SAMBUCUS


SAMBUCUS symptoms from Manual of the Homeopathic Practice by Charles Julius Hempel. What are the uses of the homeopathy remedy SAMBUCUS…


INTRODUCTION

SAMB. N. – Elder – See Hahnemann’s “Materia Medica,” IV.

COMPARE WITH

Aconite, Belladonna, China, Ipecac., Hep-s., Lycopodium, Pulsatilla, Rhus-tox., Scill., Spongia, Stramonium, Sulphur

ANTIDOTE

Arsenicum, Camph.

GENERAL SYMPTOMS

General rushing of the blood in the evening. Most of the pains come on during rest, and go off during motion. Dropsical swelling. Emaciation. Dropsical swelling of the whole body.

SLEEP

Restless sleep. Slumbering with the eyes and mouth half open. Frequent waking. Starting from the sleep, with anxiety, trembling and shortness of breath. Vivid dreams.

FEVER

Repeated attacks of slight shuddering. Chill over the whole body, with stinging crawling. Intolerable dry heat all over the body, with dread of uncovering. Intermittent fever.

MORAL SYMPTOMS

Great tendency to start.

SENSORIUM AND HEAD

Periodical delirium. Dizziness; cloudiness of the head. Lacerating and aching pain in the upper part of the forehead. Aching and lacerating pain in the head when stooping. Aching, stupefying pain in the head.

EARS, EYES, AND NOSE.

Stoppage of the nose, with accumulation of thick, tenacious mucus.

FACE AND TEETH

Bluish and bloated face. Pale livid face. Circumscribed redness of the cheeks. Red spots, here and there, with burning.

MOUTH AND THROAT

Gastric symptoms. Great dryness of the palate, without thirst. Thirst, without relishing the drink. Vomiting of mucus and bile. Sensation of incipient nausea. Pinching in the abdomen. Pain in the abdomen, as if the bowels were bruised. Pressure in the abdomen. Spasmodic lacerating in the abdominal muscles. Cutting in the outer parts of the hypochondria.

URINARY AND GENITAL ORGANS

Swelling of the scrotum. Involuntary emission of semen. Profuse menses, like metrorrhagia.

LARYNX AND CHEST

Tracheitis.? Angina-membranacea.? Cough. Violent dyspnoea. Suffocative paroxysm, like asthma millari, after midnight. Angina-pectoris.

BACK

Drawing pressure in the small of the back. Aching pain in the middle of the spine. Oppressive heaviness in the nape of the neck, with painful motion of the head.

ARMS

Paralytic heaviness in the elbow-joints. Drawing pain in the carpal bones. Cutting stitches in both wrist-joints.

LEGS

Lacerating pain above the hip-joints. Sensation of weariness in the legs. OEdema of the feet.

Charles Julius Hempel
Charles Julius Hempel (5 September 1811 Solingen, Prussia - 25 September 1879 Grand Rapids, Michigan) was a German-born translator and homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. While attending medical lectures at the University of New York, where he graduated in 1845, he became associated with several eminent homeopathic practitioners, and soon after his graduation he began to translate some of the more important works relating to homeopathy. He was appointed professor of materia medica and therapeutics in the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in 1857.