Black Elder. HAHNEMANN. Caprifoliaccae.
Mind
Sees images when shutting eyes.
Delirium without fever.
Anxiety : with vomiting; with sweat.
Very easily frightened; trembling anxiety and restlessness.
Fright followed by suffocative attacks, with bluish, bloated face.
Inner Head
Dizziness, with tension in head when moving it, sensation as if it were filled with water.
Sudden jerks through head.
Pressive pain on temporal bones.
Outer Head
The head is bent backward.
Erysipelas over whole left side of head, ear much swollen, confined to bed and could not move.
Scurfs on head, with intolerable itching.
Skull feels as if stretched.
Eyes
Child could not open eyes, could not bear light, awaking from sleep, with screaming.
Eyes half open in sleep.
Ears
Great swelling, heat, redness and lump just under right ear, in neck, accompanied by a very sharp pain.
Nose
Breathing through nose impeded, with dry coryza, especially in infants.
Sniffles of children.
Nose seems perfectly dry and completely obstructed.
Face
Pale, bluish, or red; pale, collapsed, covered with cold sweat; appears much older and yellow; bloated, dark blue; red spotted.
Burning heat and redness of face.
Burning heat of face, with icy-cold feet.
On awaking, face breaks out in a profuse sweat, which gradually extends over body.
Tension and numbness, as from swelling of cheeks.
Teeth
Tearing and stinging in teeth, with sensation of swelling in cheek.
Throat
Dryness of throat and mouth, with thirstlessness.
Desires Aversions
Thirst, but drink is not palatable.
Eating and Drinking
Worse after eating fruit.
Nausea and Vomiting
Everything makes him feel sick.
Vomiting, first of food, later of bile.
Abdomen
Colic pain, with discharge of much flatulence, from taking cold.
Painful pressure in abdomen, with nausea, when leaning against a hard edge.
Great soreness in abdomen.
Stool etc.
Stools : frequent, watery; thin, slimy, with much wind, followed by urging; pressure in stomach and navel; abdomen large.
Urine
Frequent urging to urinate, with profuse discharge of urine.
Female Sexual Organs
Menses too profuse, also menorrhagia.
Pregnancy
Mammae red and swollen.
Debilitating sweat after child birth.
Larynx
Voice : hollow; hoarse with much tough mucus in the larynx.
Patient woke at night, with agonizing fits, spasms of epiglottis, with agony and fear of suffocation; springing up in bed and struggling for breath.
Breathing
Anxious, loud; quick, wheezing, crowing.
Oppression of chest, with pressure in stomach, and nausea. Nightly suffocative attacks, with great restlessness; shedding of tears and throwing about of arms.
Suffocating attacks after midnight.
Child suddenly awakens, nearly suffocated, sits up in bed, turns blue, gasps for breath, which it finally gets; spell passes off; it lies down again, aroused sooner or later in same manner.
Cough
Hollow, dry, at night; deep and dry before chill; with regular inhalations but sighing exhalations; suffocative, hollow, deep, whooping, caused by spasm of chest, expectoration of small quantities of tough mucus, only during day; suffocative with crying children; worse about midnight; during rest; lying in bed or with head low; from dry, cold air.
Sputa: very yellow as if colored by bile; taste saltish.
Heart Pulse
Orgasm in whole body.
Occasional omission of heart-beat.
Pulse generally very frequent and small; sometimes slow and full, sometimes intermitting.
Outer Chest
Pressure under sternum with a counter pressure from spine toward sternum Compression of chest violent, trembling from pain.
Neck Back
Sweat on throat and neck, with children.
Upper Limbs
Paralytic heaviness in elbow-joint.
Trembling of hands when writing.
Stitches in wrist.
Dark blue bloatedness of forearms and hands.
Muscles between little finger and next very sore.
Lower Limbs
Sharp, deep stitches in tibia.
OEdematous swelling of feet, extending to legs.
Icy-cold feet; with warmth of body; with hot face.
Limbs in General
Hands and feet bloated and blue.
Position etc.
Motion : Springing up : Sitting up : Bending back : Throws arms about : Sheds tears : Rest : Lying : with head low : Leaning : Cannot move : Shutting eyes : Could not open eyes : Eyes half open : Nose completely dry and obstructed : Eyes and mouth half open
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Nerves
Great weakness.
General trembling, with anxiety and ebullitions of blood.
Sleep
Sleepiness, without sleep.
Frequent awakening, as in a fright, with anxiety, trembling, dyspnoea, as if he would suffocate.
Slumber, with eyes and mouth half open.
During sleep, dry heat; after awaking, profuse sweat.
Time
Morning : Night : About or after midnight : Day : Day and night :.
Temperature and Weather
Dry, cold air: Uncovering :.
Chill Fever Sweat
Chill running over whole body, with crawling sensation here and there.
Dry heat on falling asleep, after lying down.
Dry heat, without thirst, shuns uncovering.
Hot body, with cold hands and feet during sleep; on awaking the face breaks out into a profuse sweat, which extends over the body, and continues more or less during the waking hours; on going to sleep again, the dry heat returns.
Hectic flush.
Profuse night-sweat.
Profuse weakening sweat, day and night, lasts through the apyrexia :.
Sides
Right : Left : Below up :.
Sensations
Feeling of great soreness, as if beaten all over; headache.
Tissues
OEdema, anasarca.
Contact Injuries etc.
After contusions, tension in dark red swelling.
Pressure : Scratching :.
Skin
Bloated, dark red swelling.
Stages and States
Scrofulous children.
Formerly fat or robust people become emaciated.
After violent emotions, grief, anxiety, or excess in sexual indulgence.
Relationship
Ailments from abuse of Arsen.
Sambuc. follows well after Opium, in consequences of fright.
Antidotes to Sambuc, : Arsen., Camphor.