Arnica Montana arn.

BLOOD. BLOOD-VESSELS. Nerves. Muscles. Digestive organs.

INJURIES: BRUISES. Shocks. Jarring. Labor. Overexertion. Sprains. TOUCH. After sleep. Motion. Old age. Alcohol.

Lying: Head low (Ver-v.). Outstretched.

A very painful and offensive remedy. Progressive weakness. Has absorbent action. Shock: mental or physical. VERY PAINFUL BRUISED, SORENESS; all over; after the pains; of the bleeding part (Fer.), etc. Crushing pain. BED FEELS HARD, or full of lumps. As of a lump back of stomach, etc. Suddenly shifting joint (Colch.) or paralytic pains. FOUL; breath, taste, flatus, stool, etc. Typhoid. Sepsis. HÆMORRHAGIC TENDENCY; epistaxis, etc. Involuntary evacuations.

Nervous, sanguine temperament. FEARS; being struck or approached; sickness; instant death; on awaking, etc. Morose, repellant mood. Physically restless, but mentally prostrate or apathetic; says nothing ails him (Op.); reverse (Ars.) answers slowly, with an effort. Feels well, in dangerous cases. Brain feels tired. Vertigo; of old age. Bloodshot eyes. Ruddy, congested face. Apoplexy. Fevers. Bright red, puffy fauces. Red stripe down center of tongue. Post-natal dropping. Catarrh of antrum. Eructations tasting of bad eggs. Anorexia by day, but canine hunger before midnight. Cramps from epigastrium down over bowels, then foul stools. Acrid, foamy, stools. Cutting in kidneys. Urine retained or dribbles; after labor. Must wait for urine to pass. After-pains; < suckling. Hoarseness; < exertion, colds, or getting wet. Coughs without waking, or cough causing cries. Heavy lower chest. Sore nipples. Arm pains, > hanging down. Heart-beat shakes whole body. Weakened heart muscle. Angina. Heart pains; left to right. Dusky, mottled skin. Every little hurt makes a black and blue spot. Petechiæ. Erysipelas. Symmetrical eruptions. Very sore acne or crops of small boils. Sopor; drops to sleep as he answers. Troublous or frightful dreams; awakes in terror. Coldness of part lain on. Thirst during chill. Hot head with cool body. Must uncover, but it chills him (reverse of Nux-v.).

Complementary: Calc-c. Nat-s. Sul-ac. Related: Bells. Echi. Hyper. Rhus-t.

Nervous women, sanguine plethoric persons, lively expression and very red face. For the bad effects resulting from mechanical injuries; even if received years ago. Especially adapted to those who remain long impressed by even slight mechanical injuries. Sore, lame, bruised feeling all through the body, as if beaten; traumatic affections of muscles. Mechanical injuries, especially with stupor from concussion; involuntary faeces and urine; After injuries with blunt instruments (Symph.). Compound fractures and their profuse suppuration (Calend.). Concussions and contusions, results of shock or injury; with laceration of soft parts; prevents suppuration and septic conditions and promotes absorption. Nervous, cannot bear pain; whole body over-sensitive (Cham., Coff., Ign.). Everything on which he lies seems too hard; complains constantly of it and keeps moving from place to place in search of a soft spot (the parts rested upon feel sore and bruised, Bap., Pyr.; must move continually to obtain relief from pain, Rhus). Heat of upper body; coldness of lower. The face or head and face alone is hot, the body cool. Unconsciousness; when spoken to answers correctly but unconsciousness and delirium at once return (falls asleep in the midst of a sentence, Bap.). Says there is nothing the matter with him. Meningitis after mechanical or traumatic injuries; from falls, concussions of brain, etc. When suspecting exudation of blood, to facilitate absorption Hydrocephalus; deathly coldness in forearm of children (in diarrhoea, Brom.). Apoplexy; loss of consciousness, involuntary evacuation from bowels and bladder; in acute attack, controls haemorrhage and aids absorption; should be repeated and allowed to act for days or weeks unless symptoms call for another remedy. Conjunctival or retinal haemorrhage, with extravasation, form injuries or cough (Led., Nux.). Gout and rheumatism, with great fear of being touched or struck by persons coming near him. Cannot walk erect on account of a bruised sort of feeling in the pelvic region. Tendency to small, painful boils, one after another, extremely sore (small boils in crops, Sulph.). Paralysis (left-sided); pulse full strong; stertor, sighing, muttering. Belching; eructations; foul, putrid, like rotten eggs. Dysentery; with ischuria, fruitless urging; long interval between the stools. Constipation: rectum loaded, faeces will not come away; ribbon like stools from enlarged prostrate or retroverted uterus. Soreness of parts after labor; prevents post-partum haemorrhage and puerperal complications. Retention or incontinence of urine after labor (Op.).

Complementary: to, Acon., Hyper., Rhus. Similar: to, for soreness as if bruised, Bap., China, Phyt., Pyr., Rhus, Ruta, Staph. Arnica follows well: after, Acon., Apis., Ham., Ipec., Ver., is followed by Sul. ac. In ailments from spiritous liquors or from charcoal vapors, Arn. is often indicated (Am. c., Bov.). In spinal concussion, compare, Hyper.

At rest; when lying down; from wine.

From contact; motion (Rhus, Ruta).

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.

Hypochondriac; hopeless; peevish; sensitive; great desire to scratch, will scratch wall, bed, head, etc.

Head hot and body cool: head is hot when he wakens at night; hot spots on top of. Eyes, pupils contracted. Ears, blood from.

Belching eructations; belching, tasting of hard boiled eggs; vomiting of blood.

Colic. Sharp thrusts from one side to the other. Diarrhœa more than constipation.

Retention of urine; retained from over-exertion; the bladder feels full and sore; the presence of the urine hurts him.

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.

Pneumonia of the right lung, with bruised sore feeling and bloody expectoration; affections of the external chest.

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.

Wakens at night with a hot head, and is afraid to sleep for fear of its recurrence. Anxious dreams about animals. Sleepless before midnight.

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.

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.

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.

Pulsat., Bellad., Bryon., Calc. carb., China, Conium, Nux vom., Phosphor., Rhus tox., Sulphur.

Camphor., Ipec.

The head Alone or face alone, hot, the body cool. Stitches in chest left side, worse from a dry cough, worse from motion, better from external pressure. Uneasiness in the painful parts, has to change position frequently, every place seems to be too hard. All parts on which he lies ache as if sore. Bad effects from mechanical injuries, falls, bruises and contusions. Eructations tasting like rotten eggs. Typhoid fever with greatest indifference, stupor, falls asleep while answering questions, putrid breath, red spots like suggillations on the body.

Leopard's Bane (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 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. 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.

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, 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 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.

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

Fetid breath. Dry and thirsty. Bitter taste (Colocy). Taste as from bad eggs. Soreness of gums after teeth extraction (Sepia). Empyæma of maxillary sinus.

Sunken; very red. Heat in lips. Herpes in 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. Feeling as if stomach were passing against spine. Fetid vomiting.

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

Straining of tenesmus in diarrhœa. 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 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. Dyspnœa with hæmoptysis. All bones and cartilages of chest painful. Violent spasmodic cough, with facial herpes. Whooping cough, child cries before coughing. Pleurodynia (Ranunc; Cimicif).

Angina pectoris; pain especially severe in elbow of 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. 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).

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.

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.

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.

Worse, least touch; motion; rest; wine; damp cold. Better, lying down, or with head low.

Antidotes: Camph.

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.

Third to thirtieth potency. Locally, the tincture, but should never be applied hot or at all when abrasions or cuts are present.

Bruised, sore feeling all over; bed feels too hard.

Head, or head and face hot; body and extremities cold.

Ecchymoses; as from bruises.

Stupor; answers, then falls back into stupor (fevers).

Taste and eructations and stool like rotten eggs.

Recent and remote affections from injuries, especially contusions or blows.

Hæmorrhages, the result of mechanical injuries.

This is the leading remedy for bruises and the results therefrom, and the symptoms -"Weakness, weariness, sensation as of being bruised." "Felt as if bruised over the whole body," as found in the provings, explain the reason and the many cures it has made, even in the high and highest potencies, of both acute and chronic affections. The result of trauma is another evidence of the truth of our law of cure. One of the best characteristics is "Everything on which he lies seems too hard" (Pyrogen.); he must keep changing his position to get relief. This is because of the sensation of soreness as if bruised all over.

Baptisia has -"Feels as if lying on a board; changes position bed feels so hard, makes him feel sore and bruised."

Phytolacca has- "Feels sore all over from head to foot; muscles sore and stiff, can hardly move without groaning."

Rhus toxicod. has -"Soreness in every muscle, which passes of during exercise; feels stiff and sore on first beginning to move."

Ruta has -"All parts of the body on which he lies are painful as if bruised."

Here are five remedies which seem much alike, and other might be added, like Staphisagria, which has -All the limbs are sore as if bruised, and as if there were no strength in them, and

China -"He is sore all over, in the joints, the bones, and the periosteum, as if they had been sprained, like a drawing, tearing, especially in the spine, the sacrum, the knees and thighs." Now to know thus far of these remedies would be of little use for therapeutic purposes, for it would be senseless to prescribe all of these remedies mixed together, and full as much so to prescribe one of them to the exclusion of all the rest without a good reason for so doing. Fortunately there is always a possibility of making choice between them, but it is not always easy. Take, for instance, Arnica and Baptisia. Both have the symptom of sore bruised feeling. Both have feeling as if the bed were too hard. Both have stupor, from which they can be aroused, but fall quickly back into it again. Both have a dark streak running through the tongue.

Both have a deep red face, and all these similarities often occur in the course of a typhoid fever. How are we to choose between them? Look further. If in addition to these symptoms the patient "tosses about the bed, reaching here and there, and in his delirium complaining that he cannot get himself together." Baptisia is the remedy, or if the stool, urine and sweat are extremely offensive, it is Baptisia. If the stool and urine are passed unconsciously and there appear suggillations under the skin, Arnica is the remedy. Now here are only a few of the characteristic differences. There are others, and we must "watch out" for them. It is no harder to choose between these two remedies than it is to choose sometimes between Hyoscyamus and Opium in the same disease. Here is the place where the old physician might exhort the young as Paul did Timothy. "Study to show thyself approved, a workman that needed not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the truth, etc." Such close prescribing is business of course, and is also successful. If I came to a case that had the bruised sensation very markedly in connection with a diphtheritic throat I would not give Arnica, because it does not have that kind of throat; but Phytolacca has, and it has one other symptom of Arnica, viz.: heat and redness of head and face, while the body and limbs are cool or cold*.

I have met many such cases of diphtheria, and if prescribed early Phytolacca cures without the aid of any other remedy. Again if I found a patient with the sore, bruised sensation, who was brought into that condition by getting wet while perspiring, or by lying on damp ground, or between damp sheets, or from a strain of the muscles, Rhus toxicodendron would be the remedy.

If in cases of actual injury I should find the bruise in the periosteum or bone, I should expect more benefit from Ruta, which seems to be better also than Rhus tox. in one kind of muscular strain, viz., strain of the ciliary muscles. I have often relieved sewing girls or students of pains in the eyes from this cause and have sometimes enabled them to lay off the glasses that had been prescribed by the opticians. It is much better to use this remedy in a weakened power of accommodation than to try and compensate for it with artificial lenses. Of course where the impaired vision is purely optical this cannot be done.

So we might go on to draw the diagnostic symptoms between all the various remedies having a similar symptom if we had time and space. But it would not be the best thing to do, for every physician should get in the habit of doing this for himself.

In addition to all that has been said about the great value of the sore as if bruised sensation of this remedy, it should always be remembered in affections, acute or chronic, which are the result of trauma. Among these are concussion; fracture of the skull with compression of the brain; headaches of long standing; meningitis: apoplexy; inflammation of the eyes with suggillations, or even retinal hæmorrhages, where it expedites the absorption of the blood clots, deafness, epistaxis, newly filled teeth, affections from blows on stomach or other viscera. I once cured a man who had suffered from what he and his physician had called dyspepsia for several years. He had been obliged to give up his business because he could not eat enough to support his strength. He had been told by his physician that he would never be well again and had given up hopes himself. This condition was caused by the kick of a horse upon the region of the stomach. A few doses of Arnica 200th cured him in a short time and he resumed his business. Now I will conclude Arnica with a few characteristics that are genuine, and have been, with me, of inestimable value.

"Stupor with involuntary discharge of fæces and urine."

"Fears being struck or touched by those coming towards him."

"Putrid smell from the mouth."

"Offensive eructations or flatus, smelling like rotten eggs."

"Bruised sore feeling in uterine region, cannot walk erect."

"Soreness of parts after labor prevents hæmorrhages or pyæmia."

"Cough; child cries before paroxysms, as if sore."

"While answering falls into a deep stupor before finishing."

"Head alone, or face alone, hot, rest of body cool."

"Many small boils, painful, one after another, extremely sore."

"Prevents suppuration and septicæmia and promotes absorption."

Arnica, although an old remedy, is not so often used as it should be in general practice.

Depression of spirits and absence of mind. Shedding of tears and exclamations after rage. Great sensitiveness of the mind, with anxiety and restlessness. Unconsciousness, (like fainting after mechanical injuries). Declines to answer any questions. Quarrelsome.

Giddiness, with nausea, when moving and rising ; better when lying. Burning and heat in the head, the rest of the body is cool, (night and morning, worse from motion, better when at rest). Pressure on one temple, as if a nail had been driven into it. Cutting through the head, as with a knife, followed by a sensation of coldness. Stitches in the head, especially in the temples and forehead. Effects from concussion of the brain.

Inflammation of the eyes with suggillation after mechanical injuries.

Stitches in and behind the ears. Pains in the ears, as from a bruise.

Tingling in the nose, and bleeding.

Heat of the face, the body being cool. Sunken, pale face. Redness of one cheek. Hot, red, shining swelling of one cheek. Burning, hot, cracked lips.

Toothache, with swollen face. Dryness of the mouth, with much thirst. Tongue coated white. Putrid smell from the mouth.

Burning in the throat.

Bitter taste, especially in the morning. Putrid taste. Aversion to food, especially to meat. Desire for vinegar. Thirst for cold water, without fever. Longing for alcoholic drinks.

Frequent eructations, especially in the morning, empty, bitter, putrid, as from rotten eggs. Nausea, and empty vomiturition. After drinking, vomiting of what has been drank. Vomiting of blood, (dark, clotted).

Cutting, colicky pain in the abdomen. Tympanitis. Colic, with strangury.

Flatus, smelling like rotten eggs. Frequent stools -small, consisting of mucus. Involuntary stool during sleep -thin, brown, or white. Stools of undigested matter, or of blood, or pus. Diarrhœa, with tenesmus.

Tenesmus from spasms of the neck of the bladder. Involuntary discharge of urine at night, when asleep, and during the day, when running. Urine brown-red, with brick-dust sediment. Bloody urine. Frequent micturition of pale urine.

Men. Purple-red swelling of the penis and testicles, after mechanical injuries. Painful swelling of the spermatic cords, with stitches into the, abdomen. Women. Soreness of the parts after a severe labor. Violent after pains. Erysipelatous inflammation of the mammæ and nipples.

Breath fetid, short, and panting. Excessive difficulty of breathing. Burning or rawness in the chest. Sensation of soreness of the ribs. Hooping-cough, after crying ; from tickling in the œsophagus ; with expectoration generally of foaming blood, mixed with clots of blood ; sometimes in the evening with putrid mucus, which cannot be expectorated, but must be swallowed again. Cough worse in the evening till midnight, from motion, in the warm room, and after drinking. Stitches in the chest, (left side), aggravated from a dry cough, with oppression of breathing ; worse from motion, better from external pressure.

Tingling in the back. Great soreness of the back.

Tingling in the arms. Sensation of soreness of the arms. Sensation, as if the joints of the arms and wrists were sprained.

Sensation of soreness in the legs. Tingling in the legs. White swelling of the knee. Hot erysipelatous inflammation and painfulness of the foot. Gout.

Over-sensitiveness of the whole body. Pain, as if beaten or bruised as outer parts. Pain, as if sprained in outer parts, and in the joints. Tearing, drawing, in outer parts. Pricking, from without, inward. Pressing, in inner parts. Tingling, in outer parts. Twitching of the muscles. Ebullitions, and burning of the upper part of the body, with coldness of the lower of the body. Bleeding of internal and external parts (vomiting of blood).

Sleepiness during the day, with inability to sleep. Drowsiness, with delirium.

Pulse very variable, mostly hard, full and quick. Chilliness, internally, with external heat. Great chilliness, with heat and redness of one cheek. Chilliness as soon as he lifts the cover of the bed. Chilliness of the side on which he lays. Heat. Dry heat over the whole body, or only in the face and on the back. Perspiration smelling sour or offensive -sometimes cold. Intermittent fever ; chill in the morning or forenoon ; drawing pains in the bones before the fever ; changes his position continually ; breath and perspiration offensive.

Petechiæ. Many small blood-boils. Hot, hard, shining swelling (from the stings of insects.) Suggillation.

Aggravation. Bad effects, even inflammations, from mechanical injuries, falls, bruises and contusions. Amelioration, in the evening at night ; from contact and motion ; even from noise.

Arnica montana. Leopard's-bane. Fallkraut. N. O. Compositæ. Tincture of whole fresh plant. Tincture of root.

Abscess. Apoplexy. Back, pains in . Baldness. Bed-sores. Black-eye. Boils. Brain, affections of. Breath, fetid . Bronchitis. Bruises. Carbuncle. Chest, affections of . Chorea. Corns. Cramp. Diabetes . Diarrhœa. Dysentery. Ecchymosis . Excoriations. Exhaustion. Eyes, affections of. Feet, sore. Hæmatemesis. Hæmaturia . Headache. Heart, affections of. Impotence. Labour. Lumbago. Meningitis . Mental alienation. Miscarriage. Nipples, sore. Nose, affections of. Paralysis. Pelvic hæmatocele. Pleurodynia. Purpura. Pyæmia. Rheumatism . Splenalgia. Sprain. Stings. Suppuration. Taste, disorders of. Thirst. Traumatic fever . Tumours. Voice, affections of. Whooping-cough. Wounds. Yawning .

Growing on the mountains, Arnica may be said to possess a native affinity to the effects of falls. As its German name, Fallkraut, attests, its value as a vulnerary has been known from remote times. It may be said to be the traumatic par excellence . Trauma in all its varieties and effects, recent and remote, is met by Arnica as by no other single drug, and the provings bring out the appropriateness of the remedy in the symptoms it causes. Tumours in many parts, following injury, have been cured by Arnica , including scirrhous tumours of the breast. Nervous affections as chorea after falls. It is suited to plethoric red-faced persons; " Arnica is particularly adapted to sanguine, plethoric persons, with lively complexions and disposed to cerebral congestion. It acts but feebly on persons who are positively debilitated, with impoverished blood and soft flesh. This may be the reason why it is eaten with impunity by herbivorous animals as Linneus remarks" (Teste). It is suited to persons who are extremely sensitive to mechanical injuries, and who feel the effects of them long after; persons easily made train-sick or sea-sick. Patients complain that the bed is hard no matter how soft it may be. Arn . corresponds to the effects of violent cough or sneezing; the child cries before cough comes on (or with the cough) in whooping-cough. Chronic bronchitis when patients have bruised, weak aching in the chest, or great sensitiveness of the chest on exertion, or walking. Allied to wounds are hæmorrhages, and Arnica causes and cures hæmorrhages of many kinds: dilatation and rupture of small blood-vessels. Vomiting, coughing, purging, accompanied by streaks of blood in ejecta; extravasation of blood into the conjunctiva as in whooping-cough. Hæmorrhages into the tissues of internal organs or the skin. An odd symptom of Arnica is "coldness of the nose." A case of facial (left) neuralgia, face swollen, dark red, very painful to touch, was cured with Arnica ( radix ), the guiding symptom being "cold nose." Patient had bitter taste; was very excitable, and < at night. Ussher notes that the local use of Arnica produced an extraordinary growth of hair on a limb. This suggested the use of an oil mixed with Arn . 1x in a case of baldness, which was followed with marked success. Arn . affects the left upper extremity and the right chest. There is a putridity in connection with Arnica excretions, as with Baptis ., which it resembles in typhoid conditions: putrid breath; fetid sweat. With Arnica there is apt to be incessant passing of stool and urine in these states. Nash gives the following as "leaders": "Stupor, with involuntary discharge of fæces and urine." "Fears being touched or struck by those coming near him." Putrid smell from mouth." "Bruised, sore feeling in uterine region; cannot walk erect." "While answering falls into a deep stupor before finishing." "Head alone, or face alone, hot; rest of body cool." "Many small boils, painful, one after another, extremely sore." "Suddenness" is a feature of Arn. pains and action. P. P. Wells relates a cure of double pleuro-pneumonia in a child with sudden stabbing pains on both sides of the chest almost preventing breathing. Arnica instantly caused a violent aggravation, the next instant relief was perfect, and the child fell asleep breathing naturally. I once ran a piece of wire into the tip of one of my fingers, causing paralysing pain. I applied Arn . 1x at once, and the pain was better instantly — seeming to be wiped out from the point of injury up the arm. There is < in damp, cold weather with Arnica , which is included by Grauvogl among the remedies suited to the hydrogenoid constitution (comp. Baryt. c .). Motion and exertion < . (Bruised, aching sensation in chest on walking.) > Lying down, and lying with head low; but < lying on left side.

Arnica should not be used externally where there is broken skin. For torn and lacerated wounds Calendula must be used locally.

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Stupefaction, loss of sight and hearing. θ Concussion of brain.
Comatose, soporous, stupid states. θ Typhus.
Lies as if dead. θ Concussion of brain ; apoplexy, etc.
Coma, insensibility. θ Congestive chills, meningitis, etc.
Stupor, with involuntary discharge of feces. θ Typhus.
Loss of consciousness. θ Angina pectoris.
Unconscious ; when spoken to answers correctly, but unconsciousness and delirium at once return.
Could be aroused and answer intelligently, but relapsed immediately into stupor.
Forgetful ; what he reads quickly escapes his memory, even the word he is about to speak. θ Typhus.
Absent-minded, thoughts wander from their object and dwell on images and fancies.
Mind clear like that of a clairvoyant ; quiet countenance, pale as chalk, thinks her death unavoidable.
Thinks rightly, but uses the wrong word for a correct idea. θ Typhus.
Confusion of the head, changing to pressive right-sided headache.
Sits as if in thought, yet thinks of nothing ; a sort of waking dream. θ Typhus.
Does not think ; confused heaviness in forehead.
Thinking tardy. θ Apoplexy.
Slowness of thinking.
Says there is nothing the matter with him. θ Putrid fever.
Muttering delirium. θ Typhus.
Delirium, low murmuring.
Delirium tremens.
Raving madness, in which patient is conscious of his condition.
Excessive inclination to hard and long literary labors.
Indisposed to think ; after a walk in open air.
She does not speak a word ; declines answering questions, dislikes sympathy. θ Typhus.
Sheds tears and makes exclamations. θ After rage.
Prays quietly for her soul.
Picks the bedclothes.
Thoughtless gayety ; great frivolity and mischievousness.
Depression of spirits.
Hopelessness ; indifference. θ After concussion.
Despondency and conviction of approaching death. θ Neuralgia.
Hypochondriacal anxiety, peevishness.
Fears being struck by those coming towards him ; fears even the possibility of being touched. θ Gout.
Violent attacks of anguish. θ Angina pectoris.
Horror of instant death. θ With cardiac distress in night.
Indifference to everything, morose.
Naturally cheerful, kindly and genial, he became downcast, waspish and peevish.
Excitable and timid. θ Paralysis.
She is extremely morose and irritable ; she does not speak a word.
Oversensitive mood, peevish, quarrelsome.
Excessive sensitiveness of mind. θ Prolapsus uteri.
(In sick :) Naturally very sensitive, his keen sensitiveness of mind became greatly exaggerated.
Excessively sensitive mind ; disposition to agreeable as well as disagreeable emotions, without weakness or excessive sensitiveness of body ; sometimes occurring alternately or simultaneously.
Susceptibility to every shock, movement or exertion, and to reading and reflection. θ Megrim.
Sensation of being good for nothing.
All occupation had to be relinquished for the time, so intense were the sufferings. θ Attacks of headache.
Languid. θ Myalgia.
Inability to perform continued active work.
Easily frightened ; unexpected trifles cause him to start.
State of mind most pitiable. θ Prolapsus ani.
Mental emotions exerted an influence in bringing on chronic attacks of headache.
Every excitement of mind, which is very irritable, aggravates all symptoms of headache. θ Prolapsus ani.
Ailments from fright or anger.
Suddenly aroused by his night-bell, and turning out of bed, brought on headache next day. θ Chronic cephalalgia.

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The Arnica patient is morose, wants to be let alone, does not want to be talked to, does not want to be approached. He does not want to be approached, both because he does not wish to enter into conversation, a mental state, and also because he does not wish to be touched on account of the great bodily soreness.

These are the two most striking things in this medicine. Irritable, morose, sad, fearful, easily frightened, imagines all sorts of things, especially that he has heart disease, or that he will mortify, or that some deep-seated trouble is upon him. Full of nightmare, dreadful dreams, dreams of muddy water, robbers, etc.

Horrors in the night. He frequently rouses up in the night, grasps at the heart, has the appearance of great horror, fears some dreadful thing will happen. A sudden fear of death comes on at this time, rousing him up in the night; he grasps at the heart, and thinks he is going to die suddenly. He is full of dreadful anguish, but finally he comes to himself, lies down and goes off into a sleep of terror, jumps up again with the fear of sudden death and says:

"Send for a doctor at once."

This is repeated night after night in persons Who are fairly well in the daytime, who have no sympathy because there seems to be no reality in their sickness, only a mental state. It is also seen in persons who have gone through a railroad accident, or through some shock, who are sore and bruised from injury.

They rouse up in the night with a fear of sudden death, with an expression of terror; the horrors they really went through are repeated. This is similar to Opium, only the Opium fear remains, even in the day time. Arnica dreams of it.

When sick in bed afflicted with a zymotic disease, with violent fever, or with fever after an accident or injury, he becomes greatly prostrated, stupid and unconscious. He can be aroused and will answer a question correctly, but goes into a stupor, or be hesitates about a word and is unable to find correct words when trying to answer and goes back into the coma.

When roused up, he looks at the doctor and says:

"I do not want you; I did not send for you; I am not sick; I don't need a doctor."

He will say this even when he is seriously ill. I have seen an Arnica patient lie back upon his pillow after emptying the stomach of a black fluid like blood, seriously ill, with the face mottled, in zymotic sickness or such as threaten malignant chill, that one would think he was almost going to die, look up and say:

"I am not sick; I did not send for you; go home."

Yet when in a state of health he was friendly, kind-hearted, knew me well, glad to shake hands with me; but now he is irritated at seeing me there and insists there is nothing the matter with him. Such is the "shock" state, almost a delirium. After finishing such a sentence he will lie down in a stupor, will lie in bed drawn up in a heap and merely groan when spoken to.

He wants to be left alone, does not want to be bothered, does not want to be talked to. That state ushers in complaints after a shock that has shaken the whole system, that has disturbed the circulation.

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Hydrogenoid constitution. Dark hair; rigid muscles. Plethoric; red face. Especially adapted to those who remain long impressed by even slight mechanical injuries.

Nervous, cannot stand pain; whole body over-sensitive (Cham., Coff., Ign.); sore bruised feeling all through the body, as if beaten.

Everything on which he lies, seems too hard; complains constantly of it, and keeps moving from place to place, in search of a soft spot (must move continually to obtain relief from the pain, Rhus.—See Bapt., Pyr.).

Heat of upper part of body; coldness of lower.

The face, or head and face alone is hot, while the body is cool.

Diseases of traumatic origin, muscles chiefly involved; with stupor from concussion; from blunt instrument (Symp.).

Unconscious; when spoken to answers correctly but unconsciousness and delirium at once return (falls asleep in the midst of a sentence, Bapt.).

Fears being touched or struck by persons coming near him.

Belching; eructations; foul, putrid, like rotten eggs.

Constipation: rectum loaded, feces will not come away; ribbon-like stools from enlarged prostate or retroverted uterus.

Cannot walk erect on account of a bruised sore feeling in pelvic region (Bellis).

Soreness of parts after labor; prevents post-partum hemorrhage and puerperal complications.

Retention or incontinence of urine after labor (Op.).

Tendency to small painful boils, one after the other; extremely sore (small boils in crops, Sulph.).

Complementary: to Acon., Hyper., Rhus.

Similar: to for soreness as if bruised; Bap., China, Nat. m., Phyt., Pyr., Rhus, Ruta, Staph.

Arnica follows well: after, Acon., Apis, Ars., Ham., Ipec., Ver.; is followed by, Sul. ac. and Psor.

Antidotes abuse of quinine and other suppressive measures.

At rest, when lying down; from wine.

From contact, motion (Rhus, Ruta).

Tertian; quartan. CONGESTIVE. Malaria intermittens. Cerebral typhoid; typhus.

Not characteristic; usually 4 A. M., 8–10:30 A. M.; afternoon or evening, 5–8 P. M.

Thirst for large quantities of cold water, sometimes with vomiting (Eup. perf.). Much yawning and stretching; drawing pain as if in the periosteum; aching in wrists; skin blue; drinking refreshes (Nat. m.).

Drawing pains as if in the periosteum.

Thirst.—For large quantities of cold water, which refreshes him.

Pain in back and bones of extremities, as if broken.

Thirst.—He cannot drink enough, but drinking hastens chill, and produces nausea.

With thirst, and, if he drinks a great deal, vomits afterwards (Ars.). Chill, as if cold water were poured over him (Rhus—as if cold water were dashed over him, Ant. t.). Chill with pain in muscles of back and extremities as if bruised; aching in bones (Nat., Rhus); soreness of the whole body (whole body feels sore, Bapt.). Chill felt most severely in PIT OF STOMACH. Chill after every sleep; with heat and redness of one cheek; with burning of head alone, or face alone, rest of body being cold. Internal chill with external heat (Ars., Thuya). Chilliness on one (right) side; on side on which he lies. Chilly, with heat and redness of one cheek. Shivering over the whole body and the head, at same time heat in the head and redness and heat in the face, accompanied by a coolness of the hands, and a feeling as if the hips, the back and anterior surface of the arms were being bruised. Morning chill while in bed; begins before she rises and lasts four hours. Chilly from the slightest movement of the bed-clothes (Acon., Rhus—constant desire to be covered up, Nux). Skin of arms and hands mottled blue (Nux).

With thirst, pain in muscles of back and extremities, as if bruised; great soreness of whole body.

With thirst, but drinking causes nausea. Headache, with intense pain in back and bones, as if broken.

Thirst continued, but less than during chill, except early in the morning, when it is violent. Dry, general heat, with indifference, stupor and such weakness, that when he attempts to sit up he faints (Acon.). During heat, slightest lifting of bed-clothes, or even moving in bed, makes him chilly (Apis, Nux, Rhus, same in all stages of paroxysm). Great internal heat, with coldness of hands and feet. The heat becomes intolerable to him (Apis, Puls.), and he tries to uncover himself, but upon uncovering he feels chilly. Dry heat over the whole body after waking early in the morning. Burning heat in one spot, which is cold to the touch; alternate heat or coldness here and there over the entire body.

Upper part of body warm, lower part cold.

Less thirst, but increased soreness of flesh; must lie down, yet bed feels too hard; he cannot find a soft place and keeps constantly changing position in search of one.

Less thirst, but increased cephalalgia and bone pains. Vomiting of bitter bile before heat begins (Lyc., sour vomiting).

Sour, fetid, offensive, like mouldy earth; in old cases, sometimes cold and clammy. The exhalations smell sour; the night-sweat is sour. Worse when sweating (Ant. c., Ipec.). Partial sweat on front of body; on plantar surface of hands and forearms. General sweat about midnight followed by faintness. Headache (which begins in hot stage) and soreness continue, but pain and drawing in the periosteum, which occurs before the chill, disappear gradually (all pains disappear with sweat, Nat.).

Generally absent in recent attacks. In old cases, sour, and offensive.

Generally absent, scanty if any. Headache continues for several hours after fever is gone; sweat relieves all pains except cephalalgia (all pains, Nat. m.).

Never clean. Dry, yellow, or dirty white coating, and often, in acute cases, with a brown streak down the middle. Breath sour, fetid. Taste bitter, putrid, of rotten eggs. Longing for alcoholic drinks; for acids. Repugnance to food.

Variable; full, hard, or weak and slow; in evening strong pulsations through whole body.

Headache, soreness and bruised feeling of muscles continue; eructations tasting like rotten eggs. Yellow face; bitter taste; aversion to meat; and, especially in chronic cases, debility and aversion to exercise. The apyrexia is not marked in recent attacks, but is always a characteristic in chronic cases where large quantities of Quinine have been taken, then the soreness and bruised feeling are always indicative.

All three stages, chill, heat, and sweat are well marked; and in each stage the same characteristic of the remedy is usually found.

Arnica.

Bruised feeling and soreness continue through every stage, and persist during apyrexia.

Eup. perf.

Bone pains begin before the chill, but disappear with disappearance of sweat. None in apyrexia. Loose cough; night-sweats.

In the Materia Medica Pura, Hahnemann recommends Arnica as a remedy, that in its pathogenesis corresponds with the Quinia cachexia; and clinical experience for many years has confirmed his observation. Arnica is probably more frequently indicated in cases maltreated with Quinine than any other remedy; and here lies its chief value in the treatment of fevers. It is also a fact, that in acute cases, where Arnica is indicated, relapses are more frequent perhaps than with any other indicated remedy. It apparently antidotes the previous mal-treatment, but some other remedy is required to complete the cure. The patient does not feel well, but can scarcely tell why, and in four or five days has another paroxysm. This paroxysm, however, will differ materially from the preceding ones, Arnica having apparently paved the way for Apis, Arsenicum, Ipecac, or Natrum muriaticum (which follow Arnica well) to complete the cure. Arnica is often the best remedy with which to begin the treatment of a case mal- treated by Quinine or patent "ague cures." Psorinum or Sulphur may prevent tendency to relapse.

The "key note" of Arnica is the same in fevers as in all other diseases (Quinine drugging always an additional indica- tion), viz.: Bruised, sore, weary ; great weakness, and must lie down in consequence, yet bed feels too hard ; hence fre- quent change of position in search of a soft place, which may cause pain. In old cases, where Arnica is indicated, the symptoms of apyrexia should be carefully studied.

Frequent suppression of urine.

Prodrome; thirst and drawing pains in bones and periosteum.

Chill; with thirst; bruised, sore, weak; bed feels hard, frequent change of position in consequence.

Heat; motion or slightest uncovering makes him chilly; heat intolerable.

Sweat; sour, offensive, like mouldy earth.

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.

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 diarrhœa.

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.

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.

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.
Œdema 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.

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Arnica, montana, left, belongs to the compositæ. A tincture is prepared from the root, leaves and flowers, mixed.

The most pronounced effects of Arnica are on the blood, general anæmia, with sharp neuralgias, tendency to hæmorrhages; depression of temperature; malnutrition, with disordered digestion, involuntary diarrhœa. ▶ Rheumatic and cutaneous symptoms are marked. ▶ The soreness of flesh is quite characteristic.

Bry., Rhus t., Ruta, Bapt., Bov ., Sec. c., Elaps, Phos ., Nit. ac., Hypr ., Symphyt., Carbo v.

Agitation increasing to tetanus of right side. ▶ Convulsions. ▶ Twitchings; of single muscles, especially in limbs. ▶ Fibrillar contractions of isolated muscular fasciculæ, especially in region of jaws. ▶ Trembling of whole body alternating with convulsive movements of limbs. ▶ Stitches; in almost every part, especially nose, eyebrows, eyelids, even in hands and fingers; in whole body, with itching; burning, in different parts. ▶ Intermittent tearing in almost every part, especially in limbs, for the most part rising from below upward, in lower limbs, agg. sitting.

Pain in periosteum of all bones, resembling almost a drawing in all limbs, as in fever and ague; formicating or dull pain in a contused part; twitching, in affected parts; in whole body on lying, as if it were on pebbles. ▶ Sensitiveness of whole body (Plat.); of all joints on motion and of skin. ▶ Bruised pain over whole body. ▶ Sudden illness when pressing on dorsal vertebræ, with jerks in muscles of nape and of back, with throwing back of the head while the trunk is upright, the illness agg. on pressing on last dorsal vertebra, when there is a pain in waist, radiating to epigastrium, with suffocation and weight on chest. ▶ Orgasms of blood in evening, with pulsations in whole body and vertigo. ▶ Sensation as if everything on his body were tied too tight. ▶ Uneasiness of whole body, becoming a trembling. ▶ Faintness; when walking, amel. standing; from heat of sun, with nausea.

▶ Weakness; on rising; on rising; on retiring at 10, but restlessness and wakefulness until midnight; early in bed, with relaxed testicles, as if he had had an emission, which was not the case; when walking, as if suddenly blighted with old age; with a bruised sensation (Bap.); with sluggishness; with sleepiness; with tremulous uneasiness; with a desire to sit down.

Feeling when walking in open air as if whole right side, especially shoulder, were heavy and hanging down paralyzed. ▶ Aggravation from speaking, blowing nose, motion and almost every noise. ▶ Amelioration from a long walk in cold weather.

Extremely valuable when the body feels bruised and sore; results of injuries (rather of cuts than of bruises). ▶ Excessive prostration, with anæmia, sticking pains, or after low fevers. ▶ Hæmorrhages of venous blood, passive; general tendency to blood disorganization. ▶ Thromboses. ▶ Hæmatocele. ▶ Paralysis (right side). ▶ Pernicious anæmia. ▶ Tendency to degeneration of tissue, with foul odors, boils and abscesses which do not mature well or do not granulate. ▶ In septicæmia, burrowing abscesses, enlarged veins, which are sore; muscular pains from overexertion; bed-sores; affects of contusions and sprains; stings of insects, etc.

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The most pronounced action of Arnica appears to be on the blood, causing anæmia, hæmorrhages, ecchymoses, and general malnutrition. It produces a low, typhoid type of fever, a general rheumatoid diathesis and cutaneous manifestations.

Bruised feeling of the flesh everywhere.
Stitches in various parts.
General weakness with sluggishness.
General aggravation from touch or motion; ameliorated in clear, cold, stimulating weather.
General aggravation evenings and nights.

Morose mood but easily startled; over-sensitive.
Great anguish.
Fear of every person approaching him.
(Fear on account of sensitive flesh.)
Despondency and hopelessness.
Indifference.
(Delirium during low types of fever.)

Vertigo on rising and on moving.
Confusion.
Heaviness.
Feeling as if brain were shattered.
Head hot, rest of body cool.
Pressing pain in the forehead, aggravated after eating.
Aching, aggravated by walking.
Sensation as if brains were rolled up into a lump, aggravated near stove.
Stitching and tearing in the temples.
(After a strain, pain over one eye, with vomiting of green water. - Bœnninghausen.)
(Scalp adherent to the skull. - B.)

Inflammation of conjunctiva, dryness and soreness between ball and lid on moving eyes.
Lachrymation burning.

Stitches in and behind ears.
Deafness and roaring in the ears.

Pain as from a bruise, from above downward.
Epistaxis of dark, thin blood.

Pale, sunken.
One-sided heat and redness or heat of face and head; rest of body cool.
Lips chapped, burning.
Trembling of lower lip.

Foul odor from mouth.
Toothache, as if roots were scraped (after filling).
Foul, putrid taste.

Swallowing prevented by a kind of nausea.
Swallowing noisy.

Repugnance to food.
Craving for vinegar.
Thirst.
Eructations, fetid, like bad eggs, of bitter mucus.
Nausea.
Empty retching.
Vomiting of food, mixed with blood, of dark, clotted blood.
Cramps in the stomach, pinching, stitches, pressure extending to the spine.
Constriction extending into the chest.

Distention, hard.
Stitches in the region of the spleen, taking away the breath.
Pains (after lifting).
Colic, with retention of urine.
Bruised pains in the sides of the abdomen.
Flatulence, extremely foul.

Tenesmus.
Stool loose, diarrhœa very putrid, like brown yeast; involuntary, especially at night during sleep.
Undigested evacuations.

Tenesmus, with ineffectual straining.
Tenesmus associated with a diarrhœa.
Retention of urine with dull pain in the bladder.
Involuntary micturition nights in bed or when running during the day.
Urine brownish-red, with brick-dust sediment.
Bloody urine.

Swelling of penis and scrotum, bluish-red.
Hot swelling of the scrotum (after injuries).

Inflammation of vagina and uterus after a severe labor.
Prolonged after-pains.
Inflammation of the mammæ from sore nipples.

Tickling in the trachea causes a dry cough, with stitches in the head.
Paroxysms of spasmodic cough caused by crying.
Cannot expectorate, but must swallow whatever is loosened by coughing.
Bloody expectoration, blackish, in clots, even without cough.
Dyspnœa.

A general sore, bruised feeling.
Stitches, aggravated by cough and motion; ameliorated by external pressure.
Chest feels sprained on coughing.
Stitches in the right ribs, extending to the axilla on breathing.

Stitches or bruised feelings about the heart.
Pulse feeble, sometimes irregular.

Pains in the cervical vertebræ, with tension on bending the head.
Pains in the back as from long stooping.
Feeling as if the spine were too weak to support the body.

General bruised, paralytic feeling.
The arms feel strained or wrenched.
The veins on the hands are distended.
The hips feel sprained.
Weariness and tension in the thighs.
Arthritic pains in the toe joints; the feet become hot and inflamed.
Cannot bear to have one approach for fear of being hurt.

Numerous boils.
Small, hot, tense swellings.
Ecchymoses.
Soreness of parts on which one lies.
(Decubitus.)
Inflammations of a dark, bluish color.
Erysipelas.

Shivering, as if dashed with cold water.
Chill on the slightest exposure.
Heat evenings, with pains in the back and limbs.
Heat of head and upper parts, with coldness of lower parts.
Sweat at night, sour.

Arn. / (1st Y.) / Arnold, Arny

Arnica- Who feeleth bruised,
As from having been contused.
Cures the pain from injury,
Pains produced by pregnancy,
Pain from gall and renal stones,
Pain from shingles causing groans,
Routeth boils from off the skin,
Stoppeth bleeding from within.
Of effused upon the brain
Whence a mania may obtain.
Stoppeth pain from being jarred
When the bed feels all too hard.

Arnold,- Has bruise-like pain.

Arny Ham, the baptist, roasted poke root for the old squaw Sabin.

This Arnold,- Who is subject to boils, - Is on the lead, with Viola Bellis, to the Isle of shoals.

Bruised-Like Pain: Arn., Ham., Bap., Rhus, Sul., Thuj., Phyt., Ruta., Con., Cimi., Sabin.

Boils: Arn., Led., Voil. t., Bellis, Sil., Lach., Sul., Hep., Lyc. (In crops, Arn.- all over, Voil. t. -in the nose, Ox. a., Teucr., Thuj.)

Indicated in troubles connected with receipt of some injury, or from the excessive use of some part of the body; after severe labor. The sense of soreness and of being bruised all over is characteristic, as well as the dread of being approached, seen in gout.

The bed on which he lies feels too hard; he must change position constantly.

Sore, lame, bruised feeling all over, as though beaten.

Fears being touched; dreads having anyone come near him.

Feels sore and bruised in the hips, hence cannot walk erect.

Oversensitiveness to pain.

Head hot, the rest of the body cool.

Internal heat, with coldness of hands and feet.

Thirst during chill.

Taste as from a bad egg; pressure in the stomach as from a stone.

Stools offensive, brown, putrid, bloody; after stool exhausted, so he is obliged to lie down.

Skin covered with itching, burning, small pimples and boils.

Black and blue spots on the body.

Worse from rest; from lying down; form wine dampness, cold.

Better from lying with the head low; from contact and motion.

Unconsciousness. Distraction and inability to think. Great fear and restlessness. Lachrymose humor. Oversensitive. Refuses to reply to anything. Rage. Peevish, wilful, quarrelsome mood. Anger, followed by screaming and weeping.

Whirling vertigo with nausea when rising up and during motion, better lying. Fainting after physical injuries.

Congestion to. Burning or heat of, with coldness of rest of body. Pressing pain in forehead. Tearing and inward sticking in temples and forehead. Compressive ache. Stitches in. Concussion, of brain. Aching over one eye, with vomiting of green water after overlifting. Cutting like a knife through head, followed by a cold feeling and bristling hair. Feeling: As if brain were rolled into a lump (Ant-t.), as if a nail were thrust into one temple, of crawling in forehead over orbit, also upon vertex. Worse: Forenoon and evening, motion, shaking, coughing, mental exertion, midnight, after eating, raising eyes, becoming cold. Better: Rest, lying horizontally or on painful side.

Crawling, tearing in the bone itself, most severe in region of temples (after trauma). Crawling in vertex. Tension from vertex down to brows. Scalp adheres tightly to cranium. Worse: Touch. Better: Warmth, rubbing, wrapping up warmly.

Inflamed and bloodshot after injuries. Dim, lusterless. Swollen, ecchymosed lids. Burning tears. Photophobia.

Stitches in, and behind. Difficult hearing, with roaring before. Earache, as from a contusion.

Crawling in. Pain in, as if crushed. Swelling and ecchymosis of. Epistaxis.

Pale, sunken, Heat of, with coldness of body. Unilateral redness and swelling of cheeks. Crawling about eyes, in cheeks and lips. Busted burning lips. Swollen, submaxillary glands.

Aching, with crawling in gums and a swelled cheek.

Offensive odor from, early in morning. Bleeding from. Burning in throat. Swallowing impeded by a sort of qualmishness. Noisy deglutition. White coated tongue.

Cramp in. Fullness in. Stitches in pit, with pressure extending into back and constriction of chest.

Hypochondria: When walking stitches in spleen with arrested breathing.

Appetite: Craving for vinegar. Violent thirst for cold water, without heat. Taste. - Foul or bitter.

Eructations: Foul or bitter. Like rotten eggs. Regurgitation of bitter mucus.

Nausea, etc. - Qualmishness and empty retching.

Vomiting: Of ingesta (often mixed with blood) after drinking, of dark, coagulated blood.

Hard distended. Pain in after overlifting (also during pregnancy). Contusive pain in sides of. Pain about navel during motion. Colic with retained urine.

Flatulence: Torturing. Discharged flatus has odor of rotten eggs.

Retained, with ineffectual urging. Undigested. Unnoticed. Involuntary. Diarrhoea with tenesmus. Ineffectual tenesmus.

Retention of from spasm of sphincter vesicae. Brownish - red, with brick red sediment. Haematuria. Ineffectual urging to urinate. Involuntary urination at night in bed and during day when walking.

Bluish - red swelling of penis and scrotum. Hot swelling of testes (after contusion.) Hydrocele. Inflamed vagina and uterus after (difficult) childbirth. After pains too painful and too long continued.

Anxious oppression of. Foul smelling breath.

Dry, excited by crawling in trachea, with stitches in head. When coughing, inability to expectorate, on the contrary must swallow what is loosened. Haemoptysis, of bright foamy blood mixed with small clots. Expectoration of black blood in coagulated lumps, without cough, after every exertion. Expectoration of badly tasting slime in evening. Wailing, crying and weeping precede and follow the paroxysm.

Scraping in.

Bruised pain and compression in. Burning in. Stitches in worse from coughing and motion, better by external pressure. Rawness in. Stitches in (left side). Bruised feeling in ribs. Jerking heart beat. Erysipelas and inflammation of female mammae. Excoriated nipples.

Crawling in. Stitches in loins. Bruised sensation in, and in lumbar region.

Bruised sensation in arms. Crawling in arms. Sprained pain in joints of arm and hand. Distended blood vessels on hands.

Bruised feeling in legs. Crawling in legs. Tension and weariness in thighs. Pale swelling of knee. Hot, erysipelatous inflammation and painfulness of feet. Podagra.

Bruised pain with crawling in entire body, from every motion. Stiffness of limbs after excessive exertion. Oversensitiveness of entire body. Constant restless of body and tossing about. Shifting pains in joints quickly change place. Twitching muscles. Ebullitions of blood. Apoplexy with exudation. Ecchymosis and hemorrhages of internal and external parts. Complaint (also inflammations) after blows, falls or contusions. The symptoms are intensified in the evening and at night, as well as from touch, motion and even from nose.

Drawing in periosteum, before fever.

Numerous small boils. Hot, hard, glistening swelling (i. e., as from insect stings). Ecchymoses. Wounds. Excoriations (bed sores) of invalids.

Day sleepiness, with inability to sleep. Somnolency, with flightiness Anxious dreams.

Pulse: Very variable, mostly full, hard and accelerated. Sometimes very weak and slow. Alternate quick and slow action of pulse and heart. Strong pulsation thro' whole body in evening. Chill: Internal coldness with external warmth. With great thirst, which often precedes it, as if cold water were poured over one, for the most part in the evening. And coldness of lower parts of body, with heat of upper, especially of head. Universal, with heat and redness of one cheek. After every nap. From slightest lifting of covers. Alternating with heat. Cold sensation of side on which he lies. Heat: Dry, which is either general or only running over the face or back. Earning in single parts of body, which feel cold externally. Or coldness, now here now there. IN evening, with pains in limbs. Internal with external coldness. Sweat: for the most part sour or offensive smelling, sometimes cold.

Allied Remedies: Acon., Ap., Ars., Bry., Cann., Caps., Chin., CIC., Ferr., Rhus-t., Sabi., Samb., Sell, Seneg., Verat-a., ZINC.

Complementary: Nat-s., SUL.

Pain, as if beaten or bruised in outer parts.

Pressing in inner parts.

Pricking from without inwards.

Pain, as if sprained in outer parts and the joints.

Tingling in outer parts.

Tearing and drawing in outer parts.

Oversensitiveness of the whole body.

Twitching of the muscles.

Ebullitions with burning of the upper part of the body by coldness of the lower part.

Bad effects from mechanical injuries (falls, bruises and contusions).

Bleeding of external and internal parts (vomiting of blood).

Petechiae.

Aggravation in the evening and through the night, from contact, motion and noise.