Hippomanes

by William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory

A Meconium Deposit out of the Amniotic Fluid taken from the Colt

The old famous Aphrodisiacum of the Greek authors.

Stomach

Icy coldness in stomach.

Male

Sexual desire increased. Prostatitis. Drawing pain in testicles.

Extremities

Violent pain in wrist. Paralysis of wrists. Sprained sensation in wrist . Great weakness of hands and fingers. Weakness in joints of feet, knee, and soles. Chorea . Much weakness after growing too fast.

Relationship

Compare: Caustic .

Dose

Sixth to thirtieth potency.

Hippomanes across the other classic books

Hippomanes appears in 5 of the 13 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.

Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“"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." -SCHREGER (from Hering). Preparation , Trituration of a dry, dark…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“"A normally white, usually dark olive green, soft, glutinous mucous substance, of a urinous odour, 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" (Hering). Trituration of the dried substance taken from the tongue of a…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“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…”
Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Headache, with giddiness, heat in the head, sleepiness, yawning, thirst. Violent headache; heaviness on the vertex; when walking, it feels as if the head would fall forward. The head feels so heavy that it falls forward if he raises; himself. Pressing pain in the temples. The headache is worse when walking in the sun…”

Hippomanes in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Hippomanes in 241 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in HEAD (81), MIND (58), EXTREMITIES (19), STOMACH (8), STOOL (8).

MIND - SITS quite stiff - still
MIND - SIT,inclination to
MIND - SADNESS,mental depression
STOMACH - COLDNESS - icy
MIND - SITS quite stiff - wrapped in deep,sad thoughts,as if,and notices nothing
MIND - TRAVEL,desire to
RECTUM - CONSTRICTION,contraction,closure,etc - spasmodic
BACK - ITCHING - Dorsal region. . - scapulae - between
HEAD - INFLAMMATION of brain - meninges
MIND - SPOKEN to,averse to being
STOMACH - COLDNESS
GENERALITIES - CHOREA
MIND - COMPANY, - aversion to
MIND - TALK, - indisposed to desire to be silent,taciturn
STOMACH - EMPTINESS,weak feeling,faintness,goneness,hungry feeling
HEAD - PAIN, - Temples
GENERALITIES - WEAKNESS,enervation
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - sore,bruised - Toes - bending foot
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - tearing - Upper Limbs - stretching them,on
EXTREMITIES - PARALYSIS - Wrist - morning

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