Malandrinum: Grease in Horses
NATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOMOEOPATHY 2003 Mar / Apr VOL V NO 2.
Dr Ajit Kulkarni
'Maland

Low vegetation (Bufo).
A cachexy like Carb-ac or Kreos.
Neither the acute infections of Vario nor the full blood poisoning of Echin. But Grimmer says, "Acute and violent symptoms of blood poisoning coming soon after vaccination. Terrible effects of an infected vaccination wound; rapidly developing fever and septicemia."
"A deep and long acting remedy"- Burnett.
As a prophylactic against and in treatment for ailments after vaccination and small pox (which a syphilized variola) (cp. Vac, Vario).
An intercurrent in cancer (cp. Carc); helps clear up the remnants of cancerous deposits and scar tissue.
Greasy: face, pustule, hair, dandruff.
Offensive: breath, stool, sweat (of foot etc.).
Exanthem: small pox; chicken pox; measles.
Tried, malaise; weariness; lazy, weak feeling; fatigue.
General debility (Psor). Nervous exhaustion. Great heaviness of body.

Select Particulars
Mind: Comprehension, concentration and memory impaired. Confusion. Anxiety, with feeling of strangeness.
Head: Frontal and occipital headache; dizziness.
Impetigo covering head from crown to neck and extending behind ears. Thick, greenish crusts with pale, reddish scabs, itching, < evening. Hair falling (after vaccination). Oily dandruff. Oily hair.
Face: Greasy (Thuj). Eczema facialis; oozing a viscid fluid; burning, < cold air, washing. Skin chaps and smarts on shaving, except on warm wet days. Scab on upper lip with stinging pain when torn off. Red stripes under eyes.
Nose: Catarrh. Dryness. Burning. Rawness.
Ears: Profuse, purulent, greenish- yellow discharge, with blood. Ringing in ears after quinine.
Mouth, throat etc: Tongue yellow with red stripe down center (typhoid); ulcerated and cracked down middle; swollen. Stomatitis; gangrenous.
Gums scorbutic; ulcerated, tenacious, brown mucus, pus.
Throat sore, rough scraping sensation, left to right; ulcerated, preceded by pain in tibia (l). Grayish patch.

Stomach: Sinking in stomach with trembling and faintness, not > by eating. Thirstless; water nauseates. Vomiting of bilious matter. Shaky feeling in stomach.
Abdomen: Colic around navel. Tender abdomen.
Rectum: Diarrhea; acrid, yellow, offensive, dark brown, black, changea-ble; burning in anus; malaise and weariness.
Bowel inactive, no desire for stool, AF quinine.
Back: Pain along back, as if beaten.
Limbs: Pains runarounds on nails of hands and feet. Pains and achings. Vaccinated arm inflamed, swollen, painful (Sil).
Upper limbs: impetiginous crusts on extensor sides of forearms.
Lower limbs: pains esp in 1t tibia, with petechiae like patches on ant. aspect of 1t. leg from knee to ankle. Petechiae on both thighs. Sciatica (lt), < in cold weather, before a storm.
Knock knee (genu valgum) in a child who constantly was handling its penis (Med, but Malan has deeper action).
Female: Vagina closed with impetiginous crusts, yellowish greenish brown in nature.
Skin: Impetigo; ecthyma; covering back of head, extending over back to buttock and even into vagina; covering labiae. Impetigo on extensors of forearms. Boils. Blood boils. Abscesses. Small, dusky red spots on legs, not disappearing on pressure. Herpes zoster. Eczema fissum. Ulcers;oozing; viscid (Graph).
Fat, greasy looking pustular eruptions; oozing, viscid; yellowish honeycomb like crusts. Malignant pustules (Bufo). Pustules slow to develop but never ending. Confluent variola (Hippoz). Crusty eruptions, conical in form (syphilitic miasm).
Itching; after small pox, > warmth, < cold air, undressing. Itching rash. Toes feel scalded and itch terribly > cold bath.
Corns; callosities on heels, palms, and plantar surface with fissures. Keloid (Sil). Bone like protuberances (Hecla).

Thermal: Fevers: spoilt intermittents. Dumb ague. Typhoid. Petechial typhus. After vaccination (Sil).
Intercurrently in continuous fevers with enlarged liver (Ins).

Relations: Compare
In bad effects of vaccination: Carc, Echin, Sil, Sul, Thuj, Vac, Vario.
In pustular eruptions: Ant-t, Hippoz, Sul.
In malignant pustules: Anthr, Ars, Bufo, Carb-v, Crot-h, Lach, Ran-b, Rhus-t, Sil, Tarent-c.
Maland is Carb-an with more emphasis on skin and glands and bones, but little..

Similar: Carc (plus greasy skin and minus depraved history; low state of vegetation; effects of vaccination; cancerous diathesis; Carc is the Maland of malignancy).
Bufo (similar in low state of vegetation; greasy skin; cancerous diathesis; malignant pustules; but Bufo is non-cachectic, epileptic, warm-blooded and has no vaccinosis).
Hippoz (confluent variola; malignant pustules and ulcers; no blood poisoning; but with more localized, peripheral intensified action, leaving nerves alone).

Similar also: Anthr, Ant-t, Carb-ac, Cast-eq, Echin, Eucal, Graph, Gunp, Merc, Sarr (congestive irritant), Thuj.
Antidoted by: Merc.

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