Bellis Perennis
NATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOMOEOPATHY 2000 July / Aug VOL II NO 4.
Late Dr P I Tarkas
Dr Ajit Kulkarni
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| Region | Worse | Better |
| Blood vessels | Depressing factors | Motion, continued, |
| Veins | Injuries (sprains, bruises, | Violent |
| Muscles- | Falls, overwork, exercising | Cold (Local) but heat |
| Fibers, belly | Septic wounds, surgery | To rheumatism |
| Nerves | Deep trauma) | Rains |
| Deeper tissues | Cold bath or drinks or winds, wet | Massage |
| Spleen | Before storms | Walking in open air |
| Joints, coccyx | Becoming chilled when hot | |
| Left side | Touch, pressure | |
| Hanging limbs down, Depleting factors, Masturbation, Bleeding |
| Sore, overworked, venous, senile rheumatic, fagged |
Great muscular soreness: traumatic, after vigorous exertion or exposure. Bruised soreness of affected parts.
Injuries: complaints after major surgical work; to abdomen; pelvic organs, of contraceptives; of unnatural coitus, auto traumatism. Injuries to deeper tissues. Bruises with extravasation of blood. Haematocoele that are not absorbed. Deep trauma or septic wounds. After - effects of bruising that take a long time to clear.
Complaints due to cold bath (Ant-c) or winds or cold food or drink when the body is heated (Bry).
Tubercular diathesis.
Stasis: Cerebral stasis (giddiness) in elderly people. Venous stasis due to mechanical causes, from chilling, varicose veins; in pregnancy; with sore bruised feeling.
Fag: tired brain, fagged, overworked; from masturbation, confused.
Marked persistent tiredness without any real disease; desire to lie down.
Lameness as if sprained; of affected parts.
Contracted as if (head, wrist, uterus)
Lithiasis.
Make-up: The aged, laborers, gardeners with rheumatic pains or "bruise of many days" (Arn). Commercial travellers, nervous, restless nerves.
Pains: hard. Aching. Sore. Bruised, Squeezing or throbbing constriction like a tight garter (wrist/ankles).
Results of injuries to nerves, with intense soreness and intolerance of cold winds; sensitive nerve in a fracture, Railway spine.
Neuralgias originating in pneumogastric disturbances.
Tissues
Blood; Scurvy, congestions Extravasations, suppurating sinus after a horse pick. Pus locked in an enclosed space. Acrid, hair destroying pus.
Joints: sprains of joints with great soreness, sensitive to touch, ecchymosis and swelling, Gout after a fall.
Growths: tumors originating from a blow (con) congestive tumors. Tumors esp. in soft parts, polypus, tongue. Nodules after removal of mammae, Hemangioma.
Bones: cannot walk or stand, bones seem to give away.
Select Particulars:
Head: Vertigo > lying, < rising up. Headache from occiput to vertex. Ends in shooting. Itching around scalp and over back, < hot bath and bed.
Eyes: Diplopia from traumatisation, close work, sight seeing etc.
Nose: Coryza, Acute sinusitis due to cold exposure, pains > cold
Face: Acne, Herpes; with violent spasmodic cough
Mouth: tongue red edged tip (Rhus-t). Toothache, > heat
Throat: spasm or choking or cough after ice-cream when overheated
Stomach: Dyspepsia from ices, masturbation, cold drinks when heated (Bry).
Fats (pressure in pit). Desires: meat, onions, vinegar, Averse to milk.
Abdomen: Bloated, rumbling in. Dyspepsia from cold drinks, flatulence, > motion. Yellow, painless diarrhoea, foul odor; < night, lying on left side. Dysentery with muscular pains. Appendicitis. Soreness of abdominal walls and of uterus. . Malignant, large ever-growing tumor in abdomen
Spleen: fullness about, stitches in, sore, enlarged
Urinary: Calculi; urine with brick red; sediment, bloody
Female: Amenorrhoea from chilling stomach
Dysmenorrhoea, throbbing, streaking pains.
Discomfort and inability to walk during later months of pregnancy (from relaxation of ligaments of pelvic region).
Uterus: uterine haemorrhage from mechanical injury in coition. Uterus feels sore as if squeezed. Uterine inertia in labor. Uterus does not shrink after delivery.
Trauma of labor, difficult or instrumental
Erosion of cervix
Engorgement of breasts and uterus. Bruised breasts, take on a fibrosis
Climaxis
Back: Falls on coccyx (Hyper)
Blueness and soreness of boils on nape
Extremities: Arthritic knee, > heat. Itching on back and flexor surfaces of thighs. Pain down anterior of thighs, wandering joint pains. Bursitis.
Overworked hand, > warmth, wrist feels contracted as from elastic band around joint (pt. Allergic to Rhus; due to cold wet exposure).
Heart: Heart complaints, > motion. Bruised soreness, fatty heart and hypertrophy. Squeezed
Feeling as if a violent attack. Strained hearts. (Arn)
Skin: toxic crisis resembling erysipelas of low type.
Itching > cold, < warmth of bed. Skin affections from chilling stomach or cold bath in summer. General throbbing under skin after cold drinks. When heated, > massage and walking in open air, < hanging down limbs.
Acne. Boils all over
Psoriasis. Keloids
Sleep: wakes early at 3 am and cannot sleep again, catnap sleep of aged.
Compare: Con(Ca, mammae bruises), Cimic (belly of muscles), Van (brain softening, degenerative states)
Also related: Ars, Bry, Ham, Hyper, Staph
Bellis is between Arn and Echin (it embraces somewhat the field of Echin eg acne, boils, fatigue acrid pus etc.)
| Arnica-mont | Bellis-perennis |
| 1. Strain 2. Cerebral congestion, Arterial congestion 3. Sepsis, typhoid states more marked 4. Pus: bloody fetid 5. Softer tissues 6. > warm application 7. > lying 8. Suddenness and acuity and shock 9. Sensitiveness more marked |
Fatigue Cerebral arteriosclerosis: venous congestion Secretions not vitiated Pus - acrid Deeper Tissues > cold application > motion Chronicity Tiredness more marked |
