Abies nigra
as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927
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General
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.
Modalities
Worse after eating.
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. Eructations.
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. Dyspnœa; 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.
Relationships
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.
What the other books say about Abies nigra
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Abies nigra in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
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Create a free accountCite this page. William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Abies nigra — General. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/abies-nigra. Published 1927: public domain in the US (since 2023) and in India (author died 1929). Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.