Arnica Montana

• ▸Fears touch, or the approach of anyone.
• ▸Unconscious; when spoken to answers correctly, but relapses.
• ▸Indifference; inability to perform continuous active work; morose, delirious.
• ▸Nervous; cannot bear pain; whole body oversensitive.
• ▸Says there is nothing the matter with him.
• ▸Wants to be let alone.
• ▸Agoraphobia (fear of space).
• ▸After mental strain or shock.

Hypochondriacal anxiety with fear of dying and disagreeable temper.—Declines to

answer any questions.—Great agitation and anguish, with groans.—Unfitness for exertion, and

indifference to business.—Apprehension and despair.—Over-excitement and excessive moral

sensibility —Great sensitiveness of the mind with anxiety and restlessness.—Tendency to be

• ▸frightened.
• ▸—Quarrelsome.
• ▸—Combative, quarrelsome humour.
• ▸—Tears.
• ▸—Shedding of tears and

• ▸exclamations of rage.
• ▸—Opinionated.
• ▸—Foolish gaiety, levity, and mischievousness.
• ▸—Absence of

ideas.—Depression of spirits and absence of mind.—Says there is nothing the matter with him (in

• ▸typhoid fever, &c.
• ▸).
• ▸—Abstraction and musing.
• ▸—Unconsciousness (like fainting after mechanical

injuries ).—Delirium.

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.—A ggravation 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 1. side) in consequence of

apoplexy.—Dropsy of inner parts.

• ▸Hot, with cold body; confused; sensitiveness of brain, with sharp, pinching pains.
• ▸Scalp feels contracted.
• ▸Cold spot on forehead.
• ▸Chronic vertigo; objects whirl about especially when walking.

Whirling giddiness with obscuration of the eyes, chiefly on getting up after sleeping,

on moving the head, or in walking.—Giddiness, with nausea; when moving and rising; better

when lying.—Vertigo when shutting eyes.—Pressive pains in the head, principally in the

forehead.—Cramp-like compression in the forehead as if the brain were contracted into a hard

mass, chiefly when near the fire.—Pain, as if a nail were driven into the brain.—Dartings,

pullings, and shootings in the head, principally in the temples.—Incisive pain across the

head.—Cutting through the head, as with a knife, followed by a sensation of coldness.—Stitches

• ▸in the head, esp.
• ▸in the temples and forehead.
• ▸—Effects from concussion on the brain.
• ▸—Pain in the

head over one eye, with greenish vomiting (after a strain of the back).—Heat and burning in the

head, with absence of heat from the body.—Burning and heat in the head, the rest of the body is

cool (night and morning, < from motion, > when at rest).—Heaviness and weakness of the

head.—Pains in the head, brought on, or aggravated by walking, ascending, meditating, and

reading, as well as after a meal.—Tingling at the top of the head—Immobility of the scalp.

• ▸Diplopia from traumatism, muscular paralysis, retinal haemorrhage.
• ▸Bruised, sore feeling in eyes after close work.
• ▸Must keep eyes open.
• ▸Dizzy on closing them.
• ▸Feel tired and weary after sight-seeing, moving pictures, etc.

Pain, like excoriation, in the eyes and in the eyelids, with difficulty in moving

them.—Red, inflamed eyes.—Inflammation of the eyes with suggillation after mechanical

injuries —Burning in the eyes, and flowing of burning tears.—Eyelids swollen, and with

• ▸ecchymosis.
• ▸—Pupils contracted.
• ▸—Eyes dull, cloudy, and downcast.
• ▸—Eyes prominent, or half

open.—Fixed, anxious look.—Obscuration of vision.

• ▸Noises in ear caused by rush of blood to the head.
• ▸Shooting in and around ears.
• ▸Blood from ears.
• ▸Dullness of hearing after concussion.
• ▸Pain in cartilages of ears as if bruised.

Pain, as of contusion in the ears. Acute pulling in the ears.—Shootings in and behind

the ears——Hardness of hearing, and buzzing before the ears; from blows.—Blood from ears.

Bleeding after every fit of coughing, dark fluid blood. Nose feels sore; cold.

Pain, as of contusion in the nose. —Tingling, in the nose.—Nose swollen, with

• ▸ecchymosis.
• ▸—Nasal heemorrhage.
• ▸—Ulcerated nostrils.
• ▸—Coryza, with burning in the nose.
• ▸—Cold

nose (A. radix).

Sunken; very red. Heat in lips. Herpes in face.

Face pale and hollow, or yellow and bloated.—Heat in the face without heat in the

body.—Hard swelling, shining redness and heat in one cheek, with throbbing pain.—Puffing of

cheeks on breathing.—Tingling round the eyes, in the cheeks, and in the lips.—Pustulous eruption

on the face, chiefly round the eyes—Dryness, burning heat, swelling, and fissures in the

• ▸lips.
• ▸—Ulceration of the corners of the mouth.
• ▸—Paralysis of the lower jaw.
• ▸—Painful swelling of

the submaxillary glands, and of those of the neck.—Trismus, with the mouth closed.

• ▸Fetid breath.
• ▸Dry and thirsty.
• ▸Bitter taste (Colocy).
• ▸Taste as from bad eggs.
• ▸Soreness of gums after teeth extraction (Sepia).
• ▸Empyaema of maxillary sinus.

Dryness of the mouth, with thirst——Saliva mixed with blood.—Sensation of

excoriation and itching on the tongue—Tongue dry, or with a white coating.—Putrid smell from

the mouth in the morning.

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.

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.

• ▸Longing for vinegar.
• ▸Distaste for milk and meat.
• ▸Canine hunger.
• ▸Vomiting of blood.
• ▸Pain in stomach during eating.
• ▸Repletion with loathing.
• ▸Oppressive gases pass upward and downward.
• ▸Pressure as from a stone.
• ▸Feeling as if stomach were passing against spine. Fetid vomiting.

• ▸Taste putrid or bitter, or slimy.
• ▸—Bitter taste, esp.
• ▸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 fulness and cramp-like pressure in the abdomen,

immediately after a meal.—Irritable and plaintive humour, after a meal in the evening.

Frequent eructations, esp. 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, fulness, 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.

Stitches under false ribs. Distended; offensive flatus. Sharp thrusts through 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.—T ympanites.

• ▸Straining of tenesmus in diarrhoea. Offensive, brown, bloody, putrid, involuntary.
• ▸Looks like brown yeast.
• ▸Must lie down after every stool.
• ▸Diarrhoea of consumption; worse lying on left side.
• ▸Dysenteric stools with muscular pains.

Constipation, with ineffectual attempt 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.

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.

Retained from over-exertion. Dark brick-red sediment. Vesical tenesmus with very painful micturition.

• ▸Bruised parts after labor.
• ▸Violent after-pains.
• ▸Uterine haemorrhage from mechanical injury after coition.
• ▸Sore nipples.
• ▸Mastitis from injury.
• ▸Feeling as if foetus were lying crosswise.

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 mamme and nipples.—Violent

stitches in middle of 1. breast —Vomiting of pregnancy.—Threatened abortion from fall,

&c.—Feeling as if foetus were lying crosswise.—Tumour of breast.

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.

• ▸Coughs depending on cardiac lesion, paroxysmal, at night, during sleep, worse exercise.
• ▸Acute tonsillitis, swelling of soft palate and uvula.
• ▸Pneumonia; approaching paralysis.
• ▸Hoarseness from overuse of voice.
• ▸Raw, sore feeling in morning.
• ▸Cough produced by weeping and lamenting.
• ▸Dry, from tickling low down in trachea.
• ▸Bloody expectoration.
• ▸Dyspnoea with haemoptysis.
• ▸All bones and cartilages of chest painful.
• ▸Violent spasmodic cough, with facial herpes.
• ▸Whooping cough, child cries before coughing.
• ▸Pleurodynia (Ranunc; Cimicif).

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.

• ▸Angina pectoris; pain especially severe in elbow of left arm.
• ▸Stitches in heart.
• ▸Pulse feeble and irregular.
• ▸Cardiac dropsy with distressing dyspnoea.
• ▸Extremities distended, feel bruised and sore.
• ▸Fatty heart and hypertrophy.

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

(1.), aggravated from a dry cough, with oppression of breathing; < from motion, > from external

pressure.

Beating, and palpitation of the heart—Pain from liver up through |. chest and down 1.

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 |. to r—Painful pricking in the heart,

with fainting fits.

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.

Pain, as if from fatigue, and crawlings 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.—Darting in the

arm.—Veins in the hands swollen, with full and strong pulse-—Want of strength in the hands on

grasping anything.—Cramps in the fingers.

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.

• ▸Gout.
• ▸Great fear of being touched or approached.
• ▸Pain in back and limbs, as if bruised or beaten.
• ▸Sprained and dislocated feeling.
• ▸Soreness after overexertion.
• ▸Everything on which he lies seems too hard.
• ▸Deathly coldness of forearm.
• ▸Cannot walk erect, on account of bruised pain in pelvic region.
• ▸Rheumatism begins low down and works up (Ledum).

• ▸Black and blue.
• ▸Itching, burning, eruption of small pimples.
• ▸Crops of small boils (Ichthyol; Silica).
• ▸Ecchymosis.
• ▸Bed sores (Bovinine locally).
• ▸Acne indurata, characterized by symmetry in distribution.

Hot, hard, and shining swelling of the parts affected.—Stings of insects; snake-

bites.—Red, bluish, and yellowish spots, as if from contutions.—Black and blue spots on the

body.—Yellow-green spots, caused either by a bruise or by disease.—Bed sores; blue

• ▸mortification.
• ▸—Miliary eruption.
• ▸—Petechiz.
• ▸—Many small boils, or blood-boils; one after another,

extremely sore.

• ▸Sleepless and restless when over tired.
• ▸Comatose drowsiness; awakens with hot head; dreams of death, mutilated bodies, anxious and terrible.
• ▸Horrors in the night.
• ▸Involuntary stools during sleep.

Great drowsiness during the day, without being able to sleep.—Inclination to sleep,

early in the evening.—Comatose drowsiness with delirum.—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.

• ▸Febrile symptoms closely related to typhoid.
• ▸Shivering over whole body.
• ▸Heat and redness of head, with coolness of rest of body.
• ▸Internal heat; feet and hands cold.
• ▸Nightly sour sweats.

Pulse very variable, mostly hard, full and quick.—Chilliness, internally, with external

heat.—Great chilliness, with heat and redness of one cheek.—Chilliness of the side on which he

lies.—Head alone, or face alone, hot, rest of body cool.—Shivering, principally in the evening,

and sometimes with a sensation as if one were sprinkled with cold water.—Heat in the evening or

at night, with shivering on raising the bed-clothes, even slightly, and frequently with a pain in the

back and in the limbs.—Dry heat over the whole body, or only in the face and on the

back.—Fever, with much thirst, even before the shiverings.—Before the fever, dragging sensation

in all the bones.—Intermittent fever; chill in the morning or forenoon drawing pains in the bones

before the fever; changes his position continually breath and perspiration offensive.—During the

apyrexia, pain in the stomach, want of appetite and loathing of animal food.—Perspiration

smelling sour or offensive—sometimes cold.—Typhus, putrid breath and stool.—Nocturnal acid

sweat.

• ▸Abscess.
• ▸Apoplexy.
• ▸Back, pains in.
• ▸Baldness.
• ▸Bed-sores.
• ▸Black-eye.
• ▸Boils.
• ▸Brain,

• ▸affections of.
• ▸Breath, fetid.
• ▸Bronchitis.
• ▸Bruises.
• ▸Carbuncle.
• ▸Chest, affections of.
• ▸Chorea.
• ▸Corns.

• ▸Cramp.
• ▸Diabetes.
• ▸Diarrhoea.
• ▸Dysentery.
• ▸Ecchymosis.
• ▸Excoriations.
• ▸Exhaustion.
• ▸Eyes, affections

• ▸of.
• ▸Feet, sore.
• ▸Heematemesis.
• ▸Hematuria.
• ▸Headache.
• ▸Heart, affections of.
• ▸Impotence.
• ▸Labour.

• ▸Lumbago.
• ▸Meningitis.
• ▸Mental alienation.
• ▸Miscarriage.
• ▸Nipples, sore.
• ▸Nose, affections of.

• ▸Paralysis.
• ▸Pelvic hematocele.
• ▸Pleurodynia.
• ▸Purpura.
• ▸Pycemia.
• ▸Rheumatism.
• ▸Splenalgia.
• ▸Sprain.

• ▸Stings.
• ▸Suppuration.
• ▸Taste, disorders of.
• ▸Thirst.
• ▸Traumatic fever.
• ▸Tumours.
• ▸Voice, affections of.

Whooping-cough. Wounds. Yawning.

Characteristics—Growing on the mountains, Arnica may be said to possess a native affinity to

the effects of falls. As its German name, Fallkraut, attests, its value as a vulnerary has been

known from remote times. It may be said to be the traumatic par excellence. Trauma in all its

varieties and effects, recent and remote, is met by Arnica as by no other single drug, and the

provings bring out the appropriateness of the remedy in the symptoms it causes. Tumours in

many parts, following injury, have been cured by Arnica, including scirrhous tumours of the

breast. Nervous affections as chorea after falls. It is suited to plethoric red-faced persons;

"Arnica is particularly adapted to sanguine, plethoric persons, with lively complexions and

disposed to cerebral congestion. It acts but feebly on persons who are positively debilitated, with

impoverished blood and soft flesh. This may be the reason why it is eaten with impunity by

herbivorous animals as Linneus remarks" (Teste). It is suited to persons who are extremely

sensitive to mechanical injuries, and who feel the effects of them long after; persons easily made

train-sick or sea-sick. Patients complain that the bed is hard no matter how soft it may be. Arn.

corresponds to the effects of violent cough or sneezing; the child cries before cough comes on (or

with the cough) in whooping-cough. Chronic bronchitis when patients have bruised, weak aching

in the chest, or great sensitiveness of the chest on exertion, or walking. Allied to wounds are

hemorrhages, and Arnica causes and cures hemorrhages of many kinds: dilatation and rupture

of small blood-vessels. Vomiting, coughing, purging, accompanied by streaks of blood in ejecta;

extravasation of blood into the conjunctiva as in whooping-cough. Hzemorrhages into the tissues

of internal organs or the skin. An odd symptom of Arnica is "coldness of the nose." A case of

facial (left) neuralgia, face swollen, dark red, very painful to touch, was cured with Arnica

(radix), the guiding symptom being "cold nose." Patient had bitter taste; was very excitable, and

< at night. Ussher notes that the local use of Arnica produced an extraordinary growth of hair on

a limb. This suggested the use of an oil mixed with Arn. 1x in a case of baldness, which was

• ▸followed with marked success.
• ▸Arn.
• ▸affects the left upper extremity and the right chest.
• ▸There is a

putridity in connection with Arnica excretions, as with Baptis., which it resembles in typhoid

conditions: putrid breath; fetid sweat. With Arnica there is apt to be incessant passing of stool

and urine in these states. Nash gives the following as "leaders": "Stupor, with involuntary

discharge of feeces and urine." "Fears being touched or struck by those coming near him." Putrid

smell from mouth." "Bruised, sore feeling in uterine region; cannot walk erect." "While

answering falls into a deep stupor before finishing." "Head alone, or face alone, hot; rest of body

cool." "Many small boils, painful, one after another, extremely sore." "Suddenness" is a feature

• ▸of Arn.
• ▸pains and action.
• ▸P.
• ▸P.
• ▸Wells relates a cure of double pleuro-pneumonia in a child with

sudden stabbing pains on both sides of the chest almost preventing breathing. Arnica instantly

caused a violent aggravation, the next instant relief was perfect, and the child fell asleep

breathing naturally. I once ran a piece of wire into the tip of one of my fingers, causing

paralysing pain. I applied Arn. 1x at once, and the pain was better instantly—seeming to be wiped

out from the point of injury up the arm. There is < in damp, cold weather with Arnica, which is

included by Grauvogl among the remedies suited to the hydrogenoid constitution (comp. Baryt.

• ▸c.
• ▸).
• ▸Motion and exertion <.
• ▸(Bruised, aching sensation in chest on walking.
• ▸) > Lying down, and

lying with head low; but < lying on left side.

Arnica should not be used externally where there is broken skin. For torn and lacerated wounds

Calendula must be used locally.

• ▸Teste takes Arn.
• ▸as the type of his first group, which includes Ledum, Crot.
• ▸t.
• ▸, Fer.

• ▸magnet.
• ▸, Rhus t.
• ▸, Spig.
• ▸Compare: Abrot.
• ▸, Absinth.
• ▸, Calend.
• ▸, Chamom.
• ▸, Cina, Gnaphal.
• ▸, and other

• ▸Composite.
• ▸Complementary: Acon.
• ▸Similar to: Acon.
• ▸, Am.
• ▸c.
• ▸, Croton (swashing in abdomen),

• ▸Arsen.
• ▸, Baptis.
• ▸(typhoid states—Bap.
• ▸"feels ill," Arn.
• ▸"feels well," resents being thought ill),

• ▸Bell.
• ▸, Bry.
• ▸, Cham.
• ▸, Chi.
• ▸, Euphras.
• ▸, Calend.
• ▸, Hep.
• ▸, Hyper.
• ▸, Ham.
• ▸, Ipec.
• ▸, Led.
• ▸, Merc.
• ▸, Puls.
• ▸, Ran.

• ▸scel.
• ▸, Rho.
• ▸, Ruta, Staph.
• ▸, Silic, Symph.
• ▸, Sul.
• ▸, Sul.
• ▸ac.
• ▸, Verat.
• ▸Follows well: Aco.
• ▸, Ipec.
• ▸, Verat.
• ▸,

• ▸Apis.
• ▸Followed well by: Aco.
• ▸, Ars.
• ▸, Bry.
• ▸, Ipec.
• ▸, Rhus t.
• ▸Action aided by: Arsen.
• ▸(dysentery and

• ▸varicose veins).
• ▸/njurious in: Bites of dogs or rabid or angry animals.
• ▸Antidote to: Am.
• ▸c.
• ▸, Chi.
• ▸,

• ▸Cicut.
• ▸, Fer.
• ▸, Ign.
• ▸, Ipec.
• ▸, Seneg.
• ▸Antidoted by: Camph.
• ▸, Ipec.
• ▸(to massive doses); Coffee

• ▸(headache); Aco.
• ▸, Ars.
• ▸, Chi.
• ▸, Ign.
• ▸, Ipec.
• ▸(to potencies).
• ▸Wine increases unpleasant effect of

Arnica.

• ▸Causations.
• ▸—Mechanical injuries.
• ▸Fright or anger.
• ▸Excessive venery (vaginitis in the female,

impotence in the male).

Antidotes: Camph.

Vitex trifolia.--Indian Arnica (Sprains and pains, headache in temples, pain in joints; pain in abdomen; pain in testicles).

Complementary: Acon; Ipec.

Compare: Acon; Bapt; Bellis; Hamam; Rhus; Hyperic.

Third to thirtieth potency. Locally, the tincture, but should never be applied hot or at all when abrasions or cuts are present.

The Arnica patient is morose, wants to be let alone, does not want

to be talked to, does not want to l>e approached. He does not want

to be approached, both because he does not wish to enter into conversation, a mental state, and also because he does not wish to be touched

on account of the great bodily soreness. These are the two most

striking things in this medicine. Irritable, morose, sad, fearful, easily

frightened, imagines all sorts of things, especially that he has heart

disease, or that he will mortify, or that some deep-seated trouble is

upon him. Full of nightmare, dreadful dreams, dreams of muddy

water, robbers, etc. Horrors in the night. He frequently rouses up

in the night, grasps at the heart, has the appearance of great horror,

fears some dreadful thing will happen. A sudden fear of death comes

on at this time, rousing him up in the niglit ; he grasps at the heart, and

thinks he is going to die suddenly. He is full of dreadful anguish,

but finally he comes to himself, lies down and goes off into a sleep of

terror, jumps up again with the fear of sudden death and says: ‘'Send

for a doctor at once.’' This is repeated night after night in persons

who are fairly well in the daytime, who have no sympathy because

there seems to be no reality in their sickness, only a mental state. It

is also seen in persons who have gone through a railroad accident, or

through some shock, who are sore and bruised from injury. They

rouse up in the night with a fear of sudden death, with an expression

of terror ; the horrors they really went through are repeated. This is

similar to Opium, only the Opium fear remains, even in the day time.

Arnica dreams of it.

When sick in bed afflicted with a zymotic disease, with violent fever,

or with fever after an accident or injury, he becomes greatly prostrated,

stupid and unconscious. He can be aroused and will answer a question correctly, but goes into a stupor, or he hesitates about a

word and is unable to find correct words when trying to answer and

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goes back into the coma. When roused up, he looks at the doctor and

says : “I do not want you ; I did not send for you ; I am not sick ; I

don t need a doctor. He will say this even when he is seriously ill.

I have seen an Arnica patient lie back upon his pillow after emptying

the stomach of a black fluid like blood, seriously ill, with the face mottled, in zymotic sickness or such as threaten malignant chill, that one

would think he was almost going to die, look up and say: ‘‘I am not

sick ; I did not send for you ; go home.” Yet when in a state of health

he was friendly, kind-hearted, knew me well, glad to shake hands with

me ; but now he is irritated at seeing me there and insists there is nothing the matter with him. Such is the “shock"’ state, almost a delirium.

After finishing such a sentence he will lie down in a stupor, will lie in

bed drawn up in a heap and merely groan when spoken to. He wants

to be left alone, does not want to be bothered, does not want to be

talked to. That state ushers in complaints after a shock that has

shaken the whole system, that has disturbed the circulation. When a

symptomatic typhoid is coming on, i.c., when an intermittent or remittent is taking on symptoms that are typhoid in character, when the

tongue becomes shiny, and sordes appear about the teeth and lips, w'hen

there is sinking, and soreness all over the body, there are times when

this mental state that I am describing will appear and the patient must

have Arnica. Arnica will interrupt the progress and prevent a typhoid

state. Arnica is sometimes suitable to the scarlet fever, when the

eruption does not come out, in those severe forms when the body is

dusky, mottled and covered with red spots ; the patient is constantly

turning and that mental state is coming on with moroseness, and

stupidity. It is a wonderful remedy, a misunderstood remedy, a misused remedy, because it is almost limited to bruises. It is one of the

sheet anchors in certain seasons, in the malarial valleys of the West,

for intermittent fever. In congestive chills, in those dreadful attacks

with prostration, stupor, mottled skin, with congestion that comes on

suddenly, with anxiety. The doctors know these fevers, they dread

them, and can only cope with them by using such remedies as Arnica

and Lachesis and other deep-acting medicines. It is not true that these

patients must have Quinine. For many years I practiced among these

cases, and I have seen numerous congestive chills and had no need for

Quinine. I would rather have my repertory and a few potencies than

all the Quinine in the drug stores. The sugar pills cure safely, permanently and gently, while the Quinine never cures, but suppresses,

and there is nothing in the after history of that patient drugged with

Quinine and Arsenic but congestion and violence so long as he lives.

“Horror of instant death, with cardiac distress in night.” From

that it spreads on throughout the system, but that horror of instant

death is a striking feature and it comes on regardless of heart disease.

A horror in the night when there is nothing to come upon the patient ;

a horrible congestion, which affects especially the cerebellum and upper

part of the spinal cord.

‘‘Stupor with involuntary discharges/’ “Coma, insensibility/’

‘‘Lies as if dcad.“ These symptoms come in the low forms of disease,

in the typhoid type of disease. Many of the remittent fevers, if badly

treated, or permitted to run their course under bad nursing, will turn

into a continued fever. While the true idiopathic typhoid comes on

after many weeks of gradual decline, a symptomatic typhoid may come

on suddenly, and it has symptoms of graver form than the ordinary

typhoid. The idiopathic typhoid will seldom kill and will generally

run to to a favourable termination, if the doctor stays at hime. This

remedy is full of delirium in these low types of fever, even deliriumi

like delirium tremens, “Hopelessness ; indifference/’ “Hypochondriacal anxiety, peevishness.” “Fears being struck by those coming

towards him.” That is both bodily and mental.

Now, with this mental state thoroughly in mind, we are prepared

to take up the general physical state, which has in all complaints, all

over the body a feeling as if bruised. It is not strange that Arnica

is used for bruises, but it is very foolish to put it on the outside and

to rub it on in the form of the tincture. It produces in its pathogenesis

mottled spots, like bruises. If you take Arnica internally, in large

doses, you will have mottled spots, bluish spots, which become yellowish, due to ecchymoscs, from extravasations of the smaller capillaries.

This is, to a certain extent, what takes place in bruising. It is an

extravasation of blood from the capillaries, and sometimes from the

larger vessels. But all over the body he is sore and bruised, as if ho

had been beaten. If you watch an Arnica patient in order to get the

• ▸external manifestations of his state, you will see him turning and moving.
• ▸You will at once ask yourself.
• ▸Why is he restless ?
• ▸and if you

compare remedies in your mind, you will say, He is like Rhus tox. ;

he stays in a place a little while and then he moves. No matter if he

is only scmi-conscious. you will see him make a little turn, part way

over, and then a little further over, and so on until he is over on the

other side. Then he commences again, and he will shift a little and

a little, and so he turns from side to side. The question is, why does

he move so, why is he restless ? It is an important matter to solve.

We notice the awful anxiety of the Arsenicum patient that keeps him

moving all the time. We notice the painful uneasiness felt all over the

body with the Rhus patient so that he cannot keep still. The Arnica

patient is so sore that he can lie on one part only a little while, and

then he must get off that part or to the other side. So if we ask him,

''Why do you move so ?” he will tell us that the bed feels hard. That

Is one way of telling that the body is sore. A more intelligent individual will say it is because he is so sore and feels as if bruised and beaten,

and he wants to get into a new place. This state of soreness is present if it be a symptomatic typhoid, an intermittent fever, a remittent

fever, or after an injury when he is really bruised all over. You get

the same continual uneasiness and motion, moving every minute. He

moves and thinks that now he will be comfortable, but he is comfortable only for a second. The soreness increases the longer he lies, and

becomes so great that he is forced to move. With Rhus tox, the longer

he lies the more restless he grows and the more he aches, until he feels

as if he will fly if he does not move. With Rhus tox, the uneasiness

passes off after moving, and with Arnica the soreness passes off if he

gets into a new place. With Arsenicum you see him moving about and

look wild, and he is anxious, and this anxiety forces him to move, and

he gets no rest, for he keeps going. The Rhus tox. and Arnica patients

get better from every little motion.

The Arnica patient bleeds easily ; his blood vessels seem to be relaxed, and extravasation is easy. Blue spots come easily upon the skin,

and internally the mucous membranes bleed easily. The parts that are

inflamed bleed. He is subject to catarrhal conditions, and if he has

a cough he bleeds easily. The mucus that is hawked out of the chest

and throat is streaked with blood, or dotted with liny pin-head blood

clots. His urine contains blood and there is bleeding from the various

orifices of the body. There is not sufficient tone in the fibres of the

vessel to hold the blood within the vessel walls and they ooze.

All over the body there is a lameness, and soreness, and a feeling as

if bruised ; a rheumatic lameness ; the joints are swollen, sore and lame.

If an acute disease becomes more severe, we shall find the mental symptoms as described, and there will be an increasing soreness in the muscles. Arnica is very suitable for that sore, bruised condition of the

body, therefore Arnica is a very important remedy in injuries, bruises

and shocks, injuries of joints, injury of the back with lameness and

soreness. In such conditions Arnica becomes one of the first remedies,

and unless there are general decided symptoms calling for other remedies it should be the first remedy. Arnica will very often take all the

soreness out of a sprained ankle and permit him in a few days to go

walking about, to the surprise of everybody. The black and blue appearance of sprained joints will go away in a surprisingly short time,

the soreness will disappear, and he will be able to manipulate that joint

with surprising case. I have seen a sprained ankle when it was black

and blue, so swollen that the shoe could not be put on, but after a

dose of Arnica, the swelling disappeared in an astonishing way, the

discoloration faded out and the patient was able to stand on the foot.

No such result can be obtained with the use of Arnica lotion externally.

A high potency of Arnica is most satisfactory in bruises, and when no

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decided contra-indication is present Arnica is the first remedy ; but for

the weakness of tendons that follows such a condition Arnica is not

always sufficient, and the Rhits tox, is its natural follower. If the

weakness and tenderness remain in the joints, follow the Rhus with

Calcurea, One will not, of course, give these remedies all on the same

day, and not in the same glass, but will wait until all the good has been

gotten out of the Arnica before following with Rhus, It is quite a

common thing for aching and restlessness and weakness to come into

a part that has been injured, and Rhus is then a suitable remedy ; and

it is quite common fdr a joint that has been badly treated to remain

sore and weak, and then Calcarea comes in as a natural follower of

the Rhus, Now and then we have to resort to Causticum, Staphisagia,

and other remedies, because of some peculiar feature in the case, but

these remedies arc all related more or less to Arnica, Rhus and Calcarea, For another class of injuries compare Ledum and Hypericum.

Arnica is useful in some chronic cases ; especially in old cases of

gout. It is quite a common thing for old cases of gout to rouse up

into a new soreness of joints, with great sensitiveness. You will see

the old grandfather sit off in a corner of the room, and if he sees

little Johnnie running towards him, he will say, ‘*Oh, do keep away,

keep away.” Give him a dose of Arnica and he will let Johnnie run

all over him. He does not w^ant to be touched or approached ; he feels

that anything that is coming towards him is going to hurt him. He is

extremely sensitive, his joints arc sore and render, and he is afraid

they will be hurt.

This medicine has erysipelatous inflammation. If you have an erysipelas of the face with the mental state described, with soreness, and

sore, bruised feeling all-over the body, you need not wait longer before

prescribing Arnica. The sore, bruised feeling all over the body, and

the mental state, would decide in favor of Arnica against any medicine. In inflammation of the kidneys and bladder, of the liver, and

even in pneumonia, the mental state and the sore, bruised feeling all

over the body would enable you to do astonishing w’^ork in such cases,

even though Arnica has never produced pneumonia. It has all there

is of the rusty expectoration, with all the soreness of the chest and

catarrhal state, the coughing and gagging, and sore, bruised feeling all

over the body, and then add to this the condition of stupor and the

mental state that belongs to the inflammatory condition of any organ

and is especially strong in this medicine. We do not have to worry

about any particular fineness of dignosis to settle upon Arnica.

Arnica has aversion to meat, broth and milk. There is great thirst at

particular times ; for instance, during the chill of intermittent fever he has

thirst, while at other times he is thirstless. “Vomiting of dark-red coagula,

mouth bitter ; general soreness.’* Vomiting of black, inky substances.

Arnica is a useful remedy in inflammatory conditions of the abdomen, liver, intestines, with tumefaction, tympanites, prostration, tendency to uneasiness, and so sore that he cannot be touched. This state

also comes with typhoid. Do not forget the symptoms of Arnica in

appendicitis. You do not need to run for the surgeon for every case

of appendicitis if you know Bryonia, Rhus tox., Belladonna, Arnica

and similar remedies. The homoeopathic remedy will cure these cases,

and, if you know it, you need never run after the surgeon in appendicitis except in recurrent attacks. If you do not know your remedies,

you will succumb to the prevailing notion that it is necessary to open

the abdomen and remove the appendix. It is only deplorable ignorance that causes appendicitis to be surrendered to the knife.

Offensiveness is a feature of Arnica ; there is offensiveness of the

• ▸eructations, and the flatus.
• ▸The stool is horribly offensive.
• ▸''Nightly diarrhoea.
• ▸’ "Stool involuntary during sleep. ” "Stools of undigested food, purulent ; bloody, slimy, mucus. * Dark blood, very foetid

stool. Here we see the tendency to oozing from the mucous membranes Black watery stools with black vomit. "Retention of urine

from exertion,** from overwork, from injury, from concussion of the

brain, from some violent accident. The urine is brown, or inky, dark.

"Piercing pains as from knives plunged into the kidneys.” "Urine very

acid, with increase of specific gravity.”

Another feature of Arnica occurs in pregnant women. The extreme

sensitivencvss, soreness or t;ei|derncss throughout the wdiolc body is especially felt in the abdomiml viscera, in the uterus and pelvic region.

Sensitiveness to the motioii of the foetus, sore and bruised : the motions of the foetus are very painful and keep her awake all night.

Arnica will remove that soreness and she will not distinguish the

motion of the foetus. It is not an increased motion of the foetus, hut

that she is sensitive to it. "Constant dribbling of urine after labor.”

A general feature also of the remedy is tliat the body is cold and

the head hot ; the whole body and the extremities are cold, but the head

feels hot. This is a marked condition in sudden congestive attacks, in

congestive chill and congestive intermittent fevers. This, sometimes,

is the very beginning of a severe attack when there has been almost

no warning except a night or two of bad dreams and distress, fearfulness and stupefaction, with soreness in the body. If he comes out

of this, an increased soreness in the body comes on, which grows worsei

and worse until he is sore and bruished all over. Children going into

severe attacks of infantile fever may threaten convulsions, the head is

hot and the body cold. Most physicians will think of Belladonna,

which has such cold extremities and such a hot head. Do not forget

Arnica, especially in those children who seem to have an aversion to

tcing touchicd, and serwm out every time the mother takes hold of the

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