Manganum Metallicum - Generalities symptoms - Clarke

GENERALITIES

Sleep

Great weariness, with inclination to sleep, towards eight o'clock in evening.

Many very vivid and anxious dreams, of which a distinct remembrance is retained.

Frequent yawning.

Sleeplessness with flatus and sallow complexion.

Generalities

The bones are very sensitive; red spots on skin, which are elevated, owing to the affections of the bones.

Ankles are particularly affected; children may have this trouble, and be unable to walk.

Typhus fever, where the parotid gland is swollen and the bones are very sensitive to touch.

Affections of internal ear; upper part of chest.

Hoarse voice drawing sensation of muscles.

Stools with sand or gravel.

Dull shooting and jerking in different parts of the body.

Pulling and tearing pains, esp. in limbs.

Drawing and tension in limbs and joints, as from contraction of tendons, esp. when extending limbs.

Arthritic pains in joints (and periosteum), with shooting, jerking, and digging, agg. in evening, and often semi-lateral or crossways.

Red and shining (rheumatic) swelling of joints, sometimes in consequence of a chill.

Inflammatory swellings and suppurations.

Inflammations of bones, with searching and insupportable pains at night.

All bones, particularly in lower limbs, sensitive to touch; in typhus.

Excitement, low spirits, flushing, whistling through ears, fulness of head with tightness around it, dim vision, swelling of hands and feet and a stinging as if frost-bitten (from Mang. ac. 200).

Weakness and tremor, esp. in joints.

Paraplegia.

Paralysis first of lower limbs.

Staggers and tends to run forward if he tries to walk.

Sensation of uneasiness in the whole body, but esp. in the stomach, with peevishness.

On slightest touch sensation over whole body as if it were ulcerated.

Most symptoms appear during night.

The symptoms which have manifested themselves in a room are amel. in open air, and vice versâ.

Many symptoms are amel. or agg. by a change of weather.