Helleborus niger

Christmas Rose. Ranunculacecc.

Keynotes

Weakly, delicate, psoric children; prone to brain troubles (Bell., Col., Tub.) ; with serous effusion.

Melancholy: woeful; despairing; silent; with anguish; after typhoid; in girls at puberty, or when menses fail to return after appearing.

Irritable, easily angered; consolation < (Ign., Nat., Sep., Sil.) ; does not want to be disturbed (Gels., Nat.).

Unconscious ; stupid ; answers slowly when questioned; a picture of acute idiocy (of chronic. Bar. c.).

Brain symptoms during dentition (Bell., Pod.) ; threatening effusion (Apis, Tub.).

Meningitis : acute, cerebro-spinal, tubercular, with exudation; paralysis more or less complete; with the cri encephalique.

Vacant, thoughtless staring; eyes wide open; insensible to light; pupils dilated, or alternately contracted and dilated. Soporous sleep, with screams, shrieks, starts. Hydrocephalus, post-scarlatinal or tubercular which develops rapidly (Apis, Sulph., Tub.) ; automatic motion of one arm and leg.

Convulsions with extreme coldness of body, except head or occiput, which may be hot (Arn.).

Greedily swallows cold water ; bites spoon, but remains unconscious.

Chewing motion of the mouth ; corners of mouth sore, cracked ; nostrils dirty and sooty, dry.

Constantly picking his lips, clothes, or boring into his nose with his finger (while perfectly conscious. Arum).

Boring head into pillow; rolling from side to side; heating head with hands.

Diarrhoea: during acute hydrocephalus, dentition. pregnancy; watery; clear, tenacious, colorless mucus; white, jelly-like mucus; like frog spawn; involuntary.

Urine : red, black, scanty, coffee-ground sediment ; suppressed in brain troubles and dropsy; albuminous.

Dropsy: of brain, chest, abdomen; after scarlatina, intermittents ; with fever, debility, suppressed urine; from suppressed exanthemata (Apis, Zinc.).

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Compare: Apis, Apoc., Ars., Bell., Bry., Dig., Lach., Sulph., Tub., Zinc, in brain or meningeal affections.