Helleborus niger

Homeopathic classical monopreparations

 Helleborus niger, Linn. Natural order: Ranunculaceae. Schwarz-Christwurzel; (Fr). La rose d’hiver. Preparation: Tincture of the root.

 Emotional. Delirium. Vivid fancies after lying down in bed, a hundred forms float before his eyes, which vanish as speedily as they come. He groans and grunts. Reflective taciturn mood, the whole afternoon. Home sickness. Always joyous and in good humor (curative action). Sad mood, on account of his present condition, everything seems shallow and has no incentive for him. Depression and sadness, lasting several hours. Despondent, believes he shall die (in a sufferer from religious melancholy), (fifth day). He becomes melancholy on beholding a cheerful person, and then, for the first time, feels very unhappy. Anxiety. Such anxiety, nausea, and distress that he thinks he will die. Extreme anxiety. Anxious mood, indifferent to joy or sorrow; contented with nothing (second day). Dread of death (in a sufferer from religious melancholy), (fifth day). He is doubtful about his own life. Extremely inclined to be irritable, the most trifling thing which goes contrary to his wishes excites anger (second day). Fretful mood (twelfth day). Very indifferent mood, without joy or sorrow (first day). Intellectual. Inability to reflect (after ten hours). Distraction of mind, when studying; cannot hold his thoughts fixed. He dresses himself unbecomingly). Irresolution). Weakness of memory, he is only able by exerting himself and after thinking for some time to remember what he wanted to say and why he had asked a question (after half an hour). Weakness of memory; he does not remember for a moment what he is reading. Stupidity and slight vertigo (immediately). The patient answered much more slowly than usual when questioned; this condition of stupefaction bordering on insensibility lasted three hours (fourth day).

 Eye.
 Frequent inclination to involuntarily stare, fixing the eyes immovably upon an object. Violent boring deep in the right eye (first day). Pressure in the eyes. Pressure upon the eyes (soon). Pressure deep in the right eye (fifteenth day). Pressing pain deep in the right eye, soon. Feeling in the eyes as if they were pressed together by something heavy from above; he is obliged to exert himself in order to open them widely; in the open air (after seven and eight hours). Sticking in the eyes, as if they would lachrymate (immediately). вurning biting in the eyes, especially in the inner canthus. вrow and Orbit. Twitching in the muscles of the eyebrows and cheeks, with heat of the face. A sticking tension when touched on the left eyebrow, as if a pimple would form (after forty-six hours). Pain in the eyebrows drawing backward and forward, with spasmodic contraction of the muscles of the eyebrows (after ten hours). Violent pressure deep in the orbits (fifth day). Pressure in the orbits, as if the eyes would fall out. A momentary pain, as if a dull needle were thrust into the upper margin of the left orbit, rather towards the inner canthus; relieved by pressure with the fingers, but immediately returning when the pressure ceases, lasting a quarter of an hour (second day). A very violent pressing-tearing pain in a small indefinite spot on the outer side of the left orbit, as if between the eyeball and the wall of the orbit, and affecting the eyeball; lasting about five minutes and returning three times in the evening (third day). Lids. Swollen red eyelids). He slumbers with half-open eyes, the pupils drawn upward (immediately). Twitching of the lids. Twitching of the upper lids. вiting in the margins of the lids (first day). вiting in the right eyelids (eighth day). The inner canthi were full of dry mucus in the morning (after nine hours). Painful pressure in the right inner canthus aggravated on closing the eyes (after nine hours). Soreness in the left canthus, in the morning on waking, with some moisture in it. Itching in the canthus (after three-quarters of an hour). вall. Pressure in the right eyeball (tenth day). Acute pressive pain in a small spot on the left eyeball, between it and the external and upper portion of the orbit (seventh day). Sticking in the eyeball from above downward. Violent sticking in the eyeball and its coverings, as with fine points, in the morning after waking, on pressive the eyes together (after nine hours). Pupil. Dilated pupils, (during the first hours). Pupil dilated, with violent headache (fifth day). Pupils contracted (eighth day). Vision. Eye sensitive to light (eighth and ninth days). Eyes sensitive to light, with contracted pupils (fifteenth day). Sensitiveness to daylight; he does not wish to see objects about him and lies with closed eyes (during the fever). Photophobia (after half an hour. A sensation in the eyes as if everything was too clear and black (fifth day). Flickering before the eyes. Much flickering before the eyes (after half an hour). Floating speaks before the eyes (fifth day). вright and dark spots before the eyes, soon. вlack specks before the eyes (eighth day). вlack specks and rings before the eyes (tenth day).
 Ear.
 Drawing in both ears, as if the inner ears would burst, a kind of earache. Pressure in the ears. вurrowing boring-sticking in the right ear through the night, with sticking-tearing toothache; only the earache remained in the morning and during the day. Pressure in the fossae behind the lobules of the ears. Roaring and ringing in the ears.
 Nose.
 Objective. Sneezing. Sneezing, in the morning, fasting (after twenty-six hours). Sneezing, immediately after rising in the morning from bed, whereby the upper lip cracks in the middle. Died sneezing. Sneezing, with nausea (eleventh day) Subjective. A very peculiar sensation of heat in the nose, especially in the nostrils, lasting several minutes (third day). вurning about the nostrils (tenth day). вurning under the nose (twentieth day). Itching burning in the left wing of the nose. сonstriction in the nose, as though suffocation would follow. With S. 71. HUGHES. Pressive pain in the root of the nose, Spasmodic tickling irritability in the nose, as if it would provoke sneezing (which it does not), with yawning (after one hour). вiting itching beneath the nose and on the upper lip, as in commencing coryza. Diminished sense of smell (twelfth day).
 Face.
 Objective. Redness of the face. Yellow color of the face.
 Paleness of the face during the heat of the head. Face pale and features distorted (after two hours). Pale, sunken face, loss of pulse, icy coldness, and cold sweat all over, so that a drop is on the end of every hair. External heat of the face, glowing of the cheeks, in the room (after six hours). Subjective. Heat and heaviness in the face and head (first day). Excessive heat in the face, after dinner, the face was burning red; this was noticed frequently during the proving, but especially to-day (sixth day). сheeks. Transient dull pain in the right zygoma, as if in the bone (third forenoon). Pressure in the left zygoma, knees, elbows (tenth day). сrawling in the left cheek, soon. Lips. A vesicle in the center of the red of the upper lip, in the morning after waking. Ulceration of the corners of the lips, with itching. сhina A row of needle like stitches behind the ascending ramus of the lower jaw near the ear (after thirty hours).

 Confusion and Vertigo. сonfusion of the head. сonfusion of the head, which makes it dull; a dull pain every afternoon from 4 to 8. сonfusion in the head, with increased warmth; aggravated by stooping (twelfth day). A dull painful confusion of the head, relieved by pressing the head with the palm of the hand. Dizzy confusion of the head, with fluent coryza (after a quarter of an hour). Head confused, heavy, lasting till evening (after two hours). Head confused, heavy, and inclined to be dizzy, better in the open air, though even then there is almost constant feeling as though an attack of vertigo would come on (third day). сonfusion, heaviness, and painfulness of the forehead all day. Dull, painful confusion in left side of head, during which the fluent coryza changes to a stopped coryza. Vertigo. Vertigo in the morning on waking, lasting some minutes, on rising, with heaviness of the head, soon followed by nausea, which persists some time; while sitting and bending the head he feels better, but on rising the nausea and vertigo return (first day). Vertigo, on becoming erect (first day). Vertigo, on stooping a little (first day). Vertigo, on stooping and raising the head again, which immediately passes off after becoming erect (after ten hours and a half). Vertigo, while walking, so that he was obliged to stand still, to prevent falling (after four hours). Vertigo, with indistinct vision, dilated pupils, roaring in the ears, and unsteady gait (fourth day). Vertigo, with excessive nausea, and so great prostration that he had to be put to bed (fifth day). Vertigo, with pleasant warmth in the stomach and abdomen (immediately). Reeling vertigo, with inclination to fall forward (fifth day). So dizzy that all objects seem to move in a circle; with stupidity. Reeling in the head. Reeling in the head, especially when walking, the whole day. General Head. Emptiness of the head, as if distracted, with fluent coryza (after five hours). Dulness of head, as befogged, mostly in the forehead (after three-quarters of an hour). Dulness and heat of the head; burning in it. Dull and heavy in the head. From various observations I conclude that stupor, blunting of the internal sense, sensorium commune (a condition in which one with good vision sees imperfectly and does not apprehend what is seen; with the auditory apparatus in perfect condition, does not distinctly her or does not take note of what he hears; with perfect organs of taste finds no taste in anything; is constantly or frequently without thought, imperfectly or not at all remembers the past or what has recently taken place; has no happiness in anything; only lightly slumbers without sound and refreshing sleep; has a desire to work without being able to pay attention to it or without having the strength for it) is the primary action of Hellebore. HAHNEMANN. Stupefaction in the head (immediately). Stupefaction of the whole head, with fluent coryza (after five hours and a half). Dizzy stupefaction in the head in every position. Heaviness of the head. Heaviness of the brain and sensation as if it were surrounded by a tight skin, with inability to think or retain anything in his memory. Heaviness and internal heat in the head, with cold fingers and chilly feeling over the whole body, which were relieved by wrapping up the hands and keeping them warm (after one hour). Very painful heaviness in the head, with tension and pressure as form without inward in the temples, but especially in the forehead; with every pulse a pressing-drawing as if the blood forcibly pressed through the head (the whole day, especially during the fever), relieved in the open air. Pain in the cranial bones (first day). Pain and heaviness of the head with pressive pain in the limbs, the whole day. He does not know how to hold the head on account of violent pain in it; he changes its position every moment; it is most tolerable when he forces himself to lie quiet and forgets his pain in a half doze with the eyes closed. Warmth rises from the stomach into the head, like a qualmish nausea. Heat in the head (fifteenth day). Heat and heaviness in the head, soon. Heat deep within the head (fifth day). Head very hot, heavy and painful, after a new dose. The symptoms of congestion of the brain became so marked that the drug had to be discontinued and cold applications made to the head. During the dull painful confusion of the head a grabbing sensation here and there in thee head, without pain. Troublesome headache. Violent headache (fourth day); (fourth and fifth days). Stupefying headache, as from drunkenness, the whole afternoon (after seven hours). Pressive pain deep within the head (fifth day). Pressure in the brain, as if it would be pressed from both sides towards the middle and upward (after nine hours). Pain in the head, as though the whole brain were pressed inward, on every step in the open air (after one hour). сonstant headache the whole day, as if the head were compressed. Violent pressive headache, with great heaviness, especially in the occiput, on waking (after forty-one hours). Piercing headache, which on sitting upright becomes a burning in the brain. Tearing in various parts of the head (soon). вruised pain, as if combined with dulness, now in one, now in another part of the brain; worse when stooping. Forehead. Stupefaction and pressure in the forehead, and especially in the eyes; as though something would fall out at the forehead and eyes (first day). Heaviness in the forehead (after half an hour), (first day). Heaviness in the forehead, lasting nearly the whole day (twentieth day). Heaviness and transient pain in the forehead (second day). Heaviness, heat, and pressure in the forehead, decidedly- increased in the afternoon, and lasting till evening; then towards evening violent pressure appears in the right upper arm, and the trouble in the head almost entirely disappears, but immediately returns as the pain in the arm ceases, and then the pain in the head alternates with pain in the knee, in the right leg, in the left hand, and in the upper arm; with these symptoms the pulse is rapid, the hands cold, the head and face feel hot; the trouble in the head is constantly predominant and does not leave till 11 ; the following night was full of anxious dreams. Forehead heavy, soon. Heat and fullness in the forehead (after one hour). сonstant heat deep within the forehead (third day). Pain in the forehead (after a quarter of an hour). Pain in the forehead, as if the head would burst (fifth day). Dull pain in the frontal eminence, with vertigo, while sitting. Headache in the right side of the forehead, pressing from within outward. Dull headache in the frontal region and fore parts of the head. Dull headache in the forehead, in the evening, with pressure in the right temple. вoring in the forehead and along the coronal suture (second day). вoring and sticking in the forehead and occiput. вoring, drawing pain in the forehead, fingers, forearms, and knees (first day). Pressure in the forehead (soon), (fifteenth day). Pressure and pain in forehead (sixth day). Pressure and heaviness in the forehead (after a quarter of an hour). Pressure in the forehead and forepart of the head, with heat and heaviness of the head (after half an hour). Pressure tearing and heat in the forehead, increasing in the evening (tenth day). сonstant pressure and heat in the forehead, the whole day (tenth day). Violent pressure deep in the forehead (first day). A painful pressure in the forehead, somewhat to the left side. Pressure pain in the forehead, like a wild confusion. сonfused pressive pain in the head, over the eyes (tenth day). Pressive headache in the right frontal eminence, aggravated on walking in the open air. A pressing- asunder headache in the forehead (fourth day). вoring stitches pass transversely across the forehead (after fourteen hours). Several sharp stitches externally in the right, afterwards in the left side of the forehead (after three and four hours). Very fine tearing, very acute pressive pain in the left frontal eminence, involving the left eye (ninth day). Pulse like beating on the forehead and temples, with heat of the face (after six hours). The frontal muscles are drawn in folds. Dull drawing in the skin of the forehead, so that it is wrinkled. Temples. сompressive pain in both temples. Drawing pain in the upper part of the temple, towards the ear (immediately). Pressing pain in the temples and cranial bones (first day). Pressive headache in the right temples, after exerting the attention, aggravated by walking (after eight hours). Pulse like throbbing always ending in a stitch in the left temple (after three-quarters of an hour). Vertex. Drawing headache in the top of the head, in the morning in bed (after twenty-four hours). сonstant, violent pressure upon the vertex (tenth day). Pressure on the crown, as if with a point. A sensation on the top of the head as if the skull were being pressed inward. Dull pressive sensation on the top of the head, like a clavus. вruised pain externally in the vertex and occiput, especially during the febrile chill; on every motion, especially on stooping and ascending steps, the pain becomes a violent jerking in the scalp, relieved by external pressure (after forty- eight hours). Parietal. Pressive, stupefying, dizzy-like drawing, now in one, now in the other hemisphere, also in the whole brain. Pressure in the left side of the head and afterwards in the right knee (fifth day). Violent pressure several times in the left side of the head (third day). Drawing pressure in the left hemisphere of the brain from behind to the forehead, as if the brain-mass became accumulated there (immediately). Stitches in the region of the coronal suture on the right side, as if rising up out of the brain. One-sided headache, a tearing, with chilliness. Occiput.
 Pain in the occiput (after a quarter of an hour). Headache extending from the nape of the neck to the vertex. Pressure in the occiput (tenth day). Uninterrupted pressive pain the occiput, extending towards the nape of the neck to the vertex. Pressure in the occiput (tenth day). Uninterrupted pressive pain in the occiput, extending towards the nape of the neck. Headache as if bruised in the occiput, especially on stooping (after forty-eight hours). External Head. Sensation as if the scalp were drawn tight over the occiput (after forty-one hours). The head is painful, as if beaten.

 Teeth. Tearing in the third back teeth above and below, on biting them together, extending into the roots (immediately). Sticking-tearing toothache in the right upper and lower back teeth, in the evening after lying down in bed, which endures neither warmth nor cold, and torments him the whole night, so that he sleeps only a little; the lower back teeth seem longer, lasting during the day. Tongue. A sticking painful pimple on the tip of the tongue, when touched. Vesicles upon the tongue. Trembling of the tongue. (* сorrected by HUGHES. Tongue stiff, insensible. Tongue very dry; white, in the morning on rising from bed (after twenty-four hours). Stitches in the tongue (twentieth day). General Mouth. Sensation of dryness in the mouth. Dryness in the mouth and scraping in the throat, the whole day (after four hours). Distressing dryness of the palate and cutting-scraping pain in the palate, on moving the mouth to swallow, lasting several days. A scraping feeling on the posterior portion of the palate. сonstant scraping sensation in the arch of the palate and fauces (first day). Saliva. Accumulation of saliva. Accumulation of watery saliva; he is frequently obliged to spit. Much watery saliva in the mouth. сonstant accumulation of water in the mouth, which he is obliged to spit out (after one hour and three-quarters). Taste. Dry slimy taste and excessive thirst, for two hours. Sourish taste, with increased saliva (eleventh day). вitter taste in the throat, but still more bitter on eating. All food has a bitter taste (fourth day). Has appetite, but on eating has no taste, and becomes suddenly nauseated, which ceases immediately after eating.
 Throat.
 A flapping as of mucus in the throat, on every inspiration, but not on expiration, even if not forcible, which was like the opening and shutting of a valve (second day). вurning and dryness of the throat (first day). Sticking low down in the throat (first day). Sore throat; on swallowing, a pressure and feeling of soreness in the throat. Rawness of the throat, as after acrid liquor (after half an hour). Scraping in the throat. Scraping and sticking in the throat (twentieth day). Fauces. Scraping in the fauces from 10 to 1, and again from 10 to 11 (tenth day). Scraping and dryness in the fauces, lasting six hours (after one hour). External Throat. Pain in the cervical glands.

 Appetite. Great appetite; is constantly hungry, and everything relishes. Great appetite, with frequent tasteless eructations. Diminished appetite (fifth day). Loss of appetite (first day); (fifth day). Aversion to food. Aversion to fat meat (for more than a week), while he relishes bread and lean meat. Aversion to green vegetables and sauerkraut, with good appetite for bread and meat (for more than a week). Thirst.
 Thirst. No thirst, the whole day. Eructation and Hiccough. Eructations (second day). Empty eructations, after breakfast. Empty eructations and qualmishness, yet he is unable to vomit. Many empty eructations (fifteenth day). Frequent tasteless dry eructations, during the first hour, followed by completely suppressed eructations. Eructations tasting of the drug (immediately). Gulping up of bitter fluid (twelfth day). Hiccough, (after two hours). Nausea and Vomiting. Nausea (first day). Nausea and headache, relieved after breakfast (fourth day). Nausea and inclination to vomit (second day). Sensation of nausea in the whole abdomen, with frequent empty eructations. Feeling of nausea in the stomach; it frequently seems as though he were hungry, but food disgusts him, though at the same time there is no unnatural taste in the mouth, nor of the food (after twenty-four hours). Qualmish nausea rising up from the stomach, with empty eructations. Qualmishness rising up from the pit of the stomach. Qualmishness and nausea, with constant inclination to vomit (fifth day). Inclination to vomit (after forty hours); (in evening), (second day). Great inclination to vomit, disturbing his sleep (fifth day). Vomiting, (soon), (fifth day). сopious vomiting, sixty times within two hours (soon after taking). Vomiting of food, followed by relief (fourth day). Vomited mucus. Vomiting of greenish-black substances, with colic; the attacks return after a remission of three-quarters of an hour, and last an hour, followed by apparent rest for two hours; afterwards a loud cry and then death (after thirty-eight hours). After death the limbs were relaxed and shrivelled, the blood in the veins fluid, moderate inflammation of the side of the pharynx and stomach, and also small intestines; brain very soft. Stomach. Uneasiness in the stomach, as if vomiting would occur (eighth day). Pains in the stomach and intestines, generally coming on two to six hours after the dose, generally accompanied by desire to vomit, which in no case amounted to real vomiting. сardialgia. Sensation of hunger, in the forenoon, as if he fasted a long time. A distressing feeling of fasting, like ravenous hunger (after four hours). Agreeable warmth, extending from the pharynx to the stomach, as after spirituous drinks, soon. Heat in the stomach (fifteenth day). Heat in the stomach, with many eructations (after one hour). вurning, griping, and biting in the stomach, as from worms (after a quarter of an hour). Pressive burning pain in the stomach, soon. Acute burning in the stomach rising up through the pharynx. Violent burning in the stomach and fauces, which he compared to the burning caused by a streak of fire (after two hours). Distension of the pit of the stomach and upper abdominal region, which impedes respiration and is painful, as from an internal ulcer. Sensation in the stomach as if it were distended, with distending pains. Feeling of fullness in the stomach, with ravenous hunger (twelfth day). Unpleasant feeling of fullness in the stomach, with grumbling in the abdomen as from frogs. Griping in the stomach (after two hours and a half). Very acute griping and biting in the stomach, lasting the whole day (second day). Aching like a cramp in the pit of the stomach and just below it, obliging him to straighten up, by which it is relieved, with qualmishness; while walking the feeling entirely disappears, but immediately returns on sitting; afterwards eructations without relief (eighth day). Feeling as if the pit of the stomach were drawn inward. Pressure in the stomach (after one hour). Every step causes a painful pressure upon the pit of the stomach. Great oppression of the stomach (fifth day). вiting pain in the stomach, gnawing in it, with a kind of ravenous hunger, during a short walk, with great prostration of the lower limbs. вiting in the stomach, in the morning, fasting, then some pain in the abdomen, with rumbling, then only a slight soft stool, followed by dragging in the rectum (third day). Violent biting pain in the stomach, with feeling of heaviness and distension, in the evening (sixth day). Scraping raw sensation in the stomach (as if rubbed with woollen). Violent bruised pain near to and beneath the pit of the stomach and in the region of the pylorus, where it feels painful one very step while walking; the pain is aggravated by talking loud and on touching the place. Great sensitiveness, like a soreness, in the stomach, especially noticed when stepping and coughing. Pain in the stomach, as if it were completely ulcerated, after every meal; lasting seven days. The stomach is very painful to the shock of coughing.

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