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ARNICA. – THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PURE MATERIA MEDICA By TIMOTHY F. ALLEN, A.M., M.D.

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URINARY ORGANS.

► Tenesmus
of the bladder, the urine dropping out involuntarily (after one hour), [1]. [450.] ►
Tenesmus of the neck of the bladder, with ineffectual efforts to urinate, [1]. ► Cutting pain in the orifice
of the urethra, at the termination of micturition, [1].
► Stitches in the urethra, [1].
► Stitches in the urethra after micturition (after one
hour), [1]. ►
Itching in the anterior part of the urethra, in the region of the glans, when he is not
urinating, [1]. ►
More frequent desire to urinate than usual, [7]. ► Desire to urinate, accompanied by some biting burning,
increased after micturition, but not while urinating, [1].
► Frequent desire to urinate, with emission of a smaller
quantity of yellow-red urine (after forty-six hours), [8].
► Frequent desire to urinate, with copious emission of
urine (after one hour), [8]. ►
Urging to urinate, with copious discharge of watery urine, [24].
[460.] ► He passes
red urine, the quantity of which is larger than the liquid he had drunk, [12]. [In case mentioned in note to S. 372. -Hughes.] ► Early in the morning he passes a quantity of urine, which,
however, flows slowly, as if the urethra were constricted (after twenty-four hours), [2]. ► Frequent emission
of a watery urine (after twelve hours), [1]. ► Frequent emission of white watery urine, the quantity of
which is smaller than the liquid which he had drunk; the last drops of the urine do not
press out easily (the first four days), [2]. ► Emission of a quantity of urine; he is able, especially at
night, to retain it a long time (after thirty hours), [1].
► Retention of urine, with tenesmus of the bladder, [1]. ► One has to stand a
great while before some urine is emitted, [4]. ► Urine increased, deep colored, [26].
► Urine remarkably scanty, [24].
► Scanty red urine, [4].
[470.] ► Watery
urine, [6]. ►
Dark-yellow urine, strongly acid, of high specific gravity, becomes opalescent on boiling,
but again clear on adding nitric acid, [24]. ► Urine sulphur-colored turbid, extremely frothy, with neutral
reaction, and soon depositing an abundant sediment. Boiling renders it more turbid; the
addition of nitric acid clears it, but ammonia again makes it cloudy. It becomes offensive
on the third day, and precipitates only crystals of phosphoric acid, ammonia, and magnesia, [24]. ► *Dark-brown urine,
[28]. ► *Brown,
clear urine, which immediately becomes whitish and turbid (after forty-eight hours), [1]. ► *Brown urine with
brick-red sediment
, [1]. ► Urine has a saturated appearance, acid reaction, and
increased specific gravity, [24]. ► Urine strongly acid. When decomposing, it dissolves totally,
on the addition of nitric acid, with formation of gas, [24]. ► The urine, on
standing, deposits a slight sediment, which continually increases; and when the urine
decomposes, it precipitates an unusual number of crystals of phosphoric acid, ammonia,
magnesia, and urates. The later crystals adhere firmly to the sides of the glass, [24]. ► Increase of
earthy phosphates in the urine, [24].
   

SEXUAL ORGANS.

► Male.
[480.] ► Itching
pimple on the prepuce, [1]. ►
Itching red spot upon the glans, [1]. ► Fine stitch through the glans, [1].
► In the afternoon, several violent stitches in the glans
penis, [24]. ►
Itching, or itching stitches in the glans, [1]. ► Violent, continued erections after waking, without any desire
for an embrace, or without any amorous thoughts (after twelve hours), [1]. ► (Painless tubercle on the
scrotum), [1]. ►
Single stitches in the scrotum, [1]. ► Testes felt hard, and were swollen and tender, [35]. ► Early, in bed, feeling of
weakness, with relaxed testicles, as if he had had and emission of semen the night before,
while asleep, which, however, was not the case, [1]. [490.] ► Violent sexual
desire, and continued erections (in a weak old man), [1].
► Several pollutions in one night, with voluptuous
dreams, [1]. ►
Emission of semen (by day) during an affectionate caress, [1].
► Female. ► A
girl of twenty years, who had not had her courses for one year, but was otherwise healthy,
had an attack of nausea in the pit of the stomach, immediately after taking the medicine;
this was followed by a lump of blood passing through the vagina, [4]. ► Brings on menstruation
(curative effect), [15].
   

RESPIRATORY APPARATUS.

►
Sensation as if the larynx were impeded by swelling, causing cough and hawking, which brings
up only a little thick mucus, without giving relief, [24].
► During and eructation, he felt as if his breath caused
an agreeable cooling in the trachea, as if the walls were too thin, [2]. ► (Sense as of crackling in
the trachea, when walking, and in the evening, when lying down), [1]. ► Hoarseness, early in the
morning, [1]. ►
Voice low, muttering, [30]. [500.] ► Cough at night, during
sleep
, [1]. ►
Even yawning excites cough, [1]. ►► *Cough, in children, produced by weeping and lamenting,
[1]. ► *Cough is
excited by cries, in children, when accompanied by anger and tossing about

(between the seventh and eighth hours), [1]. ► When asleep, snoring expiration and inspiration (after
twenty-four hours), [1]. ►
*Cough produced by itching irritation in the upper part of the larynx, during the siesta
(after four hours), [1]. ►
Cough exciting vomiting, [1]. ►
Cough, with stitches, which increased the pain, [35]. ► Cough with stitches in the side of the chest (after ten
hours), [1]. ► *Cough
producing a feeling in the ribs, as if all of them were bruised
, [1]. [510.] ► *Constant dry cough which shook the whole frame, [35]. ► Dry, sharp,
hacking cough, [35]. ►
*Quite dry cough produced by a titillation in the lowest part of the trachea

(after four hours), [1]. ►
Dry, short, and hacking cough, as from a titillation, low down in the trachea, every morning
after rising
, [8]. ►
(Cough, with expectoration, which appears to come out of the posterior nares), [1]. ► The mucus in the
air-passages which collected over night, was more easily expectorated than usual, [26]. ► Expectoration of
clear glairy mucus, mixed with blackish points, [26]. ► *Sputa mixed with blood (after second day), [6]. ► *Bloody expectoration
from the chest
, [20]. ► *Hæmoptysis, [1]. [520.] ► He desires open air, [1]. ► Longing to be in
free open country air, [35]. ►
In the night, contrary to custom, breathing with open mouth, which was quite dry on awaking,
[24]. ► *Short, panting
breath
, [20]. ►
(Quick, difficult inspirations, slow expirations), [1].
► Frequent and slow deep breathing, with pressure below
the chest, [6]. ►
*Dyspnœa, quick expirations and inspirations
, [10].
► (Excessive difficulty of breathing), [19]. [This was only an aggravation of a difficulty in breathing
existing before Arnica was taken. -Hughes.]
   

CHEST.

► Red sweat on the
chest, [21]. ►
Pains over the thorax, [35]. [530.]
► (Anguish and pains in the chest), [14]. [In a case of heavy fall. Very similar symptoms were noted
before Arnica was administred. -Hughes.] ► Anguish across the chest, with inclination to vomit (after
two hours), [1]. ►
Feeling of internal coldness in the chest, [20]. ► (Feeling of tension across the chest, as far as the neck;
this tension is lessened by lying on the back, increased by walking, and becoming painful
when standing), (after two hours), [1]. ► Tightness of the chest and difficult respiration, [35]. ► (Drawing pain in
the chest, accompanied by anxiety), [1]. ► Aching pains in the chest, [35].
► Oppression of the chest, with anguish; pains in the
abdomen, and headache, [15]. [Immediately preceding
the restoration of the catamenia. -Hughes.] ► Oppressive
weight on the upper part of the chest, [35]. ► Suffocative oppression of the chest, [28]. [540.] ► Early, when waking, a load of blood appears to have
accumulated in the chest; after a little exercise he feels better, [1]. ► *Violent stitches in the middle
of the left breast
, [1]. ► Pressive stitches in the chest, [3]. ► Stinging on the chest and
inner surface of the arms, [26]. ► *Pain as from a sprain in the joints of the chest and back,
[1]. ► (Pain in the
chest, as if it were raw, with roughness of the throat during cough), [1]. ► His chest feels affected, raw;
his sputa is sometimes tinged with blood, especially when walking (after thirty-six hours), [4]. ► *All the joints of the
bones and cartilages of the chest feel painful, as if they were bruised, during motion and
breathing
, [1]. ►
Cutting pressure through both sides of the thorax, increased by inspiration (after one
hour), [9]. ►
Stitches in both sides, under the ribs, as from flatulence (after one hour), [1]. [550.] ►
Stinging itching in the sides of the chest and in the back, which cannot be removed by
scratching (after some minutes), [9]. ► Pressive pain in the right breast, at a small place, which remains
unaltered, either by motion, or contact, or breathing
, [1]. ► Fine sticking pains in the
sides of the chest, [6]. ►
*Sticking pain in one of the two sides of the chest, accompanied by a short cough, which
increases the pain, and by continued asthma
, [1].
► Dull stitches in the right side, near the ribs, [4]. ► Pain, like
prickings, in the right side of the chest, [1]. ► In the middle of the left breast, a painless feeling of
constriction, which tightens breathing, accompanied by a pain in the pit of the stomach,
which arrests breathing, [1]. ►
Stitches in the left breast, during a deep inspiration, near the sternum, [4]. ► Twitching pain in left side
of chest, [24]. ►
Pain in the left side of the chest, like pricks of pins (after twenty-nine hours), [8]. [560.] ► Crawling itching in the left side of the chest (after one
hour), [9]. ►
Violent pressure on the sternum, over the pit, [4]. ► Dull pressure over the pit of the stomach, in the lower part
of the sternum, [3]. ►
Stitches under the sternum, [27]. ► Dull stitches entering the thorax through the sternum (after
two hours), [9]. ►
Pressive pain in the lower extremity of the sternum, which is especially felt during a deep
inspiration (after twelve hours), [7]. ► Pressive stitching pain in front, in the sternum, especially
when walking, [1].
   

HEART AND PULSE.

►
Palpitation of the heart, [27]. ►
The motion of the heart is first very rapid, then suddenly slow, [10]. ► Stronger beat of the
heart, [25]. [570.]
► The beating of the heart is more like jerking, [10]. ► Cardiac distress,
[35]. ► Pain in the
region of the heart, as if the heart were squeezed together, or as if it got a violent
shock, [4]. ► *Pain in
the region of the heart, as if it were squeezed together, or as if it got a shock

(after thirty-six hours), [6]. ► *Stitches in the cardiac region, [35]. ► *Stitches in the heart from
the left side to the right
, [10]. ► Twingings at the heart, [10].
► Pulse slow and small, [29].
► Pulse rapid, [37].
► Pulse accelerated, [27].
[580.] ► Pulse
somewhat accelerated, [26]. ►
Pulse accelerated (80), [34]. ►
Pulse accelerated and irregular (one hour), [26]. ► Rhythm of heart irregular, [35].
► *Pulse feeble, hurried, and irregular, [35]. ► Pulse 100; feeble,
fluttering
, [30].
   

NECK AND BACK.

► Prominent
swelling of the cervical glands; they are exceeding painful, especially when moving the neck
or speaking, [10]. ►
Pain in right side of neck, where the external carotid emerges from the
sterno-cleido-mastoid muscle, as if a lymphatic gland were swollen; it is aggravated by
suddenly turning the head to the left, by forcible pressure, and by severe throbbing in the
arteries of the neck, [23]. ►
Cramplike pain in the cervical vertebræ, accompanied by dull stitches from without inwards
(after two hours), [9]. ►
Cramplike tensive pain in the muscles of the neck, when sneezing or yawning, [1]. [590.] ►
Rough drawing in the muscles of the left side of the neck, with bruised pain, [6]. ► Pressure in the muscles of
the neck, as if the cravat were tied too tight, [6]. ► Pressure and tension on the spinal processes of the last
cervical and first dorsal vertebræ, [24]. ► When bending the head over, he feels a pressure and tension
in the lowest cervical vertebra, [2]. ► Tearing pain in the neck, [12].
[Not found. -Hughes.] ► *Violent pain in the spine, as after
sudden rising up after long stooping
, [27].
► A peculiar painful sensation extending down the back, as
comes sometimes from continued stooping in hard work, on rising from bed in the morning
,
[26]. ► The spine
is painful, as if it were not able to carry the body, [10].
► (Sensation as if the spinal marrow were being injected,
with a feeling of concussion), [12]. [See note to S.
372. The sense of concussion was felt in the body generally. -Hughes.] ►
Arthritic pain in the back and limbs, [1]. [600.] ►
Burning pain in the back, when walking in the open air, [1].
► Pain as from bruises in the back, [1]. ► Stitch, at every
inspiration, in the right side of the back, extending from the last ribs to the axilla
(after forty-eight hours), [9]. ►
Crawling in the vertebral column, [6]. ► Pain between the scapulæ, with violent stomachache, [27]. ► Pressive pain
between the scapulæ (after two days), [6]. ► Pressive rather superficial pain between the shoulders; after
a subsequent dose, this pain returned more below the right scapula, [26]. ► Pressive pain between the
scapulæ, which seemed to extend from the posterior wall of the stomach
, [26]. ► Cutting thrusts
between the scapulæ, extending into the thoracic cavity, when walking (after six hours), [9]. ► Pinching pain
between the lower angle of the right shoulder-blade and the spinal column, in the muscles of
the back, increased on stretching these parts; (had been previously noticed several times in
former years), [23]. [610.]
► Pain in the right scapula, towards the back, as after a
violent blow or fall
, [6]. ► Slight pinching on the lower angle of the left scapula, [24]. ► Pricking itching
on the scapula (after two hours), [9]. ► Sensation in the back, almost under the shoulders, as if
something like a lump were lodged there, which causes dull stitches during motion, not when
at rest, [4]. ►
Painful pressure in the middle of the spine (when sitting), [6].
► (Crawling in the dorsal spine, afterwards in the false
ribs as far as the stomach), [12]. [See note to S.
372. -Hughes.] ► Fulness and pressure in the lumbar
region, [25]. ►
Pain in the loins, cutting from without inwards, especially when stooping (after sixty
hours), [9]. ►
Great weight across the lower part of the loins, and a feeling of being drawn in, as if a
cord was drawn tightly across, [35]. ► Sharp stitches in both loins (after three hours), [9]. [620.] ► Pain in the small of the back, as if something had been torn
inside, [4]. ► The
small of the back is painful as if it had been beaten
, [6]. ► Pain in the small of the
back; stitches in it when coughing, breathing deeply, or walking, [1]. ► Pain in the sacrum, as
after a violent blow or fall, [6].
   

EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL.

►
Twitchings in all the limbs, especially in the feet and shoulders, with heat of the feet, [1]. ► Tremor of the
limbs, [14]. ►
Relaxation in the limbs, as if they had been strained too much, [2]. ► Heaviness of the limbs, [1]. ► Excessive
heaviness of the limbs, [10]. ►
Heaviness in all the limbs, as after great fatigue, [6].
[630.] ► *Heaviness in
all the limbs
; paralytic pain in all the joints, during
motion, as if the joints were bruised
(after eight hours), [1]. ► When walking in the open
air, sensation of heaviness and pressure in the muscles under the articulations of the upper
and lower extremities (after eight hours), [2]. ► (Tearing pain in the limbs), [12].
[In paralysed limbs, to which Arnica was restoring
power. -Hughes.] ► Deeply penetrating dull stitches in
the limbs, here and there, [3]. ► *Pain in the limbs as from a bruise, [35]. ► *Pain in all the limbs, as if
they had been bruised, both when at rest and in motion
(after ten hours), [8]. ► Painful concussion in
all the limbs; felt when the carriage shakes, as when one treads too firmly upon the foot in
walking
, [1]. ►
Weakness in the feet and arms, when walking in the open air (after two and a half hours), [7]. ► The limbs of the
side on which he is resting have gone to sleep, [4]. ► Drawing pains, short lasting, in circumscribed spots on the
hands and right foot, [24]. [640.]
► (Sense as of crawling in the hands and feet, and
sticking pains in diverse joints), [12].
   

UPPER EXTREMITIES.

► *Pain as
from bruises on the anterior surface of the arms
, [1].
► *The arms feel weary, as if he had been bruised by blows,
so that he was unable to bend his fingers inwards, [6].
► Violent twitching pain, extending from the left
shoulder-joint to the middle finger
, [24]. ► (Crawling in the arms), [12].
[See note to S. 632. -Hughes.] ► Drawing pressive pain in
the left shoulder when standing erect, [2]. ► Smarting, sore sensation below the shoulder, [2]. ► Broad, sharp stitches below
the axilla, from without inwards, [9]. ► (Painful concussion or shock in the arm, almost
electric-like), [12]. [See note to S. 632. -Hughes.] ► Twitchings in the muscles of the upper arm (immediately), [9]. [650.] ► Intermittent, painfully pressive tearing, extending from the
lower part of the left upper arm, as far as the elbow, apparently in the bone, [3]. ► Dull stitches in
the middle of the upper arm, which cause him to start, [3].
► Painful stitches, like shocks, in the upper part of the
upper arm, [3]. ►
Twitches in the left upper arm, as if a nerve were twinged, [3].
► When bending the arm, the flexor muscles of the forearm
are tense; extending these muscles again is painful (after two hours), [2]. ► Tearing pain in the arms
and hands, [1]. ►
Burning stitches in the forearm, [3]. ► Slow, dull stitches in the left forearm, with acute pains, as
if the arm were broken (early, when in bed), [3]. ► Sharp, broad stitches below the elbow-joints (after two
hours), [9]. ►
Crawling in the forearms, [6]. [660.] ► Left wrist powerless
for one half hour, with a feeling, generally, that he could not use the arms, [25]. ► Tearing pain in the left
wrist-joint, especially when writing; the pain is felt in the dorsum of the hand; it
decreases when letting the hands hang down, [7]. ► Slight cracking and sensation of dislocation in right wrist,
when moving the hand, [24]. ►
Sticking tearing in the wrists, especially in the left (after three hours), [7]. ► *Pain as from a sprain in the
wrist
(chest, back, hips), [1]. ► *Pain as from a sprain in the wrist-joint, [3]. ► Pain as from a sprain in the
left wrist-joint
(after two days), [7]. ► Sharp stitches in the wrist-joint, increased by motion (after
two hours), [9]. ►
Distended veins of the hands, with a full, strong pulse, [6].
► Weakness of the hands, especially when seizing
something (after two hours), [7]. [670.] ► Violent drawing pain on
the ulnar side of the dorsum of the right hand
, [24].
► Sharp drawing in the outer half of the back of the right
hand
, [24]. ►
Painful pressure on the dorsum of the hand, [6]. ► Tearing, twitching pain, during rest, on the ulnar side
of the dorsum of the left hand, [24]. ► (Creeping and crawling in the hands), [12]. [See note to S. 632. -Hughes.] ►
Cramp in the fingers of the left hand
, [6].
► Drawing cramplike pain in the long bones of the fingers
and the forearm; it extends backwards and upwards, [1].
► Drawing in the right thumb,
[24]. ► Drawing pain in
the skin of the dorsum of the left little finger
, [24].
► In the evening, drawing and tearing in the right third
finger, especially at the ungual phalanx; also, at times, in the little finger, and along
the ulnar edge of the forearm, [24]. [680.] ► Pressive pain in the
joints of the right ring and little fingers
, [24].
► Pressive pain in the first phalanges of the last three
left fingers, [24]. ►
Spontaneous pressive pain in the ungual phalanx of right ring finger
, [24]. ► Violent
pressing-tearing pain in the ulnar side of the ungual phalanx of right ring finger
,
[24]. ► Tearing in the
tips of the last two left fingers
, [24]. ► Sticking-twitching pain in the fingers, [1]. ► Stitches in both middle
fingers (and in the knee), [1]. ►
Fine stitches in the anterior joint of the middle finger (after a quarter of an hour), [9]. ► Sharp stitches in
the bend of the middle joint of the index finger (after two hours), [9]. ► Burning stitches on the end
of the left third finger, [24]. [690.] ► Itching stitches in
the tip of the middle finger (after two hours), [9]. ► *Pain in the balls of both thumbs, as if they had been knocked
against something hard
, [6]. ► Sharp pain on pressure, as from crushing, in the ungual
phalanx of right ring-finger, [24]. ► Fine pricking itching of the lower joints of the fingers; it
goes off by scratching (after thirty-six hours), [9].

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