Manganum (old name; prefer mang-act. or mang-c.)

Common name: manganese.

This is a close analogue of Iron, and will be found adapted to similar diseases (Bt.).

Violent tearing and drawing in the extremities.

Violent, nightly, digging pains in the joints.

After catching cold a red, shining swelling of the joints

Rheumatism in the joints, with stinging and digging worse at night, often one-sided, or oblique, in association with which there is a glistening red swelling of the joints.

The whole body feels sore to contact (Arn., Bapt., Lach.).

Insupportable nightly digging in the bones and periosteum (Aur., Merc., Mezer., Nit-Ac., Syph.).

Inflammation of the bones and periosteum (Calc-F., Fluor-Ac., Merc., Nit-Ac., Phyt., Sil.).

Rhagades in the joints.

Burning heat and dryness of the eyes; lids pain on moving them, and become dry in bright light (N.).

Skin does not heal readily (Calc-S., Graph., Hep., Sil., Sulph.).

Chronic suppurations of the skin, especially about the joints (Petr.) (Bt.).

Paralysis of the nerves of motion (Con., Gels., Nux-V. Plb.) (Bt.).

Diagonal pains (B.).

Headache, worse from straining at stool (Bry., Con., Glon., Ind., Lyc., Nux-V.) (B.).

Toothaches, with suddenly shifting painfulness to other parts of the body.

Many ailments change with the weather.

Difficult, dry, and knotty evacuations (Mag-M., Plb., Sep.) (C.).

Loud cracking noise in the ears, when blowing the nose or swallowing (Graph.) (C.).

Congestion of blood to the head (Bell., Ferr., Glon.) (C.).

SPASMODIC COUGH, BETTER ON LYING DOWN (N.).

Hoarse voice (Arg-N., Carb-V., Phos., Rhus-T.) (G.).

Raw, dry, larynx (Caust.) (B.).

Expectorating a lump of mucus (Calc., Kali-C., Phos., Sil.) (B.).

Cough worse from reading or laughing (Phos.) (B.).

Hemming all the time (Br.).

Tuberculosis of larynx (Calc., Carb-V., Kali-B., Phos., Sulph.) (Br.).

Every cold rouses up a bronchitis (Hep., Kali-C., Lyc., Nat-S., Sil.) (Br.).

Hæmoptysis (Caust., Kali-P., Lach., Nit-Ac., Phos., Rhus-T., Sep.) (Br.).

Greenish or yellow expectoration (K.).

Menses too early and too scanty (Cycl., Ferr., Puls.) (C.).

AGGRAVATION: At night; on stooping; from talking; from touch; in cold, damp weather; in feather bed; from motion; from straining at stool: from reading; and from laughing.

AMELIORATION: From lying down; and in open air.

RELATIONSHIP: Antidotes: Camph., Coff. and Merc.

Remedies following: Puls., Rhus-T. and Sulph.