HELLEBORUS NIGER
Source indications
Boericke's Materia Medica
- Sensorial depression
- Imperfect sight
- Imperfect hearing
- Imperfect taste
- General muscular weakness
- Paralysis
- Dropsical effusions
- Low vitality
- Serious disease
- Aggravation from 4 to 8 pm
- Sinking sensation
- State of effusion in hydrocephalus
- Mania of a melancholy type
- Slow in answering
- Thoughtless
- Staring
- Involuntary sighing
- Complete unconsciousness
- Picks lips and clothes
- Forehead wrinkled in folds
- Cold sweat on head
- Stupefying headache
- Rolls head day and night
- Moaning
- Sudden screams
- Bores head into pillow
- Beats head with hands
- Dull pain in occiput
- Sensation of water swashing inside head
- Headache culminates in vomiting
- Eyeballs turn upwards
- Squinting
- Vacant look
- Pupils dilated
- Eyes wide open
- Sunken eyes
- Night-blindness
- Dirty, dry nostrils
- Rubs nose
- Smell diminished
- Nose pointed
- Pale face
- Sunken face
- Wrinkled face
- Neuralgia on left side of face
- Tender face
- Cannot chew
- Horrible smell from mouth
- Lips dry and cracked
- Tongue red and dry
- Falling of lower jaw
- Meaningless picking of lips
- Grinding of teeth
- Chewing motion
- Greedily swallows cold water
- Unconsciousness
- Child nurses greedily
- Disgust for food
- Ptyalism
- Sore corners of mouth
- Gurgling abdomen
- Bowels full of water sensation
- Swollen abdomen
- Painful abdomen to touch
- Jelly-like stool
- White mucus in stool
- Involuntary stool
- Suppressed urine
- Scanty urine
- Dark urine
- Coffee-grounds sediment in urine
- Frequent urging to urinate
- Child cannot urinate
- Overdistended bladder
- Frequent sighing
- Irregular respiration
- Chest constricted
- Gasps for breath
- Hydrothorax
- Automatic motion of one arm and leg
- Limbs heavy
- Painful limbs
- Stretching of limbs
- Thumb drawn into palm
- Vesicular eruption between fingers and toes
- Sudden screams in sleep
- Soporous sleep
- Cri encephalique
- Cannot be fully aroused
- Pale skin
- Dropsical skin
- Itching skin
- Livid spots on skin
- Sudden, watery swelling of skin
- Falling off of hair and nails
- Angio-neurotic dema
- Worse from evening until morning
- Worse from uncovering