Helleborus
Snow-rose
Abdomen
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Gurgling, as if bowels were full of water. Swollen, painful to touch. Stool. — Jelly-like, ^yhite mucus ;* involuntary Urine, — Suppressed; scanty, dark; coffee-grounds sediment. Frequent urging. Child cannot urinate. Bladder overdistended.
Compare
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Threatening effusion; Tuberc.; Apis; Zinc.; Opium; Cinch.; Cicuia; Iodoform.
Dose
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Tincture, to third potency.
Extremities
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Automatic motion of one arm and leg. Limbs heavy and painful. Stretching of
Eyes
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Eyeballs turn upwards ; squinting, vacant look. Pupils dilated. Eyes wide open, sunken. Night blindness.
Face
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Pale, sunken. Cold
Head
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Forehead wrinkled in folds. Cold
Limbs
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Thumb 372 HELLEBORUS — HELIANTHUS — HELODERMA drawn into palm. [C«/>r.] Vesicular eruption between fingers and toes.
Mind
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Slow in answering. Thoughtless ; staring. Involuntary sighing. Complete unconsciousness. Picks lips and clothes.
Modalities
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Worse, from evening until morning, from uncovering.
Mouth
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Horrible smell from 7nouth. Lips dry and cfacked. Tongue red and dry. Falling of lower jaw. Meaningless picking of lips. Grinding of
Nose
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Smell diminished. Nose pointed.
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Dirty, dry nostrils. Rubs
Relationships
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Hcllebor. fcetidus or, Polymnia (splenic affections, chronic ague cake; hypertrophied uterus; glandular enlargements; hair and nails falling off; skin peeling) ; Hcllebor. orientalis (salivation). Antidote: Camphor; Cinch.
Respiratory
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Frequent sighing. Respiration irregular. Chest constricted; gasps for breath. Hydrothorax. [Merc, sulph.\
Skin
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Sudden, watery, swelling of
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Falling off of hair and nails.
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Pale, dropsical, itching. Livid spots on
Sleep
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Sudden screams in
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Cri encephalique. Cannot be fully aroused.
Sweat
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Wrinkled. Neuralgia on left side; parts so tender he cannot chew.
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Stupefying headache. Holts head day and night ; ; moaning, sudden screams. Bores head into pillow; beats it with hands. Dull pain in occiput, with sensation of water swashing inside. Headache culminates in vomiting.
Teeth
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Chewmg motion. Greedily swallows cold water, though unconscious. Child nurses greedily, with disgust for food. Ptyalisin, with sore corners of
Text
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Produces a condition of sensorial depression. Sees, hears, tastes imperfectly, and general muscular weakness, which may go on to complete paralysis, accompanied by dropsical effusions. Hence, a remedy in low states of vitality and serious disease. Characteristic aggravation from 4 to 9, p. m. [Lycop.] State of effllidon'm hydrocephalus. Mania of a melancholy type.
References
This monograph is an original summary faithful to the classical tradition. It condenses material from these public-domain sources:
- James Tyler Kent, Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica (1905)Primary remedy pictures; characteristic mental and general symptoms. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
- William Boericke, Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica and Repertory (1927)Reproduced here in full — the complete classical repertory-style monographs. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
- Constantine Hering, The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica (1879–1891)Confirmed symptom aggregates behind the section organization. · Public domain
- Timothy Field Allen, Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica (1874–1879)Provings background referenced by the verification tradition. · Public domain
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