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Abies Nigra

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Black Spruce · Picea Mariana · "The Lump in Stomach Remedy"

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🎯 A powerful remedy for gastric disturbances, particularly those involving a sensation of a hard lump in the stomach after eating.

📖 Boericke writes:

A powerful and long-acting remedy, in various forms of disease, whenever the characteristic stomach symptoms are present. Most of the symptoms are associated with the gastric disturbances. In dyspeptic troubles of the aged, with functional heart symptoms; also after tea or tobacco. Constipation. Pain in external meatus.

👤 Constitution

•Often indicated for the elderly or those with chronic digestive complaints, characterized by low spirits and a tendency toward constipation.

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

In dyspeptic troubles of the aged, with functional heart symptoms; also after tea or tobacco.

introduction

Constipation.

introduction

Pain in stomach always comes on after eating.

stomach

Sensation of a lump that hurts, as if a hard-boiled egg had lodged in cardiac end of stomach; continual distressing constriction just above the pit of the stomach, as if everything were knotted up.

stomach

Dyspnoea; worse lying down; sharp, cutting pain in heart; heart's action heavy and slow; tachycardia, bradycardia.

chest

🩺 Systems & Indications

👤HEAD

Used for head symptoms associated with low mood and sleep disturbances.

Hot, with flushed cheeks.

Low-spirited.

Dull during the day, wakeful at night.

Unable to think.

🔑 Modalities

↓Worse from

💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

First to thirtieth

Centesimal

Primary Dosage

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🔄 Compare With

Kali Carbonicum →Thuja Occidentalis →CupressusSabina →Bryonia Alba →Pulsatilla Pratensis →Nux Vomica →China Officinalis →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Abies Nigra is listed in 47 rubrics across 12 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 23 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Stomach16 Respiratory System5 Circulatory System5 Nervous System4 Modalities3 Fever3 Mind3 Generalities2 Throat2 Abdomen2 Mouth1 Locomotor System1

See all 47 rubrics for Abies Nigra →