Abies Nigra

The grand characteristic of Abies nig. is a sensation in the cardiac end of the

stomach or in the cesophagus where it enters the stomach, as if a hard body, as a hard-boiled egg,

had lodged there. (China has the lump under the sternum, but higher up. Feeling in the

epigastrium as if food were lying there, Pu/., Bry.) Where, this symptom is present, whether in

dyspepsia, lung disease (when the sensation is as if there was a hard substance to be coughed up)

• ▸with or without hemoptysis, constipation, &c.
• ▸Ab.
• ▸n.
• ▸will be, the most likely remedy.
• ▸The

dyspepsias caused by abuse of tea or tobacco have been cured by it. Wakeful at night with

hunger. Distress in the head, with flushed cheeks, often accompanies the dyspeptic symptoms of

this remedy. In one patient to whom I gave it chilliness round stomach was removed and general

chilliness greatly lessened. < After eating. "Pain in the stomach always comes after eating," says

Guernsey.

• ▸Hot, with flushed cheeks.
• ▸Low-spirited.
• ▸Dull during the day, wakeful at night.
• ▸Unable to think.

• ▸Dizziness.
• ▸—Bad feeling in head.
• ▸—Dull headache; severe.
• ▸—Head hot, with flushed

cheeks.

Choking sensation in throat —Sensation of something sticking in cesophagus toward

its lower end.

10. Appetite——Hungry and wakeful at night —Total loss of appetite in the morning, but great

craving for food at noon and night.

• ▸Pain in stomach always comes on after eating.
• ▸Sensation of a lump that hurts, as if a hard-boiled egg had lodged in cardiac end of stomach; continual distressing constriction just above the pit of the stomach, as if everything were knotted up.
• ▸Total loss of appetite in morning, but great craving for food at noon and night.
• ▸Offensive breath.
• ▸Eructations.

Pain in the stomach always comes after eating.—Painful sensation as if something

were lodged in chest, mostly on r. side of sternum, which had to be coughed up, though nothing

comes, after taking food that disagreed—Frequent eructations.—Continual distressing sensation

about stomach as if everything was knotted up; worse whenever debilitated —Sensation of an

undigested hard-boiled egg in the stomach.

• ▸Painful sensation, as if something were lodged in the chest and had to be coughed up; lungs feel compressed.
• ▸Cannot be fully expanded.
• ▸Worse coughing; waterbrash succeeds cough.
• ▸Choking sensation in throat.
• ▸Dyspnoea; worse lying down; sharp, cutting pain in heart; heart's action heavy and slow; tachycardia, bradycardia.

Pain in small of back. Rheumatic pains and aching in bones.

Pain in small of back.

24. Generalities—Rheumatic pains, and aching in the bones.—Alternate heat and cold.

Wakeful and restless at night, with hunger. Bad dreams.

Alternate heat and cold; chronic intermittent fever, with pain in stomach.

• ▸Constipation.
• ▸Cough.
• ▸Dyspepsia.
• ▸Eructations.
• ▸Hemorrhages.
• ▸Hypochondriasis.

Malarial fevers. Tea, effects of. Tobacco, effects of.

Compare: Abies can., Cupressus, Thuja, Sabina (all have painful indigestion), and

• ▸other Conifers; Nux v.
• ▸, Bry.
• ▸, Puls.
• ▸, Kali c.
• ▸, Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸; (effects of tea) Thuja.

Compare: (Lump in stomach--China, Bryon, Pulsat); also other Conifers--Thuja, Sabina, Cupressus (painful indigestion) also Nux vom, Kali carb.

First to thirtieth potency.