Malandrinum maland.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Grease in Horses

General

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.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1st edition (1900-02, three volumes); homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML digitization

General

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 indications are: "Lower half of body; greasy skin and greasy eruption. Slow pustulation, never ending, as one heals another appears." Impetigo, ecthyma, fat, greasy-looking pustular eruptions are particularly acted on by this remedy. Heath ( Amer. Hom ., xxiv. 141) has cured with Maland . 30 fistula in a pony's neck, following strangles. A. L. Marcey ( H. R ., xiv. 530) relates a striking experience with Maland . 30. In the presence of a small-pox epidemic he vaccinated himself, taking at the same time Maland . 30 night and morning. The vaccination did not take. It was twice repeated and still did not take; nor was smallpox contracted. Called to vaccinate four children in a family whose parents were recovering from small-pox, he vaccinated all and gave Maland . 30 to three of them at the same time; the remaining child was the only one whose vaccination "took." This was so severe that Maland . had to be given to modify its intensity, which it did effectually. The other three were re-vaccinated but none "took." Of five children, from six to seventeen years of age, only the eldest had been vaccinated, and he had a good scar. All except the eldest were given Maland . and were vaccinated, and none of the four "took." The eldest took small-pox. Maland . was then given, and in a few days he was convalescent. In another case of small-pox Maland . was given, and the disease only lasted a few days, the eruption drying up. In Straube's proving the symptoms were < in evening. The Schema is made up of Straube's symptoms. Burnett considers Maland . a very deeply acting remedy, and one not to be repeated oftener than once a fortnight.

Relations

Compare: In bad effects of vaccination, Variol., Vaccin., Thuj., Sabi., Ant. t., Apis, Sil. In general; children handling genitals, Medor. (but Maland. has deeper action). In pustular eruptions, Hep., Merc. Compare also: Castor equi., Hippozænin, Hippomanes.

Causation

Vaccination.

Head

Dizziness. ─ Frontal and occipital headache. ─ Dulness. ─ Impetigo covering head from crown to neck and extending behind ears. ─ Thick, greenish crusts with pale, reddish scabs, itching < in evening.

Eyes

Red stripes under eyes.

Ears

Profuse, purulent, greenish-yellow discharge, mixed with blood.

Mouth

Tongue: coated yellow, with red streak down middle (typhoid); cracked and ulcerating down middle; swollen.

Stomach

Vomiting of bilious matter; nausea.

Abdomen

Pains around umbilicus.

Stool

Dark, cadaverous-smelling stool. ─ Yellowish, foul-smelling diarrhœa.

Male Sexual Organs

(Child constantly handles his penis.)

Female Sexual Organs

Vagina closed with impetiginous crusts, yellowish-greenish-brown in colour.

Back

Pain along back, as if beaten.

Limbs

Sore pains in limbs and joints. ─ Run-arounds on nails of hands and feet.

Upper Limbs

Impetiginous crusts on extensor sides of forearms.

Lower Limbs

Pains, esp. in l. tibia, with petechiæ-like patches on anterior aspect of l. leg from knee to ankle. ─ Petechiæ on both thighs, < l. ─ (Knock-knee.)

Skin

Small-pox. ─ Measles; also as preventive. ─ Impetigo covering back of head, extending over back to buttock, and even into vagina; covering labiæ. ─ Impetigo on extensors of forearms. ─ Boils. ─ Malignant pustule. ─ Bad effects of vaccination (dry, harsh skin). ─ Small, dusky red spots on legs, not disappearing on pressure. ─ (Typhoid fever. ─ Petechial typhus.)