HELLEBORUS NIGER.
Helleborus niger, Linn.
Natural order
, Ranunculaceæ. Common names, Black Hellebore; (G.)
Schwarz-Christwurzel; (Fr.) La rose d’hiver.
Preparation
, Tincture of the root.
Authorities.
(1,-21, from Hahnemann.). 1, Hahnemann, R. A. M. L., 3, 203; 2, Hartmann; 3,
Hornburg; 4, Kummer; 5, Langhammer; 6,
Mossdorf; 7, Rückert; 8, Stapf; 9,
Wislicenus; 10, Alberti, Jurisp.
Med., tom. vi, p. 719, “not accesible;” 11, Bacher (or Büchner), in Samml. f. pr.
Aerzte, 1, p. 3, “observation;” 12,
Bisset, see H. fœtidus; 13, John Cook, in Oxford Mag., March, 1769,
“poisoning;” 14, Gesner, see H. fœtidus; 15,
Grew, Anatomy of Plants, p. 280, “from chewing root;” 16, Van Hilden, Op. Med. Chir. Cent., 4,
Obs12, “from inhaling its odor;” 17,
Morgagni, De sed. et caus. morb., lix, 15, 16, “effects of extract
on a melancholic;” 18, Schulze,
Mat. Med., p. 152, “from continued use;” 19, Scopoli, Flora Carniolica, p. 557,
“observation;” 20,
Stegmann, Diss. de salut. et nox. Elleb. nigri usu., Halæ., 1751, p.
22, “not accessible;” 21,
Tournefort, Voyage dans le Levant, II, p. 189, “statement;” 22, Nenning, symptoms from Hartlaub and
Trinks, 1, 295; 23, Dr. Frank,
effects of taking Hell. 1st for a blister on his tongue, and afterward
repeated as an experiment, A. H. Z., 18, 115; 24,
Lembke, proving with powdered root made into pills with licorice, each
containing 1 grain, took first day 1, second 2, third 3, sixth 5, eighth
6, tenth 7, fifteenth 8, twentieth 10, twenty-fifth 10, twenty-seventh
12, thirty-sixth 12 pills; afterward took extract with licorice 1-grain
doses; provings repeated next year, when he also took the one-tenth
dil., 5 to 40 drops, N. Z. f. Kl., 7, 172; 25,
Dr. Bruno Lind, took tincture, 6 drops first day 10 second, 20 the sixth
day, A. H. Z., 39, 282; 26, Scholtz,
aged 23, took tincture, first day 4, third 4, fourth 5, fifth 7, eighth
10, tenth and eleventh 10 drops, ibid.; 27,
C. V. Schroff, provings on three healthy men with aqueous and ethereal
extracts in doses of 5 to 15 grains; Viertlj. f. prak. Heilk., 16. p. 49
(1859); 28, same, experiment on a
man, aged 31, suffering from insane melancholy, obstinate constipation,
and diminished secretions, with aq. ext., 1/2 scruple morning and
evening for four days, 1 scruple twice, fifth day; 2 scruples twice,
sixth day; 1 drachm, seventh day; 29,
same, experiment on a woman, aged 26, suffering from imbecility
following puerperal melancholy, otherwise healthy, took 2 scruples daily
for seven days; 30, same, a woman,
aged 42, emaciated, suffering from disturbances of digestion, secretions
and excretions, took 2 scruples daily for six days (before experiment,
skin dry, temp. low, pulse 68-72, not stool for one day); 31, same, a suffering from religious
melancholy, took 1 scruple daily for five days, then 1/2 drachm daily
for four days; 32, Ferrari, Journ.
Univers., from Wibmer, two persons took a decoction of root in cider; 33, omitted; 34,
Fahrenhorst, in Rust’s Mag. (Frank’s Mag., 1, 498), a young man took a
tablespoonful of powdered root by mistake; 35,
Hildanus, a woman just confined, took same, from Wibmer.
MIND.
►
Emotional. ► Delirium, [32]. ►
Vivid fancies after lying down in bed, a hundred forms float before his
eyes, which vanish as speedily as they come, [4]. ► He
groans and grunts, [1]. ► Reflective taciturn mood, the whole
afternoon, [10]. ► Home sickness, [1]. ► Always
joyous and in good humor (curative action), [4]. ► Sad
mood, on account of his present condition, everything seems shallow and
has no incentive for him, [9]. ► Depression and sadness, lasting several
hours, [27]. ►
Despondent, believes he shall die (in a sufferer from religious
melancholy), (fifth day), [31]. [10.] ► He
becomes melancholy on beholding a cheerful person, and then, for the
first time, feels very unhappy, [1].
► Anxiety, [11], [20].
► Such anxiety, nausea, and distress
that he thinks he will die, [10]. ► *Extreme anxiety, [1]. ► Anxious
mood, in different to joy or sorrow, contented with nothing (second
day), [22]. ►
Dread of death (in a sufferer from religious melancholy), (fifth day), [31]. ►
He is doubtful about his own life, [1].
► Extremely inclined to be irritable,
the most trifling thing which goes contrary to his wishes excites anger
(second day), [22]. ► Fretful mood (twelfth day), [26]. ►
Very indifferent mood, without joy or sorrow (first day), [22]. ►
Intellectual. [20.] ► Inability to reflect (after ten hours), [6]. ►
Distraction of mind, when studying; cannot hold his thoughts fixed, [1]. ►
(He dresses himself unbecomingly), [1].
► (Irresolution), [1]. ►
Weakness of memory, he is only able by exerting himself and after
thinking for some time to remember what he wanted to say and why he had
asked a question (after half an hour), [6].
► Weakness of memory; he does not
remember for a moment what he is reading, [4].
► Stupidity and slight vertigo
(immediately), [22]. ► *The patient answered much more slowly than
usual when questioned; this condition of stupefaction bordering on
insensibility lasted three hours (fourth day), [30].
HEAD.
►
Confusion and Vertigo. ►
Confusion of the head, [27]. ► Confusion of the head, which makes it
dull; a dull pain every afternoon from 4 to 8, [1]. [30.] ► Confusion in the head, with increased
warmth; aggravated by stooping (twelfth day), [26]. ► A dull
painful confusion of the head, relieved by pressing the head with the
palm of the hand, [22]. ► Dizzy confusion of the head, with fluent
coryza (after a quarter of an hour), [22].
► Head confused, heavy, lasting till
evening (after two hours), [24]. ► Head confused, heavy, and inclined to be
dizzy, better in the open air, though even then there is almost constant
feeling as though an attack of vertigo would come on (third day), [24]. ►
Confusion, heaviness, and painfulness of the forehead all day, [24]. ►
Dull, painful confusion in left side of head, during which the fluent
coryza changes to a stopped coryza, [22].
► Vertigo, [27]. ►
Vertigo in the morning on waking, lasting some minutes, on rising, with
heaviness of the head, soon followed by nausea, which persists some
time; white sitting and bending the head he feels better, but on rising
the nausea and vertigo return (first day), [24]. ►
Vertigo, on becoming erect (first day), [24].
[40.] ►
Vertigo, on stooping a little (first day), [24]. ►
Vertigo, on stooping and raising the head again, which immediately
passes off after becoming erect (after ten hours and a half), [6]. ►
Vertigo, while walking, so that he was obliged to stand still, to
prevent falling (after four hours), [24].
► Vertigo, with indistinct vision,
dilated pupils, roaring in the ears, and unsteady gait (fourth day), [30]. ►
Vertigo, with excessive nausea, and so great prostration that he had to
be put to bed (fifth day), [31]. ► Vertigo, with pleasant warmth in the
stomach and abdomen (immediately), [22].
► Reeling vertigo, with inclination
to fall forward (fifth day), [26].
► So dizzy that all objects seem to
move in a circle; with stupidity, [22].
► Reeling in the head, [10]. ►
Reeling in the head, especially when walking, the whole day, [22]. ►
General Head. [50.] ► Emptiness of the head, as if distracted,
with fluent coryza (after five hours), [5].
► Dulness of head, as befogged,
mostly in the forehead (after three-quarters of an hour), [5]. ► Dulness
and heat of the head; burning in it, [1].
► *Dull and heavy in the head,
[1]. [From various observations I
conclude that stupor, blunting of the internal sense, sensorium commune
(a condition in which one with good vision sees imperfectly and does not
apprehend what is seen; with the auditory apparatus in perfect
condition, does not distinctly hear or does not take note of what he
hears; with perfect organs of taste finds no taste in anything; is
constantly or frequently without thought, imperfectly or not at all
remembers the past or what has recently taken place; has no happiness in
anything; only lightly slumbers without sound and refreshing sleep; has
a desire to work without being able to pay attention to it or without
having the strength for it), is the primary action of Hellebore.
-Hahnemann, [11].] ► Stupefaction in the head (immediately), [6]. ►
Stupefaction of the whole head, with fluent coryza (after five hours and
a half), [5]. ► Dizzy stupefaction in the head in every
position, [6]. ► Heaviness of the head, [24], [27].
► Heaviness of the brain and
sensation as if it were surrounded by a tight skin, with inability to
think or retain anything in his memory, [6].
► Heaviness and internal heat in the
head, with cold fingers and chilly feeling over the whole body, which
were relieved by wrapping up the hands and keeping them warm (after one
hour), [1]. [60.] ►
Very painful heaviness in the head, with tension and pressure as from
without inward in the temples, but especially in the forehead; with
every pulse a pressing-drawing as if the blood forcibly pressed through
the head (the whole day, especially during the fever), relieved in the
open air, [1]. ► Pain in the cranial bone (first day), [24]. ►
Pain and heaviness of the head, with pressive pain in the limbs, the
whole day, [24]. ► He does not know how to hold the head on
account of violent pain in it; he changes its position every moment; it
is most tolerable when he forces himself to lie quiet and forgets his
pain in a half doze with the eyes closed, [1].
► Warmth rises from the stomach into
the head, like a qualmish nausea, [22].
► *Heat in the head (fifteenth
day), [24]. ►
Heat and heaviness in the head, soon, [24].
► *Heat deep within the head
(fifth day), [24]. ► Head very hot, heavy and painful, after a
new dose, [24]. ► The symptoms of congestion
of the brain became so marked that the drug had to be
discontinued and cold applications made to the head, [31]. [70.] ► During the dull painful confusion of the
head a grabbing sensation here and there in the head, without pain, [22]. ►
Troublesome headache, [18]. ► Violent headache (fourth day), [31]; (fourth and fifth days), [29]. ►
Stupefying headache, as from drunkenness, the whole afternoon (after
seven hours), [5]. ► Pressive pain deep within the head (fifth
day), [24]. ►
Pressure in the brain, as if it would be pressed from both sides towards
the middle and upward (after nine hours), [6].
► Pain in the head, as though the
whole brain were pressed inward, on every step in the open air (after
one hour), [2]. ► Constant headache the whole day, as if
the head were compressed, [22]. ► Violent pressive headache, with great
heaviness, especially in the occiput, on waking (after forty-one hours),
[6]. ►
Piercing headache, which on sitting upright becomes a burning in the
brain, [1]. [80.] ►
Tearing in various parts of the head (soon), [24]. ►
Bruised pain, as if combined with dulness, now in one, now in another
part of the brain; worse when stooping, [3].
► Forehead. ► Stupefaction and pressure in the
forehead, and especially in the eyes; as though something would fall out
at the forehead and eyes (first day), [26].
► Heaviness in the forehead (after
half an hour), (first day), [24]. ► Heaviness in the forehead, lasting nearly
the whole day (twentieth day), [24].
► Heaviness and transient pain in the
forehead (second day), [24]. ► Heaviness, heat, and pressure in the
forehead, decidedly increased in the afternoon, and lasting till
evening; then towards evening violent pressure appears in the right
upper arm, and the trouble in the head almost entirely disappears, but
immediately returns as the pain in the arm ceases, and then the pain in
the head alternates with pain in the knee, in the right leg, in the left
hand, and in the upper arm; with these symptoms the pulse is rapid, the
hands cold, the head and face feel hot; the trouble in the head is
constantly predominant and does not leave till 11 P.M.; the following
night was full of anxious dreams, [24].
► Forehead heavy, soon, [24]. ►
Heat and fulness in the forehead (after one hour), [24]. ►
Constant heat deep within the forehead (third day), [24]. [90.] ► Pain in the forehead (after a quarter of
an hour), [24]. ► Pain in the forehead, as if the head
would burst (fifth day), [26]. ► Dull pain in the frontal eminence, with
vertigo, while sitting, [22]. ► Headache in the right side of the
forehead, pressing from within outward, [9].
► Dull headache in the frontal region
and foreparts of the head, [27]. ► Dull headache in the forehead, in the
evening, with pressure in the right temple, [22]. ► Boring
in the forehead and along the coronal suture (second day), [24]. ►
Boring and sticking in the forehead and occiput, [24]. ►
Boring, drawing pain in the forehead, fingers, forearms, and knees
(first day), [24]. ► Pressure in the forehead (soon),
(fifteenth day), [24]. [100.] ►
Pressure and pain in forehead (sixth day), [24]. ►
Pressure and heaviness in the forehead (after a quarter of an hour), [24]. ►
Pressure in the forehead and forepart of the head, with heat and
heaviness of the head (after half an hour), [24]. ►
Pressure, tearing and heat in the forehead, increasing in the evening
(tenth day), [24]. ► Constant pressure and heat in the
forehead, the whole day (tenth day), [24].
► Violent pressure deep in the
forehead (first day), [24]. ► A painful pressure in the forehead,
somewhat to the left side, [22]. ► Pressive pain in the forehead, like a
wild confusion, [5]. ► Confused pressive pain in the head, over
the eyes (tenth day), [26]. ► Pressive headache in the right frontal
eminence, aggravated on walking in the open air, [4]. [110.] ► A pressing-asunder headache in the
forehead (fourth day), [22]. ► Boring stitches pass transversely across
the forehead (after fourteen hours), [5].
► Several sharp stitches externally
in the right, afterwards in the left side of the forehead (after three
and four hours), [5]. ► Very fine tearing, very acute pressive
pain in the left frontal eminence, involving the left eye (ninth day), [25]. ►
Pulselike beating on the forehead and temples, with heat of the face
(after six hours), [6]. ► The frontal muscles are drawn in folds, [3]. ►
Dull drawing in the skin of the forehead, so that it is wrinkled, [3]. ►
Temples. ► Compressive
pain in both temples, [8]. ► Drawing pain in the upper part of the
temple, towards the ear (immediately), [6].
► Pressing pain in the temples and
cranial bones (first day), [24]. [120.] ►
Pressive headache in the right temple, after exerting the attention,
aggravated by walking (after eight hours), [4]. ►
Pulselike throbbing always ending in a stitch in the left temple (after
three-quarters of an hour), [4]. ► Vertex. ►
Drawing headache in the top of the head, in the morning in bed (after
twenty-four hours), [9]. ► Constant, violent pressure upon the
vertex (tenth day), [24]. ► Pressure on the crown, as if with a
point, [3]. ►
A sensation on the top of the head as if the skull were being pressed
inward, [22]. ► Dull pressive sensation on the top of the
head, like a clavus, [22]. ► Bruised pain externally in the vertex and
occiput, especially during the febrile chill; on every motion,
especially on stooping and ascending steps, the pain becomes a violent
jerking in the scalp, relieved by external pressure (after forty-eight
hours), [9]. ► Parietal. ►
Pressive, stupefying, dizzy-like drawing, now in the other hemisphere,
also in the whole brain, [8]. ► Pressure in the left side of the head and
afterwards in the right knee (fifth day), [24].
[130.] ►
Violent pressure several times in the left side of the head (third day),
[24]. ►
Drawing pressure in the left hemisphere of the brain from behind to the
forehead as if the brain-mass became accumulated there (immediately), [6]. ►
Stitches in the region of the coronal suture on the right side, as if
rising up out of the brain, [4]. ► One-sided headache, a tearing, with
chilliness, [1]. ► Occiput. ►
*Pain in the occiput (after a quarter of an hour), [24]. ►
Headache extending from the nape of the neck to the vertex, [1]. ►
Pressure in the occiput (tenth day), [24].
► Uninterrupted pressive pain in the
occiput, extending towards the nape of the neck, [7]. ►
Headache as if bruised in the occiput, especially on stooping (after
forty-eight hours), [1]. ► External Head. ►
Sensation as if the scalp were drawn tight over the occiput (after
forty-one hours), [6]. [140.] ►
The head is painful, as if beaten, [3].® 2000
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