Summertime Black and Blues

Some Remedies For  Weekend Warriors

By 

Lynn Cremona

ARNICA MONTANA:

Injuries with swelling and aching, soreness, and pain feels bruised or beaten; injury to male genitals; injuries from blows, including from blunt instruments, which cause much bleeding. Bruises to soft sensitive parts of flesh or muscle; black and blue marks (it repairs damaged blood vessels and reduces swelling); blood blisters after an injury.

Sports injuries and weakness while and after playing sports, work-outs or exercising; wrenched muscle.

Sprains that are very painful particularly of the ankles and wrists; with pain; with bruising; also from over-exertion

Shock and Trauma to the whole system after traumatic injury; 1st remedy given in accidents and injury (especially traumatic).

Head Injuries concussion, contusion, unconscious.

Headaches from shock or injury; concussions to base of spine forgetful, memory loss and amnesia caused by a head injury; meningitis when symptoms start after a head injury.

Arnica can be taken before and after a physical workout to prevent straining.

BELLIS PERENNIS:

Sprains that feel contracted as from elastic band around joint; sprains with great soreness.  Ligament injury; sprains with Injury to Muscles and muscular soreness. Joints are sore. Good for old laborers especially gardeners; pain down the front of  thighs.

BRYONIA:

Sprains to ankle with damage to joint ligaments in which the joints feel hot, painful, swollen, stiff, with redness; sprain to muscles and tendons from lifting.

HYPERICUM:

Faintness caused by the shock of an injury with intolerable nerve pains and inflammation,  deep wounds, with shooting pains which shoots up from the injury.  Sprains, Strains & Sports Injuries.  Sprains and Strains with severe pain and inflammation. Also male genital injuries with nerve pain.

LEDUM PALUSTRE:

Sprains when the joints are swollen, cold and numb, but cold applications do not relieve.

RHUS-TOX:

Strains to muscles, tendons and ligaments, with painful swollen joints, skin red swollen, symptoms worse at night. Strains from lifting, with residual stiffness and rheumatic pain.

RUTA GRAVEOLENS:

Sprains with lameness after an ankle sprain; sprained with dislocated feeling; foot turns under from weak ankle.

Strains  brought on from over lifting heavy weights, strains in weight-lifters, overtraining or overexertion but principally confined to tendons and fibers tissue; of the flexor tendons especially; flexor tendons that are over trained by exertion.

Bruises that go away slowly and leave a hardened spot;  a knotty nodular condition that remains sore;

a lump in the muscle that has existed for months or years; sensitive and sore and nodular.

SYMPHYTUM:

Blows from blunt instruments, that cause black and blue marks; injury to hard parts that are penetrating to perineum and bones.

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