Abies Canadensis

A. Canadensis, Michx.

Nat. order , Coniferæ.

Common name , Hemlock (Spruce).

Preparation , Tincture of the bark and young buds.

Authority.

Gatchell, Investigator, 10, 54; two provers.

MIND

• Mind quiet, careless but easily fretted, 1.
• Irritable, 1.

HEAD

• A tipsy feeling, a swimming of the head; he feels lightheaded. (Hale's New Remedies, 3d edition.)

EYES

• A feeling like that produced by a stye in the outer canthus of left eye, 2.

MOUTH

• Dryness of the mouth, 2.

STOMACH

• Hungry, 1.
• A tendency to eat far beyond the capacity for digestion. (Gatchell, in Hale's New Remedies.)
• Great appetite, with rumbling in stomach and bowels after eating, 2.
• Great craving for meat, pickles, and other coarse food, with hungry gnawing at the epigastrium, 1. [10.]
• Some thirst, 2.
• Stomach swelled, burning, 1.
• Belching, 1.
• Distension of the epigastrium, with increased action of the heart. (Gatchell, in Hale's New Remedies.)
• Weak at the epigastrium, 1.
• Gnawing, hungry faint feeling at the epigastrium. (Gatchell, in Hale's New Remedies.)

ABDOMEN

• Feeling as if the right lung and liver were small and hard; as if bile were deficient, 1.
• Irritable feeling in the splenic region, 1.
• Sick feeling in the bowels, 1.

STOOL AND ANUS

• Rectum burns, 1. [20.]
• Constipation, 2.

URINARY ORGANS

• Urinates frequently day and night, 2.
• Urine straw-colored, 2.

SEXUAL ORGANS

• Thinks womb soft and feeble (thinks would cause abortion), 1.
• Sore feeling at the fundus of the uterus; relieved by pressing, 1.

RESPIRATORY APPARATUS

• Breathing labored, 1.

HEART AND PULSE

• Action of heart labored, 1.

NECK AND BACK

• Feeling as of cold water between the shoulders, 1.
• Weak in the sacral region, 1.

UPPER EXTREMITIES

• Pain behind the right shoulder-blade, 1. [30.]
• Hands cold, shrunken, 1.

LOWER EXTREMITIES

• Lies with the knees drawn up, 1.

GENERALITIES

• Twitching of muscles, 1.
• Bloated, 1.
• Wants to lie down all the time, 1.
• Excessively weak, 1.
• Very faint, as if the top of the head were congested; drunken feeling, 1.

SKIN

• Skin clammy, 1.

SLEEP AND DREAMS

• Gaping, drowsy, 1.
• Great restlessness at night, with tossing from side to side, 2. [40.]

FEVER

• Cold, shivering all over, as if the blood turned to ice-water, 1.
• Chills down the back, 1.