Abies canadensis

 Generalities

 – It affects the Mucous Membranes and Nerves.

 – In stomach, it causes a catarrhal condition, which increases the patient’s hunger and craving for coarse food, such as pickles, radishes, turnips etc.

 – Patient wants to lie down, all the time, on account of nervous weakness and feels faint.

 – In women, it causes uterine displacement, due to defective nutrition and debility.

 – Peculiar sensations are – right lung and liver, feel hard and small; uterus feels soft.

 – Lies with the legs drawn up.

 Mind

 – Easily fretful or quiet and careless.

 Head

 – Feels, as if it is light or there is swimming in the head.

 Stomach

 – Ravenous appetite.

 – Tendency to eat, far beyond the capacity of digestion.

 – Distention of abdomen and stomach, with palpitation.

 Females

 – Sore feeling at the uterus amel. pressure.

 – Uterus soft and feeble as if.

 Fever

 – Cold shivering, as if blood were ice-water.

 Skin

 – Clammy and sticky.

Source: Phatak Materia Medica