BONES, DISEASES OF

Asa foetida

Periosteal inflammations and ulcerations ; the ulcers are sensitive and intolerant to dressings ; the discharge is offensive. Caries of bones with offensive discharges, intolerable soreness around the ulcers; caries of tibia with great soreness, so much so that dressings are intolerant. Pains are dull, drawing and boring, worse from rest. Strontiana carbonica. Caries of long bones with an exhausting diarrhoea. Ostitis discharging bone. Stillingia. Syphilis of the long bones, periostitis and otitis worse at night and in damp weather. It is of striking benefit in secondary syphilitic nodes.



Calcarea fluorica

Hard, rough, corrugated elevations on bones, bruises of bones ; caries, leading to the formation of pelvic abscesses, affections of nasal bones, caries from syphilis or abuse of Mercury. Osseous tumors, enlargement of bones, with or without caries. Hecla lava. Osteomata of spongy nature are greatly improved and cured  by this remedy. Swelling of bones of jaw after extraction of teeth with violent pains. Caries of maxillary bones

Calcarea phosphorica

It has an action at the places where the bones form a suture or joint ; it is also useful to favor the uniting of fractures, hastening the formation of callus. Non-union of fractures when due to impaired nutrition. In the lower potencies it stimulates the formation of callus. Rickets. Symphytum for injuries of bone where there is an irritability at the point of fracture, nervous in origin. Ruta graveolens in fractures renders callus to form. Especially useful where non-union results, because of deficient callus. Sulphur. Rickets, defective assimilation, great appetite, but poorly nourished.

Fluoric acid

It produces caries of the long bones, with thin and excoriating discharges, relieved by cold applications.
Dental fistulae and bone felons, with offensive discharges.
Dental fistula; caries of the bone, especially of the long bones, with thin excoriating discharges relieved by cold applications. Caries of temporal bones and mastoid processes. The pains are burning and intermittent, and the discharge is thin and acrid. Caries from syphilis or mercury. It follows Silicea well. Silicea is worse from cold, Flouric acid better.
Silicea,  Flouric acid and Calcarea flourica are useful in  jaw diseases.


Silicea

In scrofulous children whose bones are curved, spinal curvature ; Potts' disease ; fistulous tracks running to diseased bone. Curvature of bones, rickets; here it is often the clearly indicated remedy; there is present offensive sweat. Hip-joint disease. Caries after inflammation, worse from cold. Potts disease. It is a slow acting remedy. Calcarea carbonica. Caries of the vertebra. Curvature of the spine. Rickets, sour sweat. Phosphoric acid. Hip disease and caries of the spine. Sensation in the bone as if scraped with a knife. It is a remedy which corresponds to the extreme debility found in rickets, and is a valuable remedy in that affection.

Phosphorus is useful in necrosis, especially of the lower jaw ; also caries.

Drugs useful in Caries: Platina mur., Caries of the tarsus ; Angustura, especially of the long bones ; Strontiana carbonica, of the femur ; Aurum, cranial bones and bones of nose and palate after abuse of Mercury ; pains aggravated by touch ; burning pains, worse at night ; excessively fetid discharges.

Symphytum is useful for injuries of the bones.

Stillingia is useful in Syphilitic affections of the long bones.



 

Aurum 
Caries of cranial bones and bones of the palate are especially met by this remedy. It is an antidote to mercury, and has violent pains at night. There is an offensive odor and discharge of small pieces of bone. Pains in the bones of the extremities. When timely given it may prevent caries, necrosis and exostosis. Platinum muriaticum. Caries especially of the tarsus. Mezereum. Periostitis before the stage of suppuration, worse from touch nodes, necrosis nocturnal bone pains. Exostosis of the tarsal bones.

Mercurius
Ostitis, violent bone pains, swelling. Nitric acid. Mercurial ostitis, drawing, pressive pains with sensitiveness. Phosphorus. Non-syphilitic caries of vertebra and caries of lower jaw. in hip disease it is useful after Silicea, burning in the spine. The proving of Phosphorus gives the essential features of rickets. It is especially of use in cases marked by laryngeal symptoms.