Mucous membranes are affected by Abies can and gastric symptoms are most marked,
and a catarrhal condition of the stomach is produced. There are peculiar cravings and
chilly sensations that are very characteristic, especially for women with uterine
displacement, probably due to defective nutrition with debility. Respiration and heart
action labored. Wants to lie down all the time; skin cold and clammy, hands cold;
very faint. Right lung and liver feel small and hard. Gleet.
Head.--Feels light-headed, tipsy. Irritable.
Stomach.--Canine hunger with torpid liver. Gnawing, hungry, faint feeling at the
epigastrium. Great appetite, craving for meat, pickles, radishes, turnips, artichokes,
coarse food. Tendency to eat far beyond capacity for digestion. Burning and distention
of stomach and abdomen with palpitation. Flatulence disturbs the heart's action. Pain
in right shoulder-blade, and constipation, with burning in rectum.
Female.--Uterine displacements. Sore feeling at fundus of uterus, relieved by
pressure. Prostration; wants to lie down all the time. Thinks womb is soft and feeble.
Fever.--Cold shivering, as if blood were ice-water (Acon). Chills run down back. Cold
water feeling between shoulders (Ammon mur). Skin clammy and sticky. Night-sweat
(China).
Dose.--First to third potency.