Green Hellebore. Burt. Melanthaceae.
Mind
Stupefaction; congestion.
Mental confusion, loss of memory; vertigo; cerebral hyperaemia.
Insanity from cerebral congestion.
Puerperal mania; silent, suspicious; will not see her physician, he seems to terrify her; fears being poisoned; sleepless, can hardly be kept in her bedroom.
Depression of spirits.
Inner Head
Headache from nape of neck, with vertigo, dim vision, dilated pupils.
Congestion to head: from high living, abuse of stimulants; during dentition.
Fulness in head, throbbing arteries: increased sensitiveness to sounds : buzzing in the ears; double or partial vision. Sunstroke.
Meningitis, high fever intense congestion, later rolling of head; vomiting; or face haggard, cold, and pulse slow; breathing labored.
Outer Head
Severe frontal headache, with vomiting.
Eyes
Dimness of vision, with dilated pupils.
Green circles around the candle, which turn to red.
Traumatic erysipelas of eyelids.
Twitching, contortion of eyes, rolling of eyeballs; paralysis of lids.
Ears
Deafness from moving quickly, with faintness.
Roaring in ears; congestion; nausea, vomiting.
Ears cold and pale.
Nose
Profuse secretion of mucus from the nose.
Face
Cold, bluish, covered with cold sweat; nose pinched, cold, blue; paleness of the lips and around alae nasi.
Convulsive twitchings of facial muscles.
Face flushed; cerebral congestion.
Lower Face
Mouth drawn down at one corner.
Lips dry; mouth dry, or thick mucus in mouth.
Teeth Dentition; cerebral congestion, excited pulse; convulsions.
Tongue etc.
Tongue: yellow, with red streak down the middle; feels scalded.
Mouth
Copious secretion of saliva.
Throat
Dryness and heat in throat, with severe hiccough.
Burning in fauces and oesophagus, with constant inclination to swallow.
Spasm of oesophagus, with or without rising of frothy, bloody mucus.
Sensation as of a ball rising into oesophagus.
Nausea and Vomiting
Heart-burn with bitter, sour rising.
Vomiting: long-continuing; of glairy mucus after food; of blood; of bile.
Vomiting, with inflammatory or cerebral disease.
Smallest quantity of food or drink is immediately rejected.
Stomach
Sharp, flying pains n epigastrium and umbilical region passing to pubes.
Excruciating pain, covering a space the size of hand, in lower part of stomach.
Intense drawing, twisting pains in stomach, as if it was drawn tightly against spine, causing pain in dorsal region.
Pains culminate every five minutes in severe vomiting.
Abdomen
As if drawn in, following cramp in stomach.
Pains at right of umbilicus, passing down to groin.
Enteritis, with high fever, great vascular excitement; vomiting; dark, bloody stools.
Stool etc.
Stools: bloody; black, in typhoid; copious, light, mornings; mushy, preceded and followed by cutting in bowels.
Hemorrhoids red and dark blue; neuralgic pains in the rectum.
Urine
Increased, pale; deposits a reddish sediment.
Specific gravity of urine diminished.
Female Sexual Organs
Menstrual colic, preceded by great congestion, and troublesome strangury; plethoric women.
Suppressed menses, with cerebral congestion; plethora.
Pregnancy
Vomiting during pregnancy.
Puerperal convulsions, during labor, after blood letting; furious delirium; arterial excitement; cold, clammy sweat.
Breathing
Labored, must sit up, cold sweat on the face; decreased from to, pneumonia.
Oppression of the chest.
Cough
Short, dry, hacking; loose, rattling; worse going from warm to cold.
Lungs
Congestion of chest, with rapid respiration, nausea, vomiting; dull burning in region of heart.
Pneumonia, pulse hard, strong, quick or, engorgement of lungs, with faint feeling in stomach, nausea, slow or intermittent pulse.
Heart Pulse
In cardiac region: burning; prickling; or dull aching.
Heart’s beat: loud, strong, with arterial excitement; low and feeble; fluttering.
Faintness and blindness; when rising from lying; from sudden motions; better lying quietly.
Pulse : suddenly increases and gradually decreases below normal; slow, soft, weak; irregular, intermittent.
Neck Back
Aching in back of neck and shoulders.
Muscles of back contracted, drawing head backward.
Opisthotonos; arterial excitement; hands and feet cold; shocks in limbs; congestion of brain and spine, loss of consciousness.
Heat and redness down spine; back of head hot. Spotted fever.
Lower Limbs
Pain in either great trochanter when lying on it.
Lancinating pain in right hip.
Right ankle feels as if dislocated, can scarcely walk; later left.
Limbs in General
Rheumatism, especially in left shoulder, hip and knee; high fever; scanty red urine.
Flying pains; pains in joints; shuddering; rheumatism.
Cramps in legs, fingers, toes.
Pain, especially about the condyles.
Position etc.
Moving : Walking : Rising (from lying ): Must sit up: Lying quietly : on affected side : Rolling of head : of eyeballs: Mouth drawn at one corner. :.
Nerves
Twitchings and contortions of body, unaffected by sleep; froth about lips; champing of teeth; difficult swallowing; head, jerking or continually nodding; sexual excitement; chorea.
Violent spasms, like galvanic shocks.
Convulsions after scarlet fever; great dilatation of pupils; inability to sleep.
Opisthotonic convulsions in anaemic subjects from exhausting diarrhoea.
Trembling, as if child was frightened and on verge of a spasm.
Convulsions with opisthotonos; anaemia from diarrhoea.
Paralysis; tingling in limbs; cerebral hyperaemia.
Sleep
Sleeplessness; cross, quarrelsome; also in acute fever.
Coma, blue face; spasms.
Restless sleep; dreams of drowning; of being on water.
Time
Morning:.
Temperature and Weather
Sunstroke: Going from warm to cold :.
Chill Fever Sweat
Coldness of whole body, cold sweat on face, hands, and feet.
Chilliness, with nausea.
Coldness, with pale skin, flabby muscles; quick, but weak pulse.
Typhoid fevers when pulse is full, hard, frequent; pain violent in back of head; delirium; black stools.
Irritative fever, with cerebral congestions, causing convulsions, children.
Tissues
Congestions, especially of base of brain, chest, spine, stomach.
Dropsy, with fever. After scarlatina.
Contact Injuries etc.
Rubbing relieves pains and itching:.
Skin
Itching of different parts, better from rubbing.
Tingling and pricking in Skin.
Skin cold, clammy, bluish, insensible, shriveled.
Eruptions, with intense fever.
Measles, during febrile stage, especially if pulmonary congestion is impending; convulsions before eruption.
Scarlatina, with intense arterial excitement. Rheumatism, carditis, dropsy, as sequelae.
Small-pox, intense fever, restlessness, excessive pain.
Stages and States
Full-blooded, plethoric.
Relationship
Verbascum vir. cured spasms from strychnine.
