Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

Arnica is sometimes suitable to the scarlet fever, when the eruption does not come out, in those severeforms when the body is dusky, mottled and covered with red spots; the patient is constantly turning andthat mental state is coming on with moroseness, and stupidity. It is a wonderful remedy, amisunderstood remedy, a misused remedy, because it is almost limited to bruises. It is one of the sheetanchors in certain seasons, in the malarial valleys of the west, for intermittent fever. In congestivechills, in those dreadful attacks with prostration, stupor, mottled skin, with congestion that comes onsuddenly, with anxiety. The doctors know these fevers, they dread them, and can only cope with themby using such remedies as Arnica and Lachesis and other deep-acting medicines. It is not true that thesepatients must have Quinine.For many years I practiced among these cases, and I have seen numerous congestive chills andhad no need for Quinine. I would rather have my repertory and a few potencies than all the Quinine inthe drug stores. The sugar pills cure safely, permanently and gently, while the < Quinine never cures,but suppresses, and there is nothing in the after history of that patient drugged with Quinine andArsenic but congestion and violence so long as he lives."Horror of instant death, with cardiac distress in night".From that it spreads on throughout the system, but that horror of instant death is a strikingfeature and it comes on regardless of heart disease. A horror in the night when there is nothing to comeupon the patient; a horrible congestion, which affects especially the cerebellum and upper part of thespinal cord."Stupor with involuntary discharges". "Coma, insensibility"."Lies as if dead". These symptoms come in the low forms of disease, in the typhoid type ofdisease. Many of the remittent fevers, if badly treated, or permitted to run their course under badnursing, will turn into a continued fever. While the true idiopathic typhoid comes on after many weeksof gradual decline, a symptomatic typhoid may come on suddenly, and it has symptoms of graver formthan the ordinary typhoid. The idiopathic typhoid will seldom kill and will generally run to a favorabletermination, if the doctor stays at home. This remedy is full of delirium in these low types of fever,even delirium like delirium tremens. "Hopelessness; indifference". "Hypochondriacal anxiety,peevishness". "Fears being struck by those coming towards him".That is both bodily and mental.Now, with this mental state thoroughly in mind, we are prepared to take up the general physicalstate, which has in all complaints, all over the body a feeling as if bruised. It is not strange that Arnicais used for bruises, but it is very foolish to put it on the outside and to rub it on in the form of thetincture. It produces in its pathogenesis mottled spots, like bruises. If you take Arnica internally, inlarge doses, you will have mottled spots, bluish spots, which become yellowish, due to ecchymosis,from extravasations of the smaller capillaries. This is, to a certain extent, what takes place in bruising.It is an extravasation of blood from the capillaries, and sometimes from the larger vessels. But all overthe body he is sore and bruised, as if he had been beaten. If you watch an Arnica patient in order to getthe external manifestations of his state, you will see him turning and moving. You will at once askyourself, Why is he restless? and if you compare remedies in your mind, you will say, He is like ; he stays in a place a while and then he moves. No matter if he is only semiconscious, youwill see him make a little turn, part way over, and then a little further over, and so on until he is over onthe other side. Then he commences again, and he will shift a little and a little, and so he turns from sideto side the question is, why does he move so, why is he restless? It is an important matter to solve. Wenotice the awful anxiety of the Arsenicum patient that keeps him moving all the time. We notice thepainful uneasiness felt all over the body with the Rhus patient so that he cannot keep still.The Arnica patient is so sore that he can lie on one part only a little while, and then he must getoff that part or to the other side. So if we ask him, "Why do you move so?" he will tell us that the bedfeels hard. That is one way of telling that the body is sore. A more intelligent individual will say it isbecause he is so sore and feels as if bruised and beaten, and he wants to get into a new place. This stateof soreness is present if it be a symptomatic typhoid, an intermittent fever, a remittent fever, or after aninjury when he is really bruised all over. You get the the same continual uneasiness and motion,moving every minute. He moves and thinks that now he will be comfortable, but he is comfortable onlyfor a second. The soreness increases the longer lie lies, and becomes so great that he is forced to move.With Rhus tox. the longer he lies the more restless he grows and the more he aches, until hefeels as if he will fly if he does not move. With < Rhus tox. the uneasiness passes off after moving, andwith Arnica the soreness passes off if he gets into a new place. With Arsenicum you see him movingabout and look wild, and he is anxious, and this anxiety forces him to move, and he gets no rest, for hekeeps going. The Rhus tox. and Arnica patients get better from every little motion.