Abies canadensis

ABIES CANADENSIS —
PINUS CANADENSIS
(Hemlock Spruce) Abies-c.

Mucous membranes are affected by Abies-c. Gastric symptoms are most

marked, a catarrhal condition of the stomach is produced. There are peculiar
cravings with chilly sensations that are characteristic, especially in women
with uterine displacements, probably due to defective nutrition and debility.
Respiration and action of the heart, labored. Wants to lie down all the time;
skin cold and clammy, hands cold; very faint. Right lung and liver feel small
and hard. Gleet.
Head: Feels light headed, tipsy. Irritable.
Stomach: Canine hunger with a torpid liver. Gnawing, hungry, faint feeling
in the epigastrium. Great appetite, craving for meat, pickles, radishes, turnips,
antichokes, coarse food. Tendency to eat far beyond the capacity for digestion
(bulimia). Burning and distention of the stomach and abdomen with
palpitations (indigestion). Gastritis. Flatulence, disturbing the heart's action.
Pain in right shoulder blade and constipation, with burning in the rectum.
Female: Uterine displacements. Sore feeling in the fundus of the uterus,
relieved by pressure. Prostration; wants to lie down all the time. Feels womb
is soft and feeble.'
Fever: Shivering and chills all over, as if blood was turned into ice water
(Aeon.). Chills run down the back. Sensation of cold water, between the
shoulders (Am-m.). Skin clammy and sticky. Night sweats (Chin.).
Dose: First to third potency.

Feels womb is soft and feeble, as if it would cause an abortion (Clarke - Dictionary of Practical
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 Abies nigra — Abrus precatorius

ABIES NIGRA
(Black Spruce) Abies-n.

A powerful and long-acting remedy for various diseases, whenever the

characteristic stomach symptoms are present. Most of the symptoms are
associated with gastric disturbances. In dyspeptic problems of the aged, with
functional heart symptoms; also after tea or tobacco. Constipation. Pain in the
external meatus.
Head: Hot, with flushed cheeks. Low spirited. Dull during the day, awake
at night. Unable to think.
Stomach: Pain in stomach, always comes on after eating. Sensation of a
painful lump, as if a hard boiled egg was lodged in the cardiac end of the
stomach; continuous, distressing constriction just above the pit of the stomach,
as if everything was knotted up. Total loss of appetite in the morning, but a
great craving for food at noon and night. Offensive breath (halitosis). Eructations
(dyspepsia).
Respiratory: Painful sensation, as if something was lodged in the chest,
has to be coughed up; lungs feel compressed. Cannot be fully expanded. Worse
coughing; waterbrash succeeds cough. Choking sensation in the throat. Dyspnea
worse lying down (orthopnea).
Heart: Sharp cutting pain the region of heart. Heart's action is labored
and slow; tachycardia, bradycardia.
Back: Pain in the small of back.1 Rheumatic pains and aching in bones.
Sleep: Wakeful and restless at night, with hunger. Bad dreams.
Fever: Alternate -heat and cold; chronic intermittent fever, with pain in
the stomach.
Modalities: Worse after eating.
Relationship: Compare: (Lump in stomach — Chin.; Bry.; Puls.) also other
Conifers — Thuj., Sabin., Cupressuslawsoniana (painful indigestion) also Nux-
v., Kali-c.
Dose; First to thirtieth potency.

ABRUS PRECATORIUS—JEQUIRITY
(Crab's Eye Vine) Abr.

Epithetimrva, lupus, ulcers, granular lids.

' Pain in the lumbar region (1001 Small Remedies, Edited by Dr. F. Schroyens).

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 Abrus precatorius — Abrotanum 3A

Eyes: Purulent conjunctivitis; inflammation spreads to the face and neck.

Granular ophthalmia (trachoma). Keratitis.
Relationship: Compare: Jequiritol (in cases of trachoma and pannus to
engraft a new purulent inflammation. The proteid poisons in Jequirity seeds
are almost identical in their physiological and toxic properties to those found
in snake venom).
Dose: Mother tincture diluted locally and 3x internally.

ABROTANUM—ARTEMISIA ABROTANUM
(Southernwood) Abrot.

A very useful remedy in marasmus, especially of the lower extremities,

despite a good appetite. Metastasis. Rheumatism, following checked diarrhea.
Ill effects of suppressed conditions especially in gouty subjects. Tuberculous
peritonitis. Exudative pleurisy and other exudative processes. After surgery,
for hydrothorax or empyema, a pressing sensation remains. Aggravation of
hemorrhoids when rheumatism improves. Epistaxis and hydrocele in boys.
Great weakness after influenza (Kali-p.).
Mind: Cross, irritable, anxious, depressed.
Face: Wrinkled, cold, dry, pale.^Blue rings around dull looking eyes.
Comedones, with emaciation. Epistaxis. Angioma of the face.
Stomach: Slimy taste. Appetite good, but emaciation progresses. Food
passes undigested (lienteria). Pain in the stomach; worse at night; cutting,
gnawing pain. Stomach feels as if swimming in water; feels cold. Gnawing
hunger and whining. Indigestion, with vomiting of large quantities of offensive
fluid.
Abdomen: Hard lumps in different parts of the abdomen. Distended
Alternate diarrhea and constipation. Hemorrhoids. Frequent urging; bloody
stools; worse as rheumatic pains abate. Ascarides. Oozing of blood and moisture
from the umbilicus1. Sensation as if bowels were sinking.
Respiratory: Raw feeling. Impeded respiration. Dry cough following
diarrhea. Pain across the chest; severe in the region of heart.
Back: Neck very weak, cannot hold head up. Back lame, weak, and painful.
Pain in lumbar region extending along the spermatic cord. Pain in the sacrum,
with hemorrhoids.
Extremities: Pain in the shoulders, arms, wrists and ankles. Pricking and
coldness in fingers and feet (chilblains). Legs greatly emaciated. Joints stiff

especially in new boms (Clarke — Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica).

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A 4 Abrotanum—Absinthium

and lame. Painful contraction of limbs (Am-m.).

Skin: Eruptions on the face are suppressed, and the skin becomes purplish.
Skin flabby and loose. Furuncles. Falling out of hair. Itching chilblains.
Modalities: Worse, cold air, checked secretions. Better, motion.
Relationship: Compare: Scrophularia, Bry., Stel., Benz-ac., in gout. lod,
Nat-m. in marasmus.
Dose: Third to thirtieth potency.

ABSINTHIUM
(Common Wormwood) Absin.

A perfect picture an epileptiform seizures is produced by this drug. Nervous

tremors precede attack. Sudden and severe giddiness, delirium with
hallucinations and loss of consciousness. Nervous excitement and sleeplessness.
Cerebral irritation,' hysterical and infantile spasms come within the range of
this remedy. Poisoning by mushrooms. Chorea. Tremors. Nervousness,
excitement, and sleeplessness in children.
Mind: Hallucinations. Frightful visions. Kleptomania. Loss of memory.
Forgets what has happened recently. Wants nothing to do with anybody. Brutal.
Head: Vertigo, with a tendency to fall backward. General confusion. Wants
head low. Pupils dilated unequally. Dull occipital headache (Gels., Pic-ac.).
Face: Blue (cynosed). Spasmodic facial twitchings.
Mouth: Jaws fixed. Bites tongue; trembles seizure; feels as if swollen
and too large; protruding.
Throat: Feels scalded; sensation of a lump.
Stomach: Nausea; retching; eructation. Bloated around the waist and
abdomen. Flatulent colic.
Urinary: Constant desire. Very strong odor; deep yellow color (Kali-p.).
Male: Spermatorrhea, with relaxed enfeebled parts.
Female: Darting pain in the right ovary. Premature menopause.
Heart: Sensation of weight on the chest. Irregular, tumultuous action of
the heart can be heard in the scapular region.
Extremities: Pain in limbs. Paralytic symptoms.
Relationship: Compare: Alcoholus, Art-v., Hydr-ac., Cina, Cic.
Dose: First to sixth potency.

congestion of brain and spine (Clarke - Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica).

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