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ARNICA MONTANA
(Leopard' Bane)
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 is disposed to cerebral
congestion. Acts best in plethoric, feebly in
debilitated with impoverished blood, cardiac dropsy with
dyspnoa. 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. Echymosis and hæmorrhages.
Relaxed blood vessels, black and blue spots. Tendency to
hæmorrhage and low-fever states. Tendency to tissue
degeneration, septic conditions, abscesses that do not
mature. Sore, lame, bruised feeling. Neuralgias
originating in disturbances of pneumo-gastric.
Rheumatism of muscular and tendinous tissue, especially
of back and shoulders. Aversion to tobacco. Influenza.
Thrombosis. Hematocele.
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.
Head.--Hot,
with cold body;
confused; sensitiveness of brain, with sharp, pinching
pains. Scalp feels contracted. Cold spot on forehead.
Chronic vertigo; objects whirl about especially when
walking.
Eyes.--Diplopia
from traumatism, muscular paralysis, retinal hæmorrhage.
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.
Ears.--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.
Nose.--Bleeding
after every fit of coughing, dark fluid blood. Nose
feels sore; cold.
Mouth.--Fetid
breath.
Dry and thirsty. Bitter taste (Colocy). Taste
as from bad eggs. Soreness of gums after teeth
extraction (Sepia). Empyæma of maxillary sinus.
Face.--Sunken;
very red. Heat in lips. Herpes in face.
Stomach.--Longing
for vinegar. Distaste for milk and meat. Canine hunger.
Vomiting of blood. Pain in stomach during eating.
Repletion with loathing. Oppressive gases pass upward
and downward. Pressure as from a stone. Feeling as if
stomach were passing against spine. Fetid vomiting.
Abdomen.--Stitches
under false ribs. Distended; offensive flatus. Sharp
thrusts through abdomen.
Stool.--Straining
of tenesmus in diarrhoa. Offensive,
brown, bloody, putrid, involuntary. Looks like
brown yeast. Must lie down after every stool. Diarrhoa
of consumption; worse lying on left side. Dysenteric
stools with muscular pains.
Urine.--Retained
from over-exertion. Dark brick-red sediment. Vesical
tenesmus with very painful micturition.
Female.--Bruised
parts after labor. Violent after-pains. Uterine
hæmorrhage from mechanical injury after coition. Sore
nipples. Mastitis from injury. Feeling as if fotus were
lying crosswise.
Respiratory.--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. Dyspnoa with hæmoptysis. All bones
and cartilages of chest painful. Violent spasmodic
cough, with facial herpes. Whooping cough, child
cries before coughing. Pleurodynia (Ranunc;
Cimicif).
Heart.--Angina
pectoris;
pain especially severe in elbow of left arm. Stitches in
heart. Pulse feeble and irregular. Cardiac dropsy with
distressing dyspnoa. Extremities distended, feel bruised
and sore. Fatty heart and hypertrophy.
Extremities.--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. Deathly
coldness of forearm. Cannot walk erect, on account of
bruised pain in pelvic region. Rheumatism begins low
down and works up (Ledum).
Skin.--Black
and blue.
Itching, burning, eruption of small pimples. Crops of
small boils (Ichthyol; Silica). Ecchymosis.
Bed sores (Bovinine locally). Acne indurata,
characterized by symmetry in distribution.
Sleep.--Sleepless
and restless when over tired. Comatose drowsiness;
awakens with hot head; dreams of death, mutilated
bodies, anxious and terrible. Horrors in the night.
Involuntary stools during sleep.
Fever.--Febrile
symptoms closely related to typhoid. Shivering over
whole body. Heat and redness of head, with coolness of
rest of body. Internal heat; feet and hands cold.
Nightly sour sweats.
Modalities.--Worse,
least touch; motion; rest; wine; damp cold. Better,
lying down, or with head low.
Relationship.--Antidotes:
Camph.
Vitex trifolia.--Indian
Arnica (Sprains and pains, headache in temples, pain in
joints; pain in abdomen; pain in testicles).
Complementary: Acon; Ipec.
Compare: Acon; Bapt; Bellis; Hamam;
Rhus; Hyperic.
Dose.--Third
to thirtieth potency. Locally, the tincture, but should
never be applied hot or at all when abrasions or cuts
are present.
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