Mancinella.
Hippomane mancinella. Manchineel. Manzanillo. N. O. Euphorbiaceć.
Tincture of fruit, leaves, and bark.Clinical.─
Asthma. Blindness. Borborygmus. Cholera
infantum. Colic. Diphtheria. Eyes, affections of; inflammation of. Hair falling out.
Headache. Nervous affections. Śsophagus, stricture of. Scarlatina anginosa. Sore throat.
Stomatitis. Tongue, patched. Typhoid fever.
Characteristics.─
Manc.
is a species of the Euphorbiaceć, and has all the virulent properties of the family in a
high degree. It is one of the trees around which the upas legends have clustered. “It
is certain that the juice, which resembles pure white milk, does possess a considerable
amount of acridity, and that some persons suffer great pain from incautiously handling it. .
. . Perhaps its most dangerous property is that of causing blindness, if by chance the least
drop of the milk, or smoke of the burning wood, comes in contact with the eyes. Dr. Seeman
states that at Veraguas some of the ship’s carpenters were blinded for several days by the
juice getting into their eyes while cutting down Manchineel trees; while he himself suffered
from temporary loss of sight from merely gathering specimens; and that the same accident
happened to a boat’s crew from making a fire. Salt water is said to be an efficacious
remedy” (Treas. of Bot.). Manc.
was introduced into homśopathy by Bute, who proved it. It was also proved by Mure and
Ackermann. The symptoms induced were very intense. Burning was experienced in all parts,
vesication and ulceration of the skin and mucous membranes. Head, eyes, throat, abdomen and
rectum were the parts most affected. A leading feature of many symptoms was < by drinking cold water. Cough <
from drinking water. There is general > from heat
when lying down; but warmth of stove < headache; and
there is inclination to uncover. Cough is < at night.
Among peculiar sensations are: Head feels as, if
bruised; or as if it had been exposed to the sun. Ears as if closed.─Electric
thrusts in upper part of throat. As if flames rising from stomach. As if stomach drew
together in a lump and then suddenly opened. Head as if hollow; as if lying on something
hard. As if something alive in stomach. Med. Cent. (ii.
112) quotes from Revist. Omeop. the case of a lady who
for several years was possessed with the fixed idea that she would become insane. She had
become a wife and mother, but still the idea possessed her. Happening to see in Puhlmann’s Therapeutics that Manc. has
“fear of getting crazy,” she took Manc. 12 and
was permanently cured.
Relations.─
Compare:
Crot. t., jatro., Euphorb. (bot.); Canth. (erythema; vesication of skin; scarlatina); Caps.
(burning pains < by cold water); Ars.
SYMPTOMS.
1. Mind.─
Sudden vanishing of thought, forgets
from one moment to next what she wishes to do.─Everything irksome.─Fear:
of getting crazy; of evil spirits.─Averse to work and answering
questions.─Sadness.─Anxiety; before menses.─Homesick.─Bashful
and taciturn; timid look.─< From anger
and after eating.
2. Head.─
Vertigo: stupefying; with loss of
consciousness; morning on rising.─Sense of lightness (or emptiness) in
head while walking about room.─Sticking pressure from vertex through
brain, at noon.─Sudden Sticking in r. temple and above eye.─Stitches:
in temples; in head with sleeplessness; over l. eye.─Headache: with
impatience; caused by candle-light; < from warmth of
stove.─Pulsating pains in head and neck, preventing writing.─Whole
head feels as if bruised, or as after exposure to sun.─Itching of scalp;
hair falls out after severe acute diseases.
3. Eyes.─
Blue circles round eyes.─Intense
inflammation causing blindness for some days.─Much swelling of lids.─Objects
waver before eyes.─Sensation of heaviness and dryness of eyes and lids.─Burning:
in eyes, headache from candle-light; of eyelids, only when closing them.
4. Ears.─
Ears feel as if closed.─Redness
and heat of ears.─Ringing, roaring, drumming; noise like voices in ears.
5. Nose.─
Pressure at root of nose.─Dryness.
6. Face.─
Face: swollen; pale; pale, yellow,
bloated.─Heat rising to face; soon after, painful itching, stitching,
and burning, lasting all day; next morning face swollen; towards noon minute vesicles with
yellow fluid; next day, desquamation.─Lips pale; pricking pains.─Lower
lip hangs down.─Numerous small vesicles on chin which desquamate.
8. Mouth.─
Very bitter taste.─Taste:
bloody; < after sleep.─Tongue:
coated white except in several, sharply defined clean spots; coated white as in aphthć;
dry; burning.─Unendurable burning and prickling in mouth, not > by cold water.─Whole mouth and tongue
covered with small vesicles.─Saliva: increased; yellow; fetid.─Offensive
breath, perceptible to herself.─Large blisters on palate.
9. Throat.─
Great elongation of uvula.─Heat
in pharynx and down śsophagus without thirst.─Great dryness, on waking;
stitches.─Choking sensation rises in throat when speaking; prevents
drinking though thirsts for cold water.─Great swelling and suppurating
of tonsils with danger of suffocation; whistling breathing.─White,
yellowish, burning ulcers on tonsils and in throat.
10. Appetite.─
Thirst: for cold water; and
aversion to wine and alcohol.─Aversion to meat and bread.─Can
take only liquid food on account of soreness of mouth.
11. Stomach.─
Drinking water < bloatedness and pain in stomach.─After
drinking water; colic; pain in abdomen.─Ineffectual desire to eructate
or gag with excessive nausea.─Continual choking sensation rising from
stomach as pressure of wind, with weakness and palpitation.─Repeated
green vomit.─Sour, greasy vomit with aversion to water; on vomit floats
a white mass like coagulated fat.─Vomiting of food, followed by severe
colic and profuse diarrhśa.─Vomiting >
headache.─Burning: in stomach and throat, with nausea; in pit of
stomach.─Pit of stomach swollen and sensitive to pressure.─Distension
and pain in region of stomach.─Sensation as of flames rising from
stomach.─Sensation as if stomach drew together in a lump and then
suddenly opened.
12. Abdomen.─
Rumbling in l. side when bending to
r.─Sudden sticking in l. hypochondrium.─Pain in l.
hypochondrium in a spot as large as a florin, compelling her to press there with hand;
rumbling in l. side when lying on r., also with every respiration; none when lying on l.
side.─Wandering pains in abdomen.─Pains through
bowels after drinking water.─Loud rumbling; renewed by every motion and
deep breath, with headache which is much < near warm
stove.─Colic: after drinking water; with diarrhśa (at midnight), with
fainting, constipation alternating with diarrhśa.─Abdomen: distended;
sore as if bruised; rash on.
13. Stool and Anus.─
Fulness in rectum with hollow
feeling in stomach.─Profuse diarrhśa with colic and vertigo.─Many
bloody stools with colic, inclination to sleep, and vertigo.─Greenish
stools without blood.─Diarrhśa: with burning in abdomen and anus;
alternating with constipation; with cutting in abdomen and much discharge of flatus.─Stools:
frequent, thin, watery, with vomiting; painful, black, fetid, bloody, with tenesmus.─After
stool: pulsation in anus, discharge of fetid blood from piles.─Constipation.
14. Urinary Organs.─
Tired feeling in region of
kidneys (as if bruised) with inclination to rub parts, and frequent stretching back of body.─Stitches
in bladder before and at beginning of urination.─Burning in urethra.─Urine:
brown; whitish, clouded on standing.
15. Male Sexual Organs.─
Increased sexual desire.─Itching
on scrotum.
16. Female Sexual Organs.─
Pale menstrual flow;
colic.─Before menses: congestion of head.
17. Respiratory Organs.─
Nasal tone of voice.─Choking
sensation rising into throat hindering speech.─In larynx: scraping;
cutting; tension.─Whistling breathing.─Asthma,
chronic.─Frequent hawking with nausea.─Violent cough
and painful stitches in trachea from slightest exertion.─Cough: < night; after drinking.─Expectoration > oppression of chest.
18. Chest.─
Constriction of chest.─Rattling
in l. chest.─Suffocative attacks with pulsation in chest while coughing,
or as soon as he begins to talk.─Pain in centre of sternum, < from pressure and from breathing.
19. Heart.─
Needle-like stitches in heart.─Palpitation.
20. Neck and Back.─
Painful stiffness of neck,
esp. after sleep.─Stitches in l. scapula and l. breast at intervals.─Painful
stiffness in small of back.
21. Limbs.─
Icy coldness of hands and feet.
22. Upper Limbs.─
Trembling and heaviness of arms;
of hands.─Hands numb on waking.─Painful stiffness of
finger-joints.─Hands as if too thick; asleep; heavy and clumsy.─Blue
finger-nails.
23. Lower Limbs.─
Quivering and jerking in legs in
attacks.─Trembling of legs.─Needle-like stitches in
legs; under heel from within, out.─Tingling in feet when sitting.─Burning
in soles; with dry feeling.─Desquamation of soles at end of fever.─Large
vesicles, esp. on soles.
24. Generalities.─
Lassitude and indescribable
uncomfortable feeling in limbs; much stretching.─Fainting with
intestinal colic.─Convulsions.
25. Skin.─
Redness of skin (hands).─Small
vesicles, followed by desquamation.─Sequelć of scarlatina.─Favours
rapid healing of wounds.─Fungoid growths, esp. syphilitic.
26. Sleep.─
Great sleepiness; ineffectual desire
to yawn.─Wakes as from electric shocks on neck (above larynx).─On
awaking, hands asleep, heavy.─After sleep: mouth bitter; throat dry;
neck stiff.
27. Fever.─
Chill: icy cold hands and feet.─Flushes
of heat, with sensation as if flames rose out of region of stomach, on account of which he
threw off clothes.─Burning heat, with inclination to cover.─Moderate
fever, severe headache, must lie down.─Cold sweat.─Fever
with tingling of skin, desire to uncover, painful swelling, profuse micturition.® 2000
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