Condensed Materia Medica

Sambucus Nigra samb.

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Mind

Sees images when shutting eyes.
Delirium without fever.
Anxiety: with vomiting; with sweat.
Very easily frightened; trembling anxiety and restlessness.
Fright followed by suffocative attacks, with bluish, bloated face.

Inner Head

Dizziness, with tension in head when moving it, sensation as if it were filled with water.
Sudden jerks through head.
Pressive pain on temporal bones.

Outer Head

The head is bent backward.
Erysipelas over whole left side of head, ear much swollen, confined to bed and could not move.
Scurfs on head, with intolerable itching.
Skull feels as if stretched.

Eyes

Child could not open eyes, could not bear light, awaking from sleep, with screaming.
Eyes half open in sleep.

Ears

Great swelling, heat, redness and lump just under right ear, in neck, accompanied by a very sharp pain.

Nose

Breathing through nose impeded, with dry coryza, especially in infants.
Sniffles of children.
Nose seems perfectly dry and completely obstructed.

Face

Pale, bluish, or red; pale, collapsed covered with cold sweat; appears much older and yellow; bloated, dark blue; red spotted.
Burning heat and redness of face.
Burning heat of face, with icy-cold feet.
On awaking, face breaks out in a profuse sweat, which gradually extends over body.
Tension and numbness, as from swelling of cheeks.

Teeth

Tearing and stinging in teeth, with sensation of swelling in cheek.

Throat

Dryness of throat and mouth, with thirstlessness.

Desires and Aversions

Thirst, but drink is not palatable.

Eating and Drinking

Worse after eating fruit.

Nausea and Vomiting

Everything makes him feel sick.
Vomiting, first of food, later of bile.

Abdomen

Colic pain, with discharge of much flatulence, from taking cold.
Painful pressure in abdomen, with nausea, when leaning against a hard edge.
Great soreness in abdomen.

Stool, etc

Stools: frequent, watery; thin, slimy, with much wind, followed by urging; pressure in stomach and navel; abdomen large.

Urine

Frequent urging to urinate, with profuse discharge of urine.

Female Sexual Organs

Menses too profuse, also menorrhagia.

Pregnancy

Mammæ red and swollen.
Debilitating sweat after child birth.

Larynx

Voice: hollow; hoarse with much tough mucus in the larynx.
Patient woke at night, with agonizing fits, spasms of epiglottis, with agony and fear of suffocation; springing up in bed and struggling for breath.

Breathing

Anxious, loud; quick, wheezing, crowing.
Oppression of chest, with pressure in stomach, and nausea.
Nightly suffocative attacks, with great restlessness; shedding of tears and throwing about of arms.
Suffocating attacks after midnight.
Child suddenly awakens, nearly suffocated, sits up in bed, turns blue, gasps for breath, which it finally gets; spell passes off; it lies down again, aroused sooner or later in same manner.

Cough

Hollow, dry, at night; deep and dry before chill; with regular inhalations, but sighing exhalations; suffocative, hollow, deep, whooping, caused by spasm of chest, expectoration of small quantities of tough mucus, only during day; suffocative, with crying, children; worse about midnight; during rest; lying in bed, or with head low; from dry, cold air.
Sputa: very yellow, as if colored by bile; taste saltish.

Heart and Pulse

Orgasm in whole body.
Occasional omission of heart-beat.
Pulse generally very frequent and small; sometimes slow and full, sometimes intermitting.

Outer Chest

Pressure under sternum, with a counter pressure from spine toward sternum.
Compression of chest violent, trembling from pain.

Neck and Back

Sweat on throat and neck, with children.

Upper Limbs

Paralytic heaviness in elbow-joint.
Trembling of hands when writing.
Stitches in wrist.
Dark blue bloatedness of forearms and hands.
Muscles between little finger and next very sore.

Lower limbs

Sharp, deep stitches in tibia.
Œdematous swelling of feet, extending to legs.
Icy-cold feet: with warmth of body; with hot face.

Limbs in General

Hands and feet bloated and blue.

Position, etc

Motion: 3, 40. Springing up: 25. Sitting up: 26. Bending back: 4. Throws arms about: 26. Rest: 27. Lying: 40; with head low: 27. Leaning: 19. Cannot move: 4.

Nerves

Great weakness.
General trembling, with anxiety and ebullitions of blood.

Sleep

Sleepiness, without sleep.
Frequent awakening, as in a fright, with anxiety, trembling, dyspnœa, as if he would suffocate.
Slumber, with eyes and mouth half open.
During sleep, dry heat; after awaking, profuse sweat.

Time

Morning: 40. Night: 6, 25, 27, 37, 40. About or after midnight: 26, 27. Day: 27.

Temperature and Weather

Dry, cold air: 27. Uncovering: 40.

Chill, Fever and Sweat

Chill running over whole body, with crawling sensation here and there.
Dry heat on falling asleep, after lying down.
Dry heat, without thirst, shuns uncovering.
Hot body, with cold hands and feet during sleep; on awaking the face breaks out into a profuse sweat, which extends over the body, and continues more or less during the waking hours; on going to sleep again, the dry heat returns.
Hectic flush.
Profuse night-sweat.
Profuse weakening sweat, day and night, lasts through the apyrexia: 24.

Sides

Right: 6, 33. Left: 4.

Sensations

Feeling of great soreness, as if beaten all over; headache.

Tissues

Œdema, anasarca.

Contact, Injuries, etc

After contusions, tension in dark red swelling.
Pressure: 19. Scratching: 46.

Skin

Bloated, dark red swelling.

Stages and States

Scrofulous children.
Formerly fat or robust people become emaciated.
After violent emotions, grief, anxiety, or excess in sexual indulgence.

Relationship

Ailments from abuse of Arsen.
Sambuc. follows well after Opium, in consequences of fright.
Antidotes to Sambuc.: Arsen., Camphor.