MANGANUM ACETICUM- a snapshot

  • Stoic face, like a mask
  • Involuntary laughter and weeping
  • Weepy, moaning and groaning
  • Anxiety > lying down
  • Asthmatics cannot lie on feather pillows
  • Low monotonous voice
  • Body extremely painful, feels bruised and sore to touch
  • Pains from different parts settle in ears.
  • Very much affected by sad music
  • Delayed first menses
  • Paraplegia
  • Ant horn of spinal cord affected
  • Gait
    • Slapping gait
    • Festinating gait
    • Walks backwards
  • Paralysis
    • Ascending, lower limbs affected first
  • Ears
    • Deafness from exposure to cold damp
    • Whistling tinnitus (compare KALI IOD)
    • Ears open up on blowing nose
  • Nose
    • Chronic catarrhal condition
    • Dryness
  • Larynx
    • Raw, expectoration of mucus
    • Sore throat of singers, speakers
    • Laryngeal pthisis and consequent aphonia
  • Every cold rouses a bronchitis (DULC)
  • Flushes of heat at climacteric
  • Nodes on palate (compare ASAFOETIDA)
  • Hot breath
  • Pruritis of diabetes
  • All complaints
    • < night, cold damp weather
      • Lying down
  • Rheumatism
    • Pain in joints after exposure to cold
    • Red swollen joints
    • Eruptions and suppurations around joints
  • Skin
    • Rhagades in bent of joints
    • Red raised spots on skin
  • Severe bone pains
  • Anaemia, jaundice, nephritis with albuminuria        
  • Ulcers and warts on tongue
  • Salivation with complaints: colic, paralysis etc
  • Headache
    • < straining at stool (? Increased intracranial pressure)
  • Weak ankles

(Think of this remedy in neurological complaints)