Abies Nigra

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Additional information about Abies nigra

Abies Nigra as per HOMEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA

• A powerful and long-acting remedy, in various forms of disease, whenever the characteristic stomach symptoms are present. Most of the symptoms are associated with the gastric disturbances. In dyspeptic troubles of the aged, with functional heart symptoms; also after tea or tobacco. Constipation. Pain in external meatus.
• Head-Hot, with flushed cheeks. Low-spirited. Dull during the day, wakeful at night. Unable to think.
• Stomach-Pain in stomach always comes on after eating. Sensation of a lump that hurts, as if a hard-boiled egg had lodged in cardiac end of stomach; continual distressing constriction just above the pit of the stomach, as if everything were knotted up. Total loss of appetite in morning, but great craving for food at noon and night, Offensive breath, eructations.
• Chest-Painful sensation, as if something were lodged in the chest and had to be coughed up; lungs feel compressed. Cannot be fully expanded. Worse coughing; waterbrash succeeds cough. Choking sensation in throat. Dyspnœa; worse lying down; sharp, cutting pain in heart; heart’s action heavy and slow; tachycardia, bradycardia.
• Back-Pain in small of back. Rheumatic pains and aching in bones.

The other symptoms for which it can be given are:

• To patients with very low-spirited mind and full of melancholy. Nervousness with unable to think or study. Dizziness with a dull headache and with flushed cheeks.
• Choking sensation in the throat with a sensation of a lump sticking in the oesophagus towards its lower end.
• For lung diseases with the sensation as if there was a hard substance to be coughed up with or without haemoptysis.
• For rheumatic complaints and aching in the bones with alternate heat and cold during pains. Pain in the small of the back.
• For sleeplessness where the patient feels sleepy and dull during the day, but wakeful and restless at night. Sleeplessness from bad dreams and hunger at night.
• For fevers with alternate heat and cold. Chronic intermittent fever, with pain in the stomach.