Guiding symptoms of Materia Medica
Abies Canadensis
Founder: Gatchell
Family: Coniferae
Common name: Hemlock spruce, Canada balsam
Habitat: An evergreen tree found in rocky woods in the United States and British America
Preparation: Tincture from the young buds and Fresh bad
Clinical: 
- Liver disorder
 - Uterine displacement
 - Indigestion
 
General analysis:
- Gastric symptoms are most marked
 - Mucous membranes are affected
 - Catarrhal condition of the stomach
 - Peculiar craving with chilly sensation
 - In women uterine displacement
 - Defective nutrition and debility
 - Skin clammy, cold
 - Want to lie down all time
 - Right liver and lung feel hard and small
 - Gleet.
 
Mind:
- Irritable
 - Tipsy
 - Quite
 - Careless
 
Head:
- Sensation like swimming of the head
 - Lightheaded
 
Eyes:
- Stye in outer canthus of the left eye
 
Mouth:
- Dryness in mouth
 - Some thirst
 
Stomach:
- Canine hunger
 - Hungry, gnawing, faint feeling in epigastrium
 - Craving for radishes, meat, artichokes, turnips, coarse food
 - A tendency to eat far beyond the capacity for digestion also called bulimia
 - Distension and burning of the abdomen and stomach
 - Gastritis
 - Rumbling in the bowels after eating
 - The sick feeling in the bowels
 - Flatulence is disturbing the heart’s function
 - Pain in the right shoulder
 - Constipation with a burning sensation in the rectum
 
Respiratory Organs:
- Laboured breathing
 - Sensation like the right lung were small and hard
 
Heart:
- The action of the heart difficult
 - Heart action Increased with distension of the stomach
 
Neck and Back:
- Feeble feeling in the sacral region
 - Feeling like cold water between the shoulders
 
Urinary Organs:
- Frequent urination day and night
 - Urine is straw in colour
 
Female:
- Sore feeling in the fundus of the uterus
 - Better by pressure
 - Uterine displacements
 - Great weakness wants to sleep all the time
 - Clarke dictionary of practical material medica feels womb is soft and feeble as if it would cause an abortion
 
Fever:
- Chills running down to the back
 - Coldwater sensation between shoulder
 - Night sweats
 - Chills and shivering all over like blood was turned into ice water
 
Relationship:
- Compare with Abies Nigra, Thuja, Sabina, Conifers, Nux Vomica
 
Dose:
- First to third potency
 
