| Term | Definition |
| Arnica | The "default remedy" in first aid. If it does not work in 24 hours, change remedies |
| Arnica | Hemorrhaging/bleeding/trauma to soft tissue of body; patients feel bruised; everything feels too hard; cannot be touched; worse with touch; better lying down |
| Arnica | Stupor; Answers and then falls back into a stupor; especially in fevers; involuntary discharge of feces and/or urine when in stupor |
| Arnica | A sign that this remedy is done is when the inflammation is past and the body part is no longer hot. |
| Arnica | skin, bruising, with blunt instruments; without laceration |
| Arnica | Blunt trauma to eye resulting in clots; retinal hemorrhages, to expedite the absorption of blood; eye trauma from coughing |
| Arnica | When patient has a fever, the old location of old injury/blow heats up in pain |
| Arnica | Impaired hearing from concussion; Impaired hearing from rock concert; after fever |
| Arnica | First remedy for fractures & to deal with shock within the first 24 to 48 hours |
| Arnica | Primary remedy for traumatic nosebleeds |
| Arnica | Head injury, after epilepsy, consisting of headache, sleeplessness, dullness after blow to the head |
| Conium | Bruising, spine, ill-effects |
| Rhus Tox | Bruised sore aching sensation in joints after exposure to cold or rain, before storms; amel. continued motion, heat |
| China | Shock with severe blood loss; coldness, sweat; yellow sclera; agg: touch, cold draft, amel: open air |
| Ruta graveolens | Eye strain from using eyes too much; burning and redness |
| Ruta graveolens | Bruising to the periosteum; Characterized by weariness, as "broken through the middle"; loss of power in thighs, ankles and middle limbs; Used for wrists, ankles, and knees; symptoms better and worse from movement, amel. warmth, rubbing or scratching |
| Ruta graveolens | Nausea felt in various parts of body such as in rectum or in throat. |
| Ruta graveolens | Bruise leaves hardened indurations in tendons or on bone tissue; like a lesion or tumor, characterized by weariness |
| Ruta graveolens | Bruising to the periosteum, to thinly covered bones (e.g. shins) and joints (ankle, knee, wrist) and eyes, Characterized by weariness |
| Ruta graveolens | Colles' fracture: fracture to the wrist |
| Bellis perennis | Applied when swelling remains after Arnica |
| Bellis perennis | The "arnica for the old gardener": severe joint aches and back pains after gardening |
| Conium | Rapidly, ascending paralysis: treatment of Guillian-Barré syndrome; gradually appearing paralysis; Vertigo, turning in bed |
| Apis mellifica | Anaphylactic reaction; swelling of throat and uvula; difficulty breathing agg: heat; amel: open air |
| Ledum | Puncture wounds or appearance of puncture wound; to keep open and drained in prevention of tetanus; not hot to the touch, twitching around wound present |
| Ledum | Black eye with bruising to orbit, bruising feels cold |
| Ledum | Second remedy in fracture; area is cool and bluish |
| Calendula | When there is pus, first consider __________ |
| Calendula | Primary remedy for lacerations, torn tissues, suppurated wounds, slow healing wounds, promotes granulation, not for punctures |
| Calcarea Phosphorica | Bone injury; fractures, union of, to promote; slow healing of broken bones;cold, numb feeling in limb |
| Hypericum | Nerve and spinal injury or laceration; pains shoot from area along the nerve; First aid for fall on coccyx; pain travels up spine and down limbs;agg: movement; amel: stillness |
| Hypericum | Lacerated wound of long duration; injuries for very septic puncture wounds like rat bites, nails; for areas rich in nerves |
| Hypericum | Preserves lacerated members when hanging from the body; crushed and smashed fingertips |
| Hypericum | Gunshot wounds, stabs, red, swollen, inflamed, sharp, intense pain is extending outwards, when the area is cold or hot |
| Ledum | Gunshot wounds, stabs, red, swollen, inflamed, sharp, intense pain is extending outwards, when the area is not hot |
| Symphytum | Fracture, re-union: presence of strong prickling pain at point of bone fracture; Third remedy in a fracture; stimulates callous formation |
| Symphytum | Application in severe laceration of lips; prevent scarring; prickling pain |
| Symphytum | Great pain in eyeball after blow; prickling, jagged, sticking pain |
| Cantharis | Second and third degree burns; great blistering |
| Rhus Tox | Remedy picture: giving oil to the "Tin Man" of the Wizard of Oz |
| Conium | Injury, trauma to glandular tissue which can later result in indurations; stony tumors in muscle |
| Bryonia | Rib injury, fractured or broken; agg: motion amel: lying, holding area; |
| Staphysagria | Post-op pain from overstretching of sphincter e.g.insertion of a catheter; worse from touch, anger, cold, fluid loss; better from warmth, rest, after breakfast; Used for surgical incisions with horrible pain e.g. circumcision |
| Silicea | Extraction of foreign objects, splinters from body; glass splinters from eyes; shrapnell |
| Phosphorus | Nosebleeds; with perspiration |
| Lachesis | Pain or pressure in dentures, as if clothing that is too tight. |
| Belladonna | Septic wounds, before pus formation, wound is suddenly hot, red, throbbing; sensitive to touch |
| Hepar Sulph | Septic wound with pus "old cheese", sensitivity to touch, warmth, cold drafts, <cold, |
| Mercurius | Septic wounds, pain in wound, sleep disruption, <night sweats; no relief |
| Lachesis | Septic wound with pus "old cheese", sensitivity to touch, sharp splintering pains, deep purple color, <heat |
| Arsenicum album | Septic wound, burning pain, weakness with restlessness, anxiety, rapid pulse, thirst for sips, dry mouth, <night; >warmth; asphyxia from being cold/frozen |
| Apis | Septic wounds, intense red, burning stinging pain; desire for cold |
| Aconite | Shock; fear of dying, anxiety, thirst, chills, flickering vision, agg. sunlight, cold, warmth; amel. open air, rest; for sleeplessness and anxiety following Morphine use; Traumatic fever (e.g. a sudden fever after an injury) |
| Carbo vegetabilis | Sepsis; with air hunger, pale, bluish white color; cold breath; wet gangrene |
| Carbo vegetabilis | A.k.a " the corpse reviver" |
| Carbo vegetabilis | Post-surgical shock/collapse; twitching, cold, blue; head is not necessarily cold; thirst for cold water |
| Arsenicum album | Gangrene: foul, acrid discharge, hair on area is corroded away; Gangrene from burns; anxiety, restlessness |
| Lachesis | Gangrene: cold, black, purple/blue, sensitive to touch; agg. sleep |
| Phosphorus | Prevention of nausea before abdominal surgery |
| Phosphorus | Shock/ hemorrhage collapsed state; easily suggestible, desires company, water thrown up as soon as it warms; Ether, removes ill effects |
| Bellis Perennis | Deep trauma to abdominal viscera/ pelvic area; cannot bear weight; worse becoming chilled when hot; Bruised soreness; amel: continued motion, cold, pressure, eating |
| Calendula | Add to toxic water to prevent tetanus/gangrene or suppuration when applying water to open wounds |
| Aconite | Foreign bodies in eye, removal of; with inflammation; Post-op inflammation of the eye |
| Nux Vomica | Food poisoning, nausea, vomiting, food is heavy in stomach, ineffectual vomiting; |
| Veratrum album | Collapse, sudden, violent, alternation stupor and mania with rudeness and loquacity; icy cold sweat on forehead, especially when getting up. |
| Camphora | Collapse, deathly, sudden, weak pulse, internal burning sensation |
| Allium cepa | Phantom limb pain with fine thread like pain ascending stump. |
| Urtica Urens | First degree burns; presence of welts |
| Ledum | Black and blue spots remain after arnica; amel. cold; Ballooning bruise near a joint; agg: night, heat |
| Lachesis | Bleeding: Can't stand warmth or tight clothing; bluish edhge of wound |
| Apis | Convulsions: From heat or a hot bath, high pitched cry and bends head back |
| Arsenicum album | Food poisoning: Violent burning pains, extreme thirst. Diarrhea of foul stool, dark, exhausted after; botulism; bad fruits. |
| Belladonna | Heat stroke: skin flushed, hot, and dry, pulse strong and rapid, pupils fixed and dilated |
| Bryonia | Gas poisoning (with flushed look); blood poisoning, septicemia |
| Calcarea Phosphorica | Neck: Stiffness- torticoli, pain and stiffness caused by draft; with sighing, complaining |
| Rhus Tox | Neck: Stiffness- torticoli, pain and stiffness caused by draft; improved by continued movement |
| Calendula | Chemical burn, second degree burn, prevents scarring |
| Camphora | Cramps in calves; feet, limbs feel icy cold |
| Camphora | Shock with barely perceived breathing or pulse, cold skin |
| Cantharis | Sun stroke/ burn: burning pain, restless, excitable, >cold application, rest |
| Carbo vegetabilis | Food poisoning, nausea, vomiting, stomach pains and gas (esp spoilt fats) |
| Chamomilla | Toothache with anger, aggr. by warm food or drinks, better cold drinks |
| Cocculus | Travel sickness with nausea, loathing and inclination to vomit; worse open air |
| Cocculus | Jet lag especially with headache, nausea and inclination to vomit |
| China | Bleeding with extreme weakness from loss of blood |
| China | Heat stroke with faintness or unconsciousness from loss of vital fluids |
| Cuprum | Convulsions: epileptic fits, shrieking before fit |
| Cuprum | Heat stroke, exhaustion with muscle crapms |
| Cuprum | Hypothermia with muscle cramps |
| Echinacea | Septicemia: last stage, almost dying, rapid pulse moderate temp |
| Echinacea | Insect or animal bite followed by sepsis |
| Echinacea | Wounds, bed sores become septic, gangrenous |
| Eupatorium perfoliatum | Poisoning, esp artificial sweetener: person is weak and cold |
| Eupatorium perfoliatum | Fever, influenza, pain, person feels as if bones were broken |
| Gelsemium | Confusion of mind after sunstroke with prostration and trembling; dimness of vision; occipital headache |
| Gelsemium | Stage fright, inability to face a challenge, weakness and trembling |
| Gelsemium | Fever, weakness, shivers running up and down spine |
| Glonoine | Sun stroke, heat on head, working under gas light causes collapse, fainting |
| Glonoine | Sun stroke with throbbing, bursting headache, hot face, sweaty skin |
| Ignatia | Shock: sad, weepy and sighs, deep breaths, unable to get air deep enough in lungs |
| Ignatia | Bad news, hysterial, confused and frustrated with insomnia, grief is stuck |
| Natrum muriaticum | Bad news: rejects consolation and sympathy – shut down emotionally, depressed |
| Natrum muriaticum | Heat stroke/ exhaustion, sunstroke with headache and photophobia |
| Natrum sulphuricum | Shock, symptoms follow electro-shock therapy, shock from electricity |
| Natrum sulphuricum | Head injury, depression, personality changes since injury to the head |
| Natrum sulphuricum | Head injury, never fully recovered, headaches, eye problems, vision loss, since |
| Natrum sulphuricum | Convulsions after head injury |
| Nux Vomica | Post-surgery, relieves vomiting and nausea |
| Nux Vomica | Cramps accompanied by headache, loss of appetite, nausea, constipation, <night |
| Pulex irritans | Prophylactic for blackflies; relief from blackfly bites, fleas |
| Ledum | Prophylactic, general for all insects |
| Staphysagria | Prophylactic for all insects, especially mosquitoes |
| Pulsatilla | Nausea and diarrhea esp after fatty foods |
| Pulsatilla | Fainting in hot, stuffy rooms |
| Pulsatilla | Food poisoning from spoilt meat, ham, porc, pastries that have been left out |
| Silicea | Abscesses, tendency to pus formation |
| Hepar Sulph | Wounds with shooting pains, when touch is intolerable, oversensitive |
| Sulphur | Bite, ringworm, itching, burning, worse heat, scratching, bathing, better cold |
| Sulphur | Boils and absceses: reddened, hot, show up shortly after previous ones disappeared |
| Urtica Urens | Urticaria, allergic skin reaction to shellfish, with intense burning and itching |
| Veratrum album | Accident, unconsciousness, body remains cold, after carbo veg |
| Veratrum album | Bleeding, collapse with air hunger (yawning), forehead cold |
| Veratrum album | Heat stroke: Chilly with cold and clammy skin, copious cold sweat, profuse diarrhea that exhausts him |