Choose from: aconite, arnica, bryonia, carbo-veg,
hypericum, ledum, natrum-sulph, rhus-tox, ruta
- pain < slightest movement, > lying still
- depressed and suicidal after head injury
- red face pales on rising, anxious, wants to be covered
- fear of death after exposure, predicts time of death
- muscle strain that feels achey and bruised, < touch
- shock >cold air, > being fanned
- puncture wound of wrist with shooting pains
- puncture wound to leg feels cold, numb & swollen
- head feels touched by icy hand, < cold,< touch
- hurt part feels cold, but desires cold application
- stiffness < on rising & > movement
- stiffness & pain > moving, injured knee gives out on rising
- bed is too hard, < lying on injured part
- > firm pressure, > lying on injured part
- sad hearing music, diabetes after grief, < tight pants
- indigestion with difficult respiration, > belching
- thick green mucous, brown bitter tongue coat
- toothaches, amputations, post surgery incisions
- tendonitis, bursitis, overuse injuries, craves warm drinks
- shock < cold, but thirsty for cold drinks
- must hold chest on coughing, melancholic, but cheerful after stool
- after a car accident they walk away saying they’re fine
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Answers:
- bry
- nat-s
- acon
- acon
- arn
- carbo-veg
- hyper
- led
- hyper
- led
- rhus-t
- ruta
- arn
- bry
- nat-s
- carbo-v
- nat-s
- hyper
- ruta
- acon
- nat-s
- arn
- rhus-t
- led
- bry
- carbo-v
- ruta
- rhus-t
Keynotes: aconite, arnica, bryonia, carbo-veg, hypericum, ledum, natrum-sulph, rhus-tox, ruta
Aconitum:
q Sudden
onset of sx’s
q Tremendous
amount of fear; if there is no fear
it is not an acontite case
q Heat
on one side and not the other (like Chamomile which is not fearful)
q Mucous
membranes dry
q Very
thirsty
q Sensitive
to touch
q Aggravated
by cold air
q Griping
colicky type pains
q Can
look like Belladona but Belladona is thirstless
q Not
particularly sided
q Better
open air
q Aconite
is the Arnica of the eye-so indicated in blunt trauma to the eye
q Affects
all systems
Arnica Montana (don’t
leave home without it)
q Unlike
Aconite, Arnica has no fear
q Arnica
separates the mind from the physical body
q Arnica
in accident says I’m fine let me help you help the others
q Indicated
for bruising and bleeding (particularly SubQ)
q Extremely
useful in removing the constitutional layer of the person who has had trauma
and has never been well sense, but they are not particularly fearful when
telling you about the trauma
q Blunt
trauma
q Can
have lingering nose bleeds; SRP= nosebleed after washing the face
q When
they are hurting they are very sensitive like the Princess and the Pea;
everything is too hard even their pillow
q Any
kind of trauma where the emotional pain agrees
q Can
be used to clear trauma in any organ e.g. story of the man who didn’t poop
after the accident with the horse and the bumper dx with UC
Bryonia
q Irritable
bear
q Key
thing is that it is always worse motion e.g. HA’s worse with movement of
eyeballs
q Want
to be left alone
q Fear
poverty and financial ruin
q Preoccupied
with business
q Worry
about the future
q Dry
on all mucous membranes
q Very
thirsty/want to drink large quantities of fluid
q Unbelievable
amounts of constipation, stool is hard and dry
q Lots
of joint pains better pressure and stillness
q Can
be used after injury with guarding of part esp if they want to be still
q Meningitis
q Pleurisy,
spontaneous pneumothorax
q Think
of Bryonia when person is like a statue
q General
aggravation 9 pm
q Generally
ameliorated by pressure (so will lie on painful side)
Carbo veg
q Reputation
of bringing people back from the dead
q Really
depleted
q Great
indifference and apathy without wanting exercise (vs Sepia)
q Greater
irritability directed mainly at family
q Chilly
q Depressed
q When
they pass out or don’t feel good they want to be fanned
q May
be cold but are averse to being covered up
q Like
fresh air
q Don’t
want to lie flat they want to sit up
q Faint
q Tremendous
gas and bloating cause they are slow
q Freq
burping which ameliorates feeling of fullness
q SOB
– want to sit up when happens
q Tremendous
weakness and paleness
q SOB
if overeat that is better with burping
Hypericum
q Has
affinity for nervous sys on all levels physical and emotional
q Acutely
use for crushing injury to nerve e.g. finger closed in the car door
q Any
injury to a nerve
q Spinal
cord injuries
q Fall
on butt and hurt coccyx
q Shooting
pains
q Bludgeoning,
lacerations or whatever to nerve tissue
Ledum
q Affinity
for tissue that has been violated by usually puncture wounds
q Anything
that punctures the skin can cause Ledum like sx’s
q Very
chilly
q Local
amerlioration of puncture sx’s by cold applications
q Can
be hard and have white center
q Can
have a lot of joint sx’s-generally tend to start lower and move up
q Can
be stiffness and pn and heat in the joint
q Rheumatic
swellings but not puffy
q Can
be remedy for gout if the sx’s are right
q Jt
pains better cold applications
Naturicum sulphuricum
q States
happen b/c of head injury
q Can
be product of fun youth e.g. sex, drugs, rock and roll
q Old
hippies may need it
q Can
be closed and serious
q For
the most part Nat’s are most outgoing
q Can
get depressed to the point of suicide…want to shot themselves
q Confusion
of mind, mental lane can be dull
q Generally
warm blooded as well
q Aggravated
by cold damp weather, have asthma with cold damp weather
q Diarrhea
in the morning after rising
q Can
have warts – irritating cavitating kind of warts
q SRP
= cheerful after stool
Rhus Tox
q Creaky
gate
q Affinity
for skin and musculoskeletal sys particularly the joints
q Can
be outwardly cheerful and then crump fast and go into suicidal depression
q Everything
better motion with these guys; get up and walk around, get on treadmill, need
to move
q Ameliorated
with movement
q In
morning stiff and sore
q Heat
and motion both improve sx’s
q Can
have sore throats better with warm drinks
q Allergic
rhinitis worse in the morning and winter
q Etiology
of everything starts with cold air (like Aconite with cold wind)
q Can
come on gradually
q Painful
URI after exposure to cold of any kind
q Do
not like cold applications
q Better
hot applications/warm drinks
q Swollen
glands
q Itchy
red rashes better with hot showers, worse with cold e.g. jock itch
q Itching
better scalding water
q Restless
q Can
have sciatica
q Stiffness
aggravated by cold, better warmth, sx’s brought on by cold air
Ruta graveolins
q Affinity
for musculoskeletal sys particularly connective tissue
q Lots
of anxiety and fears comes on esp with fever, or getting overheated
q General
stiffness in the body
q Aggravated
by cold damp weather (like rhus tox)
q Consider
with tendonitis or irritation to periosteum
q Also
affinity for eye and useful for eye strain
q Back
pain better lying down
q Really
worse motion
q Chronic
overuse causes sx’s so good for carpal tunnel syndrome
q Legs
get very weak
q Consider
for stroke pts with weakness
