Guiding symptoms of Materia Medica
Abies Canadensis
Founder: Gatchell
Family: Coniferae
Another name: Pinus Canadensis
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