• Arnica Montana produces conditions similar to injuries, falls, blows, contusions.

• Arnica Montana is suited when any injury, however remote, seems to be the cause.

• Arnica Montana acts after traumatic injuries, overuse of organs, strains.

• Arnica Montana acts best in plethoric individuals.

• Arnica Montana is less effective in debilitated patients with impoverished blood.

• Arnica Montana causes cardiac dropsy with dyspnea.

• Arnica Montana is a muscular tonic.

• Arnica Montana helps in traumatism of grief, remorse, or sudden realization of financial loss.

• Limbs and body ache as if beaten; joints as if sprained.

• The bed feels too hard.

• Arnica Montana has a marked effect on the blood.

• Arnica Montana affects the venous system inducing stasis.

• The patient has relaxed blood vessels, black and blue spots.

• The patient has a tendency to hemorrhage and low-fever states.

• The patient has a tendency to tissue degeneration, septic conditions, abscesses that do not mature.

• The patient feels sore, lame, and bruised.

• Arnica Montana treats neuralgias originating in disturbances of the pneumo-gastric nerve.

• Arnica Montana treats rheumatism of muscular and tendinous tissue, especially of back and shoulders.

• The patient has great prostration; feels exhausted and weak.

• The whole body is oversensitive.

• The patient has a general bruised sensation.

• Arnica Montana prevents and controls post-operative hemorrhage.

• The patient has a sensation as if something were displaced.

• The patient has a fear of being touched or approached.

• Arnica Montana is useful in septic fever, typhoid conditions, and pyaemia.

• Arnica Montana promotes absorption of effusions and extravasated blood.

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• The patient wants to be let alone; irritable and sensitive to pain.

• The patient thinks something is better with him than it is.

• Arnica Montana treats agoraphobia (fear of open spaces).

• Arnica Montana is useful after mental strain or shock.

• The patient is unconscious; answers correctly but relapses.

• The patient experiences loss of consciousness after a blow or fall.

• The patient suffers from depression following injury.

• The patient experiences great anxiety and restlessness.

• The patient fears being touched or struck.

• The patient experiences apathy and indifference.

• The patient suffers from mental confusion.

• The patient experiences irritability and impatience.

• The patient is apprehensive, especially at night.

• The patient has extreme sensitivity.

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• Arnica Montana is disposed to cerebral congestion.

• The patient experiences apoplexy, red, full face.

• The head feels hot, body cool.

• The patient experiences vertigo, especially on rising.

• The patient experiences headache after injury, concussion.

• The scalp feels sore and bruised.

• The patient has a black eye from a blow.

• The patient experiences diplopia.

• The patient experiences blurred vision after injury.

• The patient experiences pain in eyes after close work.

• The patient experiences tinnitus aurium.

• The patient has a sensation of a blow to the ear.

• The patient experiences epistaxis after a blow or strain.

• The nose feels sore and bruised.

• The patient feels sore and bruised in facial bones.

• The patient has bleeding gums.

• The breath is fetid.

• The patient experiences dry mouth, great thirst.

• The patient experiences difficulty swallowing.

• The patient has a cough caused by tickling in the larynx.

• The patient experiences hemoptysis.

• The patient experiences dyspnea.

• The patient experiences shortness of breath after exertion.

• Arnica Montana treats pneumonia after injury.

• Arnica Montana treats angina pectoris.

• The patient experiences cardiac weakness.

• The patient experiences palpitation.

• The chest feels sore and bruised.

• The patient experiences oppression of the chest.

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• The patient experiences nausea and vomiting.

• The patient experiences vomiting of blood.

• The patient experiences dysentery.

• The patient experiences involuntary stool.

• The abdomen feels sore and bruised.

• The patient experiences flatulence.

• The patient experiences eructations tasting of rotten eggs.

• The patient has an aversion to meat.

• The patient has thirst for cold water.

• The patient experiences constipation.

• The patient experiences involuntary stool.

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• The patient experiences incontinence of urine.

• The patient's urine is dark and scanty.

• The patient experiences pain and swelling of testicles after injury.

• Arnica Montana treats sexual excess.

• The patient experiences soreness of the uterus after childbirth.

• The patient experiences after-pains.

• Arnica Montana helps in threatened abortion after a fall.

• Limbs and body ache as if beaten; joints as if sprained.

• Arnica Montana treats rheumatism of muscular and tendinous tissue, especially of back and shoulders.

• Arnica Montana treats gout.

• The patient experiences cold extremities.

• Arnica Montana treats carbuncles.

• Feet feel tired and heavy.

• The patient experiences pain in back as if bruised.

• Arnica Montana treats lumbago.

• The patient experiences weakness and trembling.

• All joints feel bruised.

• The patient experiences pain in bones and cartilage.

• The skin feels hot and dry.

• The patient has small boils.

• The patient has bed sores.

• The patient experiences easy bruising.

• The patient experiences sleeplessness.

• The patient experiences restless sleep.

• The patient has anxious dreams.

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• Weakness of muscles of neck; head falls backwards.

• Painful swelling of glands of neck.

• Pains, as from a bruise, and of dislocation in back, in chest, and loins.

• Tingling in back.

• Great soreness of back.

• Dragging-down pain and sense of weight in loins.

• Back pain.

• Lumbago.

• Pain, as if from fatigue, and crawl in arms and hands.

• Pain, as of dislocation, in joints of arms and hands.

• Tingling in arms.

• Sensation of soreness of arms.

• Sensation as if joints of arms and wrists were sprained.

• Darting in arm.

• Veins in hands swollen, with full and strong pulse.

• Want of strength in hands on grasping anything.

• Cramps in fingers.

• Pains, as from fatigue or from dislocation, or acute drawing in different parts of lower limbs.

• Painful paralytic weakness in joints, chiefly of hip and knee.

• Want of strength in knee, with failing of joint when walking.

• Tension in knee, as from contraction of tendons.

• Pale swelling in knee.

• Sensation of soreness in legs.

• Inflammatory erysipelatous swelling of feet with pain, and aggravation of pain by movement.

• Hot, painful, hard, and shining swelling of great toes.

• Tingling in legs and feet.

• Sore feet.

• Corns.

• Cramp.

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• Hot, hard, and shining swelling of affected parts.

• Stings of insects; snake-bites.

• Red, bluish, and yellowish spots, as if from contusions.

• Black and blue spots on body.

• Yellow-green spots, caused either by a bruise or by disease.

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• Touch; motion; rest; damp cold; wine; lying down; slightest touch; jarring.

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• Complementary: Acon; Ipec.

• Compare: Acon; Bapt; Bellis; Hamam; Rhus; Hyperic; Calendula (to prevent suppuration); Symphytum (injuries to bones); Nat-s (head injuries, chronic effects).

• Arnica Montana relates to Vitex trifolia.

• Antidotes: Camph; Ign.

• Consider Arnica Montana in cases of shock.

• Arnica Montana is valuable after surgical operations.

• for all varieties and effects of trauma, recent and remote.

• Suited to plethoric, red-faced persons with cerebral congestion.

• Acts feebly on debilitated persons with impoverished blood.

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• Effects of violent cough or sneezing.

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• Suddenness of pains and action.

• Soreness of whole body, with tingling.

• Extreme sensibility of whole body, chiefly of joints and skin.

• Over-sensitiveness of whole body.

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• Hypochondriacal anxiety with fear of dying and disagreeable temper.

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• Great agitation and anguish, with groans.

• Unfit for exertion, indifferent to business.

• Apprehension and despair.

• Over-excitement and excessive moral sensibility.

• Great sensitiveness of mind with anxiety and restlessness.

• Tendency to be frightened.

• Quarrelsome; combative.

• Tears, exclamations of rage.

• Opinionated.

• Foolish gaiety, levity, and mischievousness.

• Absence of ideas.

• Depression of spirits and absent-mindedness.

• Abstraction and musing.

• Unconsciousness after mechanical injuries.

• Delirium.

• Giddiness, with nausea; when moving and rising; better when lying.

• Vertigo when shutting eyes.

• Pressive pains in the head, principally in the forehead.

• Cramp-like compression in forehead as if brain were contracted into a hard mass, especially when near fire.

• Pain, as if a nail were driven into the brain.

• Dartings, pullings, and shootings in the head, principally in the temples.

• Incisive pain across the head.

• Cutting through the head, as with a knife, followed by a sensation of coldness.

• Stitches in the head, especially in temples and forehead.

• Effects from concussion on the brain.

• Pain in the head over one eye, with greenish vomiting (after a strain of the back).

• Heat and burning in head, with absence of heat from body.

• Burning and heat in the head, rest of body cool.

• Heaviness and weakness of head.

• Pains in head, brought on or aggravated by walking, ascending, meditating, and reading, as well as after meal.

• Tingling at the top of the head.

• Immobility of the scalp.

• Pain, like excoriation, in eyes and eyelids, with difficulty moving them.

• Red, inflamed eyes.

• Inflammation of eyes with suggillation after mechanical injuries.

• Burning in eyes, and flowing of burning tears.

• Eyelids swollen, with ecchymosis.

• Pupils contracted.

• Eyes dull, cloudy, and downcast.

• Eyes prominent, or half open.

• Fixed, anxious look.

• Obscuration of vision.

• Pain, as of contusion in ears.

• Acute pulling in ears.

• Shootings in and behind ears.

• Hardness of hearing, and buzzing before ears; from blows.

• Blood from ears.

• Pain, as of contusion in nose.

• Tingling in nose.

• Nose swollen, with ecchymosis.

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• Ulcerated nostrils.

• Coryza, with burning in nose.

• Cold nose.

• Face pale and hollow, or yellow and bloated.

• Heat in face without heat in body.

• Hard swelling, shining redness and heat in one cheek, with throbbing pain.

• Puffing of cheeks on breathing.

• Tingling round eyes, in cheeks, and in lips.

• Pustulous eruption on face, chiefly round eyes.

• Dryness, burning heat, swelling, and fissures in lips.

• Ulceration of corners of mouth.

• Paralysis of lower jaw.

• Painful swelling of submaxillary glands, and those of neck.

• Trismus, with mouth closed.

• Dryness of mouth, with thirst.

• Saliva mixed with blood.

• Sensation of excoriation and itching on tongue.

• Tongue dry, or with white coating.

• Putrid smell from mouth in the morning.

• Pain in teeth, with swelling of cheeks and tingling in gums.

• Sensation of pulling in teeth while eating.

• Loosening and elongation of teeth.

• Toothache after operation.

• Sensation as if there were something hard in the throat.

• Deglutition hindered by a kind of nausea.

• Noise while swallowing.

• Burning in throat, with uneasiness, as from internal heat.

• Dry, short cough, produced by titillation in larynx.

• Cough at night during sleep.

• Paroxysm of cough, preceded by tears, and cough with children after weeping and sobbing from caprice and waywardness.

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• Cough with bloodshot eyes, or nose-bleed.

• Even yawning provokes a cough.

• Cough with expectoration of blood; blood is clear, frothy, mixed with coagulated masses and mucus.

• Even without cough there is expectoration of black, coagulated blood after every corporeal effort.

• Inability to eject mucus; what cough detaches is therefore swallowed.

• On coughing, shooting pains in head, or bruise-like pain in chest.

• Breath fetid; short, and panting.

• Excessive difficulty of breathing.

• Cough worse in evening till midnight, from motion, in warm room, and after drinking.

• Respiration short, panting, difficult, and anxious.

• Rattling in chest.

• Oppression of chest and difficulty of breathing.

• Respiration frequently slow and deep.

• Shootings in chest and sides, with difficulty of respiration, aggravated by coughing, breathing deeply, and movement; better from external pressure.

• Pain, as of a bruise and of compression in the chest.

• Burning or rawness in chest.

• Sensation of soreness of the ribs.

• Stitches in chest (left), aggravated from a dry cough, with oppression of breathing; < from motion, > from external pressure.

• Chronic bronchitis with bruised, weak aching in the chest or great sensitiveness of chest on exertion or walking.

• Bruised, aching sensation in chest on walking.

• Beating, and palpitation of the heart.

• Pain from liver up through left chest and down left arm, veins of hands swollen, purplish; sudden pain as if heart squeezed or had got a shock (angina pectoris).

• Heart strained; irritable; stitches in; from left to right.

• Painful pricking in the heart, with fainting fits.

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• Taste putrid, bitter, or slimy.

• Bitter taste, especially in the morning.

• Thirst for cold water, without fever.

• Longing for alcoholic drinks.

• Thirst for water, or desire to drink, with repugnance to all liquids.

• Loathing of food, principally milk, meat, broth, and tobacco.

• Liking for vinegar.

• Want of appetite, tongue loaded with a white or yellowish coating.

• (In evening) immoderate appetite, with sensation of fullness and cramp-like pressure in abdomen immediately after meal.

• Irritable and plaintive humor after meal in evening.

• Frequent eructations, especially in morning, empty, bitter, putrid, as from rotten eggs.

• Belches after coughing.

• Rising of bitter mucus or salt water.

• Nausea, with inclination to vomit, chiefly in morning.

• Nausea, and empty vomiturition.

• Retching even in night, with pressure in precordial region.

• Vomiting of coagulated blood, of a deep color.

• After drinking (or eating), vomiting of what has been taken, often with a mixture of blood.

• Pressure, fullness, contraction, and cramp-like pain in stomach and in precordial region.

• Shootings in pit of stomach, with pressure extending to back, and tightness of chest.

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• Shootings in region of spleen, with difficulty of breathing.

• Pressure in hepatic region.

• Abdomen hard and swollen, with pain of incisive excoriation in sides, chiefly in morning, mitigated by emission of wind.

• Pain in umbilical region when moving.

• Shocks across abdomen.

• Pain, as of contusion, in sides.

• Flatulence, having smell of rotten eggs.

• Cutting, colicky pains in abdomen.

• Colic with strangury.

• Tympanites.

• Splenalgia.

• Constipation, with ineffectual attempt to go to stool.

• Stools in form of pap, of acid odor.

• Flatus, smelling like rotten eggs.

• Diarrhea, with tenesmus.

• Frequent, scanty, small, mucous stools.

• Involuntary stools, chiefly during night; thin, brown, or white.

• Stools of undigested matter.

• Purulent, bloody stools.

• Hemorrhoids.

• Pressure in rectum.

• Tenesmus.

• Thread-worms.

• Incessant passing of stool and urine in typhoid states.

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• Tenesmus.

• Spasmodic retention of urine, with pressure in bladder.

• Ineffectual attempts to make water.

• Involuntary emission of urine, at night in bed, and in day, when running.

• Frequent micturition of pale urine.

• Urine of brownish red, with sediment of brick color.

• Emission of blood.

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• Bluish red swelling of penis and scrotum.

• Inflammatory swelling of testes (in consequence of contusion).

• Purple-red swelling of penis and testicles, after mechanical injuries.

• Hydrocele.

• Painful swelling of spermatic cord, with shooting in testes, extending to abdomen.

• Sexual desire increased, with erections, pollutions, and seminal emission on slightest amorous excitement.

• Impotence from excess or abuse.

• Discharge of blood from uterus, between periods, with nausea.

• Excoriation and ulceration of breasts.

• Soreness of parts after severe labor.

• Violent after-pains.

• Erysipelatous inflammation of the mammć and nipples.

• Violent stitches in middle of left breast.

• Vomiting of pregnancy.

• Threatened abortion from fall, etc.

• Feeling as if fśtus were lying crosswise.

• Tumor of breast.

• Sore nipples.

• Labor complications.

• Miscarriage.

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• Miliary eruption.

• Petechić.

• Many small boils, or blood-boils; one after another, extremely sore.

• Great drowsiness during day, without being able to sleep.

• Inclination to sleep, early in evening.

• Comatose drowsiness with delirium.

• Wakens at night with hot head, and is afraid to sleep for fear of its recurrence.

• Anxious dreams about animals.

• Sleep not refreshing and full of anxious and terrible dreams, and waking with starts and frights.

• Dreams of death, of mutilated bodies, of unbraiding, of indecision.

• During sleep, groans, talking, snoring, involuntary stools and urine.

• Giddiness on waking.

• Pulse very variable, mostly hard, full and quick.

• Chilliness, internally, with external heat.

• Great chilliness, with heat and redness of one cheek.

• Chilliness of side on which he lies.

• Head alone, or face alone, hot, rest of body cool.

• Shivering, principally in evening, and sometimes with sensation as if one were sprinkled with cold water.

• Heat in evening or at night, with shivering on raising bed-clothes, even slightly, and frequently with pain in back and limbs.

• Dry heat over whole body, or only in face and on back.

• Fever, with much thirst, even before the shiverings.

• Before fever, dragging sensation in all bones.

• Intermittent fever; chill in morning or forenoon drawing pains in bones before fever; changes his position continually breath and perspiration offensive.

• During apyrexia, pain in stomach, want of appetite and loathing of animal food.

• Perspiration smelling sour or offensive─sometimes cold.

• Nocturnal acid sweat.

• damp, cold weather; motion and exertion; walking, ascending, meditating, and reading; after a meal; evening till midnight; in warm room; after drinking. Lying on left side.

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• Type of Teste's first group, including Ledum, Crot. t., Fer. magnet., Rhus t., Spig.

• Complementary: Aconite.

• Similar to: Aconite, Am. c., Croton (swashing in abdomen), Arsenic, Baptisia (typhoid states─Bap. "feels ill," Arn. "feels well," resents being thought ill), Belladonna, Bryonia, Chamomilla, China, Euphrasia, Calendula, Hepar, Hypericum, Hamamelis, Ipecac, Ledum, Merc., Pulsatilla, Ran. scel., Rhus tox., Ruta, Staphysagria, Silica, Symphytum, Sulphur, Sul. ac., Veratrum.

• Follows well: Aconite, Ipecac, Veratrum, Apis.

• Followed well by: Aconite, Arsenic, Bryonia, Ipecac, Rhus tox.

• Action aided by: Arsenic (dysentery and varicose veins).

• Injurious in: Bites of dogs or rabid or angry animals.

• Antidote to: Am. c., China, Cicut., Fer., Ignatia, Senega.

• Antidoted by: Camphor, Ipecac (to massive doses); Coffee (headache); Aconite, Arsenic, China, Ignatia, Ipecac (to potencies).

• Wine increases unpleasant effect of Arnica.

• Do not use externally where there is broken skin. Use Calendula for torn and lacerated wounds.