SAMBUCUS NIGRA 30

Action of Medicine:

• Adapted to diseases of scrofulous children, which affect the air passages especially.
• Persons formerly robust and fleshy, suddenly become emaciated.
• Bad effects of violent mental emotions; anxiety, grief, or excessive sexual indulgence.
• Dry coryza of infants, snuffles, oedematous swellings.
• Suffocative cough coming on about midnight.
• Millar's asthma
• Child awakes suddenly, nearly suffocating, sits up, turns blue. Cannot expire.
• During fever, dreads uncovering.
• Profuse sweat over entire body during waking hours.
• Profuse sweat accompanies many affections.
• Constant fretfulness
• Aggravation from sleep, during rest, after eating fruits.
• Amelioration from sitting up in bed and during motion.

Reference: Boericke’s New Manual of homeopathic Materia Medica with Repertory, Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica with Bowel Nosodes by H.C. Allen.