The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica
Abies Nigra abies-n.
General
Black Spruce. Coniferæ.
The Pinus nigra or black spruce of this country.
Proved by Dr Leaman ; Ohio Medical and Surgical Reporter .
Mind
Inability to think or study.
Very low-spirited ; melancholy.
Sensorium
Dizziness ; bad feeling in head.
Inner head
Headache.
Terrible distress in head ; generally with some flushing of face. θ Dyspepsia.
Outer head
Head hot, with flushed cheeks.
Teeth and gums
(OBS :) Scurvy.
Palate and throat
Choking sensation in throat.
Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions
Exceedingly hungry and wakeful at night.
Total loss of appetite in morning ; craving for food noon and night.
Eating and drinking
Pain after a hearty meal.
Abstinence from particular food does not >. θ Dyspepsia.
Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting
Belching.
Acid eructations.
Frequent vomiting of food.
Scrobiculum and stomach
Severe pain in stomach after eating.
Distressing pain in stomach, extending to left side.
Sensation of an undigested hard-boiled egg in stomach. θ Dyspepsia.
Continual distressing constriction just above pit of stomach, as if everything was knotted up, or as if a hard lump of undigested food remained there. θ Dyspepsia.
Stools and rectum
Constipation.
Female sexual organs
Menses did not appear until third month after proving.
Respiration
Gets out of breath easily.
Neck and back
Pain in small of back.
Nerves
Nervousness.
Fatigue.
Sleep
Dull and sleepy during day ; restless and wakeful at night.
Wakeful at night with hunger.
Bad dreams.
Time
Morning : total loss of appetite.
Noon : craving for food.
Night : hungry ; wakeful and restless.
Day : dull and sleepy.
Fever
Alternate heat and cold.
(OBS :) Malarial fevers. [Obs. Used in New York in the Fall of 1877. Abies Nigra is said to be one of the ingredients in "Holman's Fever and Ague Pad."]
Chronic intermittent fever, accompanied by stomachache.
Left : pain in stomach extends to side.
Sensations
As if choking ; of an undigested hard-boiled egg in stomach ; as if everything was knotted up in stomach.
Pain : in stomach after eating ; in small of back.
Aching : in bones.
Rheumatic pain : in bones.
Constriction : above pit of stomach.
Tissues
Rheumatic pains and aching in bones.
Relations
Used in preparation of spruce beer.
Similar to : Nux vom . (pressure as from a stone after a meal) ; Bismuth ; Calc. carb . (like a load after a moderate supper) ; Bryon . (like a stone, worse moving) ; Kali carb. ; Arsen. ; Zincum (as if food lodged in œsophagus) ; Ignat . (food feels as if lying above cardiac orifice) ; Sepia (nightly pressure as from a stone, also after food) ; Agar . (burning after food, followed by pressure as from a foreign body) ; Phosphor. ; Pulsat . (like a stone, early, on awaking) ; Sulphur ; Cinchon . (accompanied by bloating) ; Natr. mur . (sensation of a foreign body sticking in cardiac orifice).