ARNICA.
When we consider the mental state of Arnica, we can see connections to the idea of defiance. But if we take a conceptual, more expansive view, and explore other aspects of Arnica with this idea of defiance in mind, we can see it as a theme that runs through many features of the remedy.
Causation
In viewing some of the causative factors of Arnica we can see loose associations with defiance in either the cause itself, or the reaction it evokes.
• AILMENTS FROM SHOCK, BOTH PHYSICAL (injury) AND MENTAL (trauma)
The classic Arnica response when in a state of shock, is “I’m okay”. There is a very defiant character in this response!
• AILMENTS FROM OVER-EXERTION
What is over-exertion? Pushing beyond the body’s limits, defying the limits.
• AILMENTS FROM MECHANICAL INJURIES RECEIVED YEARS BEFORE
There is a persistent, defiant quality to the injury itself that comes through in the Arnica picture in this type of situation.
• AILMENTS FROM INJURIES TO THE HEAD
An alarm always sounds when we hear of head injuries. Why? The head holds the brain, the seat of the central nervous system which is vital to our very existence. Isn’t a head injury then, a close call with death itself? We could say it is defying death.
Characteristic Sensations
Arnica displays characteristic sensations that also have associations with the concept of defiance
• If we look at some of the language that is used when describing these sensations we find “SORE, LAME BRUISED FEELING, AS IF BEATEN” -the word “beaten” conjures images of a fight or a struggle. Fights usually involve an aspect of defiance, going against someone or something. Beaten can convey the after-effects of a struggle or act of defiance.
• There is an oversensitivity of the body -oversensitive to pain, cannot get comfortable. “THE BED FEELS TOO HARD.” Kent describes this sensation as leading to a restlessness in which “he moves and thinks that now he is comfortable, but he is only comfortable for a second.” This is not the state of ease or rest that the body longs for, but an active, “at odds” state reminiscent of the adversarial quality of defiance.
Doctrine of Signatures
When we look at Arnica in it’s natural environment using the Doctrine of Signatures model, here too, we see a defiant essence in the substance itself.
• Consider where the plant grows -on mountainous, rocky slopes; places where extremes of weather (wind, cold, heat) are inescapable. It grows in areas where trees have been felled, the soil torn apart. It can be found in places where the soil is poor. A less bold, more delicate plant would not survive -it takes a certain defiance to grow in such conditions!
• The plant itself has bright yellow flowers -it is visible, not hidden. According to Gibson, “the ligulate florets, notched at the tip, are in such tidy disarray as to give the impression that the head of the plant had been bashed, perhaps by the mountain gusts.” This leaves an impression of a plant that is defiant in appearance (untidy, bold colour), and takes us back to the tenacity and defiance it possesses to grow in harsh terrain. Note too the use of the word “bashed”. Once again the image of “opposing something” is evoked.
Mental Symptoms
It is on the mental level of Arnica that the theme of defiance is most directly expressed. In the mind section of the repertory (Synthesis), these are some of the rubrics we find:
Ailments from:
-anger
-rage, fury (2)
-shock; mental (2)
Anger
-answer; when obliged to (2)
Answers
-aversion to answer (2)
-refuses to answer (2)
Audacity (2)
Boaster, braggart
Capriciousness
Censorious, critical (2)
Company
-aversion to • desire for solitude
Complaining
Consolation
-aggravates
Contemptuous
Contradict, disposition to
Contrary (2)
Conversation
-aggravates
Cursing
Defiant (2)
Delirium
-well, declares she is (2)
Delusions
-arrested, is about to be
-well, he is
Dictatorial, domineering, dogmat
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