Abies Nigra abies-n.

The genius of this remedy appears prominently in the stomach.

Low-spirited; melancholy.

Total loss of appetite in the morning, but great craving for food at noon and night. Sensation of an undigested hard-boiled egg, or some such uncomfortable substance, in the stomach. Continual distressing constriction just above the pit of the stomach, as if everything were knotted up, or as if a hard lump of undigested food remained there. A painful sensation as if something were lodged in the chest, mostly on the right side of the sternum, which had to be coughed up, though nothing comes, after taking food that disagreed. Pain in the stomach always comes after eating.

Black Spruce

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.

Hot, with flushed cheeks. Low-spirited. Dull during the day, wakeful at night. Unable to think.

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.

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.

Pain in small of back. Rheumatic pains and aching in bones.

Wakeful and restless at night, with hunger. Bad dreams.

Alternate heat and cold; chronic intermittent fever, with pain in stomach.

Worse after eating.

Compare: (Lump in stomach--China, Bryon, Pulsat); also other Conifers--Thuja, Sabina, Cupressus (painful indigestion) also Nux vom, Kali carb.

First to thirtieth potency.

Severe pain in stomach after eating. Sensation of an undigested hard-boiled egg in stomach.

Black or Double Spruce. (Northern part of North America.) N. O. Coniferæ. Tincture of the gum.

Constipation. Cough . Dyspepsia . Eructations . Hæmorrhages. Hypochondriasis. Malarial fevers. Tea, effects of. Tobacco, effects of.

The grand characteristic of Abies nig . is a sensation in the cardiac end of the stomach or in the œsophagus where it enters the stomach, as if a hard body, as a hard-boiled egg, had lodged there. ( China has the lump under the sternum, but higher up. Feeling in the epigastrium as if food were lying there, Pul ., Bry .) Where, this symptom is present, whether in dyspepsia, lung disease (when the sensation is as if there was a hard substance to be coughed up) with or without hæmoptysis, constipation, &c. Ab. n . will be, the most likely remedy. The dyspepsias caused by abuse of tea or tobacco have been cured by it. Wakeful at night with hunger. Distress in the head, with flushed cheeks, often accompanies the dyspeptic symptoms of this remedy. In one patient to whom I gave it chilliness round stomach was removed and general chilliness greatly lessened. < After eating. "Pain in the stomach always comes after eating," says Guernsey.

Compare : Abies can., Cupressus, Thuja, Sabina (all have painful indigestion), and other Conifers; Nux v., Bry., Puls., Kali c., Nat. m.; (effects of tea) Thuja.

Tea. Tobacco.

Very low-spirited and melancholy. — Nervousness. — Unable to think or study.

Dizziness. — Bad feeling in head. — Dull headache; severe. — Head hot, with flushed cheeks.

Pain in l. external meatus.

Choking sensation in throat. — Sensation of something sticking in œsophagus toward its lower end.

Hungry and wakeful at night. — Total loss of appetite in the morning, but great craving for food at noon and night.

Pain in the stomach always comes after eating. — Painful sensation as if something were lodged in chest, mostly on r. side of sternum, which had to be coughed up, though nothing comes, after taking food that disagreed. — Frequent eructations. — Continual distressing sensation about stomach as if everything was knotted up; worse whenever debilitated. — Sensation of an undigested hard-boiled egg in the stomach.

Constipation.

Menstruation delayed three months.

Easily gets out of breath.

Heavy, slow beating of heart; sharp, cutting pains.

Pain in small of back.

Rheumatic pains, and aching in the bones. — Alternate heat and cold.

Sleepy during the day, but wakeful and restless at night. — Very bad dreams.

Black Spruce. Coniferæ.
The Pinus nigra or black spruce of this country.
Proved by Dr Leaman ; Ohio Medical and Surgical Reporter .

Inability to think or study.
Very low-spirited ; melancholy.

Dizziness ; bad feeling in head.

Headache.
Terrible distress in head ; generally with some flushing of face. θ Dyspepsia.

Head hot, with flushed cheeks.

(OBS :) Scurvy.

Choking sensation in throat.

Exceedingly hungry and wakeful at night.
Total loss of appetite in morning ; craving for food noon and night.

Pain after a hearty meal.
Abstinence from particular food does not >. θ Dyspepsia.

Belching.
Acid eructations.
Frequent vomiting of food.

Severe pain in stomach after eating.
Distressing pain in stomach, extending to left side.
Sensation of an undigested hard-boiled egg in stomach. θ Dyspepsia.
Continual distressing constriction just above pit of stomach, as if everything was knotted up, or as if a hard lump of undigested food remained there. θ Dyspepsia.

Constipation.

Menses did not appear until third month after proving.

Gets out of breath easily.

Pain in small of back.

Nervousness.
Fatigue.

Dull and sleepy during day ; restless and wakeful at night.
Wakeful at night with hunger.
Bad dreams.

Morning : total loss of appetite.
Noon : craving for food.
Night : hungry ; wakeful and restless.
Day : dull and sleepy.

Alternate heat and cold.
(OBS :) Malarial fevers. [Obs. Used in New York in the Fall of 1877. Abies Nigra is said to be one of the ingredients in "Holman's Fever and Ague Pad."]
Chronic intermittent fever, accompanied by stomachache.
Left : pain in stomach extends to side.

As if choking ; of an undigested hard-boiled egg in stomach ; as if everything was knotted up in stomach.
Pain : in stomach after eating ; in small of back.
Aching : in bones.
Rheumatic pain : in bones.
Constriction : above pit of stomach.

Rheumatic pains and aching in bones.

Used in preparation of spruce beer.
Similar to : Nux vom . (pressure as from a stone after a meal) ; Bismuth ; Calc. carb . (like a load after a moderate supper) ; Bryon . (like a stone, worse moving) ; Kali carb. ; Arsen. ; Zincum (as if food lodged in œsophagus) ; Ignat . (food feels as if lying above cardiac orifice) ; Sepia (nightly pressure as from a stone, also after food) ; Agar . (burning after food, followed by pressure as from a foreign body) ; Phosphor. ; Pulsat . (like a stone, early, on awaking) ; Sulphur ; Cinchon . (accompanied by bloating) ; Natr. mur . (sensation of a foreign body sticking in cardiac orifice).

Low-spirited.

Pain in the left external meatus.

Sensation of something sticking in the œsophagus towards its lower end.

Lost mornings, but there is craving noon and night.

Continual distressing sensation about the stomach as if everything was knotted up; worse whenever debilitated.
Sensation as of an undigested hard-boiled egg in the stomach.
Pain after a hearty meal.

Dyspnœa.

Heavy, slow beating of the heart, sharp, cutting pains.

Compare Nux vom., Lactic acid (latter feels as if all food lodges under upper end of sternum).

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.