Manganum



Eyes

Aching (pressing) in eyes when they are fatigued, or by candle- light in evening. Burning heat and dryness of eyes. Dim- sightedness with burning in eyes. Eyelids swollen and painful when moved (and to touch). Agglutination of eyelids in morning. Pupils dilated or contracted. Confused sight. Myopia.

Ears

Otalgia. Drawing pains in ears, commencing from other organs. Pains extend to and concentrate in ears from other organs. Shootings in ears when speaking, swallowing, laughing, and walking heavily. Hardness of hearing, as from stoppage of ears, removed by blowing nose, worse or better according to change of weather. Buzzing and rumbling in ears. Detonation in ears, when blowing nose, and swallowing, and crashing sound when yawning. Whistling tinnitus. Whizzing and rushing in ear. Swelling of left parotid, with a reddish hue, in typhus.

Nose

Dry coryza and obstruction of nose. Coryza, with loss of smell, and secretion of thick mucus. Painful crampy tearing between root of nose and eyebrow. Sometimes dry and sometimes fluent coryza. Redness, excoriation, and inflammation of nose during coryza.

Face

Pale, sunk, wan face. Violent tearing and squeezing between root of nose and eyebrows. Jerking shooting pains from lower jaw to temples, when laughing. Lips parched, dry, with shrivelled skin, without thirst. Clear vesicles on upper lip. Eruptions and ulcers at commissures of lips. Cramps in jaws after a meal. Drawing cramp in muscles in region of left mastoid process, so that he

had to incline his head to right side.

Teeth

Painful sensitiveness of teeth. Violent pains in teeth, which pass rapidly to other parts. Tearing in molars and adjacent parts, with great dejection and inquietude, especially in morning

and evening. Pains as from ulceration in teeth, worse until they become insupportable, by contact with anything cold. Toothache, lasting four or five days and returning especially in forenoon, and 10 to 12 p.m., sucking causes acute jerking in teeth. Most violent toothache, at first sudden in two hollow back teeth, extending thence into zygoma, neck, or ear, and again returning, with prostration so he could scarcely walk, obliged to lie down, with internal restlessness and oppression, somewhat better by biting anything elastic, or laying forehead on table, much worse on sitting upright, with great dilatation of pupils.

Mouth

Sensation of soreness and of a hard substance posteriorly on palate: when not swallowing, disappearing after eating bread at 8 a.m. Flat tumour in centre of hard palate. Accumulation of (bitter) saliva in mouth. Smell of clay in mouth, in morning. Burning vesicles on the (left side of) tongue. Burning pains worse in tongue at night in room, better in open air. Nodosities on tongue, warts. Very salt taste on tongue, posteriorly, morning after waking, better by eating. Tubercles and burning blisters on tongue. Furred tongue and general biliousness.

Throat

Sore throat, with incisive pain, and pain as from excoriation, when not swallowing. Dull shootings on both sides of pharynx, and as far as ears, when swallowing. Dryness and scraping in throat, with a sensation as if a leaf or film obstructed the larynx. Dryness of palate and lips.

Appetite

Insipid and oily taste. Absence of thirst. Repugnance to food from a feeling of satiety.

Stomach

Sensation of burning sourness, rising from stomach, like pyrosis. Heat and burning in stomach, ascending to chest, sometimes with great agitation. Dragging pains in region of stomach, as if epigastrium were dilating, accompanied by nausea. Pain after eating food in weakly females.

Abdomen

Aching in hypochondria. Pressure in hypochondria. Abdomen large, distended. Pressive pain, as from excoriation, in abdomen and epigastrium. Contraction, with sensation of heat from middle of abdomen to chest, with nausea. Cuttings in umbilical region, when taking a deep inspiration. Movements (when walking) in abdomen, as if intestines were striking against each other. Excessive emission of wind.

Stool and Anus

Constipation. Difficult, dry, knotty evacuations. Evacuations of consistence of pap, several times a day. Loose and tenacious stools. Frequent rumbling in rectum. Colic and incisive pains in rectum, during evacuation. Successive pullings and tearing pains in rectum. Stool very pale yellow, sandy, preceded by griping. Contractive pain in rectum when sitting. Contractive pains in anus, yellow, granular stool with tenesmus, preceded and accompanied by griping in abdomen and sides, only better by pressing abdomen with the hands, disappearing after the stool, together with shaking chill.

Urinary Organs

Frequent want to urinate. Violet-coloured and earthy sediment in urine. Darting in urethra when emitting flatus. Cutting in middle of urethra between acts of micturition. Lancinations in urethra, when not urinating. Incisive pains in region of bladder. Enuresis in daytime came on in a boy of five when taking *Mang.ac. 200 (R. T. C.).

Male Sexual Organs

Sensation of weakness in genital organs, with burning and jerking drawing pains in spermatic cord, extending to glans penis. Itching on top of glans. Stitches in prepuce. Itching in interior of scrotum, which cannot be removed by scratching and rubbing.

Female Sexual Organs

Catamenia too early, too frequent and too scanty. Discharge of blood between periods. Pressure in genital organs. Leucorrhoea. Climacteric flushings.

Respiratory Organs

Obstinate hoarseness, especially in morning, and in open air, as from chronic inflammation of the larynx, better from smoking. Sensation as if larynx were closed. Catarrh, with coryza and hoarseness. Dry cough, excited by reading aloud, or speaking long, with troublesome dryness, roughness (and constriction) in larynx. Deep cough without expectoration, ceasing on lying down, and recurring next day. Cough better lying down. In morning, copious expectoration of small globules of yellowish green mucus, almost without cough. Spitting of blood.

Chest

Breath hot and burning, with disagreeable heat in chest. Lancinations in chest and sternum, which take a downward direction (also running up). Bloody expectoration from chest. Bruised pain in chest. Bruised pain in upper chest when stooping, better when raising head. Throbbing in chest. Debility and despondency cease in a case of scirrhus of breast after a single dose of *Mang. ac. 200 (R.T.C.).

Heart

Sudden shocks in heart and in sides of chest from above downwards. Pulse irregular, sometimes rapid, sometimes slow, but constantly weak and soft.

Back and neck

Red swollen streak on left side of neck. Rigidity of nape of neck. Tearing pains along entire spine, during rest and movement. Pain in small of back on bending backwards.

Upper Limbs

Drawing and tearing, beginning at shoulder and extending to arms, hands, and fingers. Pain as from a sprain in shoulder- joint. Tensive pain in joints of arms and hands. Boring and digging in bones of arm, as if in marrow. Tension in elbow-joint (and carpal-joint), as if tendons were too short. Itching tetter in forearm. Cramp-like pains in hands. Sensation of tension in hands. Inflammatory swelling and ulceration of little finger. Fissures in bends of finger-joints.

Lower Limbs

Jerkings of muscles of legs on slightest movement. Cramp-like drawings, or jerking shootings in thigh. Pain, as from tensive rigidity in legs. Tearing pain round knee. Want of firmness and trembling of knees. Swelling and inflammation of malleoli, with lancinations extending into legs. Burning in sole of foot. Excoriation between toes.

Generalities

The bones are very sensitive, red spots on skin, which are elevated, owing to the affections of the bones. Ankles are particularly affected, children may have this trouble, and be unable to walk. Typhus fever, where the parotid gland is swollen and the bones are very sensitive to touch. Affections of internal ear, upper part of chest Hoarse voice: drawing sensation of muscles. Stools with sand or gravel. Dull shooting and jerking in different parts of the body. Pulling and tearing pains, especially in limbs. Drawing and tension in limbs and joints, as from contraction of tendons, especially when extending limbs. Arthritic pains in joints (and periosteum), with shooting, jerking, and digging, worse in evening, and often semi-lateral or crossways. Red and shining (rheumatic) swelling of joints, sometimes in consequence of a chill. Inflammatory swellings and suppurations. Inflammations of bones, with searching and insupportable pains at night. All bones, particularly in lower limbs, sensitive to touch, in typhus. Excitement, low spirits, flushing, whistling through ears, fulness of head with tightness around it, dim vision, swelling of hands and feet and a stinging as if frost-bitten (from *Mang.ac. 200). Weakness and tremor, especially in joints. Paraplegia. Paralysis first of lower limbs. Staggers and tends to run forward if he tries to walk. Sensation of uneasiness in the whole body, but especially in the stomach, with peevishness. On slightest touch sensation over whole body as if it were ulcerated. Most symptoms appear during night. The symptoms which have manifested themselves in a room are better in open air, and *vice versa. Many symptoms are better or worse by a change of weather.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica