# Arnica Montana

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Herbal Remedy
- **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Morning

## Keynote Indications
Source: Derived from the whole plant of Arnica montana, a perennial herb in the Asteraceae family,. native to Europe, prepared for homeopathic use through potentization. Traditional  Context:  Historically  used  in  homeopathy  for  trauma,  bruising,  and  soreness,. particularly following physical injuries, with applications in musculoskeletal, psychological, and. systemic conditions. It is noted for symptoms like bruised sensations, hematomas, emotional shock,. and denial of injury severity, often aggravated by touch, motion, or rest. Modern  Context:  Indicated  for  post-traumatic  conditions,  musculoskeletal  injuries (e.g.,. bruises, sprains, strains), emotional shock, and post-surgical recovery, characterized by soreness,. bruising, and psychological distress. It suits patients with acute or subacute injuries, physical or. emotional,  presenting  with  pain,  swelling,  or  denial  of  symptoms,  often  triggered  by  trauma,. overexertion, or surgical procedures, and typically accompanied by irritability or fear of touch.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Worse from: Touch, pressure, motion, rest, night, damp weather, lying on injured side,. jarring.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Arnica is used after severe mental stress orshock.Mentaloremotionalshocks.Never well since a 
trauma, fright or grief.
- History of severe physical trauma with chronic men - 
tal or emotional effects.
- Accident, trauma victims.
- Nervous, can't bear pain, whole body oversensitive.
- Fear of being touched or injured.
- Feels like a wounded animal.
- Fear of the approach of anyone.
- Fear of 
sickness.
- Fear of instant death with heart distress.
- Fear at night.
- Fear on awakening.
- Agoraphobia.
- Fear of 
open spaces.
- Fear of crowds, public places.
- Violent attacks of anguish, anxiety with angina pectoris (Aeon.).
- Easily frightened, unexpected trifles cause 
him to start.
- Hypochondriacal anxiety.
- Fear remains at night after fright (Op.).
- A sudden fear that rouses one 
from sleep at night especially after an accident (Op.).
- Head injury or strokes that effect mental functions.
- Morose, repentant mood.
- Overworked and exhausted.
- Indifference to work.
- Depression from injuries to the head (Nat-s.).
- Forgetful, what he reads quickly escapes 
his mind.
- Absent-minded.
- Forgets the word he is about to say.
- Uncon scious.
- When spoken to answers 
correctly, but relapses.
- Coma.
- Muttering delirium.
- Delirium tremens.
- Morose, delirious.
- Nervous and mental shock.
- Sits as if in thought.
- Says there is nothing the mat ter with 
him.
- Feels well in serious cases, because of shock.
- Sends the doctor home.
- Wants to be left alone.
- Prays 
quietly for her soul.
- Stupor, with involuntary discharge of feces, typhoid.
- Stupefaction, loss of sight and hearing, 
from concussion of brain.
- Arnica is used after severe mental stress orshock.Mentaloremotionalshocks.Never well since a 
trauma, fright or grief.
- History of severe physical trauma with chronic men - 
tal or emotional effects.
- Accident, trauma victims.
- Nervous, can't bear pain, whole body oversensitive.
- Fear of being touched or injured.
- Feels like a wounded animal.
- Fear of the approach of anyone.
- Fear of 
sickness.
- Fear of instant death with heart distress.
- Fear at night.
- Fear on awakening.
- Agoraphobia.
- Fear of 
open spaces.
- Fear of crowds, public places.
- Violent attacks of anguish, anxiety with angina pectoris (Aeon.).
- Easily frightened, unexpected trifles cause 
him to start.
- Hypochondriacal anxiety.
- Fear remains at night after fright (Op.).
- A sudden fear that rouses one 
from sleep at night especially after an accident (Op.).
- Head injury or strokes that effect mental functions.
- Morose, repentant mood.
- Overworked and exhausted.
- Indifference to work.
- Depression from injuries to the head (Nat-s.).
- Forgetful, what he reads quickly escapes 
his mind.
- Absent-minded.
- Forgets the word he is about to say.
- Uncon scious.
- When spoken to answers 
correctly, but relapses.
- Coma.
- Muttering delirium.
- Delirium tremens.
- Morose, delirious.
- Nervous and mental shock.
- Sits as if in thought.
- Says there is nothing the mat ter with 
him.
- Feels well in serious cases, because of shock.
- Sends the doctor home.
- Wants to be left alone.
- Prays 
quietly for her soul.
- Stupor, with involuntary discharge of feces, typhoid.
- Stupefaction, loss of sight and hearing, 
from concussion of brain.

### Vertigo
- Chronic vertigo, objects whirl about especially when walking.
- Vertigo of the elderly.
- Vertigo with 
nausea, vomiting and diarrhea.
- Vertigo worse walking, sitting erect, closing eyes.
- Vertigo worse, head injury .
- Vertigo during headache.
- Vertigo on rising and on moving.
- Vision - Diplopia from trauma, muscular paralysis, retinal hemorrhage.
- Diplopia, with vertigo, on looking 
downward.
- High objects appear to lean forward and about 
to fall.
- Flickering, worse reading or writing, with headache.
- Lost vision, after a violent blow.
- On reading, print 
seems to dance in a fog and vanish, must rub eyes.
- Muscae volitantes.
- Obscured, lost vision, during headache.
- COMMENTS - Arnica is allied to wounds and cures hemorrhages of many kinds including strokes, dilatation 
and rupture of small bloodvessels.
- Vomiting, coughing, purging, accompanied by streaks of blood in vomit.
- Extravasation of blood into the conjunctiva as in whooping cough.
- Hemorrhages into the tissues of internal 
organs or the skin.
- An odd symptom of Arnica is “coldness of the nose.” A case of facial (left) neural gia, face swollen, dark red, 
very painful to touch, was cured with Arnica (radix), the guiding symptom being “cold nose.” Patient had bitter 
taste, was very excitable and worse at night.
- Effects of violent cough or sneezing, the child cries before cough comes on (or with the cough) in whooping 
cough.
- Chronic bronchitis when patients have bruised, weak aching in the chest or great sensitiveness of the 
chest on exertion or walking.
- Arn.
- affects the left upper extremity and the right chest.
- Putrid excretions (Bapt.), putrid breath, fetid sweat.
- Incessant passing of stool and urine in putrid states.
- Nash gave “Stupor with involuntary discharge of feces and urine .” “Fears being touched or struck by those 
coming near him.” “Putrid smell from mouth.” “Bruised, sore feeling in uterine region, cannot walk erect.” “While 
answering falls into a deep stupor before finishing.” “Head alone or face alone, hot, rest of body cool.” 
“Many small boils, painful, one after another, extremely sore.” “Suddenness” is a feature of Arn.
- pains and 
action.
- P.
- P.
- Wells related a cure of double pleuro -pneumonia in a child with sudden stabbing pains on both 
 
 
sides of the chest almost preventing breathing.
- Arnica instantly caused a violent aggravation, the next instant 
relief was perfect and the child fell asleep breathing naturally.
- Keynote sore, bruised feeling.
- Bluish discoloration, bruising, better cold applica tions.
- The bed feels too har d.
- Fatigue, “fear of being approached,” an animal -like fear of guarding a wounded area.
- Can believe nothing is 
wrong when severely injured, sign of shock (Op.).
- Patient may be irritable and want to be left alone.
- Can have 
amnesia, or nightmares after injury or loss of confidence since injury.
- Intermittent fear of death.
- A major goutremedy, afraid of joints being touched.
- Good for flus and mono when there is a sore, achy feeling 
all over.
- Also acute muscle fatigue in athletes.
- Superficial tissue trauma.
- Boils that feel sore and bruised.
- Comas from trauma and injury.
- Any fever with a sore, bruised feeling.
- For chronic weak joints after repeated 
injuries.
- Shock due to trauma or shock from the injury itself.
- For grief and financial shock.
- Good for overexertion.
- It's also used for trauma from blows from blunt instruments, sprains.
- For post -stroke 
victims, for injuries and hematomas.
- For heart attacks from overexertion.
- For internal bleeding.
- Achi- ness and 
weakness from the weight of the baby in pregnant women.
- For people who have a tendency to bruise easily.
- Vertigo, worse head injuries and strokes.
- Also for severe illness when the patient goes into the stupor stage.
- Good after dental work.
- For vomiting of blood after injury to the abdominal region or injury to th e uterus.
- Sensitive to cold damp weather, and hot sun.
- Worse from touch.
- Alcohol will aggravate the condition, but may 
crave alcohol to relieve pain.
- Also worse tobacco.
- Sensation worse after an adjustment to spine (Ruta., Rhus-
t.).

### Head
- Hematoma.
- Head injury.
- Headaches from injury to head.
- Meningitis from injury to head.
- Periodical 
attacks of migraine.
- Hot head with a cold body.
- Brain feels tired.
- Burning in brain.
- Con fused, sensitivity of 
brain with sharp, pinching pains.
- Stroke victims, with loss of consciousness, involuntary evacuations from 
bowels and bladder, paralysis.
- Head as if too large.
- Headache as from a nail.
- Headaches from strong emotions.
- Cold spot on the forehead.
- Burning or hot spots on vertex.
- Head throws backwards while walking.
- Baldness.
- Recurring boils on scalp.
- Scalp feels contracted.
- Hematoma.
- Head injury.
- Headaches from injury to head.
- Meningitis from injury to head.
- Periodical 
attacks of migraine.
- Hot head with a cold body.
- Brain feels tired.
- Burning in brain.
- Con fused, sensitivity of 
brain with sharp, pinching pains.
- Stroke victims, with loss of consciousness, involuntary evacuations from 
bowels and bladder, paralysis.
- Head as if too large.
- Headache as from a nail.
- Headaches from strong emotions.
- Cold spot on the forehead.
- Burning or hot spots on vertex.
- Head throws backwards while walking.
- Baldness.
- Recurring boils on scalp.
- Scalp feels contracted.

### Eyes
- Bloodshot.
- Eyes sunken.
- Black eye from injury.
- Traumatic ulceration with much hemorrhage into 
anterior chamber.
- Expedites absorption of clots, in retinal hemorrhage.
- Bruised iris after cataract operations.
- Bruised, sore feeling in eyes after close work.
- Eyesfeel tired and weary after sightseeing, moving pictures.
- Lachrymationburning.
- Photophobia.
- Righteye protrudes, looks larger than left.
- Must keep eyes open, dizzy on 
closing them.
- Photophobia.
- Pupils contracted, dilated.

### Ears
- Shooting in and around ears.
- Blood from ears.
- Suppurating otitis with stupor.
- Cartilages of ears as if 
bruised.
- Bruised pain in external ears.
- Sensitive to shrill noise.
- Sensitivity to loud sounds.
- Hearing impaired 
from injury to the head.
- Dull hearing, after concussion.
- Hardness of hearing.
- Deafness after typhus.
- Noises 
in ear caused by rush of blood to the head.
- Humming.

### Face
- Face hot and red, with cold legs.
- Sunken, very red, pale.
- Acne sore and painful.
- Bruised pains.
- Chilliness during headache.
- Herpes in face.
- Ruddy, congested, bluish red in strokes, fevers.
- Lower jaw hangs 
down, paralysis.
- Red ness and burning of one cheek.
- Cheeks puffed, red.
- Swelling of parotid gland during 
measles.
- Throbbing and stinging pain, in swollen cheeks.

### Mouth
- Soreness of gums after teeth extraction (Sep.).
- Dry and thirsty.
- Bitter taste (Coloc.).
- Taste as from 
bad eggs.
- Fetid breath.
- Taste disgusting, putrid, slimy.
- Bad taste after operation.
- Empyema of maxillary sinus.
- Bright red, puffy fauces.
- Saliva diminished.
- Swallowing is prevented by sort of nausea as if food would not go 
down.
- Heat in lips.
- Lips burn, swollen and cracked.
- Lower lip trembles, while eating.
- Nose - Bruised, from above downward.
- Swellin g of nose.
- Nosebleeds after injury.
- Nosebleeds after every fit 
of coughing after washing face, dark fluid blood.
- Nose feels sore, cold.
- Violent sneezing from overlifting.
- Nose 
feels sore, cold.
- Post-nasal drip.
- Catarrh of antrum.
- Burning pain in typhoid f ever.
- Nosebleeds during typhoid 
fever.
- Ulcerated nostrils.
- Empyema of maxillary sinus.
- Perspiration - Sour sweat at night.
- Sour or offensive sweat, sometimes cold.
- Several transitory sweats all 
over at night, with anguish.
- Worse when sweating.
- Sweat partial on front of body.
- Sweat followed by faintness.

### Throat
- Acute tonsillitis, swelling of soft palate and uvula.
- Bright red, puffy fauces.
- Burning, when swallowing.
- Stinging in back of throat.
- Raw, sore feeling.
- Crack ling in trachea, when lying down.
- Hoarseness from 
overuse of voice.
- Hoarseness, worse exertion, colds or getting wet.
- Hoarseness early in morning.
- Voice deep 
or low, muttering.
- Tongue - Tongue dry, almost black.
- Biting, burning and scraping at root of tongue.
- Tongue, dry, almost black.
- Red stripe down centre of tongue.
- Tongue coated white.
- Tongue coated yellow.
- Tongue dry with brown streak 
down middle.

### Chest
- Burning or rawness in chest.
- Sharp pains under false ribs.
- Bruised, aching sensation in chest on 
walking.
- Sensation as if all ribs were bruised, when coughing.
- Bones and cartilages of chest are painful, worse 
motion, breathing or coughing.
- Heavy sensation l ower chest.
- Sharp pains in chest, taking the breath away, 
better pressure.
- Pain in intercostal muscles.
- Pleurodynia (Ran-b..
- Bry., Cimic.).
- Constitutions - Adapted to sanguine, plethoric persons, disposed to cerebral congestion.
- Persons easily 
made train-sick or seasick.
- It is suited to persons who are sensitive to mechanical injuries and who feel the 
effects of them long after.
- Teste noted it for plethoric red-faced persons.
- Cough - Cough produced by weeping and lamenting.
- Dry cough from tickling low down in trachea.
- Cough 
causes bloodshot eyes or nosebleed.
- Violent, spasmodic cough with facial herpes .
- Cardiac cough, 
paroxysmal, at night during sleep, worse exercise.
- Whooping cough, child cries before coughing.
- Cough 
after measles.
- Cough in sleep without waking.
- Sudden pain as if heart is squeezed or had got a shock.
- Strain of heart from violent running.
- Weakened heart muscles.
- Palpitations after any exertion.
- Palpitations after any shock or injury.
- Palpitations 
shake the whole body.
- Angina pectoris, with severe pain in elbow of left arm.
- Sharp pain in heart.
- Heart pains, 
left to right.
- Horror of constant death with card iac distress at night.
- Cardiac dropsy with distressing dyspnea.
- Fatty heart and hypertrophy.
- Pulse feeble and irregular.
- Weak fluttering of pulse.
- Pulse hurried.
- Pulse quicker 
than beat of heart.
- Kidneys - Cutting pain in kidneys.
- Piercing pain, as from kn ives plunged into kidneys, with chilliness and 
inclination to vomit.
- Involuntary dribbling with constant urg ing.
- Has to wait a long time for urine to pass.
- Urine 
has dark brick -red sediment.
- Bloody urine from mechanical causes.
- Urine in small quantity, st aining napkin 
yellow-brown.
- Red urine in liver com plaint.
- Scanty, red urine, very offensive.
- Brown clear urine which 
immediately becomes whitish and turbid.
- Asthma with inclination to move about.
- Asthma with sleeplessness before midnight.
- Asphyxia 
neonatorum.
- Dyspnea with hemoptysis.
- Short, panting breathing.
- Children lose their breath when angry.
- Raw, 
sore feeling in morning.
- Pneumonia, approaching paralysis.
- Can't expectorate, but must swallow whatever is 
loosened by coughing.
- Bloody expectoration.
- Hemorrhage after mechanical injuries.
- Offensive, green, 
purulent, blood -streaked expectoration.
- Spitting up of black, thick, viscid blood, or bright red, frothy blood, 
mixed with mucus and coagula.
- Pneumothorax from external injuries.
- Pleurisy after mechanical injuries.
- Pleurodynia (Bry., Ran-b., Cimic.).

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Belchings, tasting of bad eggs after coughing.
- Eructations of bitter mucus.
- Oppressive gases pass 
upward and downward.
- Stomach distended with wind.
- Pain in stomach during eating.
- Pinching, spasmodic 
griping pain in stomach.
- Pressure as from a stone.
- Feeling as if stomach were pressing against spine.
- As 
if a lump in stomach.
- Hiccough.
- Motion sickness.
- Nausea with burning and scratching in throat.
- Retching at 
night.
- Fetid vomiting.
- Vomiting of dark, red coagulated blood.
- Vomiting of blood after injuries.
- V omiting of 
food, mixed with blood.
- Stools - Dysenteric stools with muscular pains.
- Brown or white diarrhea.
- Offensive, brown, bloody,putrid 
involuntary stools.
- Stools look like brown yeast.
- Must lie down after every stool.
- Stools a re bloody, foamy, 
purulent, acrid involuntary during 
sleep.
- Ribbon -like stools, from enlarged prostrate or retroverted uterus.
- Stools consisting of bloody, slimy 
mucus, with urging and violent bellyache.
- Undigested stools.
- Teeth - Swollenjaw after dental w ork.
- Pains after dental work, injuries.
- Soreness of gums after teeth 
extraction (Sep.).
- Gums sore, swollen during dentition.
- Sore and aching after trauma.
- Beating and tingling 
in gums, during toothache.
- Throbbing, toothache.
- Excruciating, cutting, tearing,  in teeth.
- Temperature - Chilly with heat and redness of one cheek.
- Coldness of part lain on.
- Thirst during chill.
- Must 
uncover but it chills him.
- Shivering over whole body.
- Shivering, as if dashed with cold water.
- Internal chills 
with external heat.
- Heat and redness of head with coolness of rest of body.
- Internal heat, feet and hands cold.
- Head or face alone hot, body cold.
- Heat flushes, with thirst.
- Influenza fever.
- Intermittent fever.
- Typhoid fever.
- Septic and traumatic fevers.
- Colic, with retention of urine.
- Colic, resembling dysentery.
- Cramps from epigastrium down over 
the bowels, then foul stools.
- Tympanitic distension.
- Distended with offensive flatus.
- Flatus smelling of rotten 
 
 
eggs.
- Bruised pain, in sides of abdomen.
- Sharp pains from side to side.
- Sharp thrusts through abdomen.
- Sharp 
pain in region of spleen, taking away breath.
- Swashing in abdomen as from water.
- Loss of appetite.
- Loathing very sight of food.
- Canine hunger.
- Loss of appetite 
and sourness of stomach of brandy drinkers, creates a disgust for brandy.
- Aversion to milk and meat.
- Aversion 
to broth, smoking tobacco.
- Longing for vinegar.
- Desires sour, alcoholic drinks.
- Constant desire to drink, but 
knows not what for, as all drinks are offensive.
- Thirst with dry mouth.

### Urinary & Genital
- Genitals bruised and much swollen.
- Swelling of penis and scrotum, bluish-red.
- Hot swelling of scrotum 
after injury.
- Spermatic cords painfully swollen.
- Relaxed testicles.
- Hematocele.
- Phimosis from friction.
- Hydrocele caused by a bruise.
- Violent continu ed erections often waking.
- Seminal emission during caress.
- Impotence from sexual excess or abuse.
- Erysipelas of scrotum.
- Menses, early, hot, profuse.
- Uterine hemorrhage from mechanical injury after sex.
- Hemorrhages 
bright red or mixed with clots.
- Bloody discharge between menses.
- Ulcers of uterus with a tendency to bleed.
- Labia painfully swollen.
- Prolapsus caused by concussion.
- Ovarian region f eels as if sprained, obliging her to 
walk bent.
- Threatened miscarriage from falls etc.
- Soreness of the whole body during pregnancy.
- Feeling as if 
fetus were lying crosswise.
- Cannot bear fetal movements, cause nausea and vomiting.
- Labor pains, weak 
orceasing.
- Bruised parts after labor.
- Soreness and lameness of parts after deliv ery.
- Puerperal fever.
- Violent 
after-pains, worse breast-feeding.

### Extremities
- Bruising, muscle soreness, or joint pain, with a sensation of being beaten or battered.
- Sprains, strains, or contusions, with tenderness and swelling, worse from touch or.
- pressure.
- Stiffness or aching in injured areas, often post-overexertion or trauma, resembling.
- myofascial pain.
- Dermatological:.
- Ecchymosis or hematomas, with purple or black discoloration, often painful to touch.
- Superficial swelling or inflammation around injured sites, worse with motion.
- Occasional petechiae or small hemorrhages post-trauma, linked to capillary fragility.
- Arnica montana (Leopard’s Bane) 130.
- Psychological:.
- Emotional shock or denial, with patients minimizing injury severity or refusing help.
- Irritability or sensitivity, particularly when touched or approached, with fear of pain.
- Restlessness or anxiety post-trauma, often with disturbed sleep or nightmares.
- Systemic:.
- Fatigue or exhaustion following injury, with a sensation of weakness or collapse.
- Heat sensations or mild fever post-trauma, often with flushed face or warm skin.
- Generalized soreness or malaise, worse at night or during rest, resembling post-.
- exertional fatigue.
- Post-Surgical:.
- Swelling, bruising, or soreness after surgery, with slow recovery or prolonged pain.
- Sensitivity at incision sites, with aggravation from bandages or pressure.

### Neck & Back
- Backache from muscle strain, overuse.
- Great soreness and pain in back, as if bruised or beaten.
- Back sore and aches, worse overlifting.
- Agonizing pain in back and hips before urination.
- Bruises on back from injuries, blows.
- Violent pain, in spine, as after sudden rising up after long stooping.
- Cervical vertebrae tender.
- Muscles of neck weak, head falls backwards or any side.
- Sacrum as if beaten.
- Bladder - Retention of urine in bladder from over exertion after labor.
- Urine retained, with aching and pressing 
in bladder.
- Bladderaffections after mechanical injuries.
- Bladder tenesmus with very painful uri nation.
- Tenesmus of bladder with diarrhea.
- Bladder feels full and sore, the pressure of urine hurts him.
- Cutting pain 
in orifice of urethra at end of urination.
- Infants scream from pain in bladder.
- Constant dribbling of urine after 
labor.
- Breasts - Sore nipples.
- Mastitis from injury.
- Tumors of breast from injury (Bell -p., Con.).
- Violent after -pains, 
worse nursing.
- Causations - Mechanical injuries.
- Fright, financial loss, anger.
- Overuse of any organ.
- Surgical operations.
- Insect stings.
- Splinters.

### Skin
- Fatigue or exhaustion following injury, with a sensation of weakness or collapse.
- Heat sensations or mild fever post-trauma, often with flushed face or warm skin.
- Generalized soreness or malaise, worse at night or during rest, resembling post-.
- exertional fatigue.
- Post-Surgical:.
- Swelling, bruising, or soreness after surgery, with slow recovery or prolonged pain.
- Sensitivity at incision sites, with aggravation from bandages or pressure.

### Sleep
- Unrefreshing sleep.
- Involuntary stools during sleep.
- Sleepless and restless when overtired.
- Can't 
fall asleep, fantastical illusions while lying awake.
- Frequent yawning in evening, without sleepiness.
- Yawning 
before chill.
- Comatose drowsi ness, awakens with hot head, drops to sleep as he answers.
- Nightmares.
- Horrors in the night.
- When dreaming sees black forms of spectres, ghosts, spirits.
- Dreams of death.
- Dreams 
of being buried alive, suffocation.
- Dreams of mutilated bodies.
- Anxious and terrible dreams, awakes in terror, 
then sleepless.
- Awful dreams, of robbers and murderers.