HELLEBORUS FŒTIDUS.
Helleborus fœtidus, Linn.
Natural order
, Ranunculaceæ. Common name, Stinkender-niesswurz.
Preparation
, Tincture of the root.
Authorities.
1,
Bisset, Essay on the Med. Const. of Great Britain, p. 333,
“poisoning,” from Hahnemann’s Hellebore; 2, Gesner; Entdeckungen, 1, p. 167,
“statement;” from Hahnemann; 3,
Dr. Demeures, effects of one drop, and of inhaling fumes while pounding
it, Jour. d. l. Soc. Gal., 1st ser., vol. iv, p. 111; 4, Oxford Magazine, 1779 (Hempel’s Mat. Med.,
1, p. 505), effects on various individuals of eating it; 5, Cattell, symptoms compiled (?), B. J. of
Hom., 11, 343.
MIND.
►
Dreadful anxiety, which, however, is relieved after vomiting, [1].
EYE.
►
Great difficulty in reading, in the evening, by candlelight, lasting
four days. The sensation is that cause when the light flickers in a
draught of air; he has difficulty in following the lines (after two
days), [3].
EAR.
►
Thumping pain below and behind the left ear; this feeling soon passes
off, [3].
MOUTH.
►
Smarting at the tip of the tongue, [3].
► My wife, who assisted in
triturating this plant, experienced a painful sensation in the mouth,
like aphthæ, [3]. ► Excoriation of the mouth and throat, [5]. ►
Taste of manure in the mouth, tongue yellow in the middle, [3].
STOMACH.
►
Nausea and vomiting of food, which, and hour before, had been taken with
relish and in moderation, [3]. ► Several turns of nausea, without
vomiting, nineteen hours after, [3].
[10.] ►
Sickness, [5]. ► Constant inclination to vomit, [2]. ►
When pounding the plant, it seems that the epigastrium with difficulty
keeps time with the inflation of the chest on inspiration, [3]. ►
Frightful pain in the pit of the stomach, [2].
ABDOMEN.
►
Colic, [2].
STOOL.
►
Violent purging and vomiting, with pain in the stomach, [5]. ►
Abundant and liquid stool during the night; next day, two liquid and
whitish stools, with colic; again a liquid stool forty-eight hours
after, [3].
CHEST.
►
Tightness of the chest; he can scarcely half draw his breath, [3].
NECK.
►
Numbness in the muscles of the neck (the sensibility of the part touch
is blunted); it becomes stiff eighteen hours after, [3].
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.
►
Fatal convulsions, [5]. [20.] ►
Swooning, [5]. ► Same general feeling as if he had come
out of a severe sickness, [3].
SKIN.
►
They lost not only the epidermis, but their hair and nails besides, [4]. ►
The hair falls off, also the nails from the fingers and toes, [5]. ►
The scarf skin peels off the whole body, [5].
► Profuse discharge from the
ulcerated surface (from application), [5].
SLEEP.
►
During the night the prover stirs a great deal (in his sleep), [5].® 2000
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