Helleborus niger

Helleborus niger
(snow-rose)
* Produces a condition of sensorial depression.
* Sees, hears, tastes imperfectly, and general muscular weakness, which may go on to
complete paralysis, accompanied by dropsical effusions.
* Hence, a remedy in low states of vitality and serious disease.
* Characteristic aggravation from 4 to 8 p.m. [Lycop.]
* Sinking sensation.
* State of effusion in hydrocephalus.
* Mania of a melancholy type.
Mind
- Slow in answering.
- Thoughtless; staring.
- Involuntary sighing. Complete unconsciousness. Picks lips and clothes.
Head
- Forehead wrinkled in folds.
- Cold sweat.
- Stupefying headache.
- Rolls head day and night; moaning, sudden screams.
- Bores head into pillow; beats it with hands.
- Dull pain in occiput, with sensation of water swashing inside.
- Headache culminates in vomiting.
Eyes
- Eyeballs turn upwards; squinting, vacant look.
- Pupils dilated.
- Eyes wide open, sunken.
- Night-blindness.
Nose
- Dirty, dry nostrils.
- Rubs nose.
- Smell diminished.
- Nose pointed.
Face
- Pale, sunken.
- Cold sweat.
- Wrinkled.
- Neuralgia on left side; parts so tender he cannot chew.
Mouth
- 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, though unconscious.
- Child nurses greedily, with disgust for food.
- Ptyalism, with sore corners of mouth.
Abdomen
- Gurgling, as if bowels were full of water.
- Swollen, painful to touch.
Stool
- Jelly-like, white mucus; involuntary.
Urine
- Suppressed; scanty, dark; coffee-grounds sediment.
- Frequent urging.
- Child cannot urinate.
- Bladder overdistended.
Respiratory
- Frequent sighing.
- Respiration irregular.
- Chest constricted; gasps for breath.
- Hydrothorax. [Merc. sulph.]
Extremities
- Automatic motion of one arm and leg.
- Limbs heavy and painful.
- Stretching of limbs.
- Thumb drawn into palm. [Cupr.]
- Vesicular eruption between fingers and toes.
Sleep
- Sudden screams in sleep.
- Soporous sleep.
- Cri encephalique.
- Cannot be fully aroused.
Skin
- Pale, dropsical, itching.
- Livid spots on skin.
- Sudden, watery, swelling of skin.
- Falling off of hair and nails.
- Angio-neurotic oedema.
Modalities
- Worse, from evening until morning, from uncovering.
Relationship
- (Hellebor. faetidus, or, Polymnia-Bear's foot- Acts especially on spleen [Ceanothus]; also
rectum and sciatic nerve. Splenic pains extend to scapula, neck and head, worse left side and
evening; chronic ague cake; hypertrophied uterus; glandular enlargements; hair and nails
falling off; skin peeling.) Hellebor. orientalis (salivation).
- Antidote : Camphor; Cinch.
- Compare : Threatening effusion; Tuberc.; Apis; Zinc.; Opium; Cinch.; Cicuta; Iodoform.
Dose
- Tincture, to third potency.