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Helleborus Niger

30CHelleborus
Black Hellebore · Christmas Rose · "The Stupor and Meningitis Remedy"
hell.PolychrestPlantUncommonPsoric
Source
🎯 It acts on the nervous system to produce a state of deep sensory depression, mental dullness, and physical weakness, often associated with fluid retention.
📖 Boericke writes:
(HELLEBORUS)
Produces a condition ofsensorial depression. Sees, hears, tastes imperfectly, and generalmuscular weakness, which may go on to complete paralysis, accompanied by dropsical effusions. Hence, a remedy in low states of vitality and serious disease. Characteristic aggravation from 4 to 8 pm (Lycop).Sinking sensation. State of effusion in hydrocephalus. Mania of a melancholy type.
👤 Constitution
•Typically indicated for children or individuals in a state of deep exhaustion, often with a pale, puffy, or dropsical appearance and a vacant, staring expression.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
HELLEBORUS NIGER Snow-rose (HELLEBORUS) Produces a condition of sensorial depression.
introduction
Sinking sensation.
introduction
Involuntary sighing.
mind
Complete unconsciousness.
mind
Picks lips and clothes.
mind
Bores head into pillow; beats it with hands.
head
Horrible smell from mouth.
mouth
Falling of lower jaw.
mouth
Chewing motion.
mouth
Automatic motion of one arm and leg.
extremities
Cri encephalique.
sleep
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Used for states of deep mental depression, unconsciousness, or melancholy.
Slow in answering.
Thoughtless; staring.
Involuntary sighing.
Complete unconsciousness.
Picks lips and clothes.
🔑 Modalities
↓Worse from
💊 Dosage & Potency
Tincture
Mother Tincture
🕒As directed
Primary Dosage
3rd
Decimal
🕒As directed
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🚫 Antidotes
Camphora →Cinchonium Sulphuricum →
🔄 Compare With
Cicuta Virosa →Cinchonium Sulphuricum →Apis Mellifica →Zincum Metallicum →Opium →Iodoformium →Tuberculinum →Ceanothus Americanus →Helleborus Orientalis →
📚 Sources & References

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