ARNICA.
Arnica montana, L. Nat. order,
Compositæ. Common name (German), Whohlverleih. Preparation, Tincture from the whole plant when in flower
(Hahnemann).
Authorities.
1, Hahnemann,
R. A. M. L., 1, 473; 2, Franz, ibid.; 3, Gross, ibid.; 4, Stapf,
ibid. (from Archiv. 5, 3); 5, Fr. Hah-n; 6, Hornburg; 7, Kummer; 8, Langhammer; 9, Wislicenus;
10, Bæhr; 11,
Aaskow, ibid. [“not found,” -Hughes.]; 12,
Collin, ibid. (Obs. Circa Morbos, IV and V, Effects of Arnica when given for Paralysis,
Amaurosis, Spasms, Fever, and Dysentery); 13, Crichton,
ibid. (Samml. br. Abh. f. pr. Aezte, XIII, 3, A Brief Statement of the Observed Effects and
Virtues of Arnica); 14, De la Marche, ibid. (Effects in
cases of injury treated by Arnica); 15, De Meza, ibid.
(a case of paraplegia, induced by suppressed menstruation from fatigue and fright, in a
young girl, cured [after lasting three years] by Arnica, which brought on menses
immediately, motion returning in two days); 16, Murray,
ibid. (A Summary of the Observed Effects of Arnica); 17,
Pelargus, ibid. (a child to which Arnica was given for a fall from a height); 18, Stoll, ibid. (General statement of the effects of Arnica); 19, Fehr, ibid. (Effects of Arnica in cases of Injury); 20, Thomas A. Thuessink, ibid.; 21,
Vicat, ibid. (general statement); 22, Veckaskrift,
ibid.; 23, Avon Szontagh, N. Z. f. H. Kl., 7, 10,
proving with 15th and 3d dils.; 24, Ibid., proving with
the tincture, 1 to 100 drops; 25, Proving of extract of
Arnica by Vienna Soc. of (Allop.) Physicians, B. J. of Hom., 6, 267; 26, Jörg, provings of self and class with infusion of the
flowers (Jörg, Materialen, 1); 27, Jörg and class,
provings of the root (ibid.); 28, Robinson’s proving
with 1/1000th (B. J. of Hom., 25, 320); 29, Shumann’s
case of poisoning, from Schmidt’s Jahrbucher (Am. H. Obs., 8), (two cupfuls of the tea taken
for delayed menstruation); 30, Lancet, 1864 (effects of
one ounce of the tincture); 31, (Omitted); 32, Hom. Times, 1853 (external application); 33, Hoppe Prag Monatsschrift, 12, 24 (external application); 34, Schleissteher Präg Monatschrift, 12, 65 (external
application); 35, Chapman’s case, B. J. of Hom., 7, 391
(external application); 36, Black, B. J. of H., 2, 275
(external application); 37, Œst. Med. Woch. (B. J. of
H., 3, 254), (external application); 38, Dr. Hedenberg
(N. E. Med. Gaz., 3, 235), (external application); 39,
Dr. Clarke (N. E. Med. Gaz., 3, 260), (external application).
MIND.
► Excessive sensitiveness
of the mind; extreme disposition to agreeable as well as disagreeable emotions,
without weakness or excessive sensitiveness of the body; (on one occasion this excessive
sensitiveness of the mind was observed before that of the body; I have also seen these two
kinds of sensitiveness occurring in alternation or simultaneously), [1]. ► Uncommon liveliness [24]. ► Bright, talkative
(this was a curative reaction in a person of an opposite mood), [8]. ► Calm, bright mood (curative
reaction), [6]. ►
*Indifference to everything, [1]. ► Weeping, [1]. ► After supper she weeps, is peevish, listens to nobody, and
does not wish to be told anything, [1]. ► Depression of spirits and absence of mind (after three hours
and a half hours), [7]. ►
Hopelessness, [1]. [10.]
► Anxiety, [6], [12], [14], [15]. ► *Hypochondriac
anxiety, [1], [35]. ► Violent attacks of
anxiety, [2]. ►
Anxiety about the present and the future (third day), [8].
► Frightfulness, [1].
► Unexpected trifles frighten and cause him to start
(after an hour and a half), [7]. ►
Apprehension of future evils, [1]. ► Horror of instant death, [35].
► Uncommonly peevish; everything is disagreeable to her, [4]. ► Hypochondriac
peevishness; he is not disposed to do anything, [1]. [20.] ► She is extremely
peevish; all her former cheerfulness and amiable manners have gone (after one hour), [4]. ► Peevishness; he
would like to quarrel with everybody, [1]. ► Quarrelsomeness and peevishness, [1]. ► He is contradictory;
nothing can be done to suit him (after three and twelve hours), [1]. ► She is extremely morose and
irritable; *she does not speak a word, [1]. ► Moroseness; one first
desires all sorts of things, and afterwards repels them, [1].
► Sullen mood, as after a quarrel, [8]. ► Sullen insolence and
imperiousness (after some hours), [1]. ► Obstinate and headstrong resistance to other people’s
opinions (after four hours), [1]. ► Irritable, sensitive mood, [10].
[30.] ► Excessive
irritation of the temples; she easily laughed when there was no occasion for it; when
something disagreeable was told her she got angry, and broke forth in loud howling, [1]. ► (Excessive
inclination to perform many and long literary labors, without possessing the strength which
is required to terminate them without injuring health), [1].
► He is easily absorbed by reveries while awake, [7]. ► He sits absorbed
in a revery, although he thinks, properly speaking, of nothing, [7]. ► Absence of mind; he cannot
direct his thoughts long to one object, [9]. ► Absence of mind; his thoughts imperceptibly wander from their
object, and dwell upon images and fanciful visions, [4].
► After walking in the open air, he is ill-disposed to
think or talk, notwithstanding he was very cheerful before (after nine hours), [2]. ► Aversion to every
earnest labor, [27]. ►
He loathes every sort of work, [1]. ► Uneasiness of body and mind (without there being any
anxiety); one feels as if one were prevented from doing something which is extremely
necessary, accompanied by a total want of disposition for any kind of work, [1]. [40.] ► Inability to perform continued active work, [26]. ► *Want of memory; he
forgets the word he is about speaking, [3].
HEAD.
► Confusion of the
head, [1], [27].
► Confusion in the head, [24].
► Head confused, [26],
[34]. ► *Confusion of
the head, with decided pressure in the right half of the head, especially over the right
brow, [26]. ►
Confusion of head, changing to pressive right-sided headache, [24].
► Confusion of head, with frequent inclination to sleep, [27]. ► Confusion and
fulness in the head, [25]. ►
Confusion of the head, vertigo, and anguish are aggravated by artificial vomiting, [1]. [50.] ► Stupefying headache early in the morning, [1]. ► Dulness and pain in the
head, [35]. ►
Obscuration of the head and confusion of one-half of the skull, with contraction of the
pupils, [5]. ►
Heaviness of the head, [26]. ►
Her head feels so heavy that she lets it constantly hang on one side, [10]. ► The head feels heavy, and
is so movable on account of weakness of the muscles of the neck, that it easily inclines to
all sides (after four hours), [7]. ► Heaviness and confusion of the head, [26]. ► Vertigo, [1], [27]. ► Short-lasting vertigo. ►
Sudden vertigo at dinner, as if he would fall forward, [3].
[60.] ► He feels
vertigo and nausea when reading too long, [6]. ► Vertigo when walking, [4].
► *Vertigo; it is almost imperceptible when sitting and
bending the head over, but when righting or moving the head she feels as if everything
turned with her, [4]. ►
Vertigo in the forehead, especially when walking; everything turns with her, and threatens
to fall over with her, [4]. ►
Headache, [15]. [See S. 537 and note. -Hughes.] ► Intense headache, with feeling of great weight and heaviness
in the eyes, and oppression and drooping of the lids, as if they could not be raised, [35]. ► Violent headache, on
waking in the morning, which reached such a point at 8 A.M. that, while walking in the open
air, he almost fell from dizziness; disappeared at 10 A.M., [26]. ► Headache, twitching,
tearing; increased by stooping and coughing, [1]. ► (Headache, which is tolerable only when lying, but
intolerable when raising one’s self and sitting in the bed), [1].
► Partial headache, [25].
[70.] ► Burning in
the head, with pressive pain, as if the head were being distended from within outwards, [1]. ► *Burning in the brain,
the remainder of the body being cool, or at least not hot, [1]. ► Great internal and external
heat of the head, [10]. ►
Internal heat, especially in the head, with heaviness of the head, without any thirst, [1]. ► Flushes of heat
over the head, with sweat gathering in the face, [4]. ► Rush of blood to the brain, and headache in the forehead, [26]. ► Emptiness in the
head, without any particular headache (after two hours), [7].
► Slight pressure, [25].
► Pressure and confusion of the head, [26]. ► Pressive headache
from 3 to 8 P.M., now more in the forehead, now more in the occiput, [26]. [80.] ►
Headache, pressive, which is also followed by a throbbing, pressive headache in the temples,
[1]. ► *Pressive
headache, as if the head were being distended from within outwards; the pain
seems to arise from something soft in the vertex, with drawing in the occiput, and tearing
towards the temples, [2]. ►
*Pain as if a knife were drawn through the head transversely from the left side; this is
immediately followed by internal coldness of the head, which causes the hair to
stand on end, [4]. ►
Violent stitches in the head when coughing (after ten hours), [1].
► Headache; stitches extending upwards; they come on
again when coughing or moving the head, and can only be relieved by resting the head upon
the painful side, [1]. ►
Frontal headache, [26]. ►
Heaviness in the forehead (after one hour), [4]. ► Dull pain in the head in the region of the forehead, [26]. ► Pressive pain in
the forehead, [1]. ►
Pressive frontal headache, [27]. [90.] ► Pressive headache,
frontal, with confusion of the head so severe that she feared she would fall over while
sitting, and had to lie down, [26]. ► Pressive headache in right forehead, and temple, and right
eye, [24]. ►
Pressure in the right half of the frontal bone; afterwards sneezing; the pressure then moved
into the left, afterwards into the right ear (after two days), [6]. ► Pressive pain in left half
of forehead, in the evening, [24]. ► First pressive pain in the forehead, afterwards stitching and
twitching-stitching pain in the forehead, accompanied by chilliness (after eight hours), [1]. ► Pressive pain in the
forehead, especially when walking, or ascending the stairs, reflecting, or
reading, [6]. ►
*Pressive pain in the forehead, which increases near the warm stove, as if the brain were
rolled up in a lump, [2]. ► Headache, pressive, over the eyes, extending towards the temples,
with a sensation as if the integuments of the forehead were spasmodically contracted
(after one hour), [9]. ►
Stupefying, dull, pressive pain in the forehead, more externally (after five hours and a
half), [8]. ►
Violent sticking pains in the forehead and occiput, on waking in the morning; lasts all day,
[26]. [100.]
► Fine pricking pain in the forehead, which becomes worse
by raising the eyes, with heat in the face and thirst, [1].
► Stitches in the forehead, [1]. ► Stitching pain in the
forehead, [6]. ►
Violent stitches in the forehead when coughing (after seven hours), [8]. ► Rapid stitches in the left
frontal eminence, accompanied by a feeling as if beaten bloody,
[3]. ► Jerking
stitches in the forehead, [4]. ►
Twitching headache in the forepart of the head (after one hour), [9]. ► Jerking, lancinating
headache when stooping, as if everything would come out of the forehead, accompanied by
nausea, qualmishness about the heart, [4]. ► Crawling in the forehead, [1].
► *Feeling of cold at a small place on the forehead, as if
some one touched him with a cold thumb, [1].
[110.] ► Headache,
pressive, in the temples (after half an hour), [7]. ► Repeated tearings in the left temple, [6]. ► Tearing in the left temple;
when walking in the open air the pressive headache distending the head from within outwards
returns (after ten hours), [2]. ► *Sticking pains in temples and forehead, [26]. ► *Headache as if a nail had
been thrust into the temple, accompanied by general sweat about midnight; this is
followed by faintness, [1]. [The headache appeared
some hours after taking the root, the painfulness followed the sweat.] ►
Stitches in the temporal region following each other in quick succession, extending towards
the forehead (after four hours), [7]. ► Dull stitches from without inward in the temples (after one
hour), [9]. ►
Jerking stitches in the left temple, [4]. ► Headache in the left temple, returning from time to time; fine
pricking and tearing (after four hours), [1].
► Transitory burning on the top of the head and neck
externally, [5]. [120.]
► Headache, pressive, externally on the top of the head, [9]. ► Brain felt sore
and tender in the upper part of the head, [35]. ► Crawling on the top of the head externally, [1]. ► Slight headache on the
right side, [24]. ►
Headache on the left side. ► Rheumatic headache, with
vertigo (commonly one-sided), [26]. ► Pressive headache in the parietal region and in the orbits, [27]. ► Pressive, painful
drawing in the left half of the skull, beginning at the ear and coming out at the top of the
head (after three hours), [6]. ►
Headache, dull, pressive, under the parietal bone and in the region of the lachrymal fossa, [26]. ► Pain in the
occiput at some places, as if the hair were pulled out, or as severe electric shocks, [4]. [130.] ► The scalp, as far as the eyebrows, is firmly attached to the
skull, and almost immovable (after an hour and a half), [9].
► Stinging itching of the scalp, which cannot be relieved
by scratching, [9].
EYES.
► Staring eyes,
denoting anguish, [1]. ►
Slight protrusion of the right eye; it looks more elevated and larger than the left, [10]. ► Eyes sunken,
glassy, with dilated insensible pupils, [30]. ► Considerable swelling under the left eye, [38]. ► Left eye seems more
elastic and is sensitive to pressure, [24]. ► (Burning in the eyes), [12].
[In amaurotic eyes recovering sight under the influence of the medicine (Com. note to S.
644). -Hughes.] ► Burning in the eyes, without any
dryness, [10]. ►
Pressive pain in left eye, [24]. [140.] ► (Stitches in the
eyes), [12]. [See note to S. 137. -Hughes.] ► Itching of the eyes, [25].
► Crawling over the orbits, [1]. ► Cramplike tearing of the
eyebrow, [3]. ►
Painful, dull, intermittent pressure on the margin of the left orbit, [3]. ► Occasional flow of tears,
which burn like fire, [10]. ►
*The margin of the upper eyelids, along its line of contact with the eyeball, internally, is
painful when the lids are moved, as if they were too dry and a little sore, [1]. ► Sharp, fine
stitches in the internal canthus, [4]. ► Itching of the canthi (after twenty-seven hours), [8]. ► Spasmodic,
pressive twitchings under the left eye, on the nasal bone; they extend even over the ball of
the eye, [3]. [150.]
► Pressive pinching pain, confined to inner half of right
eyeball, [24]. ►
Pressive pinching pain in the inner half of the right eyeball, gradually ceasing
on motion in the open air, [24]. ►
Pressive pain in inner half of right eyeball, and corresponding part of forehead, [24]. ► Drawing pain in
the right eyeball (after twenty-seven hours), [7]. ► *Dilatation of the pupils (after twenty-six hours), [8]. ► *Contraction of
the pupils (after twenty-four hours), [8]. ► Contraction of the pupils, with obscuration of the head, [4]. ► Vision of sparks, [25].
EARS.
► Heat and burning in
the lobule, [4]. ►
Feeling of heat externally, of the left ear, and in the cheek, [6]. [160.] ►
Feeling as of one ear being hot, which, however, is not the case (after one hour), [1]. ► Pressure in the
ear, [1]. ►
Intermittent pressure in both ears, in the region of the tympanum (after ten hours), [7]. ► First, stitches,
afterwards a tearing pain in the ears (after one hour), [1].
► Dull stitches, extending inwardly, through the internal
ear (after one hour), [9]. ►
Dull, long stitches behind the ear, [1]. ► Stitch darting through the right ear, then through the left,
lastly through the eyes, with a feeling in the eyes as if they were forcibly turned upwards,
[4]. ► Pain,
internally, in the cartilage of the left ear, as if the parts had been bruised or contused,
[6]. ► The hearing
is much more acute (after ten hours), [1]. ► Sensibly diminished hearing (after thirty hours), [1]. [170.] ► Very frequent roaring in ears, even in repose, [24]. ► Ringing in the left ear
(after three hours), [7]. ►
Slight singing in right ear, [24]. ► Humming of the ears, [1].
► Humming in the ears (after seven hours), [8].
NOSE.
► Swelling of the
nose, [1]. ► Nose
swollen, [36]. ►
Nose swollen, erysipelatous, and vesicated, [38]. ► Frequent sneezing (after forty-eight hours), [8]. ► Sneezing (after two and a
half hours), [7]. [180.]
► Sneezing, [1]. ► Sneezing twice in succession, followed by a pain in the left
side of the forehead, as after a violent blow, [6]. ► Coryza in the evening, when going to sleep; catarrh on the
chest, on waking in the morning, [1]. ► Some coryza, [35]. ► Violent coryza, [1]. ► *Frequent blowing of nose, with traces of blood, [35]. ► *Discharge of
several drops of clear blood from the nose on first blowing it in the morning, [23]. ► Frequent nose-bleed,
[25]. ► Frequent
bleeding at the nose, [10]. ►
Slight epistaxis, [25]. [190.]
► Severe epistaxis at night prevented sleep, [26]. ► (Constant burning
about the borders of the nostrils, with desire to sneeze), [1].
► Feeling of heat in the nose; however, it is cold to the
touch, [6]. ►
Cramplike pain at the root of the nose (after two hours), [9].
► Dull pressure on the nasal bone, benumbing, [3]. ► Sticking-tearing
pain in the nose, [1]. ►
The nose pains him from above downwards as if he had had a violent fall upon it, [6]. ► Sense as if the
nostrils were ulcerated; the nose is sore within, [1].
► Itching crawling on the side of the nose, going off by
rubbing (after one hour), [9]. ►
Feeling as if an insect were crawling near the nose; this cannot be removed by rubbing, [3].® 2000
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