Hypericum perforatum
hype-perSt. John's-wort The great remedy for injuries to nerves, especially of fingers, toes and nails. Crushed fingers, especially tips. Excessive painfulness is a guiding symptom to its use. Prevents lockjaw. Punctured wounds. Relieves pain after operations. Quite supersedes the use of Morphia after operations (Helmuth). Spasms after every injury. Has an important action on the rectum; hæmorrhoids. Coccydynia. Spasmodic asthmatic attacks with changes of weather or before storms, better by copious expe
Hypericum perforatum — Materia Medica
Hypericum perforatum — keynotes · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
LACERATED, injured or inflamed nerves; mashed fingers, etc. Injury to or reflected from brain or cord. Very painful, sore parts; occiput, coccyx, etc. Coccygodynia. Intolerably violent, shooting, lancinating along nerves; toward trunk; down sides of head or chest; in epigastrium; interscapular spine; finger-tips, etc., with crawling and numbness. Neuritis, as an outcome of injury. Neuralgia of stump. Shuddering. Spasms. Tetanus. .................... Heaviness or formication in brain. Head feels drawn to a point. Bubbling at navel. Dry rectum. Heart seems to drop. Painfully sensitive spine. Commotio spinalis. Pains in hips and small of back after labor. Limbs feel detached. Aching in l. sciatic, after long sitting. Feet seem furry or bones ache. Gaping wounds. Laborious dreams.
Hypericum perforatum — mind · James Tyler Kent
The mental state of this patient is that of excitement, anxiety, impulses, melancholy; he wants to do something, wants to hurry; he has impulses to kill. In this it is very closely related to Arsenicum and Hepar. The Arsenicum and Hepar patients also have impulses to commit murder without being offended and without cause. The sensitiveness to heat will at once decide, for while Iodine is warm-blooded the Arsenicum and Hepar patients are always chilly. The impulse to do violence is sudden. There are remedies that have peculiar impulses, impulses without any cause. These impulses are seen in cases of impulsive insanity; an insanity in which there is an impulse to do violence and strange things, and when the patient is asked why he does these things he says he does not know. The patient may not be known to be insane in anything else; he may be a good business man. Remedies also have this. These things are forerunners. It is recorded under Hepar that a barber had an impulse w cut the throat of his patron with the razor while shaving him. The Nux vomica patient has an impulse to throw her child into the fire, or to kill her husband whom she dearly loves. The thought comes into her mind and increases until she becomes actually insane and beyond control and the impulse is carried into action. A Natrum sulph. patient will say, "Doctor, you do not know how I have to resist killing myself. An impulse to do it comes into my mind." Iodine has the impulse to kill, not from anger, not from any sense of justice, but without any cause.
Hypericum perforatum — general · James Tyler Kent
One who makes a study of the proving of Hypericum will be reminded of a class of injuries involving sentient nerves and it is not surprising that this remedy has come into use for the results of such injuries. Injuries: The surgery of Homeopathy largely involves the use of Arnica, Rhus tox., Ledum, Staphysagria, Calcarea and Hypericum. These remedies are used in a routine way when a physician runs into semi-surgical conditions, or the results of injuries. For the bruised, "black-and-blue," sore appearance and sensation Arnica comes into use it corresponds especially to the acute stage until the soreness and bruised condition have disappeared from the parts injured or from the whole body; but for the strains of muscles and tendons Arnica proves insufficient and a thorough study of Rhus will show that that remedy is suitable for the resultant weakness of tendons and muscles, and the bruised, rheumatic feelings that come on in every storm and often wear off on continued motion. For the final weakness that persists even after Rhus we have Calcarea carb. In these three remedies we have a series, but to distinguish these from Hypericum is the important thing. Hypericum is only a minor remedy for bruised and strained tendons and muscles; it goes into a different class of complaints. Hypericum and Ledum run close together, and they have to be compared. Ledum, as much of the sore bruised feeling of Arnica and will often take its place; but Hypericum and Ledum come together for consideration when an injury to a nerve has taken on inflammatory action.
Hypericum perforatum — black letter · Margaret Lucy Tyler
Consequences of spinal concussion. Effects of nervous shock. Tetanus after traumatic injuries. Injuries to nerves, attended by great fain. Punctured, incised, contused or lacerated wounds, when pains ore extremely severe, and particularly if they are of long duration ; Pains like those of a severe toothache ; pains spread to neighbouring parts and extend up limb. Punctured wounds feel very sore ; from treading on nails, needles, pins, splinters, rat bites, etc. ; prevents lockjaw. Consequences of spinal concussion. Piercing wounds ; from sharp instruments. Ignaiia—great remedy of moods and contradictions : of mental stress and strain, connected with shock, bereavement, disappoint ment, or distress, which have spasmodically and completely unhinged judgment and self-control. But, as Kent says, should the condition recur again and again, and threaten to become chronic, then Natrum mur., the “ chronic ” of Ignaiia, comes in. Hahnemann speaks of the " directly opposite symptoms of this remarkable drug ”. And says that, on account of these alternating actions, that follow one another very rapidly, it is particularly suitable for acute diseases, and for a considerable number of these—as may be seen by its symptoms, which corre spond with morbid conditions so frequently met with in daily life. " It may be regarded as a medicine created for great useful ness (polycrest). ” Clarke says (Dictionary), " I n order to obtain a proper under standing of the power and place of Ignaiia, it is necessary to get rid of two prevalent erroneous ideas.
Hypericum perforatum — introduction · Margaret Lucy Tyler
And Kent gives one of his graphic pictures of Hypericum : “ When finger ends or toes have been bruised or lacerated, or a nail tom off, or a nerve pinched between hammer and bone with a blow, and that nerve becomes inflamed, and the pain can be traced extending towards the body with stitching, darting pains, or shooting up towards the body from the seat of injury, a danger ous condition is coming on. Here Hypericumis above all remedies the one to be thought of . . . . Lockjaw is threatening.” “ Or,” he says, " A vicious dog will take hold through thumb, or hand, or wrist, and run his teeth through the radial nerve or some of its branches in the hand, causing a lacerated wound . . . . or a wound may yawn, swell up, no tendency to heal, look dry and shiny on its edges ; red, inflamed ; burning, sting ing, tearing pains ; no healing process. That wound needs Hypericum. It prevents tetanus. A shoemaker may stick his awl into the end of his thumb or a carpenter may stick his finger with a brass tack, and he does not think much of it, but the next night shooting pains extend up the arm with great violence. The allopathic physician looks upon that as a serious matter, for he sees lockjaw or tetanus ahead. When these pains come on, Hypericum will stop them, and from this stage to advanced states of tetanus with opisthotonos and lockjaw, Hypericum is the remedy. “ Punctured wounds, rat bites, cat bites, etc., are made safe by Ledum, but if the pain shoots from the wound up the nerve of the arm, it is more like Hypericum . . Injuries to spine . . . Injuries to coccyx . . . .” Kent's Lecture on Hypericum, where he compares it with other such remedies, is a masterpiece. We may reproduce it in part later on. Lockjaw . . .
Hypericum perforatum — modalities worse · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
INJURY: Jar. Concussion. Penetrating. Shock. Bruises. Exertion. Touch. Change of weather. Fogs. Cold. Damp. Motion.
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