MANCINELLA


Mancinella homeopathy medicine – drug proving symptoms from Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica by TF Allen, published in 1874. It has contributions from R Hughes, C Hering, C Dunham, and A Lippe….


Common names: Manchioneal, Manzanillo.

Introduction

Hippomane mancinella, Linn. Natural order: Euphorbiaceae. Preparation: Tincture of the fruit, leaves, and bark (Bute).

Mind

Emotional. Silent mood (second day). Profound mental tranquillity, in the morning. Cheerfulness; desire to sing (first day). Disposed to take everything in good part (first day). Feelings of tenderness and deep compassion (third day). Sadness (second, fourth, fifth, and seventh days); in morning (sixth day),; before menses. Anxiety caused by uneasiness in the hypochondria; worse on walking, or becoming chilled. Fearfulness. Morose mood. Indifference and dulness, in the morning. Intellectual. Meditative mood. Activity of mind, disposed to work (ninth day). Aversion to work (fifth day). He is bored by everything (third day). Wandering thoughts (second day). Absence of thought (second day). Great dulness with indifferent mood. Comatose state; constant drowsiness (third day).

Head

Confusion and vertigo. Confusion in the sinciput lasting eight days. Confusion in the forehead. Vertigo in the morning, and again at noon. Vertigo, worse in the open air (in a boy). Vertigo on getting out of bed. Vertigo on looking long and steadily at anything, or reading aloud. Vertigo, better in the open air (in a girl). Vertigo, with sensation of torpor. Slight vertigo, with sleepiness. Dizziness. General Head. Empty feeling in the head. Heaviness in the head (twelfth day). Heaviness of the head; he is compelled to lie down, and feels nauseated. Great heaviness of the head, with constant pain in it (third day). Excessive heaviness of the head (third day). Mounting from the stomach to the head, and turning around in it. Mounting from the stomach gradually more and more into the head; afterwards vomiting through the nose and mouth, followed by disappearance of the headache. Pain in head, extending to eyes. Pain in the lower part of the head, with heaviness as if it was bruised (second day); the pains in the head continue, and make him impatient (third day). Confused pain in the head when writing (twelfth day). Headache (fifth and sixth days); all day; (second day). The headache becomes intolerable (fourth day). Headache with vertigo, especially in the morning, after eating a piece of bread (seventh day). Headache, with nausea and soreness beneath the right short ribs, worse while walking, and lasting several hours. Headache, disappearing after vomiting. Incessant headache (third day). Very violent headache, with very painful lancinations, it continued all night, with sleeplessness (after one hour); continued headache, especially in the temples and above the eyes (second day). Burning in the head. Congestion to the head, before the menses. Feeling of constriction in the forehead and occiput. Pressure on the brain. Sticking pressure from the vertex through the brain, at noon. Lancinating pain in the head, as soon as he sits down to eat (twelfth day). Painful lancinations in the head, temples, and above the eyes (third day). Short stitches in several parts of the head and in the bones of the face. Tearing pain in the head. Pain as from a blow, all around the head; after long exposure to the sun (second day). Throbbing in the head. Throbbing in the upper part of the head. Hammering pain in the head and nape of the neck, with inability to bend the head down when writing (fourth day). Forehead. Pressure in the forehead. Temples. Pain in the left temple. Lancinating pain in the left temple (fourth day). Sudden sticking, in the right temple and above the eye. Vertex. Pain as from a nail driven into the vertex. Pain in the right side of the head, while listening to strokes on an anvil; he felt as if receiving them himself (second day). Parietals. Sudden headache in the left side, especially in the temple. External Head. Pain in the head, as if the skin of a bladder was applied from temple to temple (twelfth day). Contraction of the scalp at the vertex. Itching on the scalp. Itching on the vertex, at short intervals.

Eye

Objective. Blue rings around the eyes. Eyes red and staring. Injection of the vessels of the eyes. The inflammation of the eye ran very high, but was easily subdued; he recovered in three days. Excessively painful inflammation in the eyes, with photophobia. Very violent, painful inflammation in the eyes, so that he feared he would lose his vision; from touching the eye after handling a twig of the plant. Subjective. Burning in the eyes on closing them (at first). Burning in the eyes, which compels him to close them (later). Pressure in the eyes. Sense of weight over the eyes (second day). Sticking-itching in the right inner canthus, with fluent coryza from the right nostril. The eye symptoms usually alternate with the diminution of hearing. Brow. Sticking above the left eye. Lids. After some time, the eyelids were swollen to such an extent that they could hardly be opened, and the increased sensitiveness of the eyes was such that he was obliged to shut himself for some days in an absolutely dark room, and even then he still suffered much; the swelling diminished in three days, and the cuticle began to peel off. Feeling of dryness in the lids. Sticking in the middle of the margin of the right lower lid. Ball. Cutting pain in the middle of the right eyeball only when he refrains from winking. Dull stitches deep posteriorly in the left eyeball. Vision. Objects waver before the eyes.

Ear

External. Redness and heat of the ears (second day). Pressure behind the ears. Middle. Sensation of numbness in the ears. Twitching in the ears. Itching in the right meatus auditorius. Hearing. Roaring in the ears. Ringing in the ears, and whistling as of the wind, when walking (first day). Ringing in the ears, with a drumming sensation, when walking in the wind (fourth day). Noise in the ears, like voices.

Nose

He blows his nose more easily than usual (second day) Sensation of dryness in the nose. Pressure at the root of the nose. Annoying smells before the nose, like burnt horn, gunpowder, dung etc.

Face

Red face before a stool. Yellow complexion, with redness of the whole body (second day). Pale face. Pale lips. Drooping of the lower lip. Lancinating pain in the lips.

Mouth

Teeth. Sensitiveness of the upper teeth. Tongue. Tongue swollen. Tongue and inside of mouth covered with small pimples. Dry tongue. Burning of the tongue. Very slight prickling on the tongue. It tingled his tongue gently. General Mouth. A blister as large as a hazelnut in the center of the palate. Blood in the mouth. The palate is excoriated. Inflammation of the mouth. Mucous membrane of mouth filled with small pimples. Inside of lips and end of tongue covered with small pimples. Dry mouth (fifth day). Dryness of the mouth, with tenacious mucus, in the morning; offensive odor from the mouth, with coated tongue and thirst (third day). Almost intolerable heat and pricking in the mouth; the burning sensation is not allayed by cold water. Sensation of burning heat in mouth; the smarting was so extreme that I was obliged to hold cold water in my mouth, and renew it frequently (immediately). Smarting heat on tongue, mouth, and throat (after half an hour). Smarting and burning very severe; was obliged to keep cold water in the mouth, the pain becoming insupportable (after two hours). Mouth feels as if full of pepper. Burning, as from pepper, in the mouth and fauces. Pricking in the mouth while eating bread (eleventh day). On account of the state of the mouth and tongue, only liquids can be taken. Saliva. Salivation. Considerable salivation (after two hours). Copious salivation (after some minutes). Saliva thin and fluid. Burning-hot saliva. Offensive saliva. Mouth filled with water (after a few minutes). Accumulation of sour water in the mouth. Taste. The juice at first tastes flat, then acrid, and causes a burning astringency posteriorly in the fauces (Hering). Metallic taste in the mouth (second day). Taste of blood in mouth all day (second day). Taste of blood in the mouth, as if from a clot of blood which had risen into the throat (third and fourth days).

Throat

Great and constant dryness of the throat (second day). Heat in the throat, along the oesophagus without thirst. Burning, with raw pain, in the throat, the pain gradually extending forward from the arch of the palate, and lasting five hours. The throat feels contracted. Lancination in the throat. (A kind of malignant sore throat). Scraping in the throat, in the region of the larynx, especially sensitive on smoking. Ulcerative pain in throat. Prickling extended to the throat (after adding 3 drops). Throat symptoms better when yawning. Fauces, Pharynx, and Oesophagus. Burning in the fauces and root of the tongue, with accumulation of water in the mouth. Burning in the fauces and upper part of the pharynx. Burning in the oesophagus. A burning sensation in the fauces, oesophagus, and stomach for some hours.

Appetite

Appetite. Increased appetite. Great appetite (ninth day). Desire for tobacco. Great desire to smoke (fifth day). Loss of appetite. Alternate hunger and want of appetite (second day). Almost complete loss of appetite (third day). Complete loss of appetite (fourth day). Aversion to everything (sixth day). Loathing (second day). Aversion to bread. Thirst. Thirst every hour all day; desire for water, with aversion to wine and all other liquors (fourth day). Constant thirst all day (fifth and seventh days). Increasing thirst until evening (sixth day). Thirst intense. Eructation. Incomplete eructations. Constant eructations of air (first day). Noisy eructations, a kind of sobbing, when food is at all difficult of digestion; it occurs when swallowing, at night, even in sleep, and after drinking beer; also caused by stooping. Hot eructations during expiration, with an oppressed feeling (second day). Nausea and Vomiting. Nausea and pain in back during stool. Qualmishness. Vomiting. Forcible vomiting. Watery vomiting (first day). Vomiting of ingesta, followed by violent griping and copious stools. Green vomiting. Black vomiting. Bitter vomiting. Stomach. Weak stomach (second day). Torpid feeling in the stomach. Severe pain, with weight in the pit of the stomach, for a minute (second day). Sensation of heat in the epigastrium. Burning in the stomach. Burning in the stomach and throat, with nausea. Burning sensation in the stomach, without vomiting. Its reception in the stomach was attended with a burning sensation paroxysmal sticking in the stomach, with diarrhoea. Epigastric region very sensitive to touch.

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.