SAMBUCUS NIGRA


An excellent compilation of symptoms of homeopathic medicine Sambucus Nigra from the book Pearls of Homeopathy by M.E. Douglass, published in 1903….


Adapted to diseases of scrofulous children, especially of their air-passages.

Persons formerly robust and fleshy suddenly become emaciated.

Bad effects of violent mental emotions; anxiety, grief, or excessive sexual indulgence.

OEdematous swellings in various parts of the body, especially in legs, instep, and feet.

Dry coryza of infants; nose dry and completely obstructed, breathing much impeded; snuffles.

Dyspnoea: child awakens suddenly, nearly suffocated, face livid, blue, sits up in bed, turns blue, gasps for breath, which it finally gets; spell passes off, but is again repeated; child inspires, but cannot expire.

Cough dry, suffocative, with crying, worse about midnight.

Constant fretfulness.

Hoarseness caused by much tenacious glutinous mucus in the larynx.

Heat without thirst; dread of uncovering.

Dry heat of the body, with coldness of the feet and hands during sleep; on awaking the face breaks out into profuse swear, which extends over the body and continues more or less during the waking hours; on going to sleep again the dry heat returns.

No thirst during heat or sweat.

Melford Eugene Douglass
M.E.Douglass, MD, was a Lecturer of Dermatology in the Southern Homeopathic Medical College of Baltimore. He was the author of - Skin Diseases: Their Description, Etiology, Diagnosis and Treatment; Repertory of Tongue Symptoms; Characteristics of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica.