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Helleborus Niger.

Christmas Rose. Ranunculaceae.

Weakly, delicate,, psoric children; prone to brain troubles ( Bell. , Cal. , Tub. ); with serous effusion.

Melancholy: woeful; despairing; silent; with anguish; after typhoid; in girls at puberty, or when menses fail to return after appearing.

Irritable, easily angered; consolation < ( Ign. , Nat. , Sep. , Sil. ); does not want to be disturbed ( Gels. , Nat. );

Unconscious; stupid; answers slowly when questioned; a picture of acute idiocy (of chronic, Bar. c. ).

Brain symptoms during dentition ( Bell. , Pod. ); threatening effusion ( Apis. , Tub. ).

Meningitis: acute, cerebro-spinal, tubercular, with exudation; paralysis more or less complete; with the cri encephalique.

Vacant, thoughtless staring; eyes wide open; insensible to light; pupils dilated, or alternately contracted and dilated.

Soporous sleep, with screams, shrieks, starts.

Hydrocephalus, post-scarlatinal or tubercular which develops rapidly ( Apis , Sulph. , Tub. ); automatic motion of one arm and leg.

Convulsions with extreme coldness of body, except head or occiput, which may be hot ( Arn. ).

Greedily swallows cold water; bites spoon, but remains unconscious.

Chewing motion of the mouth; corners of mouth sore, cracked; nostrils dirty and sooty, dry.

Constantly picking his lips, clothes, or boring into his nose with the finger (while perfectly conscious, Arum. ).

Boring head into pillow: rolling from side to side; beating head with hands.

Diarrhoea: during acute hydrocephalus, dentition, pregnancy; watery; clear, tenacious, colorless, mucus; white, jelly-like mucus; like frog spawn; involuntary.

Urine: red, black, scanty, coffee-ground sediment; suppressed in brain troubles and dropsy; albuminous.

Dropsy: of brain, chest, abdomen; after scarlatina, intermittents; with fever, debility, suppressed urine; from suppressed exanthemata ( Apis , Zinc. ).

Relations. - Compare: Apis , Apoc. , Ars. , Bell. , Bry. , Dig. , Lach. , Sulph. , Tab. , Zinc. in brain or meningeal affections.