Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

Calcareacarb.In these three remedies we have a series, but todistinguish these from Hypericum is the importantthing. Hypericum is only a minor remedy for bruisedand strained tendons and muscles; it goes into adifferent class of complaints. Hypericum and Ledumrun close together, and they have to be compared.Ledum has much of the sore bruised feeling of Arnicaand will often take its place; but Hypericum and Ledumcome together for consideration when an injury to anerve has taken on inflammatory action.Instead f the muscles and bones and bloodvessels, asin Arnica, Rhus and Calcarea, the nerves are thesphere for these two remedies. When the finger endsor toes have been bruised or lacerated, or a nail hasbeen torn off, or when a nerve has become pinchedbetween a hammer and the bone in a blow, and thatnerve becomes inflamed and the pain can be traced upalong the nerve, and it is gradually extending towardthe body from the injured part with stitching, dartingpains, coming and going, or shooting up from theregion of the injury toward the body, a dangerouscondition is coming on. In this condition Hypericum isabove all the remedies to be thought of and hardly anyother medicine is likely to come in. It hardly need besaid that lock- jaw is threatening.Sometimes a vicious dog will take hold of an individualthrough the thumb, or through the hand or the wristand run one of his great teeth through the radial nerveor some of its branches in the hand, causing alacerated wound. You may not find in the earlierstages the symptoms of Hypericum, but they willdevelop gradually and you will have them to treat. Donot cut the arm off, but cure it. We cure all theseinjuries with medicines--- punctured, incised, contusedand lacerated wounds, painful wounds.A wound will sometimes yawn, swell up, no tendencyto heal, look dry and shiny on its edges; red; inflamed;burning, stinging, tearing pains; no healing process.That wound needs Hypericum. It prevents tetanus.Every practitioner knows that lock-jaw may developafter an injury to sentient nerves. The old school