Abies Nigra
by Constantine Hering — The Guiding Symptoms of our Materia Medica
Black Spruce. Coniferæ.
The Pinus nigra or black spruce of this country.
Proved by Dr Leaman ; Ohio Medical and Surgical Reporter .
MIND [1]
Inability to think or study.
Very low-spirited ; melancholy.
SENSORIUM [2]
Dizziness ; bad feeling in head.
INNER HEAD [3]
Headache.
Terrible distress in head ; generally with some flushing of face. θ Dyspepsia.
OUTER HEAD [4]
Head hot, with flushed cheeks.
TEETH AND GUMS [10]
(OBS :) Scurvy.
PALATE AND THROAT [13]
Choking sensation in throat.
APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS [14]
Exceedingly hungry and wakeful at night.
Total loss of appetite in morning ; craving for food noon and night.
EATING AND DRINKING [15]
Pain after a hearty meal.
Abstinence from particular food does not >. θ Dyspepsia.
HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING [16]
Belching.
Acid eructations.
Frequent vomiting of food.
SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH [17]
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 [20]
Constipation.
FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS [23]
Menses did not appear until third month after proving.
RESPIRATION [26]
Gets out of breath easily.
NECK AND BACK [31]
Pain in small of back.
NERVES [36]
Nervousness.
Fatigue.
SLEEP [37]
Dull and sleepy during day ; restless and wakeful at night.
Wakeful at night with hunger.
Bad dreams.
TIME [38]
Morning : total loss of appetite.
Noon : craving for food.
Night : hungry ; wakeful and restless.
Day : dull and sleepy.
FEVER [40]
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 [43]
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 [44]
Rheumatic pains and aching in bones.
RELATIONS [48]
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).