Abies Nigra

Black Spruce. Coniferoe.

The Pinus nigra or black spruce of this country.

Proved by Dr. Leaman, Ohio Medical and Surgical Reporter.

Mind

Inability to think or study.

│ Very low-spirited ; melancholy.

Sensorium

Dizziness ; bad feeling in the head.

Inner Head

││ Headache.

▌ Terrible distress in the head, generally with some flushing of the face, θ Dyspepsia.

Outer Head

Head hot, with flushed cheeks.

^ Face. Cheeks flushed.

Gums

: Scurvy.

Throat

Choking sensation in the throat.'

Appetite

Exceedingly hungry and wakeful at night.

││ Total loss of appetite in the morning, craving for food at noon and at night.

Relations

▌ Pain after a hearty meal. See 17.

│ Abstinence from any particular food does not relieve the symptoms, θ Dyspepsia.

Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting

│ Belching.

│ Acid, eructations.

│ Frequent vomiting of food.

Scrobiculum and Stomach p. 2

Severe pain in stomach after eating.

││ Distressing pain in stomach, extending to left side.

▌ Sensation of an undigested hard boiled egg in stomach. θ Dyspepsia.

▌ Continual distressing constriction just above the pit of stomach, as if everything was knotted up, or as if a hard lump of undigested food remained there. θ Dyspepsia.

Scrobiculum and Stomach p. 2

││ Constipation.

Female Sexual Organs p. 2

Menses did not appear until third month after proving.

Respiration p. 2

Gets out of breath easily.

Back p. 2

Pain in small of back.

Nerves p. 2

Nervousness.

Fatigue.

Sleep p. 2

Dull and sleepy during the day ; restless and wakeful at night.

Wakeful at night with hunger.

Bad dreams.

Time p. 2

Morning : total loss of appetite. Noon : craving for food. Night : hungry ; wakeful and restless. Day : dull and sleepy.

Fever p. 2

Alternate heat and cold.

\ Malarial fevers.*

▌ Chronic intermittent fever, accompanied by stomachache.

Locality and Direction p. 2

Left : pain in stomach extends to side.

Tissues p. 2

Rheumatic pains and aching in the bones.

Relations p. 2

Used in the preparation of spruce beer.

Similar to : Nux vom. (pressure as from a stone after a meal) ; Bismuth ; Calc. carb. (like a load after a moderate supper) ; Bryon. (like a stone, worse moving); Kali carb.; Arsen. ; Zincum (as if food lodged in oesophagus) ; Ignat. (food feels as if lying above cardiac orifice) ; Sepia (nightly pressure as from a stone, also after food) ; Agar, (burning after food, followed by pressure as from a foreign body) ; Phosphor. ; Pulsat. (like a stone, early on awaking) ; Sulphur ; Cinchon. (accompanied by bloating) ; JYatr. mur. (sensation of a foreign body sticking in cardiac orifice).

* Used in New York in the fall of 1877. Abies nigra is said to be one of

the ingredients in " Holman's Fever and Ague Pod."