Manganum
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General
Manganum.
MANGANUM ACETICUM. Acetate of Manganese. Manganous Acetate. Mn(C2H3O2)2 4H2O. Solution.
MANGANUM CARBONICUM. Carbonate of Manganese. Manganous Carbonate. MnCO3. Trituration.
Clinical
Anaemia. Ankles, weak. Asthenopia. Asthma. Bones, pains in. Brain, concussion of. Climacteric flushings. Cough. Deafness, catarrhal. Dysmenorrhoea. Ears, affection of. Gall-stones. Gout. Headache. Heel, rheumatism of. Hoarseness. Itch. Jaundice. Laryngeal phthisis. Laryngitis. Lichen. Myopia. Palate, affections of. Paraplegia. Parotitis. Periostitis. Pityriasis. Psoriasis. Rhagades. Rheumatism. Tongue, affections of. Yawning.
Characteristics
The metal Manganese was isolated in 1774, in the year Priestley discovered Oxygen. It was introduced into the materia medica by Hahnemann, who made provings of the acetate and carbonate. The symptoms of the two have not been kept separate. Manganese is a metal "having a remarkable affinity for, and in some respects a close resemblance to, iron, of which it is an extremely frequent associate." Its medicinal as well as its physical relationship with iron is very close.
It has an action on the blood-forming process like iron, and has been successfully used in cases of anaemia. There is one curious symptom they have in common: Cough > by lying down. If there is any difference, the Mang. cough is more apt to be deep, and it is also < in damp weather. Guernsey summarises the Mang. effects thus: "The bones are very sensitive; red spots on the 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 when the parotid gland is swollen and the bones are very sensitive to touch; affections of the internal ear; upper part of chest. Hoarse voice; drawing sensation of the muscles." I have frequently verified the "cough > lying down," and also this sensitiveness of the bones. Where this occurs in connection with any other condition indicating Mang. it is sure to do good.
There are single nodes on the palate (I recently cured in an elderly lady a flat growth on centre of palate with Mang. 30); bluish nodes on the skin; malignant ulcers with blue borders following slight injury. The skin will not heal, slight scratches ulcerate. Inflammation of bones and joints with insupportable nightly digging pains. Anaemia (menses too frequent and too scanty in anaemic girls); laryngeal phthisis; tuberculosis.
Chlorosis, if gastric symptoms and loss of appetite predominate. Every part of the body feels extremely sore when touched. This last is quite a keynote of Mang. Rheumatic patients cannot bear any weight on their heels.
Rheumatic symptoms with dark, almost blue spots on skin. Mang. has some remarkable paralytic symptoms. Paralysis with inclination to run forward if he tried to walk. Paralysis begins below, extending upward.
Paraplegia. Paralysis from degeneration of anterior portion of cord. The tongue symptoms of Mang. are very pronounced. Hansen (H.
W., xxiv. 64) cured with Mang. ac. 6 a case of neuralgia of the tongue following the healing of a little ulcer on surface near left border, after pencilling with lunar caustic. Shortly after the healing the patient (man, 60) had severe stinging burning at l. edge of tongue and inner side of l. cheek touching the tongue. In this state he came to Hansen after allopathic treatment. Several medicines having been given without result, Mang. ac. was chosen, and made a rapid and permanent cure.
In an article on Mang. by F. H. Pritchard (Minn. Hom.
Mag., v. 151), who cites this case, the action of the metal is thus summarised: (1) On mucous membranes: congestion and increased as well as decreased secretions. (2) Liver: a powerful cholagogue inducing inflammation and fatty degeneration. (3) Blood: destroys red corpuscles and = anaemia. (4) Bones and periosteum: sensitiveness of bones with periostitis.
(5) Skin: fissures; excoriation; suppuration. (6) Cerebro-spinal system: paralysis and progressive muscular atrophy. Pritchard quotes observations of Grille that workmen in manganese mines do not get itch; and those who come to the work with itch get cured of it. "Suppuration of skin round joints" is a characteristic of Lippe's.
The manganese waters of Cransac cause: "Ill-humour, weeping, despondency, sudden palpitation." The headaches of Mang. are boring, pressing, and proceed from above downwards. There is also a headache like concussion on every step or movement. A. W.
Palmer (quoted H. W., xxxii. 366) reports this case of catarrhal deafness cured with Mang. 6: Miss H., 38. Dull hearing; dry throat with hoarseness; itching in ears; loud rumbling, < night, r. ear, crackling on blowing nose; deafness in damp weather. The last was the guiding symptom.
Cooper gives me the following ear-cases in which Mang. ac. has proved curative: (1) A nodous appearance of malleus handle; thickened irregularly, with history of bilious headaches and of previous discharges from the ears. The tympanal membrane has a granular appearance. Purple glazed appearance of malleus handles, which are thickened and prominent, upper segment of membrane also purple and glazed. (2) Chronic periostitis of the meatus and middle ear, with otorrhoea, left ear.
(3) Otorrhoea with earache, pain shoots up from teeth to ear; the earache is worse after early dinner, up till 8 or 9 p.m. ("Pains extend to and concentrate in ears from other parts.") (4) Sensitive ears, takes cold and gets headache; history of gall-stones and jaundice; sleepy and headache in afternoon, bitter taste in morning, lips glued together; whistling tinnitus worse in a cold. (Whistling tinnitus, Mang. ac.; explosions, Mag. carb.; rasping, shrill tinnitus as well as cardiac tinnitus, pumping, K. iod.).
(5) Deafness, woman, 36, dating from 14, from over-strain in singing, when she lost voice and hearing for six months; left hearing returned, right remained deaf, worse after a cold or if over-excited or worried; subject all life to bilious attacks which last twenty-four hours and leave suddenly; head throbs, can't put it down on a pillow; headache comes on in morning on awaking and reaches a height at 3 or 4 p.m. and keeps on till next morning. (Bilious headaches went away and the hearing of right ear improved under Mang. ac. 200.) (6) Subject to sore throats and unpleasant breath, tinnitus as of blood rushing fast through the ears (whistling?), membranes translucent, anaemic, malleus handles thickened and "skeletonized"; hearing, right 1 in., left 5 in.
After taking Mang. ac. 3x, two pilules thrice daily, steady improvement went on, till hearing was right 10 in., left 20 in.; the deafness was worst in a noise. (7) Deaf from childhood, granular membranes. Mang. ac. 200 caused in a patient of Cooper's a woman, 53, excitement with feeling of whistling through the ears and general fulness of the head with swellings of hands and feet and a stinging as if frost-bitten; sight became dim with tightness round head, felt low-spirited and continual flushings.
Among the Sensations of Mang. are: Head as if larger. As if pit of stomach enlarged. Ears as if stopped. Throat as if excoriated.
Trachea as if closed with a film. As if bowels drawn together. As if tendons shortened. Nearly all symptoms are < at night, or else in morning.
Lying down >. Raising head, bending forward, bending double >; bending backward <. Lying on feather bed < (asthma). Motion, laughing, talking, walking <.
Cold <. Cold, rainy weather <. Touching with cold things <. Open air >.
Sitting bent over a fire > pain in abdomen. Contractive pain in head and dryness of lips and palate are > indoors. > or < by change of weather. > By eating;
> by swallowing. Eating = pressure in stomach and abdomen < from cold food. After eating: cramp pain in jaws; pain in rectum. Smoking > hoarseness.
Relations
Antidoted by: Coff., Merc. sol. Compatible: Puls., Rhus, Sul. Compare: Am. m. (rheumatism in heels);
Merc. (paralysis—Merc. in upper limbs first); Cina, Nux, Meph., and Plat. (cough < reading or writing);
Alo. (cracking in ear); Cupr. (psoriasis);
Lyc. (< from cold food); K. iod. (nodes on skin—K. iod. pinkish, unbearable pain;
Mang. bluish, more deeply acting); Asaf. (tumour roof of mouth;—Mang. bone somewhat involved; Asaf. many tumours, discoloured, bone deeply involved);
Con. (paralysis extending upward); Arg. n. (laryngeal cough; tuberculosis);
Dulc., Merc., &c. (< in damp weather). Compare also: Fer., K. permang., Mang. m., Mang. ox., Mang. sul.
Mind
Peevishness and taciturnity, with concentration in self
Low-spirited and reflective
Fretful
Bitterness and long rancour
Not pleased with joyous music but immediately affected by the saddest
Abstraction of mind
Dulness of the senses.
Head
Vertigo when sitting or standing; he is near falling forward; painful concussion of brain from shaking head, from walking, with aching in head and at same time in epigastrium; rush of blood from nape over vertex to forehead during motion, with stupefaction and confusion of senses while standing
Head heavy, with sensation as if it were increased in size
Burning and aching pains in head, which disappear in open air
Tensive, shooting, and drawing pain in head in open air, > in a room
Congestion in head, with pulsation, as if brain were going to suppurate, > in open air
Painful jarring of brain, when moving
Pressing, boring headache in temples, extending towards eyes and forehead, going off on bending forward, but returning on sitting up, or on bending head backward
Stitches (like needles) and darts in the l. side of forehead
Frequent rising of heat in head, with thirst
The headache which comes on in a room is > in the open air, and vice versâ
Cold feeling at small spot on vertex.
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, < or > 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 l. 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 l. mastoid process, so that he had to incline his head to r. 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, esp. in morning and evening
Pains as from ulceration in teeth, < until they become insupportable, by contact with anything cold
Toothache, lasting four or five days and returning esp. in forenoon, and 10 to 12 p.m.; sucking = 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 > by biting anything elastic, or laying forehead on table, much < 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 (l. side of) tongue
Burning pains < in tongue at night in room, > in open air
Nodosities on tongue; warts
Very salt taste on tongue, posteriorly, morning after waking, > 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 > 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, esp. in morning, and in open air, as from chronic inflammation of the larynx;
> 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 > 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, > 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.
Neck And Back
Red swollen streak on l. 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-joints), 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, esp. in limbs
Drawing and tension in limbs and joints, as from contraction of tendons, esp. when extending limbs Arthritic pains in joints (and periosteum), with shooting, jerking, and digging, < 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, esp. 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 esp. 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 > in open air, and vice versâ Many symptoms are > or < by a change of weather.
Skin
Burning all over skin, in evening, and when rising from bed
Itching tetters
The skin does not heal easily; every injury tends to ulceration
Excoriation and fissures in bend of the joints
Voluptuous itching;
> by scratching
Itching in hollow of knee and on shin.—(Psoriasis.)
Suppuration of skin round joints.
Sleep
Great weariness, with inclination to sleep, towards eight o'clock in evening
Many very vivid and anxious dreams, of which a distinct remembrance is retained
Frequent yawning
Sleeplessness with flatus and sallow complexion.
Fever
Chilliness generally in evening, with icy cold hands and feet
Shivering in evening, with shooting headache, without thirst
Shiverings, with transient heat in head
Chill with heat of head and stinging pain in forehead, which continues after the chill
Feverish heat in chest and cheeks, with painful sensitiveness of whole body to touch
Sudden flushes of heat in face, on chest, and over back
Profuse perspiration with short, anxious breathing
Nocturnal sweat, sometimes only in neck and legs, which compels scratching
Pulse very uneven and irregular, sometimes rapid, sometimes slow, but constantly soft and weak.