Helleborus Foetidus
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General
Helleborus Foetidus.
Bear's foot. N. O. Ranunculaceae. Tincture of the root.
Clinical
Cholera. Hair, failing off. Nails, falling off. Scarlatina. Skin, peeling. Stiff-neck.
Characteristics
The effects of Hel. f. have been observed on several persons. It is a violent narcotico-acrid poison, and in fatal poisoning cases death has taken place in convulsions. The vision is disordered; choleraic symptoms occur; skin, hair, and nails exfoliate. The anxiety is > after vomiting.
Relations
Compare: Verat. alb. (copious liquid stools); Hell. n., Hell. v., Colch.
Mind
Dreadful anxiety; > after vomiting.
Eyes
Great difficulty in reading, in evening, by candle-light; the sensation is as when the light flickers from a draught of air; cannot follow the lines.
Ear
Thumping pain below and behind l. ear.
Mouth
Smarting at tip of tongue
Painful sensation like aphthae in mouth (inhaling fumes of triturated plant)
Taste of manure; tongue yellow in middle
Excoriation of mouth and throat.
11, 12.
Stomach and Abdomen
Nausea and vomiting of food (taken an hour before with relish)
Constant inclination to vomit
When pounding the plant it seems that the epigastrium with difficulty keeps time with the inflation of the chest on inspiration
Frightful pain in pit of stomach
Colic.
Stool And Anus
Violent purging and vomiting with pain in stomach.—Abundant liquid stool during night; next day two liquid, whitish stools; again a liquid stool forty-eight hours later.
Chest
Tightness of chest, can scarcely half draw his breath.
Neck
Numbness in muscles of neck; sensibility to touch blunted it becomes stiff eighteen hours later.
Generalities
Fatal convulsions.—Swooning.
Skin
Skin of whole body peels, hair falls out, all the nails fall off.—Profuse discharge from ulcerated surface (from application).
Sleep
Stirs a good deal in his sleep.