Sambucus Nigra samb.

Respiratory organs. Respiration. Kidneys. Skin.

Dry, cold air. Cold drinks, while heated. Head low.

Pressure over a sharp edge. Motion. Wrapping up.

Sweats or gets short of breath; with many symptoms. Nephritis. Dropsy.

Fretful. Half open eyes. Snuffles. Bluish, puffy face; < coughing. SUDDEN SUFFOCATION, or strangling cough, on falling to sleep or waking him after midnight; with violent sweat; < fright. Whistling breathing. Spasm of glottis. Screeching voice. Croup. Icy cold feet. Dry, burning heat during sleep, but copious sweating on waking; < cough. Debilitating sweats; at night.

Related: Bell. Brom.

Adapted to diseases of scrofulous children, which affect the air passages specially. Persons formerly robust and fleshy, suddenly become emaciated (Iod., Tub.). Bad effects of violent mental emotions; anxiety, grief, or excessive sexual indulgence (Phos. ac., Kali p.). Oedmatous swelling in various parts of the body, especially in legs, instep and feet. Dry coryza of infants (sniffles); nose dry and completely obstructed, preventing breathing and nursing (Am. c., Nux). Dyspnoea: child awakens suddenly nearly suffocated, face livid, blue, sits up in bed; turns blue, gasps for breath, which it finally gets; attack passes off but is again repeated; child inspires but cannot expire (Chlorine, Meph.); sleeps into the attack (Lach.). Compare: Aurum drac. in Miller's asthma. Attacks of suffocation as in last stage of croup. Cough: suffocative, with crying children; worse about midnight; hollow, deep whooping, with spasm of chest; with regular inhalations but sighing exhalations. Cough deep, dry, precedes the fever paroxysm. Fever: dry heat while he sleeps; on falling asleep; after lying down; without thirst, dreads uncovering (must be covered in every stage, Nux). Profuse sweat over entire body during waking hours; on going to sleep, dry heat returns (sweats as soon as he closes his eyes to sleep, Cinch., Con.).

Compare: Cinch., Chlor., Ipec., Meph., Sulph. Relieves ailments from abuse of Arsenicum. Compare: Aurum drac. in Miller's asthma. Follows well: after, Opium, in bad effects of fright.

During rest; after eating fruit.

Sitting up in bed. Motion; most of the pains occur during rest and disappear during motion (Rhus).

We are often led to this remedy, when we find a great deal of perspiration, occurring with any other trouble, which may last all the time, or it may come and go in paroxysms; it is sometimes found in phthisis; perspiration with disinclination to undress or be uncovered; heat with inclination to be covered.

Asthma with suffocative attacks of breathing; patient may be well enough while awake, but sleeps into the trouble; loud respiration with no mucous rattle. Babies with sniffles, and can't breathe well through the nose. Asthma miliary.

From uncovering; while lying down; while resting.

From moving; on rising; while walking; from wrapping up warmly.

Arsen., Bellad., Conium., Nux vom., Phosphor., Rhus tox., Sepia.

Arsen., Camphor.

Suffocative attacks after midnight, the child wakens suddenly, sits up in bed, turns blue and gasps for breath.

Elder

Acts especially on the respiratory organs. Dry coryza of infants, snuffles, œdematous swellings. Profuse sweat accompanies many affections.

Sees images when shutting eyes. Constant fretfulness. Very easily frightened. Fright followed by suffocative attacks.

Turns blue with cough. Red, burning spots on cheeks. Heat and perspiration of face.

Colic, with nausea and flatulence; frequent watery, slimy stools.

Profuse urine with dry heat of skin. Frequent micturition, with scanty urine. Acute nephritis; dropsical symptoms, with vomiting.

Chest oppressed with pressure in stomach, and nausea Hoarseness with tenacious mucus in larynx. Paroxysmal, suffocative cough, coming on about midnight, with crying and dyspnœa. Spasmodic croup. Dry coryza. Sniffles of infants; nose dry and obstructed. Loose choking cough. When nursing child must let go of nipple, nose blocked up, cannot breathe. Child awakes suddenly, nearly suffocating, sits up, turns blue. Cannot expire (Meph). Millar's asthma.

Hands turn blue. Œdematous swelling in legs, insteps, and feet. Feet icy cold. Debilitating night-sweats (Salvia; Acet ac).

Dry heat while sleeping. Dreads uncovering. Profuse sweat over entire body during waking hours. Dry, deep cough precedes the fever paroxysm.

Dry heat of skin during sleep. Bloated and swollen; general dropsy; profuse sweat on waking.

Worse, sleep, during rest, after eating fruit. Better, sitting up in bed, motion.

Compare: Ipec; Meph; Opium; Sambucus Canadensis (great value in dropsies; large doses required-fluid extract, 1/4 to 1 teaspoonful three times daily).

Antidotes: Ars; Camph.

Tincture, to sixth potency.

Is a prime remedy for "snuffles " in small children. It is of the dry variety, completely obstructing the nose, child must breathe through the mouth. It is also one of the best remedies for asthma millari. The attacks come on suddenly in the night; child turns blue, gasps for breath and seems as if almost dying. Then it goes to sleep and wakens with another attack again and again. I once relieved a very bad case of chronic asthma in an old lady having similar attacks of suffocation with the 200th of this remedy. The relief was followed, or rather accompanied, by a profuse flow of urine which carried off a large amount of dropsical effusion in her legs and abdomen. She has remained much better of all her symptoms since and is now very old. One very peculiar characteristic which should never be forgotten is "dry heat " while asleep and "profuse sweet when awake." No other remedy has it, and it has been confirmed many times. Conium has "sweats as soon as he closes his eyes to sleep." Thuja has sweats on uncovered parts. (Belladonna on covered.) Pulsatilla, one sided sweats and many of our best characteristics are found under the so-called fever symptoms, including chill, heat and sweat, and as we are apt to have one or the other, or all of these three conditions in most diseases, it is well, to have a ready understanding of them. It will save much time sometimes in hunting after the simillimum.

Periodical delirium, with visions and hallucinations. Very easily frightened ; trembling, anxiety and restlessness. Fright followed by suffocative attacks, with bluish, bloated face.

Tension in the head ; when moving it sensation as if it were filled with water. Sudden jerks through the head. The head is bent backwards.

Face bloated, dark blue. Heat and perspiration in the face. Red, burning spots on the cheeks ; great heat of the face ; circumscribed redness of the face. Numb tension, as from swelling in the cheeks and on the nose.

Tearing and stinging in the teeth, with the sensation of swelling of the cheeks. Dryness of the throat and mouth, with thirstlessness.

Vomiting, first of food, later of bile. Colic pain, with discharge of much flatulence, from taking cold. Painful pressure in the abdomen, with nausea, when leaning against a hard edge.

Frequent urging to urinate, with profuse discharge of urine.

Breathing through the nose impeded, with dry coryza, especially in infants. Quick, wheezing, crowing breathing. Suffocative attacks when waking after midnight out of a slumber, with half-open eyes and mouth, with bloated blue hands and face, and heat without thirst. Oppression of the chest, with pressure in the stomach, and nausea. Nightly suffocative attacks, with great restlessness ; shedding of tears and throwing about of the arms. Hoarseness, with much tough mucus in the larynx. Inflammation of the larynx and trachea ; croup ; accumulation of mucus in the larynx. Attacks of suffocative cough in children, with crying. Hooping-cough ; suffocative, hollow, deep (hooping) cough, caused by a spasm in the chest, with expectoration only during the day of small quantities of tough mucus. The cough is worse at or soon after midnight, during rest, when lying in bed, or with the head low, from dry cold air.

Upper. Paralytic heaviness in the elbow-joint. Trembling of the hands when writing. Stitches in the wrists. Dark-blue bloatedness of the forearms and hands. Lower. Sharp, deep stitches in the tibia. Œdematous swelling of the feet, extending to the legs. Sensation of coldness, numbness and deadness in the middle of the (right) tibia. Icy-cold feet, with warmth of the body.

Dropsical swellings of the body. General trembling, with anxiety and ebullitions of blood.

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

Pulse generally small and very quick, at times intermitting. Chilliness over the whole body, with tingling here and there. Chill, with very cold hands and feet. Dry heat over the whole body as soon as one falls asleep after lying down, with aversion to be uncovered, and without thirst. Burning heat in the face, with very cold feet. Profuse perspiration day and night, but only when awake ; first breaking out in the face. Very debilitating perspiration. Night-sweats, except on the head, increasing towards morning. Continued perspiration while awake, changing into dry heat as soon as one goes to sleep. Intermittent fever; chills over the whole body, with cold hands and feet ; followed by intolerable dry heat, without any thirst, accompanied by dread of being uncovered, afterwards copious sweat, without any thirst ; the sweat even continues during the apyrexia. Bloatedness and dark-red swelling, with tension after contusions.

Most ailments appear while the body is at rest, and are relieved by motion. Sitting up in bed gives relief.

Sambucus nigra (Linn.). Elder. N. O. Caprifoliaceæ. Tincture of fresh leaves and flowers.

Angina pectoris. Asthma. Chest, oppression of . Coryza, dry. Cough. Croup . Emaciation. Headaches, catarrhal. Hoarseness. Hydrocele. Ileus. Laryngismus. Perspirations . Phthisis. Scurf. "Snuffles." Starting . Whooping-cough.

The leaves of Samb. n . have an unpleasant odour when bruised, which is supposed to be offensive to most insects, and a decoction of them is sometimes used by gardeners to keep off caterpillars from delicate plants. By village herbalists the inner bark as well as the leaves are employed for making an ointment, and the flowers serve for fomentations, or are made into a medicinal tea; while the berries are the principal ingredient in Elderberry wine ( Treas. of Bot .). If sheep that have the rot can get at the bark and young leaves they will soon cure themselves (Green). Millspaugh says of Samb. canad . that a decoction or ointment of the flowers and leaves was used as an application to large wounds "to prevent deleterious consequences from flies." He also says that the bark contains Viburnic acid , which is identical with Valerianic acid . This no doubt accounts for the odour, and suggests a relationship in action between Sambucus, Valerian , and the Viburnums . "Spasm" will be found common to all. In Samb . the spasm affects mainly the respiratory system — larynx, chest, and nasal passages. Samb. n . was proved by Hahnemann, and appears in M. M. P . One of the chief notes of the remedy is œdema: dropsical swellings in various parts of the body, especially legs, instep, and feet. This œdema, when it affects the nose, may give rise to obstruction, as in the "snuffles" of infants with dry coryza, preventing breathing and nursing. When it occurs lower down in the tract it causes dyspnœa: the child awakens suddenly nearly suffocated, face livid, blue, sits up in bed; turns blue, gasps for breath, which it finally gets; attack passes off but is again repeated; child inspires but cannot expire; sleeps into the attack. The breathing is rattling. Croup, whooping-cough, asthma, may all manifest this group of symptoms. Nash once relieved with the 200th a very bad case of asthma, having attacks of suffocation of the above kind. The patient was an old lady. The relief was accompanied by a profuse flow of urine, which carried off a large amount of dropsical effusion in her legs and abdomen. — It was mentioned above that the croupy attack "passes off but is again repeated." This tendency of attacks to recur is another note of the remedy. Another grand characteristic is: Profuse sweat during waking hours; dry heat when asleep. This feature marks Samb . as the remedy in some phthisical cases and many febrile conditions. Other fever peculiarities are: Deep, dry cough precedes the fever paroxysm; fever without thirst; dreads uncovering. The Sensations of Samb . are: As if head were filled with water. Skull as if stretched. As if suffocating. The symptoms are > by pressure and being tightly bound. Leaning against a hard edge = painful pressure in abdomen with nausea. Contusions = dark red swelling. Rest < . < Lying down; in bed; on left side. Head low < ; must sit up to regain breath. Motion < generally. Motion of head = tension and dizziness. Sleep < . < About midnight; after midnight; 2 to 3 a.m. (roused with sense of stoppage of air tubes). < Uncovering. < Dry, cold air. < Cold drink while overheated. < From fright or mental emotion. Fright = suffocative attack. Samb . is suited to diseases of scrofulous children which affect the air passages especially; to persons previously robust and fleshy suddenly become emaciated. Effects of mental emotion, anxiety, grief, excessive sexual indulgence.

(Samb. c. may be regarded as practically identical with Samb. n.) Antidoted by: Ars., Camph. Antidote to: Ars. (relieves ailments from abuse of Arsen.). Compatible: Bell., Con., Nux, Pho., Rhus, Sep. Follows well: Op. (effects of fright). Compare: In Millar's asthma, Ar. dracont. Dyspnœa; inspires, cannot expire, Chlorum, Meph. Sleeps into the attack, Lach. Peculiarities of sweating, Chi. and Con. (sweats as soon as he closes his eyes to sleep — opp. of Samb.), Thuj. (sweats on uncovered parts), Puls. (one-sided sweats). Dreads uncovering, Nux (must be covered in every stage). Fat people emaciate suddenly, Iod., Tub. Effects of excessive sexual indulgence, Pho. ac., K. ph. Tenacious mucus in larynx, K. bi. Sleepy but cannot sleep, Bell. Effects of cold drink when over-heated, Bels. (Bels. = acne; Samb. = phthisis). Effects of dry cold, Aco. Snuffles, Am. c., Nux. Plants containing Valerianic or Viburnic acid, Valer., Vib. o., Vib. t.

Fright. Grief. Anxiety. Injury (hydrocele). Excessive sexual indulgence.

Great tendency to take fright (trembling, anxiety, and restlessness). — Fright followed by suffocative attacks, with bluish, bloated face. — Peevishness (constant fretfulness), during which everything makes a disagreeable impression. — Periodical delirium, with frightful visions (and hallucinations).

Dizziness and confusion in the head, esp. during movement; on rising. — Headache as from intoxication. — Tension in head during movement as if it contained water. — Pressure and expansion in head. — Pressive, tearing headaches in forehead and temples. — Sudden shocks in the brain. — Sudden jerks through head. — Digging pain in vertex. — Tearing stitch through l. half of occiput, frequently returning and lasting a long time, with a dull sensation in the intervals. — The head is bent backwards. — Erysipelas l. side of head, ear much swollen. — Scurf on head with intolerable itching. — Skull feels as if stretched.

Pupils at first contracted, then greatly dilated.

Sharp stitches in (r.) inner ear with cramp pain in it. — Itching creeping in ears and in throat.

Sensation of numbness in nose, with itching on bridge. — Sanguineous congestion in nose, with sensation of heaviness in point of nose. — Obstruction of nose, with accumulation of thick and viscid mucus in nostrils. — Snuffles of children. — Dry coryza of children. — Child starts up suddenly as if suffocating.

Face bluish (or dark blue) and bloated or pale and earthy. — Circumscribed redness on cheeks. — Sensation of numbness and tension in cheeks, as from being swollen. — Red, burning spots on cheeks and nose. — Gnawing pressure in bones of upper jaw. — Great heat of face. — Heat and perspiration in face.

Odontalgia with tearing and lancinations in all the teeth, and with a sensation as if cheeks were swollen.

Dryness of the mouth and throat, with thirstlessness.

Itching tingling in throat.

Thirst without relishing the drinks.

Vomiting in morning, first of milk (or food), that has been taken, and of mucus, afterwards of bile. — Pressure in stomach. — Acute lancinations under the stomach, < by pressing upon it.

Pinchings (colic pain) in abdomen as from a chill, with (much flatulence and) expulsion of flatus. — Shootings in the l. side of hypogastrium. — Pain in abdomen as from a bruise. — Spasmodic tearings, shootings, and pinchings in abdominal muscles. — Pressive pain in abdomen, with nausea, when resting it against a hard (edge or) body.

(Irritable anus with piles. — R. T. C.)

Frequent want to urinate, with copious emission, also at night. — Deposits a heavy sediment. — Urine of deep yellow. — Emission of urine in too small a stream.

Swelling of scrotum.

Catamenia too profuse, like metrorrhagia.

Hoarseness from accumulation of viscid mucus in larynx. — Inflammation of larynx and trachea; croup; accumulation of mucus in larynx. — Whooping-cough; suffocative, hollow, deep cough caused by a spasm in chest, with expectoration only during the day of small quantities of tough mucus. — The cough is < at or soon after midnight, during rest, when lying in bed, or with the head low, from dry, cold air. — Deep, hoarse, hollow cough, with agitation and thirst. — Continued cough with abundant expectoration of a salt taste, or of sweetish mucus. — Attack of suffocating cough, with cries, in children. — Cough with cries, as from a pain in the gullet. — Wheezing and quick respiration. — Obstructed respiration when lying down. — Spasmodic paroxysm of suffocation at night, with tears, great agitation, and tossing of the hands (when waking after midnight out of a slumber, with half-open eyes and mouth, with bloated blue hands and face, and heat without thirst). — Great difficulty in breathing. — Quick, wheezing, crowing breathing.

Oppression at the chest, with lancinations in (l.) side (below nipple); or with aching under sternum. — Pressure on sternum, with a counter-pressure from spine to sternum. — Oppression of chest, with pressure in stomach, nausea, and weakness. — Pressive pain in chest. — Sudden sensation of contraction in sides of chest.

Orgasm in whole body. — Occasional omission of heart-beat. — Angina pectoris where pressure proceeds from spine in individuals formerly fat and robust, now emaciated from mental emotions, sexual excesses, or seminal losses. — Pulse generally very frequent and small; sometimes slow, full, sometimes intermitting.

Pressive heaviness in nape. — Deep, incisive lancinations in muscles of neck. — Sweat on throat and neck with children. — Pains in loins with drawing pressure. — Incisive blows in loins. — Aching in middle of spine during repose and movement. — Lancinations in scapulæ.

Hands and feet bloated and blue.

Drawing in forearms and bones of hands. — Dark blue bloatedness of the forearms and hands. — Paralytic heaviness in elbow-joint. — Lancinations in wrists. — Trembling of hands (when writing). — Tearings in joints of fingers.

Spasmodic drawings and shootings in thighs. — Tension in tendons of ham as if they were too short. — Acute (deep) lancinations in tibia. — Sensation of coldness, numbness, and deadness in the middle of (r.) tibia. — Œdematous swelling of feet as far as knees. — Tearing in legs and ankles. — Icy-cold feet with warmth of the body.

We are often led to this remedy when we find a great deal of perspiration, occurring with any other trouble, which may last all the time, or it may come and go in paroxysms; it is sometimes found in phthisis; perspiration with disinclination to undress or be uncovered; heat with inclination to be covered (H. N. G.). — Asthma with suffocative attacks of breathing; patient may be well enough while awake, but sleeps into the trouble; loud respiration with no mucous rattle. — Babies with snuffles; can't breathe well through nose. — Asthma Millari (H. N. G.). — Symptoms < uncovering; while lying down; while resting. — > From moving; on rising; while walking; from wrapping up warmly. — General ebullition of blood in evening after lying down, with sensation of trembling. — Sudden drawing over whole surface of body, frequently recurring when seated. — The majority of the symptoms manifest themselves during repose and are dispersed by movement. — Dropsical swelling of whole body. — Great emaciation.

Bloatedness and dark red swelling, with tension after contusions. — Œdema; anasarca. — Blotches on face. — Red spots on cheeks here and there with burning sensation. — Tingling itching of skin. — Sudden painful drawing in all points over surface while sitting.

Disposition to sleep without being able to sleep. — During sleep dry heat, after awakening profuse perspiration. — (Sleeps with arms above head.). — Frequent waking with a start, with anguish, trembling, and obstructed respiration, amounting almost to suffocation. — Incomplete sleep, with mouth and eyes half open. — Lascivious dreams.

Shuddering, with shivering, icy coldness of hands and feet, and pricking tingling in skin. — Shivering and shaking before going to sleep. — Insupportable heat without thirst, with dread to be uncovered. — Fever with excessive perspiration, esp. at night. — Profuse perspiration day and night, but only when awake; first breaking out in the face. — Very debilitating perspiration. — Night-sweats, except on head, < towards morning. — Continued perspiration while awake, changing into dry heat as soon as one goes to sleep. — Intermittent fever: chills over whole body, with cold hands and feet; followed by intolerably dry heat, without any thirst, accompanied by dread of being uncovered, afterwards copious sweat, without any thirst; the sweat even continues during the apyrexia. — Pulse generally small and very quick, at times intermitting.

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

Dizziness, cloudiness of 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.
Catarrhal headaches, especially of children.

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

Child could not open eyes, could not bear light, awoke from sleep screaming.
Eyes and mouth half open in sleep. θ Asthma Millari.

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

Child starts up suddenly as if suffocating. θ Asthma Millaria.
Sniffles of children.
Breathing through nose impeded, with dry coryza, especially in nursing infants.
Dry coryza of infants ; nose dry and completely obstructed, preventing breathing and nursing ; constant sniffles.
Stoppage of nose with thick tenacious mucus.

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 ; with icy-cold feet.
On waking, face breaks out in a profuse sweat, which gradually extends over body.
Red, burning spots on cheeks ; great heat of face ; circumscribed redness of face.
Numb tension as from swelling in cheeks and on nose.

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

Dryness of throat and mouth, with thirstlessness.

Thirst, but drink is not palatable.

Worse after eating fruit.

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

Distended abdomen, with pressure and griping in stomach and umbilical region.
Painful pressure in abdomen, with nausea when leaning against a hard edge.
Great soreness in abdomen.
Griping in abdomen, with emission of flatus as after taking cold.
Ileus.

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

Nephritis.
Frequent urging to urinate, with profuse discharge of urine.

Menses too profuse ; menorrhagia.

Mamma red and swollen.
Milk diminished.

Hoarseness caused by much tenacious, glutinous mucus in larynx.
Voice sounds hollow.
Hoarseness, rawness in throat and oppression of chest. θ Influenza.
Woke at night with agonizing fits, spasms of glottis, with agony and fear of suffocation ; springing up in bed and struggling for breath. θ Asthma
Millari.
Spasm of glottis ; breathing is of a wheezing, crowing character, < after midnight and from lying with head low. θ Croup.
Spasms of larynx occurring frequently during course of acute laryngitis.
An infant nine months old has laryngeal spasms several times in day and night ; awakes from sleep with suffocation ; is able to inspire but not expire ; becomes livid in face, gasps in great anguish, and very slowly recovers its
breath ; had two attacks of this kind in previous night, at 8 P. M. and 11 P. M. θ Laryngismus.
Sudden disappearance of coryza ; on following night very rough, hollow, croupy cough ; agitated sleep ; following morning fits of hollow, deep cough ; whistling respiration ; constant crying ; burning head ; crying or coughing, as if throat were
painful. θ Croup.
Sopor ; snoring and whistling, with mouth open and head bent back ; starts up, strikes about, is nearly suffocated ; becomes blue in face, then cough with rattling breathing ; threatening suffocation and paralysis of lungs. θ Croup.
Much dry heat with restlessness ; sudden awaking in fright at night, from 9 P. M. until 2 A. M., grasping its throat ; shortly after, perspiration on face, head and neck, going off with sleep ; during paroxysms of hoarse, suffocating cough child had purple nails and
lips ; scanty, tough expectoration, yet tracheal sound was somewhat loose. θ Croup.
In dangerous cases with excessive weakness, old-looking features and threatening paralysis pulmonum. θ Croup.

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Adapted to diseases of scrofulous children: of the air passages especially.

Persons formerly robust and fleshy suddenly become emaciated (Iod., Tub.).

Bad effects of violent mental emotions; anxiety, grief, or excessive sexual indulgence (Phos. ac., Kali p.).

Œdematous swellings in various parts of the body, especially in legs, instep, and feet.

Dry coryza of infants; nose dry and completely obstructed, preventing breathing and nursing; snuffles (Am. c., Nux).

Dyspnœa; child awakens suddenly, nearly suffocated, face livid, blue, sits up in bed; turns blue, gasps for breath, which it finally gets; attack passes off, but is again repeated; child inspires, but cannot expire (Chlor., Meph.); sleeps into the attack (Lach.—compare, Arum drac.).

Attacks of suffocation as in last stage of croup.

Cough: suffocative, with crying children; worse about midnight; hollow, deep, whooping, with spasm of chest; with regular inhalations, but sighing exhalations.

During rest; midnight; after eating fruit.

Sitting up in bed. Motion: most of the pains occur during rest and disappear during motion (Rhus).

Follows well: after Opium in fright. Antidotes abuse of Arsenic.

Irregular.

3, 4, 5 and 6 P. M. Afternoon and evening.

Cough, deep and dry, for half an hour, with nausea and thirst (dry, teasing, fatiguing cough, Rhus). Sweat (Carbo v., Nux).

Without thirst. Coldness creeps over the whole body, especially hands and feet, which are cold to touch. Shaking chill creeping over whole body, though face was warm. Hands and feet icy cold; the rest of body warm as usual. Chill lasts half an hour. Spasmodic, deep, dry cough from lower part of chest, without expectoration; may occur during chill if absent in prodrome. Rarely occurs both before and during chill (see Rhus).

Without thirst; dread of uncovering. Sensation of burning heat in the face, with warmth of body and icy coldness of the feet, without thirst. Dry heat on falling asleep. Intolerable dry heat all over the body, with dread of uncovering; thinks he would take cold or have an attack of colic if uncovered (Hep.). Dry heat while he sleeps.

Profuse sweat breaks out on the face, without thirst, while awake, from 7 P. M. to 1 A. M.; stood in drops upon the face, and extends over the entire body during waking hours; on going to sleep again the dry heat returns (sweat when he sleeps, stops when he wakes, Thuja). Profuse non-debilitating sweat, day and night, with relief of all symptoms (Nat.).

Profuse sweat continues during this stage; may become weakening from its profuseness alone, which is out of all proportion to the chill and heat.

Cough deep, dry, precedes the fever paroxysm.

Fever: dry heat while he sleeps; on falling asleep; after lying down; without thirst; dreads uncovering (must be covered in every stage, Nux).

Profuse sweat over entire body during waking hours; on going to sleep, dry heat returns (sweats as soon as he closes his eyes to sleep, Cinch., Con.).

Sambucus is almost the only remedy which has dry heat while asleep, profuse sweat while awake, then dry heat again when he sleeps. (Sweat on waking from a sound sleep, Rum.) The profuse sweat is rarely debilitating, and never in proportion to its profuseness; always without thhirst. Cinch. has profuse debilitating sweat with great thirst; the reverse of Sambucus. Deep, dry, racking cough before the chill, for half an hour, with nausea and thirst, is characteristic (Rhus has dry, teasing cough, like Rumex crispus, before and during chill).

CASE I.—Irregular paroxysm occurring every other day. Quinine had no effect. Cough deep and dry for half an hour, with nausea and thirst.

Chill for half an hour, without cough, nausea or thirst; slight fever with moist skin; profuse sweat at night not debilitating. Apyrexia complete.

Prescribed for the profuse sweat at night, not debilitating, Sambucus, a drop dose of the tincture, which resulted in a perfect cure, no other attack occurring.—DUNHAM.

CASE II.—Mrs. H——. Chills and fever; type quotidian. Paroxysm commenced at 3 P. M., with hard dry cough, from lower part of the chest, racking and shaking the whole body, and producing a pain over the whole head, which is relieved by pressure or having the head tightly bound up.

No expectoration with the cough. Great thirst for large quantities of water very often. Longing for acids.

Chill—Severe and shaking, continuing for half an hour. Lips and nails blue. Nausea and vomiting, aggravated by drinking, the substance vomited having a bitter, sour taste. Bitter, sour taste in the mouth during the par- oxysm. Tongue coated white, chills running down the back. Back and limbs ache, particularly during the chill, and worse when they come in con- tact with the bed. Cough, headache and thirst continued.

Heat.—Great, with stupor and prostration. Thirst and cough continue, but no headache. Pains in the back and limbs. Great difficulty in speak- ing. With the heat a profuse perspiration.

Delirium.—Is distressed because she imagines some one in bed with her.

This oppresses her respiration, as she has to breathe for two. Continual talking. Sense of suffocation, with a fluttering at the heart. Great distress in the region of the heart, whence the cough seems to proceed. Moaning and weeping during sleep.

Sweat.—At night a drenching sweat, smelling sour-fetid, staining yellow, not debilitating. Ineffectual desire to urinate, passing water once in twenty- four hours, a small quantity of turbid, loam-colored urine.

Attempts to cover the totality of the symptoms with any one remedy, re- sulted in the conviction that it was impossible. Eup., Bry., Ipec., Ars.,

Cal., and Sabad., were successively given without benefit. Dr. Dunham now suggests that the "hard, dry cough before the chill," "the half-hour chill," and the "profuse, non-debilitating sweat at night," reminded him of a case he had cured with Sambucus. The cough and sweat, however, seemed the characteristics in this case, and Sambucus 1000 was given. To my surprise and gratification I found the entire train of symptoms removed, till the seventh day, the cough returning, was removed by a repetition of the remedy.—SWAN.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Dryness of throat and mouth, with thirstlessness.

Thirst, but drink is not palatable.

Worse after eating fruit.

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

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.

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

Frequent urging to urinate, with profuse discharge of urine.

Menses too profuse, also menorrhagia.

Mammæ red and swollen.
Debilitating sweat after child birth.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Sweat on throat and neck, with children.

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.

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

Hands and feet bloated and blue.

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.

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

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.

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

Dry, cold air: 27. Uncovering: 40.

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.

Right: 6, 33. Left: 4.

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

Œdema, anasarca.

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

Bloated, dark red swelling.

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

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

A tincture is made of the fresh leaves and flowers of Sambucus nigra, L.

▶ Dropsical swellings. ▶ Most pains occur during rest and disappear during motion, only a few are caused by motion. ▶ Starting at things to which he is accustomed. ▶ Periodical delirium, saw frightful things on the wall. ▶ Fretful.

Aching at night; stupefying A., as in catarrh; stupefying, as from intoxication. ▶ Pressure outward to all sides. ▶ Vertigo in morning on rising; and agg. forenoon; V. on moving head, with tensive sensation as if water were in it; with obscuration of head. ▶ Pain in forehead and a sudden painful jerk through brain from one side to other. ▶ Tearing in upper part of forehead, wit pain streaming down into eye; T. in bone over left temple on stooping; intermittent, in temples, agg. bones. ▶ Pressure outward in temples. ▶ Burrowing in vertex. ▶ Intermittent tearing stitch through left half of occiput, with dullness in the place during the intervals.

Pupils contracted, then dilated. ▶ Sticking in right ear, with cramplike pain. ▶ Itching and crawling in ears and throat, somewhat amel. in throat by tongue. ▶ Pressure forward in tip of nose, with heaviness, as if it would bleed. ▶ Face flushed. ▶ Tensive pain as from swelling in cheek, with numbness. ▶ Tension in left cheek, with gnawing pressure upon upper jaw. ▶ Painless pustule, with red areola, on left side of lower lip.

Suffocating nasal catarrh in children, with sudden starting up.

Urine becomes changed in character and deposits a heavy sediment; Bœnninghausen emphasizes the increased watery urine. ▶ It is found that the American Sambucus (and also the European) is of great value in acute inflammation of the kidneys, with dropsy, especially for vomiting of bile, distress in stomach after eating. ▶ Profuse urine, with dry heat of the skin.

Suffocative respiration, with stitches in the chest. ▶ Laryngismus stridulus, starts up in great suffocation, cannot exhale the breath, face grows purple (Compare Chlorine). ▶ Acute laryngitis, with spasmodic cough and attacks of suffocation. ▶ Croup, with spasm of the glottis, wheezing respiration, agg. after midnight. ▶ Violent dry cough, with hoarseness and tough mucus in the larynx, agg. night. ▶ Whooping cough, with suffocative spasm, expectoration of tough mucus during the day; cough, agg. after midnight or from lying with the head low.

The suppression of the ordinary perspiration during sleep is very marked; the skin becomes perfectly dry and burning when the patient falls asleep, but he breaks into profuse sweat immediately on waking.

Tearing in teeth extending into incisors, with stitches, later the pain extended to eye, with sensation as if cheek were swollen, which was not the case. ▶ M. and throat sore. ▶ Dryness of palate without thirst.

Thirst, though drink has not a pleasant taste. ▶ Hiccough; during and after eating. ▶ Incipient nausea in and below pit of stomach. ▶ Vomiting; tinged with blood. ▶ Pressure in epigastric region. ▶ Sticking just below S. when sitting, agg. pressure.

Rumbling. ▶ Spasmodic tearing in muscles in evening after lying down, agg. moving them. ▶ Griping; if it leans against a sharp corner; as after taking cold, with emission of flatus. ▶ Tormina every half hour. ▶ Pain if it presses against anything, with nausea. ▶ Bruised feeling internally. ▶ Tenderness; and distention. ▶ Griping in muscles of right hypochondrium. ▶ Tearing in left side. ▶ Stitches in left obliquus muscles when sitting and standing; S. over left hip, with rhythmical pulsation.

Several thin, slimy stools, with much flatus, then renewed urging, distention of abdomen, pressure in stomach and umbilical region, then no more symptoms. ▶ Itching in orifice of urethra. ▶ Frequent desire to urinate, with copious discharge; with scanty discharge. ▶ Obliged to urinate at night. ▶ Micturition in a thin stream. ▶ Frequent M. of dark yellow urine. ▶ Emission after midnight.

▶ Hoarseness from much tenacious, glutinous mucus in larynx. ▶ Intermittent cutting in front, on third false rib, agg. moving trunk. ▶ Cutting griping in last ribs towards spine. ▶ Sudden internal clawing in both sides, about fourth rib. ▶ Oppression below left nipple, with stitches; O. beneath sternum, with pressure, and with pressure in pit of stomach and epigastric region, nausea and weakness.

Rapid; and small. ▶ Slow; but full.

Cutting stitches deep in muscles on sides of neck, agg. moving neck. ▶ Heaviness in nape, making motion of head difficult. ▶ Pain in middle of spine. ▶ Sticking outward in inner surface of right scapula during rest; cutting S. in scapulæ during rest; pulsating S. beneath right scapula when sitting. ▶ Cutting thrusts in sacrum, agg. bending forward, with tensive pain. ▶ Drawing pressure in sacrum extending to muscles on inside of ilium when standing.

Pinching in axilla. ▶ Sticking in middle of inner side of upper arm. ▶ Upper arm feels as if it would break as soon as he supports himself upon it. ▶ Paralytic heaviness of elbows. ▶ Sticking in outer condyle of wrist; cutting S. in wrists, rhythmical with pulse, amel. motion. ▶ Drawing pain in bones of wrist during rest, and along radius. ▶ Hands tremble when writing. ▶ Tearing in finger-joints.

Drawing sticking through anterior muscles of upper part of right thigh during rest. ▶ Tearing around above hip-joint on walking. ▶ Cramplike drawing in thigh at insertion of large gluteal muscle when walking. ▶ Hamstrings tense and seem too short so that standing is difficult. ▶ Deeply piercing sticking in inner side of tibia, somewhat amel. motion. ▶ Dead sensation, as if asleep, in middle of right tibia when standing, with coldness. ▶ Weariness of legs when standing with sensation of a cold wind on them. ▶ Tearing in right external malleolus in evening in bed, and in muscles on side of leg.

Red spots here and there on cheeks, with burning. ▶ Sudden painful drawing over surface of body when sitting. ▶ Itching on forehead, amel. rubbing; I. on back of nose, with numbness; on patella, with rough scraping, a sensation as if eruption would break out; sticking, on inner sides of thighs, changing to burning after rubbing.

▶ Sleepiness, without sleep. ▶ Frequent waking. ▶ Restless sleep, on sitting up in bed it seemed as if the symptoms extended downward and she felt easier. ▶ Starting out of sleep, with anxiety, suffocation and trembling. ▶ Slumber, with half-open eyes and mouth, on waking could not catch his breath, obliged to sit up, when the breathing was rapid, with whistling in chest, as if he would suffocate, he beat about with his hands, head and hands bluish and puffy, with heat without thirst, when the attacks came on he cried out, aggravation at night, from 12 till 4. ▶ Dreams, vivid, unremembered; lascivious, with emission.

Chilliness, with warmth of face; C. creeping over whole body, agg. hands and feet, which are cold to touch, though the latter may be warmly wrapped up; shaking, before sleep. ▶ Shivering in attacks; S. over whole body, agg. from feet to knees, with sticking crawling here and there, and cold hands and feet. ▶ Cold feet, with internal heat in face, without thirst; hands fingers, with crawling in them.

Heat; when walking; soon after lying down, without thirst; in flushes in afternoon, after half an hour sweat on face. ▶ Dry heat; with dread of uncovering, it seems as if he would take cold and have colic. ▶ External H., agg. palms and soles; E., without thirst. ▶ Heat in hand and neck; flushing, in face. ▶ Orgasm of blood in evening after lying down, with trembling sensation.

▶ Sweat when awake from 7 P.M. till 1 A.M., without thirst, after sleep he was more hot than sweaty, without thirst; S. at night on waking; after midnight, but not on head; first on face, several hours after the dry heat had disappeared.

Coryza, with stopping and suffocative breathing, nose either dry and obstructed or filled with tenacious mucus; often with puffy, bluish face.

Frequent micturition, with scanty urine.

Clinical:
Acute nephritis, with dropsical symptoms, vomiting, dry heat of the skin.
This drug, in such cases, increases the amount of urine and relieves the dropsical symptoms.

Hoarseness, with tenacious, glutinous mucus in larynx.
Oppression of the chest, with nausea and weakness.

Clinical:
Suffocative attacks, with stitches in the chest; starts up suddenly, with suffocation; cannot expire, especially after midnight, with blue hands and face, and heat without thirst.
Suffocative cough with screaming and rough, hollow cough, with blue face and great restlessness.
Laryngitis, with much tenacious mucus.
Spasmodic croup, with wheezing, aggravated after midnight.
Whooping cough, with suffocation, tough mucus; paroxysms aggravated after midnight and lying with the head low.
Chronic inflammation of the lungs, with profuse, exhausting sweats, suffocative cough, etc.

Shivering, with cold hands and feet.
Burning heat of the face, with icy cold feet, without thirst.
Heat comes on after lying down, without thirst and with dread of uncovering.
Profuse sweat after midnight.
Debilitating night sweats.

Sam. / Sam.

Sambucus,-We discern thy crew,
As snuffling, wheezing, croupy, blue.
Though somneolent, yet cannot rest,
Awaking in the night oppressed.
Prostrated with a sweating drain,
That during sleep goes off again.
Thy feet are cold, thy face is hot,
And trembling restlessness thy lot.
Like Rhus, thou feelest worse by rest,
Thus during motion feeling best.

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Sam,-Has snuffles.

Sam Cooper, the lean old ape, is as rich as Nick Ammon.

This Sam,-Who is subject to sweat on waking,-Is up at Jo Nick's, with Calvin Sul.

"Snuffles"-Stoppage of the Nose: Sam., Cup., Lyc., Nux. v., Con., Pho., Aur., Nit. a., Am. c. (As if the nostrils were gummed together, Aur., Nit. a., Lyc., Pho.-In the morning, Con., Lyc.,-At night, Lyc., Nux. v. -Child wakes up smothering, face blue, Sam., Lemn.)

Sweat on Waking-Not During Sleep: Sam., Pho., Iod., Nit. a., Cal. c., Sul. (After waking in the morning, Cal. c., Nit. a., Pho., Sul., Iod.)

Indicated in affections of the respiratory organs, chiefly of children; Millar's asthma; sniffles of infants; laryngitis; spasmodic croup. Also nephritis with dropsy.

Violent dry cough, with hoarseness and rattling of mucus in the throat.

Paroxysmal, suffocative cough, at midnight, with great difficulty of breathing.

Child awakens suddenly, almost strangling, jumps into a sitting position, turning blue in the face, unable to expire.

Skin becomes dry and hot while the patient is asleep, but sweats profusely as soon as he awakens.

Most of the pains occur during rest and disappear during motion.

Worse upon awaking from sleep; from being quiet.

Better from sitting up; during motion.

Periodical delirium, with frightful visions and hallucinations. Unspeakable anxiety, with trembling and restlessness. Extraordinary tendency to start. Continuous peevishness. Crying and weeping. Terror. Fright followed by suffocative attacks.

Early in morning when rising.

Pressive, stupefying ache, as from intoxication. Congestion to. The head is bent backwards.

Stuffed coryza (especially in nurslings), it hinders breathing through' nose.

Puffed, dark blue. Red, burning spots on cheeks were swollen.

Tearing and sticking in, with a feeling as though' cheeks were swollen.

Dryness in, and in fauces, without thirst. Pains in throat.

Dull pressure in gastric region.

Vomiting: First of food, then of bile. With suffocation and anxious trembling.

Pinching in, with discharge of much flatulence, after taking cold. Pressive pain in, with qualmishness, when leaning it against a sharp edge.

Hypochondria: Piercing pain in.

Urging to urinate, with scanty discharge, with profuse discharge. Thin urinary stream.

Swelling of scrotum (following injury).

Menses: Increased, even amounting to hemorrhage.

Rapid, whistling, crying r. violent suffocative attacks on awakening after midnight (from slumber, with half - open eyes and mouth), like laryngismus stridulous, with bloated, blue hands and face crying, grasping about with hands, and heat, without thirst. Rattling, wheezing. Membranous croup. Oppression of chest, with pressure in stomach and nausea. Tightness of chest.

Attacks of suffocative cough with crying, excited by spasm of chest. Rough, hollow cough, with great restlessness and blue face. Dry, at night, during day, scanty, tenacious, mucus expectoration of a sweetish, putrid, or somewhat salty taste.

Inflammation of trachea. Much tenacious mucus in.

Pressure, as of a heavy load on, with suffocative anxiety. Constriction of sides. Pulmonary consumption, with profuse, exhausting sweat.

Stitches from within outward under scapulae. Pressive pain in spinal column.

Dark blue puffiness of forearm and hands. Stitches in both wrists. Beating about with hands. Burning in palms of hands.

Deep, sharp stitches in shinbones. Sense of deadness, going to sleep, and coldness in middle of (r.) shinbone. Icy - cold feet with warm body.

General trembling from anxiety and ebullition of blood. Dropsy. Consumption. Amelioration is felt when sitting up in bed. Most symptoms appear when resting the body and disappear during motion.

Bloatedness and dark red swelling with tension after contusions.

Sleepless yet sleepy. Slumber, with half open eyes and mouth. Starting up in sleep, with anxiety, shortness of breath amounting even to suffocation, and with trembling.

Pulse: Variable: Mostly small and very quick, sometimes accelerated, often also full and slow. Strong ebullitions throughout body. Chill: Running over whole body, with crawling here and there. Shuddering c. with cold hands and feet. Heat: Over whole body, as soon as he falls to sleep after lying down, with aversion to uncover, without thirst. Burning heat of face with icy cold feet. Sweat: Extraordinary profuse by day and night, even lasting through' the apyrexia, but only when awake, it breaks out on face first. Extremely exhausting s. general night sweat, except on head, increasing toward morning. Constant while awake, which Immediately passes into dry heat during sleep.

Allied Remedies: Ars., Ars, chin., Rhus-t.,