What is Arnica Montana?
Common Names: Leopard's-bane, Fallkraut
Family: N. O. Compositae
Homeopathic Form: Tincture of whole fresh plant and root
Arnica grows on mountains and has a natural affinity for the effects of falls. As its German name Fallkraut means, its value as a vulnerary [wound healer] has been known since ancient times.
It is called the traumatic par excellence – Trauma in all its varieties and effects, recent and remote, is met by Arnica as by no other single remedy.
Clinical Conditions Where Arnica is Used
Abscess, Apoplexy, Back pain, Baldness, Bed-sores, Black-eye, Boils, Brain affections, Breath fetid, Bronchitis, Bruises, Carbuncle, Chest affections, Chorea, Corns, Cramp, Diabetes, Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Ecchymosis, Exhaustion, Eye affections, Sore feet, Haematemesis, Haematuria, Headache, Heart affections, Lumbago, Meningitis, Miscarriage, Sore nipples, Paralysis, Rheumatism, Sprain, Stings, Suppuration, Traumatic fever, Tumours, Whooping cough, Wounds, Yawning.
Tumours in many parts following injury, including scirrhous tumours of breast, and nervous affections like chorea after falls have been cured by Arnica.
Key Characteristics – The Leaders of Arnica
1. For All Effects of Injury:
Bruises, falls, blows, sprains. Effects of violent cough or sneezing. Child cries before cough comes in whooping cough. Chronic bronchitis with bruised, weak aching in chest.
2. The Bed Feels Hard:
A keynote. Patient complains that the bed is hard, no matter how soft it is. He keeps changing position to get relief.
3. Fear of Being Touched:
"Fears being touched or struck by those coming near him." Very sensitive to mechanical injuries and feels the effects long after.
4. Haemorrhages and Blood Extravasation:
Arnica causes and cures haemorrhages of many kinds – dilatation and rupture of small vessels. Blood streaks in vomit, cough, stool. Bloodshot eyes after cough. Coldness of the nose with facial neuralgia was cured with Arnica radix.
5. Putridity and Stupor:
Putrid breath, fetid sweat like Baptisia. In typhoid-like states: "Says there is nothing the matter with him" – resents being thought ill. Stupor with involuntary stool and urine. While answering, he falls into a deep stupor before finishing. Head or face alone hot, rest of body cool.
6. Sore, Bruised Feeling All Over:
As if beaten. Bruised, sore feeling in uterine region – cannot walk erect. Many small boils, painful, one after another, extremely sore.
Mind Symptoms
Hypochondriacal anxiety with fear of dying. Great agitation with groans. Over-excitement and excessive moral sensibility. Quarrelsome, combative. Opinionated. Unconsciousness like fainting after mechanical injuries. Delirium.
Important Physical SymptomsHead: Whirling giddiness on getting up after sleeping. Pressive pain in forehead as if brain contracted into hard mass. Effects of concussion. Pain over one eye with greenish vomiting after back strain.
Eyes: Pain as of excoriation, red inflamed with suggillation after injury. Burning tears. Eyelids swollen with ecchymosis.
Nose: Cold nose is a guiding symptom. Nose swollen, epistaxis.
Chest: Rattling in chest, oppression, stitching pains worse from motion, better from external pressure. Expectoration of black coagulated blood after exertion.
Back: Pains as from a bruise and dislocation in back and loins. Great soreness.
Modalities
Worse [<]:
Evening and night, from motion, exertion, lying on left side, lying with head low, damp cold weather, from wine, from touch, from being approached.
Better [>]:
From lying with head high, from external pressure.
External Use Warning: Arnica should not be used externally where there is broken skin. For torn and lacerated wounds, Calendula must be used locally.
Causation
Mechanical injuries, fright or anger, excessive venery, sea-sickness or train-sickness.
Relations
Complementary to: Aconite
Similar to: Calendula, Hypericum, Ruta, Rhus tox, Bellis, Hamamelis, Baptisia
Antidoted by: Camphor, Ipecac, Coffea
Follows well: Aconite, Ipecac, Veratrum
Followed well by: Arsenicum, Bryonia, Rhus tox
Important: Do not use Arnica in dog bites or rabid animal bites. Wine increases its unpleasant effects.
Conclusion
Arnica Montana is the first remedy to think of after any trauma – whether it is a fall, a bruise, a surgical operation, or over-exertion. It acts best on sanguine, plethoric persons with red faces prone to cerebral congestion, as noted by Teste.
Disclaimer: This information is for educational purposes only. Please consult a qualified homeopathic physician for potency and dosage. Do not self-medicate for serious injuries or haemorrhages.
Common Names: Leopard's-bane, Fallkraut
Family: N. O. Compositae
Homeopathic Form: Tincture of whole fresh plant and root
Arnica grows on mountains and has a natural affinity for the effects of falls. As its German name Fallkraut means, its value as a vulnerary [wound healer] has been known since ancient times.
It is called the traumatic par excellence – Trauma in all its varieties and effects, recent and remote, is met by Arnica as by no other single remedy.
Clinical Conditions Where Arnica is Used
Abscess, Apoplexy, Back pain, Baldness, Bed-sores, Black-eye, Boils, Brain affections, Breath fetid, Bronchitis, Bruises, Carbuncle, Chest affections, Chorea, Corns, Cramp, Diabetes, Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Ecchymosis, Exhaustion, Eye affections, Sore feet, Haematemesis, Haematuria, Headache, Heart affections, Lumbago, Meningitis, Miscarriage, Sore nipples, Paralysis, Rheumatism, Sprain, Stings, Suppuration, Traumatic fever, Tumours, Whooping cough, Wounds, Yawning.
Tumours in many parts following injury, including scirrhous tumours of breast, and nervous affections like chorea after falls have been cured by Arnica.
Key Characteristics – The Leaders of Arnica
1. For All Effects of Injury:
Bruises, falls, blows, sprains. Effects of violent cough or sneezing. Child cries before cough comes in whooping cough. Chronic bronchitis with bruised, weak aching in chest.
2. The Bed Feels Hard:
A keynote. Patient complains that the bed is hard, no matter how soft it is. He keeps changing position to get relief.
3. Fear of Being Touched:
"Fears being touched or struck by those coming near him." Very sensitive to mechanical injuries and feels the effects long after.
4. Haemorrhages and Blood Extravasation:
Arnica causes and cures haemorrhages of many kinds – dilatation and rupture of small vessels. Blood streaks in vomit, cough, stool. Bloodshot eyes after cough. Coldness of the nose with facial neuralgia was cured with Arnica radix.
5. Putridity and Stupor:
Putrid breath, fetid sweat like Baptisia. In typhoid-like states: "Says there is nothing the matter with him" – resents being thought ill. Stupor with involuntary stool and urine. While answering, he falls into a deep stupor before finishing. Head or face alone hot, rest of body cool.
6. Sore, Bruised Feeling All Over:
As if beaten. Bruised, sore feeling in uterine region – cannot walk erect. Many small boils, painful, one after another, extremely sore.
Mind Symptoms
Hypochondriacal anxiety with fear of dying. Great agitation with groans. Over-excitement and excessive moral sensibility. Quarrelsome, combative. Opinionated. Unconsciousness like fainting after mechanical injuries. Delirium.
Important Physical SymptomsHead: Whirling giddiness on getting up after sleeping. Pressive pain in forehead as if brain contracted into hard mass. Effects of concussion. Pain over one eye with greenish vomiting after back strain.
Eyes: Pain as of excoriation, red inflamed with suggillation after injury. Burning tears. Eyelids swollen with ecchymosis.
Nose: Cold nose is a guiding symptom. Nose swollen, epistaxis.
Chest: Rattling in chest, oppression, stitching pains worse from motion, better from external pressure. Expectoration of black coagulated blood after exertion.
Back: Pains as from a bruise and dislocation in back and loins. Great soreness.
Modalities
Worse [<]:
Evening and night, from motion, exertion, lying on left side, lying with head low, damp cold weather, from wine, from touch, from being approached.
Better [>]:
From lying with head high, from external pressure.
External Use Warning: Arnica should not be used externally where there is broken skin. For torn and lacerated wounds, Calendula must be used locally.
Causation
Mechanical injuries, fright or anger, excessive venery, sea-sickness or train-sickness.
Relations
Complementary to: Aconite
Similar to: Calendula, Hypericum, Ruta, Rhus tox, Bellis, Hamamelis, Baptisia
Antidoted by: Camphor, Ipecac, Coffea
Follows well: Aconite, Ipecac, Veratrum
Followed well by: Arsenicum, Bryonia, Rhus tox
Important: Do not use Arnica in dog bites or rabid animal bites. Wine increases its unpleasant effects.
Conclusion
Arnica Montana is the first remedy to think of after any trauma – whether it is a fall, a bruise, a surgical operation, or over-exertion. It acts best on sanguine, plethoric persons with red faces prone to cerebral congestion, as noted by Teste.
Disclaimer: This information is for educational purposes only. Please consult a qualified homeopathic physician for potency and dosage. Do not self-medicate for serious injuries or haemorrhages.
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