Sambucus 30 Homeopathic Medicine – Sambucus q Uses, Benefits

• With cough or fever; profuse sweat while awake, dry heat when asleep
• Spasmodic and oedematous affections of the respiratory tract, worse at about midnight
• Suffocation, better sitting up; with profuse sweating
• Coryza and dry cough

Source: Vegetable kingdom
Synonyms: Black elder
Family: Caprifoliaceae
Prover: Dr Hahnemann
Duration in of Action: 3 to 4 hours

Introduction and History: The leaves of Sambucus nigra have an unpleasant odour when bruised, which is supposed to be offensive to most insects, and a decoction of the leaves is sometimes used by gardeners to keep off caterpillars from delicate plants. According to village herbalists, the inner bark as well as the leaves can be employed for making an ointment, the flowers serve for fomentations or are made into a medicinal tea, while the berries form the principal ingredient in Elderberry wine.

Preparation and Parts Used: Mother tincture is prepared from fresh leaves and flowers.

Constitution and Physiognomy: It is adapted to diseases of scrofulous children, which especially affects the air passages. People formerly robust and fleshy, suddenly become emaciated.

Seat of Action (Pharmacodynamics): It mainly acts upon respiratory organs, kidneys and skin.

Physio-pathological Changes (Pathology): It acts on respiratory organs causing shortness of breath. It acts on kidneys causing a dropsical condition with scanty and frequent urination.

Ailments From: Bad effects of violent mental emotions, anxiety, grief or excessive sexual indulgence.

Characteristic Mental Symptoms (Psychology)

1. Fright: Patient has a great tendency to take on fright causing trembling, anxiety and restlessness. Fright followed by suffocative attacks, with a bluish, bloated face.
2. Peevishness: Constant fretfulness during which everything makes a
   disagreeable impression.
3. Periodical delirium: Periodical delirium with frightful visions and hallucinations.

Characteristic Physical Guiding Symptoms

Dropsy: Oedematous swelling in various parts of the body, especially in legs, instep and feet.

Coryza: Dry coryza of infants. Snuffles. Nose is dry and completely obstructed, preventing breathing and nursing.

Dyspnoea: Child awakens suddenly nearly suffocated, face becomes livid, blue. He sits up in bed; turns blue, gasps for breath, which it finally gets; attack passes off but is again repeated; child inspires but cannot expire. Child sleeps into the attack.

Asthma: It is a useful medicine for Miller’s asthma. Patient has attacks of suffocation as in last stage of croup.

Cough: Cough is suffocative, with crying children; worse about midnight. Hollow, deep, whooping cough, with spasm of chest; with regular inhalations but sighing exhalations. Cough is deep, dry, precedes the fever paroxysm.

Fever: Dry heat while patient sleeps; on falling asleep; after lying down; without thirst, dreads uncovering.

Perspiration: Profuse sweat over entire body during waking hours; on going to sleep, dry heat returns.

Important Characteristic Features

Respiratory affections: A useful medicine for Miller’s asthma of children. There is sudden suffocation or strangling cough on falling asleep, waking him at midnight with violent sweat, worse by fright. Whistling, breathing spasms of glottis. Screeching voice. Croup. Spells of coughing before fever.

Fever: Dry heat while patient sleeps; on falling asleep; after lying down; without thirst, dreads uncovering. Profuse sweat over entire body during waking hours; ongoing to sleep, dry heat returns.

General Modalities

Aggravation: Dry cold air, cold drinks, while being heated, head low, eating fruits, lying down, rest.

Amelioration: Pressure over a sharp edge, motion, wrapping up, sitting up in bed.

Remedy Relationships

Antidoted by: Ars, Camph.

Antidote to: Ars.

Compatible: Bell, Con, Nux-v, Phos, Rhus-t, Sep.

Follows well: Op.

Comparison

Inspires easily but cannot exhale: Meph, Med, Samb.

Dosage

1. Dr Boericke recommends tincture to sixth potency.
2. 3c to 200c potency.

Repetition: Can be repeated if the symptoms call for it.

Therapeutic Value: Asthma, Chest oppression of Coryza, Cough, Croup, Headache, Hoarseness, Perspiration, Whooping cough, etc.