Arnica



Mouth

Dryness of the mouth, with thirst. Saliva mixed with blood. Sensation of excoriation and itching on the tongue. Tongue dry, or loaded with a white coating. Putrid smell from the mouth in the morning.

Teeth

Pain in the teeth, with swelling of the cheeks and tingling in the gums. Sensation of pulling in the teeth while eating. Loosening and elongation of the teeth. Toothache after operation.

Throat

Sensation as if there were something hard in the throat. Deglutition hindered by a kind of nausea. Noise while swallowing. Burning in the throat, with uneasiness, as from internal heat. Bitter mucus in the throat.

Appetite

Taste putrid or bitter, or slimy. Bitter taste, especially in the morning. Thirst for cold water, without fever. Longing for alcoholic drinks. Thirst for water, or desire to drink, with repugnance to all liquids. Loathing of food: principally milk, meat, broth, and tobacco. Liking for vinegar. Want of appetite, and tongue loaded with a white or yellowish coating. (In the evening) immoderate appetite, with sensation of fullness and cramp-like pressure in the abdomen, immediately after a meal. Irritable and plaintive humour, after a meal in the evening.

Stomach

Frequent eructations, especially in the morning, empty, bitter, putrid, as from rotten eggs. Belches after coughing. Rising of a bitter mucus or of salt water. Nausea, with inclination to vomit, chiefly in the morning. Nausea, and empty vomiturition. Retching even in the night, with pressure in the precordial region. Vomiting of coagulated blood, of a deep colour. After drinking (or eating), vomiting of what has been taken, often with a mixture of blood. Pressure, fullness, contraction, and cramp-like pain in the stomach and in the precordial region. Shootings in the pit of the stomach, with pressure extending to the back, and tightness of the chest.

Abdomen

Shootings in the region of the spleen, with difficulty of breathing. Pressure in the hepatic region. Abdomen hard and swollen, with pain of incisive excoriation in the sides, chiefly in the morning, mitigated by the emission of wind. Pain in the umbilical region when moving. Shocks across the abdomen. Pain, as of contusion, in the sides. Flatulence, having the smell of rotten eggs. Cutting, colicky pains in the abdomen. Colic with strangury. Tympanites.

Stool and Anus

Constipation, with ineffectual attempts to go to stool. Stools in the form of pap, of an acid odour. Flatus, smelling like rotten eggs. Diarrhoea, with tenesmus. Frequent, scanty, small, mucous stools. Involuntary stools, chiefly during the night, thin, brown, or white. Stools of undigested matter. Purulent, bloody stools. Haemorrhoids. Pressure in the rectum. Tenesmus. Thread-worms.

Urinary Organs

Tenesmus. Spasmodic retention of urine, with pressure in the bladder. Ineffectual attempts to make water. Involuntary emission of urine, at night in bed, and in the day, when running. Frequent micturition of pale urine. Urine of a brownish red, with sediment, of a brick colour. Emission of blood.

Male Sexual Organs.

Bluish red swelling of the penis and of the scrotum. Inflammatory swelling of the testes (in consequence of contusion). Purple-red swelling of the penis and testicles, after mechanical injuries. Hydrocele. Painful swelling of the spermatic cord, with shooting in the testes, extending to the abdomen. Sexual desire increased, with erections, pollutions, and seminal emission on the slightest amorous excitement. Impotence from

excess or abuse.

Female Sexual Organs.

Discharge of blood from the uterus, between the periods, with nausea. Excoriation and ulceration of the breasts. Soreness of the parts after a severe labour. Violent after-pains. Erysipelatous inflammation of the mammae and nipples. Violent stitches in middle of left breast. Vomiting of pregnancy. Threatened abortion from fall, etc. Feeling as if fetus were lying crosswise. Tumour of breast.

Respiratory Organs

Dry, short cough, produced by a titillation in the larynx. Cough at night during sleep. Paroxysm of cough, preceded by tears, and cough with children after having wept and sobbed from caprice and waywardness. Whooping-cough, child cries before the cough comes on, and after. Cough with bloodshot eyes, or nose-bleed. Even yawning provokes a cough. Cough with expectoration of blood, the blood is clear, frothy, mixed with coagulated masses and mucus. Even without cough there is expectoration of black, coagulated blood after every corporeal effort. Inability to eject the mucus, what the cough detaches is therefore swallowed. On coughing, shooting pains in the head, or a bruise-like pain in the chest. Breath fetid, short, and panting. Excessive difficulty of breathing. Cough worse in the evening till midnight, from motion, in the warm room, and after drinking.

Chest

Respiration, short, panting, difficult, and anxious. Rattling in the chest. Oppression of the chest and difficulty of breathing. Respiration frequently slow and deep. Shootings in the chest and sides, with difficulty of respiration, aggravated by coughing, but breathing deeply, and by movement, better from external pressure. Pain, as of a bruise and of compression in the chest. Burning or rawness in the chest. Sensation of soreness of the ribs. Stitches in the chest (left), aggravated from a dry cough, with oppression of breathing, worse from motion, better from external pressure.

Heart

Beating and palpitation of the heart. Pain from liver up through left chest and down left arm, veins of hands swollen, purplish, sudden pain as if heart squeezed or had got a shock (angina pectoris). Heart strained, irritable, stitches in, from left to right Painful prickings in the heart, with fainting fits.

Neck and Back.

Weakness of the muscles of the neck, the head falls backwards. Painful swelling of the glands of the neck. Pains, as from a bruise, and of dislocation in the back, in the chest, and the loins. Tingling in the back. Great soreness of the back. Dragging-down pain and sense of weight in loins.

Upper Limbs

Pain, as if from fatigue, and crawling in the arms and in the hands. Pain, as of dislocation, in the joints of the arms and hands. Tingling in the arms. Sensation of soreness of the arms. Sensation, as if the joints of the arms and wrists were sprained. Dartings in the arms. Veins in the hands swollen, with full and strong pulse. Want of strength in the hands on grasping anything. Cramps in the fingers.

Lower Limbs

Pains, as from fatigue or from dislocation, or acute drawing in the different parts of the lower limbs. Painful paralytic weakness in the joints, chiefly of the hip and knee. Want of strength in the knee, with failing of the joint when walking. Tension in the knee, as from contraction of the tendons. Pale swelling in the knee. Sensation of soreness in the legs. Inflammatory erysipelatous swelling of the feet with pain, and aggravation of the pain by movement.

Hot, painful, hard, and shining swelling of the great toes. Tingling in the legs and feet.

Generalities

Tearing, drawing in outer parts. Pricking, from without, inward. Pressing in inner parts. Tingling in outer parts. Acute drawing, crawling, pricking, or paralytic pains, and sensation as from a bruise in the limbs and the joints, as well as in the injured parts. Pain, as if sprained in outer parts, and in the joints. Pains, as of dislocation. Rheumatic and arthritic pains. Restlessness in the diseased parts, which causes them to be constantly in motion. Aggravation of pains in the evening and at night, as well as from movement, and even from noise. Unsettled pains, which pass rapidly from one joint to the other. Soreness of the whole body, with tingling. Stiffness of the limbs after exertion. Muscular jerking. Stiffness and weariness of all the limbs. Sensation of agitation and trembling in the body, as if all the vessels were throbbing. Extreme sensibility of the whole body, chiefly of the joints and of the skin. Over-sensitiveness of the whole body. Bleeding of internal and external parts (vomiting of blood). Ebullition of the blood, and congestion in the head, with heat and burning in the upper parts of the body, and cold, or coolness, in the lower parts. Fainting fits, with loss of consciousness, in consequence of mechanical injuries. Convulsions, traumatic trismus and tetanus. General prostration of strength. Paralytic state (on the left side) in consequence of apoplexy. Dropsy of inner parts.

Skin

Hot, hard, and shining swelling of the parts affected. Stings of insects, snake-bites. Red, bluish, and yellowish spots, as if from contusions. Black and blue spots on the body. Yellow-green spots, caused either by a bruise or by disease. Bed sores, blue mortification. Miliary eruption. Petechiae. Many small boils, or blood-boils, one after another, extremely sore.

Sleep

Great drowsiness during the day, without being able to sleep. Inclination to sleep, early in the evening. Comatose drowsiness with delirium. Wakens at night with a hot head, and is afraid to sleep for fear of its recurrence. Anxious dreams about animals. Sleep not refreshing and full of anxious and terrible dreams, and waking with starts and frights. Dreams of death, of mutilated bodies, of unbraiding, of indecision. During sleep, groans, talking, snoring, involuntary stools and urine. Giddiness on waking.

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