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
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Sprains - Bellis perennis

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  • Better cold bathing, local cold applications
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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’
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Fractures - Arnica montana

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  • Marked ecchymosis
  • Fear of being approached, least he be touched
  • Constipation after injury
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Fractures - Bryonia alba

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  • Worse from least motion

- Great thirst for large quantities

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Fractures - Calendula

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  • Lacerations
  • Head pains after mechanical injuries
  • Tendency to take a cold, wet weather aggravates
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Fractures - Carbolic acid

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  • Finger tips crushed
  • Fractures with torn soft tissue
  • Anaphylaxis from bee stings
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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
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Fractures - Lachesis

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  • Sighing during shock

- Deep purple or black discoloration

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Fractures - Ruta graveolens

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  • Affinity for periosteum

- Fractures where the bone is right under the skin

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Lumbago/Sciatica - Belladonna

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  • Sudden
  • Worse right side
  • Back pain as if it would break, during menses as if it would break
  • Sciatica increasing and decreasing suddenly
  • Worse jarring
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Lumbago/Sciatica - Calcarea carbonica

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  • Weak feeling in lumbar region

- Sciatica with atrophy of limb

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Lumbago/Sciatica - Kali bichromicum

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  • Pain wanders
  • Lumbago worse coughing
  • Sciatica accompanied by jerking in the hip
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Lumbago/Sciatica - Ledum palustre

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  • Stiffness in sacral region
  • Sciatica accompanied by coldness of painful limb
  • Better cold
  • Worse warmth
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Lumbago/Sciatica - Lycopodium clavatum

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  • Lumbago as if broken, as if would break
  • Better passing urine and flatus
  • Lumbago as if back broken during stool
  • Right-sided, or begins on right and moves to left
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Lumbago/Sciatica - Natrum muriaticum

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  • Lumbar as if broken, better lying on hard surface

- Lumbago/stiffness after grief/suppressed emotion

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Lumbago/Sciatica - Nux vomica

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  • Severe pain with marked sensitivity and anger
  • Lumbago with labor-life pain on urging during stool
  • Sciatic pain maddening, cramping
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Lumbago/Sciatica - Rhus toxicodendron

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  • Stiffness/immobility with pain better continued motion
  • Worse sitting still, on first motion in morning, cold damp, getting wet, and from lifting
  • Back pain - must constantly move in bed
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Lumbago/Sciatica - Ruta

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  • Lumbago with stiffness and lameness

- Worse after injury/strain