Harpagophytum procumbens (Devil’s Claw) | Homeopathy for arthrosis

Harpagophytum procumbens (Devil’s Claw)

General dosage of Harpagophytum procumbens (Devil’s Claw): drops of D4

  • The large joints at knees and hips are affected
  • Intervertebral disc disease
  • Bechterew’s disease
  • Gout
  • The symptoms worsen with movement
  • Improve peace and warmth

Spiraca ulmaria (real meadowsweet, meadow queen)

In case of arthrosis, Spiraca ulmaria (real meadowsweet, meadow queen) can be used in the following dosage: Tablets D6

  • Travelling joint and muscle pain with a tendency to accumulate water in the joints
  • Tearing pain in the joint
  • Strong sweating with palpitations is characteristic
  • Aggravation by exercise and wetness.

Causticum

Typical dosage of Causticum in osteoarthritis: drops D6 Further information about Causticum can be found under our topic: Causticum

  • The arthrosis is so far advanced that it comes to increasing stiffening
  • Paralysis-like conditions with deformation of the joints
  • Feeling as if the tendons become too short, need to stretch
  • Movement urge to slow down the progress of the movement restriction.
  • “Can’t keep my legs steady”
  • Sore feeling in the joints with burning pain
  • Pale yellow face, great weakness, hopelessness, fearful and silent
  • Frosty patients
  • Aggravation by cold (especially dry cold)
  • Dry nice weather worsens, wet weather improves
  • Aggravation also in the early morning hours (3 to 5 o’clock) and after getting up

Consequences of strain, overexertion, injury Rhus toxicodendronForceful back pain, especially in the lumbar region, fluid accumulation in the joints, inflammation with diffuse rheumatic radiating pain that gets worse when soaked. The patients are restless and try to keep moving despite the pain.The complaints are aggravated by rest, lying on the sick side, wetness and cold. Start-up pain that improves with continued movement.

The joints are gradually shrinking. Joint complaints associated with disorders of the liver, bile and digestive systems. LycopodiumThe main symptom is a lack of digestive power with restricted liver function.

A lot of flatulence with a bloated body, hemispherically bulging forward. General weakness, pain in arms and legs. The pain often on the right side, burning between the shoulder blades.

Muscle cramps in calves and feet not uncommon, feet differently warm. Discontented people, always mean ill to his, yellowish skin color. All complaints get worse in rest and warmth (especially bed warmth).

Improvement in the cool, fresh air and through continued exercise. Carduus marianusDysfunction in the liver and bile system with belching, feeling of fullness, alternation of diarrhea with constipation, whereby constipation predominates. Pain on the right side, colicky pain in the liver area, better by squeezing together.

The hip pain moves to the thigh and becomes worse when bending down and getting up again. Hormonal relationships, especially during menopause PulsatillaThe joint pain is tearing, exciting, stabbing, wandering from hip to knee. Stiffness and cracking in the joints.

It is characterized by disturbed late or absent menstruation. Women in the menopause after menopause, despondent, moody, mimosa-like, very sensitive to cold, but still cannot tolerate heat. Heavy, tired and congested legs.

Blond, fair-skinned women react particularly well to Pulsatilla. Joint pain improves with cool applications, with continued exercise in the cool, fresh air. The discomfort gets worse with heat, despite the general frostiness.

Lachesis Affected are women in the menopause, after menopause rheumatic pain occurs in the joints, which are usually more pronounced on the left side than on the right. Stiffness sensation in the back and thighs, hip pain after lying on the side, stabbing knee pain. Legs often jammed and heavy.

Characteristic of Lachesis is the great sensitivity to touch and pressure of clothing on the neck and waist. In the morning after waking up, patients are often despondent and weak with sad mood. In the evening, on the other hand, they are excited and talkative, lively.

Warmth worsens the symptoms, as does damp weather. In the morning everything gets worse. Improvement through continued exercise.

Relation to bone metabolism Calcium phosphoricumHere, joint pain with stiffness is the main focus. Patients are remarkably sensitive to the weather, the symptoms worsen with changes in weather, especially in cold and wet weather. Bone development in childhood is poor, also rickets, late tooth development.

General tendency to rapid mental and physical exhaustion, already in childhood. Joint problems are aggravated by wet, cold, exertion. PhosphorusTypical is the burning character of the pain, especially in the back between the shoulder blades, stabbing pain in the hip joint.

Patients generally suffer from a great nervous hyperexcitability, fear of everyday things and situations, do not want to be alone. In addition, there is a rapid fatigue during continuous stress. All complaints worsen in the evening and at night.

Pain becomes stronger through the effects of cold, improves through rest and sleep. Relation to increased uric acid in the blood (gout) CausticumBurning, cracking pains in the joints are the main symptoms. Creaking noises in the joints.

The pain becomes stronger in cold weather, better with warmth. The patients show a general mental and physical weakness. Also osteoporosis, tendency to paralysis.

Characteristic for these people is the pronounced compassion – cannot see anyone suffering and does not want to hear anything cruel. ColocynthisHarp, shooting pain in the joints, as if the joints were clamped in a vice. The pain improves with firm counter-pressure, with warm applications, with rest.

Worse through movement. In general, patients are restless, angry and irritable. LedumRheumatic pain in the joints, back stiffness as after long sitting. Patients freeze easily and a lot, but the pain gets worse in the heat (for example in the warmth of the bed) and improves with cool applications, cold casts.Movement worsens, rest improves.