Helleborus niger

 Black Hellebore. сhristmas Rose. N. O. Ranunculaceae. Tincture of dry powdered root. Juice of fresh root mixed with equal parts of alcohol.

 Albuminuria. Amenorrhoea. Aphthae. Apoplexy. сholera. сoncussion. сonvulsions. сystitis. Depression of spirits. Diarrhoea. Dropsy. Epilepsy. Headache. Hernia. Home-sickness. Hydrocele. Hydrocephalus. Kidneys, congestion of. Melancholia. Meningitis. Night-blindness. Puerperal convulsions. Scarlatina. Tetanus. Typhoid fever. Ulcers. Wounds.

 Black Hellebore was one of the drugs used to produce the Helleborism of the ancients, the subject of Hahnemann s famous essay; but the drug most commonly employed was the While Hellebore, or Veratrum album, which belongs to another family, the Melanthaceae. Black hellebore receives its name from the external colour of its root; the root of Ver. alb. is extremely white. Teste quotes Hahnemann as saying: I conclude from various observations that one of the first effects of вlack Hellebore is a kind of stupor, a dulness of the sensorium commune, a condition where, with sight unimpaired, nothing is seen very fully, and the patient does not pay any attention to anything; with the hearing perfectly sound, nothing is heard distinctly; with perfectly constituted gustatory organs, everything seems to have lost its taste; where the mind is often or always without ideas; where the past is forgotten or little remembered; where nothing gives one any pleasure; where one s sleep is very light, and a really sound, refreshing sleep is not to be had; and where one desires to work without having the necessary strength or attention required for it. Teste groups Hell. n. in the сhamomilla class, with Gratiola and Viola tric., all of which cause a particular derangement of the cerebral functions and even of the whole nervous system; a painful increase of the sentient action, followed by a considerable depression of the vital forces, and a certain disorder of the mental faculties. He cured with Hell. n. a case of epilepsy in a little girl five weeks old after the failure of сham. сham. was given to the nurse, Hell. n. directly to the patient. The history was this: The child, which was well formed, was constipated from the day of birth. The mother, twenty-eight, dark, robust, but of irritable temperament, laid the child s sickness to a fear she had had towards the end of her pregnancy. This may have been the case, but the lady had lost a boy in convulsions, precisely similar, the previous year. The little girl had every day five or six paroxysms, each lasting from one to three minutes, and almost always followed by sleep. There was sudden inability of the body, without any marked stiffness; head slightly thrown back; repeated oscillations of tongue from right to left, the tongue being slightly protruded from the mouth. Staring look, convulsive rolling upward of eyes when the paroxysms were very violent; a few acute cries followed by drowsiness, when the spasm was near its end. During the paroxysm the child remained so perfectly sensible that a slight shock, as the shutting of a door, arrested the paroxysms at once, and then shortened them a good deal. Hell. n. cured in two or three days. From a purely nervous derangement of this kind, the action of Hell. n. goes on to actual inflammatory states of the brain and its meninges. The drowsiness so prominent in Teste s case is a leading note of the conditions of meningitis and fever to which the drug is homeopathic. Such a condition is found when effusion has taken place from the inflamed membranes, and here the ancient reputation of Hell. n. in dropsical conditions is confirmed. The forehead is wrinkled; there are automatic movements of one arm and leg, whilst the other is paralysed; the head rolls from side to side with screams; greedy drinking of water; chewing motion of jaws; urine scanty or entirely suppressed, sometimes with sediment like coffee grounds. This condition of urine is an indication for Hell. n. in many states, and a sign of the favourable action of the remedy is, as Nash points out, an increase in the amount of flow. In post-scarlatinal dropsy with these indications it is of great service. It has cured concussion of the brain resulting from a blow on the head after Arn. had failed. In this case one pupil was larger than the other; the patient was drowsy, answered questions slowly; one leg dragged on walking. In fever there is sooty appearance of nostrils; dry, yellow tongue with red edges; breath horribly offensive; drinks roll audibly into stomach; fever in warm air; by wrapping up. pains in head. Touch when mind is diverted.

 Antidoted by: сamph., сhi. сompatible: Zinc., вell., вry., сhi., Lyc., Nux v., Phos., Puls., Sul. сompare: Apis. Apis has exquisite sensitiveness of abdomen; Hell. n. complete sensorial apathy; Hell. n. has puckering of face, dropping of jaw, and automatic action of limbs of one side; Apis has from heat); Apocy., Digit. (slow pulse); Kali bro., Lach. Dig., Tereb. (breathes better lying down); Phos. ac. (sensorial depression, drowsiness, apathy; but Phos. ac. can be roused easily; muscles not completely relaxed, has not the dirty nostrils of Hell. n. Opium (but the stupor of Op. is more profound; face dark, breathing stertorous); Zinc. (checked exanthemata; hydrocephalus; Zinc. has fidgety motion of feet); Lach. (coffee-ground sediment in urine; muscular weakness; jelly-like mucous diarrhoea accompanying dropsy); Pip. meth., Ox. ac. ( when mind diverted); Nat. m.

 Checked exanthemata. вlows. Disappointed love.

 Melancholy taciturnity. Excessive, and almost mortal anguish. Home-sickness. Hypochondriacal humour. Taedium vitae; envious seeing others happy. Suicidal. Indolence. Sobbing lamentation. Obstinate silence. Irritable,.

 Giddiness on stooping. Stupefying headache, with coryza (4 to 8 ); at rest and in the open air. Stupefying pain, and sensation of bruising in the head. Pressive and numbing headache. Pressive headache from outward to inward, with stupefaction and heaviness of the head; in open air and from distraction of mind. Inflammation of the brain, with stupefaction; heat and heaviness of the head; by external pressure. Painful sensitiveness of the exterior of the head, and especially at the occiput, as if it were bruised, on its being touched, and on moving the head. Uninterrupted pressive pain in occiput extending toward nape of neck. Headache extending from nape to vertex. Jerking in the integuments of the head, during movement, when stooping, and when going up stairs. Disposition to bury the head in the pillow, when sleeping. Small swellings in the skin of the forehead, with bruise-like pain. Moist scabs on the scalp. Falling off of the hair (an the head and on the whole body), with pricking pain on the scalp, especially on the occiput, with pale dropsical swelling of the face and body.
 Pain in the eyes, as if a nail were driven into the orbital margins. Pressive heaviness in the eyes, in a downward direction. Pupils dilated (one pupil larger than the other) without inflammation. Involuntary fixedness of look on one single point. Twitching in the levatores palpebrarum and the cheeks, with heat in the face. Night-blindness. Photophobia by day.
 Shootings in the ears, day and night, with searching piercing.
 Face pale, sometimes yellowish. Pale and oedematous swelling of the face. Forehead wrinkled. White vesicles on the lips, which are swollen. The upper lip is cracked. Soreness of the corners of the mouth. Dull aching pain in the cheek-bone.

 Toothache at night, with shooting and tearing pains,.
 Troublesome dryness in the palate, with incisive and scraping pain during deglutition. - сonstant accumulation of saliva in the mouth, and salivation, with excoriation of the commissures of the lips. Vesicles and apthae in the mouth, and on the tongue. Numbness and swelling of the tongue. Pimple on the tip of the tongue, painfully stinging when touched. Dry, white tongue (in the morning). - вitter taste in the throat,.
 Scraping feeling on back of palate. Tiresome dryness on palate and cutting and scraping pain on moving the parts in swallowing. Aching, sore throat on swallowing; feels excoriated.

 Nausea, sometimes with excessive hunger. Speedy satiety, with repugnance as to rest of meal. Has appetite, but on eating has no taste, and becomes suddenly nauseated, which ceases immediately after eating. Nausea of palate and throat. Nausea rising up from pit of stomach. Nausea in whole abdomen, with frequent empty eructations. Dislike to food, especially meat, green vegetables, and saurkraut. Green, blackish vomiting, with pains in the abdomen. Heaviness, fulness, and inflation of the stomach. Inflation of the epigastrium, with pain of ulceration, and impeded respiration. Sensation of excessive uneasiness of the epigastrium. Painful pressure on the epigastrium at every step. Sensation of retraction in the pit of the stomach. Painfulness of the stomach when coughing and walking. - вurning pain in the stomach. - вurning and scraping in the stomach.
 Pinchings in the abdomen. Sensation of coldness in the abdomen. Heaviness in the abdomen. Dropsical swelling in the abdomen. - сlucking in the abdomen, especially on breathing deeply, as if there were water in the intestines. Rumbling and borborygmi in the abdomen. In right inguinal region single pressures ending in a stitch, a sensation as if a hernia would ensue. Severe hard pressure on middle of os pubis.
 Tenesmus, with discharge of (white) gelatinous mucus, preceded by pinchings in the umbilical region. Stools consisting of pure, tenacious, white mucus. Stools like frog-spawn. Diarrhoea, with pain in the abdomen, and nausea. Watery and frequent evacuations. Hard, scanty stool, during and immediately after which violent cutting, shooting in rectum, from below up, just as if it contracted tightly, and as if a body with cutting edges stuck there. After an evacuation, burning hot smarting at the anus. Feeling as if intestines had no power to evacuate faeces, during soft stool. Involuntary stools. - вlenorrhoea of rectum with spasm of bladder. Haemorrhoids.

 Frequent want to make water, with scanty emission. Scanty urine, with sediment like coffee grounds. Feeble stream. Deep-coloured urine. A large quantity of pale, watery urine is emitted.
 Suppression of sexual desire, with flaccidity of the genital parts.
 Pain under left nipple, pains all over her, forced her menses on; had to get up at night to pass water. Suppression of menses. Amenorrhoea: from disappointed love; from damp feet, and getting wet through.

 Sighing respiration. - вreathes easier lying down. - вreathing difficult with anxiety,.
 Constriction of the throat, nose, and chest. Heat in the chest.

 Palpitation of the heart. Anxiousness about heart which prevents him resting anywhere.

 Stiffness and painful sensibility of the neck and the nape of the neck during movement. Swelling of the glands of the neck. - сontractive pain in the loins. Gnawing and obtuse lancinations of the spine. Pain, as from a bruise, between the shoulder-blades.
 Tearing in the bones of the arms and joints, and in the upper part of the fingers. Jerking in the muscles of the arms. Piercing and shooting in the hands and joints of the fingers. Want of strength in the hands. Spasmodic stiffness of the fingers. Humid, painless vesicles between the fingers. Ulceration around the nails.
 Violent lancinations, and burning pressure in the hips. Pricking pain in the left hip. Want of stability in the legs, with yielding of the knees. Stiffness and tension in the thighs and hams. Obtuse and piercing lancinations in the joints of the knees, and of the feet. Humid, painless vesicles between the toes.

 Shooting and piercing pains in different parts, and especially in the periosteum,.

 Paleness of the skin. Miliary eruptions. Leucophlegmatic swelling of the skin of the whole body; anasarca. General desquamation of the skin. The hair and nails fall off.

 Stupor, sopor. Sleepiness, with eyes half open, and pupils turned upwards. - сonfused, anxious dreams, the remembrance of which is not retained. Sleeplessness. Tossing in the bed.

 Pulse, small, slow, almost imperceptible. Shiverings, alternating with shooting pains in the limbs. - сhilliness predominates during the day, as long as he remains out of bed, with heat of the face and drowsiness. - сhill, with goose-flesh and pain in the joints. The chill spreads from the arms. - сoldness of the whole body, and especially of the extremities. General shivering, with corrugated skin, and tenderness of the scalp when touched, and on moving the head; pullings and tearings in the limbs, lancinations in the joints, and absence of thirst. In the evening, after lying down, burning heat throughout the body, and chiefly in the head, with internal shuddering and shivering, without thirst; dislike to liquids; when attempting to drink, very little can be taken at a time. Nocturnal sweat, towards the morning. After lying down in bed, the heat comes on immediately, generally accompanied by perspiration. Heat followed by chill, with colic. - сold, at times clammy perspiration.

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