Sometimes certain muscles, especially of the calves and feet, are subject to painful contractions, which are called cramps, coming on generally during sleep.
Treatment.-Press of squeeze the parts; if in the feet press them against the foot of the bed.
Medicines.-(One dose to be given at bedtime for a few nights.)
Arnica3.-
When they occur after fatigue.
Veratrum3.-
To overcome the predisposition; feet cold. Nux v. 3.-
From no special cause, coming on in the night.
Sulph. 3.-
If these are insufficient.
Rhus 3.-
Cramps in the daytime, only whilst sitting.
Lycop. 6.-
Cramps whilst walking.
Coloc. 3.-
Soreness and stiffness after an attack.
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica