On what grounds sciatica develops:
Sycotic ground is the most important of all. The
subjects are mostly hydrogenoids, sensitive to
humidity and to variations. < at night/standing/heat of the bed/rest (need
for movement).
> Moving the feet to find a cold place/moderate walking.
Piercing, drawing pains with heaviness, numbness from hip to foot.
General: Horror of washing. All-gone feeling in the stomach at 11 h. Burning
feet, morning diarrhea. Cutaneous
eruptions.
Thuj.: Sycosis. Hydrogenoid. Left sided (non-exclusive). < immobility/in
bed/humidity. > moving constantly.
Drawing pain along the nerve, in the soles.
General: obsessions. Fixed ideas. Lower lip bluish-white. Sweat of uncovered parts. Genito-urinary affections. Tendency toproliferations
(warts etc.)
‡ Apis / Rhus toxicodendron comp. w ...
Anregung der Wärmeorganisation bei akutem schmerzhaftem Muskelverspannung
mit neuralgiformer/entzündlicher
Komponente (akute Schmerz bei Wirbelsäulenerkrankung wie Lumbo-Ischialgien/Muskelrheuma).
‡
Acute pain down the sciatic nerve < any movement,
very sensitive to cold, more comfortable if kept quiet
Mag-p.: r. sided
Coloc.: l. sided
Sciatica: Ars. ↔ Mag-p. ↔ Coloc.
Some sciatica patients are frightfully uncomfortable
the longer they keep still, they have got to start moving, and 2 drugs which
seem to cover the majority of these cases.
Kali-i.: warm-blooded, and
the sciatic pains tend to be more troublesome when warm (of bed)/rather >
moving about.
Rhus-t.: On the other hand the same
modalities with a chilly patient, particularly if he is sensitive to damp as
well as cold, and again more comfortable when moving about.
Gnaph.: sciatica which has,
associated with the acute sciatic pain, marked numbness.
Plb-met.: sciatica which has,
associated with the acute sciatic pain, marked numbness. Tenderness of the
sciatic nerve associated with extreme, constipation as well as the pain and
numbness.
Aesc-h. for lumbosacral
pain (< standing).
Cimic.: Useful in rheuma
pains having a particular affinity for long muscles on it producescramps.
L. < lying down/should go out of bed/during menses. > continued
movement/pressure/in open air.
Violent pains with anxiety in legs. Heaviness.
Incessant restlessness of the lower limbs, cramps. Utero-ovarian
troubles. Irritability. Fear of becoming mad. Hysteria.
Lyc.: liver insufficient. Carbo-nitrogenoid.
Cancer state.< rest/in bed/lying on the painful side/standing. >
movement. Chronic sciatica, periodic with remission. Pains every 4 days. Limbs weak/stiff.
Cannot stretch the leg. Bad digestion. Face like an old man. Big belly and lean
limbs. Horror of solitude.< 17 – 20 h.
Lach.: Menopause, alcoholism. Pains going from l.
to r. < after sleep/standing/moveming/bending.
> by menses/discharges/lying down/hot application. Burning pain along the
nerve. Loquacity. Jealous. Gushes of heat. Excitation # depression. Bad effect
of solar heat.
Nux-v.: Hepatic insufficiency. Digestive
intoxication. All sorts of abuses. < in the morning (4 - 5
h.)/moving/clouded weather. > rest/hot application. Tearing pain from above
downwards with spasm. Jerking of muscles, contractions, stiffness. „As if limbs
paralysed“. Abuse of stimulants. Excess of sedentarism.
Business cares. Irritability. > wet weather/mild climate.
Nat-s.: Hydrogenoid. Rheuma.
Congestion of liver. < lying l. side/all forms of humidity/abuse of quinine.
> dry weather/pressure/change of position. Disgust of life. Tendency to
suicide. Flatulence, thirst, morning diarrhoea. Imflammation
of fingers around nails.
Ign.: Intoxication reflecting on nerves. Result of grief and cares. <
at night/change of position/standing/walking/in open air/after
eating/coffee/tobacco. > rest/lying down/eating. Pains with spasms, intense,
stiffness, cutting pains in the hips. „As if coxo-femoral
articulation broken. Remedy for women. Physical and mental hypertension. Paradoxal gaiety # sadness. Contradictory symptoms. Never
speaks about her ennuies.
Caus.: Hydrogennoid. Indifferent literality.
< temperate humid weather/heat (bed). Limbs
numb/restless/heavy/weak/trembling. „As if the tendonsare
very short“.
Chronic rheuma (with crushing pain on the
articulations). Sympathy for others. Fear of darkness. Sensation of an open
sore.
Sep.: Hepatic insufficiency. Genital affections. Tuberculinism.
< morning/evening/humidity/cold. > violent exercise/heat. Limbs
weak/agitated/heavy. Sad/indifferent. < consolation. Bearing down. Cannot
lie on the l. side.
Less frequently used:
Calc.: (psora/sciatica after working in
water). In the antecedents gonorrhoea/vaccination/serological injections.
Med.: < Psoric ground of arthritis is very
favourable for sciatica:
Ground remedies
Following remedies of the basis of sciatica but, if they cover well the
cause, may also be used as symptomatic remedies.
Used as ground remedies, in high dilutions (C 200/C 1000).
Most important:
Sulph.: Psora. L.
Graph.: psora/chilly,
Nat-m.: tuberculin, < sea side.
Sil.: tuberculin. SENsitive
to cold
2 nosodes: Medorrhinum
and Luesinum.
Med.: < thinking about symptoms. > at night/sea side. Changing
character, impatient, anxious. Time passes slowLY.
Fear of becoming mad. Sensation of heat; burning pains in the brain; sweating palms.
Conscious of her uterus. Skin/secretions smell bad.
Syph.: < at night/sea side. > on mountains. NERvous/anxious for his health, diminution of memory.
Continually washes hands, desires alcohol. Pains increase and decrease
gradually. Bone pains. Headache. Deep longitudinal crack on the tongue. Limbs
restless, must move continually. In sciatica > movement/walking. As ground
remedies should be used in high dilutions (C 200/C 1000) and repeated at long
intervals (3 weeks - 1 month).
Two remedies may be repeated alternately, at interval of 1- 3 hours, when more than one remedies 1 is
chosen. In chronic cases, C 6 or C 30 once or twice.
When there is the possibility of finding a single remedy it is then the
triumph of unicism and in that case the medicine may
be used according to the Kentian fashion, in high
dilution and
waiting for the results.
We have classified the remedies in 3 groups:
1.
most
important remedies,
2.
remedies
in alphabetical order frequently used,
3.
finally
exceptionally or rarely indicated remedies.
Bry.: < movement/standing/superficial bending. > rest/lying on the affected side/PRESsure. Pain drawing/lancinating „As from a “sore below the skin”, of which the seat is in the lumbar region and on hips. General < heat/anger. Mucous membranes dry with thirst for large quantities of water at long intervals. Constipation. <: morgens/Bewegung/Berührung/warme Räume; >: Ruhe/frische Luft/Druck;
Gnaph.: < walking/movement; however feels the
necessity of movement and change of position/lying down. > sitting/bending
the legs. Pain intens/continued # numbness.
Cramps of the calves and hips. Foetid
diarrhoea, with colic, < in the morning.
Kali-bi.: L. < standing/sitting/lying down (must change position).
> walking/flexing limbs. Violent pain, moving along a limb; appearing and
disappearing suddenly. General < 3 h./cold (humid)/
coldness/drinking beer.
2. Remedies with frequent indications:
Acon.: < at night/moveming/heat
of the room. > rest/while sitting. Acute sciatica. Sudden attack after being
exposed to dry cold. Extreme physical and mental agitation. Intolerance of
heat. Fear of death. Hypersensitive to contact. Pain with numbness.
Am-m.: L. < sitting down. > slight walking/complete lying down.
Chronic. Sometimes grave form, with tearing/stinging pain + contraction of the
limb, which causes limping. Menses abundant at night.
Arn.: < in the evening/at night/moving. (must
change position)/coldness. > lying down. Burning, tearing pains. Traumatic
sensation (fracture), numbness. Creates a scene when the doctor arrives, does
not require his service.
Ars.: < midnight – 2 h./cold (application)/violent
movement; > heat (application). Burning and tearing pains forcing the
patient to constantly change position. Prefers to lie down but moves constantly.
Restless/weak. Fear of death. Refuses to take medicines because cure is
hopeless.
Bell.: < at night/after midnight/touch (least
contact)/sound/light/gush of wind. > standing/hanging the affected limb/half
sitting position/heat. Pains appearing and disappearing suddenly. Periodical
attack, beginning in the afternoon and ending at midnight. Restless #
depressive. Hyperesthesia of senses. Tendency to spasms. Dilatation of pupils.
Bufo: < heat (room)/during sleep. > by
haemorrhage/putting feet in hot water. Mental weakness, idiocyindepressed
persons, as a result of sexual abuse or of onanism.
Sudden anger bites. epilepsy.
Cham.: < at night/in bed/rest/least movement. > carried/being in a
vehicle. Slight > by cold. Pain and numb. Intolerance of pains + restLESS, cries, tendency to become angry. Need for movement
when suffering. General < anger and fear. General > by humid heat.
Cocc.: < afternoon/contact/noise/in open air.
> by rest. Sciatica with weakness and trembling. General < by long
privation of sleep, riding.
Coloc.: A. Schmerz akut krampfartig > Bein an betroffene Seite anziehen; R. < evening/at night/moving/stretching limbs (keeps limbs stretched)/contact/cold. > rest/hot application. Very important remedy. Sciatica with intolerable pains followed by numbness and paresis. General < by anger.
Dios.: A. Schmerz einschießend entlang Nervus ischiadicus;
Rücken “Wie lahm”. R. <
getting up/walking/moving. > rest/slow extension (contrary Coloc.). Cramping pain along the nerve (hip). > general
by extension/eventuell Rückwärtsbeugen;
<: Hinlegen/sich krümmen;
Ferr-met.: < at night/rest/being seated/cold/air
current. > moderate movement/heat. Tearing pain. Pale and flushed
individual, has gushes of heat, localized on the face. Anaemia, chlorosis.
Gels.: < at night/rest/beginning of movement. Chronic sciatica.
Stubborn cases of trembling.
Hyp.: < cold/humidity/mist/confined air/touch.
Nerves SENsitive, sensation of laceration,drawing
pains. Burning pains with numbness. Traumatic sciatica. Trauma of nerves. Coccygodynia. Sometimes “As if the limbs detached“
Iris.: L. < at night/lying on the painful side/cold/touch. >
walking/heat/bending forward. Lumbar neuralgia. Pain in the back, feels the
need of a support. Lumbar muscles weak. Limbs sometimes numb. General
depressed/< fatigue/sexual acts.
Kali-i.: R. (non-exclusive). < at
night/lying on the painful side. > movement/walking/in open air. Syphilitic
ground. Mercurial sciaticas. Pain in the posterior
part of the hip with contractions and spasms of the muscles. Pain forces the
patient to get up at night to move in cold air.
Kalm.: R. (non-exclusive), < bending
double/movement/cold. General > eating. Pain from above
downward/lightning/fulgurating. Sensations of weakness and coldness of legs
with numbness.
Lac-c.: Pain erratic/passing from one side to another. < at
night/touch/movement. > open air. Pain in the sacralregion,
ext. throughout a limb, disturbing sleep and rest. General < during menses.
Led.: L. (non exclusive). < at night/heat of the bed/touch/movement.
> cold foot bath/application of cold/open air/rest. Pinching pains, drawing
in the whole limb (posterior face of the hip). Contraction. Joints of feet
painful/deformed/cold to touch/white not
red. Affected limb more cold than other parts of the body. A good antidote for
excess of wine. Rheumatic ground.
Mag-p.: R. < immobility/lying down/prolonged
movement/cold. > moderate movement/heat. Pain comes and goes
suddenly/fulgurating. Cramps,
Paroxysmal attacks which obliges to change position, to stand up, to walk restlessly.
Chronic of Colocynthis.
Sciatica: Ars. ↔ Mag-p. ↔ Coloc. pain > for heat and pressure (“neuralgic” = sharp pains
that come and go).
Mez.: < at dawn/in open air. Burning, lancinating pains with shivering. Itching, syphilitic
ground.
Pall.: R. < night/cold/touch/movement. > heat/rest. Very acute
pains going from toe to the hip. Proud/irritable, cannot handle contradictions.
Pain in the right ovary.
Phos.: L. (non-exclusive). < morning and
evening/at night/lying on the painful side/cold. > eating/rest/being
magnetized. General < hot drinks and mental work.
Phyt.: < at night, after sleep, by movement, by
pressure, by humid cold. Amel by lying down, by rest
and by heat. Sudden erratic pains, „As from electric shocks“ often in the
external or posterior face of the hip. Chronic sciatica on a syphilitic ground.
Rheuma.
Plb-met.: < at night/heat/movement/light
pressure. > massage/strong pressure. Chronic sciatica with muscular atrophy.
Cramping and constrictive pains. Syphilitic ground.
Puls.: < by heat/confined air/immobility. >
movement/open air. Erratic pains. Changing of symptoms. Venous congestion.
Mentality: timid/weeps easily > consolation.
Ran-s.: (predominantly l.). < morning and evening/movement/lying on
the painfulside/rainy weather/storm. General <
changes of weather/humid cold.
Rhus-t.: < rest/humidity/beginning of movement
and continued/lying on the back or r. side/fatigue/cooling after sweat. Cannot
remain immobile/constantly changing position at night. > dry and hot weather/changing
position/walking/stretching/hot application. Tearing pains with sensation of
coldness, numbness, formication. Paralytic stiffness,
„As if tendons very short“. Sciatica in persons drenched in water after being
hot, or who have lain down in humid place. Consequence of overwork. Rheumatic
ground. Doesn’t work in constipation.
Ruta.: < at night/humidity/cold
application/lying down/rest. > movement/walking/heat. Terndons
stiff and sensitive. Pain deep seated/in bone. „As if bones are broken“.
Rheumatic sciatica. Restless, should walk continually.
Still.: L. < in the evening/movement/walking/cold. > morning/dry
weather/heat/pressure.Violent pain from hip to toe.
Syphilitic ground:
Tell-met.: R. < lying on the painful side/least contact/laughing and
coughing/cold. Pain in backbone of sacrum radiates through sciatic nerve.
Valer.: < standing/in any position with the feet
on the ground/by immobility. > by walking, with the limbs stretched in
horizontal position/change of position. Acute pain along the nerve.
Verat-a.: < at night/heat of the bed. >
walking/ambient heat. Cramping pains. General < cold drinks.
Visc-a.: < touch/least movement/cold/lying on l.
side. > rest. Grave, stubborn case; sensationof
torsion in the muscles. Limbs heavy as lead. Hypersensitiveness to contract;
prostration. Arterial hypertension, arteriosclerosis.
Zinc-met.: < sitting/walking/noise/touch. > moderate movement
(continual movement of the feet)/menses/followinga
discharge. Sciatica with weakness and trembling. Rheumatic ground. General <
wine.
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