ARNICA


ARNICA homeopathic remedy keynotes and indications from the Decachords by Gladstone Clarke, of the medicine ARNICA…


Symptoms

      1. Acts best in sanguine, plethoric subjects.

2. Oversensitiveness to pain; great fear of being touched or struck by anyone coming near, esp. in gout and rheumatic conditions.

3. Bruised, sore feeling all over; bed feels too hard (Baptisia).

4. Injuries esp. to soft parts; bruises (Hamamelis); strains (Rhus); concussions (Hypericum); results of injuries however remote; haemorrhage esp. of mechanical origin.

5. Typhoid states; indifference or stupor; answers questions correctly but unconsciousness immediately returns; involuntary stool and urine or long interval between stools.

6. Discharge offensive; eructations, flatus, etc., have odours as of “rotten eggs”

7. Head hot, body cold; or heat of upper part of body; also deathly coldness of forearm in children.

8. Tendency to small, painful boils one succeeding another.

9. Prevents suppuration and septicaemia; excellent after parturition esp. if instrumental delivery.

10. Modalities; (<) rest; lying down; (>) motion.

Keynote.-Trauma.

A. Gladstone Clarke
Arthur Gladstone Clarke, a christian missionary working with the North China Mission, made good practical use of the homeopathy. He learnt as a student at MSM. He published a short introduction to the use of over 100 commonly used medicines—Decachords—first published in 1925 and still in print today.