Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

doctor is frightened by these shooting pains up thearms after an injury. A shoemaker may stick his awlinto the end of his thumb or a carpenter may stick hisfinger with a brass tack and he does not think much ofit, but the next night shooting pains extend up the armwith much violence. The allopathic physician looksupon that as a serious matter, for he sees lock- jaw ortetanus ahead. When these pains come on Hypericumwill stop them, and from this stage to advanced statesof tetanus with opisthotonos and lock-jaw Hypericumis the remedy. It is full of just such symptoms as arefound in tetanus and such symptoms as lead to tetanusand it is full of all the manifestations of an ascendingneuritis.Again, you may have an old scar, and it comes incontact with a hard body and is injured, bruised, torninternally, smashed, and stinging, tearing pains comein that cicatrix, and it burns and stings, and there is norelief, and the pain runs toward the body along thecourse of nerves. A painful cicatrix with pain shootingup toward the centre of the body following up thenerves.Hypericum is the medicine for that.Now there are other remedies---all know about Arnica,but be sure you keep it in its place. The first stage ofthe injury, where much bruising has been done, andthere are none of these pains that I have described,for the first hours for bruised conditions andconcussions and shocks Arnica is routine, because itproduces states upon the human body like it had beenbruised.But you will find Arnica only fits into that one place.Arnica should never be used for wounds the way thelay people use it, because if it is used in full strength itmay bring on erysipelas.Again, for bruises of bone, cartilages, tendons,insertion of tendons, bruises about cartilages andabout joints, Ruta is better than any other remedy; andif we study the proving of Ruta we will not besurprised, because it produces symptoms like thosefound in such conditions. Lingering, sore, bruisedplaces on bones, in joints and upon cartilages. But