White Hellebore. Hahnemann. Melanthaceae.
Mind
Stupid from excess in alcoholic drinks.
Never speaks the truth; does not know herself what she is saying.
Thinks himself distinguished; squanders his money.
Delirium, heavy soporous sleep; restless, thirst, cramps in legs, cold sweat, tingling; irregular pulse. Cerebro-spinal meningitis.
Mania: with desire to cut and tear, especially clothes; with lewdness and lascivious talk.
Loquacity, he talks rapidly.
Talks much about religious things; praying.
Disposed to talk about faults of others, or to be silent; but if irritated, scolding, calling names.
Kissing everybody; before menses.
Impudent behavior in childbed.
Curses all night and complains of stupid feeling, with headache and ptyalism.
Dislike to talk except in delirium.
Cannot bear to be left alone.
Fearfulness; starts with running about and shouting.
Anxious, restless, easily frightened, whining, weeping, apathetic delirium, blue face. Typhoid.
Anxiety, as after committing an evil deed, worse evening and after dinner.
Despair about his position in society; feels very unlucky.
Despair of her salvation; with suppressed catamenia.
After fright; fear, anxiety; coldness; fainting; involuntary diarrhoea.
Consequences of injuried pride or honor.
Sensorium
Vertigo; with cold sweat on forehead; with loss of vision, sudden fainting; from opium eating; from abuse of tobacco or alcohol.
Heaviness of the head, things seem to whirl in a circle. typhoid.
Faints from least exertion; from slight wounds; from violent pains; after loss of fluids; anxiety, nausea, convulsive twitchings.
Inner Head
Paroxysms in various parts of brain, partly as if bruised
partly pressure.
Burning in brain.
Neuralgia of head with indigestion; feature sunken.
Head hot and covered with sweat; headache; children rub the head, cannot bear to be left alone; put hands to head. Typhoid.
Headache: nausea, vomiting, pale face; stiff neck, profuse micturition; as if brain was torn to pieces; chronic, coming on in afternoon, lasting through night; drawing in both arms; better towards morning; frequent micturition.
Violent pains driving him to despair; or great prostration with headache; fainting, with cold sweat and great thirst; nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea; or, obstinate constipation.
Outer Head
Head burning hot; limbs alternately hot and cold.
Scalp very sensitive, with headache.
Like a piece of ice on head; or sensation of warmth and coldness at the same time on scalp, the hair being sensitive.
Plica polonica.
Cold sweat on forehead, with many complaints.
Compelled to rub forehead, with a kind of insensibility. Typhoid.
Eyes
Black motes or specks before eyes, with diplopia; Photophobia; worse on rising from bed or chair.
Hemeralopia.
Eyes: turned upward, showing only whites; distorted, protruding; fixed, watery, sunken, lustreless; full of tears; lids livid, blue edges.
Pupils: contracted; dilated, with weak sight; fails to recognize those near, or does so but slowly.
Tearing pains in eyes, depriving one of sleep; worse in cold, damp weather. Rheumatic ophthalmia.
Excessive dryness of lids.
Lids: heavy, can scarcely lift them; trembling.
Profuse lachrymation and cutting pains, with feeling of dryness and heat.
Ears
Deaf, as if ears were stopped, one or both.
Nose
Smell before the nose as from manure, or from smoke.
Nose; grows more pointed, seems longer; face cold;. icy cold; mouth cold.
Epistaxis: right sided, only at night in sleep; face deathly pale, body cold; pulse slow, intermittent.
Boring in the nose.
Nose inside feels too dry.
Face
Restless, wild look; pale, distorted face.
Blue or green circles around eyes.
Face: collapsed, pale, bluish; nose more pointed; of leaden hue; red in bed, becomes pale on rising; alternately pale and red.
Neuralgia: drawing, tearing pains, with bluish, pale face, sunken eyes; prostration.
Tearing in cheeks, temples and eyes, with heat and redness, driving to madness; worse in damp weather; right side; especially in anaemic persons.
Spasms of muscles when masticating.
Lock-jaw.
Risus sardonicus.
Lower Face
Lips; bluish or hanging down; rubbing the mouth and nose; dry, black, parched.
Black around mouth and nostrils. Typhoid.
Teeth
Violent toothache, throbbing; face swollen, cold sweat on forehead.
Toothache drives to madness, nervous, excitable persons.
Teeth heavy, as if filled with lead.
Grinding teeth.
Tongue etc.
Taste: bitter; as from peppermint; flat or sweetish; putrid.
Tongue: cold, withered, swelled, dry, cracked and too red; white, with red tip and edges; coated yellowish brown; back part black.
Speech lisping, stammering;or as if tongue was too heavy. Typhoid.
Mouth
Froth at the mouth; spasms.
Mouth dry; saliva lessened.
Burning in mouth and throat.
Constant flow of saliva, like water-brash.
Throat
Dryness in throat, which cannot be removed by drinking.
Scraping or roughness in throat.
Sensation of dust in throat.
Sensation of constriction of throat.
Chronic catarrh of oesophagus.
Feeling of distention in pharynx.
Desire.
Aversions Craves fruit, juicy food; or saltish things.
Appetite voracious; after typhoid: Hunger and appetite between paroxysms of vomiting.
Much thirst; drinks frequently, but only a little at a time.
Thirst for the coldest drinks; wants everything cold; often during pregnancy.
Aversion to warm thing.
Appetite diminished, mouth as if lined with mucus; flat or sweetish taste.
Eating and Drinking
After dinner: Eating: Warm food:,. Fruits, vegetables:, Eating and drinking cold things:, Drinking,,, Hot drinks:.
Nausea and Vomiting
Bitter eructations.
Hiccough, after hot drinks.
Nausea: with sensation of fainting, generally with violent thirst.
Vomiting: violent, with continuous nausea and great prostration; of thin, blackish or yellowish substances; of bile and blood, black; of food and drink, or drink only; of food, or acid, bitter, foamy; white or yellowish-green mucus; whenever he moves, or drinks; with vertigo, pale face, clean tongue, good appetite, hiccough, fainting.
Painful retraction of abdomen during vomiting.
Stomach
Anguish in pit of stomach.
Pains coming gradually, first in epigastrium, then radiating upward and to both sides, reaching to back between lowest point of scapula: becomes agonizing, then gradually subsided; shakes with cold. Gastrodynia.
Gastric catarrh, great weakness, cold, sudden sinking.
Haematemesis, with slow pulse, coldness, fainting fits, cold sweat; nausea when moving or rising.
Chronic weakness of stomach; From dampness of climate and want of fresh air: From abuse of quinine.
Hypochondria
Hyperaemia of liver, with gastric catarrh, putrid taste, disgust for warm food, great pressure in hepatic region, alternating with vomiting, and diarrhoea.
Spleen swollen. Intermittents.
Spasms of diaphragm during prevailing south winds, in persons with cold hands, great oppression and anxiety in chest.
Diaphragmitis, with peritonitis, vomiting, coldness.
Spleen swollen. Intermittents.
Abdomen
Burning in abdomen as from hot coals.
Colic; after a cold, after abuse of quinine; from fruits and vegetables; abdomen swollen, sensitive; no flatus either way;cold sweat; with burning pain,. twisting, cutting, with nausea and vomiting, worse from food; better after wind passes.
Peritonitis, with vomiting and diarrhoea, skin cold; features sunken; pulse small, weak; restless, anxious.
Great sinking and empty feeling.
Intussusception of bowels; great anguish; rushes about bent double, pressing the abdomen.
Cold feeling in abdomen.
Abdomen distended, very sensitive; colic.
Incarcerated hernia, not inflamed; anti-peristaltic action.
Cold sweat.
Protrusion of inguinal hernia during cough.
Cured a case of abdominal complaint going from left to right.
Stool etc.
Intestinal catarrh, coming on suddenly at night in Summer; vomiting and purging.
Stools: watery, greenish, mixed with flakes, gushing, profuse, rice-water discharges, with tonic cramps, commencing in hands and feet, spreading all over; sunken, even hippocratic face. Cholera Asiatica; watery; inodorous; watery, gushing, flaky; thin, papescent, mucous; green, gushing, exhausting, after fright; involuntary.
Unconscious discharge of thin feces when passing flatus.
Cholera morbus, worse at night, cold sweat on forehead; vomiting and purging at the same time; after fruits.
Constipation: chronic stools; large and hard; or, first part large, latter part smaller, stools in round black balls; chronic, with children as from inactivity of rectum.
Hemorrhoids, with disease of lungs or pleura.
Painless discharge of masses of blood in clots, with sinking feeling.
Urine
Continuous urging to urinate.
Frequent micturition with violent thirst and hunger.
Urine: scanty, red-brown, or suppressed; greenish.
Involuntary urination; during cough, also during typhoid.
Female Sexual Organs
Nymphomania of lying-in women; also before menses.
Metritis, with fits of vomiting, delirium, anxiety; vomiting and diarrhoea; body hot, limbs cold.
Menses: too early, too profuse; suppressed, with despair of salvation, or with blood-spitting.
