Aconite [Acon]
Coxitis, with full, hurried or intermittent pulse, great restlessness and intense thirst, the pain following the whole tract of the crural nerve; drawing, tearing pains. During first stage and often as an intercurrent remedy.
Apis-mell [Apis]
Sudden appearance of the inflammatory symptoms, with high temperature, hardly any prodromal stage. Synovitis serosa seu catarrhalis; sore pain about left hip-joint, later weakness, unsteadiness, trembling in the joint.
Arnica [Arn]
After local injury; drawing, pressive pain in left hip-joint, thigh being extended, when sitting; hip-joint as if sprained; boring, tearing pains shifting from right hip-joint to various parts, (<) at night, cannot find an easy position; swelling hard, hot and shining.
Arsenicum [Ars]
Third stage; the child is emaciated, exhausted, restless; diarrhoea (<) in the middle of the night; constant thirst for small quantities at a time; pain back of great trochanter, extending down the thigh posteriorly, then towards the knee anteriorly, embracing the patella, down the tibia to the ankle; pain somewhat relieved by flexion of the knee (Arsenicum iod.).
Aurum [Aur]
Third stage; syphilitic diathesis complicated with the effects of mercury; inflammations and caries of the bones; cramplike sensation in region of hip, and of the inner brim of the pelvis, with fine stitches in glutei muscles, which are worse by rubbing.
Belladonna [Bell]
Thigh and legs feel lame and weak, with tensive pain and pressure in the thigh, as if a tight bandage were drawn around it; weakness in the region of the head of femur, and inability to walk, owing to severe pains, as if the head of the femur had been crushed; swelling and burning heat of the skin over the affected parts, (<) evening and at night, in warm room and when rising, better in the open air and when resting; drowsiness, with inability to go to sleep; congestion to head.
Bryonia [Bry]
Tearing and darting pains in hip-joint, (<) by pressing the head of the bone inward, accompanied by rigidity, tension and stiffness of the muscles.
Calcarea-carb [Calc]
Second stage; chronic protracted cases, pus curdy and ropy or curdy and watery; pain in nates when touched, as from subcutaneous suppuration, less when sitting or at rest than when moving or walking; pain as from ulceration in the hip-joint; numbness in the hip and thigh; limping gait or walking on the tip of the toes, (<) at night and mornings, from cold, pressure of the clothes, (>) by warmth, loosening of garments, and drawing up the limbs; frequent desire for boiled eggs; glandular swellings; great prostration with diarrhoea.
Calcarea-phos [Calc-p]
Third stage, where it may stop the further destruction of the bone and the suppuration, and promotes new organization; nates fall asleep; stinging-itching burning on small spots; sore pain
in thighs, with aching in the sacral bones; knees pain as if sprained, sore when walking; longing for bacon (Calcarea fluor.).
Carbo-veg [Carb-v]
Excessive prostration; the ulcers have a livid appearance, and emit a foetid odor; ichorous, offensive, blackish discharge; third stage; hectic fever dependent upon long-lasting suppuration.
China [Chin]
Hip disease with profuse suppuration, sweat and diarrhoea; drawing pains in bones of thighs, as if periosteum had been scraped with a dull knife; limbs pain, especially joints, as if bruised, (<) in rest, (>) moving; emaciation.
Colocynthis [Coloc]
Second and third stage; sharp, cramplike pain in sacrum or hip; cutting or crampy pains from hip to knees, causing him to limp; (<) from least motion or touch and after sun down; (>) from rest and heat; hipjoint feels as if femur were fastened to os innominatum with iron claws, accompanied by pains which dart periodically from sacro-lumbar muscles into thigh; periosteal rheumatism about the hip, pains (<) at night; lies upon the affected side with bent- up knees; green diarrhoea; difficult urination of dark urine.
Gettysburg-Spring-Water [Get]
(Lithia) Caries of vertebrae and hip-joint, discharges acrid and excoriating, and diarrhoea; scrofulosis (Silicea).
Hepar-sulph [Hep]
Strumous patients, where suppurative process has not been arrested by Mercurius, or where suppuration seems inevitable; it hastens the formation of abscess; buttock and posterior thighs painful when sitting; swelling of the knee, pains as if bruised, caries of hip-joint.
Hydrastis-can [Hydr]
Marasmus from scrofula; pain from right hip to knee while walking, cannot stand or bear one’s weight; outer part of left knee aches while sitting, worse when walking.
Iodum [Iod]
Intermittent, sharp, tearing pains between the left hip and the head of the femur, increased by moving the joint; glandular swellings; abuse of mercury.
Kali-carb [Kali-c]
Third stage; crampy tearing in the hip-joint and knee; bruised pain in the hip-joint when moving and sneezing; twitchings of the muscles of the thigh; dull pain in the side of the knee when walking, and especially when extending the limb; starting and twitching of the limbs during sleep; great tendency to start, especially when touched.
Kali-iod [Kali-i]
Periosteal osseous inflammation with interstitial infiltration; gnawing, boring pains, (<) at night; fluctuation over the hip, with a doughy surface around; darting in the hip at every step, must limp; abscesses discharge a curdy or thin ichor.
Lachesis [Lach]
Traumatic gangrene; ulcers blue and livid, and of exceedingly offensive odor; the wound is surrounded by a number of smaller ulcers; notable offensiveness of the stools, even if of a natural consistence; general malaise after sleep; ulcers sensitive to touch; blood dark, non-coagulable; haemorrhage from small wounds.
Lycopodium [Lyc]
Suppurative stage, when the wounds are very irritable and the patient complains of a burning pain; great emaciation from protracted suffering; hectic fever; the pus from the openings is ichorous, bloody, of a sour smell; violent jerking of the limbs and body, awake and asleep, and great soreness when awaking out of sleep; great fear of being left alone; worse between 4 and 8 A.M.
Mercurius [Merc]
First and second stage, worse at night, restlessness and inclination to sweat; sharp stitching flashes through the joint, acute stitches in right ilium, boring pain in glutei; burning of nates; tearing pain in hip-joint, knee and femur worse during motion; limbs feel stiff when walking; involuntary twitching of the limbs; pain in right thigh as if bruised, worse after walking, suppuration seems inevitable; cachectic children, sweating from the least exertion and pains (<) after getting warm in bed. First sleep may be easy and quiet, but in a short time the child will wake up crying and unable to go to sleep again for some time; eruptions on different parts of the body.
Natrum-mur [Nat-m]
First stage, emaciation not great, but the thighs are atrophied. Child scrapes tongue with teeth, as if there were a hair on tongue which he wants to remove.
Natrum-sulph [Nat-s]
Affections of the left hip-joint in sycotic patients with hydrogenoid constitutions, (<) from dampness; pains (<) at night and arouse him from sleep, they cease when he turns over in bed.
Nitric-acid [Nit-ac]
Rheumatic and arthritic pains from mercurial abuses; diseases of periosteum and necrosis of the bones of the joint; caries, putrid decomposition.
Petroleum [Petr]
Scrofulosis and rachitis; protracted ill-treated cases, with hectic fever and profuse foetid suppuration; unhealthy skin, small wounds ulcerate and spread; axillary sweat.
Phosphorus [Phos]
Fistulous ulcers, with callous edges, secreting a thin foul pus, wounds and areolae livid and blue, bleeding from the slightest irritation; hectic fever; dry, hacking cough; chronic diarrhoea; urine turbid on voiding, precipitating a white sediment on cooling (follows well after Silicea).
Phosphoric-acid [Ph-ac]
Emaciation from the excessive suppuration, general debility; sensation as if the bones were scraped with a knife; the disease originating from suppressed or mismanaged scarlatina or other exanthemata, after abuse of mercury.
Phytolacca [Phyt]
Sharp cutting-drawing pains in hip; leg drawn up, cannot touch the floor; heavy dragging pains from hip to knee; hip disease on right side after mercury, or in syphilitic children.
Rhus-tox [Rhus-t]
First and second stage; pain in hip-joint on pressing upon the trochanter; pain in the knee and worse from overexercise and at night; involuntary limping; spasmodic twitching in the limbs when stepping out; swelling of the glands of the neck; crusty eruptions on face and head, worse in damp cold weather, from touch; right side mostly affected; tension and stiffness of hip- joint, but not the rigid, unyielding constriction found in Coloc.
Silica [Sil]
Suppuration and caries of the bones, even where gangrene seems inevitable; disease can be traced back to vaccination; fistulous openings discharge a thin foetid pus, together with bony fragments; pale, earthy complexion; loss of smell and taste; stoppage of nose and acrid coryza; the parts on which one lies go to sleep; glandular swellings; every little sore is apt to fester (Gettysburg water).