Abies canadensis abies-c.

The most characteristic symptoms seem to be

Craving for meat, pickles and other coarse food; a gnawing, hungry, faint feeling at the epigastrium.

Hemlock Spruce

Mucous membranes are affected by Abies can and gastric symptoms are most marked, and a catarrhal condition of the stomach is produced. There are peculiar cravings and chilly sensations that are very characteristic, especially for women with uterine displacement, probably due to defective nutrition with debility. Respiration and heart action 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.

Feels light-headed, tipsy. Irritable.

Canine hunger with torpid liver. Gnawing, hungry, faint feeling at the epigastrium. Great appetite, craving for meat, pickles, radishes, turnips, artichokes, coarse food. Tendency to eat far beyond capacity for digestion. Burning and distention of stomach and abdomen with palpitation. Flatulence disturbs the heart's action. Pain in right shoulder-blade, and constipation, with burning in rectum.

Uterine displacements. Sore feeling at fundus of uterus, relieved by pressure. Prostration; wants to lie down all the time. Thinks womb is soft and feeble.

Cold shivering, as if blood were ice-water (Acon). Chills run down back. Cold water feeling between shoulders (Ammon mur). Skin clammy and sticky. Night-sweat (China).

First to third potency.

Pinus canadensis. Hemlock Spruce. Canada Pitch. N. O. Coniferæ. Tincture of fresh bark and young buds.

Indigestion. Liver disorder. Uterine displacement.

Abies can . has been only imperfectly proved, but it has marked symptoms which will serve to indicate it in any case of disease in which they may be prominent: Great appetite, tendency to over-eat; gnawing, hungry, faint feeling in epigastrium. According to Hale it has cured: "A light-headed feeling, attended with a gnawing, hungry, faint feeling at epigastrium, craving hunger which, if gratified, was followed by distension of the stomach and hard beating of the heart." Among the peculiar sensations are: A feeling as if the right lung and liver were small and hard; pain beneath right scapula. The patient lies with the legs drawn up. Shivering as if the blood turned to cold water.

Compare : Abies nig., Sabina, Thuja, and other Conifers, Nux vom.

Quiet, careless, but easily fretted.

Tipsy feeling, a swimming of the head; light-headed.

Sensation as of a stye in outer canthus of l. eye.

Dryness of the mouth.

Gnawing, hungry, faint feeling at the epigastrium. — Craving for meat, pickles, and other coarse food. — Some thirst. — A tendency to eat far beyond the capacity for digestion.

Distension of the stomach and epigastrium; burning.

Sick feeling in the bowels. — Rumbling in the bowels after eating, with great appetite. — Sensation as if the liver were small and hard; as if bile were deficient.

Burning in rectum. — Constipation.

Urinates frequently day and night; urine straw-coloured.

Thinks the womb is soft and feeble (thinks would cause abortion). — Sore feeling at the fundus of uterus; > by pressing.

Breathing laboured. — Sensation as if the right lung were small and hard.

Action of the heart laboured. — Increased action of the heart with distension of the stomach.

Pain behind the right shoulder-blade. — Weak feeling in sacral region. — Feeling as of cold water between the shoulders.

Hands cold, shrunken. — Skin cold and clammy. — Lies with the legs drawn up. — Great prostration, wants to lie down all the time. — Very faint, as if top of head were congested. — Twitching of the muscles.

Gaping, drowsy. — Great restlessness at night, with tossing from side to side.

Cold shivering all, over as if blood turned to ice-water. — Chills down back.

Tipsy feeling, swimming in the head, faint as if the top of the head were congested.

Gnawing, hungry, faint feeling at the epigastrium; craves meat, pickles and other coarse foods.

Common name hemlock or hemlock spruce. Natural order: Coniferæ. The fresh bark and young buds are bruised and mixed with double their weight of alcohol.

Weakness, faintness; lies with legs drawn up. ▶ Mood irritable. ▶ Head light; vertex feels congested. ▶ Mouth dry. ▶ Hunger, with rumbling in the bowels after eating; craving for meat, pickles and coarse food, with gnawing in the epigastrium. ▶ Thirst. ▶ Belching of wind. ▶ Distention of stomach, with burning in it. ▶ Weakness in epigastrium. ▶ The region of the liver feels hard, with a pain behind the right scapula. ▶ Sick feeling in bowels, with an irritable feeling in the region of the spleen. ▶ Constipation. ▶ Burning in the rectum. ▶ Frequent micturition. ▶ Uterus has a soft, weak feeling, with soreness of the fundus, relieved by pressure. ▶ Respiration labored. ▶ Action of heart increased and labored. ▶ In sacral region a weak feeling. ▶ Night restless, with tossing about. ▶ During the day yawning and drowsiness. ▶ Cold shiverings as if the blood were ice-water. ▶ Chills run down the back. ▶ Feeling of cold water between the shoulders. ▶ Hands cold, shrunken. ▶ Skin clammy.

Compare with Abies nigra.