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RED ONLY – Helleborus. (Helleborus Niger.) – THE GUIDING SYMPTOMS OF OUR MATERIA MEDICA By CONSTANTINE HERING, M.D.

Main * Hell.

[1] Mind.
[2]
Sensorium.
[3] Inner head.
[4] Outer head.
[5] Sight and eyes.
[6] Hearing and ears.
[7] Smell and nose.
[8] Upper face.
[9] Lower face.
[10] Teeth and gums.
[11] Taste, speech, tongue.
[12] Inner mouth.
[13] Palate and throat.
[14]
Appetite, thirst. Desires..
[15] Eating and drinking.
[16] Hiccough, belching, nausea..

[17] Scrobiculum and stomach.
[18] Hypochondria.
[19] Abdomen and loins.
[20]
Stools and rectum.
[21]
Urinary organs.
[22] Male sexual organs.
[23] Female sexual organs.
[24] Pregnancy. Parturition..
[25] Voice and larynx. Trachea..
[26] Respiration.
[27] Cough.
[28]
Inner chest and lungs.
[29] Heart, pulse and circulation.
[30] Outer chest.
[31] Neck and back.
[32] Upper limbs.

[33] Lower limbs.
[34] Limbs in general.
[35] Rest. Position. Motion.
[36]
Nerves.
[37] Sleep.
[38] Time.
[39] Temperature and weather.
[40]
Fever.
[41] Attacks, periodicity.
[42] Locality and direction.
[43] Sensations.
[44] Tissues.
[45] Touch. Injuries..
[46]
Skin.
[47] Stage of life, constitution.
[48] Relations.

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MIND. [1] [Hell.]

Total unconsciousness.
When questioned answers slowly ; stupefaction bordering on insensibility.
Thoughtless staring.
Woeful, despairing mood.
   

SENSORIUM. [2] [Hell.]

Stupor, blunting of general sensibility ; vision unimpaired, nevertheless sees imperfectly and does not regard the objects he sees ; apparatus of hearing intact, yet hears nothing distinctly nor comprehends ; organs of taste in working order, yet finds not the proper taste in anything ; often distraught, hardly remembers the past or what has just happened ; has no pleasure in anything ; slumber light and unrefreshing ; undertakes to work without having the power or strength.
   

APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] [Hell.]

Thirst.
   

STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] [Hell.]

Stool consisting solely of clear, tenacious, colorless mucus.
   

URINARY ORGANS. [21] [Hell.]

Frequent urging to urinate, with scanty discharge.
Urine : scanty, dark, with floating, dark specks ; like coffee-grounds ; albuminous, scanty.
Dark urine, feeble stream.
Coffee-grounds sediment. θ During complaints of pregnancy. θ Diarrhœa. θ Amenorrhœa. θ Uterine dropsy. θ Spasms of children. θ Hydrocephalus. θ Scarlatina. θ Dropsy after scarlatina. θ Anasarca.
   

INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] [Hell.]

Hydrothorax.
   

NERVES. [36] [Hell.]

Want of bodily irritability.
Convulsions of sucklings.
   

FEVER. [40] [Hell.]

Cold sweat.
   

SKIN. [46] [Hell.]

Sudden dropsical swelling of skin.

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