Week 2 - Bruises, Wounds, Stings, Burns, Surgical Trauma, Concussions, and Spinal Injuries Flashcards

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Blunt Trauma/Injury - Arnica montana

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  • Memory loss after head injury
  • Constipation or diarrhea after injuries
  • Loss of voice from head injury
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Blunt Trauma/Injury - Bellis perennis

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  • Injury of abdominal deep tissue

- Cancer of mammae after contusion

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Blunt Trauma/Injury - Bryonia alba

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  • Worse least motion, being disturbed
  • Better being perfectly still
  • Lumbago remains sensitive to jarring steps
  • Ailments from excision of the ovaries
  • Delirium - talks of business
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Blunt Trauma/Injury - Conium maculatum

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  • Unexpected blow, attack, trauma leading to induration
  • Cataract after eye injury
  • Indurations of female genitalia/sex from injuries
  • Tumors of mammae from injuries
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Blunt Trauma/Injury - Hypericum perfoliatum

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  • Prophylaxis of tetanus

- Concussion of spine - injury to coccyx

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Blunt Trauma/Injury - Ledum palustre

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  • Jarring and walking aggravates occipital head pain
  • Lack of vital heat aggravates
  • Warmth aggravates
  • Eye ecchymoses
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Blunt Trauma/Injury - Millefolium

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  • Much hemorrhage with injuries

- Hemorrhage from anus after injuries

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Wounds/Stings - Apis mellifica

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  • Stings and bites with marked redness, swelling, and heat
  • Worse heat and better with cold
  • Bag-like swelling
  • Shrieking-brain cry
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Wounds/Stings - Arsenicum album

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  • Puncture wounds with anaerobic infections
  • Severe burning pains with blackened necrotic tissue
  • Burning pain (wounds, eruptions)
  • Black eruptions
  • Blackish discoloration
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Wounds/Stings - Calendula

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  • Used to cleanse open wounds, lacerations, and abrasions
  • Lacerations
  • Wounds with torn soft tissue
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Wounds/Stings - Carbolic acid

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  • Anaphylactic reaction to bee stings
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Wounds/Stings - Hepar sulph

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  • Suppuration of wounds with extremely slow healing
  • Wounds linger
  • Wounds with a tendency to heal slowly
  • Desire to set fires
  • Sensitive to pain
  • Weeping before cough
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Wounds/Stings - Hypericum perfoliatum

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  • Sharp neuralgic pains radiating away from injury
  • Post-traumatic pain after needle punctures
  • Wounds - constitutions effects of
  • Punctures, splinters, stab wounds
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Wounds/Stings - Ledum palustre

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  • Minimal bleeding even with deep penetration of the puncture
  • Coldness of injured part, better with cold application
  • Penetrating wounds on palms or soles
  • Jarring aggravates occipital head pain
  • Inflammation of periosteum of finger bones
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Wounds/Stings - Silicea

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  • Defective assimilation
  • Suppuration of wounds
  • Wounds with a tendency to heal slowly
  • Reopening of old wounds
  • Differentiate from Hepar sulph
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Wounds/Stings - Staphysagria

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  • Lacerations with marked pain due to the sensitivity
  • Extreme sensitivity of scars
  • Wounds are painful (like their demeanor)
  • Injuries to orifices after surgery
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Wounds/Stings - Urtica urens

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  • Itching and prickling of bites/stings
  • Wheals are better from constant rubbing
  • Burning and stinging pain
  • Itching
  • Burning (as from nettles)
  • Urticaria from warmth and exercise
  • Itching and burning of the skin as from nettles
  • Chest milk disappearing
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Burns - Apis

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  • Minor burns with excessive burning/stinging pain, redness, and swelling
  • Completely relieved by cold applications
  • Aggravated by heat/warm applications
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Burns - Arsenicum

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  • Severe burns with marked pain and restlessness and anxiety
  • Blackened skin
  • Averse to cold applications
  • Chills and weakness
  • Does not want to be left alone
  • Burning pains better with heat/warmth
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Burns - Calendula

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  • Given topically to soothe skin and prevent infection
  • Burns of the mouth and esophagus
  • Pain is out of proportion to injury
  • Skin pain as if bruised
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Burns - Cantharis

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  • Second and third degree burns with exquisite burning pain and blistering/vesicles
  • Patient cannot remove cold pack
  • Anger/insanity/lamenting/shrieking from pains
  • *- Pain extends inward
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Burns - Carbolic acid

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  • Chemical burns

- Skin begins to ulcerate with putrid discharge after burns

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Burns - Causticum

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  • Long term consequences after serious burns
  • Convalescence during ailment, never well since burn
  • Sensation as though could not cough deep enough to start mucus
  • Cold dry weather aggravates
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Burns - Kali-bichromicum

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  • Burns from steam or vapor
  • Hard-to-detach crusts/scabs inside the nose leave a raw sore spot
  • Dryness inside nose compels blowing the nose, but without discharge
  • Breath seems hot in nose
  • Vomiting of drunkards
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Surgical Trauma - Aconite

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  • Fear and anxiety with each operation
  • Presentiment of death
  • Shock and fright related to surgery
  • Cataract after operation
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Surgical Trauma - Arnica

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  • Given before and after surgical procedures
  • Given when surgery will result in stretching, pulling, trauma to soft tissues
  • Much bruising and aching, worse jarring or touched
  • Patient will lash out or become angry if they perceive you are approaching to touch them
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Surgical Trauma - Bellis perennis

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  • Swelling of lymph nodes proximal to injury
  • Coldness of extremities after injury
  • Marked swelling of inguinal and abdominal glands after surgery
  • Injury to deep tissues of pelvis/abdomen
  • Psychic trauma
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Surgical Trauma - Bryonia

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  • Nausea after abdominal surgery
  • Patient cannot move without pain and nausea
  • Worse motion, being disturbed
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Surgical Trauma - Carbo vegetabilis

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  • Desires to be fanned
  • Weakness, coldness, collapse after surgery
  • Distention from smallest amount of food/drink
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Surgical Trauma - Hypericum

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  • Phantom limb pain after surgical removal
  • Severe sharp neuralgic pains after eye surgery
  • Stitching shooting pains
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Surgical Trauma - Ledum

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  • Infected incisions with cold, soft swelling that is better cold and worse heat
  • Injured part becomes cold as ice and spasms with tetanic rigidity begin in wound
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Surgical Trauma - Opium

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  • Dread, horror, pain
  • Coma, sleepiness, lethargy with stupor and stertorous respiration
  • Fear and panic after surgery when memory recalled
  • Constipation after operation
  • Paralysis of intestines after abdominal surgery
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Surgical Trauma - Pyrogenium

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  • Purulent, offensive infections
  • High fever with slow pulse
  • Bed is too hard to find a comfortable position
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Surgical Trauma - Staphysagria

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  • Eye inflammation wounds
  • Burning pain of eye after operation
  • Cannot bear dental operation; sensitive/tender teeth
  • Complications and residual pain after surgery that damages or stretches orifices
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Surgical Trauma - Strontium carbonicum

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  • A failing post-surgical patient
  • Failing to recover
  • Surgeon’s “carbo veg”
  • Unable to wean off respirator
  • Photophobia after operation
  • Faintness, shock, weakness, lack of vital heat after operation
  • Weak ankles
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Concussions/Spinal Trauma - Aconite

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  • Acute fright and fear of death, especially right after incident
  • Lost voice after head injury
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Concussions/Spinal Trauma - Arnica

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  • Wants to be left alone
  • Says he is well
  • Aversion to being approached
  • Hearing impaired after concussion
  • Cough after injury
  • Sleeplessness after inury
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Concussions/Spinal Trauma - Cicuta

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  • Childish behavior after head injury
  • Convulsions
  • Concussion with spasms, with biting of tongue
  • Convulsions after injury to head
  • Strabismus after injury
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Concussions/Spinal Trauma - Conium

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  • Slow gradual paralysis on one or all levels

- Injury is unexpected

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Concussions/Spinal Trauma - Helleborus

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  • Dullness, confused, and slowness after head injury
  • Patient seems confused and in a haze
  • Rubs forehead when trying to think
  • Passive, apathetic
  • Cannot think clearly, mind is a blank
  • Hearing impaired from concussion
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Concussions/Spinal Trauma - Hypericum

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  • Convulsions immediately after head or spinal injury
  • Injury to coccyx
  • Concussion
  • Asthmatic respiration after spine injury
  • After spine injury, lies on back with head jerking backward
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Concussions/Spinal Trauma - Nat-sulph

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  • Suicidal after head injury
  • Loathing of life and fear of being left alone, lest he injure himself
  • Headache after mechanical injury
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Concussions/Spinal Trauma - Opium

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  • Stupor/coma after head injury
  • Face is red with perspiration
  • Rattling stertorous breathing after head injury
  • Contracted pupils after head injury
  • Sleepiness after head injury
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Concussions/Spinal Trauma - Rhus-tox

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  • Vomiting after injury
  • Lifting aggravates spine injury
  • Restless state with sitting aggravating
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Concussions/Spinal Trauma - Ruta graveolens

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  • Vomiting and constipation after injury

- Anxiety on becoming warm