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
18
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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
20
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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
22
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Burns - Carbolic acid
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- Chemical burns
- Skin begins to ulcerate with putrid discharge after burns
23
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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
24
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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
36
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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
