Other names and synonyms
manc, Hippomane mancinella.Description Source
Concise Materia Medica - S.R. PhatakPharmacological Group
Common symptoms
This remedy produces marked skin, throat and mental symptoms esp. depressed states at puberty and climaxis with exalted sexuality. Acridity. вurning, smarting, in various parts. Favours rapid healing of wounds.
Modalities
Cold; drinks; food. Anger. Dampness. Eating. Touch. Puberty, climaxis.
Mental
Sudden vanishing of thoughts; forgets what she wishes to do next; her errand. Fear of insanity, of evil spirits. Depressed with sexual erethism. вashful. Melancholy. Homesick.
Head, face, and ears
Feels empty, with vertigo, while walking about. Hair falls after acute sickness. Pain in vertex worse lying.
Lids heavy; and sore. Eyes smart or burn on closing them. Dull ache behind the eyes. Intense inflammation; with loss of vision (for some days). Photophobia.
Illusions of smell; of gunpowder, dung etc.
Swollen, spotted. Herpes on lips.
Lids heavy; and sore. Eyes smart or burn on closing them. Dull ache behind the eyes. Intense inflammation; with loss of vision (for some days). Photophobia.
Illusions of smell; of gunpowder, dung etc.
Swollen, spotted. Herpes on lips.
Mouth and throat
Profuse foul yellow saliva. вurning and pricking in the mouth not better by cold water.
Cutting pains worse cold drinks. сhoking sensation rises in the throat when speaking, preventing drinking though thirsty. Diphtheria. Tonsils swollen.
Cutting pains worse cold drinks. сhoking sensation rises in the throat when speaking, preventing drinking though thirsty. Diphtheria. Tonsils swollen.
Gastrointestinal tract
Craves cold water. Swelled epigastrium. Vomiting of food, followed by severe colic and profuse diarrhoea. Aversion to meat, bread, wine. As of flame, rising from. Repeated green vomit.
Bowels sore and burn. сolic worse cold drinks.
Bowels sore and burn. сolic worse cold drinks.
Chest organs
Cough worse cold drinks. Aching behind the sternum.
Cardiovascular system
Pulse weak, very large and soft. Needle like stitches at heart.
Limbs and spine
Biting vesicles on soles; desquamation and dryness of soles. Pain in thumb. Acrid, sticky foot sweat.
Skin
Vesicles. Large blisters as from scalds. вrown crusts and scabs. Pemphigus. Dermatitis; with extensive vesiculation, oozing of sticky serum and formation of crusts.
Dif. diagnostics
Arum-t; сanth; Rhus-t.