Generalities
This remedy has a special affinity for fibrous tissue; flexor tendons; joints; ankles; wrists; cartilages; periosteum; uterus and skin. It is the chief remedy for injured or bruised bones; therefore the pains are BRUISED; SORE, ACHING WITH RESTLESSNESS. Feeling of intense painful weariness. Heaviness; as of a weight in forehead or hanging to feet; or lower limbs. As of a rough blunt plug in part, head, nose etc. Paralytic rigidity. Distortions. Gnawing-burning pains, neuralgia. Rheumatism. Formation of deposits or nodes in the periosteum, tendons and about the joints esp. wrists. Ill effects of bruises, fractures; carrying heavy weights. Lameness after sprains. Bones brittle. Lain on parts become sore; even in bed. Feeling of intense lassitude, weakness and despair.
Worse
Overexertion, injury; sprains. EYE STRAIN. COLD-air; damp, wind; wet. LYING. SITTING. Pressure on an edge. Stooping. During menses. Uncooked or indigestible food. Exertion; ascending, descending steps.
Better
Lying on back. Warmth. Motion. Rubbing. Scratching.
Mind
Dissatisfied with himself and others, and disposed to weep. Suspicious, imagines that he is always being deceived. Fretful, quarrels and contradicts.
Head
Aches as if a nail is driven into it. Stitches worse reading.
Eyes
Red, hot and painful, from reading fine print, sewing. Vision dim. Lachrymation. Itching inner canthi. Asthenopia. Spasm in lower eyelids, when it ceases, lachrymation starts.
Ears
Pain as from a blunt piece of wood.
Nose
Sweat on. Pressive aching at the root of nose; with epistaxis.
Mouth
Cramp in tongue, causing embarrassment of speech. Woody taste.
Stomach
Sudden nausea while eating; with vomiting of food. Burning_gnawing pain. Dyspepsia from carrying heavy weight. Violent thirst for ice cold water. Nausea felt in rectum Tension in stomach better drinking milk.
Abdomen
Urging to stool, but only rectum prolapses. Prolapse of rectum on stooping; after delivery, during stools hard or soft. Faeces often escape when stooping. Painful swelling of the spleen. Cancer of lower bowel. Stricture of rectum.
Urinary
Constant pressure on bladder as if it is full or moving up and down. Constant urging, can hardly retain urine, if forcibly retained she could not pass afterwards, with severe pain.
Female
Corrosive leucorrhoea after irregular or suppressed menses.
Respiratory
Short breath, with tightness of chest. Weak feeling in chest after thick, yellow, sputum. Painful spot on sternum. Ill effects of mechanical injury to chest.
Neck and Back
Weak, bruised feeling in small of back, hips and lower limbs in a.m. Coldness of spine, downwards. Back ache better lying on back and pressure.
Extremities
Thighs feel broken worse when stretching the legs. Sore tendons. Totters; stumbles easily. Pains as if deep in long bones; must walk about. Nodes in palms. Ganglion of the wrist. Bursae. Pain in bones of the feet, cannot step heavily on them. Contractions; of fingers; of feet, of toes. Hamstrings feel shortened. Cracking in joints worse walking in open air. Sciatica; worse lying down, at night better during daytime. Legs give out as one attempts to rise from a chair, has to make several attempts before one can succeed. Paralytic weakness of legs, after spraining of the back. Legs feel weak, knees give way, while ascending and descending stairs. Ankles swollen.
Skin
Easily chafed; from walking, riding; also in children. Erosive itching. Flat smooth painful warts; on palms. Itching after eating meat.
Sleep
Wakes frequently; vivid, confused dreams. Yawns, stretches and extends hands.
Fever
Frequent attacks of quick flushes of heat. Glowing heat on face, skin etc.
Related
Arn; Phyt; Ran-sc; Symphytum
Complementary
Calc-p.
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'.