Helleborus Orientalis
by John Henry Clarke — A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica
, Lam. N. O. Ranunculaceæ. Tincture of root.
Clinical
Diarrhœa / Indigestion / Salivation
Characteristics
This was proved by V. Schroff on Lederer, and produced symptoms like those of the other Hellebores. These are peculiar: Accumulation of water in the mouth with clean tongue. Bad taste, with clean tongue. Prostration, exhaustion, and disinclination to work; burning in stomach; diarrhœa. The symptoms were > by coffee.
2. Head
Heaviness; fulness; headache.
8. Mouth
Accumulation of water in mouth; with clean tongue. Bad taste with clean tongue.
11. Stomach
Loss of appetite. Eructations. Hiccough. Nausea. Burning, extending from stomach to lower portion of œsophagus. Epigastric region: Feeling of fulness with inclination to vomit; slight burning, afterwards extending to intestines, followed by pressure in stomach.
12, 13. Abdomen and Stool. . Frequent rumbling along bowels, in morning on waking, soon followed by four liquid stools in succession. Pain esp. in region of l. transverse colon.
14. Urinary Organs
Urine more profuse and paler than usual.
19. Pulse
Pulse more frequent, body warmer. Pulse slowed.