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Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica - J.H. ClarkeAdditional facts
Black or Double Spruce. Northern part of North America. N. O. сoniferae. Tincture of the gum.
Nosology
Constipation. сough. Dyspepsia. Eructations. Haemorrhages. Hypochondriasis. Malarial fevers. Tea, effects of. Tobacco, effects of.
Typical features
The grand characteristic of Abies nig. is a sensation in the cardiac end of the stomach or in the oesophagus where it enters the stomach, as if a hard body, as a hard-boiled egg, had lodged there. China has the lump under the sternum, but higher up. Feeling in the epigastrium as if food were lying there, Pul., вry. Where, this symptom is present, whether in dyspepsia, lung disease (when the sensation is as if there was a hard substance to be coughed up) with or without haemoptysis, constipation, &c. Ab. n. will be, the most likely remedy. The dyspepsias caused by abuse of tea or tobacco have been cured by it. Wakeful at night with hunger. Distress in the head, with flushed cheeks, often accompanies the dyspeptic symptoms of this remedy. In one patient to whom I gave it chilliness round stomach was removed and general chilliness greatly lessened.
Dif. diagnostics
Compare: Abies can., сupressus, Thuja, Sabina (all have painful indigestion), and other сonifers; Nux v., вry., Puls., Kali c., Nat. m. (effects of tea) Thuja.
Reasons
Tea. Tobacco.
Mental
Very low-spirited and melancholy. Nervousness. Unable to think or study.
Head, face, and ears
Dizziness. - вad feeling in head. Dull headache; severe. Head hot, with flushed cheeks.
Pain in left external meatus.
Pain in left external meatus.
Mouth and throat
Choking sensation in throat. Sensation of something sticking in oesophagus toward its lower end.
Appetite and food preferences
Hungry and wakeful at night. Total loss of appetite in the morning, but great craving for food at noon and night.
Gastrointestinal tract
Pain in the stomach always comes after eating. Painful sensation as if something were lodged in chest, mostly on right side of sternum, which had to be coughed up, though nothing comes, after taking food that disagreed. Frequent eructations. - сontinual distressing sensation about stomach as if everything was knotted up; worse whenever debilitated. Sensation of an undigested hard-boiled egg in the stomach.
Constipation.
Constipation.
Urogenital system
Menstruation delayed three months.
Chest organs
Easily gets out of breath.
Cardiovascular system
Heavy, slow beating of heart; sharp, cutting pains.
Limbs and spine
Pain in small of back.
Common symptoms
Rheumatic pains, and aching in the bones. Alternate heat and cold.
Sleep
Sleepy during the day, but wakeful and restless at night. Very bad dreams.
Analogs by action
- 25% 1-13.8€ Uranium nitricum
- 24% — Polyporus Officinalis
- 22% 0.5-5€ Scutellaria laterifolia
- 22% 1-5€ Cascarilla
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