning in bed, (<) turning neck. Tearing externally in afternoon, (<) touch, with tearing jerking, at other times pain in the spot. Pain; (>) application of hand, with emptiness, taking away his senses; throbbing, like suppuration, in r. at 1.30 P.M.; drawing, and in orbits and forehead, (<) stooping, (>) pressure; burning, and in sides of head, (>) open air. Constriction, and in vertex. Pressure forward over vertex into forehead, where it seems as if everything would press out, from morning till 5 P.M., (<) 1 P.M. Dullness and heaviness, then in forehead.

Eyes

      Pain if he looks intently at near objects, (<) a light held near them; when reading by lamp light, as form reading too much, with overpowering sleepiness. Crawling, jerking here and there in r., causing agreeable tickling. Dryness in evening; D. and heat. Pupils dilated; (<) evening; r. more than l.; and light blinds him and causes pain in eyes, when the light is held before the eyes pupils gradually contract, but suddenly dilated on removing it; contracted. Sharp pressure on ball on moving eye inward and upward. Lids swollen; jerking sticking in upper lids; pain on slightest motion and dryness on looking at a bright light, with feeling as on waking; throbbing in r. upper. Biting pain in external canthus. Sticking inward in r. superciliary ridge. Vision dim for distant objects; short; vanishes at 4.30 P.M. if she looks long at an object; of sparks like rays in evening on closing eyes, and it seems black as soon as he looks at the light.

Ears

      Drawing cramp in muscles of l. mastoid process, so that he must hold head to r. side. Sticking on speaking; scraping S. in region of tympanum. Tearing in mastoid process behind r.; jerking, in r. in morning; jerking, in r. concha in evening on lying down, (>) in bed. Jerking-sticking pinching in l. outer, (>) rubbing. Digging in bones at night. Cramplike pain behind l. on going into open air, (>) touch. Intermittent sharp pain in r. on going into open air. Pain in l.; in external on touch; as from suppuration in r. concha in evening. Crawling tickling in region of tympanum, not (>) boring in with finger. Itching in l. Coldness as from a draught in r. Deafness as if ears were stopped. Sounds like the bell of a clock in morning. Sounds in r. like the croaking of frogs, when walking. Roaring after stooping, with diminished hearing for a moment as if ears were closed. Fluttering as of a large bird before l., with warmth extending into ear.

Clinical Earache, the ears feel stooped, and on blowing nose cracking, which temporarily relieves deafness, the troubles always (<) change of weather, associated with naso-pharyngeal catarrh.

Nose

      Tearing in l. nostril, with crawling, as from sudden irritation to sneeze. Stoppage; alternating with fluent coryza; with secretion of thick mucus. Coryza; of l. nostril at 1.30 P.M., with inability to inhale air through it and loss of smell. Stopped coryza; in evening, with red, sore, painful nose and upper lip. Discharge of bland watery mucus, with frequent sneezing.

Clinical Dry catarrh, with obstruction of nostrils, (<) cold, wet weather. Chronic nasal catarrh, nose very much stuffed and sore to touch.

Face

      Pale, suffering, sunken as after excesses. Intermittent digging in a spot on zygoma at night in bed. Pain in zygoma as if a boil would break out. Jaw, sticking in angle of lower, extending to parotid gland; itching S. from r. side of lower to above temple, on laughing; cramplike sensation after eating; smarting and sore pain in lower; pain as from a blow in l. upper.

Lips. – Pimple in r. corner, with tensive and corrosive sticking on touch and on moving mouth; red, on lower near r. corner of mouth, with tensive pain. Clear vesicles on r. side of lower, and r. side of upper lip swollen and covered with pimples, with tensive pain on pressure; upper lip full of clear itching V., after these dry new ones appear, the itching (<) evening. Ulcerative pain in corners. Dryness, and of palate; D., with shrivelled epidermis, without thirst.

Mouth

      Teeth. Sticking now in one upper, now in another, on biting teeth together; S. into arm, causing there paralyzed pain. Tearing in several lower; drawing T. in morning in bed. Aching, (<) forenoon and evening from 10 till 12, (>) sucking with tongue, which at first caused acute jerking; A. extending suddenly into ear; sudden, in two hollow molars, extending into arm, zygoma, neck or ear, (>) biting on something elastic or laying head upon table, (<) sitting upright, with prostration so that he must lie down, internal restlessness and oppression; frequent, in root of r. lower as if it would be pushed out; as if ulcerated, on touch; smarting, in an upper and lower molar, (<) cold drink; drawing, in r. molars, often suddenly disappearing then drawing pain in neighboring parts.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.