Arnica Montana

General

ARNICA MONTANA (RADIX). [Arnic.] Leopard's bane. Hahnemann. Compositae.

Mind

► Unconscious ; when spoken to answer correctly, but unconsciousness and delirium at once return. ► Stupefaction, loss of sight and hearing. θ Concussion of brain. ► Stupor, with involuntary discharge of feces. θ Typhus. ► Forgetful ; what he reads quickly escapes his memory, even the word he is about speaking. θ Typhus. ► Absent-minded, thoughts wonder from their object and dwell on images and fancies. ► Confusion of head, changing to pressive right-sided headache. ► Delirium, low murmuring. ► Delirium tremens. ► Sheds tears and makes exclamations. θ After rage. ► Picks the bedclothes. ► She does not speak a word ; declines answering questions, dislikes sympathy. ► Indisposed to think ; after a walk in the open air. ► Fears being touched or struck by persons coming toward him. θ Gout. ► Fears of public places ; agoraphobia. ► Hypochondriacal anxiety. ► Hopelessness ; indifference. θ After concussion. ► Oversensitive mood, peevish, quarrelsome. ► Frightened ; unexpected trifles cause him to start. ► Ailments from fright or anger. ► Violent attacks of anguish. θ Angina pectoris.

Sensorium

► Vertigo ; when moving the head she feels as if everything turned with her or was falling on her ; from a too copious meal, nausea, with obscuration of sight ; when shutting eyes ; ears feels stopped up when speaking, etc. ► Vertigo a stomaco lasse, with nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea.

Inner Head

► Pressive pain in forehead when walking, ascending stairs, reflecting or reading. ► Pressive headache over the eyes and towards the temples, with sensation as if the tissues of the forehead were spasmodically contracted. ► Pressive headache as if the head were being distended. ► Pains over one eye, with compression in forehead and greenish vomiting. ► Stitching, tearing pain in the left temple. ► Headache as from a nail thrust into the temple, with general sweat about 12 P.M., followed by faintness. ► Pain as if a knife was drawn through the head transversely from the left side, followed by internal coldness of the head. ► Feels like a heavy weight, pressing-shooting in temples. ► Burning in the brain, with natural heat of the body, night and morning ; worse from motion, better at rest. ► Heaviness in the middle of the brain. ► Apoplexy, loss of consciousness, with involuntary evacuations from bowels and bladder, paralysis (left-sided) ; pulse full, strong ; starter ; sighing, muttering. ► Exudations in brain and spine. ► Meningitis after mechanical or traumatic injuries. ► Bad effects from falls or blows on the head.

Outer Head

► Sensation as if integuments of forehead were spasmodically contracted. ► Cold sensation at a small spot on the forehead. ► Unbearable feeling as from ice on top of the head ; after breakfast. ► Burning or hot spots on top of the head.

Eyes

► Flickering before eyes, worse when reading or writing. ► Dilated pupils ; sensitiveness to light. ► Diplopia after injuring the eye. ► Loss of sight after a violent blow. ► Traumatic ulceration, with much hemorrhage into the anterior chamber. ► Retinal hemorrhage expedites absorption of clots. ► Margin of upper lids painful when lids are moved, as if they were dry and slightly sore. ► Oedema of dry, hot, inflamed lids, with much subconjunctival suggillation. ► Congestion to the eyes ; balls bloodshot. ► Inflammation of eyes ; with suggillations after mechanical injuries. ► Severe ciliary neuralgia ; head hot, body cool.

Ears

► Noises in the ear caused by rush of blood to the head ; with great sensitiveness to sound. ► Head hearing. θ From concussions. ► Bruised pain in ears, stitches in behind ears ; with great sensitiveness to loud sounds ; ears very dry. ► Discharge of blood from the ear.

Nose

► Bruised pain in the nose. ► Nosebleed : preceded by tingling ; copious after every exertion ; from mechanical causes ; after washing the face. ► End of nose cold. ► Swelling of nose. ► Violent sneezing, after overlifting the day before.

Face

► Pale sunken ; sallow ; red, swollen. ► Red swelling of right cheek, with throbbing and pinching pain swollen lips and great heat in head, with cold body. ► Redness and burning in one cheek. ► Dry heat in face toward evening, without thirst ; nose cold.

Lower Face

► Lips : burn ; swollen and cracked. ► Lower lip trembles. ► Bruised pain in (right) articulation of jaw, from motion, early in morning. ► Lower jaw hanging down.

Teeth

► Toothache after operation, plugging, etc. ► Excruciating pains, cutting, tearing in all teeth of right upper jaw, radiating to ear ; worse from external warmth or from inhaling fresh air. ► Tooth feels as if forced out of socket ; throbbing toothache. ► Gums sore, swollen. θ Teething children. ► Beating and tingling in the gums. θ Toothache.

Tongue, Etc

► Taste : putrid of rotten eggs ; bitter. ► Biting sensation on the tongue, with soreness, burning and stinging in the back part of the throat. ► Tongue : coated white ; dry, with a brown streak down the middle ; dry or coated yellow. θ Typhus.

Mouth

► Dry, with much thirst. ► Putrid smell from mouth. θ Typhus.

Throat

► Stinging in back of throat between acts of deglutition. ► Chronic pains in fauces and larynx, worse for a long time after an animated talk.

Desires And Aversions

► Longing for vinegar or sour things ; for alcoholic drinks. ► Appetite lessened. ► Repugnance to food. ► Aversion : to meat ; broth ; milk ; smoking tobacco. ► Thirst for cold water, without fever.

Eating And Drinking

► After eating distress in epigastrium (after a blow).

Nausea And Vomiting

► Eructations : bitter and like rotten eggs, in the morning ; empty. ► Belches after coughing. ► Hiccough. θ Meningitis. ► Nausea : empty vomiturition ; burning-scratching in the throat ; general relaxation during forenoon. ► Vomiting of dark red coagula, mouth bitter ; general soreness. ► Vomits the least food ; retching at night.

Stomach

► Pinching, spasmodic griping in stomach, also with pulmonary and cardiac constriction, and with dysenteric stools. ► Pressive, cutting pains in epigastrium ; nausea and retching. ► Stomach feels full with nausea and satiety. ► Stomach distended with wind ; pressure on praecordia, oppression of chest. ► Haematemesis from injuries ; sore all over. ► Heaviness in the stomach.

Hypochondria

► Stitches in region of liver ; painful when turning in bed. ► Pressure in region of liver ; bellow the heart, day and night. ► Stitches in the splenic region, with soreness on pressure.

Abdomen

► Hard swelling of the right side of abdomen, with severe pain when touched. ► Sharp pains from side to side through abdomen. ► Colic with strangury. ► Pains around the navel when moving.

Stool, Etc

► Undigested food ; bloody ; purulent ; bloody, slimy mucus, with urging and violent bellyache ; dark, bloody mucus, with sore, bruised feeling in abdomen ; brown, fermented (like yeast) ; averse to food ; fetid breath ; very offensive papescent, at times involuntary ; involuntary during sleep ; frequent, small, mucous. ► Dysentery with ischuria, or tenesmus of neck of bladder, with fruitless urging. ► Flatus smelling like rotten eggs. ► Obstinate constipation after a blow on epigastrium.

Urine

► Agonizing pains in back and hips. ► Piercing pains, as from knives plunged into the kidneys ; chilly, inclined to vomit. ► Chill followed by nephritic pains, nausea and vomiting, without relief. ► Bladder affections after mechanical injuries. ► Tenesmus from spasms of neck of bladder. ► Bladder feels overfilled ineffectual urging. ► Has to wait a long time for urine to pass. ► Involuntary urination at night during sleep. ► Constant urging while urine passes involuntary in drops. ► Urine in small quantity staining napkin yellow-brown. ► Scanty, red urine, very offensive. ► Frequent discharge of pale urine. ► Retention of urine from exertion. ► Ischuria with dysentery. ► Urine dark-brown, scanty ; brick dust sediment ; red, in liver complaint ; acid, increased specific gravity. ► Bloody urine ; haematuria from mechanical causes. ► Infants scream from pain in bladder.

Male Sexual Organs

► Pains and testicles swollen, purple-red ; after injuries. ► Spermatic cords painfully swollen ; stitches in abdomen. ► Phimosis from friction ; parts bruised and much swollen. ► Erysipelas of scrotum extending to the anus. ► Hydrocele caused by a bruise.

Female Sexual Organs

► Metrorrhagia after coition. ► Menses generally too soon ; nausea in epigastrium. ► Ulcers of uterus with a tendency to bleed. ► Labia painfully swollen. ► Prolapsus, caused by concussion.

Pregnancy

► Threatened abortion from falls, shocks, etc. ; nervous excited, feels bruised. ► Labor-pains ; violent, yet they do but little good ; weak, or ceasing, wants to change position often ; feels bruised. ► Soreness of parts after labor. ► After-pains violent ; return while suckling. ► Constant dribbling of urine after labor. ► Hemorrhages bright-red or mixed with clots ; head hot, body cool. ► Sore nipples. ► Mastitis from bruises ; erysipelatous inflammation. ► Asphyxia neonatorum.

Larynx

► Voice deep ; or low, muttering. ► Hoarseness from over-using voice ; also early in morning. ► Raw, scraped sensation along trachea and bronchia.

Breathing

► Breath fetid, short, panting. ► Children when angry lose their breath altogether. ► Dyspnoea, head hot, face red, body cool. ► Asthma, with inclination to move about ; sleepless, before midnight ; looks as if dying ; with fatty heart.

Cough

► Constant insupportable tickling in larynx and trachea, causing cough day and night. θ Pneumonia. ► Dry slight cough from tickling low down in the trachea, every morning after rising. ► Paroxysms of cough at night during sleep not awaking. ► Tickling in lower part of trachea, and dry, hacking cough, most at night ; scanty, difficult expectoration of transparent glairy slime, mixed with black dots, or bloody. ► Expectoration : offensive, green, purulent, blood-streaked ; when loosened, must be swallowed ; day and evening. ► Whooping-cough ; child cries before the paroxysm. ► Cough causes bloodshot eyes, nosebleed ; expectoration of foaming blood, or clots of blood ; sometimes in evening of putrid tasting mucus, which must be swallowed.

Lungs

► Hemorrhage after mechanical injuries ; slight spitting of black, thick, viscid blood, or bright red, forty blood, mixed with mucus and coagula. ► Burning or rawness in the chest. ► Chest sore when coughing, sputum blood-streaked ; cannot raise the loosened mucus. ► Pressive pain in (right) chest, at a small spot, not increased by motion, touch or inspiration. ► Stitches in chest (left side), worse from a dry cough ; worse from motion ; from external pressure. ► Pleurisy after mechanical injuries ; must continually change position, bed feels so hard. ► Pneumothorax from external injuries.

Heart And Pulse

► Stitches in cardiac region. ► Region of base of heart feels as if bruised. ► "Strain of the heart" from violent running. ► Palpitation after almost any exertion ; goes off by rest. ► Pain from liver through left chest and down left arm veins on hand swollen purplish ; sudden pain, as if heart were squeezed, or as if it got a shock. ► Pressure under the sternum, anguish, collapse ; small, irregular pulse, dyspnoea ; angina pectoris. ► Fatty degeneration of heart. ► Pulse : accelerated, full, hard ; sometimes quicker than beat of heart ; intermittent, feeble, hurried, irregular ; feeble fluttering.

Outer Chest

► Articulations and cartilaginous connections of chest feels as if beaten, when moving, breathing, or coughing. ► Violent stitches in middle of left chest.

Neck And Back

► Weakness of cervical muscles ; they do not support the head steadily. ► Great sensibility of cervical vertebrae to pressure. ► Violent spinal pain, as from sudden rising after long stooping. ► Right scapula and small of the back painful, as if beaten. ► Bruised pain at inner portion of right scapula. ► Sacrum pains, as if beaten.

Upper Limbs

► Violent twitching pain from the left shoulder-joint to the middle finger. ► Tingling in the arms. ► Arms feel weary, as if bruised. ► Sensation as if joints of the arms and wrists were sprained. ► Tearing in tips of the left ring and little finger. ► Cramps in fingers of left hand. ► Acute bruised pain in the balls of the thumbs.

Lower Limbs

► Drawing, pressive pains in the left hip-joints, thigh being extended, when sitting. ► Hips pain as if sprained. ► Formication ; lame feeling ; must often change position, bed or chair seems so hard ; after exertion, long marches, etc. ► Pain in thighs when walking, as from a blow. ► Stitch like from a needle, when touching the knee. ► Knee-joints suddenly bending when standing, feet numb, insensible. ► Hygroma patellae. ► Pain in the calf of the right leg, as from a blow, with lassitude of legs. ► Tarsal joint pains as if sprained. ► Want of power in ankles and feeling of a heavy weight in each instep. ► Hot erysipelatous inflammation and painfulness of foot. ► Feet feel tired or inflamed after a walk. ► Arthritic pains in foot, worse towards evening ; fears passers may strike it ; big toe-joint red, feels sprained.

Limbs In General

► Heaviness. ► Paralytic pain in all joints during motion, as if bruised. ► Limbs as if bruised at rest or in motion ; painful concussion from jolting of carriage or stepping firmly. ► Limbs ache as if beaten. ► Tearing, with soreness, numbness, swelling or tingling.

Position, Etc

► Rest : 3, 29, 34.

Motion

3, 9, 19, 26, 28, 33, 34, 40, 43. Walking : 3, 33. Walking in open air : 1. Ascending : 3. Must change position : 24, 28, 33, 37. Exertion : 7, 29, 33. Moving head : 2. Turning in bed : 18. Attempting to sit up : 40. Sitting : 33. Standing : 33. Lying with head low : 37. Must lie down : 36.

Nerves

► Twitching of the muscles. ► Whole body, especially skin and joints, excessively painful and sensitive. ► Tired feeling, as after hard work or as if beaten. ► Wearing, bruised, sore, great weakness, must lie down, yet bed feels to hard. ► Great sinking of strength. ► Lassitude and sluggishness of the whole body ; scarcely able to stand. ► Paralysis : generally painful ; left-sided (after apoplexy) ; partial, from concession of the spine.

Sleep

► Sleepiness ; too sleepy early in the evening. ► Languor, drowsiness. ► While answering, falls into a deep sleep before finishing. ► Unrefreshing sleep, loud, blowing breathing. ► Is often kept awake until 2 to 3 A.M. from heat, restlessness and constant desire to change position ; or from pricking, stinging, biting, now here, now there, on the body. ► On falling asleep : starts as in fright ; is aroused by heat. ► Lies preferably with head low, or horizontally. ► Worse after a long sleep, or on awaking. ► Dreams : vivid, frightful, of graves, black dogs, struck by lightning, etc. ; unrefreshing ; anxious.

Time

► Morning : 3, 9, 16, 25, 40. Forenoon : 40. Evening : 27, 33, 37, 40. Night : 3, 16, 21, 27, 37. Midnight : 3. Before midnight : 26. Day and night : 18, 27.

Temperature And Weather

► Inclination for open air ; better in open air. ► Sudden cooling after overheating, followed by a cough, like consumption. ► Open air : 10. Warmth : 10. Washing : 7.

Chill, Fever And Sweat

► Chill felt worse in pit of stomach. ► Chill most in evening, with much thirst already before chill. ► Chill after every sleep. ► Chilly internally, with external heat. ► Chilly, with heat and redness of one cheek. ► Chilly morning or forenoon ; before chill yawning, thirst for large quantities of water ; drawing in periosteum. ► Head alone, or face alone hot, body cold. ► Dry general heat after walking ; early morning, violent thirst ; uncovering makes him chilly ; chilly even when moving in bed. ► Heat, with in difference, stupor, drinks less. ► Continuous heat, with such weakness, that when attempting to sit up he faints. ► Flushes of heat ; with thirst. ► Great internal heat ; hands and feet being cold. ► Sweat : sour or offensive ; sometimes cold ; nightly sour. ► Several transitory sweats all over at night, with anguish. ► Hectic fever, emaciation ; after a blow on stomach. ► During apyrexia in intermittent fever, headache, yellow face, bitter taste, aversion to meat. ► Fevers : intermittent : typhoid ; traumatic.

Attacks

► Worse during the increase of the moon. ► Periodical attacks of megrim. ► Spasms of cough. ► Heat in oft repeated short attacks.

Sides

► Right : 1, 8, 9, 10, 18, 19, 28, 31, 33. Left : 3, 18, 28, 29, 30, 32, 33, 46.

Sensations

► Pains insufferable, drive him crazy ; increased by every motion or nose ; change quickly from part to part ; scratches at the wall or bed, apparently for relief. ► Feels as if beaten or bruised. ► Parts feel as if sprained, especially joints. ► Tearing, drawing in outer parts. ► Tingling in outer parts. ► Bruised parts tingle, feel numb, or as if dead. ► Torpidity from mechanical injuries or failure of vital powers.

Tissues

► Concussions and contusions. ► Bleeding of internal and external parts. ► Inflammation of skin, cellular tissue ; tender on pressure. ► Prevents suppuration. ► Burrowing pus, not painful. ► Muscles rigid. ► Myalgia ; particularly after over-exertion. ► Emaciation. ► Septic states ; tendency to typhoid forms. ► Hyperinosis (increase of fibrin in blood) is rather a contra-indication for Arnica. ► Gout and rheumatism. ► Dropsy of internal parts. ► Bones (periosteum) ache. ► Osteo-myelitis (in beginning).

Contact, Injuries, Etc

► Touch : 1, 19, 28. Pressure : 18, 28, 31, 44. ► Mechanical injuries : concussion of brain while there are unconsciousness, pallor, or drowsiness, weak, intermitting pulse, cold surface, and other indications of depressed vitality from shock. ► Worse after riding ; sick stomach from car riding. ► Everything on which he lies seems too hard. ► Sprains with much swelling, bluish redness, intense soreness. ► Contusions without laceration. ► Stings of bees or wasps ; splinters. ► Compound fractures, and their profuse suppuration.

Skin

► Hot, red, oedematous. ► Hot, hard, shining swelling, from insect sting. ► Petechiae, ecchymoses. ► Many small, painful boils, one after another ; extremely sore. ► Red spots first on limb, then upon the trunk. ► Bed-sores ; especially sacral region and hips. ► Erysipelatous inflammation, left hand dark blue. ► Phlegmonous erysipelas. ► Varicose ulcers : torpid ; dirty, bluish bottom ; no pus, but watery, fetid secretion, half transparent crusts, like thick glue, fetid. ► Painful ulcers. ► Corns (part them and apply externally).

Stages And States

► Dark hair, rigid muscles. ► Plethoric very red face. ► Hydrogenoid constitution of Grauvogl. ► Compound fractures and their profuse suppuration. ► Light complexion sandy hair sanguine. θ Whooping-cough. ► Nervous cannot stand pain. ► Especially suitable to the those who remain long impressed by even slight mechanical injuries.

Relationship

► Antidotes to massive doses ; Camphor, Ipec.

Antidotes to potencies ; Acon., Arsen., Cinchon., Ignat., Ipec. ► Arnic. antidotes : Amm. carb., Cinchon., Cicut., Ferrum, Ignat., Ipec., Seneg. ► It follows well after : Acon., Ipec., Veratr. ; after Apis, in hydrocephalus. ► After it follows well : Acon., Arsen., Bryon., Ipec., Rhus tox., Sulph. ac. ► Arnic. : is indicated in ailments from spirituous liquors or from charcoal vapors. ► Complementary to Acon. ► Alternated successfully in cases where the change of symptoms indicated it, with Acon., and Rhus tox. ► Injurious after the bite of a dog or any rabid or angry animal. ► Wine increases the unpleasant effect of Arnic. ► Hyper. is preferable in spinal concussions ; and Calend., in wounds with loss of substance or with suppuration. ► Cognates : Acon., Amm. carb ; Croton (swashing in abdomen) ; Arsen. ; Baptis., Bellad. ; Bryon. ; Chamom., China ; Euphras. (injuries to eye) ; Calend. ; Ferrum ; Hepar ; Hyper. ; Hamam. ; Ipec. ; Mercur. ; Pulsat. ; Ran. scel. (pain in intercostal muscles) ; Rhus tox. ; Ruta ; Staphis. ; Silic. ; Symphyt., Sulphur (traumatic pleurisy) ; Sulph. ac., Veratr. ; Bellis. peren. (wounds, boils, etc. ; erysipelatous tendency).