(White Hellebore)
A perfect picture of collapse, with
extreme coldness, blueness, and weakness, is offered by this drug.
Postoperative shock with cold sweat on forehead, pale face, rapid, feeble
pulse. Cold perspiration on the forehead, with nearly all
complaints. Vomiting, purging, and cramps in extremities. The
profuse, violent retching and vomiting is most characteristic.
Surgical shock. Excessive dryness of all mucous surfaces.
"Coprophagia" violent mania alternates with silence and refusal to
talk. | ||
| Mind.
Melancholy, with stupor and mania. Sits in a stupid manner; notices
nothing; sullen indifference. Frenzy of excitement; shrieks, curses.
Puerperal mania. Aimless wandering from home. Delusions of impending
misfortunes. Mania, with desire to cut and tear things. Attacks of
pain, with delirium driving to madness. Cursing, howling all
night. | ||
| Head.
Contracted features. Cold sweat on forehead. Sensation of a lump of ice
on vertex. Headache, with nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, pale face. Neck
too weak to hold head up. | ||
| Eyes.
Surrounded by dark rings. Staring; turned upwards, without lustre.
Lachrymation with redness. Lids dry heavy. | ||
| Face. Features
sunken. Icy coldness of tip of nose and face. Nose grows more
pointed. Tearing in cheeks, temples, and eyes. Face very pale, blue,
collapsed, cold. | ||
| Mouth. Tongue
pale, cold; cool sensation, as from peppermint. Dry in center not relieved
by water. Salty saliva. Toothache, teeth feel heavy as if filled with
lead. | ||
| Stomach.
Voracious appetite. Thirst for cold water, but is vomited as soon
as swallowed. Averse to warm food. Hiccough. Copious vomiting and
nausea; aggravated by drinking and least motion. Craves fruit, juicy
and cold things, ice, salt. Anguish in pit of stomach. Great weakness after
vomiting. Gastric irritability with chronic vomiting of
food. | ||
| Abdomen Sinking
and empty feeling. Cold feeling in stomach and abdomen. Pain in
abdomen preceding stool. Cramps, knotting abdomen and legs. Sensation as if
hernia would protrude. [Nux-v.] Abdomen sensitive to
pressure, swollen with terrible colic. | ||
| Rectum.
Constipation from inactivity of rectum, with heat and headache.
Constipation of babies, and when produced by very cold weather. Stools
large, with much straining until exhausted, with cold sweat. Diarrhea,
very painful, watery, copious, and forcibly evacuated, followed by
great prostration. Evacuations of cholera morbus and true cholera when
vomiting accompanies the purging. | ||
| Respiratory.
Hoarse, weak voice. Rattling in chest. Much mucus in bronchial tubes, that
cannot be coughed up. Coarse rales. Chronic bronchitis in the aged. Loud,
barking, stomach cough, followed by eructation of gas; worse, warm room.
Hollow cough, tickling low down, with blue face. Cough comes on from
drinking, especially cold water; urine escapes when coughing. Cough on
entering warm room from cold air. [Bry.] | ||
| Heart.
Palpitation with anxiety and rapid audible respiration. Pulse irregular,
feeble. Tobacco heart from chewing. Intermittent action of heart in feeble
persons with some hepatic obstruction. One of the best heart stimulants in
homeopathic doses. (J. S. Mitchell.) | ||
| Female. Menses
too early; profuse and exhausting. Dysmenorrhea, with coldness,
purging, cold sweat. Faints from least exertion. Sexual mania
precedes menses. | ||
| Extremities.
Soreness and tenderness of joints. Sciatica; pains like electric flashes.
Cramps in calves. Neuralgia in brachial plexus; arms feel swollen,
cold, paralytic. | ||
| Skin. Blue,
cold, clammy, inelastic; cold as death. Cold sweat. Wrinkling of
skin of hands and feet. | ||
| Fever. Chill,
with extreme coldness and thirst. | ||
| Modalities.
Worse, at night; wet, cold weather. Better, walking and
warmth. | ||
| Relationship.
Compare: Cupr.; Ars. | ||
| Dose. First to
thirtieth potency. In diarrhea, not below the sixth. |