Week 1 - Sprains, Fractures, Back Pain, and Sciatica Flashcards
Sprains - Arnica Montana
- Bruised feeling, as if beaten, as from a blow, as from a fall
- Aversion/fear to being touched or approached
- Injuries-hands-sprains
Sprains - Bellis perennis
- Better cold bathing, local cold applications
Sprains - Bryonia alba
- 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
Sprains - Rhus toxicodendron
- 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
Sprains - Calcarea carbonica
- Lots of fears, anxieties, worries
- Chronic sprains (esp. ankles)
- Lifting aggravates injuries of the spine
- Injury of right-sided areas
Sprains - Causticum
- Contracture, waisting, or paralysis
- Worse cold dry weather
- Bell’s palsy from cold wind or getting wet
Sprains - Ledum palustre
- 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
Sprains - Ruta graveolens
- 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
Sprains - Strontium carbonicum
- Weak ankles with recurrent sprains
- Sprains with pitting edema
- Better from sunlight
- Surgeon’s ‘carbo-veg’
Fractures - Arnica montana
- Marked ecchymosis
- Fear of being approached, least he be touched
- Constipation after injury
Fractures - Bryonia alba
- Worse from least motion
- Great thirst for large quantities
Fractures - Calendula
- Lacerations
- Head pains after mechanical injuries
- Tendency to take a cold, wet weather aggravates
Fractures - Carbolic acid
- Finger tips crushed
- Fractures with torn soft tissue
- Anaphylaxis from bee stings
Fractures - Hypericum perfoliatum
- Neuralgic pain
- Fracture with laceration
- Main remedy for compound fractures
- Injuries to spine, esp the coccyx
Fractures - Lachesis
- Sighing during shock
- Deep purple or black discoloration
Fractures - Ruta graveolens
- Affinity for periosteum
- Fractures where the bone is right under the skin
Lumbago/Sciatica - Belladonna
- 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
Lumbago/Sciatica - Calcarea carbonica
- Weak feeling in lumbar region
- Sciatica with atrophy of limb
Lumbago/Sciatica - Kali bichromicum
- Pain wanders
- Lumbago worse coughing
- Sciatica accompanied by jerking in the hip
Lumbago/Sciatica - Ledum palustre
- Stiffness in sacral region
- Sciatica accompanied by coldness of painful limb
- Better cold
- Worse warmth
Lumbago/Sciatica - Lycopodium clavatum
- 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
Lumbago/Sciatica - Natrum muriaticum
- Lumbar as if broken, better lying on hard surface
- Lumbago/stiffness after grief/suppressed emotion
Lumbago/Sciatica - Nux vomica
- Severe pain with marked sensitivity and anger
- Lumbago with labor-life pain on urging during stool
- Sciatic pain maddening, cramping
Lumbago/Sciatica - Rhus toxicodendron
- 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
Lumbago/Sciatica - Ruta
- Lumbago with stiffness and lameness
- Worse after injury/strain
