Other names and synonyms
abies-c.Description Source
Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica - J.H. ClarkePharmacological Group
Additional facts
Pinus canadensis. Hemlock Spruce. сanada Pitch. N. O. сoniferae. Tincture of fresh bark and young buds.
Nosology
Indigestion. Liver disorder. Uterine displacement.
Typical features
Abies can. has been only imperfectly proved, but it has marked symptoms which will serve to indicate it in any case of disease in which they may be prominent: Great appetite, tendency to over-eat; gnawing, hungry, faint feeling in epigastrium. According to Hale it has cured: A light-headed feeling, attended with a gnawing, hungry, faint feeling at epigastrium, craving hunger which, if gratified, was followed by distension of the stomach and hard beating of the heart. Among the peculiar sensations are: A feeling as if the right lung and liver were small and hard; pain beneath right scapula. The patient lies with the legs drawn up. Shivering as if the blood turned to cold water.
Dif. diagnostics
Compare: Abies nig., Sabina, Thuja, and other сonifers, Nux vom.
Psyche and consciousness
Quiet, careless, but easily fretted.
Head, face, and ears
Tipsy feeling, a swimming of the head; light-headed.
Sensation as of a stye in outer canthus of left eye.
Sensation as of a stye in outer canthus of left eye.
Mouth and throat
Dryness of the mouth.
Appetite and food preferences
Gnawing, hungry, faint feeling at the epigastrium. - сraving for meat, pickles, and other coarse food. Some thirst. A tendency to eat far beyond the capacity for digestion.
Gastrointestinal tract
Distension of the stomach and epigastrium; burning.
Sick feeling in the bowels. Rumbling in the bowels after eating, with great appetite. Sensation as if the liver were small and hard; as if bile were deficient.
Burning in rectum. - сonstipation.
Sick feeling in the bowels. Rumbling in the bowels after eating, with great appetite. Sensation as if the liver were small and hard; as if bile were deficient.
Burning in rectum. - сonstipation.
Urogenital system
Urinates frequently day and night; urine straw-coloured.
Thinks the womb is soft and feeble (thinks would cause abortion). Sore feeling at the fundus of uterus; by pressing.
Thinks the womb is soft and feeble (thinks would cause abortion). Sore feeling at the fundus of uterus; by pressing.
Chest organs
Breathing laboured. Sensation as if the right lung were small and hard.
Cardiovascular system
Action of the heart laboured. Increased action of the heart with distension of the stomach.
Limbs and spine
Pain behind the right shoulder-blade. Weak feeling in sacral region. Feeling as of cold water between the shoulders.
Common symptoms
Hands cold, shrunken. Skin cold and clammy. Lies with the legs drawn up. Great prostration, wants to lie down all the time. Very faint, as if top of head were congested. Twitching of the muscles.
Sleep
Gaping, drowsy. Great restlessness at night, with tossing from side to side.
Fever
Cold shivering all, over as if blood turned to ice-water. - сhills down back.