Sabina officinalis sabin

← Boenninghausen's Characteristics Materia Medica
Mind
  • Hypochondriacal dejection. Low spirited and joyless, with a feeling of general exhaustion.
Sensorium
  • Dizziness with ebullition of blood to, and heat in head.
Head
  • Distensive, pressing ache, especially in frontal eminences and right temple, appearing suddenly and decreasing slowly. Sticking ache.
Eyes
  • Weak, lusterless. Biting tears. Illusion of clouds rising before.
Nose
  • Small, grain - like vesicles about root.
Face
  • Pale, with lusterless eyes encircled by blue rings. A red areola cheeks near wings of nose. Black pores on nose and face.
Teeth
  • Drawing ache, excited almost exclusively by chewing. Nightly ache, as if to burst, warmth of bed and eating. Gums swollen around the hollow, broken teeth.
Mouth
  • Excoriative soreness in throat when swallowing. Strangling pressure in throat, as from an internal swelling. White saliva, becoming frothy when talking. Bloody saliva. Every morning there is a thick yellow coat on posterior part of tongue.
Taste
  • Greasy, in mouth. Bitter of food, milk and coffee.
Stomach
  • Pressure in. Stitches extending from pit into back.
Vomiting
  • Bile. The ingesta of the previous day, which is still undigested.
Eructations
  • Copious, empty.
Appetite
  • Desire for acids, especially lemonade.
Abdomen
  • Extraordinary distension of. Bellyache, as from taking cold, with sensation as though' diarrhoea would ensue. Labor - like abdominal pains. Contractive pain in region of uterus. Urging toward genitals. Bruised pain in muscles.
Stool
  • Diarrhoea with much flatulence. Discharge of blood with mucus.
Anus
  • Bleeding anal hemorrhoids. Crawling in.
Urine
  • Frequent, violent urging to urinate with profuse discharge, Retention of urine with burning discharge, passed drop by drop.
Sexual Organs
  • Inflammatory gonorrhea with a purulent discharge. Gristle - like swelling on (dorsum of) penis. Figwarts with burning, excoriative pain. Stitches deep in vagina. Inflammation of uterus after childbirth. Sexual desire greatly intensified, even unto nymphomania.
Female
Menses
  • Too early and too profuse. Uterine hemorrhage of partly bright red and partly lumpy, or of thin, fluid, foul smelling blood. Abortion. Especially during third month of pregnancy. Foul - smelling leucorrhoea following suppressed menses.
Cough
  • Dry hacking c., from tickling in trachea. Blood spitting, with or without cough.
Chest
  • Painless trembling and creaking sensation under sternum. Sensible swelling of mammae. Crawling in nipples.
Back
  • Backache, which necessitates drawing in and bending backward of parts. Labor - like pain extending from lumbar into public region. Paralytic pains in small of.
Upper Extremities
  • Sprained pain in shoulder joint. Stiff wrist, with swelling and stitches, unbearably intensified on allowing hands to hand down.
Lower Extremities
  • Sticking pain in hip joints, early in morning and during palpitation. Lardaceous ulcers on shin bones. Podagra: Swelling, redness and stitches in great toe.
Generalities
  • Paralytic pain in joints after exertion. Tearing sticking in joints, with swelling thereof., Red, glistening swelling of affected parts. Jerking throbbing in arteries.
Bones
  • Drawing pain through' cylindrical b.
Sleep
  • Sleeplessness with great restlessness. Heat and profuse sweat after midnight.
Fever
Heat
  • Intolerable burning heat in whole body, with great restlessness. Flying heat on face, with chill of all the rest of body and cold hands and feet.
Pulse
  • Irregular: mostly rapid, Strong and tense. Violent throbbing of arteries of entire head.
Sweat
  • Every night.
Chill
  • In evening, with repeated shivering. Great chilliness during day. Shuddering with darkness before eyes, then sleepiness. Cold feeling in entire (r.) leg.
Relationship
Allied Remedies
  • Arn., Calc-c., Plat.
Complementary
  • Thuj.