HELLEBORUS NIGER

Homeopathic Materia Medica & Symptoms

Boericke's Materia Medica

  • Sensorial depression
  • Imperfect sight
  • Imperfect hearing
  • Imperfect taste
  • General muscular weakness
  • Paralysis
  • Dropsical effusions
  • Low vitality
  • Serious disease
  • Aggravation from 4 to 8 pm
  • Sinking sensation
  • State of effusion in hydrocephalus
  • Mania of a melancholy type
  • Slow in answering
  • Thoughtless
  • Staring
  • Involuntary sighing
  • Complete unconsciousness
  • Picks lips and clothes
  • Forehead wrinkled in folds
  • Cold sweat on head
  • Stupefying headache
  • Rolls head day and night
  • Moaning
  • Sudden screams
  • Bores head into pillow
  • Beats head with hands
  • Dull pain in occiput
  • Sensation of water swashing inside head
  • Headache culminates in vomiting
  • Eyeballs turn upwards
  • Squinting
  • Vacant look
  • Pupils dilated
  • Eyes wide open
  • Sunken eyes
  • Night-blindness
  • Dirty, dry nostrils
  • Rubs nose
  • Smell diminished
  • Nose pointed
  • Pale face
  • Sunken face
  • Wrinkled face
  • Neuralgia on left side of face
  • Tender face
  • Cannot chew
  • Horrible smell from mouth
  • Lips dry and cracked
  • Tongue red and dry
  • Falling of lower jaw
  • Meaningless picking of lips
  • Grinding of teeth
  • Chewing motion
  • Greedily swallows cold water
  • Unconsciousness
  • Child nurses greedily
  • Disgust for food
  • Ptyalism
  • Sore corners of mouth
  • Gurgling abdomen
  • Bowels full of water sensation
  • Swollen abdomen
  • Painful abdomen to touch
  • Jelly-like stool
  • White mucus in stool
  • Involuntary stool
  • Suppressed urine
  • Scanty urine
  • Dark urine
  • Coffee-grounds sediment in urine
  • Frequent urging to urinate
  • Child cannot urinate
  • Overdistended bladder
  • Frequent sighing
  • Irregular respiration
  • Chest constricted
  • Gasps for breath
  • Hydrothorax
  • Automatic motion of one arm and leg
  • Limbs heavy
  • Painful limbs
  • Stretching of limbs
  • Thumb drawn into palm
  • Vesicular eruption between fingers and toes
  • Sudden screams in sleep
  • Soporous sleep
  • Cri encephalique
  • Cannot be fully aroused
  • Pale skin
  • Dropsical skin
  • Itching skin
  • Livid spots on skin
  • Sudden, watery swelling of skin
  • Falling off of hair and nails
  • Angio-neurotic dema
  • Worse from evening until morning
  • Worse from uncovering

Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

  • Albuminuria
  • Amenorrha
  • Aphth
  • Apoplexy
  • Cholera
  • Concussion
  • Convulsions
  • Cystitis
  • Depression of spirits
  • Diarrha
  • Dropsy
  • Epilepsy
  • Headache
  • Hernia
  • Home-sickness
  • Hydrocele
  • Hydrocephalus
  • Kidneys, congestion of
  • Melancholia
  • Meningitis
  • Night-blindness
  • Puerperal convulsions
  • Scarlatina
  • Tetanus
  • Typhoid fever
  • Ulcers
  • Wounds
  • Melancholy taciturnity
  • Excessive anguish
  • Home-sickness
  • Hypochondriacal humour
  • Tdium vit
  • Envious seeing others happy
  • Suicidal
  • Indolence
  • Sobbing lamentation
  • Obstinate silence
  • Irritable
  • Suspicious
  • Dulness of the internal senses
  • Stupidity
  • Want of reflection
  • Fixedness of look
  • Moaning
  • Inability to think
  • Weakness of memory
  • Mind loses command over body
  • Muscles refuse their office when attention diverted
  • Giddiness on stooping
  • Stupefying headache
  • Coryza
  • Bruising sensation in head
  • Pressive and numbing headache
  • Pressive headache from outward to inward
  • Stupefaction
  • Heaviness of the head
  • Inflammation of brain
  • Heat and heaviness of the head
  • Hydrocephalus with stupefaction
  • Stupor
  • Boring with head in pillows
  • Coldness of body
  • Painful heaviness
  • Burning pain in head
  • Coldness of fingers
  • Shivering sensation
  • Paleness of face
  • Headache more bearable when quiet
  • Bruised pain on vertex and occiput
  • Febrile chill
  • Violent twitching in integuments of head
  • Painful sensitiveness of exterior of head
  • Bruised feeling at occiput
  • Pressive pain in occiput extending toward nape of neck
  • Headache extending from nape to vertex
  • Jerking in integuments of head
  • Disposition to bury head in pillow when sleeping
  • Small swellings on forehead with bruise-like pain
  • Moist scabs on scalp
  • Falling off of hair
  • Pricking pain on scalp
  • Pale dropsical swelling of face and body
  • Pain in eyes as if nail driven into orbital margins
  • Pressive heaviness in eyes
  • Pupils dilated
  • Involuntary fixedness of look
  • Twitching in levatores palpebrarum and cheeks
  • Heat in face
  • Photophobia by day
  • Shootings in ears
  • Searching piercing
  • Face pale
  • Face yellowish
  • dematous swelling of face
  • Forehead wrinkled
  • White vesicles on lips
  • Swollen lips
  • Cracked upper lip
  • Soreness of corners of mouth
  • Dull aching pain in cheek-bone
  • Toothache at night
  • Shooting and tearing pains
  • Troublesome dryness in palate
  • Incisive and scraping pain during deglutition
  • Constant accumulation of saliva in mouth
  • Salivation
  • Excoriation of commissures of lips
  • Vesicles and apth in mouth and on tongue
  • Numbness and swelling of tongue
  • Pimple on tip of tongue
  • Painfully stinging when touched
  • Dry white tongue
  • Bitter taste in throat
  • Scraping feeling on back of palate
  • Tiresome dryness on palate
  • Cutting and scraping pain on moving parts in swallowing
  • Aching sore throat on swallowing
  • Excoriated throat
  • Nausea
  • Excessive hunger
  • Speedy satiety
  • Repugnance to rest of meal
  • Appetite but no taste when eating
  • Sudden nausea when eating
  • Nausea rising from pit of stomach
  • Nausea in whole abdomen
  • Frequent empty eructations
  • Dislike to food
  • Meat aversion
  • Green vegetables aversion
  • Saurkraut aversion
  • Green blackish vomiting
  • Pains in abdomen
  • Heaviness fulness and inflation of stomach
  • Inflation of epigastrium
  • Pain of ulceration
  • Impeded respiration
  • Excessive uneasiness of epigastrium
  • Painful pressure on epigastrium at every step
  • Retraction sensation in pit of stomach
  • Painfulness of stomach when coughing and walking
  • Burning pain in stomach
  • Scraping in stomach
  • Pinchings in abdomen
  • Coldness sensation in abdomen
  • Heaviness in abdomen
  • Dropsical swelling in abdomen
  • Clucking in abdomen
  • Watery sensation in intestines
  • Rumbling and borborygmi in abdomen
  • Pressures ending in stitch in inguinal region
  • Hernia sensation
  • Severe hard pressure on middle of os pubis
  • Tenesmus
  • Discharge of gelatinous mucus
  • Pinchings in umbilical region
  • Stools of tenacious white mucus
  • Stools like frog-spawn
  • Diarrha
  • Pain in abdomen
  • Watery and frequent evacuations
  • Hard scanty stool
  • Violent cutting shooting in rectum
  • Burning hot smarting at anus after evacuation
  • Feeling as if intestines had no power to evacuate fces
  • Involuntary stools
  • Blenorrha of rectum
  • Spasm of bladder
  • Hmorrhoids
  • Frequent urge to urinate
  • Scanty emission
  • Scanty urine
  • Sediment like coffee grounds in urine
  • Feeble stream
  • Deep-coloured urine
  • Large quantity of pale watery urine
  • Suppression of sexual desire
  • Flaccidity of genital parts
  • Pain under left nipple
  • Pains all over
  • Forced menses
  • Frequent urination at night
  • Suppression of menses
  • From disappointed love
  • From damp feet
  • Getting wet
  • Sighing respiration
  • Breathes easier lying down
  • Breathing difficult with anxiety
  • Cough dry
  • Backing cough
  • Cough comes suddenly while smoking
  • Suffocating constriction in throat and nose
  • Short dry cough
  • Painful tension in left hypochondrium
  • Difficult respiration
  • Hydrothorax
  • Accelerated or deep and slow respiration
  • Constriction of throat nose and chest
  • Heat in chest
  • Palpitation of heart
  • Anxiousness about heart
  • Stiffness and painful sensibility of neck
  • Swelling of glands of neck
  • Contractive pain in loins
  • Gnawing and obtuse lancinations of spine
  • Pain from a bruise between shoulder-blades
  • Tearing in bones of arms and joints
  • Tearing in upper part of fingers
  • Jerking in muscles of arms
  • Piercing and shooting in hands and joints of fingers
  • Want of strength in hands
  • Spasmodic stiffness of fingers
  • Humid painless vesicles between fingers
  • Ulceration around nails
  • Violent lancinations
  • Burning pressure in hips
  • Pricking pain in left hip
  • Want of stability in legs
  • Yielding of knees
  • Stiffness and tension in thighs and hams
  • Obtuse and piercing lancinations in joints of knees and feet
  • Humid painless vesicles between toes
  • Shooting and piercing pains in different parts
  • Shooting and piercing pains in periosteum
  • Pullings and tearing in limbs
  • Shooting pains in joints
  • Sudden relaxation of muscles
  • Muscles refuse to perform unless sustained attention is paid to them
  • Staggering gait
  • Dropping objects
  • Convulsive twitching of muscles
  • Relief in open air
  • Sensations as when recovering from a long illness
  • All things have a freshness
  • Cramps
  • Syncope
  • Dropsical swellings
  • Falling off of hair and nails
  • Paleness of skin
  • Miliary eruptions
  • Leucophlegmatic swelling of skin
  • Anasarca
  • General desquamation of skin
  • Stupor
  • Sopor
  • Sleepiness with eyes half open
  • Pupils turned upwards
  • Confused anxious dreams
  • Sleeplessness
  • Tossing in bed
  • Pulse small slow almost imperceptible
  • Shiverings
  • Shooting pains in limbs
  • Chilliness predominates during the day
  • Heat of face and drowsiness
  • Chill with goose-flesh
  • Pain in joints
  • Chill spreads from arms
  • Coldness of whole body
  • Coldness of extremities
  • General shivering
  • Corrugated skin
  • Tenderness of scalp
  • Pullings and tearings in limbs
  • Lancinations in joints
  • Absence of thirst
  • Burning heat throughout body in evening
  • Internal shuddering and shivering without thirst
  • Dislike to liquids
  • Difficulty drinking
  • Nocturnal sweat
  • Heat followed by chill with colic
  • Cold clammy perspiration

Allen's Keynotes

  • weakly, delicate, psoric children
  • prone to brain troubles with serous effusion
  • melancholy: woeful; despairing; silent; with anguish; after typhoid; in girls at puberty, or when menses fail to return after appearing
  • irritable, easily angered
  • consolation
  • does not want to be disturbed
  • unconscious
  • stupid
  • answers slowly when questioned
  • a picture of acute idiocy
  • brain symptoms during dentition
  • threatening effusion
  • meningitis: acute, cerebro-spinal, tubercular, with exudation
  • paralysis more or less complete
  • with the cri encephalique
  • vacant, thoughtless staring
  • eyes wide open
  • insensible to light
  • pupils dilated, or alternately contracted and dilated
  • soporous sleep, with screams, shrieks, starts
  • hydrocephalus, post-scarlatinal or tubercular which develops rapidly
  • automatic motion of one arm and leg
  • convulsions with extreme coldness of body, except head or occiput, which may be hot
  • greedily swallows cold water
  • bites spoon, but remains unconscious
  • chewing motion of the mouth
  • corners of mouth sore, cracked
  • nostrils dirty and sooty, dry
  • constantly picking his lips, clothes, or boring into his nose with the finger
  • boring head into pillow
  • rolling from side to side
  • beating head with hands
  • diarrhoea: during acute hydrocephalus, dentition, pregnancy
  • diarrhoea: watery; clear, tenacious, colorless, mucus
  • diarrhoea: white, jelly-like mucus
  • diarrhoea: like frog spawn
  • diarrhoea: involuntary
  • urine: red, black, scanty, coffee-ground sediment
  • urine: suppressed in brain troubles and dropsy
  • urine: albuminous
  • dropsy: of brain, chest, abdomen
  • dropsy: after scarlatina, intermittents
  • dropsy: with fever, debility, suppressed urine
  • dropsy: from suppressed exanthemata

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