- When traveling in Iceland, Garth Wilkinson noticed that the sheep in the vicinity of Hecla had immense bony growths on the jaws.
- Another effect noticed was the drying up of the milk🌿 MilkMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. both in sheep and cows.
- The finer ash which feel on pastures at a distance was the most deleterious, the gross ash near the mountain was inert.
- Wilkinson added that he used Hecla, with excellent effect in toothache, gum abscessCollection of pus inside body tissuesA swollen area within body tissue, containing an accumulation of pus, typically caused by bacterial infection., swellings about the jaws and in difficult dentition.
- Hecla, affects mostly the bones of the head, jaws, jawbones, teeth and legs.
- Osteosarcoma, exostosis and osteitis, arrests development and prevents recurrence.
- Clinical experience has shown the power of Hecla, to arrest many forms of bone disease including osteosarcoma, scrofulousProne to swollen glands or tuberculosisRelating to scrofula, a constitutional tendency to tuberculous swelling of the lymph nodes. and syphilitic osteitis and exostoses.
- Painful swellings, sensitive to touch, worse from touch and pressure.
- Exostosis, gum abscess, toothaches, difficult teething.
- Nodosities, decay of bone, etc.
- Bone necrosisDeath of cells or body tissuesThe premature death of cells or tissues in a localized area, caused by injury, infection, or lack of blood flow. and sinus after mastoid operation.
- Facial neuralgiaSharp nerve pain along a nerve pathIntense, shooting, or burning pain that radiates along the course of one or more nerves. from decayed teeth and after extraction.
- IndurationHardening of body tissueThe hardening of normally soft organic tissues, usually due to chronic inflammation, infiltration, or scarring. and infiltration of cervical glands, studding the neck like a row of pearls.
- Tumors in general.
- White🌿 WhiteMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. swellings.
- WhitlowPainful abscess on finger or toe tipA highly painful, localized infection or abscess near the fingernail or fingertip. and gumboils.
- Syphilis🩺 SyphilisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
- Predominantly affects the right side.
- COMMENTS-Affinity for bone deformities, bone spurs and tumors (Calc-f.), bone diseases🌿 DiseasesMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines..
- Calcium🌿 CalciumMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. deposits in the joints that cause deformities, deforming or rheumatoid arthritis🩺 Rheumatoid ArthritisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
- Spinal curvatures.
- Hypertrophied bone cancer.
- Osgood-Schlatter.
- Bone lesions, osteitis, periostitis, exostosis, tumor, often follow an injury to the bone.
- Painful and tender lesions.
- Enlarged and indurated cervical nodes, sometimes likened to “a string of pearls.” Decomposition and necrosis of the sinus and nasal bones, or for a history of damage or surgery in the area.
- Severe toothache, where the jawbone aches, boring and digging pains in the bone.
- Bony lesion after a dental abscess.
- Late state syphilis where the nasal bones deteriorate.
- Facial neural gias after tooth extractions.
- Damage to the jawbone from dental surgery.
- Ulcerations of the bone.
- Burnett noted “On July 3, 1880, a young lady, age 15, came under my observation with an exostosis on her right os caléis, somewhat smaller an a little flatter than half a walnut🌿 WalnutMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. shell.
- It was at times painful.
- “Patient was in other respects in good health and well nourished, but her teeth were not very sound.
- She goes blue🌿 BlueMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. in winter, and suffers also very badly from chilblains both on hands and feet, worse on hand.
- “Hecla lava 2c given six grains three times a day.
- July 17th.
- The exostosis is decidedly smaller <span style="color:#0d9488; font-weight:600; margin:0 6px;">➔</span> It never pains now.
- September 25.
- The exostosis has entirely disappeared <span style="color:#0d9488; font-weight:600; margin:0 6px;">➔</span> The two heels being compared, no difference between them now can be discovered.” Burnett stated “I have cured several bony tumours of the jaws with the same remedy, and that very promptly: they were all of recent origin.”
