Arnica montana
Leopard's bane
Main symptoms
- 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.
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- Apoplexy, red, full face.
- It is especially suited to cases when any injury, however remote, seems to have caused the present trouble.
- Arnica is disposed to cerebral congestion.
- Acts best in plethoric, feebly in debilitated with impoverished blood, cardiac fluid swelling (oedema) with dyspnoea.
- 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 haemorrhages.
- Relaxed blood vessels, black and blue spots.
- Tendency to haemorrhage and low-fever states.
- Tendency to tissue degeneration, septic conditions, abscesses that do not mature.
- Neuralgias originating in disturbances of pneumo-gastric.
- Joint and muscle pain of muscular and tendinous tissue, especially of back and shoulders.
- Aversion to tobacco.
- Thrombosis.
- Haematocele.
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- 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.
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- Says there is nothing the matter with him.
- Wants to be let alone.
- Agoraphobia (fear of space).
- After mental strain or shock.
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Symptoms by body part
Head
Hot, with cold body; confused; sensitiveness of brain, with sharp, pinching pains. Scalp feels contracted. Cold spot on forehead. Chronic dizziness; objects whirl about especially when walking.
Eyes
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. Taste as from bad eggs. Soreness of gums after teeth extraction. Empyema of maxillary sinus.
Face
Sunken; very red. Heat in lips. Herpes in face.
Stomach
Longing for vinegar. Distaste for milk and meat. Extreme 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 pressing against spine. Fetid vomiting.
Abdomen
Stitches under false ribs. Distended; offensive flatus. Sharp thrusts through abdomen.
Stool
Straining of constant urge to pass stool in diarrhoea. Offensive, brown, bloody, putrid, involuntary. Looks like brown yeast. Must lie down after every stool. Dysenteric stools with muscular pains.
Urine
Retained from over-exertion. Dark brick-red sediment. Vesical constant urge to pass stool with very painful micturition.
Female
Bruised parts after labor. Violent after-pains. Uterine haemorrhage from mechanical injury after coition. Sore nipples. Mastitis from injury. Feeling as if foetus were lying crosswise.
Respiratory
Coughs depending on cardiac lesion, paroxysmal, at night, during sleep, worse exercise. Acute tonsillitis, swelling of soft palate and uvula. Hoarseness from overuse of voice. Raw, sore feeling in morning. Cough produced by weeping and lamenting. Dry, from tickling low down in trachea. Bloody phlegm coughed up. Dyspnoea with coughing up blood. All bones and cartilages of chest painful. Violent spasmodic cough, with facial herpes. Whooping cough, child cries before coughing. Pleurodynia.
Heart
Angina pectoris; pain especially severe in elbow of left arm. Stitches in heart. Pulse feeble and irregular. Cardiac fluid swelling (oedema) with distressing dyspnoea. 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. Joint and muscle pain begins low down and works up.
Skin
Black and blue. Itching, burning, rash of small pimples. Crops of small boils. Ecchymosis. Bed sores. Acne indurata, characterized by symmetry in distribution.
Sleep
Sleepless and restless when overtired. Comatose drowsiness; awakens with hot head; dreams of death, mutilated bodies, anxious and terrible. Horrors in the night. Involuntary stools during sleep.
Fever
Shivering over whole body. Heat and redness of head, with coolness of rest of body. Internal heat; feet and hands cold. Nightly sour sweats.
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