Bryonia: When pains are aggravated on slightest motion and relieved by
mode rate pressure and warmth. There is inflammation of joints which are
hot and swollen. The patient feels chilly. It may be given in IX dilution or
in 200 when lower dilutions fail.
Ledum Pal: It is specific in gout and rheumatism when the affection travels
from downwards to upwards. There is deposit of chalk stones in finger
joints, wrists and toes. There may be inflammation of joints. Chilly and yet
the pains are better by cold .application. Irritable, desires to be alone. Pain
may be caused by alcoholism, insect stings, and punctured wound. Worse
by warm application.
Kalmia Lotifolia: For rheumatic pains when the affection travels down
wards with numbness. Pain with palpitation of heart and slow pulse. Pains shift rapidly Pain in ulnar nerve.
Colchicum: A general remedy for gout. There may be aversion to food
which smells as soon as served. Swelling of joints which may be red or
pale. Abdomen bloated with wind. Albumin in urine which becomes black
like ink, scanty urine with dropsically swelling, marked irritability from
pains or odours. Worse by motion, touch or mental effort. Better by
warmth, rest or sitting. Gout and rheumatism in smokers.
Rhus Tox: Recurring attacks due to getting chilled when hot. Rheumatism
caused by damp weather and worse in damp climate; there is restlessness
and the pains are worse on first motion, better by continued motion and
again worse after moving for some time when it becomes necessary for him
to repose. It gives best results in IM dilution.
Cactus G: Rheumatism with dropsy and oedematous swelling of
extremities. Kidneys and bowels affected. Cardiac rheumatism when heart
is affected and joints are freed from pain.
Stellaria Med: It is indicated in shifting pains in all parts with soreness;
worse by motion with pains in liver. Enlarged and inflamed gouty joints
which are painful (It can also be used locally in mother tincture mixed with
olive oil.)
Dulcamara: Rheumatism from getting cold and wet. Due to living in damp
basements or where there has been great difference in temperature within
24 hours, in warm summer days when followed by cold nights.
Rheumatism due to suppression of perspiration.
Pulsatilla: Affects knees, ankles and . small joints of hands and feet, pains
shifting about, night, in a warm room and at rest; better in open air and by
motion and warm application. Pain in heals like the pricking of nails.
disposition gentle, timid and easily moved to tears.
Gultheria ON: In 10-20 drop doses never fails to arrest the pains.
Asclepias Tub. Pains run diagonally.
Malaria Off: Rheumatism after malarial fever.
Ferrum Pic: Rheumatism increased or brought on by walking.
Lycopodium: Rheumatism of finger joints with flatulence.
Lactic Acid. Rheumatism with diabetes.
Guaiacum: Rheumatism and gout engrafted syphilitic or tubercular
constitutions. Sore swollen Joints more painful from warmth and motion. Gouty abscesses of joints. The leg and ankle bones are especially affected
Shooting pain in legs from feet to knees. Pains in tibia. Better by cold bath
and cold application.
Formica and Formic Acid: Gouty or rheumatic pains due to urates and
albumin in urine. Inflammation of joints which are very painful. They are
worse on motion, by cold or before storm; better on pressure.
Lithium Carb: Chronic rheumatism due to uric acid. Palpitation and shocks
about the heart. Painfulness of the soles of feet and small joints with a sense
of burning therein.
Kali Carb: Pains stitching, stabbing and of burning character relieved
temporarily by cold application and not by rest or motion. The patient
shrieks on account of pain. Backache accompanied by great weakness and
profuse sweating. If he covers the painful part, the pain goes to the
uncovered part. Aggravation after eating and uncovering. Give in IM
dilution.
Calcarea Carb: Tardy development of bony .tissues; irregular nourishing of
the. Bones; one part of the bone is nourished while the other is starved.
Like Rhus Tox, the pains in this remedy are relieved by constant walking
and aggravated by lying or at rest. Arthritic swelling or nodular gout of
hands and finger joints or knees in fleshy and sweaty persons. Worse by
cold.
Magnesia Mur: When pains arc worse by sitting, better by moving and
completely relieved by lying down.
Salicylic Acid: Articular rheumatism attacking joints particularly elbow and
knee joints with great swelling, redness and high fever. Acute and piercing
pain better by heat and worse by cold.
Sticta Pulmonaria IX: Rheumatism of right shoulder blade or joint, wrist
joint, ankle or knee joint. It also reduces fluid in the joints.
Acid Tartaricum: Pain in soles of feet and heels.
Trimathylaminum: Pain in wrists and ankles, with fever; it diminishes the
amount of urates.
Sarsaparilla 200: Rheumatism in Sycotic persons due to suppressed
gonorrhoea by injections or other outer applications.
Berberis Vulg. 200: Pain in heels relieved by putting most of the weight on
them. Arthritic and rheumatic affection if attended by renal sticking pain and backache.
Myristica Sebifera: Inflammation or/and suppuration of joints or other
parts. Pain in finger nails and phalanges.
Chelidonium: Rheumatism with oedema, heat, tenderness and stiffness.
Constipation and whitish stools. Pain is aggravated be slightest movement
or touch. The only relief is constant bathing with hot water.
Cuprum Acet: Tonic spasms of the toe of right foot, very painful.
Gnaphalium: Sciatica pain resulting from strain and alternating with numbness; worse in cold and damp weather.
Gratiola: Gout with acidity and constipation. Rheumatic and gouty pains
in shoulders, arms, fingers, particularly in the elbow and wrist joints.
Eupatorium Perf: Chronic gouty state with inflamed nodosities of the
finger joints, elbow joints, toes etc. Gouty or arthritic headache may
alternate with pain in joints.
Kali Iod: Rheumatic gout affecting every joint. Old gouty subjects who
must keep in motion in the open air which gives relief. They are fatigued
when keeping quiet. He is hot, bad tempered, irritable and harsh.
Rhododendron: Rheumatic pains which wander from joint to joint with
swelling of joints, worse before or during thunderstorm, cold or wet or
unsettled weather. Better from warm wrapping. Enlargement of joints not
due to gouty deposits. Arthritic nodes.
Phytolacca: Chronic bruised state of body, bone pain, body aches, pain 'in
joints, worse at night, from warmth of bed or from warm application. He
wants cold things, rheumatism of joints with enlargement of parotid and
submaxillary glands. Pain in the cardiac region shooting into the right arm.
Natrum Sulph. When rheumatism is due to uric acid in urine accompanied
with gastric troubles.
Magnolia: Rheumatism with heart trouble. Alternating. pain between
spleen and heart. Patient tired but not stiff. Irregular shifting pains.
Dyspnoea. Suffocated feeling when walking fast.
Benzoic Acid: Rheumatic and gouty pains in Uraemic and lithaemic constitutions. When the urine is scanty the patients suffer more
whereas when it is heavily laden with deposits and is copious, the pains are
relieved. The urine in such a state becomes of high color and smells strong
like that of a horse. Checking of these deposits aggravates , pain. The urine contains uric acid forming the red deposits. The rheumatic pains cease on
catching cold and the inflammation of tongue or stomach ·starts. In the
latter case the patient vomits everything he eats. The suppressed. pains go
to the stomach and then Benz. Acid, Ant. Crud. and Sang, are likely to be
useful. With complication of asthma. Oedema of lower extremities. Forgets
words when writing. Sadness and anxiety when perspiring. Uraemia.
Chilly, worse by uncovering, cold air, changing weather, motion and wine.
Better by heat or profuse urination. Wandering pains which change position
suddenly. Gouty concretions on joints. It relieves the pain of gout.
Oxalic Acid: Left sided rheumatism with sharp pains through the lower
lobe of the left lung which is noteworthy of this remedy. It matters. Not
what the name of the disease may be, pleurisy, pneumonia or phthisis;
when that pain is present-Oxalic Acid shall do its work. Rheumatic gout of
joints, especially worse from sweats. It may have disordered stomach,
salivation, tasteless eructations, burning in stomach etc. It covers oxaluria
also. Pain under point of scapula, between shoulders, extending down
wards to small of back. Violent aching pain in back down the thigh relieved
by change of position.
Manganum: Limbs are full of distress, even to gout. Sore bones, burning in
soles, arthritic enlargements, painful periosteum, sore joints. This remedy is
useful in recurrent complaints and is hardly useful in first attack.
Camphor: Pains are felt during a half conscious condition and disappear
when thinking of them.
Chamomilla: Violent sharp pain coming suddenly which makes the patient
crazy. The patient says, that he would prefer death or anything rather than
the pains. Is also specific for pain with numbness.
Saccharum Lactis: Icy cold pains passing in all directions.
Antim Crud: Gout alternated with vomiting, i.e. when gout ceases,
vomiting comes on. Gouty nodules in finger joints and shifting gouty pains
but attended by white coated tongue, cracks in nostrils and corners of
mouth. Aversion to cold bath.
Mephites: Wandering pains with pressure to urinate.
Phaseolus N: Important remedy for gout accompanied diabetes.
sabina: Gout and bleeding from the uterus come on alternately, i.e.,
haemorrhage starts when the gout stops and vice versa.
Sulphur: Pains worse during summer, clear and cloudless days and better
during damp and cold weather. Chronic arthritis with burning of soles and
top of head.
Lycopus V: When pains are better in warm room or in bed; but not better by
direct warmth.
Aconite Nap: Shooting pains which are reproduced by wine or other
stimulants; worse at night and generally disappear in sitting posture.
Act. R: Rheumatism affecting the vertebral joints and especially the neck.
Pain in the nape of the neck is its characteristic. When the rheumatism
gets better, mental symptoms appear or the diarrhoea comes on when the
mind is not disturbed; some flow must be established in order to get relief.
Act Spicata: Tearing and drawing pains in small joints and wrists. The
joints swell after a slight fatigue.
Abortanum: Rheumatism starting after a checked diarrhoea. Metastasis of
rheumatism from joints to heart; to spine. There is sudden aching pain in
back better by motion. Symptoms are worse at night and in cold air.
Arsenic Alb: Burning pains worse at midnight and by lying on painful side
and relieved by heat and by moving the affected part. Rheumatic pains
from elbow to the shoulder.
Gelsemium: Burning pains not relieved by heat; worse at 10 A.M.
Rheumatic pains wandering in the bones and joints at night.
Hypericum: For Rheumatoid arthritis. It has wonderful healing effect on
injured nerve. Knee contracted; leg, foot, toes quite rigid.
Merc. Sol: Rheumatism and arthritic pains with very offensive sweats-the
more he sweats the worse he feels. Exhaustion. Better in bed, but, as soon
as he gets warm in bed the pain increases and he has to throw off his
clothes to get better. The latter position also aggravates pain, then again he
has to cover himself in bed and so it goes on the whole time. Worse during
night.
Kali Bi: Pains worse by movements and better by warmth. Wandering and
shifting pains from one joint to another. Pains better when diarrhoea or
catarrhal discharges reappear which are the ranking symptoms of this
remedy. Pain in coccyx when sitting. Pain in small spots which can be
covered with the point of finger. Pain in hip joints and knee on moving.
Apis Mel: Inflammation of joints with stinging and burning pains which are
worse in warm room and by warm application and better by cold
application and cold air. Parts look red and hot to touch. Oedema. Give
high dilution.
Selenium: Rheumatism-tubercular. Extreme weakness following prolonged
fever, great and excessive general emaciation. The withering of the limbs,
the falling out of hair. Diarrhoea after taking fruits or wines or tea.
Causticum: Rheumatoid arthritis which is better in damp and warm
weather and worse in cold and dry weather. Contraction and stiffness of
tendons with weakness and trembling. Rheumatoid arthritis especially
where joints are stiff and tendons shortened, drawing the limbs out of
shape. Deformity of joints. The patient feels comfortable when it rains.
Paralytic trembling, weakness of limbs.
Medorrhinum: This remedy should be tried when the well selected
remedies fail. It is specially indicated in rheumatoid arthritis which rouses
the patient from sleep. Scanty, high colored, strong smelling urine.
Sensitive to cold with tenderness of the soles. Wants to lie with legs drawn
up which position affords him relief. Pain in heels, weakness of memory,
irritable temperament. Use 200 dilution or above.
Syphilinum: For rheumatism in syphilitic constitutions when other well
indicated remedies fail. The pains are worse during night. Give a dose of
1000 dilution at bedtime.
Lachesis: Rheumatic pain in knees and elbows. Swelling of the knees. Face
pale from bleeding. Great thirst for water.
Drosera: Pain in the Tibia and long bones.
Pyrogenium: Pain better when first beginning to move and worse when the
movement is continued with break (Reverse of Rhus Tax). In order to get
relief from pain the patient has to move a little and then stop and then·
again move a little and stop and so on.
Arnica Mont: For gouty pain when the patient is afraid to touch or
approach. He feel s that anything coming towards him, because he is sore
and tender. Rheumatic fever when heart may be involved.
Aurum Met: Pains wander from joint to joint and finally locate in the heart
resulting in angina pectoris. There is swelling of joints; affection of
cartilages and bones; inflammation of periosteum. Worse at night.
Aurum Mur: Tearing, drawing, pressing, and sticking· pains, better by cold and worse by heat and warm application. Worse at night. He loathes his life.
Natrum Phos. Rheumatism with round worms. Pain at the base of the heart
when the pains in limbs and toes are relieved and vice versa.
Argentum Met: Rheumatic pains in joints along the nerves and cartilages
especially elbow and knee. Legs weak and trembling, worse descending
stairs. Swelling of ankles. Inflamed cartilages infiltrate and form into hard
knots. Thickening of cartilages.
Caulophyllum: Rheumatism of the short muscles and of small joints of the
extremities, of phalangeal and metacarpal joints. Rheumatism worse at the
time of menses. Erratic pains, changing place every few minutes.
Petroleum: Stitching pain in the heel s as if splinters were lodged in it.
Worse on walking.
Urtica Urens: Gout accompanied with thick urine. Give in 5 drop doses of
mother tincture every two or three hours. It will not only relieve the pain
but also pass a lot of gravel with the urine.
Natrum Mur: Rheumatism in patients who dislike consolation, fuss, cold,
fat food and salts. His lips crack in the winter. Gout in persons who have
taken much quinine or are chilly. Worse at seaside.
Calcarea Phos: Weakness and softness of bones. Rheumatism coming on
in winter or cold weather. Better on return of hot weather.
Carboneum Sul: Useful in chronic rheumatism and gout, especially of
joint.
Conium: When the pains are better by letting limbs hang down.
Agaricus M: Diagonal pains i.e. of left arm and right leg or vice versa.
Tarantula: Diagonal pains i.e. of right arm and left leg.
Lycopersicum: Rheumatic pains which are worse outdoor. Pain in the right
deltoid is more marked.
Silicea: Pain in the coccyx as from a long carriage ride. Stinging pain in the
coccyx worse on pressure. Pain in the knee as if too tightly bound.
Staphisagria: Rheumatoid arthritis. Stiffness and sense of fatigue in all the
joints, arthritic nodosities on joints. Worse from slightest touch is the
characteristic symptom of this remedy.
Alumina Silicate: Pain in the joints, in the limbs, shoulders, elbow, forearm
hand, thighs, legs and feet etc. Pain travels from below upwards.
Ammonia Phos: Constitutional remedy for gout and rheumatic diathesis
when there are nodes in the joints. Concretion in the joints and the hands
become twisted and out of shape.
Thuja: It helps in rheumatic fibrosits, especially of the posterior shoulders
and hip region. It also clears up synovial effusion in the knees. Give in 1M
potency. Rheumatoid arthritis of gonorrhoeal origin. It does wonders in
loosening the joints and in restoring locomotion when other seemingly
indicated remedies fail.
Valeriana: Shifting rheumatic pains relieved by walking up and down and
by rubbing the affected parts. Sudden flushes of heat with thirst and nausea.
Sleeplessness before midnight.
Calcarea Flour: It is use for defective bony growth; ulcerations of bones
and fistula. The patient is better by warmth and worse by cold.
Fluoric Acid. Is used in softening and absorbing the nodes and other
abnormal growths of the bones. There is a good deal of pain, some
weakness and redness of the parts. Rapid growth and brittleness of the
nails.
Picric Acid. In the experience of Dr. H. B. Halbert this remedy has
produced better result than any other remedy.
Symphytum: For bones broken by injury or in fracture. It is an is an
excellent remedy in fractures of bones whether simple or compound. Use
IX or IM potency.
Ruta: Pain in long bones whether due to injury or rheumatism. It is also
useful in injuries and fractures.
Euphorbium: Burning pains in bones or in cancer like electric shocks.
Swelling and suppuration of the sub maxillary gland and necrosis of the
bone. Pain in coccyx.
Tamus: For outer application in bone pains. Use mother tincture.
