Manganum Aceticum

► Constant whining, moaning, or groaning. ► Silent, reserved, peevish. ► Ill-humored, vexed over trifles. ► Low-spirited.

► All the senses less acute. ► Head feels heavy, it seems larger.

► Congestion of blood to the head, with throbbing in head ; better in the open air. ► Pressing, boring headache in the temples, extending towards eyes and forehead, going off on bending forward, returning on sitting up, or on bending head backward. ► Stitches (like needles) and darts in left side of forehead. ► Jarring of the brain, from motion of the head. ► Drawing, stinging or tensive headache in open air, better in-doors. ► Headaches arising in room, better in open air, or vice versa.

► Cold feeling at a small spot on the vertex.

► Shortsighted. ► Pupils much dilated or contracted. ► Burning in eyes and dimsightedness during the day. ► Pressure in the eyes when reading by candle-light. ► Burning heat and dryness of the eyes. ► Eyelids swollen and painful to touch.

► Whizzing and rushing in the ears. ► Croaking sound in the right ear when walking. ► Dull hearing : relieved by blowing the nose ; worse during cold and rainy weather. ► Fulness of the ears, with difficult hearing and cracking when blowing the nose or swallowing. ► Sudden stitching pain in the deaf ear. ► Drawing cramp in the muscles in the region of the left mastoid process, so that he had to incline his head to the right side. ► Swelling of left parotid, with a reddish hue. θ Typhus.

► Coryza dry, with complete obstruction of nostrils ; crampy pain at the root of nose ; worse in wet, cold weather. ► Nose sore to the touch, worse in the evening.

► Twitching stitches from the lower jaw to the temples, when laughing.

► Face pale, sunken. ► Eruptions and ulcers at the corners of the mouth. ► Dry, parched lips, with shriveled skin without thirst. ► Clear vesicles on the upper lip.

► Smarting toothache, made insupportable when anything cold touches the tooth. ► Violent toothache suddenly going from one place to another up in ears.

► Oily taste in the mouth. ► Burning vesicles on the left side of the tongue. ► Nodosities on the tongue ; warts.

► Smell from the mouth as of clay or earth (early in the morning after rising).

► Sore : as if excoriated, with cutting pains, independent of swallowing ; palate and lips dry, worse in the open air ; when swallowing, stitches into both ears ; worse when coughing, with husky voice ; feet and ankles swollen. ► Throat dry, scratching, feeling as if the trachea was closed with a leaf.

► Aversion to food from a feeling of satiety. ► Thirstlessness.

► While eating : pressing in stomach and abdomen, more from cold food, especially in weakly females. ► After eating : cramp pain in jaws ; pain in rectum (after dinner).

► Rising from stomach, like heartburn.

► Burning in stomach, extending to chest ; sometimes with great restlessness. ► Pressing soreness in the epigastrium.

► Pressure in the hypochondria.

► Warm contraction extending from middle of abdomen to chest, with nausea. ► Cutting in region of navel when taking a long inspiration. ► When walking, sensation as if bowels were loose and shaking about. ► Abdomen distended bloated.

► Passes much flatus. ► Stools yellow, granular, with tenesmus and constriction of anus. ► Costive, stool seldom, dry, knotty, difficult.

► Desire to urinate frequently ; cutting in middle of urethra between micturition. ► Urine profuse. ► Sediment violent, earthy.

► Sensation of weakness in genitals, with burning and drawing in spermatic cords, extending to glans. ► Itching in interior of scrotum, which cannot be relieved by pinching and rubbing.

► Menses too early and too scanty ; bearing-down pains, great weakness, but tardy or flow absent. ► Discharge of blood between periods, and pressing in genitals.

► Hoarseness : with coryza ; with tickling cough ; rough speech in early morning or in open evening air. ► Voice not clear, as from phlegm, worse mornings.

► Breath hot and burning, with disagreeable heat in chest. ► Pain in second left rib, from talking. ► Pains in head, ears, arms, stomach, worse from breathing, talking, or laughing.

► Causes darting in parietal bones ; dry, incessant from irritation of mid-sternum ; better lying down. ► Dry cough from loud reading, with painful dryness, roughness and constriction of larynx. ► Sputum of greenish or yellow lumps, easily raised in morning ; or difficult, of tough mucus. ► Reddish phlegm. ► Bloody expectoration.

► Stitches in chest and sternum, running up and down. ► Beating in the chest. ► Warm contraction extending from middle of abdomen to chest, with nausea. ► Bruised pain in upper chest when stooping, better by raising head.

► Palpitation of the heart, strong, irregular, trembling, without abnormal sounds. ► Sudden shocks at the heart and in left side of chest from above downward. ► Pulse very uneven and irregular, sometimes rapid, sometimes slow, but constantly soft and weak.

► Red, swollen streak on left side of neck. ► Stiffness of the nape of the neck. ► Tearing in whole spinal column, from above downward. ► Pain in small of back on bending backward.

► Pains as from a sprain in shoulder-joint. ► Rheumatic pains extending from shoulder to fingers. ► Gnawing and boring in humerus, as if in the marrow. ► Tension in the elbow-joint, as if too short. ► Tensive pain in the joints of the arms and wrists. ► Rhagades in the bends of the fingers. ► Hands when closed or stretched feel swollen. ► Chronic swelling and suppuration of the little finger.

► Tension, drawing stitches in the thigh. ► Twitching of muscles in legs from least exertion. ► Trembling and unsteadiness of the knees. ► Tearing in the knees. ► Tension and stiffness in the legs. ► Inflammation and swelling of the ankle, with stitches extending to the lower legs. ► Burning of the soles of the feet. ► Rawness between the toes. ► Excruciating pains in left big toe, worse at night and from touch, must change his position. ► Rheumatism in feet ; cannot bear weight on heel.

► Rheumatism shifts from joint to joint, generally crosswise ; red, shining swellings ; worse from touch or motion, or at night ; drawing as from shortening of tendons.

► Weakness and trembling, especially of the joints.

► Much yawning. ► Feels sleepy early in the evening. ► Many vivid dreams, which are well remembered.

► Chill generally in the evening, shooting headache, icy-cold hands and feet. ► Shaking chill, with heat of the head, stinging in forehead, continuing after chill. ► Sudden flushes of heat in face, on chest and over back. ► Heat and sweat, with moderate thirst. ► Sweat profuse, with short, anxious breathing. ► Night-sweats ; itching, often only on the neck and lower legs.

► Burning over whole body ; in evening when rising from bed. ► Unbearable pains in bones and periosteum, like digging, worse at night ; also digging in joints.

► Inflammation of bones, with nightly, insupportable, digging pains. ► All the bones, particularly in lower limbs, sensitive to touch. θ Typhus. ► Inflammation of joints, with digging pains at night. ► Inflammatory swellings and suppuration.

► Every part of the body feels extremely sore when touched. ► Touch : 5, 7, 33, 34, 45. Rubbing and pinching : 22.

► Rhagades in bends of joints, with soreness. ► Itching in hollow of knee and on shin, worse sweating. ► Itching on palms, with red spots ; lips sore. ► Burning in small, red spots, on chest, arms, hands and feet, accompanying rheumatism.

► Antidote to Mangan. : Coffea.