Actea Spicata

This remedy has an affinity with small joints especially of hands and feet. It will help a swollen right wrist when pains are intolerable and slightest pressure on pains are intolerable and slightest pressure on palm causes agony. Excruciating pain in wrist and finger joints, very tender to touch. Severe agonizing pains in joints of fingers, ankles and toes, of a tearing, tingling, drawing character, worse from least motion, or touch, at night.

Small joints well, are bright red and hot. Swelling of joints after fatigue, patient goes out feeling comfortable but as he walks the joints of his feet ache and swell.

Great stiffness of joints after rest.

Pains as from a paralytic weakness of hands.

The 6th potency should be used.


Ammonium Carbonicum

Should be considered for old people especially women who lead a sedentary life and suffer from gouty rheumatism with great aggravation in winter and wet weather.

Pain in the name of neck, worse right side; pain under shoulder blades; violent pain in small of back with intense coldness. Right arm heavy, hands down useless, hand swollen.

Great weakness in lower limbs. Boring and drawing in knees. Cramps in legs; in soles of feet. Heels hurt on standing or walking. Ball of big toe painful and hot. Big toe red, swollen, painful, worse in bed; hot and burning, worse from pressure of shoes. Toes swollen.

All symptoms are better from warmth.

The 6th or 12th potencies should be used.


Antimonium Tartaricum

This is one of the first remedies to be thought of in lumbago when there is violent pain in the sacro-lumbar region; sometimes it is so severe that the slightest movement causes retching and cold, clammy sweat.

There may be rheumatic pains in the hips, things and calves and often the patient is conscious of a bruised sensation in the limbs on and shortly before rising.

Pains in the extremities are sometimes accompanied with sweat which does not relieve.

The sufferer is often in a bad humour; is apprehensive, restless and dreads being alone.

The 12th potency should be used.