Abies Canadensis

Abies can. has been only imperfectly proved, but it has marked symptoms

which will serve to indicate it in any case of disease in which they may be prominent: Great

appetite, tendency to over-eat; gnawing, hungry, faint feeling in epigastrium. According to Hale

it has cured: "A light-headed feeling, attended with a gnawing, hungry, faint feeling at

epigastrium, craving hunger which, if gratified, was followed by distension of the stomach and

hard beating of the heart." Among the peculiar sensations are: A feeling as if the right lung and

liver were small and hard; pain beneath right scapula. The patient lies with the legs drawn up.

Shivering as if the blood turned to cold water.

Hands cold, shrunken.—Skin cold and clammy.—Lies with the legs drawn

up.—Great prostration, wants to lie down all the time.—Very faint, as if top of head were

congested.—T witching of the muscles.

Feels light-headed, tipsy. Irritable.

Dryness of the mouth.

10. Appetite-—Gnawing, hungry, faint feeling at the epigastrium.—Craving for meat, pickles, and

other coarse food.—Some thirst.—A tendency to eat far beyond the capacity for digestion.

• ▸Canine hunger with torpid liver.
• ▸Gnawing, hungry, faint feeling at the epigastrium.
• ▸Great appetite, craving for meat, pickles, radishes, turnips, artichokes, coarse food.
• ▸Tendency to eat far beyond capacity for digestion.
• ▸Burning and distention of stomach and abdomen with palpitation.
• ▸Flatulence disturbs the heart's action.
• ▸Pain in right shoulder-blade, and constipation, with burning in rectum.

Sick feeling in the bowels.—Rumbling in the bowels after eating, with great

appetite —Sensation as if the liver were small and hard; as if bile were deficient.

• ▸Uterine displacements.
• ▸Sore feeling at fundus of uterus, relieved by pressure.
• ▸Prostration; wants to lie down all the time.
• ▸Thinks womb is soft and feeble.

Thinks the womb is soft and feeble (thinks would cause

abortion).—Sore feeling at the fundus of uterus; > by pressing.

Action of the heart laboured.—Increased action of the heart with distension of the

stomach.

Pain behind the right shoulder-blade.—Weak feeling in sacral

region.—Feeling as of cold water between the shoulders.

• ▸Cold shivering, as if blood were ice-water (Acon).
• ▸Chills run down back.
• ▸Cold water feeling between shoulders (Ammon mur).
• ▸Skin clammy and sticky.
• ▸Night-sweat (China).

First to third potency.

Hemlock Spruce

• ▸Mucous membranes are affected by Abies can and gastric symptoms are most marked, and a catarrhal condition of the stomach is produced.
• ▸There are peculiar cravings and chilly sensations that are very characteristic, especially for women with uterine displacement, probably due to defective nutrition with debility.
• ▸Respiration and heart action labored.
• ▸Wants to lie down all the time; skin cold and clammy, hands cold; very faint.
• ▸Right lung and liver feel small and hard.
• ▸Gleet.