# Abies Canadensis

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Herbal Remedy
- **Miasm:** Tubercular Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
Marked symptoms in mucus membranes and stomach, a catarrhal condition of the stomach 
 
 
is produced. Char acteristic cravings and chilly sensations. Useful for women with uterine displa cements, 
probably due to defective nutrition with debility and lack of tone. 
The skin is cold and clammy, hands cold, very faint. Respiration and heart action are labored. The right lung 
and liver feel small and hard. Great appetite,  tendency to overeat. Gnawing, hungry, faint feel ing in 
epigastrium. Wants to lie down all the time.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Easily fretful or quiet and careless.
- Patient wants to lie down all the time on ac count of nervous 
weakness and feels faint.
- Abdomen - Flatulence disturbs the heart's a ction.
- Sick feeling in the bowels.
- Burning and distention in abdomen with palpitations.
- Rumbling in the bowels after eating, with great appetite.
- Easily fretful or quiet and careless.
- Patient wants to lie down all the time on ac count of nervous 
weakness and feels faint.
- Abdomen - Flatulence disturbs the heart's a ction.
- Sick feeling in the bowels.
- Burning and distention in abdomen with palpitations.
- Rumbling in the bowels after eating, with great appetite.

### Vertigo
- Tipsy feeling, a swimming of ths head, light-headed.
- COMMENTS - According to Hale, Abie: c.
- cured a light-headed feeling, attendee with a gnawing, hungry and 
faint feelinj at epigastrium.
- A craving hunger which, i gratified, was followed by distention of th  
stomach and hard beating of the heart.

### Head
- Feels light-headed, tipsy.
- Feels light-headed, tipsy.

### Eyes
- Sensation as of a stye in outer canthus of left eye.

### Mouth
- Dryness of the mouth.

### Chest
- Action of the heart labored.
- Increased action of the heart with distention of the stomach.
- Breathing labored.
- Sensation as if the right lung were small and hard.
- Kidneys - Urinates frequently day and night.
- Straw colored urine.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Catarrhal condition in the stomach, increases the patient's hunger.
- Gnawing, hungry, and faint 
feeling in the epigastrium.
- Distention of the stomach and epigastrium, burning.
- Temperature - Cold chills, as if blood were ice water (Aeon.).
- Chills run down back Cold-water feeling between 
shoulders (Am-m.).
- Skin clammy and sticky.
- Nigh sweat (Chin.).
- Great appetite.
- Tendency to eat far beyond capacity for digestion.
- Craving for meat, pickles, 
radishes, turnips, and artichokes.
- Craving for coarse food, such as pickles, radishes, turnips, etc.
- Canine 
hunger with torpid liver.

### Urinary & Genital
- Uterine displacements.
- Sore feeling at fundus of uterus, relieved by pressure.
- Prostration, wants to 
lie down all the time.
- Sensation as if the uterus is soft and feeble.

### Extremities
- Hands cold, shrunken.
- Lies with the legs drawn up.
- Very faint, as if top of head were congested.
- Twitching of the muscles.
- Liver - Sensation as if the liver were small and hard, as if bile were deficient.

### Neck & Back
- Pain behind the right shoulder blade.
- Weak feeling in sacral region.
- Feeling as of cold water between 
the shoulders.

### Skin
- Clammy and sticky.

### Generalities
- A feeling as if the right lung and liver were small and hard, pain beneath right scapula.
- The 
patient lies with the legs drawn up.
- Shivering as if the blood turned to cold water.
- Uterus feels soft.