Mancinella

by C.M. Boger — A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica

Historical reference for practitioners and students. The statements below reflect the named author’s homeopathic teaching and do not establish treatment effectiveness. This text is not medical advice and must not replace appropriate diagnosis or care.

REGION

Surfaces: Mucous. Throat. Skin.
Mind.

WORSE

Cold: Feet. Drinks.
Dampness.
Touch.
Puberty.
Climacteric.
Irritation

. Acridity. Burning. .................... Depressed, with sexual erethism. Thoughts vanish. Forgets her errand. Terror of insanity. Emptiness in head. Pain in vertex, < lying. Eyes, smart, < closing lids; lids heavy and sore; dull ache behind. Photophobia. Face swelled; spotted; herpes on lips. Profuse, foul saliva. Throat; cutting pains; < cold drinks. Diphtheria. Chokings, ascend throat. Craves cold water. Swelled epigastrium. Bowels sore and burn. Colics or cough, < cold drinks. Ache behind sternum. Soles; biting vesicles on; desquamation; dry. Acrid, sticky foot-sweat (Sil.). Vesicles. Bullæ. Brown crusts. Scarlet fever. Pulse slow; very large and soft.

Related: Aru-t. Canth. Rhus-t.

Mancinella across the other classic books

Mancinella appears in 6 of the 21 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 — A compiled symptom record drawing on proving reports and other named observations.
“Hippomane mancinella, Linn. Natural order , Euphorbiaceæ. Common names , Manchioneal, Manzanillo. Preparation , Tincture of the fruit, leaves, and bark (Bute). Authorities.”
Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Hippomane-Manganeel Apple Skin symptoms most marked. Dermatitis, with excessive vesiculation, oozing of sticky serum and formation of crusts. To be remembered in mental depressed states at puberty and at climacteric, with exalted sexuality (Hering). Loss of vision . Pain in the thumb . Silent mood, sadness. Wandering…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Hippomane mancinella. Manchineel. Manzanillo. N. O. Euphorbiaceæ. Tincture of fruit, leaves, and bark. Asthma / Blindness / Borborygmus / Cholera infantum / Colic / Diphtheria / Eyes, affections of; inflammation of / Hair falling out / Headache / Nervous affections / Œsophagus, stricture of / Scarlatina anginosa /…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Hippomane Mancinella. Euphorbiaceæ. A poisonous tree, a native of West Indies, bearing a poisonous fruit, somewhat resembling apples. The tincture is prepared from fresh leaves, bark and fruit. Introduced and proved by Bute. See Hering's compilation, Allg. Hom. Zeit., 1850. Also proved by Mure and Ackermann…”
Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Sudden vanishing of thought. Thoughtlessness. Vivacity, looks on the bright side of everything; is inclined to sing. Bashful and taciturn. Pulsating pains in the head and neck preventing one from writing. The whole head feels; sore as if bruised, or as if it had been exposed to the sun. Stitches in the head with…”

Mancinella in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Mancinella in 648 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in EXTREMITIES (115), HEAD (71), MIND (53), STOMACH (45), MOUTH (39).

MIND - FEAR - insanity,of
FACE - ERUPTIONS - vesicles
SKIN - ERUPTIONS - vesicular
BACK - SHOCKS - electric like along the spine - Cervical region - on waking
BLADDER - PAIN - stitching,stinging - urination,before - beginning to urinate,on
MOUTH - TASTE - bloody - sleep,after,agg.
ABDOMEN - RUMBLING - motion,on
BACK - SHOCKS - electric like along the spine - Cervical region
CHEST - CONSTRICTION,tension,tightness - expectoration amel.
CHEST - PAIN - stitching - Sternum - breath,at every
HEAD - LYING - on something hard,as if
NOSE - ODORS,imaginary and real - onions
THROAT - CHOKING,constricting - Oesophagus - swallowing - fluids
THROAT - CHOKING,constricting - speaking,when
THROAT - ULCERS - burning
CHEST - OPPRESSION - expectoration amel.
CHEST - PAIN - Sternum - behind - inspiration,on
ABDOMEN - PAIN - tearing - Hypogastrium - menses,during
BACK - STIFFNESS - Cervical region - waking - on
BLADDER - PAIN - stitching,stinging - urination,before

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