Re: beyondhom cat scratch "issue"

Dear Shannon,
I think you may be suppressing it with spilanthes in this case - which has an analgesic/anesthitic effect on nerves.

Does the cat in question have damaged (clipped) claws? If so you will have fecal bacteria from litter covering action. Cat claws are not intended to be clipped. They are constructed to be slick and smooth claws. If you cut them through, yo expose onion llke layers, into which all manner of fecal bacteria will hide and grow in a clipped claw.  

If so  you will have blood poisoing, and it will hurt. The wound may also have closed up after the puncture, indicating Ledum for the puncture aspect and for anaerobic bacterial infection, plus pyrogenium for the general blood infection in the circulating blood and which then reinfects the damaged area - and perhaps Lachesis or hypericum if indicated according to what was puctured, to provide relief from symptoms. It's a case where several remedies are needed to address different acute aspects.

It is also possible for cats to have a bacterium called Bartonella henselae, which is the bacteria that casues cat scratch disease - though your symptoms do not sound appropriate and sound more like typical puncture wound ledum (much as for a cat bite as well) I suspect it is a claw-damaged cat and the bacteria are anaerobic fecal pathogens. 

Namaste,
    Irene
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Irene de Villiers, B.Sc AASCA MCSSA D.I.Hom/D.Vet.Hom.
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