Arnica Montana

▲   GENERAL

General

Arnica Montana produces conditions upon the system quite similar to those resulting from injuries, falls, blows, contusions. Tinnitus aurium. Putrid phenomena. Septic conditions; prophylactic of pus infection. Apoplexy, red, full face.

It is especially suited to cases when any injury, however remote, seems to have caused the present trouble. After traumatic injuries, overuse of any organ, strains. Arnica Montana is disposed to cerebral congestion. Acts best in plethoric, feebly in debilitated with impoverished blood, cardiac dropsy with dyspnoea. A muscular tonic. Traumatism of grief, remorse or sudden realization of financial loss. Limbs and body ache as if beaten; joints as if sprained. Bed feels too hard. Marked effect on the blood. Affects the venous system inducing stasis. Ecchymosis and Hemorrhages. Relaxed blood vessels, black and blue spots. Tendency to hemorrhage and low-fever states. Tendency to tissue degeneration, septic conditions abscesses that do not mature. Sore, lame, bruised feeling. Neuralgias originating in disturbances of pneumogastric. Rheumatism of muscular and tendinous tissue, especially of back and shoulders. Aversion to tobacco. Influenza. Thrombosis. Haematocele.

Dose

Locally, the tincture, but should never be applied HOT or at all when abrasions or cuts are present.

▲   MODALITIES ETC

Worse

WORSE, least touch; motion; rest; wine; damp cold.

Better

Better, lying down, or with head low.

▲   RELATIONSHIPS

Compare

Compare: Aconite ^Acon.; Baptisia Tinctoria ^Bapt.; Bellis Perennis ^Bellis; Hamamelis Virginica ^Hemamellis; Rhus Tox ^Rhus; Hypericum Perforatum ^Hypericum.

Complementary

Complementary: Aconite ^Acon.; Ipecacuanha ^Ipec.

Antidotes

Antidotes: Camphora ^Camph. Agnus Castus ^{Vitex Trifolia} - Agnus Castus ^{Indian Arnica} ( Sprains and pains, headache in temples, pain in joints; pain in abdomen; pain in testicles.)

▲   MIND

Mind

Fears touch, or the approach of anyone

Unconscious; when spoken to answers correctly, but relapses

Indifference; inability to perform continuous active work; morose, delirious

Nervous; cannot bear pain; whole body oversensitive

Says there is nothing the matter with him

Wants to be let alone

Agoraphobia (fear of space)

After mental strain or shock.

Delusions, imaginations, hallucinations, illusions; about self; circumstances; thinks is well

Emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition

irritability; sends doctor home, says is not sick

mildness

Insecure, uncertain, scared

fear; of others approaching

fear; of others approaching; in case touched by them

Memory; forgetful; of words while speaking

Talking, conversation

obstinate; declares there is nothing the matter with him

says is well, when very sick

Unconsciousness; during fever

▲   VERTIGO, DIZZINESS

Vertigo

Chronic vertigo; objects whirl about especially when walking.

On closing eyes

▲   HEAD

Head

Cold spot on forehead

Brain; concussion of brain

Congestion (see pulsation)

Expanded sensation (see swollen); enlarged sensation

Hot

during chill

with coldness of body

After injuries of the head

Headache

Hot, with cold body; confused; sensitiveness of brain, with sharp, pinching pains

Pain, headache

with high or low temperature; headache during the heat

in forehead

back of head (occiput)

burning; body cold

pulling; back of head (occiput)

Scalp

Scalp feels contracted

Sensitive; from brushing hair

▲   EYES

Eyes

Diplopia from traumatism, muscular paralysis, retinal hemorrhage

Bruised, sore feeling in eyes after close work

Must keep eyes open

Dizzy on closing them

Feel tired and weary after sight-seeing, moving pictures, etc.

Bruise

Inflammation

foreign bodies

wounds; iris

Pain; from a blow

Pupils; insensitive to light

▲   EARS

Ear

Noises in ear caused by rush of blood to the head

Shooting in and around ears

Blood from ears

Dullness of hearing after concussion

Pain in cartilages of ears as if bruised.

Hearing

Impaired; from concussion

▲   FACE

Face

SUNKEN; very red

Heat in lips

Herpes in face.

Heat

during chill

with cold elsewhere; hands

Skin; discoloration; red; while shivering

▲   NOSE

Nose

Bleeding after every fit of coughing, dark fluid blood

Nose feels sore; Cold.

Nose bleed

from being hit

from blowing the nose

with cough

whooping cough

from exertion

from washing face

Swelling

Tingling; inside

▲   MOUTH

Mouth

Fetid breath

Dry and thirsty

Odour (halitosis, bad breath); offensive

putrid

Gums and teeth

Soreness of gums after teeth extraction ( Sepia ^Sepia.) Empyema of maxillary sinus.

Bleeding; gums; profuse bleeding after extraction of teeth

Teeth

pain; from concussion

pain; after a filling

Taste

Bitter taste ( Colocynthis ^Coloc.) Taste as from bad eggs

Taste

like rotten eggs

like rotten eggs; morning

putrid; in intermittent fever

▲   CHEST

Chest

Heart; Angina pectoris; pain especially severe in elbow of left arm

Stitches in heart

Pulse feeble and irregular

Cardiac dropsy with distressing dyspnoea

Extremities distended, feel bruised and sore

Fatty heart and hypertrophy.

Heart

angina pectoris

fatty degeneration of heart

Lungs; haemorrhage (see expectoration)

Pain

pressure

sore, bruised

from coughing

holds chest with hands during cough

on pressing

touch

breast

nipples

region of heart

Respiration

Coughs depending on cardiac lesion, paroxysmal, at night, during sleep, worse exercise

Acute tonsillitis, swelling of soft palate and uvula

Pneumonia; approaching paralysis

Hoarseness from overuse of voice

Raw, sore feeling in morning

Cough produced by weeping and lamenting

Dry, from tickling low down in trachea

Bloody expectoration

Dyspnoea with hemoptysis

All bones and cartilages of chest painful

Violent, spasmatic cough with facial herpes

Whooping cough, child cries before coughing

Pleurodynia (Rannuc.; Cimicifuga Racemosa ^Cimicif.)

Pain; sore, bruised; respiration

Asthma attack; from fatty degeneration of heart

▲   COUGH

Cough

Crying

Holds self during cough; must hold chest with both hands, while coughing

▲   EXPECTORATION

Expectoration

Bloody, spitting of blood (see chest haemorrhage)

Mucous; bloody

▲   SKIN

Skin

Black and blue

Itching, burning, eruption of small pimples

Crops of small boils ( Ichthyol; Silicea ^Silica.) Ecchymosis

Bed sores ( Bovinine locally.) Acne indurata, characterized by Symmetry in distribution.

Discoloration

bluish; spots

yellow, jaundice, etc.; spots

Abnormal growths

ulcers; with crawling sensation

ulcers; sensitive

Out-breaks on skin

boils

boils; small

painful

Pain; like bruising

Becomes sore when lying down

▲   BACK AND NECK

Back and neck

Pain

sore, bruised, beaten

sore, bruised, beaten; during shivering

sore, bruised, beaten; lumbar (lower half of back)

Back

Pain

as if sprained; lumbar (lower half of back)

▲   ABDOMEN

Abdomen

Stomach; Longing for vinegar

Distaste for milk and meat

Canine hunger

Pain in stomach during eating

Repletion with loathing

Oppressive gases pass upward and downward

Pressure as from a stone

Feeling as if stomach were pressing against spine

Stitches under false ribs

Sharp thrusts through abdomen.

Pain

sore, bruised, tenderness, etc.

sore, bruised, tenderness, etc.; groin region

Bladder

retention of urine (see urination delayed)

retention of urine (see urination delayed); after exertion

spasm; cervix

urging to urinate (unhealthy desire); frequent (see urination, frequent)

urging to urinate (unhealthy desire); ineffectual

urging to urinate (unhealthy desire); sudden; must hasten to urinate, or urine will escape

urination; dribbling (by drops); involuntary

urination; feeble stream (slow)

urination; involuntary, incontinence; night, bed wetting

urination; delayed, difficult; must wait for urine to start

Kidneys; suppression of urine

Stomach

burping, belching

burping, belching; bitter

burping, belching; like rotten eggs

morning; on rising

burping, belching; empty

burping, belching; foul

pain; sore, bruised, beaten (tenderness)

thirst; during chill

thirst; while perspiring

Flatus

Distended; offensive flatus

Vomiting

Vomiting of blood

Fetid vomiting.

Stomach; vomiting; blood

▲   RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Rectum

Flatulence

offensive

rotten eggs

Involuntary stool

Stool

Straining of tenesmus in diarrhea

offensive, brown, BLOODY, putrid, involuntary

Looks like brown yeats

Must lie down after every stool

Diarrhoea of consumption; worse lying on left side

Dysenteric stools with muscular pains.

Containing pus

▲   GENITALS ETC

Urine

Retained from over-exertion

Dark brick-red sediment

Vesical tenesmus with very painful micturition.

Strong and sharp (acrid)

Bloody

Colour; brown

Odour; offensive

Sediment

containing pus (see bladder, catarrh and inflammation)

sand; red (brick-dust)

Urine heavier than usual

Male

Male

inflammation; testes

inflammation; testes; from bruising

swelling; penis

Womb

Uterine hemorrhage from mechanical injury after coition

Female

pain; sore, tenderness; womb

Genitals

Bruised parts after labor

Violent after-pains

Sore nipples

Mastitis from injury

Feeling as if foetus were lying crosswise.

Male

pain; aching

swelling

Female

pain; pains after giving birth

pain; sore, tenderness; ovaries; walking

▲   EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Extremities, limbs

Gout

Great fear of being touched or approached

Pain in back and limbs, as if bruised or beaten

Sprained and dislocated feeling

Soreness after overexertion

Everything on which he lies seems too hard

Cannot walk erect, on account of bruised pain in pelvic region

Rheumatism begins low down and works up ( Ledum Palustre ^Ledum.)

Coldness

upper limbs; hands; with heat; with hot face

upper limbs; hands; with heat; with hot head

Injuries; hand; sprain

Pain

before chill

rheumatic

joints

gouty

paralytic

sore, bruised

in contact with bed

while lying down; in the limb lain on

joints

forearm

hip; during chill

as if sprained; joint

as if sprained; wrist

as if sprained; ankle

as if sprained; foot

stitching, sudden, sharp; fingers; as from splinter

Skin

bursae (like bags on skin bursae)

chicken pox (see swelling); lower limbs

discoloration; hand; blueness

out-break on skin; painful

Weakness; joints

▲   FEVER AND CHILL

Fever and chill

Shivering over whole body

Heat and redness of head, with coolness of rest of body

Internal heat; feet and hands cold

Nightly sour sweats.

Evening

Chilliness (see also whole body

temperature)

temperature); slightest movement of the bed-clothes

From environment; malarial influences

Dangerously cold

violent congestion of head, cold body, with thirst, chill felt most in pit of stomach, body feels bruised

With fever, but chill predominating

Shaking, shivering, rigors

with heat

with heat; of head

At certain time of day or night; from 4 a.m.

When uncovering, undressing

On waking

Sensation of cold water; dashed over him

Continued fever; small, purple spots; foul breath, says there is nothing the matter with him

Infectious fevers

Intense heat

of the head and face, body cold

Internal heat

Septic fever (see infectious, continued, from childbirth, etc.)

With shivering

from uncovering

Chilliness from uncovering

▲   INJURIES AND ACCIDENTS

Injuries and accidents

Bruises

Injuries in general

Injuries of soft parts

Poisoning; poisoning by quinine

Shock from injury

▲   GENERALITIES

Sleep and dreams

Sleepless and restless when overtired

Horrors in the night

Involuntary stools during sleep.

Dreams

animals, insects, beasts; animals

anxious

Falling asleep; when answering

Perspiration

Odour; offensive

Generalities

Evening

Night

Blood vessels; varicose veins

Physical exertion

Formication (like insects crawling around); external parts

Haemorrhage

Inflammation; blood vessels

Jar, stepping

Straining of muscles and tendons, from lifting

Movement; movement of affected part

Pain

glands

pinching

pressing; internally

sore, bruised

externally

parts lain on

in spots

sudden, sharp; inward

tearing; externally

Pulse; frequent, accelerated, elevated, exalted, fast, innumerable, rapid

Sensitive

bed feels hard

externally

excessive physical irritability

Nervous shuddering

During sleep

Weakness (see lethargic, weariness)

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