Sambucus nigra(Mother Tincture)Tincture of fresh leaves and flowers.

Common Name:  Elder.

Causes & Symptoms for Sambucus nigraThe spasm affects mainly the respiratory system larynx, chest, and nasal passages, breathing is rattling, attacks of suffocation in Sambucus nigraSwellings in various parts of the body, especially legs, instep, and feet is relieved with this remedy.

Obstruction, as in the snuffles of infants with dry coryza, child inspires but cannot expire, sleeps into the attack.

Ointment of the flowers and leaves was used as an application to large wounds, profuse sweat during waking hours.

Mind and HeadMotion of head causes tension and dizziness, fright causes suffocative attack.

Effects of mental emotion, anxiety, grief, excessive sexual indulgence indicates Sambucus nigra.

Pressive, tearing headaches in forehead and temples.

Ear, noseItching creeping in ears and in throat is relieved with Sambucus nigra.

Sensation of numbness in nose, with itching, Dry coryza of children.

Snuffles of children.

Mouth and ThroatSensation of numbness and tension in cheeks, great heat of face.

Tearing and lancinations in all the teeth is relieved with Sambucus nigra.

Itching tingling in throat.

Stomach and abdomenVomiting in morning, first of milk with pressure in stomach.

Pressive pain in abdomen, with nausea, when resting it against a hard indicates Sambucus nigra.

Tearings, shootings, and pinching in abdominal muscles.

Urinary complaintsEmission of urine in too small a stream.

Frequent want to urinate is relieved with Sambucus nigra.

Male complaintsSwelling of scrotum is resolved with Sambucus nigra.

Respiratory complaintsThe cough is worse at or soon after midnight, during rest, when lying in bed, or with the head low, great difficulty in breathing.

Attack of suffocating cough, with cries, in children.

Wheezing and quick respiration.

Obstructed respiration when lying down.

Oppression of chest, with pressure in stomach, nausea, and weakness, contraction in sides of chest.