Black Spruce
- A powerful and long-acting remedy, in various forms of disease, whenever the characteristic stomach symptoms are present.
- Most of the symptoms are associated with the gastric disturbances.
- In dyspeptic troubles of the aged, with functional heart symptoms; also after tea or tobacco.
- Constipation.
- Pain in external meatus.
Head
- Hot, with flushed cheeks.
- Low-spirited.
- Dull during the day, wakeful at night.
- Unable to think.
Stomach
- Pain in stomach always comes on after eating.
- Sensation of a lump that hurts, as if a hard-boiled egg had lodged in cardiac end of stomach; continual distressing constriction just above the pit of the stomach, as if everything were knotted up.
- Total loss of appetite in morning, but great craving for food at noon and night.
- Offensive breath.
- Eructation.
Chest
- Painful sensation, as if something were lodged in the chest and had to be coughed up; lungs feel compressed.
- Cannot be fully expanded.
- Worse coughing; waterbrash succeeds cough.
- Choking sensation in throat.
- Dyspnea; worse lying down; sharp, cutting pain in heart; heart's action heavy and slow; tachycardia, bradycardia.
Back
- Pain in small of back.
- Rheumatic pains and aching in bones.
Sleep
- Wakeful and restless at night, with hunger.
- Bad dreams.
Fever
- Alternate heat and cold; chronic intermittent fever, with pain in stomach.
Modalities
- Worse after eating.
Relationship
- Compare: (Lump in stomach--China, Bryon, Pulsat); also other Conifers--Thuja, Sabina, Cupressus (painful indigestion) also Nux vom, Kali carb.
Dose
- First to thirtieth potency.
