St. Johns Wort (Hypericaceae)
- Mechanical injuries of spinal cord; bad effects of spinal concussion; pains, after a fall on coccyx.
- Punctured, incised or lacerated wounds; sore, painful (Led. - contused wounds, Arn., Ham.), especially if of long duration.
- Injuries: from treading on nails, needles, pins, splinters (Led.); from rat-bites; prevents lock-jaw.
- Preserves integrity of torn and lacerated members when almost entirely separated from body (Calend.).
- Injury to parts rich in sentient nerves - fingers, toes, matrices of nails, palms or soles - where the intolerable pains shows nerves are severely involved; of tissues of animal life, as hands and feet.
- Nervous depression following wounds or surgical operations; removes bad effects of shock, of fright, of mesmerism.
- Always modifies and sometimes arrests ulceration and sloughing (Calend.).
- Crushed, mashed finger-tips.
- Tetanus after traumatic injuries (compare, Phys.).
- Vertigo: sensation as if head became suddenly elongated; at night, with urging to urinate.
- Headache: after a fall upon occiput, with sensation as if being lifted up high into the air; great anxiety lest she fall from this height.
- Spine: after a fall; slightest motion of arms or neck extorts cries; spine very sensitive to touch.
- Bunions and corns when pain is excruciating, showing nerve involvement.
- Convulsions; after blows on head or concussion.
Relations
- Compare: Arn., Calen., Ruta, Staph.
- In wounds where formerly Acon., and Arn., were given alternately, Hypericum cures.
