Abies Nigra abies-n.

A tree growing in northern United States and Canada, belonging to the Coniferæ. A tincture is prepared by dissolving the gum in alcohol.

▶ As far as we are now able to judge from the provings, and from our clinical experience with this drug, its most marked effect is upon the digestion; and in disorders of the stomach its only laurels have been won. ▶ Most, if not all, of the symptoms hitherto observed are intimately associated with gastric disturbances.

▶ Weariness. ▶ Bone pains (Eupat. perf.).

▶ Melancholy; nervous; unable to think; dull during the day, but wakeful at night.

▶ Vertigo. ▶ Dull headache. ▶ Head and face hot (Bry.). ▶ Pain in left ear.

Choking sensation in throat.

Hunger at noon and night; loss of appetite in morning (Nux v.); sensation of a hard-boiled egg in stomach; pain after eating (Bry., Nux v.); P. extending to left side. ▶ Constipation.

Menstruation suppressed (Bry.).

Dyspnœa; worse on lying down; sense of suffocation as if one could not expand the lungs; sharp cutting pain in the heart; heart's action heavy and slow.

Pain in the small of the back.

Night restless, with bad dreams.

Coldness, alternating with heat.

The most characteristic indication for Abies in indigestion is the distress as if something were knotted up in the stomach. ▶ It has often proved curative in the dyspepsia resulting from the use of tea and tobacco.