Cocculus ind. – Spinal weakness: Paralytic pain in the lumber region, i.e. small of the back. Worse by walking. Weak neck; cannot hold up head.
Conium – Cannot turn over in bed without being dizzy. Useful when backache is due to bruises and shocks in the spine.
Ferrum met – Lumbago all night; goes off when rising.
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Alumina – Even a soft stool is passed with difficulty. Stool sheep-dung like. Has to strain at stool. Constipation of sucklings and old people. Can only pass stool when standing (Caust).
Bryonia – Stool large, dry very hard as if burnt. Lumps of tough mucus after stools.
Causticum – Constipation with frequent ineffectual urging. Stool hard, tough covered with mucus. Partial paralysis of rectum. Stool passes easily when standing (Alum.).
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PAIN IN DELTOID MUSCLES (Frozen shoulder)
Ferrum met. – Rheumatic pain in the left deltoid muscles with inability to move the arm or fingers.
Sanguinaria – Cutting pain or stiffness in right deltoid muscle (Colo.), worse raising or turning the arm. Rheumatism of right shoulder and left hip joint. Pain in shoulder worse at night.
Aconite – Constant, short dry cough with a feeling of suffocation which increases with every respiration. Wakes him from sleep. Restlessness. Comes suddenly after exposure to cold dry winds.
Belladonna – Child begins to cry immediately before cough comes on. Tickling burning in larynx with violent paroxysms. The typical Bell, patient is red, and burning hot, with dilated pupils.
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Aethusa – Intolerance of milk. Cholera infantum. Child becomes cold, clammy, loses consciousness. Staring eyes.
Apis- Involuntary stool from every movement as if anus was wide open. Worse in warm air. Thirstless.
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BED-SORES
Calendula & Arnica – Bathe the parts with water to which a few drops of Calendula mother tinctare have been added. Keep the bed-sore covered with this wet pack (of Calendula). Also administer Arnica 30th or 200th internally. Indications : great soreness of parts.
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Belladonna – Otitis media. Severe burning pains in the ears which come on suddenly and shoot from one ear into the other. Worse from drafts on head, pressure, jar, motion.
Chamomilla – Earache sticking. Better warmth. Oversensitive to pain, to fresh air and wind. Child is excessively fretful, must be carried up and down the room all the time; is quiet only then. Worse in the evening, before midnight.
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FRACTURE
Symphytum – An excellent remedy for fractures and mechanical injuries to bones. Facilitates the union of fractured bones (Calc. phos. also helps). Lessons the peculiar pricking pains and favours callous formation. Reduces irritability at the point of fracture. Useful also in thrusts on the globe of the EYE; relieves pain in the eye after a blow from an obtuse body.
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TETANUS
Ledum & Hypericum – Wounds punctured from needle pricks, or Hypericum splinters that bleed SCANTILY and are followed by pain and puffiness and coldness. Parts become paralysed and mottled. Whitlow from a punctured wound. TETANUS, traumatic parts become COLD as ice; spasms begin from the punctured wound (rusty nails) Give LEDUM AT ONCE, 1M 3 hourly. This will prevent Tetanus. IF PAINS SHOOT UP from the punctured wound, give HYPERICUM; this will prevent tetanus.
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Apis – Menses last a day or appear at intervals of one day. Menses too profuse or too scanty. Abortion in the fourth month of pregnancy due to incompetent Os.
Belladonna – Menses bright red with clot, too early, too profuse, hot gushing. Violent bearing down as if everything would fall out. Better STANDING. Worse Lying down.
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