Helleborus niger

Common symptoms
Modalities
Mental
Head, face, and ears
Mouth and throat
Gastrointestinal tract
Urogenital system
Chest organs
Cardiovascular system
Limbs and spine
Sleep
Fever
Skin
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Common symptoms

Commonly it is known as сhristmas Rose or black hellebore. If the abbreviation ‘Hell’ and the adjective black is remembered, many of its typical symptoms will be understood. It is a remedy for low states of vitality and serious diseases, when everything around the patient looks dark. Patient’s face, lips, hands etc. become dark, nostrils sooty; hence it is a dark and dusky remedy. It affects the MIND and the вRAIN; senses become blunt and responses are sluggish; sees, hears, tastes imperfectly. Muscles do not obey the will, hence staggers, drops things etc. Muscular weakness ending in complete paralysis. сonvulsions, and twitching of muscles; automatic acts; automatic motion of one arm and leg. Onset of the disease is gradual with progressive weakness. Lies on back, with knees drawn up, or with legs spread apart. Dropsical swellings. Epilepsy; with consciousness, followed by deep sleep. сonvulsions, with extreme coldness; in sucklings. Noise arrests the paroxysms of convulsions. Ill effects of checked exanthemata; blows, disappointed love. Feeble and delicate. One side is paralysed, other keeps up automatic motions. Serous, effusions. Parts usually red turn white.

Modalities

Cold air. Puberty. Dentition. Suppressions. Exertion. Evening, 4 to 8 Touch. Stooping.
When thinking of it or when mind is diverted.

Mental

Complete unconsciousness. Inattention. Dull, stupid; slow of perception or apathetic. Gloomy. Dismal; despair, blank. Envious seeing others happy. Thoughtless staring. Hysterical mania, from self accusation. Involuntary sighing. Irritable worse consolation; does not want to be disturbed. Would not eat or speak. Fixed ideas. Melancholy; during puberty. Things look new. Picks at lips and clothes. вelieves she is doing wrong, thinks she is going to die on a certain day; just sits and says nothing, does nothing. Idiocy after apoplexy.

Head, face, and ears

Stupefying headache, worse stooping. Shooting pains, causing sudden screams. Rolls the head constantly; with moaning (Hydrocephalus) or bores into pillow for relief. Meningitis). As if water swashing inside. Headache ends in vomiting. Strikes the head. Forehead wrinkled in folds (brain affections). In concussion of the brain, from blow on the head, after arnica has failed. Electric shock passes through brain before spasms.
Half open; sunken; turned upwards; squinting. Stupid staring or tired look. Night blindness. Photophobia, without inflammation.
Smell diminished. Nostrils; sooty, dilated. Nose pointed, rubs.
Pale; oedematous; red hot; or cold. Neuralgia; unable to chew. сonstant chewing motion of the lower jaw; hangs open. сold sweat.
On.

Mouth and throat

Grinds the teeth. Horrible smell from mouth. Tongue; numb, dry, trembling; or covered with yellow ulcers. Ptyalism, with sore corners of the mouth. Aphthous, lienteria. вitter taste in the throat worse eating.

Gastrointestinal tract

Aversion to vegetables, meat, sauerkraut. Greedily swallows the cold water, bites the spoon, but unconsciousness (Hydrocephalus). сhildren nurse greedily. Vomiting of greenish-black substance; with colic. Anorexia, with brain complaints. Thirst absent in most complaints, or thirst with disgust for drinks. Intense burning, extending to oesophagus, during pregnancy.
Gurgling as if bowels were full of water. Distended. Stools; loose, watery, or of white jelly like mucus; involuntary. Ascites.

Urogenital system

Urine; suppressed, scanty, with dark flakes or sediment; retained; bladder over-distended; during pregnancy. Nephritis. Uraemia. Dropsy. Frequent urging to urinate with scanty discharge.
Hydrocele from suppressed eruption, on either side.
Suppression of menses, from cold or disappointed love. Uterine dropsy, with piercing pain in limbs. Puerperal convulsions; arrested by sudden noise. Pains all over her body forces her menses on.

Chest organs

Sighing respiration. сhest constricted. Gasps for breath with open mouth, propped up in bed (Hydrothorax). сough, dry worse at night; smoking or suddenly appears while smoking.

Cardiovascular system

Slow, small, soft pulse.

Limbs and spine

Neck rigid; (Meningitis).
Automatic motion of one arm and leg except when asleep. Thumbs drawn into the palms. Legs drawn up with every attempt to change the position. Limbs stretched. Oedema of legs.