Category: Materia Medica Hans-Heinrich Reckeweg

The attenuations are prepared from Mangenese(II)-hydrogenphosphate, MnHPO₄, MW: 150.9.

The main indications are:

Spinal cord problems. Spastic spinal paralysis. Multiple sclerosis. Tabes dorsalis. Aching muscles and states of exhaustion with anaemia. Brain-stem lesions.

The drug picture of Manganum phosphoricum was composed in January 1996 by David Riley, M.D., Santa Fe (New Mexico), USA.

The most important symptoms from David Riley’s drug proving were:

Essential Characteristics

This remedy has a strong effect on the sleep cycle. Falling asleep early, dozing off, and napping occur. Improvement of nasal congestion and menstrual cramping. Anx- iety. Varied dreams. Cramping abdominal pain. Flatus. Rectal itching. Back and ex- tremity pain. Napping, dozing off, falling asleep early and everywhere.

Mind

Anxiety and nervousness. Repeats the same phrase. Vivid fearful dreams that are threatening. Euphoric mood and giddiness. Short tempered. Senses dulled. Feeling of being separate from others and in own world. Felt friendless and homesick. Clear thinking in a.m. Lacking concentration.

Generalities

Wheezing on exertion. Quick onset of symptoms. Weakness and shaking inside. Cravings for sauerkraut, chicken livers, and sweets especially chocolate. Aversion to wine and mayonnaise. Flushes of heat before menses. Sensation of internal chilli- ness. Good energy during the day. Tiredness in evening.

Vertigo

Lightheaded with a rush.

Head

Dull head pain that comes on quickly and lasts only a short time. Dull but intense like a migraine. In occiput. Head pain like wearing a small metal cap. Pressure in forehead and around the eyes. Dull ache over eyes especially the left.

Eye

Lachrymation especially in morning. Burning tears. Eyes irritated and bloodshot and must blink. Mucus in outer canthi.

Vision

Blurry with tears.

Ear

Left ear itching into the head.

Nose

Nasal passages clear. Clear watery discharge especially right sided. Waking with congestion. Sneezing and running nose in morning as from allergies but with a quick onset.

Face

Lips chapped in wind. Bones around eyes ached. Pain on opening the mouth. Mouth

Taste

Dry mouth with metallic taste at back of tongue. Food is tasteless.

Throat

Gagging cough from a small dry spot in throat. Sore throat pain on waking. Dry- ness.

Stomach

Gagging with cough. Increased appetite in morning. Decreased appetite. Nausea during headache. Heartburn on rising in morning. Rumbling. Hungry but can’t de- cide what to eat.

Abdomen

Tightness in the solar plexus like a cramp pushing up on diaphragm. Cramping pain in right lower quadrant and right lower rib cage. Distention and feeling of bloating. No cramping with menses. Dull stabbing pain.

Rectum

Flatus all day. Diarrhea with flatus or offensive odor. Pain or itching after stool. Rectal itch or burning sensation after bowel movements. Constipation as if intestines blocked.

Stool

Increased frequency. Hard stools. Dark loose colored stools. Watery stools.

Bladder

Frequent urination with pressure in kidneys. Awaking at night to urinate. Inconti- nence when walking and must urinate hourly to prevent this.

Genitalia, Male

Mental desire for sex without physical desire.

Genitalia, Female

Rawness of vagina and itching. Leucorrhea hot and burning. Sharp right sided pelvic pain as if ovulating. Menses short duration.

Respiration

Wheezing with exertion. Constricted breathing like a weight on chest during the night.

Cough

Dry cough > drinking. Dry spot in throat that causes gagging cough.

Chest

Back pain with burning pain in neck, left arm, and left chest after eating with anx- iety about heart disease. Chest constriction with difficult breathing. Squeezing sen- sation in chest. Heart palpitations. Cramping pain at the bottom of the rib cage. Red, inflamed, and sensitive pimples or blemishes on sternum.

Back

Tightness felt in back. Back pain. Nerve like pain in right buttock. Dull sacral pain worse

on motion. Burning in cervical and dorsal muscles.

Extremities

PAIN. Hip stiffness with aching in the hip joint. Hip joint felt like sandpaper in it. Burning pain in left arm, left side and left chest. Tight muscles on right forearm. Swollen ankles in morning on waking. Skin sore on forearm. Sore calf and groin muscles. Cramps in calves during the night

Sleep

Napping in afternoon or daytime. Falling asleep anywhere or while listening to a friend. Dozing off early. Very tired and going to bed early. Waking at 2 a.m.

Perspiration

Skin

Blemishes on sternum. Cuticles cracked and dry around thumbs.

The attenuations are prepared from Manganese(II)-gluconate,

the Manganese(II)salt of D-gluconic acid, C₁₂H₂₂MnO₁₄ · 2 H₂O, MW: 481.2.

Manganese salts have a strong enzyme action, e.g. in the Citric Acid cycle, in which energy in the mitochondria is obtained from glucose. By providing man- ganese salts in the form of an organic compound (with gluconic acid) the opportuni- ty is offered for rapid entry into the cell. Gluconic acid occupies a key position in the oxidation of glucose via the pentose-phosphate cycle (Warburg-Dickens-Horecker schema)

Manganese gluconate is not usually given as a single remedy, but in combination with other enzyme-activating factors.

The mother tincture is prepared from the dried roots of Mandragora officinarum L. and M. autumnalis Bertol., a native of Southern Europe and Asia Minor. N.O. Solanaceae.

The main indications are:

Sensation of fullness with eructations, ameliorated by eating. Sensation of fullness after a few mouthfuls, relieved by bending backwards. Dryness of mucosa of throat and mouth. Constipation with tenesmus. Haemorrhoids which bleed. Duodenal ulcer. Cholangitis, cholecystitis, biliary colic. Reflux oesophagitis. Aggravation from bending forward (driving, sedentary work). Congestion of the head. Depressive mood. Rheumatism of the joints. Arthroses. Pyloric stenosis.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Mandragora e radice siccato, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Fed- eral Gazette) for mandragora: headaches; cardiocirculatory complaints; digestive insufficiency associated with hepatobiliary disorders; sciatica.

The attenuations of this sarcode are prepared from the fresh mammary gland of a healthy pig (Sus scrofa domesticus).

The main indications are:

Galactorrhoea. Breast tenderness. Pre-malignant states. Fibroadenomas. Flaccid and underdeveloped breasts. Ovulation pain. After mastectomy.

The attenuations are prepared from racemic DL-Malic acid C₄H₆O₅, MW: 134.1.

An active factor in the Citric Acid cycle and in redox systems. Impregnation phas- es of all kinds, also asthma, angina pectoris, pruritus, skin diseases, psoriasis, pre- cancerous states and in neoplasm phases (especially in the early stages), to improve cell respiration. All kinds of paresis. Has a diuretic action.

Malic Acid should never be given without Fumaric Acid, Malic Acid being one of the main remedies for general detoxification as well as for oxygenation of glandular and muscular tissues. It also plays a dominant role in neoplastic processes.

In severe rheumatism it is recommended in combination with muscle and heart sarcodes: in Angina pectoris, Aorta sarcode should be added. Complementary reme- dies and sarcodes/nosodes are: Fumaric Acid, Silica, Echinacea, Diphtherinum, Apis, Thuja, Hydrastis, plus Heart and all sarcodes of glandular tissue.

Malic Acid is also indicated in pyrexia of unknown origin, in serious infectious diseases, chronic bronchitis since childhood, chronic sinusitis, tonsillitis, and espe- cially in asthma and as a supporting remedy in bronchial cancer. Angina pectoris, myocardial weakness with dyspnoea, tachycardia from metabolic and post-infective weakness of the myocardium, circulatory collapse and bradycardia in athletes all call for Malic Acid. Cold hands and feet and cyanosis of the skin are all typical.

In intestinal cancers Malic Acid should always form part of the prescription, as well as in cancer of the bladder, incontinence of urine and ketonuria. It should also be used when rheumatic conditions have been treated over a long period of time with drugs such as salicylates and phenylbutazone.

Further indications for Malic Acid include seborrhoea, chronic dry, scaly eczemas, psoriasis with violent itching, eczema and fissures in the auditory canal.

The mother tincture is prepared from the fresh aerial parts in flower of Origanum majorana L., a native of the Mediterranean countries and cultivated in many places as a culinary herb. N.O. Labiatae.

The main indications are:

Nervous irritability. Colic. Flatulence. Mammary tumours in nursing mothers. The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of

Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Origanum majorana, published

the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for majorana: sexual hyperexcitability.

The attenuations are prepared from Magnesium hydrogen phosphate trihydrate MgHPO₄ · 3H₂O, MW: 174.3.

The triturations and liquid potencies prepared from Magnesium phospate are, ac- cording to Heinigke, “one of our most important pain remedies, none has a greater multiplicity of pains; they are stabbing, cutting, boring, coming and going like light- ning, spasmodic, often changing position, or in attacks which are almost intolera- ble.”

There may be sensory illusions and an inability to think clearly, with sleepless- ness, and this may be accompanied by digestive disorders and aversion to food. Neuralgic or rheumatic pains in the head occur particularly after mental work, and are associated with shivering. There is a sensation of fluid in the head, “as if the brain were wobbling” (Heinigke) or as if the patient were wearing a cap on the head.

Vertigo on movement of any kind is also susceptible to Magnesium Phospho-  ricum. Romberg’s sign, unsteadliness and falling over when the eyes are closed, seen in tabes dorsalis, can be helped by Magnesium Phosphoricum, if the patient falls forwards.

The headaches, which are frequently supra-orbital and worse on the right side, may be accompanied by double vision with dark spots and colour-spectra in front of the eyes, twitching of the eyelids with photophobia, and possibly squinting and pto- sis of the eyelids. Nervous earaches, especially behind the right ear (mastoiditis), are also an indication for Magnesium Phosphoricum, especially if they are aggravated in fresh air, or on washing the face and neck with cold water. The facial pains too, in- deed all the pains, are aggravated when the body becomes cold; the toothache is ag- gravated by eating or drinking cold things, and ameliorated by warmth. In epulis there are often glandular swellings in the throat and neck, especially in teething problems of children with spasmodic symptoms and fever – likewise an indication for Magnesium Phosphoricum.

Magnesium Phosphoricum is required in cramping pains, constriction in the neck, as if tied up, on trying to swallow, and also in torticollis, especially on the right-hand side, and it can also have a favourable action in cramps in the stomach area with gasping and retching, especially when there is thirst for cold drinks.

Magnesium Phosphoricum also acts favourably on asthmatic chest-constriction with a dry, tickling cough which can take on a spasmodic nature, and even on nerv- ous, spasmodic palpitations and a constricted sensation of the heart, as if tied up (cf. Cactus Grandiflorus), as well as flatulent colic, abdominal spasms and umbilical colics, especially if the complaints radiate towards the back (cf. Belladonna), and also when there is chronic constipation in rheumatic persons, likewise constipation of children with cramping pains at every attempt to pass a stool.

Magnesium Phosphoricum is also an important remedy in dysmenorrhoea and when the menses arrive too early, especially when there is swelling and sensitivity of the vagina and so-called “ovarian neuralgia”.

Magnesium Phosphoricum is indicated in rheumatic pains in the limbs, associated with weakness in the arms and hands and stiffness and possible numbness in the fin- gers, with general muscular weakness, these complaints being aggravated by cold and ameliorated by warmth, pressure and rubbing.

Magnesium Phosphoricum is also the remedy of choice for Sydenham’s chorea with contortion of the limbs, for sciatica with vividly shooting, boring pains which often change their location and are ameliorated by warmth and pressure, being ag- gravated by light touch, and for writer’s and pianist’s cramp and cramps in the calves of the legs.

Boericke also emphasizes its action in whooping cough, in hoarseness, in laryngi- tis with a feeling of rawness and roughness, in intercostal neuralgia and in pains similar to angina pectoris. Where there are spasmodic complaints in the upper ab- domen, they are not relieved by the accompanying eructations (in contrast to Argen- tum Nitricum).

It is Boericke’s practice to give this remedy in hot water, as it is then said to act better, the action possibly being complemented with doses of Colocynthis, Silicea, Zincum, Dioscorea or Kali Phosphoricum.

Nash particularly refers to the fact that burning pains are susceptible to Arsenicum Album, and not to Magnesium Phosphoricum. However, both remedies have an amelioration from warmth.

Nash also gives the following characterisation of various painful states (“Leaders”

p. 250 [p. 324 in Jain edition]):

“Now in regard to the cramping pains so characteristic of Magnesium Phospho- ricum. When such a symptom stands out so prominently, it is a great leader, and nar- rows down the choice to a class of remedies having the same. Let me illustrate:

Cramping pains: Cuprum, Colocynthis, Magnesium Phosphoricum.

Burning: Arsenicum, Cantharis, Capsicum, Phosphorus, Sulphuricum Acidum, Sulphur, Carbo Vegetabilis.

Coldness (sensation): Calcium Carbonicum, Arsenicum, Cistus, Heloderma. Coldness (objective): Camphora, Secale, Veratrum Album, Heloderma.

Fullness (sensation): Aesculus Hippocastanum, China, Lycopodium. Emptiness (sensation): Cocculus, Phosphorus, Sepia.

Bearing-down: Belladonna, Lilium Tigrinum, Sepia, etc.

Bruised soreness: Arnica, Baptisia, Eupatorium Perfoliatum, Ruta. Constriction: Cactus Grandiflorus, Colocynthis, Anacardium.

Prostration or Weariness: Gelsemium, Picrinicum Acid, Phosphoricum Acidum, all Acids, Silicea.

Numbness: Aconitum, Chamomilla, Platinum, Rhus Toxicodendron. Erratic pains: Lac Caninum, Pulsatilla, Tuberculinum.

Sensitive to pain: Aconitum, Chamomilla, Coffea. Sensitive to touch: China, Hepar Sulph., Lachesis, Silicea.

Bone pains: Aurum, Asafoetida, Eupatorium Perfoliatum, Mercurius, Silicea. Sticking/Stitching/Stabbing pains: Bryonia, Kali Carbonicum, Squilla, Apis. Pulsation or throbbing: Belladonna, Glonoinum, Melilotus.

Haemorrhages (passive): Hamemelis, Secale, Crotalus, Elaps. Haemorrhages (active): Ferrum Phosphoricum, Ipecacuanha, Phosphorus. Emaciation: Iodum, Natrum Muriaticum, Lycopodium, Sarsaparilla, etc. Oedematous states: Calcium Carbonicum, Graphites, Capsicum.

Constitutions (psoric): Sulphur, Psorinum, etc.

Constitutions (sycotic): Thuja, Nitricum Acidum, Medorrhinum, etc. Constitutions (syphilitic): Mercurius, Kali Iodatum, etc.

Blue swellings: Lachesis, Pulsatilla, Tarantula Cubensis.

So we might go on and indicate from one to three or more remedies having char- acteristic power over certain symptoms or conditions, and it is well to have them in mind, for with this start we will be very apt to have, or seek to find out, the diagnos- tic difference between them. Such knowledge forearms a man, preparing him for emergencies, and often enables the prescriber to make those wonderful “snap-shot cures” that astonish the patient and all beholders.

The holistic view of homoeopathy clearly proceeds from this; for in all these syn- dromes Magnesium Phosphoricum as a supporting remedy is able not only to deal with the cramps but also to smooth the path for the action of the otherwise-men- tioned remedy.

If we summarise the total symptoms of Magnesium Phosphoricum, we have the following typical remedy-picture:

1. Cramping, shooting pains along the length of the nerves, and in cramps in a wide variety of parts of the body, ameliorated by pressure and warmth.
2. Facial neuralgias with twitching of the eyelids.
3. Cramps in the stomach area. Intestinal colic with eructations which do not re- lieve. Umbilical colic in children, with drawing-up of the legs, without diar- rhoea symptoms.
4. Menstrual colic and dysmenorrhoea with neuralgic complaints, relieved by onset of the flow (cf. Lachesis).
5. Gall-stone colic. Renal colic. Pains in chronic rheumatism of the joints.
6. Whooping cough, especially at night and lying down.
7. Sydenham’s chorea with contortion of the limbs.
8. Sciatica with boring, shooting pains, changing location, aggravated by light touch. Writer’s cramp. Cramps in calves.
9. All complaints worse from cold, at night in bed and from light touch. Amelio- rated by hot compresses, movement, pressure, doubling up, walking about slow- ly and damp warmth.
10. Vertigo on movement, falling forwards. Sensation of fluid in the head. Inability to think. Supra-orbital pains. Blurred vision. Right-sided mastoiditis. Toothache. Spastic torticollis.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Magnesium phosphoricum, pub- lished the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for magnesium phosphoricum: neuralgia; painful spasmodic conditions of the gastrointestinal tract; dysmenorrhoea.

The attenuations are prepared from Magnesium orotate C₁₀H₆MgN₄O₈ · 2 H₂O, MW: 370.5.

Not only Magnesium has important intracellular functions to fulfil, as an impor- tant trace-element factor in enzyme functions, e.g. the Citric Acid cycle, but the presence of Orotic acid steers the action of the remedy towards intermediate detoxi- fying functions, e.g. in the urea cycle, etc.

Thus Magnesium Oroticum has been used – as a trace element enzyme-activator – in preparations which are designed to re-activate blocked enzymes, e.g. those of the Citric Acid cycle, and particularly also for various liver enzymes.

The attenuations are prepared from a mixture of equal parts of Magnesium hydrogen phosphate MgHPO₄ · 3 H₂O, and Manganese(II)hydrogenphosphate, MnHPO₄, MW: 150.9.

The main indications are:

Catalytic action of trace elements, especially in support of the Citric Acid cycle. See also the intermediate catalysts of the Citric Acid cycle (theoretical references, scheme of injections).

The attenuations are prepared from heavy, basic hydrated Magnesium carbonate, containing not less than 40%, and not more than 45% of MgO, MW: 40.3.

The main indications are:

Toothache in pregnancy, boring pain at night, must walk about. Dyspepsia. Green stool, like scum on a frog-pond, sour or hard, crumbling, “the whole child smells sour.” Arthritis of the shoulder joints. Dryness of the mucosa (eyes, nose, pharynx). Dry, itching skin.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Magnesium carbonicum, pub- lished the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for magnesium carbonicum: constitutional remedy for the neuropathic type; digestive disorders; paramenia; enlargement and hardening of glandular organs.