====== HIPPOMANES ====== {{anchor:s1}}Hippomanes. {{anchor:s2}}A normally white, usually dark olive green, soft, glutinous, mucous substance, of a urinous odor, which floats in the allantois fluid, or is attached to the allantois membrane of the mare or cow chiefly during the last months of pregnancy. {{anchor:s3}}Triturations were made from the dried substance obtained from Rev. John Helfrich (one of the provers and an associate of the Allentown Academy) who took it from the tongue of a newly born filly. {{anchor:s4}}The provings are by Hering, Helfrich, Floto, Reichhelm, Husman and Neidhard. {{anchor:s5}}See Allen's Encyclopaedia, vol. 4, p. 589. {{anchor:s6}}As the remedy has not, thus far, had frequent clinical application, we give but a condensed extract from the provings. ====== MIND. [1] ====== {{anchor:s8}}Melancholy; a young man sits in the corner and does not want to have anything to do with the world.\\ {{anchor:s9}}Restlessness; must move from place to place. ====== SENSORIUM. [2] ====== {{anchor:s11}}Sensation of lightness in head. ====== INNER HEAD. [3] ====== {{anchor:s13}}Pressive pain in temples.\\ {{anchor:s14}}Headache, with giddiness, heat in head, sleepiness, yawning, thirst.\\ {{anchor:s15}}Violent headache; heaviness on vertex; when walking it feels as if head would fall forward.\\ {{anchor:s16}}Headache amel. when lying on painful side; agg. when walking in sun. ====== OUTER HEAD. [4] ====== {{anchor:s18}}The head feels so heavy that it falls forward if he raises himself.\\ {{anchor:s19}}The hair becomes nearly dry; falling off of hair. ====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ====== {{anchor:s21}}The light of the candle looks blue.\\ {{anchor:s22}}Stitches in eyes (with headache).\\ {{anchor:s23}}Painfullness of eyes when moving them, with headache. ====== SMELL AND NOSE. [7] ====== {{anchor:s25}}Sensation of coldness, when drawing the air in.\\ {{anchor:s26}}Bleeding of nose in morning. ====== LOWER FACE. [9] ====== {{anchor:s28}}Involuntary twitching of under lip. ====== TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] ====== {{anchor:s30}}Bitter taste in mouth.\\ {{anchor:s31}}Tongue coated white, with redness of tip. ====== INNER MOUTH. [12] ====== {{anchor:s33}}Increased secretion of saliva, with headache or sore throat. ====== PALATE AND THROAT. [13] ====== {{anchor:s35}}Painfullness of left tonsil.\\ {{anchor:s36}}Sensation of plug in throat (left side). ====== APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] ====== {{anchor:s39}}Desire for acids, and aversion to sweet things. ====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ====== {{anchor:s41}}Nausea, especially in a draft of air, with headache. ====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ====== {{anchor:s43}}Icy coldness in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s44}}Sensation of emptiness in stomach (and head). ====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ====== {{anchor:s46}}Soft stool, with vomiting; discharge of prostatic fluid after micturition.\\ {{anchor:s47}}Hard stool, in balls.\\ {{anchor:s48}}Spasmodic contraction of sphincter ani. ====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ====== {{anchor:s50}}Frequent discharge of watery urine.\\ {{anchor:s51}}Urine discharged in a small stream, with straining-it feels as if a swelling retarded it; prostatitis.\\ {{anchor:s52}}Drawing pain from anus through urethra. ====== MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] ====== {{anchor:s54}}Sexual desire increased.\\ {{anchor:s55}}Prostatitis.\\ {{anchor:s56}}Drawing pain in testicles. ====== FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23] ====== {{anchor:s58}}Menses too early. ====== VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] ====== {{anchor:s61}}Larynx feels raw, as if air were too cold. ====== RESPIRATION. [26] ====== {{anchor:s63}}Tickling in throat when breathing. ====== COUGH. [27] ====== {{anchor:s65}}Cough, barking, during sleep. ====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ====== {{anchor:s67}}Stitches in left side of chest. ====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ====== {{anchor:s69}}Left arm feels as if paralyzed.\\ {{anchor:s70}}Violent pain in wrists. {{anchor:s71}}~ Chorea.\\ {{anchor:s72}}Paralysis of wrist, every morning in bed.\\ {{anchor:s73}}Sensation in wrist as if sprained, especially left.\\ {{anchor:s74}}Great weakness of hands and fingers, so that he cannot hold anything.\\ {{anchor:s75}}Formication on right hand. ====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ====== {{anchor:s77}}Weakness, and as if sprained, in knees.\\ {{anchor:s78}}Weakness and sensation of dryness in foot joints and soles of feet.\\ {{anchor:s79}}Cramps in soles of feet, in evening.\\ {{anchor:s80}}Cold feet. ====== LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] ====== {{anchor:s82}}Heaviness in limbs. ====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ====== {{anchor:s86}}Lying: on painful side, headache amel.\\ {{anchor:s87}}Desire to lie down, with no relief in doing so.\\ {{anchor:s88}}If he raises himself: head feels heavy.\\ {{anchor:s89}}Must move from place to place.\\ {{anchor:s90}}Walking: head feels as if it would fall forward; in sun headache agg. ====== NERVES. [36] ====== {{anchor:s92}}Great weakness of body and mind.\\ {{anchor:s93}}Great weakness and debility, with pale face.\\ {{anchor:s94}}Desire to lie down, with no relief on doing so.\\ {{anchor:s95}}Chorea. ====== TIME. [38] ====== {{anchor:s97}}Morning: bleeding of nose.\\ {{anchor:s98}}Evening: cramps in soles of feet; heat, with dull headache. ====== TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] ====== {{anchor:s100}}Sun: agg. headache.\\ {{anchor:s101}}Draft of air: nausea.\\ {{anchor:s102}}Chill: amel. being warmly covered in bed. ====== FEVER. [40] ====== {{anchor:s104}}Chill, beginning in back.\\ {{anchor:s105}}Chill, amel. being warmly covered in bed.\\ {{anchor:s106}}Heat in evening, with dull headache. ====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ====== {{anchor:s108}}Every morning in bed: paralysis of wrists. ====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ====== {{anchor:s110}}Right: formication on hand.\\ {{anchor:s111}}Left: painfullness of tonsil; sensation of plug in throat; stitches in side of chest; arm feels paralyzed. ====== SENSATIONS. [43] ====== {{anchor:s113}}As if head would fall forward when walking; as of a plug in throat; as if a swelling retarded urine; as if air was too cold for larynx; left arm feels as if paralyzed; left wrist as if sprained.\\ {{anchor:s114}}Violent pain: in head; in wrists.\\ {{anchor:s115}}Stitches: in eyes; in left side of chest.\\ {{anchor:s116}}Drawing pain: in testicles; from anus through urethra.\\ {{anchor:s117}}Cramps: in soles of feet.\\ {{anchor:s118}}Dull headache.\\ {{anchor:s119}}Painfullness: of eyes; of left tonsil.\\ {{anchor:s120}}Heat: in head.\\ {{anchor:s121}}Heaviness: on vertex; in limbs.\\ {{anchor:s122}}Raw feeling: in larynx.\\ {{anchor:s123}}Sensation of dryness: in foot joints and soles of feet.\\ {{anchor:s124}}Sensation of emptiness: in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s125}}Great weakness: of hands and fingers; of foot joints and soles of feet; of body and mind.\\ {{anchor:s126}}Lightness: in head.\\ {{anchor:s127}}Tickling: in throat.\\ {{anchor:s128}}Formication: on right hand.\\ {{anchor:s129}}Itching: on skin, especially on chest, between shoulders.\\ {{anchor:s130}}Coldness: in nose when drawing air in; in stomach. ====== SKIN. [46] ====== {{anchor:s132}}Itching as from flannel on skin, especially on chest and between shoulders. ====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ====== {{anchor:s134}}After growing too fast. {{anchor:s135}}~ Chorea. ====== RELATIONS. [48] ====== {{anchor:s137}}Antidoted by coffee.\\ {{anchor:s138}}Caustic. relieved paralysis of wrist. ---- ====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ====== ^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 06, 1888 | ^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r447|Hippomanes]] | ^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r447|Hippomanes]] | ^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. | ^ Year: | 1888 | ^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting | ^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}