Helleborus Foetidus

Helleborus foetidus, Linn.

Natural order , Ranunculaceae. Common name , Stinkender-niesswurz.

Preparation , Tincture of the root.

Authorities. 1 , Bisset, Essay on the Med. Const. of Great Britain, p. 333, "poisoning," from Hahnemann's Hellebore; 2 , Gesner; Entdeckungen, 1, p. 167, "statement;" from Hahnemann; 3 , Dr. Demeures, effects of one drop, and of inhaling fumes while pounding it, Jour. d. l. Soc. Gal., 1st ser., vol. iv, p. 111; 4 , Oxford Magazine, 1779 (Hempel's Mat. Med., 1, p. 505), effects on various individuals of eating it; 5 , Cattell, symptoms compiled (?), B. J. of Hom., 11, 343.

Dreadful anxiety, which, however, is relieved after vomiting, [1] .

Eye.

Great difficulty in reading, in the evening, by candlelight, lasting four days. The sensation is that cause when the light flickers in a draught of air; he has difficulty in following the lines (after two days), [3] .

Ear.

Thumping pain below and behind the left ear; this feeling soon passes off, [3] .

Smarting at the tip of the tongue, [3] .

My wife, who assisted in triturating this plant, experienced a painful sensation in the mouth, like aphthae, [3] . Excoriation of the mouth and throat, [5] .

Taste of manure in the mouth, tongue yellow in the middle, [3] .

Nausea and vomiting of food, which, and hour before, had been taken with relish and in moderation, [3] . Several turns of nausea, without vomiting, nineteen hours after, [3] . [10.]

Sickness, [5] . Constant inclination to vomit, [2] .

When pounding the plant, it seems that the epigastrium with difficulty keeps time with the inflation of the chest on inspiration, [3] .

Frightful pain in the pit of the stomach, [2] .

Colic, [2] .

Violent purging and vomiting, with pain in the stomach, [5] .

Abundant and liquid stool during the night; next day, two liquid and whitish stools, with colic; again a liquid stool forty-eight hours after, [3] .

Tightness of the chest; he can scarcely half draw his breath, [3] .

Numbness in the muscles of the neck (the sensibility of the part touch is blunted); it becomes stiff eighteen hours after, [3] .

General Symptoms.

Fatal convulsions, [5] . [20.]

Swooning, [5] . Same general feeling as if he had come out of a severe sickness, [3] .

They lost not only the epidermis, but their hair and nails besides, [4] .

The hair falls off, also the nails from the fingers and toes, [5] .

The scarf skin peels off the whole body, [5] .

Profuse discharge from the ulcerated surface (from application), [5] .

During the night the prover stirs a great deal (in his sleep), [5] .