Arnica
Leopard’s Bane
Abdomen
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Stitches under false ribs. Distended ; offensive flatus. Sharp thrusts through
Blood
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Nose feels sore; cold.
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Relaxed blood vessels, black and blue spots. Tendency to haemorrhage and low-fever states. Ten- 88
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Pain in stomach during
Compare
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An/ostis (externally after injuries) ; Aeon.; Bapt.; Beilis; Hainan.; Rhus.
Dose
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First to twelfth potency. Locally, the tincture, but should never be applied hot or at all when abrasions or cuts are present.
Ears
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Noises in ear caused by rush of blood to the
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Blood from
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Dullness of hearing after concussion. Pain in cartilages of ears as if bruised.
Extremities
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Gout. Great fear of beig 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 90 ARNICA — ARSKNICUM ALBUM erect, on account of bruised pain in pelvic region. Rheumatism l)egins low down and works up. [Ledum.]
Eyes
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Diplopia from traumatism, muscular paralysis, retinal hemorrhage. Bruised, sore feeling in eyes after close work. Must keep eyes open. Dizzy on closing them. Feel tired and weary after sight-seeing, moving picttires, etc.
Face
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Sunken : very red. Heat in lips. Herpes in
Female
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Bruised parts after labor. Violent afterpains. Uterine h<eniorrhage from mechanical injury after coition. Sore nipples. Mastitis from injury. Feeling as if foetus were lying crosswise.
Fever
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Shivering over whole body. Heat and redness of head, with coolness of rest of body. Internal heat; feet and hands cold. Nightly sour sweats.
Guiding symptoms
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Produces conditions upon the system quite similar to those resulting from injuries, falls, blows, contusions. Tinnitus aurium. Putrid phenomena. Septic conditions ; prophylactic of pus infection. It is especially suited to cases when any injury, however remote, seems to have caused the present trouble. After traumatic injuries, overuse of any organ, strains. Arnica is disposed to cerebral congestion. Acts best in plethoric, feebly in debilitated with impoverished blood, cardiac dropsy with dyspnoea. A muscular tonic. Traumatism of grief, remorse or sudden realization of financial loss. Limbs and body ache as if beaten; joints as if sprained. Bed feels too hard. Marked effect on the
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eating. Repletion with loathing. Oppressive gases pass upward and downward. Pressure as from a stone. Feeling as if stomach were passing against
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dency to tissue degeneration, septic conditions, abscesses that do not mature. Sore, lame, bruised feeling. Neuralgias originating in disturbances of pneumo-gastric. Rheumatism of muscular and tendinous tissue, especially of back and shoulders. Aversion to tobacco. Influenza.
Head
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Hot, zmth cold body; confused; sensitiveness of brain, with sharp, pinching pains. Scalp feels contracted. Cold spot on forehead.
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Shooting in and around
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dreams of death, mutilated bodies, anxious and terrible. Horrors in the night. Involuntary stools during
Heart
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Pulse feeble and irregular. Violent spasmodic cough, with facial herpes. Whooping cough, child cries before coughing. Pleurodynia. [Ranunc.; Cimicif.]
Mind
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Fears touch, or the approach of anyone. Unconscious ; when sjioken 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.
Modalities
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Worse, least touch; motion; rest; wine; damp cold. Better, lying down, or with head low.
Mouth
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fetid breath. Dry and thirsty. Bitter taste. [Colocy.] Taste as from bad eggs. Soreness of gums after teeth extraction. [Sepia.] Empyema of maxillary sinus.
Nose
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Bleeding after every fit of coughing, dark fluid
Rectum
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Straining of tenesmus in diarrhoea. Stool. — Offensive, brown, bloody, putrid, involuntary. Looks like brown yeast. Must lie down after every stool. Diarrhoea of consumption; worse lying on left side. Urine. — Retained from over-exertion. Dark brickred sediment.
Relationships
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Antidotes : Camph. Complementary: Aeon.; I pec.
Respiratory
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Coughs depending on cardiac lesion, paroxysmal, at night, during sleep, worse exercise. Angina pectoris; pain especially severe in elbow of left arm. Hoarseness from overuse of voice. Raw, sore feeling in morning. Cough produced by weeping and lamenting. Dry, from tickling low down in
Skin
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Black and blue. Itching, burning, eruption of small pimples. Crofts of small boils. [Ichthyol; Silica.] Ecchyniosis. lied sores. [Bovininc locally.] Acne indurata, characterized by symmetry in distribution.
Sleep
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Comatose drowsiness ; awakens with hot
Spine
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Fetid vomiting.
Stomach
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Longing for vinegar. Distaste for milk and meat. Vomiting of
Trachea
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Bloody expectoration. Dyspnoea with hjemoptysis. All bones and cartilages of chest painful. Stitches in
References
This monograph is an original summary faithful to the classical tradition. It condenses material from these public-domain sources:
- James Tyler Kent, Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica (1905)Primary remedy pictures; characteristic mental and general symptoms. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
- William Boericke, Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica and Repertory (1927)Reproduced here in full — the complete classical repertory-style monographs. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
- Constantine Hering, The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica (1879–1891)Confirmed symptom aggregates behind the section organization. · Public domain
- Timothy Field Allen, Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica (1874–1879)Provings background referenced by the verification tradition. · Public domain
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Reminder: this information is published for qualified practitioners. Patients must not self-medicate — homeopathic prescribing depends on the complete individual symptom picture, which only a doctor can evaluate. Please visit a homeopathy doctor.