Magnetis poli ambo

Imponderable

Clarke

Magnetis Poli Ambo is indicated in sensitive individuals who respond to the general influence of magnetic forces, with a mixed picture not clearly pointing to north or south pole action. It suits those with rheumatic complaints, prolapse, orchitis, haemorrhagic tendencies, and dental pain.

Key symptoms

  • Burning lancinations throughout the body in all directions
  • Pains as if broken in joints where cartilages of two bones touch
  • Headache as if a nail were driven into the head especially after anger
  • Disturbed sleep with tossing, snoring, and talking
  • Prolapsus recti
  • Toothache in carious teeth worse from cold and on contact with cold
  • Tendency of old wounds to bleed afresh; ulcers painful like new wounds
  • Burning sensation in spermatic vesicles region exciting sexual desire

Worse (aggravation)

  • Motion and on waking (general symptoms)
  • Cold; contact with cold air (toothache)
  • Touch (joint pains)

Better (amelioration)

  • Uncovering (heat)
John Henry Clarke
A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1900

The Magnet. (General symptoms of the magnet produced by touching either pole indiscriminately while handling the magnet, or by laying the whole of the magnetic surface upon the body.) Trituration of Sugar of Milk after exposure to the influence of the entire magnet. Dilution of distilled water similarly exposed.

Clinical

Fainting. Hæmorrhage. Orchitis. Paraphimosis. Prolapsus ani. Rheumatism. Toothache. Ulcers.

Characteristics

The effect of the Magnet as a whole and of each pole separately was tested by Hahnemann, and the symptoms are mainly from his pathogenesis. In his preface he says he does not expect "ordinary mechanical, materialistic and atomistic heads" to be able to regard diseases as "immaterial alterations of the vitality, or pure dynamic derangements of our state of health, and medicinal powers as merely virtual, almost spiritual, forces"; but he asks how they can reconcile with their materialistic notions the fact that "a single imponderable spark from a Leyden jar gives a shock to the strongest …

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