Abies Canadensis
Characteristics:-Abies can. has been only imperfectly proved, but it has marked symptoms which will serve to indicate it in any case of disease in which they may be prominent: Great appetite, tendency to over-eat; gnawing, hungry, faint feeling in epigastrium. According to Hale it has cured: "A light-headed feeling, attended with a gnawing, hungry, faint feeling at epigastrium, craving hunger which, if gratified, was followed by distension of the stomach and hard beating of the heart." Among the peculiar sensations are: A feeling as if the right lung and liver were small and hard; pain beneath right scapula. The patient lies with the legs drawn up. Shivering as if the blood turned to cold water
SYMPTOMS.
Mind.-Quiet, careless, but easily fretted.
Head.-Tipsy feeling, a swimming of the head; light-headed.
Eyes.-Sensation as of a stye in outer canthus of l. eye.
Appetite.-Gnawing, hungry, faint feeling at the epigastrium.-Craving for meat, pickles, and other coarse food.-Some thirst.-A tendency to eat far beyond the capacity for digestion.
Stomach.-Distension of the stomach and epigastrium; burning.
Abdomen.-Sick feeling in the bowels.-Rumbling in the bowels after eating, with great
appetite.-Sensation as if the liver were small and hard; as if bile were deficient.
Stool and Anus.-Burning in rectum.-Constipation.
Urinary Organs.-Urinates frequently day and night; urine straw-coloured.
Female Sexual Organs.-Thinks the womb is soft and feeble (thinks would cause abortion).-Sore feeling at the fundus of uterus; > by pressing.
Respiratory Organs.-Breathing laboured.-Sensation as if the right lung were small and hard.
Heart.-Action of the heart laboured.-Increased action of the heart with distension of the stomach.
Neck and Back.-Pain behind the right shoulder-blade.-Weak feeling in sacral region.-Feeling as of cold water between the shoulders.
Generalities.-Hands cold, shrunken.-Skin cold and clammy.-Lies with the legs drawn up.-Great prostration, wants to lie down all the time.-Very faint, as if top of head were congested.-Twitching of the muscles.
Sleep.-Gaping, drowsy.-Great restlessness at night, with tossing from side to side.
Fever.-Cold shivering all, over as if blood turned to ice-water.-Chills down back.
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