Guiding symptoms of Materia Medica
Abies Nigra
Other names: Black spruce
Common name: Pinus nigra, Double spruce
Founder: Dr leaman, Ohio medical and surgical reporter
Habitat: Northern part of North America
Preparation: Tincture of the gum
Clinical:
Clinical:
- Cough
- Dyspepsia
- Haemorrhage
- Malarial fever
- Constipation
- Eructation
- Bad effect of tea and tobacco
General analysis:
- Powerful and long-acting medicine for various disease
- Most of the symptoms are associated with stomach and gastric symptoms
- The dyspeptic problem of aged after tea and tobacco with functional heart symptoms
- Constipation with pain in external meatus
- Stomach feels like the hard body, the hard-boiled egg had lodged there
- Wakeful at night with hunger
- Guernsey says that pain in the stomach come after eating
Causation:
- Tea
- Tobacco
Mind:
- Nervous
- Unable to think
- Melancholy
- Unable to study
- Very law spirited
Head:
- Dizziness
- Severe dull headache
- The bad feeling in head
- Hothead with flushed cheeks
- Dull during the day, awake at night
Ear:
- Left external meatus painful
Throat:
- Feels like Sensation of something sticking in oesophagus toward its lower end
- Choking sensation in the throat
Stomach:
- Pain in stomach always after eating
- Due to hunger wakeful at night
- Total loss appetite at morning but craving for food at noon and night
- Feels like a painful lump, a hard-boiled egg was lodged in the cardiac end of the stomach
- Constant distressing constriction just above the pit of the stomach like everything knotted up
- Offensive breath is known as halitosis
- Dyspepsia
Respiratory:
- Painful sensation like something was lodged in the chest
- Feeling like chest has to be coughed up
- Lungs feel compressed
- Lungs can’t be fully expanded
- Water brash succeed cough
- Dyspnea worse lying down also called orthopnea
Heart:
- Sharp cutting pain in the heart
- Heart’s action is slow and difficult
Back:
- Pain in the lumbar region
- Aching and rheumatic pain in the bone
Sleep:
- Restless and wakeful at night
- Hungary feeling at night
- Bad dreams
- Heat and cold alternate
- Chronic intermittent fever
- Fever with pain in the stomach
- Malarial fever.
Modality:
- < after eating
Relationship: Compare with China, Bryonia Alba, Pulsatilla
Dose:
- First to the thirteenth potency