Helleborus Foetidus

Bear's foot. N. O. Ranunculaceae. Tincture of the root.

Clinical

Cholera. Hair, falling off. Nails, falling off. Scarlatina. Skin, peeling. Stiff-neck.

Characteristics

The effects of Hel f. have been observed on several persons. It is a violent narcotico-acrid poison, and in fatal poisoning cases death has taken place in convulsions. The vision is disordered ; choleraic symptoms occur ; skin, hair, and nails exfoliate. The anxiety is > after vomiting.

Relations

Compare: Verat. alb. (copious liquid stools) ; Hell, n.. Hen. v., Colch,

Mind

Dreadful anxiety ; > after vomiting.

Eyes

Great difficulty in reading, in evening, by candle-light ; the sensation is as when the light flickers from a draught of air ; cannot follow the lines.

Ears

Thumping pain below and behind l. ear.

Mouth

Smarting at tip of tongue.— Painful sensation like aphthae in mouth (inhaling fumes of triturated plant).— Taste of manure ; tongue yellow in middle. — Excoriation of mouth and throat xiy X8. Stomach and Abdomen.— Nausea and vomiting of food (taken an hour before with relish). — Constant inclination to vomit.— When pounding the plant it seems that the epigastrium with difficulty keeps time with the inflation of the chest on iniration. — Frightful pain in pit of

Stomach p. 878

Colic.

Stool and Anus p. 878

Violent purging and vomiting with pain in

Stomach p. 878

Abundant liquid stool during night ; next day two liquid, whitish stools ; again a liquid stool forty-eight hours later.

Chest p. 878

Tightness of chest, can scarcely half draw his breath.

Neck and Back p. 878

Numbness in muscles of neck ; sensibility to touch blunted ; it becomes stiff eighteen hours later.

Generalities p. 878

Fatal convulsions.— Swooning.

Skin p. 878

Skin of whole body peels, hair falls out, all the nails fall off — Profuse discharge from ulcerated surface (from application). ad. Sleep.— Stirs a good deal in his sleep.