Homoeopathic remedies

Thuja, Fluoric acid, Silicea, Sulphur and others are of great assistance.

Thuja. - Erysipelatous swelling of the tips of the fingers and of the fingers; nails are crippled, discolored, crumbling off; twitchings of the muscles of the arms; coldness and sensation of deadness of the fingers and tips of the fingers; stinging pains in the arms and in the joints; emaciation and deadness of the affected parts, dirty and brownish color of the skin.

Silicea and scoliosis go hand in hand, and according to some authors it is found in nearly half the cases of Morvan's Disease. It is also complementary to Thuja, and in most cases where Silicea suits there is a tendency to chronicity of the disease; emaciation and atrophy of affected parts; paretic states; nails rough and yellow; pain as if panaritium would form on left index; dryness of tips of fingers; ulcers about nails; felons with violent shooting pains deep in the fingers, with great restlessness and irritability.


Sodium sulphate is also correlated to Thuja. Perhaps it may come in at a later stage when the paronychia sets in painless or with hardly any pain. Among its symptoms we read twitchings of the hands, trembling of the hands on waking, and also when writing; loss of strength of the hand, is unable to hold anything heavy; tingling, ulcera-tive pain under the nail; internal coldness; with yawning and stretching.


Graphites has emaciation of the hands, distortion of the ringers; gouty nodosities on the finger-joints; thick and crippled nails; soreness between the fingers; sensation of debility without pain and liability to take cold. Cracks and fissures anywhere are often the keynote to the use of this drug, and as it has a long action, it ought certainly be of benefit in such a chronic affection as Morvan's Disease.

Sepia also has diseased and crippled nails with painless ulcers on the joints and tips of the fingers and paralytic drawing and tearing in arms and fingers. Venosity and stagnation are the red thread which goes all through the pathogenesis of the drug; it is also a long lasting remedy, hence the neurasthenia and the paretic condition, and the more we consider all these diseases, except lepra, of con­stitutional origin, the more will we be able to prevent the deformities which, when once present, are out of the pale of therapeutic measures.