SAMBUCUS NIGRA

Source indications

adapted to diseases of scrofulous children, which affect the air passages specially
persons formerly robust and fleshy, suddenly become emaciated
bad effects of violent mental emotions; anxiety, grief, or excessive sexual indulgence
oedematous swelling in various parts of the body, especially in legs, instep and feet
dry coryza of infants; nose dry and completely obstructed, preventing breathing and nursing
dyspnoea: child awakens suddenly nearly suffocated, face livid, blue, sits up in bed; turns blue, gasps for breath, which it finally gets; attack passes off but is again repeated; child inspires but cannot expire; sleeps into the attack
attacks of suffocation as in last stage of croup
cough: suffocative, with crying children; worse about midnight; hollow, deep whooping, with spasm of chest; with regular inhalations but sighing exhalations
cough deep, dry, precedes the fever paroxysm
fever: dry heat while he sleeps; on falling asleep; after lying down; without thirst, dreads uncovering
profuse sweat over entire body during waking hours; on going to sleep, dry heat returns
worse during rest; after eating fruit
better sitting up in bed; motion; most of the pains occur during rest and disappear during motion