Arnica Montana Homeopathic Medicine

KEYNOTES BY WILLIAM BOERICKE

(ARNICA)

Produces conditions upon the system quite similar to those resulting from injuries, falls, blows, contusions. Tinnitus aurium. 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.Best results 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 dyspnœa. 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. The tendency to tissue degeneration, septic conditions, abscesses that do not mature. feeling of soreness,bruised, lameness Neuralgias originating in disturbances of pneumo-gastric. Rheumatism of muscular and tendinous tissue, especially of back and shoulders. Aversion to tobacco.. Thrombosis. Hematocele.

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.

Hot Head 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.

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.

Noises in the ear caused by the rush of blood to the head. Shooting in and around ears. Blood from ears. The dullness of hearing after the concussion. Pain in cartilages of ears as if bruised.

Bleeding from nose after every fit of coughing, dark fluid blood. Nose feels sore; cold

 Dry and thirsty. Bitter taste. Offensive breath taste as from bad eggs.Soreness of gums after teeth extraction . Empyæma of the maxillary sinus.

face sunken, very red

 Heat in lips. Herpes in the face.

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.

Felling as if stomach were passing against spine. Fetid vomiting

Stitches under false ribs. Distended; offensive flatus. Sharp thrusts through abdomen.

  Stools Straining offensive brown, bloody putrid, involuntary. Looks like brown yeast. Must lie down after every stool. Diarrhœa of consumption; worse lying on left side. Dysenteric stools with muscular pains.

Retained from over-exertion. Dark brick-red sediment. Vesical tenesmus with very painful micturition.

Bruised parts after labor. Violent after-pains. Uterine hæmorrhage from mechanical injury after coition. Sore nipples. Mastitis from injury. Feeling as if fœtus were lying crosswise.

Coughs depending on the 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 the morning. The cough produced by weeping and lamenting. Dry, from tickling low down in trachea. Bloody expectoration. Dyspnœa with hæmoptysis. All bones and cartilages are of chest pain. Violent spasmodic cough with facial herpes. Whooping cough, the child cries before coughing.

Heart
Angina  pectoris,pain especially severe in the elbow of the left arm. Stitches in heart. Pulse feeble and irregular. Cardiac dropsy with distressing dyspnœa. Extremities distended, feel bruised and sore. Fatty heart and hypertrophy.

Gout

Gout. A 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. The deathly coldness of forearm. Cannot walk erect, on account of bruised pain in the pelvic region. Rheumatism begins low down and works up.

Skin

 Itching, burning, the eruption of small pimples. Black and blue. Crops of small boils. Ecchymosis. Bedsores.

Sleep

Sleepless and restless when overtired. Comatose drowsiness; awakens with a 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 the whole body. Heat and redness of head, with the coolness of rest of the body. Internal heat; feet and hands cold. Nightly sour sweats.

Aggravation by least touch,motion rest,wine, damp cold

Amelioration by lying down , with head low