Homoeopathic medicine ARNICA MONTANA

1. ARNICA MONTANA
Balkrishn Patel

2. Source: Vegetable kingdom
Synonyms:
Leopard’s bane,
Mountain
tobacco
Family:
Compositae
Prover: Dr
Hahnemann in
1805
Duration of
Action: 6 to 10
days
Miasmatic
Background:
Psora
Temperament:
Nervous
Diathesis:
Haemorrhagic
Thermal
Relationship:
Very chilly
patien

3. Constitution
and
Physiognomy:
It is best suited to nervous,
sanguine,
plethoric persons with a very red
face.
Persons remain long impressed
even by slightest mechanical injury.

4. Ailments
From:
Fall or blow,
mechanical injury,
inhaling charcoal vapours,
anger,
fright,
confusion,
doing hard work,
from spirituous liquors, etc.

5. Seat of Action
(Pharmacodynamics):
Blood vessels & capillaries, muscles,
blood,
nerves,
hair, skin,
digestive organs, etc.

6. Characteristic
Mental
Symptoms
(Psychology)
1. Patient is forgetful and
absentminded.

7. 2. Patient is in a state of
consciousness, delirium and stupor but
the patient answers correctly when
arosed and then again relapses.

8. 3. Fear of being touched or
struck by people coming
towards him.

9. 4. Low muttering type of
delirium; patient is irritable,
sad and despondent.

10. 5. Feels he is all right and
nothing has happened to him.

11. 6. Wants to be alone, greatly
depressed and gloomy.

12. 7. Patient is fearful,
easily frightened.

13. Characteristic Physical Guiding Symptoms1.
Soreness:
Sore, lame,
bruised feeling
is very
characteristic.
Great soreness
of the back
muscles & joints.
Bruised feeling
all over the body
as if beaten.

14. 2.
Oversensitiveness:
Everything seems to be
hard on which he lies.
Whole body is
oversensitive to touch.
Fear of being
approached or touched.

15. 3.
Haemorrhage:
Haemorrhage from injury
of any part of the body.
When capillaries and small
vessels are involved
there is bleeding of
external and internal parts.

16. 4.
Prostration:
General prostration;
progressive weakness.

17. 5. Putridity:
Putridity,
sepsis and
offensiveness are very well
marked.
Stools are foetid with dark blood.

18. 6.
Relaxation:
Bladder and bowels
are relaxed that is why
involuntary urination
and evacuation takes
place.

19. 7. Hot and cold:
The head is hot
but the body is cold.

20. 8.
Constipation:
Rectum is loaded,
stool will not come out,
ribbon-like stool.

21. 9. Hairfall:
Local application of Arnica helps
to grow & check hairfall.

22. 10. Boils:
Tendency for small painful
boils,
one after the other.

23. 11. Injury:
Arnica is very useful in cases of
recent & remote injuries.

24. 12. Gases:
Belching and
eructations,
smell like rotten eggs;
gases pass up and
down.