ABIES NIGRA

CAUSATIONS: It is useful in indigestion of those, who abuse the drinking of tea and smoking or
chewing of tobacco.

SNAP: Abies nig. is mainly associated with a sense of “blockage.” It is often used for indigestion
with a knotted sensation, as if an egg or stone is lodged in the stomach. The stomach pain always
develops after eating and, in an attempt to relieve the discomfort, there may be frequent belching,
possibly with constipation, foul-smelling breath, and mild fever with alternating chills and fever. Tea
and tobacco are often causative factors behind the Abies nig. symptom picture.
SUMMARY OF MEDICINE: The chief symptom of Abies nigra in indigestion is a sensation, as if
a hard boiled egg has lodged in the cardiac end of the stomach. Patients describe this sensation,
as if a hard lump is felt in the pit of the stomach or in the lung which he wants to cough out. Wakeful
at night with hunger. Rheumatic pains and aching in bones.
MIND: Low-spirited.
DESIRES AND AVERSIONS: Desires lost in mornings, but there is craving noon and night.
STOMACH: Continual distressing sensation about the stomach as if everything was knotted up ;
worse whenever debilitated. Sensation as of an undigested hard-boiled egg in the stomach. Pain
after a hearty meal. Pain in stomach always comes on after eating.
CHEST: Dyspnea; worse lying down; sharp, cutting pain in heart; heart's action heavy and slow;
tachycardia, bradycardia.
RELATIONSHIP:
Compare: Nux vom., Lactic acid (latter feels as if all food lodges under upper end of sternum).