Week 1 - Sprains, Fractures, Back Pain, and Sciatica Flashcards
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Sprains - Arnica Montana
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- Bruised feeling, as if beaten, as from a blow, as from a fall
- Aversion/fear to being touched or approached
- Injuries-hands-sprains
2
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Sprains - Bellis perennis
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- Better cold bathing, local cold applications
3
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Sprains - Bryonia alba
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- Aversion to being disturbed, worse least motion, jarring
- Better lying on painful side, constant pressure, being perfectly still
- Better lying on painless side
- Vomiting after injury
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Sprains - Rhus toxicodendron
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- Stiff painful feeling leading to restlessness
- Worse first motion
- Better continued motion and heat
- Worse cold/damp
- Lameness of wrist/joint after sprain
- Bad effects from straining or lifting
- Trembling after exertion
- Aggravation from rest
5
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Sprains - Calcarea carbonica
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- Lots of fears, anxieties, worries
- Chronic sprains (esp. ankles)
- Lifting aggravates injuries of the spine
- Injury of right-sided areas
6
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Sprains - Causticum
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- Contracture, waisting, or paralysis
- Worse cold dry weather
- Bell’s palsy from cold wind or getting wet
7
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Sprains - Ledum palustre
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- Puncture wounds
- Coldness of part, better with cold and worse with heat
- Blueness or purplish
- Affected parts become cold, puffy, and mottled, which is ameliorated from cold
- Prophylaxis of tetanus
8
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Sprains - Ruta graveolens
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- Strains of the flexor tendons
- Stiffness and sore/bruised pain
- Stiffness of tendons
- Easy dislocation of ankles
- Lameness of ankle, wrist, of joint after sprain
- Injuries of periosteum
- Ganglion originating from a blow
- Better by rubbing
9
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Sprains - Strontium carbonicum
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- Weak ankles with recurrent sprains
- Sprains with pitting edema
- Better from sunlight
- Surgeon’s ‘carbo-veg’
10
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Fractures - Arnica montana
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- Marked ecchymosis
- Fear of being approached, least he be touched
- Constipation after injury
11
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Fractures - Bryonia alba
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- Worse from least motion
- Great thirst for large quantities
12
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Fractures - Calendula
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- Lacerations
- Head pains after mechanical injuries
- Tendency to take a cold, wet weather aggravates
13
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Fractures - Carbolic acid
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- Finger tips crushed
- Fractures with torn soft tissue
- Anaphylaxis from bee stings
14
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Fractures - Hypericum perfoliatum
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- Neuralgic pain
- Fracture with laceration
- Main remedy for compound fractures
- Injuries to spine, esp the coccyx
15
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Fractures - Lachesis
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- Sighing during shock
- Deep purple or black discoloration