Helleborus

► Total unconsciousness. ► Weak memory. ► Diminished power of mind over body ; cannot fix ideas ; slow in answering, stares unintelligently ; muscles do not act properly if the will is not strongly fixed upon their action ; as when spoken to, the attention being thereby diverted, she drops things. ► Dull says nothing. ► Delirium. ► Thoughtless staring. ► Constantly picking his lips and clothes. ► Much lamenting, moaning. ► Involuntary sighing. ► Frequent screams in meningitis, or hydrocephalus. ► Tries to escape, to throw herself into the river. ► Melancholy : silent during puberty ; with anguish. ► Homesickness. ► Woful, despairing mood. ► Indifferent. ► Irritable ; worse from consolation, does not want to be disturbed. ► A noise or shock shortens the attacks. θ Eclampsia. ► Thinking about the symptoms lessens them.

► Vertigo : with nausea watery vomit and loose bowels ; while stooping, ceasing when becoming erect.

► Pressing headache, from within outwards ; stupefaction ; heavy head ; worse from moving head, from exertion ; better in the open air. ► Stupefying headache, with coryza (4 to 8 P.M.) ; worse from stooping ; better at rest and in the open air. ► Shooting pains in the head. θ Dropsy after scarlatina. ► Stupefied ; head hot, heavy ; boring head in the pillows, chilly ; fingers cold. ► Dropsy of the brain ; post scarlatinal. ► Burning heat in head ; pale face. ► Sensation in occiput, as from a blow.

► Sore feeling as if bruised, worse in back part of head ; worse on stooping. ► Rolls head night and day, moaning. ► Throws head back, and from side to side. ► Hair falls off, with pricking on scalp, worse on the occiput ; face and body oedematous. ► Partial sweat on the scalp. ► Humid scurf.

► Photophobia, without inflammation. ► Intensible to light. θ Hydrocephalus. ► Pupils : Contracted ; dilated alternately contracted and dilated. ► Nyctalopia. ► Eyeballs turned upwards, squinting. ► Vacant look, pupils dilated, eyes wide open. ► Eyeballs red, glassy. ► Eyes sunken, blue edges. ► Lids sticky, dry, sensation as if they were pressed down. ► Loses hair, from the eyebrows.

► Roaring and ringing in the ears.

► Smell diminished. ► Nostril look as if smoked, sooty. ► Nose pointed ; nostrils dirty, dry. ► Frequent rubs the nose. ► Sneezing.

► Face : red, hot, but pale ; pale, oedematous, distorted ; pale, sunken, icy-cold ; livid, with cold sweat. ► Forehead or face wrinkled. ► Stupid expression. ► Left-sided neuralgia ; parts so tender, cannot chew.

► Constant chewing motion. ► Corners of mouth sore ; steady flow of saliva ; upper lip cracked ; lips dry, cracked. ► White blisters on the swollen lips. ► Lower jaw hangs down.

► Grinds the teeth. ► Toothache during the chill.

► Taste bitter. ► Tongue : dry ; white, morning ; dry and red in typhus ; slightly protruded and oscillating ; trembling ; numb, insensible ; swollen ; full of vesicles ; pimples on the tip.

► Mouth dry, also palate, with cutting, scraping in palate on moving the mouth to swallow. ► Mouth, gums and tongue full of flat, yellow ulcers, with elevated, grey edges ; or red, swollen bases ; carrion-like odor ; salivation ; aphthae.

► Hunger : child nurses greedily ; with disgust for food. ► Greedily swallows the cold water ; bites the spoon, but remains unconscious. Hydrocephalus. ► Thirst : with disgust for drink ; but no appetite.

► Nausea, cannot take food, though hungry. ► Vomiting of greenish-black substances, with colic.

► Intense burning into the oesophagus. ► Fulness and distension of pit of stomach. ► Pit of stomach sunken. ► Pressing in region of stomach. ► Stomach painful when coughing, or walking.

► Griping, pinching about navel, followed by gelatinous stools. ► Gurgling, as if bowels were full of water. ► Abdomen swollen, distended, painful to touch. ► Ascites : especially after scarlet fever ; in scrofulous children. ► Excessive colic, weakness, features sunken, face cold, pale, covered with a clammy sweat ; pulse thready ; thin diarrhoea.

► Stools : loose, watery ; of white mucus, jelly-like, with tenesmus ; involuntary. ► Feeling as if the intestines had no power to evacuate the feces, during soft stools. ► Blennorrhoea of rectum, with spasms of the bladder.

► Spasmodic urging, causing spasms ; very little urine passes. ► Bladder overdistended ; retention of urine from atony of muscular coats. ► Urging frequent, with scanty discharge. ► After great pressure he passes, with much pain, a few drops of blood. ► Passes blood and slime, with burning and stinging. ► Suppressed urinary secretion, with dropsy. ► Urine : scanty, dark, with floating, dark specks ; like coffee-grounds ; albuminous, scanty ; profuse, passed in large quantities.

► Desire suppressed ; genitals relaxed ; no erections.

► Suppression of the menses ; amenorrhoea from disappointed love. ► Uterine dropsy.

► Puerperal convulsions.

► Voice weak, with hydrocephalus.

► Sighing. ► Chest constricted gasps from breath, with open mouth ; propped up in bed. θ Hydrothorax. ► Breathing difficult, with anxiety, worse every evening ; must sit up.

► Dry, worse at night, with gagging ; dry, while smoking tobacco. ► Tension in region of left short ribs, during cough.

► Pulse : often slower than beating of heart ; frequent, soft, intermittent in hydrocephalus ; small, wiry, in hydrothorax ; almost imperceptible.

► Neck rigid in spotted fever. ► Cervical muscles stiff. ► Cervical glands swollen. ► Cramp in spinal muscles. θ Hydrocephalus. ► Severe pain down neck, in left side of face and in teeth.

► Arms moving continually, automatically, except when asleep. ► Thumb drawn in to the palm. ► Boring sticking in wrist and finger-joints. ► Ulceration around the nails. ► Humid painless vesicles between fingers.

► Pricking in the left hip. ► Boring, stinging in knee and foot-joints. ► Legs drawn up, with every attempt to change her position. θ Hydrocephalus. ► Legs oedematous. ► Humid painless vesicles between the toes.

► Piercing in limbs, with uterine dropsy.

► Convulsive twitching of muscles. ► Automatic motion of one arm and leg in hydrocephalus. ► Convulsions : with extreme coldness ; of sucklings. ► Epilepsy, with consciousness, followed by deep sleep. ► Sudden relaxation of muscles. ► Great debility.

► Drowsy, when left alone, he goes to sleep. ► Constant somnolence ; can be aroused, but not to full consciousness. θ Typhoid fever. ► Soporous sleep, with shriek and starts. ► Dreams : confused, anxious, cannot by remembered. ► During sleep, muscles twitch.

► Chill spreads from arms ; gooseflesh, pains in joints ; face hot ; drowsy ; worse after getting out of bed, and from motion. ► Burning heat, followed by chill and colic. ► Burning heat, with internal chilliness and aversion to drink ; can drink but little at a time ; evening in bed. ► Heat or sweat, with aversion to uncover. ► After lying down in bed, heat, generally with sweat. ► Sweat : cold, clammy ; sticky ; less after sleep ; relieves ; towards morning, temperature unchanged.

► Left : 27, 31, 33.

► Pricking, tearing, pressing pains, running across affected parts.

► Red parts become white ; anaemia. ► Loss of flesh ; aphthae. ► Dropsy : of brain, chest or abdomen ; suddenly swellings ; anasarca ; after scarlatina, nephritis, intermittents, etc. ► Concomitants : debility, fever, pains in limbs, diarrhoea, suppressed urine. ► Stinging-boring, in the periosteum : worse in cool air.

► Touch : 19. Chewing : 8.

► Itching unchanged by a scratching. ► Skin : pale ; yellow. ► Livid spots on the skin. ► Painless ulcers. ► Skin peels off ; hair and nails fall out.

► During dentition, brain symptoms. ► Weakly, scrofulous children.

► Antidotes : Camphor, Cinchon.