Lockjaw


Homeopathic remedies for the symptoms of Lockjaw from A Dictionary of Domestic Medicine by John H.Clarke….


–After injuries or operations an affection of the nervous centres is apt to supervene, resulting in throwing all the muscles of the body into a state of rigid contraction. The first symptoms of this disease are usually seen in the muscles of the face and jaws, causing tight closing of the latter, so that the patient is unable to open his mouth.

This is always a condition of great danger, and should be at once reported to the attending physician or surgeon. The active cause of the disease has been traced to poisoning by a specific bacillus. The same condition may be caused by poisoning with strychnine and the drugs containing it.

General Treatment.–The wound should be looked to, cleansed thoroughly, and washed with Calendula lotion. (One part of the tincture to ten of water.)

Medicines.–(Every hour.)

Aconite 3.

–If there is fever, restlessness, or fear of death.

Ignat. 3.

–If fretful and irritable.

Nux v. 3.

–Spasms, excited by the lightest touch.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica