- Allen HC — The keynotes that separate this remedy from its nearest neighbours.
“Leopard's Bane (Compositae) Nervous women, sanguine plethoric persons, lively expression and very red face. For the bad effects resulting from mechanical injuries; even if received years ago. Especially adapted to those who remain long impressed by even slight mechanical injuries. Sore, lame, bruised feeling all…”
- Allen TF — A compiled symptom record drawing on proving reports and other named observations.
“Arnica montana, L. Nat. order , Compositæ. Common name (German), Whohlverleih. Preparation , Tincture from the whole plant when in flower (Hahnemann). Authorities.”
- Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Leopard's Bane (ARNICA) Produces conditions upon the system quite similar to those resulting from injuries, falls, blows, contusions. Tinnitus aurium. Putrid phenomena . Septic conditions; prophylactic of pus infection. Apoplexy, red, full face. It is especially suited to cases when any injury, however remote, seems…”
- Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“ACHING ANGINA PECTORIS BALL. BLOOD SEPSIS, etc. BLOOD VESSELS. BLUISH, purple, livid, etc. BREAKING, broken, brittle, etc. BREATHING, DEEPLY, Agg. CHEST, internal CHILLY, cold COLLAPSE, sudden prostration, etc. DIRECTION of sensations, Downward DREAMS ERYSIPELAS EXERTION, AGG. FEARSOME, anxious, etc. FLATULENCE FOAMY…”
- Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“BLOOD. BLOOD-VESSELS. Nerves. Muscles. Digestive organs. INJURIES: BRUISES. Shocks. Jarring. Labor. Overexertion. Sprains. TOUCH. After sleep. Motion. Old age. Alcohol. Lying: Head low (Ver-v.). Outstretched. A very painful and offensive remedy. Progressive weakness. Has absorbent action. Shock: mental or physical…”
- Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“montana. Leopard's-bane. Fallkraut. N. O. Compositæ. Tincture of whole fresh plant. Tincture of root. Abscess / Apoplexy / Back, pains in / Baldness / Bed-sores / Black-eye / Boils / Brain, affections of / Breath, fetid / Bronchitis / Bruises / Carbuncle / Chest, affections of / Chorea / Corns / Cramp / Diabetes /…”
- Farrington — The differential diagnosis — remedy families narrowed through direct clinical comparison.
“COMPOSITE. The next order of plants coming up for our consideration is the Composites, a very large order from which we obtain quite a number of drugs, namely Arnica, Chamomilla, Cina, Eupatorium perfoliatum and purpureum, Artemisia vulgaris, Absinthium, Millefolium, Taraxacum, and Calendula. Compositae…”
- Guernsey — The leading characteristics — a compact bridge from repertory result to remedy study.
“Special Characteristics--In all bad effects resulting from mechanical injuries. Deadness of bruises, feeling of. Head hot with body cool; bruised sensation in any part of the body; insufficient stool. Pain as if bruised, particularly of external parts; sensation of concussion, as from a fall. Pain dragging; pressing…”
- Hahnemann (MMP) — The proving record — numbered observations closest to Hahnemann's primary materia medica.
“From vol. 1, 3d edition, 1830. The root of this plant, whose favourite habitat is in shrub-grown upland plains, very soon loses in the air a considerable portion of its odour and of its medicinal power, but it loses most by boiling. Still the freshly prepared powder dried rapidly and thoroughly in the water-bath may…”
- Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Leopard's Bane. Compositæ. A widely spread plant growing on the high mountain plains of Germany. One of the oldest popular drugs, called in the German Wohlverleih , which means bestowing, well-being, having nothing to do with wolves, as our learned French colleague supposed ; it is also called Fallkraut , meaning the…”
- Hughes & Dake — The source evidence — provings and poisonings retained with their experimental context.
“ARNICA. Arnica montdna^ L. Leopard^s bane. Nat. Ord., ComposUa. 1. Provings. i. Hahnemann, Fragmenta de Viribus Medicament forum positivis. Contains 117 symptoms from self and 33 from authors. 2. Ibid., Mat. Med. Pura^ vol. i of original and translation. Contains 591 symptoms from self and 9 others, and 47 from…”
- Kent — The mental and general picture — how Kent organizes the remedy’s historical symptom portrait.
“The Arnica patient is morose, wants to be let alone, does not want to be talked to, does not want to be approached. He does not want to be approached, both because he does not wish to enter into conversation, a mental state, and also because he does not wish to be touched on account of the great bodily soreness. These…”
- Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Depression of spirits and absence of mind. Shedding of tears and exclamations after rage. Great sensitiveness of the mind, with anxiety and restlessness. Unconsciousness, (like fainting after mechanical injuries). Declines to answer any questions. Quarrelsome. Giddiness, with nausea, when moving and rising; better…”
- Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common name: leopard's bane. Over-sensitiveness of the whole body (Coff., Kali-C., Nux-V.). SORE, LAME, BRUISED FEELING ALL THROUGH THE BODY, AS IF BEATEN (Bapt., Eup-P., Ham., Pyrog.) (A.). Pricking from without inwards. Loud blowing inspirations and expirations (C.). Tearing and drawing in outer parts. Tingling in…”
- Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“Bruised, sore feeling all over; bed feels too hard. Head, or head and face hot; body and extremities cold. Ecchymoses; as from bruises. Stupor; answers, then falls back into stupor (fevers). Taste and eructations and stool like rotten eggs. Recent and remote affections from injuries, especially contusions or blows…”
