Helleborus Niger

Authorities. 36, Cattell, Brit. Journ. of Horn., vol. xi, p. 343; 37, J. Masses, M.D., Lancet, 1856 (2), p. 100, a woman took about a teaspoonful of a strong infusion ; 38, H. P. Mitchell, Northwestern Annalist (Am. Obs., vol. XV, 1878, p. 518), Jan. 14th, took 2d at 3.30 p.m., repeated the dose at 4 and 4.30.

Mind

Happy carelessness about everything; feel indifferent to family (after first dose)

Alternate feelings of mirth and melancholy; great desire to laugh, followed by desire to weep (after first dose)

Great feeling of self-confidence (after second dose)

Feeling as from grief (after second dose)

Moans (fifth day)

Don’t wish any one to speak to me or look at me (after first dose)

Do not wish to speak; dread company (after second dose)

Laydown in a kind of stupor; awake about an hour later refreshed by sleep (after third dose)

Head

Head confused, noise hurts, sound of wind distresses (after third dose)

Brain feels too large (third day)

Awoke with a sensation as if the brain were too large, with severe pain in the forehead, relieved by pressure; pain in paroxysms, aggravated by movement (fifth

Brain too large in front; occiput feels empty ; afterwards reverse in forehead, and occiput feels as if it would fall forward; disposition to lie down and roll head from side to side ; feel helpless like an infant, as would like to lie in mother’s arms; disposition to draw up feet like an infant (fifth day)

Headache over eyes extending to temples, with a sensation as it the skin were drawn tight over the forehead, accompanied by a disposition to frown ; weak feeling in head (after first dose)

Temples feel as if they would burst (after first dose)

Eyes

Aching pain in socket of eye ; great desire to be in a dark room (after first dose)

Prickling and burning of eyelids (after two minutes)

Dimness of sight (after two minutes)

Sight obscured (after first dose)

In the morning, unable to read a letter for dimness of vision (sixth day)

Dread light (fifth day)

Nose

Catarrh of left nostril (after first dose); increased (after second dose)

Mouth p. 541

Feeling as if cold air were passing through hollow teeth (after first dose)

Stomach p. 541

In the evening nausea, with extreme prostration, relieved by bitter vomiting, followed by a helpless feeling; indisposition to be spoken to, or to be looked at (third day)

At night, nausea, prostration, and bitter vomiting (fifth day); nausea after eating (sixth day)

At night, bitter vomiting (third day)

Vomiting of a greenish, slimy substance

Burning in stomach (after second dose)

Feel as if a fluid were pouring into stomach (after third dose)

Lancinating pains from epigastrium to rectum (fifth day)

Generalities p. 541

Distended abdomen, wind in intestines (after third dose)

Rectum and Anus p. 541

Pressing fulness in rectum (after first doseh®®.

Aching feeling in rectum (after second dose)

Pressure in rectum (third day)

Fulness in rectum (fifth day)

Itching, as from ascarides (third day)

Urinary Organs p. 541

Great desire to urinate (after first dose)

Sexual Organs p. 541

Pain in region of right ovary (after third dose)

Respiratory Organs p. 541

Shortness of breath in reading or speaking (after first dose)

Breathe better with mouth open (after second dose)

In the evening, breathing oppressed (third day)

Chest p. 541

Sharp pain in left breast near armpit; pain piercing (after second dose)

Pain near right armpit (after third dose)

On moving, pain in left breast and shoulder, extending down the arm to elbow (after third dose)

On leaning over, pain in left breast (after third dose)

Heart and Pulse p. 541

Heaviness about heart (sixth day),®®.^Pain in region of heart (after second dose)

Violent throbbing of the heart (after two minutes)

Pulse small and feeble, 78 (fifth day)

Neck and Back p. 541

Pain under right shoulderblade (after third dose)

Pain under left shoulderblade (after second dose)

Aching pain in back above the waist, rocking from side to side (after second dose)

Upper Extremities p. 541

At night after retiring, tearing and rending pains in joints, as if torn apart (fourth day)

Pains like rheumatism in limbs; pains as if in the bones (fifth day)

A paralytic feeling of the limbs. They feel large and heavy; can raise them with difficulty (sixth day)

Superior Extremities p. 541

Pain in left shoulder, which feels higher than the right (after second dose)

Inferior Extremities p. 541

Aching pain in lower limbs as they get warm (after second dose)

Generalities p. 541

Pain and pricking in the tongue, fauces, and throat. To use her own expression, “as if a hundred pins were sticking there There was a painful sense of strangury and constriction of the throat, with difficulty of swallowing; pain at the epigastrium, and very violent sickness. The tongue began to swell, as well as the other organs of deglutition ; much viscid mucus was voided from the mouth ; the eyes were sunk ; there was excessive prostration of strength ; discoloration about the eyelids, with great collapse of the vital powers ; the extremities were cold, and the general surface of the body was bedewed with cold, clammy sweat; pulse varied from 30 to 50 beats in the minute, very small, and at times scarcely perceptible

Tremor of the whole body (after the first dose)

Great restlessness, excitable, impatient, hopeful ; feel as if circulation increased ; could run a race, accomplish great deeds, fearless ; feel as if brain were boiling (after third dose)

Great tranquillity and desire to lie down (after first dose)

Tired and sleepy (after first dose)

Very tired (after third dose)

Tired feeling all day (third day)

Disposition to sit all the time (after second dose)

Weakness (sixth day)

Flesh feels soft (fifth day)

Soreness in flesh (sixth day)

Feel as if the flesh were sore, soreness on pressure over the whole body (fourth day)

Feel as if the blood were thin and poor; feel listless and lifeless (after second dose)

Fever p. 542

Feel chilly, with dull pains in head (second day); sensitive to cold, with sharp needlelike pains in and about the e)’es, with nausea (third day )

Coldness of whole body (after second dose)

Hands cold (after second dose)

Cold feet (after first dose)

Forehead feels hot to hand, wants ice ou head (fifth day)

Cold sweats