Hippomanes
By Constantine Hering — The Guiding Symptoms of our Materia Medica
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.
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.
The provings are by Hering, Helfrich, Floto, Reichhelm, Husman and Neidhard. See Allen's Encyclopædia, vol. 4, p. 589 .
As the remedy has not, thus far, had frequent clinical application, we give but a condensed extract from the provings.
MIND [1]
Melancholy ; a young man sits in the corner and does not want to have anything to do with the world.
Restlessness ; must move from place to place.
SENSORIUM [2]
Sensation of lightness in head.
INNER HEAD [3]
Pressive pain in temples.
Headache, with giddiness, heat in head, sleepiness, yawning, thirst.
Violent headache ; heaviness on vertex ; when walking it feels as if head would fall forward.
Headache > when lying on painful side ; < when walking in sun.
OUTER HEAD [4]
The head feels so heavy that it falls forward if he raises himself.
The hair becomes nearly dry ; falling off of hair.
SIGHT AND EYES [5]
The light of the candle looks blue.
Stitches in eyes (with headache).
Painfulness of eyes when moving them, with headache.
SMELL AND NOSE [7]
Sensation of coldness, when drawing the air in.
Bleeding of nose in morning.
LOWER FACE [9]
Involuntary twitching of under lip.
TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE [11]
Bitter taste in mouth.
Tongue coated white, with redness of tip.
INNER MOUTH [12]
Increased secretion of saliva, with headache or sore throat.
PALATE AND THROAT [13]
Painfulness of left tonsil.
Sensation of plug in throat (left side).
APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS [14]
Desire for acids, and aversion to sweet things.
HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING [16]
Nausea, especially in a draft of air, with headache.
SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH [17]
Icy coldness in stomach.
Sensation of emptiness in stomach (and head).
STOOLS AND RECTUM [20]
Soft stool, with vomiting ; discharge of prostatic fluid after micturition.
Hard stool, in balls.
Spasmodic contraction of sphincter ani.
URINARY ORGANS [21]
Frequent discharge of watery urine.
Urine discharged in a small stream, with straining-it feels as if a swelling retarded it ; prostatitis.
Drawing pain from anus through urethra.
MALE SEXUAL ORGANS [22]
Sexual desire increased.
Prostatitis.
Drawing pain in testicles.
FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS [23]
Menstruation too early.
VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA [25]
Larynx feels raw, as if air were too cold.
RESPIRATION [26]
Tickling in throat when breathing.
COUGH [27]
Cough, barking, during sleep.
INNER CHEST AND LUNGS [28]
Stitches in left side of chest.
UPPER LIMBS [32]
Left arm feels as if paralyzed.
Violent pain in wrists. θ Chorea.
Paralysis of wrist, every morning in bed.
Sensation in wrist as if sprained, especially left.
Great weakness of hands and fingers, so that he cannot hold anything.
Formication on right hand.
LOWER LIMBS [33]
Weakness, and as if sprained, in knees.
Weakness and sensation of dryness in foot joints and soles of feet.
Cramps in soles of feet, in evening.
Cold feet.
LIMBS IN GENERAL [34]
Heaviness in limbs.
REST. POSITION. MOTION [35]
Lying : on painful side, headache >.
Desire to lie down, with no relief in doing so.
If he raises himself : head feels heavy.
Must move from place to place.
Walking : head feels as if it would fall forward ; in sun headache <.
NERVES [36]
Great weakness of body and mind.
Great weakness and debility, with pale face.
Desire to lie down, with no relief on doing so.
Chorea.
TIME [38]
Morning : bleeding of nose.
Evening : cramps in soles of feet ; heat, with dull headache.
TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER [39]
Sun : < headache.
Draft of air : nausea.
Chill : > being warmly covered in bed.
FEVER [40]
Chill, beginning in back.
Chill, > being warmly covered in bed.
Heat in evening, with dull headache.
ATTACKS, PERIODICITY [41]
Every morning in bed : paralysis of wrists.
LOCALITY AND DIRECTION [42]
Right : formication on hand.
Left : painfulness of tonsil ; sensation of plug in throat ; stitches in side of chest ; arm feels paralyzed.
SENSATIONS [43]
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.
Violent pain : in head ; in wrists.
Stitches : in eyes ; in left side of chest.
Drawing pain : in testicles ; from anus through urethra.
Cramps : in soles of feet.
Dull headache.
Painfulness : of eyes ; of left tonsil.
Heat : in head.
Heaviness : on vertex ; in limbs.
Raw feeling : in larynx.
Sensation of dryness : in foot joints and soles of feet.
Sensation of emptiness : in stomach.
Great weakness : of hands and fingers ; of foot joints and soles of feet ; of body and mind.
Lightness : in head.
Tickling : in throat.
Formication : on right hand.
Itching : on skin, especially on chest, between shoulders.
Coldness : in nose when drawing air in ; in stomach.
SKIN [46]
Itching as from flannel on skin, especially on chest and between shoulders.
STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION [47]
After growing too fast. θ Chorea.
RELATIONS [48]
Antidoted by coffee.
Caustic . relieved paralysis of wrist.