Hippomanes
Equine hippomanes (foal/placental tissue) · Animal
Hippomanes is a remedy of limited clinical experience derived from equine amniotic material. Its most characteristic features are icy coldness in the stomach, violent pain and paralysis of the wrists especially in the morning in bed, and weakness of the hands and fingers. A case of chorea was reportedly cured on the basis of limb weakness symptoms.
Key symptoms
- Icy coldness in stomach
- Violent pain in wrists; paralysis of wrists in morning in bed
- Weakness of hands and fingers, unable to hold anything
- Sprained sensation in wrist
- Chorea
- Increased sexual desire; prostatitis
- Drawing pain in testicles
- Much weakness after growing too fast
Worse (aggravation)
- Morning in bed (wrist paralysis)
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.
"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 newly-born filly.
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.
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