Homeopathic Materia Medica

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica, John Henry Clarke

Helleborus orientalis, Lam. N. O. Ranunculaceae. Tincture of root.

Clinical.─Diarrhoea. Indigestion. Salivation.

Characteristics.─This was proved by V. Schroff on Lederer, and produced symptoms like those of the other Hellebores. These are peculiar: Accumulation of water in the mouth with clean tongue. Bad taste, with clean tongue. Prostration, exhaustion, and disinclination to work; burning in stomach; diarrhoea. The symptoms were > by coffee.

SYMPTOMS.

2. Head.─Heaviness; fulness; headache.

8. Mouth.─Accumulation of water in mouth; with clean tongue.─Bad taste with clean tongue.

11. Stomach.─Loss of appetite.─Eructations.─Hiccough.─Nausea.─Burning, extending from stomach to lower portion of oesophagus.─Epigastric region: Feeling of fulness with inclination to vomit; slight burning, afterwards extending to intestines, followed by pressure in stomach.

12, 13. Abdomen and Stool.─Frequent rumbling along bowels, in morning on waking, soon followed by four liquid stools in succession.─Pain esp. in region of l. transverse colon.

14. Urinary Organs.─Urine more profuse and paler than usual.

19. Pulse.─Pulse more frequent, body warmer.─Pulse slowed.