Abies Canadensis

by Timothy F. AllenThe Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica

A. Canadensis, Michx.

Nat. order , Coniferæ.

Common name , Hemlock (Spruce).

Preparation , Tincture of the bark and young buds.

Authority.

Gatchell, Investigator, 10, 54; two provers.

MIND

  • Mind quiet, careless but easily fretted, 1.
  • Irritable, 1.

HEAD

  • A tipsy feeling, a swimming of the head; he feels lightheaded. (Hale's New Remedies, 3d edition.)

EYES

  • A feeling like that produced by a stye in the outer canthus of left eye, 2.

MOUTH

  • Dryness of the mouth, 2.

STOMACH

  • Hungry, 1.
  • A tendency to eat far beyond the capacity for digestion. (Gatchell, in Hale's New Remedies.)
  • Great appetite, with rumbling in stomach and bowels after eating, 2.
  • Great craving for meat, pickles, and other coarse food, with hungry gnawing at the epigastrium, 1. [10.]
  • Some thirst, 2.
  • Stomach swelled, burning, 1.
  • Belching, 1.
  • Distension of the epigastrium, with increased action of the heart. (Gatchell, in Hale's New Remedies.)
  • Weak at the epigastrium, 1.
  • Gnawing, hungry faint feeling at the epigastrium. (Gatchell, in Hale's New Remedies.)

ABDOMEN

  • Feeling as if the right lung and liver were small and hard; as if bile were deficient, 1.
  • Irritable feeling in the splenic region, 1.
  • Sick feeling in the bowels, 1.

STOOL AND ANUS

  • Rectum burns, 1. [20.]
  • Constipation, 2.

URINARY ORGANS

  • Urinates frequently day and night, 2.
  • Urine straw-colored, 2.

SEXUAL ORGANS

  • Thinks womb soft and feeble (thinks would cause abortion), 1.
  • Sore feeling at the fundus of the uterus; relieved by pressing, 1.

RESPIRATORY APPARATUS

  • Breathing labored, 1.

HEART AND PULSE

  • Action of heart labored, 1.

NECK AND BACK

  • Feeling as of cold water between the shoulders, 1.
  • Weak in the sacral region, 1.

UPPER EXTREMITIES

  • Pain behind the right shoulder-blade, 1. [30.]
  • Hands cold, shrunken, 1.

LOWER EXTREMITIES

  • Lies with the knees drawn up, 1.

GENERALITIES

  • Twitching of muscles, 1.
  • Bloated, 1.
  • Wants to lie down all the time, 1.
  • Excessively weak, 1.
  • Very faint, as if the top of the head were congested; drunken feeling, 1.

SKIN

  • Skin clammy, 1.

SLEEP AND DREAMS

  • Gaping, drowsy, 1.
  • Great restlessness at night, with tossing from side to side, 2. [40.]

FEVER

  • Cold, shivering all over, as if the blood turned to ice-water, 1.
  • Chills down the back, 1.

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