Homeopathy LibraryArnica Montana
Reason for use
Special Characteristics-- In all bad effects resulting from mechanical injuries. Deadness of bruises, feeling of. Head hot with body cool; bruised sensation in any part of the body; insufficient stool. Pain as if bruised, particularly of external parts; sensation of concussion, as from a fall. Pain dragging; pressing, in inner parts; in the joints, as if sprained; this pain may occur in other parts of the body also. Painful glands; tingling itching, which moves from place to place over the body, and as soon as the patient scratches in one place the itching is off somewhere else.
Mental.-- Hypochondriac; hopeless; peevish; sensitive; great desire to scratch, will scratch wall, bed, head, etc.
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Head
Head hot and body cool: head is hot when he wakens at night; hot spots on top of. Eyes, pupils contracted. Ears, blood from.
Stomach
Belching eructations; belching, tasting of hard boiled eggs; vomiting of blood.
Abdomen
Colic. Sharp thrusts from one side to the other. Diarrhoea more than constipation.
Urine
Retention of urine; retained from over-exertion ; the bladder feels full and sore; the presence of the urine hurts him.
Sexual.-- Male : Eruptions on the penis, testes and scrotum; bruised feeling in the testicles. Female : After-pains; return while suckling. Labor weak and ceasing. Menses too soon.
Chest
Pneumonia of the right lung, with bruised sore feeling and bloody expectoration; affections of the external chest.
Extremities
Upper : It acts prominently on the left upper extremity and the lower right. Lower : On the toes, particularly the big toe; the back of the foot: pain in the joints, as if sprained; weakness of the ankle joints; they turn easily while walking.
Sleep
Wakens at night with a hot head , and is afraid to sleep for fear of its recurrence. Anxious dreams about animals. Sleepless before midnight.
Fever
Thirst during the chill, but not during the heat or perspiration. During fever, head and upper part are hot and body is cool. Typhus, putrid breath and stool. Coldness of parts lain on, aversion to uncover.
Skin
Black and blue spots on the body (Secale); yellow-green spots, caused either by a bruise or by disease. Varicose veins, which feel bruised and sore. Small boils feel sore and bruised; painful eruptions; tingling and itching of the skin, which moves from place to place over the body; when the patient scratches in one place, the skin begins to itch somewhere else. Bed sores blue; mortification . Painful ulcers. Dropsy of inner parts.
Worse.-- In the night, from concussion from physical exertion; travelling; working, etc., after surgical operations; from bruises: damp cold weather; from abuse of Peruvian bark; charcoal vapors.
Medicines which follow well are:-- Pulsat., Bellad., Bryon., Calc. carb., China, Conium, Nux vom., Phosphor., Rhus tox., Sulphur .
Antidotes
Camphor., Ipec .
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