Abies Canadensis

Hale - Materia Medica and Special Therapeutics of the New Remedies · Edwin Moses Hale · 2,104 chars

General

(Memloek-Spruee.) Bbscriptioh. — A large tree, evergreen. When young the most graeelXil of the spruces, with a Hght, spreadiog spray, and delicate foliage, hriglit green aboTe and silvery underneath. Very common northward. Officinal Pbbpabatiomb.— Tincture of the bark and buds, dilutiona. Anai.Ooues. — jSseulus, Oopaiva, Terebinth, Nux, Ignatta, Lithium.

Mind

Mind careless, quiet, but easily fretted, and irritable.

Head

Feels light-headed, a tipsj feeling, a swimming in the head.

Top of the head feels congeeted, a faint, dninlren feeling.

Sweating abont the head, at night.

Eyes

A feeling as of a stye, on the outer canthus of the left eyelid;

Gastric Symptoms.

Dryness of the month, with thirst.

Gnawing, hungry, faint feeling at the epigaatrinm.

A bloated feeling in the stomach, with burning. * Craving for meat, pickles, and other coarse food.

(Gatchell^- A tendency to eat far beyond the capacity for digestion.

Great appetite, with rumbling in the bowels after eating. ° Canine hunger, with torpid fever. {Gatehell.) ° Dyspepsia, with very weak digeetion.

(Meehwith^ 2 0.1)

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Abdomen, llumbling in th« bowels after eating, with great appetite.

Irritable feeling in the region of the spleen.

A feeling in the liver as if it was small and hai'd, and as if

the bile was deficient. Burning in the rectuTA, with constipation.

CTrine. Urination very frequent, day and night; urine profuse and

straw colored. Increaeed nocturnal, involuntary arination.

trtenis.

She thinks the womb feels soft and "feeble." A sore feeling in the fundus of the uterus, relieved hy pressing.

" Pregnant ewes lose their lambs from gnawing the bark."

Generalities

Skin clammy, hands cold and shrunken. Pain behind the right shoulder-blade. Increased action of the heart, with distensiiwi of stomach. Great restlessness at night, with tossing from side to side; he

lies with the knees drawn up. Wants to lie down all the time, with weakness in the sacra]

regions; gaping and drowsiness. Chills down the back; cold, shivering all over, as if the blood

turned to ice-water. Twitching of the muscles.