The old famous Aphrodisiacum of the Greek authors.
HIPPOMANES
HOMOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D. Presented by Médi-T
Remedy Origin / Source
Natural
Commentaries
Commentary and literature analysis from various clinical authorities:
- ABSCESSES IN KIDNEY
- ABSCESSESINFLAMMATION OF MEMBRANES BRAIN
- ALBUMEN IN URINE
- ANGER FEVER DURING
- APHORISMS
- AS OF PLUG IN THROAT
- BONE OF SKULL AND FACE MOST FRONTAL NECROSED
- BRONCHITISSUFFOCATION FROM EXCESSIVE SECRETION IS IMMINENT
- BUCCAL PASSAGES FILLED WITH TENACIOUS LYMPH AND MUCUS
- BUCCAL PASSAGES FILLED WITH TENACIOUS LYMPH MUCUS
- CARIES OF NASAL BONE
- CARIES OF NASAL BONES NECROSED SEPTUM
- CARTILAGE OF NOSE BECOME EXPOSED AND NECROSED SEPTUM
- CARTILAGES OF THE NOSE ARE DESTROYED
- CONTRACTION OF LOWER LIP
- CONTRACTION OF SPHINCTER ANI
- COUGH BARKING DURING SLEEP
- COUGH CICATRICIAL CONTRACTION OF MUCUS MEMBRANE NOSE LARYNX
- COUGH OBSTRUCTED RESPIRATION DUE CICATRICIAL CONTRACTION MUCOUS MEMBRANE NOSE LARYNX
- COUGH OBSTRUCTED RESPIRATION DUE CICATRICIAL CONTRACTION OF MUCOUS MEMBRANE
- DESIRE FOR ACIDS AND AVERSION TO SWEET THINGS
- DIPHTHERIA AGONIZED WITH BUCCAL ULCERATIONS
- DISCONTENTED WITH PRESENT CONDITION LACHRYMOSE
- DRYNESS OF MUCUS MEMBRANE MOUTH AND PHARYNX
- DYSPNOEA FROM LARYNX OR LUNG BRONCHITIS ASTHMA
- FAINTING TURNS WITH HEADACHE
- FEVER EVENING HEADACHE
- FEVERABSCESSES AND ULCERS
- FRIGHTENED BY AN UNEXPECTED NOISE SO HEADACHE
- GLANDS SWOLLEN PAINFUL FORM ABSCESSES
- HAIE DRY FALLING OFF
- HANDS AND FINGER WEAK COULD NOT HOLD THEM TIGHTLY TOGETHER
- HEADACHE ON RIGHT SIDE VERTIGO FAINT
- HEADACHE WITH VERTIGO AGGRAVATION SUN
- HEPATITIS ULCERATIVATTAE INFLAMMATION OF GALL DUCTS
- HIP DISEASE
- INFLAMMATION LYMPHATIC VATTAESSEL SWELLING OF GLANDTISSUES ECCHYMOSES INTERNAL ORGANS
- INFLAMMATION OF LYMPHATIC VESSELS AND SWELLING GLAND
- INFLAMMATION OF LYMPHATIC VESSELS SWELLING GLANDS
- INFLAMMATION OF MEMBRANE BRAIN
- INGUINAL GLANDS SWOLLEN
- INVATTAOLUNTARY TWITCHING OF UNDER LIP
- JOINT WEAK
- LIMB PAIN MUSCLES AND JOINTS
- LIVER FATTY DEGEDr. Calvin Brobst KnerrATION
- MELANCHOLIC SADNESS SITS IN CORDr. Calvin Brobst Knerr
- NASAL CATARRH AND OF GLANDULAR ENLARGEMENT
- NAUSEA SALIVA WITH HEADACHE SORE THROAT
- NECROSED BONES OF SKULL AND FACE
- NOSE BLEED IN MORNING
- PAIN FROM ANUS THROUGH URETHRA PROSTATITIS DURING URINE
- PAIN FROM THE ANUS THROUGH URETHRA
- PAIN IN THE WRISTS
- PAPULES FRONTAL SINUSES PHARYNX LARYNX AND TRACHAEA
- PARALYSIS OF WRIST
- PROSTRATION WITH CONSIDERABLE EMACIATION
- PUPILS DILATED WITH COLLAPSE
- PURULENT COLLECTION BETWEEN BONE OF SKULL AND DURA MATER
- RESPIRATION AT FIRST PARTIALLY IMPEDED
- SADNESS SITS IN CORDr. Calvin Brobst Knerr
- SPEAKING DIFFICULT
- SPERMATIC FLUID LOSS AFTER URINATION
- SUBMAXILLARY AND SUBLINGUAL GLANDS SWOLLEN
- SUPPURATION IN ONE KIDNEY
- SWELLING OF LEFT PAROTID GLAND
- SWOLLEN TONSILS CLOSING POSTERIOR CHANNELS
- THIRST WITH DIARRHOEA CACHEXIA AND EXHAUSTION
- TONGUE COATED WHITE RED TIP
- TONGUE DRY THICKLY COVERED BLACK
- TUBERCLES AND ABSCESSES IN KIDNEY
- ULCER NO DISPOSITION TO HEAL
- ULCERATIONS UPON VATTAELUM OF PALATE
- ULCERATIVATTAE INFLAMMATION OF GALL DUCTS
- ULCERS APPEAR IN MOUTH
- URINE SMALL STREAM STRAINING AS SWELLING RETARDED IT PROSTATITIS
- WEAKNESS AND DEBILITY WITH PALE FACE
- WEAKNESS FATIGUEDISCOMFORT THEY GIVE UP THEIR BUSINESS
- WEAKNESS IN JOINTS OF FEET KNEE AND SOLES
- WEAKNESS OF FINGERS AND HANDS CANNOT HOLD ANYTHING
- WEAKNESS OF HANDS AND FINGERS CAN NOT HOLD
- WEAKNESS RESTLESSNESS MELANCHOLY
- WHITE HAIRS ON THE HEAD OF YOUNG MAN
- WRIST PAIN AS SPRAINED
- WRIST PARALYSIS RHEUMATISM
- WRIST WEAKNESS OF HAND AND FINGER CAN NOT HOLD
Clinical Applications
Compare: Caustic .
Key Symptoms & Indications
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The old famous Aphrodisiacum of the Greek authors.
Physical Symptoms
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.
Mentions in Classic Materia Medicas
Explore detailed descriptions for this remedy across famous historical textbooks:
HIPPOMANES
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.
Clinical
Chorea. Melancholia. Prostatitis. Wrist, paralysis of; rheumatism of.
Characteristics
The clinical experience with this remedy has been so limited, that but few characteristic indications have been made out. These, however, are peculiar: Icy coldness in stomach. Violent pain in wrists. Paralysis of wrist in morning in bed. Weakness of hands and fingers so that he cannot hold anything. A case of chorea was cured on these last symptoms. There is weakness, restlessness, melancholy. The headache is > lying on painful side, < walking in sun. Chilliness, > from being covered. A peculiar sensation is as if the head would fall forward on walking; as of a plug in the throat; as if a swelling retarded the flow of the urine. There is desire to lie down, but no relief on doing so.
Relations
Antidoted by: Coffee. Caust. relieved the paralysis of wrist. Compare: Anac. (plug sensation).
1. Mind
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.
2. Head
Sensation of lightness in head.─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.─The head feels so heavy that it falls forward if he raises himself.─The hair becomes nearly dry; falling off of hair.
3. Eyes
The light of the candle looks blue.─Stitches in eyes (with headache).─Painfulness of eyes when moving them, with headache.
5. Nose
Sensation of coldness when drawing the air in.─Bleeding of nose in morning.
6. Face
Involuntary twitching of under lip.
8. Mouth
Bitter taste in mouth.─Tongue coated white, with redness of tip.─Increased secretion of saliva, with headache or sore throat.
9. Throat
Painfulness of l. tonsil.─Sensation of plug in throat (l. side).
10. Appetite
Desire for acids, and aversion to sweet things.
11. Stomach
Nausea, esp. in a draught of air.─Icy coldness in stomach.─Sensation of emptiness in stomach (and head).
13. Stool and Anus
Soft stool, with vomiting; discharge of prostatic fluid after micturition.─Hard stool, in balls.─Spasmodic contraction of sphincter ani.
14. Urinary Organs
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.
15. Male Sexual Organs
Sexual desire increased.─Prostatitis.─Drawing pain in testicles.
16. Female Sexual Organs
Menstruation too early.
17. Respiratory Organs
Larynx feels raw, as if air were too cold.─Tickling in throat when breathing.─Cough, barking, during sleep.
18. Chest
Stitches in l. side of chest.
21. Limbs
Heaviness in limbs.
22. Upper Limbs
Left arm feels as if paralysed.─Violent pain in wrists.─Paralysis of wrist, every morning in bed.─Sensation in wrist as if sprained, esp. l.─Great weakness of hands and fingers, so that he cannot hold anything.─Formication on r. hand.
23. Lower Limbs
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.
24. Generalities
Great weakness of body and mind.─Great weakness and debility, with pale face.─Desire to lie down, with no relief on doing so.─Chorea.
25. Skin
Itching as from flannel on skin, esp. on chest and between shoulders.
27. Fever
Chill, beginning in back.─Chill, > being warmly covered in bed.─Heat in evening, with dull headache.
Hippomanes.
Head.
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.
[5] The headache is worse when walking in the sun.
The headache is ; lighter, when lying on the painful side.
Sensation of lightness in the head.
The hair becomes nearly dry ; falling off of the hair.
Eyes.
Painfulness of the eyes when moving them, with headache.
[10] Stitches in the eyes ; (with headache).
The light of the candle looks blue.
Nose.
Sensation of coldness, when drawing the air in.
Bleeding of the nose in the morning.
Face.
Involuntary twitching of the under lip.
Mouth and Throat.
[15] Increased secretion of saliva, with headache or sore throat.
Tongue coated white, with redness of the tip of the tongue.
Bitter taste in the mouth.
Painfulness of the left tonsil.
Sensation of plug in the throat (left side).
Stomach and Abdomen.
[20] Desire for acids, and aversion to sweet things ; the tongue being coated white with redness on the tip of it.
Nausea, especially in a draft of air, with headache.
Icy coldness in the stomach.
Sensation of emptiness in the stomach (and head).
Stool and Anus.
Soft stool, with vomiting and discharge of prostatic fluid after micturition.
[25] Hard stool, in balls.
Spasmodic contraction of the sphincter ani.
Urinary Organs.
Frequent discharge of watery urine.
Drawing pain from the anus through the urethra.
The urine is discharged in a small stream, and with straining, -it feels as if a swelling retarded it (prostatitis).
Sexual Organs.
[30] Men. Sexual desire increased.
Drawing pain in the testicles.
Women. Menstruation too early.
Respiratory Organs.
Larynx feels raw, as if the air were too cold.
Tickling in the throat when breathing.
[35] Cough, barking, during sleep.
Stitches in the left side of the chest.
Extremities.
Upper. The left arm feels as if paralyzed.
Formication on the right hand.
Paralysis of the right wrist (in the morning).
[40] Great weakness of the hands and fingers, so that he cannot hold any thing.
In the wrist (especially the left) sensation as if sprained.
Lower. Weakness and sensation of dryness in the foot-joints and soles ; of the feet.
Sensation of weakness, and as if sprained, in the knees.
Cram in the soles of the feet (in the evening).
[45] Cold feet.
Generalities.
Heaviness in the limbs.
Desire to lie down, which does give no relief.
Great weakness and debility, with pale face.
Fever.
Chill relieved by being warmly covered in bed.
[50] Chill, beginning in the back.
Heat in the evening, with dull headache.
Skin.
Itching on the chest, between the shoulders.
Conditions.
More symptoms appear while sitting.
Aggravation in the sun (headache).
[55] Amelioration when covering up warm in bed (chill).
Clinical Tips & Practitioner Insights
"Jahr recommends to prescribe Ipecac in the beginning of intermittent fever"
By Dr. Sunirmal Sarkar
Intermittent Fever
Remedy Profile
- Type Remedy
- Common Name HOMOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D. Presented by Médi-T
- Origin Source Natural
Dosage & Potency
Sixth to thirtieth potency.
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