ARNICA MONTANA



SCALP.

Cold feeling in the head. Stinging itching of the hairy scalp.

EYES.

Dry heat in the face towards evening, extending as far as behind the ears, without thirst, the nose being quite cold. Cramp-like tearing of the left eyebrow. Staring eyes, *faint, dim, without lustre. The eyelids are swollen and ecchymozed. *Contraction of the pupils, with coldness of the head. Dilatation of the pupils. Stitches in the eyes. Itching of the canthi. Burning in the eyes, without any dryness. Occasional flow of tears, which burn like fire *Slight protrusion of the right eye. Drawing pain in the right eyeball. *Painful, dull, intermittent pressure in the margin of the left orbit. Spasmodic twitchings, with pressure under the left eye. *The eyes are half closed; *ophthalmia from mechanical injuries. *Obscuration of sight.

EARS.

Pain in the cartilage of the ear, as if the parts had been bruised or contused. Intermittent pressure in both ears, in the region of the tympanum. Dull stitches through the internal ear. Heat and burning in the lobule. Stitches in the ear, followed by a lacerating pain. Pressure in the ear. Sensibly-diminished hearing. Humming in the ears.

FACE.

Feeling of heat in the ear and cheek. Eruption on the cheeks, like smallpox, under the eyes. Throbbing and pinching in the swollen cheek. Pain as from bruises in the articulation of the right saw, when moving it. Red swelling of one cheek, with throbbing and pinching pain, swollen lip, and heat in the head, with cold body. *Hot, red, shining stiff swelling of the left cheek.

NOSE.

The nose pains him above downwards, as if he had had a violent fall upon it. Lancinating pain in the nose. *Swelling of the nose. Sensation as if the nostrils were ulcerated. Feeling of heat in the nose, if is cold to the touch. *Frequent bleeding of at the

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nose. Dull pressure on the nasal bone, with stupefaction. Itching of the upper lip, it burns and rubbing it. Parched lips. Chapped lips. Ulcerated corners of the mouth, with burning pain, especially when moving those parts. Burning heat in both lips, with moderate warmth in the body. Swollen lips. Trembling of the lower lip. Incipient paralysis of the lower jaw. Swelling of the submaxillary glands.

JAWS AND TEETH.

Tingling in the gums, as if they had gone to sleep. *Toothache as if the teeth had been bitten out, it is throbbing; the teeth feel as if they were pressed out by the blood rushing towards them. During mastication the gums are painful, as from subcutaneous ulceration. *Toothache, with swelling of the cheek.

MOUTH.

Dryness in the mouth, with or without thirst. *Tongue coated white, with a good appetite and good taste. Sensation of dryness of the tip of the tongue, in the palate, on the lips, with shivering over the arms and thighs. Biting sensation in the tongue. The tongue feels sore. Fetid breath from the mouth. Sputa mixed with blood. *Haemoptysis. *Haemorrhage from nose and mouth Putrid smell from the mouth.

THROAT.

Burning in the back part of the throat, with a feeling of internal heat. Stinging in the back part of the throat, between the acts of swallowing. Deglutition is prevented by a sort of nausea, as if the food would not go down.

TASTE AND APPETITE.

*Putrid, slimy taste in the mouth. *Repugnance to meat and both. Desire for vinegar. Want of appetite, the tongue being coated white and yellow. Taste of rotten eggs in the mouth between the meals. Phlegm in the throat; it tastes bitter when hawking it up.*Bitter taste in the mouth.

GASTRIC SYMPTOMS.

*Empty eructations. *During the eructations a bitter phlegm is gulped up. * Empty eructations. *Early in the morning, eructations, tasting of rotten eggs. Nausea and disposition to vomit, early in the morning. Heartburn. After supper she weeps, is peevish, listens to nobody, and does not with to be told anything. Complete want of appetite, with nausea. *Nausea. Qualmishness of the stomach, with empty eructations. Nausea, without vomiting, or without stool. Vertigo and nausea when reading too long. *Inclination to vomit. Vomiting. *Vomiting of coagulated blood; *renewed by drinking or eating, with vomiting of the ingesta. Empty retching. *Retching at night, with weight as of a lump in the pit of her stomach.

STOMACH.

Fullness and pressure in the stomach. Feeling of depletion in the stomach, accompanied by loathing. *Pinching, spasmodic griping in the stomach. Pain in the region of the heart, as if the heart were squeezed together. Oppression of the heart. Pressure as if a stone were lying in the stomach. Painful pressure above the pit of the stomach, with dyspnoea. *Stitches in the pit of the stomach, with pressure extending to the back, and constriction of the chest.

ABDOMEN.

Spasm in the hypochondriac region. Sudden pinching in the stomach. Stitches under the false ribs, arresting the breath, when standing. Cutting above the umbilicus, especially when taking a deep breath, and at every step. Cutting in the abdomen, as after a cold. Colic resembling dysentery. *Tension and inflation of the abdomen, especially the lower part, with a dull general pressure in those parts during the night, with heat of the limbs, and dreams, fatiguing the mind. Sore pain in the abdomen when coughing or touching it. Pain in the region of the liver, with pressure as of a stone, both during expiration and inspiration. Lacerating in the abdomen above the umbilicus. Cutting and pinching in the abdomen. Lancinations in both loins. Cutting in the loins, especially when stooping. Dull stitches in the right side, below the ribs. Sharp thrusts through the abdomen, from one side to the opposite. Aching pain in the region of the liver. Burning stinging pains in the epigastric region. Retraction of the umbilicus. Fine tearings in the abdominal muscles. Colic; an hour afterwards tenesmus; at last an evacuation of faeces composed of small lumps, mixed with flatulence. Rumbling in the abdomen. Colicky pains, owing to flatulence. Fermenting in the abdomen. *Colic from straining the bowels by lifting a heavy load.

STOOL.

Flatulence smelling like rotten eggs. Urging to stool, followed by a copious, loose, or pap-like, sourish-smelling stool, giving great relief. Hard, difficult stool, with pressure in the abdomen. Papescent diarrhoea, with distention of the abdomen previous to stool. *Papescent, brown stool, with rumbling in the abdomen. Painful pressure in the rectum. Frequent small stools, consisting only of slime. Frequent stool; after every stool he is obliged to lie down. *While diarrhoea-like stools. (Diarrhoea resembling brown yeast). *Constipation. *Involuntary stool at night, when asleep. *Undigested stools, although not liquid. Crampy sensation in the rectum. Tenesmus of the rectum. Pressing in the rectum when standing. Blind haemorrhoids.

URINARY ORGANS.

Frequent desire to urinate, with copious emission of the urine. Watery urine. Retention of urine, the tenesmus of the bladder. Tenesmus of the neck of the bladder. *Urging, the urine dropping out involuntarily. Desire to urinate, with biting burning, increased after micturition. Cutting pain in the orifice of the urethra, at the termination of micturition. Stitches in the urethra. Brown, clear urine, which immediately becomes whitish

and turbid. *Brown urine, with brick-red sediment. A small quantity desire to urinate, with emission of a small of quantity of yellow-red urine. Itching in the anterior part of the urethra, in the region of the glans, when he is not urinating. *Haematuria.

GENITAL ORGANS.

Itching, or itching stitches in the glans. Itching red post on the glans. Itching pimple on the prepuce. (Painless tubercle on the scrotum). *Symptoms after mechanical injuries; Red-blue swelling of the penis and scrotum, inflammatory swelling of the testicles; hydrocele; painful swelling of the spermatic cord, with lancinations from the testes into the abdomen. Symptoms as if the menses would make their appearance. *Too long and to violent after pains; soreness of the parts after hard labor; erysipelatous inflammation of the mammae, and soreness of the nipple.

LARYNX AND TRACHEA.

Catarrh of the chest, on waking. Hoarseness, early in the morning. Frequent sneezing. Feeling of internal coldness in the chest. *Dry, short, and hacking cough, as from a titillation in the trachea, every morning after rising. Cough t night, during sleep. *Cough, in children, produced by weeping and lamenting. Pain in the chest, as if it were raw, with roughness of the throat during cough. *Haemoptoe. Cough which excites vomiting. Cough, producing a feeling in the ribs as if bruised. Cough, will stitches in the side of the chest. Bloody expectoration from the chest. *Cough, with expectoration of a bright-red frothy blood, mixed with coagulated clots and mucus; *expulsion from the chest of clots of black blood, even when not coughing, at every exertion of the bloody. *Inability off the loose phlegm in coughing, he has to swallow it.

CHEST.

*Short panting breath. Dyspnoea, quick expirations and inspirations. *Oppression at the chest, with anguish, pains in the abdomen, and headache. *Excessive difficulty of breathing. Frequent and slow deep breathing, with pressure below the chest. Aching pain in the lower extremity of the sternum, which is especially felt during a deep inspiration. Cutting, with pressure through both sided of the thoracic cavity, increased by inspiration. *Dull stitches in the thoracic cavity through the sternum, from without inward. *Stitching pain in one side of the chest with a short cough, which increases the pain, and continued asthma. *Stitches and prickings below the last rib. *Dull stitches in the right side, near the ribs. *Stitches in the left breast, during a deep inspiration, near the sternum. His chest feels sore, his sputa are sometimes tinged with blood, especially when walking. *All the joints of the bones and cartilages of the chest feel painful, as if they were bruised, during motion and breathing. Stitches in the heart, from the left side of the right, *with fainting fits. Oppression at the heart. The beating of the heart is more like quivering. Pain in the region of the heart, is if it were squeezed together, or like a shock. The motion of the heart is first very rapid, then suddenly slow. *Pain as from a sprain in the joints of the chest and back. Anguish across the chest, with inclination to vomit. Aching pain in the right breast. Stinging itching in the chest and in the back.

Charles Julius Hempel
Charles Julius Hempel (5 September 1811 Solingen, Prussia - 25 September 1879 Grand Rapids, Michigan) was a German-born translator and homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. While attending medical lectures at the University of New York, where he graduated in 1845, he became associated with several eminent homeopathic practitioners, and soon after his graduation he began to translate some of the more important works relating to homeopathy. He was appointed professor of materia medica and therapeutics in the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in 1857.