COMMON NAME:
MANGANESE.
Symptoms
This is a close analogue of Iron, and will be found adapted to similar diseases (Bt.).
Violent tearing and drawing in the extremities.
Violent, nightly, digging pains in the joints.
After catching cold a red, shining swelling of the joints.
Rheumatism in the joints, with stinging and digging worse at night, often one- sided, or oblique, in association with which there is a glistening red swelling of the joints.
The whole body feels sore to contact (Arnica, Baptisia, Lachesis).
Insupportable nightly digging in the bones and periosteum (Aurum, Mercurius, Mezer., Acid nitricum, Syphilinum).
Inflammation of the bones and periosteum (Calcarea fluorica., Fluor-Ac., Mercurius, Acid nitricum, Phytolacca, Silicea).
Rhagades in the joints.
Burning heat and dryness of the eyes; lids pain on moving them, and become dry in bright light (N.).
Skin does not heal readily (Calcarea sulph., Graphites, Hepar, Silicea, Sulphur).
Chronic suppuration of the skin, especially about the joints (Petroleum) (Bt.).
Paralysis of the nerves of motion (Conium, Gelsemium, Nux vomica, Plb.) (Bt.).
Diagonal pains (B.).
Headache, worse from straining at stool (Bryonia, Conium, Gloninum, Ind., Lycopodium, Nux vomica) (B.).
Toothaches, with suddenly shifting painfulness to other parts of the body.
Many ailments change with the weather.
Difficult, dry, and knotty evacuation. (Mag-M., Plb., Sepia) (C.).
Loud cracking noise in the ears, when blowing the nose or swallowing (Graphites) (C.).
Congestion of blood to the head (Belladonna, Ferrum, Gloninum) (C.).
SPASMODIC COUGH. BETTER ON LYING DOWN (N.).
Hoarse voice (Argentum nitricum, Carbo vegetabilis, Phosphorus, Rhus toxicodendron) (G.). Raw, dry, larynx (Causticum) (B.).
Expectorating a lump of mucus (Calcarea, Kali carb., Phosphorus, Silicea) (B.).
Cough worse from reading or laughing (Phosphorus) (B.).
Hemming all the time (Br.).
Tuberculosis of larynx (Calcarea, Carbo vegetabilis, Kali bichromicum, Phosphorus, Sulphur) (Br.).
Every cold rouses up a bronchitis (Hepar, Kali carb., Lycopodium, Nat-S., Silicea) (Br.).
Haemoptysis (Causticum, Kali-P., Lachesis, Acid nitricum, Phosphorus, Rhus toxicodendron, Sepia) (Br.).
Greenish or yellow expectoration (K.).
Menses too early and too scanty (Cyclamen, Ferrum, Pulsatilla) (C.).
AGGRAVATION :
At night; on stooping; from talking; from touch; in cold, damp weather; in feather bed; from motion; from straining at stool; from reading; and from laughing.
AMELIORATION :
From lying down; and in open air.
RELATIONSHIP:
ANTIDOTES: Camph., Coffea and Mercurius
Remedies following: Pulsatilla, Rhus toxicodendron and Sulph.