Abelmoschus

                                                    (Musk seed)

Introduction: Musk seed.  Musk mellow.  Abelmoschus hibiscus. Malvaceae family. Abelmoschus is a shrub. Fruit appears as capsules containing numerous kidney-bean shaped seeds. They emit a pleasant odour like that of musk and their taste is aromatic. Mother tincture is prepared from dried seed.

                               Ancient dose: De Legarreta recommends a daily dose of 15 drops of 3x for protective against mosquito.

Sphere of action:  Abelmoschus affects the stomach, uterus, mucous membranes and nerves. Trembling and paresis or even paralysis of the limbs with edema. Trembling or paralysis of the lips and jaw. Feeling of constriction in chest. Excessive salivation with feeling of dryness in the mouth.

Clinical: Addison’s disease, Anemia, Glaucoma, Lymphangitis, Neuromyelitis, Paralysis, Polyneuritis, Tetany.

Mind: Fears at night. Irrational fear of animals. Fear of animals, insects, flies, spiders, scorpions or snakes. Obsession  of being attacked by venomous animals. Delirium with hallucination.

Head: Migraine, Heavy feeling in the head, as if it were being clamped in a vice.

Ears: Diminished ability to hear, when descending the stairs.

Eyes: Acute or chronic glaucoma. Detachment of the retina. Scotoma with spots before the eyes, impedes the vision. Tearing pain, as if produced by nail.

Face and mouth: Face pace, yellow. Excessive salivation, but feeling of dryness in mouth (Merc sol).Thick, sticky saliva. Ptyalism , neurosis of pregnancy and also mercurial stomatitis. Maxillary trismus.

Gastro- intestinal system: Dysphagia, Pain in the pit of stomach. Desire for food and cold drinks (Phos).

Heart: Pericarditis, Tachycardia; rapid beating of heart with anguish feeling.

Respiratory system: Sharp pain in chest. Asthma . Difficult breathing.

Limbs:  Edema of hand and legs.

Compare: (1)., Staph., which is also a preventive of mosquito bites.(2) Apis, sharp, stinging and searing pain, partial or general edema, absence of thirst.(3). Ars., Anxiety with fear of death. Nocturnal restlessness worse between 1 a.m. and 3 a.m. Edema of the eyelids especially the lower lid, thirst for small quantities of iced water.

                                                            Abies canadensis

                                                   (Hemlock Sprue)

Introduction: Also known Hemlock Sprue; Pinus canadensis. Canada pitch. Family: Coniferae. Tincture of fresh bark and young buds.  Planet: Moon.

              Abies canadensis is used in homoeopathy for women with uterine displacements, probably due to defective nutrition with debility and lack of tone. Light headed feeling, attended with a gnawning, hungry, faint feeling at epigastrium. A craving hunger which, if gratified, was followed by distention of the stomach and hard beating of heart.

Sphere of action:  Abies canadensis has marked symptoms of mucous membrane and  stomach and a catarrhal condition of the stomach is produced.

Indications: There is peculiar craving and chilly sensations that are charecteristics. Great appetite, tendency to over-eat. Want to lie down all the time. The skin is cold, clammy, hands cold, very faint. The right lung and liver feel small and hard.

Clinical: Constipation, Indigestion, Gonorrhoea, Uterine  displacement.

Mind: Easily fretful, or quiet and careless (Cham, Nux vom) . Patient  wants to lie down, all the time, on account of nerous weakness and feel faints.

Head: Typsy feeling, a swimming of the head,  light headed (Cocc, Nux mosch, Nux vom, Opium) as if top of head were congested (Bell). 

Sensations: A feeling as if the right lung and liver were small and hard, pain beneath right scapula. The patient lies with the leg drawn up. Shivering  as if  the blood turned  to cold water. Uterus feels soft.

Eyes: Sensation as of a stye in outer canthus of left eye.

Stomach:  Dryness  of  the mouth (Ar., Bry., Nux m.).In stomach, it causes a catarrhal condition, which increases the patient’s hunger. Gnawing,  hungry, faint  feelings  at the epigastrium (Hyd.,  Ign.,  Phos.,  Puls., Sep.,  Sulph.). Distention of the stomach and  epigastrium and epigastrium, burning . Burning and distention.

Craving for meat (Mag.  carb.);  pickles  (Hep) and other  coarse  food.  A tendency to eat far  beyond  capacity  of digestion  (Bry.,  Fer., Lyc., stomach and  epigastrium:  burning

(Ars., Colch., Canth., Phos., Verat. alb.)

Food: Great appetite, craving for meat, pickles, radishes, turnips, artichok, coarse food etc. Tendency to eat beyond the capacity for digestion. Canine hunger with torpid liver.

Abdomen: Flatulence disturbs the  heart action. Burning and distention in abdomen with palpitation. Rumbling in the bowels after eating, with great appetite.

Rectum and Stool: Burning in the rectum (Ars., Canth., Iris, Merc.) Constipation.

Urinary Organs: Urinates frequently day and night; urine straw colored.

Female Organs: Thinks  the womb feels soft and 'feeble."  Sore feeling  at  the fundus of the uterus; relieved by pressing. Uterine displacement.

Respiratory Organs: Breathing labored (Acon., Ars.). Sensation as if the right lung were small and hard.

Back. Pain  behind  the  right shoulder blade  (Chel.,  Podo).,   Weak feeling  in sacral region.  Feeling as of cold water between  the shoulders.

Female: Sore feeling of at fundus of uterus, relieved by pressure. Prostration, want to lie down all the time.  Sensation as if uterus is soft and feeble.

Heart:    Action of he heart labored. Increased action for the heart, with distention of the stomach.

Extremities: Hands cold, shrunken. Lies with the legs drawn up. Very faint, as if top of head were congested. Twitching of the muscles.

Generalities: Hands  cold,  shrunken; skins cold and clammy.,  Lies  with  the knees  drawn  up.  Great prostration, wants to lie down  all  the time.

 Sleep: Gaping, drowsy; great restlessness at night, with tossing  from  side to side (Acon.)

Fever:  Chills run down the back(Caps., lach.) Cold shivering all over as if blood turned to ice water (Aconite). Cold water feeling between shoulders (Amm-mur). Skin clammy, sticky with night sweat(China).

Compare: Aco, AEsc, Amm- mur, China, Copaiba, Ign., Tereb,  Nux v.

                                                             Abies nigra

                                                  (Black sprue)

Introduction: Abies nigra also call black sprue or double sprue, family Coniferae. Tincture of gum. Historical dose: Tincture and potencies, esp the  the 1^st to 3^rd potencies. Planet: Moon.

                           Abies nigra has been used in many diseases, when they are associated with stomach symptoms. The dyspepsia caused by abuse of tea or tobacco, have been cured. The grand charecteristics of Abies nig is a sensation in the cardiac end of the stomach or in the esophagus, “as if a hard body, as a hard-boiled egg had lodged there.” Where this symptom is present, whether in dyspepsia or lung disease with or without hemoptysis, constipation, Abies nig will be the most likely remedy.{ China  has  the lump under the sternum,  but  higher  up. Feeling  in the epigastrium as if food were lying there.  *Puls., *Bry.}

                             In lung disease when the sensation is as if there was a hard substance to be coughed up. Feeling in the epigastrium as if food were lying there (Puls, Bry).   

 Sphere of action: Abies nigra in dyspeptic troubles of the elderly with functional heart symptoms, also after tea or tobacco. “Pain in the stomach always comes after eating.”  Constipation, worse after eating. Distress in head with flushed cheeks, often accompanies the dyspepsic symptoms of this remedy.

                      The chief symptoms of Abies nigra in  indigestion is a sensation, as if a hard boiled egg has lodged in the cardiac end of the stomach or in lungs which he wants to cough out. Wakeful at night with hunger.

Clinical:  Bachaches, Scurvy, GERD, IBS, Depression, Dyspepsia, Acid- peptic disease,  Haemorrhages.

Hypochondriasis.  Malarial  fevers.  Tea,  effects  of.  Tobacco, effects of.

Causative factors:  It is useful in indigestion in those persons, who are abused by tea drinking, tobacco chewing and smoking.

Mind:   Very low spirited, unable to think or study. Hypochondriasis.

Sensations: As if choking; of an undigested hard-boiled egg in stomach; as if everything was knotted up in stomach.Pain in stomach after eating; in small of back. Aching in bones.Rheumatic pain  in bones. Constriction  above pit of stomach.

Head: Dizziness. Bad feeling in head. Dull headache, severe. Head hot, with flushed cheeks. Dull during the day, wakeful at night.  

Ear:  Pain in left external meatus.

Throat:  Choking sensation in throat. Sensation of something sticking  in oesophagus toward its lower end.

Chest: Painful sensation, as if something were lodged in the chest and had to be coughed up. Lungs feel compressed, can not fully expanded. Worse from coughing. Waterbrash succeeds cough. Choking sensation in throat.

Heart: The heart action’s is heavy and slow. Heavy, slow beating of heart, sharp,  cutting pain. Tachycardia.

Lungs: Easily gets out of breath.  Difficult breathing, worse  lying down.

Stomach: Indigestion, Belching; Pain in stomach always comes on after eating. Sensation of a lump that hurts.  As if a hard- boiled egg had lodged in the cardiac end of stomach. Distressing constriction just above the pit of the stomach, as if everything were knotted up. Total  loss  of appetite in the morning, but great  craving for food at noon  and at  night.  Chewing   the  gum after  meals  cured  the  habitual  eructation  of  gas, and increased the appetite.  Pain after  a hearty  meal. Severe pain in stomach extending to the  left side The habitual pain in the stomach after  eating  was cured.   The   tincture relieves the usual severe pain in the  stomach  after   eating, the acid eructation,  and  the  frequent vomiting   of food. Severe pain in stomach extending to the  left  side.

Extremities:    Rheumatic pain, and aching in the bones.  

Sleep: Dull and sleepy during day; Wakeful and restless at night with hunger. Very bad dreams.

Temperature: Alternate heat and cold.  Chronic  intermittent fever with pain in stomach.

Compare: (1). Lump in stomach, China, Bry, Puls (2). Nux  vom , Kali carb, China, has the lump under the sternum, but higher up.(3). Other Conifers-Thuja, Sabina, Cupressus- painful  indigestion.

                                                              Abrotanum

                                                                     (Southernwood)

Introduction:  Abrotanum artmisia. Lady’s love. Family Compositae.  Tincture of fresh leaves and stem. Planets: Saturn or moon.

Sphere of action: Act profoundly upon the vegetative sphere, depressing nutrition to a remarkable degree, giving rise to symptoms of disturbed digestion; great emaciation, and maramus in which latter affection is its chief clinical use. It also acts upon fibrous and serous tissues. The primary action is upon the nervous system, where it produces a hyperaemia and gives rise to anaesthesia and paralysis, accompanied by neuralgic pains. The latter causes great restlessness and relieved by motion.

Characteristics:  It’s a   very useful remedy in marasmus, especially of lower extremities only yet with good appetite. The most prominent symptoms of Abrotanum are the wasting/ emaciation most marked in lower extremities. It has also an intense indigestion and morbid appetite.    There are burning, gnawing, constricting pains, and sometimes vomiting of offensive matters.   A peculiar sensation is as if the stomach were hanging or swimming in water. Exudative pleurisy and other  exudative pathology. Abrotanum is used after surgery upon the chest for hydrothorax or empyema when a pressing sensation remains. After checked diarrhoea, rheumatism precipitates. Tubercular peritonitis. Another great characteristic of Abrotanum is metastasis, metastatic rheumatism. Metastasis of rheumatism from joints to heart, to spine. There is a sudden aching pain in back better by motion. Symptoms are worse at night and in cold air. The face is wrinkled, pale, old- looking, feels cold, blue ring round the eyes. It is suited to affection of newborn children, and especially little boys, hydrocoel, epistaxis, and emaciation. Oozing of blood and moisture from navel of newborn.

Clinical: Anaemia, Angioma, Arthritis, Ascarides, Gliosis, Chlorosis, Dyspepsia, Marasmus, Epistaxis, Epilepsy, Gout, Hydrocoel, CSOM, Peritonitis, Pleurisy, Sacroileitis, Worms infestation and Typhoid.    

Mind: Great anxiety and depression. Ill natured, irritable, violent; feeble and dull minded. No capacity for thinking, as if all body strength and mental power were gone. Thinks her brain is softening. Excited, loquacious, feels like shouting. Indolence, aversion to physical exercise. Good humoured, gloomy, desponding. The child is cross and depressed. Exceedingly peevish, feels as if she would like to do something cruel, no humanity. Easily fatigued by conversation or mental effort.

Sensorium: The left brain seems especially weak; easily fatigued by conversation  or mental effort. Sensation as of creeping chills along convolutions of brain, accompanied by pricking.

Head: Head weak, could not hold it up. Scalp sore, especially side. Itching of scalp. Vein distended on forehead.

Eyes: Blue rings around dull looking eyes, Chlorosis, Conjunctivitis. Hollow eyes with sunken feature.

Face: Face wrinkled, dry, cold skin. Angioma of the face.  Acne, comedones with emaciation (Sulphur). Face feels cold. Drawing pain in upper maxilla.

Teeth: Drawing and tearing pains in carious teeth.

Taste and appetite: Slimy taste. Gastralgia, gnawing hunger, craves bread boiled in milk. Appetite great; ravenous hunger but with emaciation, marasmus.  

Scrobiculum and Stomach: Burning in stomach as from acidity. Fullness and bloating in region of stomach.  Sensation as if stomach was hanging or swimming in water, with a peculiar feeling of coldness and a dullness to all irritants. Gastralgia; pain; cutting, gnawing, burning, sometimes contracting  and  stinging,  mostly worse at night; never entirely free from pain, even in intervals.

Abdomen: Week, sinking feeling in bowels, great distension of abdomen. Hard lumps in different parts of abdomen.

Stool and Anus:  Food passes undigested. Rheumatism after suddenly checked diarrhoea.  Alternate diarrhoea and  constipation.   Protruding piles, with burning, from touch or when pressing. Piles appeared, and  became  worse  as  rheumatic  pains  abated,  with  frequent inclination  to Stool and Anus., hardly anything but blood  being passed.  Destroys worms, especially ascarides.