Abies canadensis abies-c.

Key-Notes to the Materia Medica

Henry N. Guernsey · Key-Notes to the Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML text (Guernsey d. 1885; public domain)

General

The most characteristic symptoms seem to be

Gastric

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

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Hemlock Spruce

General

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.

Head

Feels light-headed, tipsy. Irritable.

Stomach

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.

Female

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.

Fever

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).

Dose

First to third potency.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1st edition (1900-02, three volumes); homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML digitization

General

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

Clinical

Indigestion. Liver disorder. Uterine displacement.

Characteristics

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.

Relations

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

Mind

Quiet, careless, but easily fretted.

Head

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

Eyes

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

Mouth

Dryness of the mouth.

Appetite

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.

Stomach

Distension of the stomach and epigastrium; burning.

Abdomen

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.

Stool and Anus

Burning in rectum. ─ Constipation.

Urinary Organs

Urinates frequently day and night; urine straw-coloured.

Female Sexual Organs

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

Respiratory Organs

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

Heart

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

Neck and Back

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

Generalities

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.

Sleep

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

Fever

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