Symphoricarpus racemosus
Symphoricarpos albus · Plant · Caprifoliaceae
Symphoricarpus Racemosus is indicated chiefly for women suffering from intractable nausea and vomiting, especially during pregnancy. The patient is overwhelmed by deathly nausea, cannot tolerate the sight or smell of food, and finds relief only by lying still on the back.
Key symptoms
- Persistent vomiting during pregnancy
- Deathly nausea with violent retching
- Nausea worse from any motion
- Nausea during menstruation
- Aversion to all food; smell or thought of food repugnant
- Waterbrash and bitter taste
- Constipation with gastric disturbances
- Better lying on back
Worse (aggravation)
- From any motion
- During menstruation
- From smell or thought of food
Better (amelioration)
- Lying on back
Snowberry (SYMPHORICARPUS RACEMOSA)
This drug is highly recommended for the persistent vomiting of pregnancy. Gastric disturbances, fickle appetite, nausea, waterbrash, bitter taste. Constipation. Nausea during menstruation. Nausea, worse any motion. Averse to all food. Better, lying on back.
Dose
Second and third potency.
200th has proved curative.
Symphoricarpus racemosus. Snow-berry. N. O. Caprifoliaceæ. Tincture of fresh ripe berries.
Clinical
Pregnancy, sickness of.
Characteristics
An account of Smpho. r. by E. V. Moffatt is quoted in New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies. S. P. Burdick gave the tincture to a lady, who said its effects were "precisely like the morning sickness" she used to have during pregnancy. On other women it produced effects varying from qualmishness to intense vomiting. Moffatt gives these as the leading indications: Qualmishness and indifference to food. Deathly nausea; vomiting continuous, violent retching. One patient was > lying on back. (No particular morning < was observed.) Moffatt gives this case: A young lady, three months advanced in her first pregnancy, had deathly nausea, with vomiting and retching so prolonged and violent as to produce hæmatemesis. The smell or thought of food was repugnant in the extreme. Moffatt gave Smpho. 200 (obtained from Dr. Burdick) in the middle of a violent paroxysm. In a few minutes she …
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