The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Abies Nigra abies-n.

Hering, 1879–91 (1879)In every bookSave

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).