While Hellebore (Melanthaceae)
- For children and old people; the extremes of life; persons who are habitually cold and deficient in vital reaction; young people of a nervous sanguine temperament.
- Adapted to diseases with rapid sinking of the vital forces; complete prostration; collapse.
- Cold perspiration on the forehead (over entire body, Tab.); with nearly all complaints.
- Cannot bear to be left alone; yet persistently refuses to talk.
- Thinks she is pregnant or will soon be delivered.
- Mania with desire to cut and tear everything, especially clothes (Taran.); with lewd, lascivious talk, amorous or religious (Hyos., Stram.).
- Attacks of fainting from least exertion (Carbo v., Sulph.); excessive weakness.
- Sinking feeling during haemorrhage (fainting, Trill.).
- Sensation of a lump of ice on vertex, with chilliness (Sep.); as of heat and cold at same time on scalp; as if brain were torn to pieces.
- Face: pale, blue, collapsed; features sunken, Hippocratic; red while lying, becomes pale on rising up (Acon.).
- Thirst: intense, unquenchable, for large quantities of very cold water and acid drinks; wants everything cold.
- Craving for acids or refreshing things (Phos. ac.).
- Ice coldness: of face, tip of nose, feet, legs, hands, arms, and many other parts. Cold feeling in abdomen (Colch., Tab.).
- Violent vomiting with profuse diarrhoea.
- Vomiting: excessive with nausea and great prostration: < by drinking (Ars.); by least motion (Tab.); great weakness after.
- Cutting pain in abdomen as from knives.
- Cholera: vomiting and purging; stool, profuse, watery, gushing, prostrating; after fright (Acon.).
- Diarrhoea: frequent, greenish, watery, gushing: mixed with flakes: cutting colic, with cramps commencing in hands and feet and spreading all over; prostrating, after fright; < least movement; with vomiting, cold sweat on forehead during and prostration after (Ars., Tab.).
- Constipation: no desire; stool large, hard (Bry., Sulph.); in round, black balls (Chel., Op., Plb.); from inactive rectum; frequent desire felt in epigastrium (Ign. - in rectum, Nux); painful, of infants and children, after Lyc., and Nux.
- Dysmenorrhoea: with vomiting and purging, or exhausting diarrhoea with cold sweat (Amm. c., Bov.); is so weak can scarcely stand for two days at each menstrual nisus (Alum., Carbo an., Coc.).
- Bad effects of opium eating, tobacco chewing.
- Pains in the limbs during wet weather, getting worse from warmth of bed, better by continued walking.
- In congestive or pernicious intermittent fever, with extreme coldness, thirst, face cold and collapsed; skin cold and clammy, great prostration; cold sweat on forehead and deathly pallor on face.
Relations
- After: Ars., Arn., Cinch., Cup., Ipec.
- After Camph. in cholera and cholera morbus.
- After Amm. c., Carbo v. and Bov., in dysmenorrhoea with vomiting and purging.
Aggravation
- From least motion; after drinking; before and during menses; during stool; when perspiring; after fright.
- Often removes bad effects of excessive use of alcohol and tobacco.
