Hippomanes


Hippomanes 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….


Introduction

“A normally white, usually dark olive-green, soft, glutinous, mucous substance, of a urinous odor, which floats in the allantois fluid, or is attached to the allantois membrane of the mare or cow, chiefly during the last months of pregnancy. SCHREGER (from Hering). Preparation: Trituration of a dry, dark, reddish-brown substance, said to have been obtained by the veterinary Helfrich from the tongue of a newly born filly. HERING.

Mind

Emotional. Lascivious fancies in the forenoon (first day). Homesick in the evening (second day). Apprehensiveness, anxiety about the future, in the evening (second day). He is easily frightened by an unexpected noise, and headache is caused thereby. Fretful, sleepy, during the headache, with vertigo. Fretful, discontented with himself, almost lachrymose, in the morning (third day). Uncomfortable and fretful about everything. Ill-humored, weary of life, even to suicide, in both provings (seventh day). Chatting throughout the day; therewith ill-humored, peevish (first day). Peevish, ill-humored (second day). Peevish, fretful mood (first day). Peevish, depressed (fifth day). Peevish, hypochondriac mood, nothing is good enough, in the forenoon (first day). Extremely peevish, in the evening, quarrelsome mood, with heat over the whole body (second day). He feels as though he would fight with any one. Discontented with the present condition, in the evening (second day). Intellectual. Disinclination for any kind of business; the headache, especially, was very much increased by mental exertion, in the forenoons (first days). Keeping school was very difficult for him during the proving. Aversion to study (third day). Inability to think (first and eleventh day). Inability to perform mental work; after reading a sentence, he immediately forgot the beginning of it, in the evening (third day).

Head

Confusion. Confusion of the head, especially in the evening (second day). The forehead is constantly confused, without actual pain. General Head. Is unable to hold the head erect. On rising the head falls forward as from heaviness. Inclination to bore the head into the pillow, at night, with constant turning it back and forth. Feeling of remarkable lightness in the head; something crawling or creeping, which seems to be associated with the stomach; it seems as though it would make him frantic. Feeling of emptiness in the head and abdomen (fifth day). Pains in the head from a fright. Heat of the head and pain towards morning; if he feels of the head it seems as though it were hollow, after a restless sleep. Headache, especially in the forehead (Aconite and, after an hour, Coffea relieved), (twentieth day). Headache extending into the nose. Headache in the evening, in bed. Headache, with vertigo, and with heat, especially of the head. Headache, with vertigo and stupefaction, preceded towards morning by heat in the head, then at 10 P.M. chilliness, afterwards flatulence, aversion to tobacco, thirst, ill-humor, sleepiness and frequent yawning; a few cups of coffee relieved (immediately). Headache, with nausea, as if the head were compressed (he feels it in the whole head), worse when walking a slowly, disappearing on walking rapidly and on running, also on sitting and during rest. Dull headache, with heat (fourth day). Drawing, digging pain in the head, jerk like sticking, with sticking in the eyes, in the evening, in bed (first and second days). Jerk like drawings across the head, more towards the left side (ninth day). Pressive headache, in the morning (first and second days). Pressive or pressing headache, especially in the evening (eighth day); the same pain in the forehead, in the evening (ninth day). Dull, pressive headache, worse in the upper part, beneath the parietal bones; in the evening after lying down, immediately after the dose. Feeling as though very fine electric shocks were shooting through the brain. Throbbing in the head, after lying down in the evening, soon. Mental exertion aggravates the headache. The headache is aggravated on walking when the sun shines in the face, it becomes better in the shade. Headache more continuous in the room than in the open air. Forehead. Dull drawing pain in the forehead and temples, continuing a long time, especially in the forenoon; it seems as though the forehead had been beaten together with pains in the eyes if they become moistened; only relieved in the evening. Pressive pain in the whole forehead, which is worse over the eyes and towards the temples, in the afternoon (third day). Dull pressive headache across the whole forehead, especially in the left side, towards evening (first day). Crawling, burrowing, throbbing in the frontal sinuses, above the nose, extending thence into the nasal bones (sixth day). Temples. Compression of both temples. Pressure first in the left and then in the right temple. Pressive pain in the temples (first and second days, evening of the third and morning of the fourth day). Pressive pain in the left temples, also extending across the forehead and the right temple, especially on motion, towards noon (third day). Vertex. Violent headaches; heaviness on the vertex, on walking it seems as though the head would fall forward. Parietals. Pressive headache on the right side, with vertigo and aching in the eyes, worse on motion and stooping; with much saliva in mouth and no appetite. An undulating, swinging, pressive headache under the parietal bone in the morning; later in the forenoon the same pain extending from the vertex to the right temple, where it becomes fixed (first and second days). He could lie better on the aching than on the other side of the head. Occiput. A pinching pain in the left side of the occiput, at 10 P.M. External Head. Many white hairs on the head of a young man (second week). The hair is dry as if dead (after second week). The hair is much dryer and harsher than usual. Falling of the hair. Itching eruption on the scalp, in the evening (third day). Itching on the scalp, in the morning (second day).

Eye

Objective. Staring look (fourth day). Subjective. The eyes are painful on moving them, with pain in the forehead. Burning in the eyes and lachrymation during the headache. Burning in the eyes; it constantly seems as though he should go to sleep, at first more in the left than in the right eye. Aching of the eyes, during the headache. Very acute pressure in the right eye, as from a grain of sand, in the evening, lasting two or three hours. Sticking in the eyes during the headache. He constantly places the body and especially the head in such a position that he can involuntarily turn the eyes with greater freedom, in the morning (fourth day). Brow. Pain like a heaviness above the eyes and in the forehead. Sticking pain above the right eye, in the evening. Lids. Frequent twinging in the left lower eyelid (eleventh day). Lachrymal Apparatus. Lachrymation on drawing air through the nose. Vision. Candlelight seems to have a blue color. Red, blue, green, round spots before the eyes, on walking in the street, a very much larger one in the middle with smaller ones about it; they disappear on going into the house, and it becomes dark and black before the eyes.

Ear

Feeling in the left ear, in the afternoon and evening, as if it would discharge, obliging him to bore into it (after three weeks). Stitches in the left ear, with boring tearing pain. Crackling in the left ear, in the evening while sitting; it comes on about every five minutes and then disappears.

Nose

Objective. Twitching and itching of the nose. Vibrating or slight twitching in the left side of the nose. Nosebleed, in the morning (fifth day). Small blackish clots of blood come from the nose and mouth. Subjective. Feeling of coldness in the nose, during inspiration (tenth day). The air passes cold through the nose into the air passages; he feels as if the mucous membrane of the nose and larynx was wanting or raw, and as though much more air than usual passed through the nostrils. Feeling of stopped coryza, chilliness, thirst, and headache.

Face

Paleness of the face, with weakness. Heat of the face, in the morning (fourth day); also in the evening (third day); with aggravation of the mental symptoms. Involuntary jerking of the lower lip (first day).

Mouth

Toothache in the left maxilla (first day). Tongue coated white, red at the tip. A fixed, burning sore pain in the mouth above the incisors, by the upper jaw, lasting several days (second week). Much saliva in the mouth with headache, with sore throat. Bitter taste in the mouth.

Throat

Pains in the throat, with chilliness, in the evening. Pains in the throat; feeling of a lump in the left side of the throat, when swallowing and on talking, in the morning. Pain in the throat, extending from the palate to the larynx, in the evening (third day). Tickling irritation low down in the throat. Tickling in the throat, which provokes cough. Tickling in the throat, during inspiration. The tonsils, especially the left, begin to ache, from morning till 10 A.M. together with much saliva in the mouth. Tenacious mucus in the fauces, in the morning.

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.