Abies Nigra

Abies Nigra.

Black or Double Spruce. (Northern part of North America.) N. O. Coniferae. Tincture of the gum.

Constipation. Cough. Dyspepsia. Eructations. Haemorrhages. Hypochondriasis. Malarial fevers. Tea, effects of. Tobacco, effects of.

The grand characteristic of Abies nig. is a sensation in the cardiac end of the stomach or in the oesophagus where it enters the stomach, as if a hard body, as a hard-boiled egg, had lodged there. (China has the lump under the sternum, but higher up. Feeling in the epigastrium as if food were lying there, Pul., Bry.) Where, this symptom is present, whether in dyspepsia, lung disease (when the sensation is as if there was a hard substance to be coughed up) with or without haemoptysis, constipation, &c.

Ab. n. will be, the most likely remedy. The dyspepsias caused by abuse of tea or tobacco have been cured by it. Wakeful at night with hunger. Distress in the head, with flushed cheeks, often accompanies the dyspeptic symptoms of this remedy.

In one patient to whom I gave it chilliness round stomach was removed and general chilliness greatly lessened. < After eating. "Pain in the stomach always comes after eating," says Guernsey.

Compare: Abies can., Cupressus, Thuja, Sabina (all have painful indigestion), and other Conifers; Nux v., Bry., Puls., Kali c., Nat. m.; (effects of tea) Thuja.

Tea. Tobacco.

Pain in l. external meatus.

Choking sensation in throat.—Sensation of something sticking in oesophagus toward its lower end.

Hungry and wakeful at night.—Total loss of appetite in the morning, but great craving for food at noon and night.

Constipation.

Menstruation delayed three months.

Easily gets out of breath.

Heavy, slow beating of heart; sharp, cutting pains.

Pain in small of back.

Rheumatic pains, and aching in the bones.—Alternate heat and cold.

Sleepy during the day, but wakeful and restless at night.—Very bad dreams.