Pinus canadensis. Hemlock Spruce. Canada Pitch. N. O. Coniferæ. Tincture of fresh bark and young buds.
Clinical.─Indigestion. Liver disorder. Uterine displacement.
Characteristics.─Abies can. has been only imperfectly proved, but it has marked symptoms which will serve to indicate it in any case of disease in which they may be prominent: Great appetite, tendency to over-eat; gnawing, hungry, faint feeling in epigastrium. According to Hale it has cured: « A light-headed feeling, attended with a gnawing, hungry, faint feeling at epigastrium, craving hunger which, if gratified, was followed by distension of the stomach and hard beating of the heart. » Among the peculiar sensations are: A feeling as if the right lung and liver were small and hard; pain beneath right scapula. The patient lies with the legs drawn up. Shivering as if the blood turned to cold water.
Relations.─Compare: Abies nig., Sabina, Thuja, and other Conifers, Nux vom.
SYMPTOMS.
1. Mind.─Quiet, careless, but easily fretted.
2. Head.─Tipsy feeling, a swimming of the head; light-headed.
3. Eyes.─Sensation as of a stye in outer canthus of l. eye.
8. Mouth.─Dryness of the mouth.
10. Appetite.─Gnawing, hungry, faint feeling at the epigastrium.─Craving for meat, pickles, and other coarse food.─Some thirst.─A tendency to eat far beyond the capacity for digestion.
11. Stomach.─Distension of the stomach and epigastrium; burning.
12. Abdomen.─Sick feeling in the bowels.─Rumbling in the bowels after eating, with great appetite.─Sensation as if the liver were small and hard; as if bile were deficient.
13. Stool and Anus.─Burning in rectum.─Constipation.
14. Urinary Organs.─Urinates frequently day and night; urine straw-coloured.
16. Female Sexual Organs.─Thinks the womb is soft and feeble (thinks would cause abortion).─Sore feeling at the fundus of uterus; > by pressing.
17. Respiratory Organs.─Breathing laboured.─Sensation as if the right lung were small and hard.
19. Heart.─Action of the heart laboured.─Increased action of the heart with distension of the stomach.
20. Neck and Back.─Pain behind the right shoulder-blade.─Weak feeling in sacral region.─Feeling as of cold water between the shoulders.
24. Generalities.─Hands cold, shrunken.─Skin cold and clammy.─Lies with the legs drawn up.─Great prostration, wants to lie down all the time.─Very faint, as if top of head were congested.─Twitching of the muscles.
26. Sleep.─Gaping, drowsy.─Great restlessness at night, with tossing from side to side.
27. Fever.─Cold shivering all, over as if blood turned to ice-water.─Chills down back.