Abies Nigra
By Timothy F. Allen — The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
Abies nigra, Poir.
Nat. order , Coniferæ.
Common names , Black or Double Spruce.
Preparation , Tincture of the gum.
Authority.
Dr. Leaman (Ohio Med. and Surg. Rep., 1). Provers: 1 , Man 40 years old, one drop of tincture daily; 2 , Girl 18 years old, two to seven drops of tincture; 3 , Girl 19 years old, three to six drops of tincture twice a day.
MIND
HEAD
- Dizziness, 3.
- Bad feeling in the head, 2.
- Slight headache, 2.
- Dull headache, 1.
- Headache began an hour after taking five drops, and increased with the doses, 2. [10.]
- Severe headache, 3.
- Head hot with flushed cheeks, 3.
FACE
- Cheeks flushed, with hot head, 3.
THROAT
- Choking sensation in throat, 2.
STOMACH
- Hungry and wakeful at night, 2.
- Exceedingly hungry, 2.
- Total loss of appetite in the morning , but great craving for food at noon and at night, 3.*
- Chewing the gum after meals cured the habitual eructations of gas, and increased the appetite, [°].
- Pain after a hearty meal, 2.*
- The habitual pain in the stomach after eating was cured, [°], 1. [20.]
- The tincture relieved the usual severe pain in the stomach after eating, the acid eructations, and the frequent vomiting of food, [°].
- Severe pain in stomach extending to the left side, 2.
- Distressing pain in the stomach (lasted long after the proving), 3.
- Chewing the gum frequently produces the sensation of an undigested hard-boiled egg in the stomach . (Dr. St. Clair Smith.)
STOOL
- Constipation (during and after the proving), 3.*
GENITALS
- Menstruation did not appear till the third month after the proving (very unusual), 3.
RESPIRATION
- Easily gets out of breath, 2.
BACK
- Pain in the small of the back, 2.
GENERALITIES
SLEEP
- Dulness during the day, but wakeful at night, 2.
- Did not sleep as well as usual, 2.
- Very bad dreams, 2.
- Sleepy during the day, and restless at night, 3.
FEVER
- Alternate heat and cold, 2.
SUPPLEMENT: ABIES NIGRA. Authority.
4 , Contributed to this work by Dr. J. B. Bell.
- August 10th, at 11.30 P.M., I took ten drops of 18th potency; after about half an hour I felt a severe pain in or about the left meatus auditorius externus, which continued to increase for five minutes or more, and then gradually subsided. The pain was quite peculiar and different from anything I ever before experienced. This was followed by slight dyspnœa, which was increased by lying down. It soon subsided, however, and I slept immediately after retiring, which I think was soon after midnight. I felt no symptoms on the following day, and at 10.30 P.M., I took 10 drops more, and retired in about half an hour. Soon after lying down I felt a choking suffocating sensation, as though my lungs were compressed, so that I could not fully expand them. (I had experienced a similar sensation several years ago, when laboring under some disorder of the chest.) There was some, increased action of the heart; it did not beat faster than usual, but harder, that is, the volume of blood which entered it seemed to be greater. The pain in the meatus of the left ear was not so marked as on the evening previous, but still it was plainly present. It seemed on this occasion to flit about, not settling down on a single point. As on the evening previous these symptoms continued for fifteen or twenty minutes, and then subsided and did not return. On the succeeding days I took 5 drops three times a day, but did not develop any new symptoms. The symptoms before mentioned were present, but were not so marked as on the former occasions. August 18th I took 6 drops of the 9th potency, in the evening, but did not perceive any symptoms. The next evening I took 12 drops of the 9th, and developed in a marked degree the same symptoms as after 10 drops of the 18th. Nothing new, however, appeared. I followed this up by taking 6 to 15 drops of the 9th, but I think I got the plainest results from about 12 drops of this potency. I have taken various potencies from the tincture up to the 30th, and have invariably confirmed the proving, to wit, pain in the left external meatus, heavy slow beating of the heart, dyspnœa, and, finally, sharp cutting pains in the heart. This last was very severe from the 30th, so severe that I was obliged to take Aconite to antidote it. I have always got the most marked symptoms from the high potencies, or at least the higher they have been the more marked have been the symptoms, 4.