NERVES-NUMBNESS (Anesthesia) - Homeopathic Guide

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NERVES-NUMBNESS (Anesthesia)


(See also "NUMBNESS OF FINGERS" under "MISC")

Aconite N: Numbness and tingling of recent origin.

Platina: Numb sensation in small spots, in head, especially in the evening and in bed; numbness of teeth, crawling in the tongue, numbness-of coccyx whilst sitting. Complains of trembling, numbness, crawling and cramping shocks.

Hydrocyanic Acid: Sudden and complete loss of sensibility.

Coca: Numbness of hands and feet with feeling of internal coldness. Weakness of extremities.

Arsenicum: Creeping sensation in hands and feet with numbness.

Morphinum: Numbness of legs and feet with falling on attempting to stand. Icy coldness of left sole. Twitching.

Mezereum: Paralytic weakness in arms. Legs and feet go to sleep.

Gelsemium: Numbness and weakness of arms . Paralytic affections, muscles weak and will not obey the will. Prostration of whole muscular system with entire motor paralysis.

Agaricus M: Parts cold and blue, dead feeling as if frozen. Creeping sensation as of ants.



Secale Cor: Numbness of fingers and pricking of tips. Numbness, insensibility and coldness. Crawling sensation, worse by heat.

Lachesis: Numbness of hands and fingers; contraction of tendons on waking up in the morning in patients who are loquacious and worse during night or early morning and improved as the day went on. Worse by heat and after sleep.

Oxalic Acid: Numbness of the back and limbs. Numbness and sensation of swelling in ball of thumb. Numbness from shoulder to fingertips.

Plumbum: Deadness and insensibility, especially of right side. The functions of the organs are slowed down. The nerves do not convey their message with the usual lightning like rapidity. Anaesthesia of the skin.

Cicuta Virosa: Limbs benumbed with paralysis. Numbness of whole body; coldness of hands.

Ignatia: Numbness, deadness of heels whilst walking.

Conium: Numb feeling over the whole body. Great debility. Trembling, jerking and twitching of the muscles.

Raphanus: Numbness of hands and soles of feet.

Bufo: Patches on the skin with loss of sensation.

Cadmium Sulph. Sensation or feeling as if ants crawling in the extremities deep in the muscles and the skin. Numbness of parts, in spots. Crawling in paralyzed parts.

Ambra Grisea: Diminished sensibility of all parts; feeble circulation. Music intolerable. Soreness. Coldness, trembling and stiffness of limbs.

Alumina: Conductivity of the nerves impaired so that a prick of pin on the extremities is not felt until a second or so afterwards. Numbness of soles of feet. In coordination with other limbs.



Phosphorus: When the cause is masturbation, Bright disease etc. Numbness of the body accompanied by pricking, numbness and insensibility of arms and legs, and of tips of fingers. Over sensitiveness. (Hyperesthesia).

Coffea: Over sensitiveness in children; in puerperal fever with coldness of arms and legs, increased perception of slight passive motion. Over sensitiveness to touch and noise. Sensitiveness of vision, of hearing, of smell, of touch; pains are increased by noise. Great sensitiveness of female genital organs, often preventing coition owing to vagina being hot and sensitive.

Chamomilla: It is indicated when Coffea fails. Over sensitiveness to pain. Body painfully sensitive to touch, sends a shudder through frame, twitchings and spasms.

Asarum Eur: Scratch by finger or nail on linen or silk, crackling of paper or the like creates very disagreeable sensation, arresting momentarily all his thoughts and actions. Cold, shivers from any emotion. Imagines he is hovering in the air like a spirit. Sensation of gliding while walking.

Belladonna: Over sensitiveness to least jar or noise. Cannot bear either of them. Scalp sensitive, does not want hair to be combed or brushed.

Sulphur: Oversensitive to filthy odours, but filthy substances themselves he will eat and swallow.

Theridion: Sensitivity that a painful t:luill passes over the body in waves and nausea follows. Nausea from noise is strikingly strange.



Hepar Sulph: Over sensitiveness to impressions, to surroundings and to pain. Oversensitive to cold for which he has no endurance. Wants abnormally warm room. Delicate patients.

Lac Can: Over sensitiveness; sensitive to light and noise. The page is not clear when reading. She sees faces before her in the dark.

Nux Vom: Over sensitiveness to external impressions, to light, to noises, to odours, to least current of air, to his surroundings. Extremely touchy in regard to his food, many kinds of food disturb him; craves for stimulants etc. which will brace him up. Irritable and touchy. Aggravation from and aversion to meat. If a chair comes in his way he will kick it off, or when undressing if a part of his clothing catches in a button, he would pull it off, at times tearing the clothes. An uncontrollable state of irritability. Wants to force things his own way. When details are given about anything, he gets angry and wants to get away, tears things up, scolds, goes horned and talks it out with his family. He quarrels, reproaches. scolds, insults from jealousy, soon afterwards howls and weeps aloud.

Arsenic Alb: Sensitiveness to smell and touch. Over sensitiveness to surroundings of the room. Extremely fastidious; wants everything placed in order in the room.

Cocculus: Numbness and paralytic feeling in the arms . Sometimes one hand numb as if asleep and at other times the other hand.

Silicea: Hands and feet go to sleep on working. Sensitiveness to noise.



Alumina Silicate: Numbness of single parts and of painful parts. Flushes of heat and rush of heat to the head.

Phosphorus: Sensitive to storms and thunder.

Hysoscyamus: Over sensitiveness of cutaneous nerves with the result that the patient desires to be naked.

Opium: Over sensitiveness to noise; can hear flies walking on the wall and the clock striking in a distant place.

Bufo: Increased sensation on certain patches upon the skin. There may be numbness on other parts.

Plumbum: Excessive hyperesthesia of the skin accompanied with paralysis and loss of power. He cannot bear to be touched which hurts him. The hyperesthesia is in acute affections and in chronic affections there is anesthesia of the skin.

Theridion: Over sensitiveness of nerves. Scratching of linen or silk, crackling of paper is unbearable. Symptoms worse on closing eyes.

Graphites: Sensitive to cold in winter and heat in summer.