HELLEBORUS NIGER
Source indications
Allen's Keynotes
- weakly, delicate, psoric children
- prone to brain troubles with serous effusion
- melancholy: woeful; despairing; silent; with anguish; after typhoid; in girls at puberty, or when menses fail to return after appearing
- irritable, easily angered
- consolation
- does not want to be disturbed
- unconscious
- stupid
- answers slowly when questioned
- a picture of acute idiocy
- brain symptoms during dentition
- threatening effusion
- meningitis: acute, cerebro-spinal, tubercular, with exudation
- paralysis more or less complete
- with the cri encephalique
- vacant, thoughtless staring
- eyes wide open
- insensible to light
- pupils dilated, or alternately contracted and dilated
- soporous sleep, with screams, shrieks, starts
- hydrocephalus, post-scarlatinal or tubercular which develops rapidly
- automatic motion of one arm and leg
- convulsions with extreme coldness of body, except head or occiput, which may be hot
- greedily swallows cold water
- bites spoon, but remains unconscious
- chewing motion of the mouth
- corners of mouth sore, cracked
- nostrils dirty and sooty, dry
- constantly picking his lips, clothes, or boring into his nose with the finger
- boring head into pillow
- rolling from side to side
- beating head with hands
- diarrhoea: during acute hydrocephalus, dentition, pregnancy
- diarrhoea: watery; clear, tenacious, colorless, mucus
- diarrhoea: white, jelly-like mucus
- diarrhoea: like frog spawn
- diarrhoea: involuntary
- urine: red, black, scanty, coffee-ground sediment
- urine: suppressed in brain troubles and dropsy
- urine: albuminous
- dropsy: of brain, chest, abdomen
- dropsy: after scarlatina, intermittents
- dropsy: with fever, debility, suppressed urine
- dropsy: from suppressed exanthemata