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Differential Diagnosis...in Injury
 
Meera D

Miss.Yogita P.Chakole
Plot No.698, New Nandanvan,
Nagpur,
Maharashtra


 

 
LEDUM PALUSTRE
 
CALENDULA
 
STAPHYSAGRIA
 
ARNICA MONTANA
 
RUTA GRAVEOLENS
 
HYPERICUM
 
SYMPHYTUM
 
RHUSTOXICODENDRON
Surgeon Remedy
Act as a antitetanus
Punctured wounds from nails & owls, mosquito bites, insect & rat bites.
Scanty bleeding followed by pain, puffiness and coldness of the part.
Long remaining discolouration after injury.
‘Black eye’ from blow of fits
Pain as if bruised & beaten
Ailments from - Abuse of alcohol, colchicum, injuries from sharp pointed instruments, rat bites, stings of insects especially mosquitoes.
Worse - Warmth, motion, at night
Better - Cold water & holding feet in ice cold water.
Lacerated or ragged wounds with or without loss of substances accompanied with soreness and pain.
It reduces inflammation and promotes granulation .
Old neglected, offensive injury, threatening to gangrenous condition.
Painful as if beaten.
Dr.Ludlam “No suppuration seems to be able to live in its presence”.
Ailments from - Cleancut injury, amputation, surgical operation, lacerated wounds, extraction of teeth, fractures of bone, during labour. -Loss of blood & post surgical injury.
Worse - in damp cloudy weather.

Incised wounds; suitable in clean cut wounds especially after surgical operation.
Where pains are excruciating tearing causing great agony.
Stitching type of pain
Ailments from - onanism, sexual excess, sexual abuse, loss of vital fluids, anger with indignation, mechanical injury from sharp cutting instrument. Post surgical operation lithotomy or ovariotomy.
Worse - least touch, loss of vital fluid, mental affection, grief.
Better - Warm application

Concealed injury
Traumatism
Suited to acute and chronic affects of injury.
Sore, lame, bruised feeling all though the body as if beaten.
Whole body oversensitive cannot bear pain.
Everything on which the patient lies seems too hard.
It prevents suppuration, septic condition & promotes absorption.
Extravasation of blood & blue spots upon the skin and mucus membrane.
Ailments from - bad effects of mechanical injuries even if received year ago, fall, blow concussion, contusion etc.
Worse - least motion in damp cold weather.
Better - from lying down.
Mechanical and eye injury
Bruised, lame and sore feeling all over the body
Sensation as if bruised
Lameness after sprain especially of wrist and ankle joint.
Phthisis after mechanical injury of chest.
Ailment from - Mechanical injuries, bruises, sprains, straining the eyes.
Worse - touch, rest, stooping, sitting, ascending at night, cold water, while reading
Better - lying on backs rubbing, motion scratching.
Lacerated wounds
Injuries to nerves or parts rich in sentient nerves that is exceedingly painful.
Nails or splinters in feet crushing of toes, smashing fingers with ascending neuritis.
It minimises and arrests ulceration, sloughing and tetanus after traumatic injuries.
Nervous depression following wound or surgical operation.
Spine is very sensitive to touch after a fall, slight touch of arms or neck causes severe pain & patient screams & cries with pain.
Ailments from - Mechanical injuries of spinal cord, spinal contusion, fall on coccyx.
Worse - Cold dampness, touch.
Better - Bending head backward.
Bone / Periosteum injury
Facilitate union of fracture of bone by favoring production of callus.
Pain in eye after mechanical injury.
Bruises fall of an obtuse body when snow strikes the eye or infant thrusts its first into its mother’s eye.
For the periosteal pain after wounds have healed or irritability at point of fracture.
Pricking pain at fracture of bone.
Ailments from - Fractures, injuries to eye, bone, periosteum fall, blows, sexual excesses.
Sprained injury
Restless
Lameness, stiffness, great rigidity and pain.
Sensation as if sprained.
As if muscle or tendon were torn from its attachments.
As if bones were scrapped with a knife and soreness.
Ailments from - Spraining straining a single part, muscle or tendon. Over lifting, stretching high up to reach things, lying on damp ground, from wetting and too much summer bathing in lake or river. Getting wet when heated.
Worse - Motion, night, cold, rainy weather.
Better - Rest, warm application.