{"id":13568,"remedy_name":"Arnica Montana (HMT)","remedy_type":"Remedy","alternative_names":[""],"miasm":"Tubercular Miasm","temperament":"Neutral","aggravation_time":"Neutral\/Anytime","keynote_indications":"Arnica has a special place in homoe opathy.  It is prepared from\ntobacco grown on the mountains, and ha s long since been used in the\ntreatment of blunt injuries.  To fa ll and get hurt is common in hilly\nareas, no wonder that the Gracious God has provided the appropriate\nremedy right there!\n\nIn homoeopathy, Arnica is used in the treatment of new as well as old\ninjuries.  Its main symptom is the clotting of blood (resembling\nAlumen); thus, it is an essential ingredient in the treatment of heart\ndiseases.  Arnica, in homoeopathic  form, liquefies the clotted blood.\nYet, unlike allopathic medicine, it does not make the blood too thin to\nclot when needed.  In the case of heart attack , Arnica is given in\ncombination with Lachesis.  Lachesis is a remedy for snake venom,\nwhich causes the blood to clot in th e arteries supplying the heart and\ncauses heart attack.\n\nSome snake venoms affect the nerv ous system instead of the blood.\nNaja is one such example.  Its venom affects the heart musculature.\nArnica and Lachesis, both are closel y related to the coagulation of\nblood.  They must be given together , and not one after the other, so\nthat their action does no t conflict with each ot her.  Administration of\ntwo to three medicines, together or in sequence, demands a special\nskill based on deep knowledge and long experience a bout the nature\nof the medications to be used.  I usually give Arnica and Lachesis\ntogether or just one of the two.  If the heart attack has been\nprecipitated due to co agulation of the blood, Arnica will adequately\ndilute the blood, and re-establish its flow.\n\nArnica is the best remedy for accidents and blunt injuries , causing\nthe injured part to turn blue or black due to the accumulation of\nclotted blood.  Once, a patient had been badly beaten with a club and\nhis entire body was black and blue.  His condition was critically\nserious and I thought he would not survive.  I gave him sufficient\nsupply of Arnica and prayed for him.  By the next evening, I was very\nworried because I had received no  information about his condition.\nOn inquiry, I was told that he had become well enough that night and\nhe was even up and about by then.  Alhamdolillah.\n\nArnica 200 given along with Aconite 200 is much better and faster in\naction than Arnica 200 alone.  If the injured area is flushed and\nswollen due to increased local circ ulation, Belladonna should also be\ngiven along with Arnica for better re sponse.  Increased  blood flow to\nthe injured part is a natural response to the physical insult.  In Arnica\nalone, local blood flow is not e nhanced and there is no unusual\nswelling.  In the case of increas ed swelling, Belladonna or Aconite\nshould also be administered.  This  general prescription may be used\nwithout any hesitation or fear of ha rm.  It can simply work to one\u2019s\nadvantage.\n\nArnica works equally well in low as well as high potencies.  However,\nin deep-established illnesses, it should be administered in high\npotency.  Once an army officer, Major Mumtaz, slipped off the snow-\ncovered cliff during military exerci ses and landed in an abyss 75 feet\ndeep in the Himalayas.  He was se riously hurt with no apparent hope\nof survival.  I gave him Arnica 1000  and Natrum Sulph 1000 twice on\nthe first day and then once a day.  By God\u2019s grace, he recovered\nastonishingly well.\n\nOne of my patients had been badl y hurt and his backbone had also\nfractured.  The doctors told him that he would not survive, if he\nluckily survived, he would be bed-ridden or bound to a wheelchair for\nlife.  I prescribed him Arnica, Ruta, Hypericum, Calcarea Phos and\nSymphytum, all in potency 30 to be taken 3 to 4 times a day.  After\nsome time, he showed up in my office in London walking on his own,\nwithout any support.  I failed  to recognize him, although I\nremembered his face.  It was unbelievable to see him walking\nindependently.  He smiled and told me that he had used the\nhomoeopathic prescription suggested by me and that I had prayed for\nhim, and given him hope.  His r ecovery was indeed miraculous.\nHence, this prescription is the best remedy in all injuries causing\nswelling, inflammation, pain and stiffne ss.  In the first patient, I had\nalso included Natrum Sulph 1000, whic h in my opinion is the best for\ninjuries of the nape of the neck.  Over many years of practice, I have\nfound a triad of homoeopathic medicine s that are very effective in the\ntreatment of broken bones.  This consists of Symphytum, Ruta and\nCalcarea Phos.  It virtually doubles the speed of healing of a broken\nbone, even when there is a gap due to the loss of bone.  The bone\nstarts growing from both ends of the fracture to fill up the gap.\n\nApart from physical trauma, Arnica is also very useful for fatigue and\ndiscomfort following physical exertion .  If the aching is severe,\nArnica and Bryonia together will offe r sure relief.  Arnica is very\nuseful in various women\u2019s diseases.  At the time of childbirth,\nunusual straining can tear apart the pelvic muscles and tissues ,\nresulting in chronic pain.  Arni ca 1000 given a few days before\nchildbirth will prevent against such happening.  The puerperal sepsis\nand fever are very amenable to Sulphur and Pyrogenium.\nProphylactic use of Arnica 1000 will mo st probably preclude their use\nor Arnica can be given also with Sulphur and Bryonia.\n\nAs a matter of principle, the more  medicines are mixed, the less their\nindividual beneficial affect would be.  The medicines similar in action\nbut not analogous to the illness w ill lose, rather than gain any\nbeneficial effect.  I pe rsonally resort to mixed prescription due to the\nshortage of time at my disposal.  I have used them over the years and\nfound them uniformly effective in all the patients.  The rigid types of\nhomoeopaths still stick to the practice of using only one remedy for a\nparticular illness, I do not agree with  them.  I would rather advise the\nuse of well-tried and tested combination prescriptions rather than\nletting the patient remain untreated and suffer.  One, if not more, of\nthe combinations may happen to be a truly analogous remedy.\n\nThe Arnica patient does not usually fear during the day but has\nnightmares during sleep.  The pregna nt women feel lower abdominal\npain due to the foetal movements,  which intensify as the pregnancy\nprogresses.  At night, the pain being suppressed by sleep expresses\nitself in the form of scary dreams.  In the case of chronic, deep-seated\nillnesses, the Arnica patient may also develop a fear of death .  In\nOpium, the person experiences such fear irrespective of the severity of\nthe illness or timing of the day and night.  In Arnica, however, he does\nnot fear much in the absence of severe illness.  The bleeding is dark\nand smelly.  The Arnica patient exhibits the early symptoms of\nmalaria and typhoid i.e. the body aches.  The skin feels raw and\nuncomfortable and the skin is very sensitive, even to touch.  So are the\njoint pains of Arnica.\n\nArnica given in high potency cures the sprain and the strain of the\nankle effectively. In spite of being given repeatedly, low potency will\nnot be very effective. Even soft  bedding feels unbearably hard to\nArnica patients.  They change side fre quently to get relief, but in vain.\n\nIn Arsenic and Rhus Tox, tossing about in bed is secondary to\nrestlessness.\n\nArnica resembles other homoeopathic medicines also.  Like\nBelladonna, the head is warm but the body is cold.  The fever\nsuppressed inside the body can be dangerous.  One dose of Arnica\nhigh potency will induce gradual warming up of the body and the\nsuppressed symptoms of the disease will start manife sting externally\nand thus give time for the appropriate treatment.  In case the diagnosis\nis already made, the appropriate analogous remedy can be\nadministered without the intermediary use of Arnica.\n\nOnce, a lady suffered from severe sprain of the ankle and was unable\nto walk.  She took homoeopathic remedies but at the same time\ncontinued massageing the injured an kle.  I gave her Arnica, Bryonia\nand Causticum and strictly forbad e her from doing massage, because\nthe massage caused recurrent injury to  the tissues.  She got better in a\nweek.  The other remedies were combined with Arnica because\nsometimes it is not a superficial injury, rather some muscle has also\nbecome weak.  Bryonia is effective for the deep muscular injuries and\nis also a muscle tonic.   In Causticum, the muscles are flabby and may\npredispose to hernia.\n\nIf the symptoms are on the right side , a combination of Arnica,\nBelladonna and Bryonia will do the job, while the symptoms on the\nleft side  respond better to a combin ation of Arnica, Ledum and\nLachesis.\n\nArnica is the best remedy when the joints get twisted and sprained\nbadly during a fall or an accident.  It will offer visible relief in a few\nhours.\n\nWhen the back gets sprained or strained as a result of jerky\nmovements, it can settle down afte r a while.  Sometimes, it becomes\nchronic.  The previously damage d muscles and ligaments become\nweak and stiff or flabby further.  Arnica is quite helpful in such a\ncondition; although it does not have a direct effect on the muscles.\nCimicifuga is more appropriate fo r deep-seated muscular conditions.\nIf the backache becomes chronic, in itially Arnica should be combined\nwith Bryonia.  However, if the relief is only temporary, Arnica should\nbe combined with Rhus Tox.  Rhus  Tox is very effective in deep-\n\nseated muscular ailments.  Rhus T ox is very beneficial is cases of\nmuscular paralysis.  It strengthens and invigorates the muscles.  It is\nuseful in case of a dilated heart also.  In chronic paralyses, it is given\nalong with Sulphur.  Calcarea Car b, being chronic of Sulphur and\nRhus Tox, may also be indicated to prolong their useful effects.\n\nArnica is very useful in herpes.  The common kind of herpes is\nrelated to the nervous weakness or infection.  The other kind is related\nto venereal diseases and is very resi stant to treatment.  Herpes due to\nnervous weakness responds well to Arnica, which is more effective\nwhen combined with Arsenic and Ledum.  The triad of Arsenica,\nArsenic and Ledum offers cure  in all kinds of poisonous\ninsects\/animal bites.  In Arnica, the inner lining of  the gut is as\nirritable as the skin is in malaria and typhoid.  There is a tendency to\nbleed from the ruptured small vessels .  If there is bleeding in the\nvomiting, stools or sputum and th e appropriate analogous remedy\ncannot be thought of, Arnica may well  be tried.  If the disease has\nadvanced, the mucous membranes of the intestines may disintegrate,\nleading to offensive smelling, blood mixed stools . The specific\nanalogous remedy has to be sought af ter in such a case, since Arnica\nalone will not be of much use.  The patient of Arnica sometimes\npresents with the offensive breath  and sweat, smelling like that of\nBaptisia.\n\nWhen the disease becomes severe, the Arnica patient, like that of\nArsenic, becomes fearful of death.  His head feels warm.  He wants\nhis body to be warmed up but not his head.  The Arsenic patient likes\nthe head to be cooled and the body  warmed.  Being constantly cold,\nthe Arsenic patient resembles that  of Psorinum, though in Psorinum,\nthe patient is cold from head to toe.  Lachesis is very useful, especially\nif the feet are cold after going to sleep. The feet are cold on and off\nand not all the time.  The excreta or  the discharges are not offensive\nsmelling, unlike Psorinum.  The Psori num patient smells terrible, and\nfeels intense cold.  Sometimes the skin is covered with ugly-looking,\nthin scales like Arsenic.  If the scales  and scabs smell awful, Arsenic\nand Psorinum should be given together.\n\nIf the fever prolongs, the Arnica pa tient may involuntarily pass urine,\nas well as stools, in their sleep.  The urine is deep coloured and\ncontains blood .  The bladder feels full and tense, the kidneys ache.\nThere is tendency of chills, naus ea and vomiting.  The stools are dark\n\nand reddish in colour and frequent.  The f requency of stools  is\nassociated with severe griping pain in the intestines.  The patient feels\nprogressively weak after every motion and likes to retire.\n\nArnica is a good remedy for whooping cough  also.  The child\nscreams before or after the bout of cough.  Excessive straining can\nrupture the small capillaries and cause them to bleed.  If Arnica is not\ngiven, the patient may go blind due to bleeding in the eyes.  The\nwhole body feels badly beaten up due to  increased internal pressure.\nArnica is not a cure, but offers suffi cient relief of symptoms so that\nthe serious after-effects of whooping cough  can be minimized.\nDrosera is very effective in whooping cough and similar coughs.  One\ndose of potency 30 taken at night, works extraordinarily well.\n\nThe Arnica patient is irritable, sad and distressed only during the\nailment, even though he is not of this nature.  When the symptoms\nprogress, the pain is ameliorated and the drowsiness prevails.  The\nmind, however, remains clear.  On questioning the patient will\nrespond clearly.  In the heart diseases associated with Arnica, the heart\nfeels as if squeezed into a vice.  Th e patient\u2019s heart beats out of fear.\nThe pulse is irregular.  The heartb eat becomes fast in response to\nphysical exertion and exercise, and slows down with rest.  The patient\nwants to move to a new place, hoping that he may feel better.  Arnica\ncombined with Bryonia and Iris Tenax is very useful in Appendicitis.\nArnica 1000 given prior to a surger y or childbirth prevents many\ncomplications.\n\nAdjuvants: Aconite, Ipecac\nAntidote: Camphor\nPotency: 30 to CM.","modalities":"","symptoms_by_system":[],"schema_version":"1.0","api_provider":"Allahshafi"}