Helleborus niger

Characteristic symptoms

Helleborus. — Lancinations in the joints or across parts ; stitching boring in the periosteum and other parts, increased by eating and drinking ; cool air and bodily exertions ; heaviness of the limbs with painful sensitiveness and aversion to motion ; paroxysms of sudden muscular relaxation with sudden prost ration, especially when not thinking of the action of the muscles ; convulsions and spasmodic rigidity of the limbs, with shaking of the head ; amelioration in the fresh air ; pale countenance ; the skin peels off; dropsy • falling off of the hair and of the nails ; sleepiness in daytime and coma ; chilliness of the body with heat of the head; silent melancholy and moaning; indisposition to mental labor; frequent staring; the whole head feels benumbed ; burning heat in the head with pale face ; oedema of the face ; wrinkles on the forehead ; ptyalism with soreness of the corners of the mouth ; blisters and aphthae in the mouth and on the tongue ; aversion to fat and green vegetables ; hunger with aversion to food; ulcerative pain in the stomach after eating, and soreness of the pit of the stomach, when coughing or stepping ; burning in the stomach, rising up of the oesophagus ; sensation of coldness and heaviness in the stomach; diarrhœa of white, jelly-like mucus; complete loss of sexual desire ; dyspnoea from contraction of the chest with desire to make a deep inspiration.