Helleborus Orientalis
Clarke, A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica, 1900, Vol. I, p. 884
Helleborus orientalis, Lam. N. 0, Ranunculaceae. Tincture of root.
Clinical
DiarrhcBa. Indigestion. Salivation.
Characteristics
This was proved by V. Schrofif on Severer, and produced symptoms like those of the other Hellebores. These are peculiar : Accumulation of water in the mouth with dean tongue. Bad taste, with clean tongue. Prostration, exhaustion, and disinclination to work ; burning in stomach ; diarrhoea. The symptoms were > by coffee.
Head
Heaviness ; fulness ; headache.
Mouth
Accumulation of water in mouth ; with clean tongue. — Bad taste with clean tongue.
Stomach
Loss of appetite. — Eructations. — Hiccough. — Nausea. — Burning, extending from stomach to lower portion of oesophagus. — Epigastric region : Feeling of fulness with inclination to vomit ; slight burning, afterwards extending to intestines, followed by pressure in stomach. 13, 13. AtMlomen and Stool. — Frequent rumbling along bowels, in morning on waking, soon followed by four liquid stools in succession. — Pain esp. in region of l. transverse colon.
Urinary Organs
Urine more profuse and paler than usual
Heart
Pulse more frequent, body warmer. — Pulse slowed.