THERAPEUTICS OF INJURY by Dr. Saralekshmi

THERAPEUTICS OF INJURY

by

Dr. Saralekshmi

saralekshmi@gmail.com

RUBRIC

GENERALITIES, INJURIES (KENT)

3 Marks:

Arn,Con,Hep,Hyper,Puls,Rhus tox,Sulph a,Ruta.

2 Marks:

Bad,Cic,Carb v,Dulc,Iod,Lach,Led,Nat sulph,Nit a,Phos,Symph,Sil,Staph,Sulph.

Generalities, Injuries (traumatism)-Boericke

2 Marks:

Arn, Bellis, Calend, Cic, Ham, Hypr, Led, Rhus t.

1 Mark:

Acet .ac; Acon; Angust.; Bufo; Crot. T; Euphras.; Glon.; Mag. C.; Millef.; Nat. s.; Physost.; Ruta.; Stont. c.; Sul. Ac.; Verb.

MEDICINES

1. ARNICA:

• Bad effects of injuries, falls, blows, contusions.
  
• Any injuries however remote seems to have caused the present problem.
  
• Tendency to haemorrhage.
  
• Head hot with, cold body.
  
• Sore, lame, bruised feeling.
  
• Bed feels so hard.
  
• < Touch, motion, damp, cold weather.
  

2. CONIUM:

• Bruised feeling after blows.
  
• < lying down, turning in bed.
  
• > Motion, pressure.
  

3. HEPAR SULPH:

• Great sensitiveness, touch even of clothes is intolerable.
  
• Pain causes fainting.
  
• Feeling as if wind were blowing on some part.
  
• The side of body on which he lies at night becomes gradually insufferably painful.
  
• < Cold weather, touch.
  
• > Warmth.
  

4. HYPERICUM:

• Injuries to nerves, especially of fingers, toes and nails.
  
• Crushed fingers.
  
• Excessive painlessness.
  
• Punctured wounds.
  
• Pain after operations
  
• Spasm after injury.
  
• Coccydynia.
  
• Injured nerves from bites of animals.
  
• Neuritis, tingling.
  
• Right sided neuralgia.
  
• Drowsiness.
  
• Tetanus.
  
• Head feels as if elongated.
  
• Pressure along ulnar side of arm.
  
• <cold, touch
  
• >Bending head backwards.
  

5. PULSATILLA:

• Injuries, pain with chilliness.
  
• Right sided neuralgia.
  
• Symptoms ever changing.
  
• Thirst less.
  
• Thick bland, greenish, yellowish discharge.
  
• < Heat
  
• >lying on painful side, cold.
  

6. RHUS TOX:

• Affects fibrous tissue, joints, tendons, and sheath.
  
• Produces pain and stiffness.
  
• Post-operative complications.
  
• Tearing pain.
  
• Ailments from strain.
  
• Jaws crack when chewing.
  
• Eye painful on turning.
  
• < Wet, rainy weather.
  
• > Change of position.
  

7. RUTA:

• Injuries to bones.
  
• Acts upon periosteum, cartilages, eyes and uterus.
  
• Affects flexor tendons.
  
• All parts of body, feel as if bruised.
  
• Sprains (after arnica).
  
• Lameness after sprain.
  
• Deposits on periosteum, tendons, joints, wrist.
  
• < Cold weather.
  

8. SULPHURIC ACID:

• Tendency to gangrene following mechanical injuries.
  
• Haemorrhages of black blood.
  
• Purpura haemorrhagica.
  
• Cicatrices turn red and blue, become painful.
  
• Right sided neuralgia.
  
• Writer's cramp.
  
• Debility, tremor, weakness.
  
• < Excess of heat and cold.
  
• > Warm, lying on affected side.
  

9. BADIAGA:

• Soreness of muscles.
  
• Skin sore to touch.
  
• Sensitive to cold.
  
• < Motion, friction of clothes.
  

10. CICUTA:

• Cervical muscles contracted.
  
• Convulsions from concussion of brain.
  
• Cerebrospinal meningitis.
  
• Head symptoms relieved by emission of flatus.
  
• Tearing in coccyx.
  
• Sensation of internal chill.
  
• < Menses, touch.
  

11. CARBO VEG:

• Epistaxis after straining.
  
• Imperfect oxidation.
  
• Venous congestion, dark blood.
  
• Head: hot, breathe cold, blue skin.
  
• Wants to fanned.
  
• < Night.
  

12. DULCAMRA:

• Injury to skin, glands.
  
• Ailments from damp, cold weather.
  

13. IODUM:

• Injuries of glands and connective tissue.
  
• Debility, great perspiration.
  
• Thirsty, hungry.
  
• Craves fresh air.
  
• < Warm room.
  
• > Open air.
  

14. LACHESIS:

• Injuries, haemorrage of dark blood.
  
• Debility after haemorrhage.
  
• Bad effects of suppressed discharge.
  
• Cannot bear tight clothes.
  
• Desires to fanned.
  
• < Warm bath, touch, pressure.
  
• > Appearance of discharge.
  

15. NATRUM SULPH:

• Head symptoms from injuries to head, mental troubles there from.
  
• Capillary bleeding after curettage.
  
• Spinal meningitis.
  
• Occipital pain.
  
• Hot feeling on top of head.
  
• Epistaxis.
  
• Right sided neuralgia.
  
• Dreams of running water.
  
• >dry weather, pressure.
  

16. NITRIC ACID:

• Capillary bleeding after curettage.
  
• Offensive blood.
  
• Sticking, splinter like pain, appear and disappear quickly.
  
• Epistaxis with chest affection.
  
• Tongue clean, red and wet with centre furrow.
  
• < Night, cold.
  

17. PHOSPHORUS:

• Injury, haemorrhage, bright red blood.
  
• Post operative neuritic pain.
  
• Wounds bleed very much even it small; they heal and break out again.
  
• Suddenness of symptoms.
  
• Spinal burning, coldness of occiput.
  
• Neuralgia, parts must keep warm.
  
• < lying on left side.
  

18. SYMPHYTUM:

• For traumatic injuries of eyes, pain in eye after blow of an obtuse body, no remedy equals this.
  
• Acts on joints.
  
• Wounds penetrating to perineum and bones, non union of fractures.
  
• Irritable, stump after amputation.
  
• Irritable, bone at point of fracture.
  
• Neuralgia of limb.
  
• Psoas abscess.
  
• Pricking pain and soreness of periosteum.
  

19. SILICEA:

• Abscess in cornea, after traumatic injury.
  
• Every little injury suppurates.
  
• Painless swelling of glands.
  
• Cracks at end of fingers.
  
• < Cold.
  
• > warm
  

20. STAPHYSAGRIA:

• Lacerated tissues.
  
• Sphincters lacerated or stretched.
  
• Lacerated or incised wounds of cornea.
  
• Pain and nervousness after extraction of teeth.
  
• < touch.
  
• > Warmth.
  

21. CALENDULA:

• Open wounds.
  
• Promotes granulation by first intension.
  
• Haemostatic after tooth extraction.
  
• Neuroma.
  
• Severe pain.
  
• Tendency to take cold.
  
• Lacerated scalp wounds.
  
• Injuries to eyes, after operation.
  
• Burns and scalds.
  

22. SULPHUR:

• Red orifices.
  
• Offensive discharge.
  
• Burning
  
• < Warmth of bed.
  

23. ACETIC ACID:

• Bruises, sprains.
  
• Haemorrhage from any part.
  
• Debility after hemorrhage.
  
• Blood rushes to head with delirium.
  
• Skin hot, profuse sweat.
  
• Intense thirst.
  

24. BELLIS:

• Acts upon muscular fibers of blood vessels.
  
• Muscular soreness.
  
• Venous congestion due to mechanical injuries.
  
• First remedy in injuries to deeper tissues after major surgical works.
  
• Injuries to nerves with intense soreness and intolerance of cold bathing.
  
• Traumatism of pelvic organs, auto traumatism.
  
• Sprains and bruises.
  
• Sore bruised feeling in pelvic region.
  
• Suited to gardeners.
  
• Varicose vein with bruised sore feeling.
  
• Applied externally in naevi.
  
• < Warm bath.
  

25. EUPHRASIA:

• Consequence of external injuries.
  
• <warming.
  

26. HAMMAMELIS:

• Open painful wounds, with weakness from loss of blood.
  
• After operations, supercedes the use of morphine.
  
• Venous congestion hemorrhages.
  
• Varicose vein with bruised soreness of affected part.
  
• Acts upon the coats of vein causing relaxation and engorgement.
  
• Fullness of head following epistaxis.
  
• Hastens absorption of intra ocular hemorrhages.
  
• < Warm weather.
  

27. MILLEFOLIUM:

• After operation for stone.
  
• Bad effects from falls from height, overeating.
  
• Various types of hemorrhages, bright red blood.
  
• Painful varices during pregnancy.
  
• Hemorrhage from bowel.
  
• Nose bleed.
  
• Hemoptysis from suppressed menses and hemorrhages.
  
• Bad effects of continued high temperature.