Generalities
Hypericum perforatum is an excellent remedy for the injury to parts, rich in sentient nerves, esp. fingers, toes, matrix of nails. LACERATIONS; when the intolerable, violent, shooting, lancinating pain shows nerves are severely involved. Injury to the brain and spinal cord or ill effects from such injuries. Spasms after every injury. Very painful sore parts, occiput, coccyx etc. Pains extend towards the trunk or down sides with crawling and numbness. Neuritis; of head or chest; in epigastrium; inter-scapular spine; finger tips etc. Shooting up from injured part. Tingling, burning and numbness, with neuritis. Neuralgia of the stump. Shudderings. Prevents tetanus, and relieves pain after operations. Joints feel bruised. Convulsions after knocking the body against anything. Jerks in the limbs. Punctured or penetrating wounds, very sensitive to touch. Ill effects of fright, bites, shocks. Wounds are more tender than appearance would indicate. Lies on back, jerking head backwards. Pain in old cicatrices.
Worse
INJURY. JAR. Concussion; of spine, coccyx. Shock. Bruises. Exertion. Touch. Change of weather. Fogs. Cold, damp. Motion. After forceps delivery, as a complication of injury.
Better
Lying on face. Bending back. Rubbing.
Mind
Makes mistakes in writing; forgets what she wanted to say. Feels lifted high in air or anxiety lest he fall from a height. Melancholy.
Head
Heaviness or formication in brain. Brain feels loose. Head feels as if touched by icy cold hand. Head feels larger, drawn to a point. Throbbing in vertex. Falling of hair; after injury.
Face
Bloated, hot. Eczema of face; eruptions seem to be under the skin. Intense itching. Toothache better lying on affected side quietly.
Throat
Feeling as of a worm moving in. Hot risings in oesophagus after a fright or with anxious feeling. Tongue, white at the back, tip clean. Craving for wine, with feeling of heat in mouth.
Stomach
Thirst, with feeling of heat in mouth. Nausea. Belches while drinking water. Desire for pickles, warm drinks, wine.
Abdomen
Bubbling at navel. Tympanitic distension better after stool (after laparotomy). Rectum feels dry. Summer diarrhoea with eruptions on the skin. Haemorrhoids with pain, bleeding and tenderness, (use externally and internally).
Female
After pains violent in sacrum and hips with severe headache; after forceps delivery.
Respiratory
Spells of short barking cough. Asthma worse foggy weather and better by profuse expectoration.
Heart
Feels as though it will drop down.
Neck and Back
Pain in the nape of neck. Pressure over sacrum. Consequences of spinal concussion. Coccyx painful, pain radiating up the spine and down the limbs. Painfully sensitive spine. Pain in hips; small of back and coccyx, after labour.
Extremities
Limbs feel detached. Pressure along ulnar side of the arm. Crawling in hand and feet. Aching in sciatic nerve (left) after prolonged sitting. Hands and feet seem furry, or bones aching. Violent pain and inability to walk or stoop after a fall on coccyx.
Sleep
Constant drowsiness. Laborious dreams.
Fever
Shuddering over whole body with desire to urinate.
Skin
Painful scars in tissues rich in nerves. Gaping wounds. Skin rough as if full of small knots. Pain in old cicatrices.
Related
Arn; Led; Rhus-t.
He was convinced about Homoeopathy while going through Sir William Osler's writings on 'History of Medicine' so switched over to an entirely Homoeopathic Practice in 1932. He also started working on Homoeopathic literature along with his Practice.
He has contributed immensely to homoeopathic literature. He was an ardent follower of Dr Boger. His Repertory is based on Boger's ''A Synoptic key to Materia Medica'.