Remedy

Sambucus nigra

Elder

4 health issues Boericke 1927

Main symptoms

  • Acts especially on the respiratory organs.
  • Dry runny nose (cold) of infants, snuffles, oedematous swellings.
  • Profuse sweat accompanies many affections.

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Mind & mood

  • Sees images when shutting eyes.
  • Constant fretfulness.
  • Very easily frightened.
  • Fright followed by suffocative attacks.

What makes it better or worse

Worse

SleepDuring restAfter eating fruit

Better

Sitting up in bedMotion

Symptoms by body part

Face

Turns blue with cough. Red, burning spots on cheeks. Heat and perspiration of face.

Abdomen

Colic, with nausea and gas; frequent watery, slimy stools.

Urine

Profuse urine with dry heat of skin. Frequent micturition, with scanty urine. Acute nephritis; dropsical symptoms, with vomiting.

Respiratory

Chest oppressed with pressure in stomach, and nausea Hoarseness with tenacious mucus in larynx. Paroxysmal, suffocative cough, coming on about midnight, with crying and dyspnoea. Spasmodic croup. Dry runny nose (cold). Sniffles of infants; nose dry and obstructed. Loose choking cough. When nursing child must let go of nipple, nose blocked up, cannot breathe. Child awakes suddenly, nearly suffocating, sits up, turns blue. Cannot expire.

Extremities

Hands turn blue. Oedematous swelling in legs, insteps, and feet. Feet icy cold. Debilitating night-sweats.

Fever

Dry heat while sleeping. Dreads uncovering. Profuse sweat over entire body during waking hours. Dry, deep cough precedes the fever paroxysm.

Skin

Dry heat of skin during sleep. Bloated and swollen; general fluid swelling (oedema); profuse sweat on waking.

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