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Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica - TF AllenAdditional facts
Helleborus foetidus, Linn. Natural order: Ranunculaceae. Preparation: Tincture of the root.
Mental
Dreadful anxiety, which however, is relieved after vomiting.
Head, face, and ears
Eye.
Great difficulty in reading, in the evening, by candlelight, lasting four days. The sensation is that caused when the light flickers in a draught of air; he has difficulty in following the lines (after two days).
Ear.
Thumping pain below and behind the left ear; this feeling soon passes off.
Great difficulty in reading, in the evening, by candlelight, lasting four days. The sensation is that caused when the light flickers in a draught of air; he has difficulty in following the lines (after two days).
Ear.
Thumping pain below and behind the left ear; this feeling soon passes off.
Mouth and throat
Smarting at the tip of the tongue. My wife, who assisted in triturating this plant, experienced a painful sensation in the mouth, like aphthae. Excoriation of the mouth and throat. Taste of manure in the mouth; tongue yellow in the middle.
Gastrointestinal tract
Nausea and vomiting of food, which, and hour before, had been taken with relish and in moderation. Several turns of nausea, without vomiting, nineteen hours after. Sickness. сonstant inclination to vomit. When pounding the plant, it seems that the epigastrium with difficulty keeps time with the inflation of the chest on inspiration. Frightful pain in the pit of the stomach.
Abdomen.
Colic.
Stool.
Violent purging and vomiting, with pain in the stomach. Abundant and liquid stool during the night; next day, two liquid and whitish stools, with colic; again a liquid stool forty-eight hours after.
Abdomen.
Colic.
Stool.
Violent purging and vomiting, with pain in the stomach. Abundant and liquid stool during the night; next day, two liquid and whitish stools, with colic; again a liquid stool forty-eight hours after.
Chest organs
Tightness of the chest; he can scarcely half draw his breath.
Appetite poor.
Neck.
Numbness in the muscles of the neck (the sensibility of the part to touch is blunted); it becomes stiff eighteen hours after.
Appetite poor.
Neck.
Numbness in the muscles of the neck (the sensibility of the part to touch is blunted); it becomes stiff eighteen hours after.
Common symptoms
Fatal convulsions. Swooning. Same general feeling as if he had come out of a severe sickness.
Skin
Skin.
They lost not only the epidermis, but their hair and nails besides. The hair falls off, also the nails from the fingers and toes. The scarf skin peels off the whole body. Profuse discharge from the ulcerated surface (from application).
They lost not only the epidermis, but their hair and nails besides. The hair falls off, also the nails from the fingers and toes. The scarf skin peels off the whole body. Profuse discharge from the ulcerated surface (from application).
Sleep
During the night the prover stirs a great deal (in his sleep).
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