Abies canadensis abies-c.

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.