ARNICA MONTANA
(ARNICA)
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 dyspna. 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 diarrha. Offensive, brown, bloody, putrid, involuntary. Looks like
brown yeast. Must lie down after every stool. Diarrha 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 ftus 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. Dyspna
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 dyspna. 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.