Common name (German), Wohlverleih.
Introduction
Arnica montana, L.
Natural order: Compositae.
Preparation: Tincture from the whole plant when in flower (Hahnemann).
Mind.
Excessive sensitiveness of the mind; extreme disposition to agreeable as well as disagreeable emotions, without weakness or excessive sensitiveness of the body; (on one occasion this excessive sensitiveness of the mind was observed before that of the body; I have also seen these two kinds of sensitiveness occurring in alternation or simultaneously).
Uncommon liveliness.
Bright, talkative (this was a curative reaction in a person of an opposite mood).
Calm, bright mood (curative reaction).
Indifference to everything.
Weeping.
After supper she weeps, is peevish, listens to nobody, and does not wish to be told anything.
Depression of spirits and absence of mind (after three hours and a half).
Hopelessness.
Anxiety.
Hypochondriac anxiety.
Violent attacks of anxiety.
Anxiety about the present and the future (third day).
Frightfulness, Unexpected trifles frighten and cause him to start (after an hour and a half).
Apprehension of future evils.
Horror of instant death.
Uncommonly peevish; everything is disagreeable to her.
Hypochondriac peevishness; he is not disposed to do anything.
She is extremely peevish; all her former cheerfulness and amiable manners have gone (after one hour). peevishness; he would like to quarrel with everybody.
Quarrelsomeness and peevishness.
He is contradictory; nothing can be done to suit him (after three and twelve hours).
She is extremely morose and irritable; she does not speak a word.
Moroseness; one first desires all sorts of things, and afterwards repels them.
Sullen mood, as after a quarrel.
Sullen insolence and imperiousness (after some hours).
Obstinate and headstrong resistance to other people’s opinions (after four hours).
Irritable, sensitive mood.
Excessive irritation of the temples; she easily laughed when there was no occasion for it; when something disagreeable was told her she got angry, and broke forth in loud howling.
(Excessive inclination to perform many and long literary labors, without possessing the strength which is required to terminate them without injuring health).
He is easily absorbed by reveries while awake.
He sits absorbed in a revery, although he thinks, properly speaking, of nothing.
Absence of mind; he cannot direct his thoughts long to one objects.
Absence of mind; his thoughts imperceptibly wander from their object, and dwell upon images and fanciful visions.
After walking in the open air, he is ill-disposed to think or talk, notwithstanding he was very cheerful before (after nine hours). Aversion to every earnest labor.
He loathes every sort of work.
Uneasiness of body and mind (without there being any anxiety); one feels as if one were prevented from doing something which is extremely necessary, accompanied by total want of disposition for any kind of work.
Inability to perform continued active work.
Want of memory; he forgets the word he is about speaking.
Head.
Confusion of the head, Confusion in the head.
Head confused.
Confusion of the head, with decided pressure in the right half of the head, especially over the right brow.
Confusion of head, changing to pressive right-sided headache.
Confusion of head, with frequent inclination to sleep.
Confusion and fullness in the head.
Confusion of the head, vertigo, and anguish are aggravated by artificial vomiting.
Stupefying headache early in the morning.
Dulness and pain in the head.
Obscuration of the head and confusion of one-half of the skull, with contraction of the pupils.
Heaviness of the head.
Her head feels so heavy that she lets it constantly hang on one side.
The head feels heavy, and is so movable on account of weakness of the muscles of the neck, that it easily inclines to all sides (after four hours).
Heaviness and confusion of the had.
Vertigo.
Short-lasting vertigo.
Sudden vertigo at dinner, as if he would fall forward.
He feels vertigo and nausea when reading too long.
Vertigo when walking.
Vertigo; it is almost imperceptible when sitting and bending the head over, but when, righting or moving the head she feels as if everything turned with her.
Vertigo in the forehead, especially when walking; everything turns with her, and threatens to fall over with her.
Headache.
Intense headache, with feeling of great weight and heaviness in the eyes, and oppression and drooping of the lids, as they could not be raised.
Violent headache, on waking in the morning, which reached such a point at 8 A.M. that, while walking in the open air, he almost fell from dizziness; disappeared at 10 A.M., Headache, twitching, tearing; increased by stooping and coughing.
(Headache, which is tolerable only when lying, but intolerable when raising one’s self and sitting in the bed).
Partial headache.
Burning in the head, with pressive pain, as if the head were distended from within outwards.
Burning in the brain, the remainder of the body being cool, or at least not hot.
Great internal and external heat of the head.
Internal heat, especially in the head, with heaviness of the head, without any thirst.
Flushes of heat over the head, with sweat gathering in the face.
Rush of blood to the brain, and headache in the forehead.
Emptiness in the head, without any particular headache (after two hours).
Slight pressure.
Pressure and confusion of the head.
Pressive headache from 3 to 8 P.M., now more in the occiput.
Headache, pressive, which is also followed by a throbbing, pressive headache in the temples.
Pressive headache, as if the head were being distended from within outwards; the pain seems to arise from something soft in the vertex, with drawing in the occiput, and tearing towards the temples.
Pain as if a knife were drawn through the head transversely from the left side; this is immediately followed by internal coldness of the head, which causes the hair to stand on end.
Violent stitches in the head when coughing (after ten hours), Headache; stitches extending upwards; they come on again when coughing or moving the head, and can only be relieved by resting the head upon the painful side.
Frontal headache.
Heaviness in the forehead (after one hour).
Dull pain in the head in the region of the forehead.
Pressive pain in the forehead.
Pressive frontal headache.
Pressive headache, frontal, with confusion of the head so severe that she feared she would fall over while sitting, and had to lie down.
Pressive headache in right forehead, and temple and right eye.
Pressure in the right half of the frontal bone; afterwards sneezing; the pressure then moved into the left, afterwards into the right ear (after two days).
Pressive pain in the left half of forehead, in the evening.
First pressive pain in the forehead, afterwards stitching and twitching stitching pain in the forehead, accompanied by chilliness (after eight hours).
Pressive pain in the forehead, especially when walking, or ascending the stairs, reflecting, or reading.
Pressive pain in the forehead, which increases near the warm stove, as if the brain were rolled up in a lump.
Headache, pressive, over the eyes, extending towards the temples, with a sensation as if the integuments of the forehead were spasmodically contracted (after one hour).
Stupefying, dull, pressive pain in the forehead, more externally (after five hours and a half).
Violent sticking pains in the forehead and occiput, on waking in the morning; lasts all day.
Fine pricking pain in the forehead, which becomes worse by raising the eyes, with heat in the face and thirst.
Stitches in the forehead.
Stitches pain in the forehead.
Violent stitches in the forehead when coughing (after seven hours).
Rapid stitches in the left frontal eminence, accompanied by the sensation as if an extravasation of blood had taken place.
Jerking stitches in the forehead.
Twitching headache in the forepart of the head (after one hour).
Jerking, lancinating headache when stooping, as if everything would come out of the forehead, accompanied by nausea, qualmishness about the heart.
Crawling in the forehead.
Feeling of cold at a small place on the forehead, as if some one touched him with a cold thumb.
Headache, pressive, in the temples (after half an hour).
Repeated tearings in the left temple.
Tearing in the left temple; when walking in the open air the pressive headache distending the head from within outwards returns (after ten hours).
Sticking pains in temples and forehead.
Headache as if a nail had been thrust into the temple, accompanied by general sweat about midnight; this is followed by faintness (after some hours).
Stitches in the temporal region following each other in quick succession, extending towards the forehead (after four hours).
Dull stitches from without inward in the temples (after one hour).
Jerking stitches in the left temple.
Headache in the left temple, returning from time to time; fine pricking and tearing (after four hours).
Transitory burning on the top of the head and neck externally.
Headache, pressive, externally on the top of the head.
Brain felt sore and tender in the upper part or the head.
Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.