Helleborus Orientalis.
Helleborus orientalis, Lam. N. O. Ranunculaceæ. Tincture of root.
Clinical.─
Diarrhœa. Indigestion. Salivation.
Characteristics.─
This was proved by V. Schroff on
Lederer, and produced symptoms like those of the other Hellebores. These are peculiar:
Accumulation of water in the mouth with clean tongue. Bad taste, with clean tongue.
Prostration, exhaustion, and disinclination to work; burning in stomach; diarrhœa. The
symptoms were > by coffee.
SYMPTOMS.
2. Head.─
Heaviness; fulness; headache.
8. Mouth.─
Accumulation of water in mouth; with
clean tongue.─Bad taste with clean tongue.
11. Stomach.─
Loss of appetite.─Eructations.─Hiccough.─Nausea.─Burning,
extending from stomach to lower portion of œsophagus.─Epigastric
region: Feeling of fulness with inclination to vomit; slight burning, afterwards extending
to intestines, followed by pressure in stomach.
12, 13. Abdomen and Stool.─
Frequent rumbling
along bowels, in morning on waking, soon followed by four liquid stools in succession.─Pain
esp. in region of l. transverse colon.
14. Urinary Organs.─
Urine more profuse and paler
than usual.
19. Pulse.─
Pulse more frequent, body warmer.─Pulse
slowed.® 2000
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