HELLEBORUS NIGER
Snow-rose
(HELLEBORUS)
Produces a situation of sensorial depression. Sees, hears, tastes imperfectly, and universal muscular weakness, which might also go on to whole paralysis, accompanied via dropsical effusions. Hence, a treatment in low states of vitality and serious disease. Characteristic aggravation from four to eight pm (Lycop). Sinking sensation. State of effusion in hydrocephalus. Mania of a depression type.
Mind.–Slow in answering. Thoughtless; staring. Involuntary sighing. Complete unconsciousness. Picks lips and clothes.
Head.–Forehead wrinkled in folds. Cold sweat. Stupefying headache. Rolls head day and night; moaning, surprising screams. Bores head into pillow; beats it with hands. Dull ache in occiput, with sensation of water swashing inside. Headache culminates in vomiting.
Eyes.–Eyeballs flip upwards; squinting, vacant look. Pupils dilated. Eyes large open, sunken. Night-blindness.
Nose.–Dirty, dry nostrils. Rubs nose. Smell diminished. Nose pointed.
Face.–Pale, sunken. Cold sweat. Wrinkled. Neuralgia on left side; components so smooth he can’t chew.
Mouth.–Horrible scent from mouth. Lips dry and cracked. Tongue purple and dry. Falling of decrease jaw. Meaningless choosing of lips. Grinding of teeth. Chewing motion. Greedily swallows bloodless water, although unconscious. Child nurses greedily, with disgust for food. Ptyalism, with sore corners of mouth.
Abdomen.–Gurgling, as if bowels had been full of water. Swollen, painful to touch.
Stool.–Jelly-like, white mucus; involuntary.
Urine.–Suppressed; scanty, dark; coffee-grounds sediment. Frequent urging. Child can’t urinate. Bladder overdistended.
Respiratory.–Frequent sighing. Respiration irregular. Chest constricted; gasps for breath. Hydrothorax (Merc sulph).
Extremities.–Automatic movement of one arm and leg. Limbs heavy and painful. Stretching of limbs. Thumb drawn into palm (Cupr). Vesicular eruption between fingers and toes.
Sleep.–Sudden screams in sleep. Soporous sleep. Cri encephalique. Cannot be thoroughly aroused.
Skin.–Pale, dropsical, itching. Livid spots on skin. Sudden, watery, swelling of skin. Falling off of hair and nails. Angio-neurotic oedema.
Modalities.--Worse, from night till morning, from uncovering.
Relationship.–(Hellebor faetidus, or, Polymnia-Bear’s foot–Acts specifically on spleen (Ceanothus); additionally rectum and sciatic nerve. Splenic pains lengthen to scapula, neck and head, worse left facet and evening; continual ague cake; hypertrophied uterus; glandular enlargements; hair and nails falling off; pores and skin peeling). Hellebor orientalis (salivation).
Antidote: Camphor; Cinch.
Compare: Threatening effusion; Tuberc; Apis; Zinc; Opium; Cinch; Cicuta; Iodoform.
Dose.–Tincture, to 0.33 potency.
