Hand Book of Materia Medica and Homœopathic Therapeutics
Abies canadensis abies-c.
General
Common name hemlock or hemlock spruce. Natural order: Coniferæ. The fresh bark and young buds are bruised and mixed with double their weight of alcohol.
General Effects
Weakness, faintness; lies with legs drawn up. ▶ Mood irritable. ▶ Head light; vertex feels congested. ▶ Mouth dry. ▶ Hunger, with rumbling in the bowels after eating; craving for meat, pickles and coarse food, with gnawing in the epigastrium. ▶ Thirst. ▶ Belching of wind. ▶ Distention of stomach, with burning in it. ▶ Weakness in epigastrium. ▶ The region of the liver feels hard, with a pain behind the right scapula. ▶ Sick feeling in bowels, with an irritable feeling in the region of the spleen. ▶ Constipation. ▶ Burning in the rectum. ▶ Frequent micturition. ▶ Uterus has a soft, weak feeling, with soreness of the fundus, relieved by pressure. ▶ Respiration labored. ▶ Action of heart increased and labored. ▶ In sacral region a weak feeling. ▶ Night restless, with tossing about. ▶ During the day yawning and drowsiness. ▶ Cold shiverings as if the blood were ice-water. ▶ Chills run down the back. ▶ Feeling of cold water between the shoulders. ▶ Hands cold, shrunken. ▶ Skin clammy.
Compare with Abies nigra.