Malandrinum
Horse grease. · Nosode
Malandrinum is commonly used for skin problems characterized by greasy, pustular eruptions, rough, unhealthy-looking skin, or dry, scaly, itchy skin with cracks or fissures, especially on the hands and feet during cold weather. The remedy may also be given as an antidote to any adverse effects of a smallpox vaccination.
Key symptoms
- Protection against smallpox; antidotes ill effects of vaccination
- Dry, scaly, itching skin with rhagades of hands and feet in cold weather
- Slow pustulation, never ending; as one heals another appears
- Greasy skin and greasy eruptions; lower half of body affected
- Bone-like protuberances
- Toes feel scalded and itch terribly
- Scab on upper lip with stinging pain
Worse (aggravation)
Better (amelioration)
Grease in Horses
A very effectual protection against smallpox. Ill effects of vaccination (Thuja; Silica). Efficacious in clearing of the remnants of cancerous deposits (Copper).
Skin
Scab on upper lip, with stinging pain when torn off. Aching in forehead. Dry, scaly; itching; rhagades of hands and feet in cold weather and from washing. Toes feel scalded and itch terribly. Bone-like protuberances.
Dose
Thirtieth potency and highest.
Nosode of the disease in horses called "Grease." Trituration of Sugar of Milk saturated with the virus. Solution of the virus.
Clinical
Acne. Boils. Fistula. Impetigo. Knock-knee. Measles. Skin, unhealthy. Small-pox. Vaccination, ill effects of.
Characteristics
According to Jenner, the origin of cow-pox is infection of the udders of cows by contact with grass on which a horse infected with "Grease" has trodden. This assertion is to some extent confirmed by the experience of homœopaths, who have found in Maland. a very effectual protection against infection with small-pox and against vaccination. Straube made provings of the 30th potency (H. R., xv. 145; H. W., xxxv. 504). It has been used on inferential grounds with great success in ill effects of vaccination (I have cured with it cases of unhealthy, dry, rough skin remaining for years after vaccination); in small-pox, measles, and impetigo. Burnett has cured with it a case of knock-knee in a child who was constantly handling his penis. Burnett's …
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