ARNICA MONTANA


Homeopathic remedy Arnica Montana drug symptoms and indications from Condensed Materia Medica by Constantine Hering, published in 1877….


      Leopard’s bane. Hahnemann Compositae.

Mind

      Unconscious; when spoken to answer correctly but unconsciousness and delirium at once return.

Stupefaction, loss of sight and hearing. Concussion of brain.

Stupor with involuntary discharge of faces. Typhus.

Forgetful; what he reads quickly escapes his memory, even the word he is about speaking. 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. 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. Gout.

Fears of public places; agoraphobia (dread of crowds) Hypochondriacal anxiety.

Hopelessness; indifference. After concussion.

Oversensitive mood, peevish, quarrelsome.

Frightened; unexpected trifles cause him to start.

Ailments from fright or anger.

Violent attacks of anguish. Angina pectoris.

Sensorium

      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: Stomachal (gastric), with nausea vomiting and diarrhoea.

Inner Head

      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 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.

Outer 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.

Eyes

      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.

OEdema 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.

Ears

      Noises in the ear caused by rush of blood to the head: with great sensitiveness to sound.

Head hearing. From concussions.

Bruised pain in ears, stitches in behind ears; with great sensitiveness to loud sounds; ears very dry.

Discharge of blood from the ear.

Nose

      Bruised pain in the nose.

Nosebleed: preceded by tingling; copious after every exertion; from mechanical causes; after washing the face.

End of nose cold.

Swelling of nose.

Violent sneezing, after overlifting the day before.

Face

      Pale sunken; sallow; red, swollen.

Red swelling of right cheek, with throbbing and pinching pain swollen lips and great heat in head with cold body.

Redness and burning in one cheek.

Dry heat in face toward evening, without thirst; nose cold.

Lower Face

      Lips: burn; swollen and cracked.

Lower lip trembles.

Bruised pain in (right) articulation of jaw, from motion early in morning.

Lower jaw hanging down.

Teeth

      Toothache after operation plugging etc.

Excruciating pains, cutting tearing in all teeth of right upper jaw, radiating to ear; worse from external warmth or from inhaling fresh air.

Tooth feels as if forced out of socket; throbbing toothache.

Gums sore, swollen. Teething children.

Beating and tingling in the gums. Toothache.

Tongue etc.

      Taste: putrid of rotten eggs; bitter.

Biting sensation on the tongue with soreness burning and stinging in the back part of the throat.

Tongue: Coated white;dry with a brown streak down the middle; dry or coated yellow. Typhus.

Mouth

      Dry, with much thirst.

Putrid smell from mouth. Typhus.

Throat

      Stinging in back of throat between acts of deglutition.

Chronic pains in fauces and larynx, worse for a long time after an animated talk.

Desires Aversions

      Longing for vinegar or sour things; for alcoholic drinks.

Appetite lessened.

Repugnance to food.

Aversion; to meat; broth; milk; smoking tobacco.

Thirst for cold water, without fever.

Eating and Drinking

      After eating distress in epigastrium (after a blow).

Nausea and Vomiting

      Eructations: bitter and like rotten eggs in the morning; empty.

Belches after coughing.

Hiccough. Meningitis.

Nausea: empty vomiturition; burning scratching in the throat; general relaxation during forenoon.

Vomiting of dark red coagula, mouth bitter; general soreness.

Vomits the least food; retching at night.

Stomach

      Pinching spasmodic griping in stomach, also with pulmonary and cardiac constriction and with dysenteric stools.

Pressive, cutting pains in epigastrium; nausea and retching.

Stomach feels full with nausea and satiety.

Stomach distended with wind; pressure on praecordia, oppression of chest.

Haematemesis from injuries; sore all over.

Heaviness in the stomach.

Hypochondria

      Stitches in region of liver; painful when turning in bed Pressure in region of liver; bellow the heart, day and night.

Stitches in the splenic region, with soreness on pressure.

Abdomen

      Hard swelling of the right side of abdomen with severe pain when touched.

Sharp pains from side to side through abdomen.

Colic with strangury Pains around the navel when moving.

Stool, etc.

      Undigested food; bloody; purulent bloody slimy mucus, with urging and violent bellyache; dark, bloody mucus, with sore, bruised feeling in abdomen brown, fermented (like yeast); averse to food fetid breath; very offensive papescent, at times involuntary; involuntary during sleep; frequent, small, mucous.

Dysentery with ischuria, or tenesmus of neck of bladder, with fruitless urging.

Flatus smelling like rotten eggs.

Obstinate constipation after a blow on epigastrium.

Urine

      Agonizing pains in back and hips.

Piercing pains, as from knives plunged into the kidneys; chilly, inclined to vomit.

Chill followed by nephritic pains, nausea and vomiting, without relief.

Bladder affections after mechanical injuries.

Tenesmus from spasms of neck of bladder.

Bladder feels overfilled ineffectual urging.

Has to wait a long time for urine to pass.

Involuntary urination at night during sleep.

Constant urging while urine passes involuntary in drops.

Urine in small quantity staining napkin yellow-brown.

Scanty, red urine, very offensive.

Frequent discharge of pale urine.

Retention of urine from exertion.

Ischuria with dysentery.

Urine dark-brown scanty; brick dust sediment; red in liver complaint acid increased specific gravity.

Bloody urine: haematuria from mechanical causes.

Infants scream from pain in bladder.

Male Sexual Organs

      Pains and testicles swollen purplered; after injuries.

Spermatic cords painfully swollen; stitches in abdomen.

Phimosis from friction; parts bruised and much swollen.

Erysipelas of scrotum extending to the anus.

Hydrocele caused by a bruise.

Female Sexual Organs

      Metrorrhagia after coition.

Menses of uterus with a tendency to bleed.

Labia painfully swollen.

Prolapsus, caused by concussion.

Pregnancy

      Threatened abortion form falls, shocks, etc.; nervous excited, feels bruised.

Labor-pains; violent yet they do but little good; weak or ceasing wants to change position often; feels bruised.

Soreness of parts after labor.

After-pains violent return while suckling.

Constant dribbling of urine after labor.

Hemorrhages bright-red or mixed with clots; head hot, body cool.

Sore nipples.

Mastitis from bruises; erysipelatous inflammation.

Asphyxia neonatorum.

Larynx

      Voice deep; or low, muttering.

Hoarseness from over-using voice; also early in morning.

Raw, scraped sensation along trachea and bronchia.

Breathing

      Breath fetid, short panting.

Children when angry lose their breath altogether..

Dyspnoea head hot, face red, body cool.

Asthma with inclination to move about; sleepless, before midnight; looks as if dying; with fatty heart.

Cough

      Constant insupportable tickling in larynx and trachea, causing cough day and night. Pneumonia.

C. Hering
Hering got the degree of M. D. from the University of Wuezburg with highest honours. The theme of his thesis was "De'Medicina Futura" (The medicine of future). Hering left Germany for West Indies and finally arrived at Philadelphia in Jan, 1833. He established a homeopathic school at Allentown, Pennsylvania, commonly known as "Allentown Academy". Soon he became very popular as a physician. He is known as the 'Father of Homeopathy' in America.