Asa Fœtida asaf.

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

C. M. Boger · Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica · A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1915 — the Materia Medica half

Region

NERVES. Mind. Gullet. Digestive tract. Periosteum: Ears. Nose. Tibia. Left side.

Worse

Night. In room. Rest. Eating. Suppression. Mercury. Noise. Sitting. Warm wraps.

Better

Motion in open air. Pressure.

General

Full, stout aspect, but intolerably nervous and OVERSENSITIVE. Fits of violent, hard throbbing, pressure, sharp sticking, etc. Clavus. Easy relapses. Bone aches. Pains extend outward, are associated with numbness and change place or are > by touch. Boring. Blueness. Foul, thin acrid secretions.

Particulars

Magnifies her symptoms. Craves sympathy. Fickleness. Fainting. Hysteria. Clutches throat. Occipital ache > stool. Eyelids stick to ball. Numb about eyes. Ozœna. Puffy, purple face, as if heated. Greasy taste. Everything presses toward throat. Globus. Spasm of gullet and stomach. Rancid or explosive belching. Regurgitations. Flatulence; sudden; pushing upward, hysterical. Wind colic. Reverse peristalsis. Bowels seem knotted. Foul, dark watery diarrhœa. Spasmodic tightness of chest. Heart seems full, distended. Reflex heart symptoms, of nervous origin. Dark red swelling. Eruption of air vesicles. Bluish ulcers; with high sensitive edges. Foul, burrowing pus. Caries.

Related

Related: Aur. Lach. Sumb. Val.

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General Characteristics

A very great sensitiveness, hypersensitiveness, particularly of those in whom the venous system preponderates over the arterial; very weakly and delicate persons. It affects the left hypochondriac region; left side of the abdomen; left side of the neck, and nape of the neck: left upper extremity and left lower extremity; left ear; general symptoms left side.

Mental

Dissatisfied with one's self; complaints about one's troubles.

Head

Inner semi-lateral, on either side, but generally on the left. Heaviness and pressure in the forehead and right half of the head.

Ears

Fetid or purulent discharge; badly smelling.

Nose

Ozæna with discharge of green fetid pus.

Throat

Pressure in œsophagus as if a body were ascending, obliging one to swallow frequently; globus hystericus.

Stomach

Fatty taste. Rising in the throat. Loathing; inclination to vomit; pressure in from below upwards into the œsophagus; pulsations in the pit of the stomach, perceptible to the hand and eye even.

Abdomen

Heaviness in; stitches; lancinations; dartings; bloated. Flatus very offensive. Sensation as if peristaltic motion were taking place from below upwards. Inner region of the spleen.

Stool

Stool stinking; slow; difficult; hard. Diarrhœa of most disgusting odor. Fetid flatus.

Sexual

Female: Labor-like pains in the uterus, of cutting and bearing down character. Deficiency of milk. Nipples.

Urine

Urine smells like Ammonia.

Bones

Bones of the arm; sensation as if bones were bending; darting pain in; caries in; caries of the periosteum; painfulness in; painfulness of the periosteum, accompanied with great sensitiveness; enlargement of; softening or swelling of; swelling of the periosteum.

Skin

Itching, better by scratching; pricking, burning skin. Ulcers in general; hard on circumference; with bloody pus; with thin pus; painful ulcers; painful on the edges; sensitive on the circumference, with high, hard edges; prickings on circumference.

Sensations

Big toe. Pain, jerking in outer parts particularly; pressing from within outwards; darting in outer parts, in inner parts, from within outward; in the muscles; burning darting in the muscles; quivering in the external parts; tension in inner parts; in right side of back, near scapula. Intermittent, pulsative, oppressive, darting, also tearing pains, from within outwards; often relieved by scratching or rubbing.

Generalities

Asthma of different kinds. Old ulcers on forearm, wrist, hand; ulcers, especially when affecting the bones; thin ichorous pus.

Better

From scratching; from being touched.

Remedies to follow

China, Mercur., Pulsat.

Antidotes

China, Mercur.

Seven Hundred Red Line Symptoms from Materia Medica

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Red line symptom

Sensation of a ball rising in the throat obliging frequent swallowing to keep it down, and causing at times difficult breathing. Particularly adapted to nervous, hysterical, scrofulous individuals, with venous, hemorrhoidal constitutions.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Gum of the Stinkasand (ASAFOETIDA)

General

The flatulence and spasmodic contraction of stomach and œsophagus with reverse peristalsis are the most marked symptoms. In its selection, its relation to the hysterical and hypochondriacal patients, must be borne in mind. Besides these superficial symptoms, it has been found to affect favorably deep ulcerations, caries of bones, especially in the syphilitic organism; here the extreme sensitiveness and terrible throbbing, nightly pains, guiding to its use.

Head

Irritable; complains of her troubles; sensitive. Boring above eyebrows. Pressive pain from within outward.

Eyes

Orbital neuralgia; better, pressure and rest. Iritis and intraocular inflammations, with boring, throbbing pains at night. Stitches under left frontal eminences. Boring pains in and around eyes. Syphilitic iritis. Superficial corneal ulcer with digging pains; worse at night.

Ears

Offensive otorrhœa, with boring pains in mastoid bone. Mastoid disease with pain in temporal region with pushing out sensation. Offensive, purulent discharge.

Nose

Syphilitic ozæna, with very offensive purulent discharge. Caries of nasal bones (Aurum).

Throat

Globus hystericus. Ball rises in throat. Sensation as if peristaltic motion were reversed, and œsophagus were driven from stomach to throat.

Stomach

Great difficulty in bringing up wind. Flatulence and regurgitation of liquid. Hysterical flatulence. Great distention. Sensation of emptiness and weakness, with distention and beating in stomach and abdomen. Forcible eructation of gas. Pulsation in pit of stomach. Violent gastralgia; cutting and burning in stomach and region of diaphragm. Gurgling and rolling of wind, which escapes afterwards with loud and difficult eructation.

Female

Mammæ turgid with milk in the unimpregnated. Deficient milk, with oversensitiveness.

Rectum

Distended, griping, with hunger. Obstinate constipation. Pain in perineum, as if something dull pressed out. diarrhœa, extremely offensive, with meteorism, and regurgitation of food.

Chest

Spasmodic tightness, as if lungs could not be fully expanded. Palpitation more like a tremor.

Bones

Darting pain and caries in bones. Periosteum painful, swollen, enlarged. Ulcers affecting bones; thin, ichorous pus.

Skin

Itching, better scratching; ulcers painful on edges. Suppressed skin symptoms produce nervous disorders.

Modalities

Worse, at night; from tough; left side, during rest, warm applications. Better, open air; from motion, pressure.

Relationship

Antidotes: China; Mercur.

Compare: Moschus; China; Mercur; Aurum.

Dose

Second to sixth potency.

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Mind and Disposition

Hysterical restlessness and anxiety.

Head

The pains in the head cease, or change from touch.

Eyes

Sensation of dryness in the eyes.

Ears

Hardness of hearing, with discharge of pus from the oars.

Nose

Ozæna, discharge of very offensive matter from the nose.

Face

Sensation of numbness in the bones of the face.

Mouth and Throat

Sensation of dryness in the mouth and throat. Sensation of a ball rising in the throat.

Abdomen

Pulsation in the pit of the stomach. Sensation of fulness in the stomach.

Stool and Anus

Diarrhœa, very offensive, with pain in the abdomen and discharge of fetid flatus.

Urine

Urine brown, and of pungent smell. Spasm in the bladder during and after urination.

Respiratory Organs

Spasmodic dyspnœa, as if the lungs could not be sufficiently expanded. Stitches in the chat from within outwards.

Extremities

Twitching of the muscles of the arms and legs. Ulcer on the tibia. Swelling and caries of the bones of the feet. Stitches and pulsation in the big toe.

Generalities

Sense of rigor. Body heavy and bloated. Hysterical attacks. Twitching and jerking in the muscles. Dull stitches (periodically) from within outwards, changed or relieved is touch. Pains in the inside of the joints and limbs. St. Vitus' dance.

Sleep

Much against his habit, he is much inclined to sleep.

Fever

Pulse small, rapid, and unequal. Heat in the face after dinner, with anxiety or drowsiness, without thirst.

Skin

Ulcers, very painful to contact, especially in the circumference, gangrenous. Inflammation and caries of the bones, with thin, fetid pus.

Conditions

Bad effects, from the abuse of mercury, especially in syphilis. Moot pains are accompanied by numbness in the affected parts. Many symptoms appear while sitting, and are relieved in the open air.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

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General

Asafœtida.

Narthex asafœtida. N. O. Umbelliferæ. Tincture of the gum resin (obtained by incision from the living root).

Clinical

Asthma. Bone, disease of. Chorea. Diarrhœa. Dyspepsia. Flatulence. Headache. Heart, affections of. Hypersensitiveness. Hysteria Iritis. Lactation, disorders of . Mercury, effects of. Neuralgia. Obesity. Orbital neuralgia. Ozæna. Syphilis. Tympanitis. Ulcers. Whitlow.

Characteristics

The symptoms of Asafœtida present an almost perfect picture of hysteria, of the flatulent order. Reversed peristalsis of stomach and bowels. Excessive abdominal distension and sensation as if everything in the abdomen would burst through the mouth. After belching of wind strong rancid taste in mouth. Sinking sensation at epigastrium, < 11 a.m. Hysteria from suddenly suppressed discharges. Many of the discharges of Asaf . are fetid: watery stools of most disgusting odour; profuse and greenish; fetid flatus. Eructations smelling like garlic. Hiccough-like contractions of diaphragm. Griping (into a ball) pain below navel while standing. Heat in spleen and abdomen. Stitches in right hypochondrium, towards the diaphragm. Asaf . affects the left side generally: left side of abdomen; left hypochondrium; left side of neck and nape; left arm; left leg. Hysterical restlessness and anxiety. Eyes inflamed, dry sensation, > in open air. The fetid smell of the drug may be regarded as one of its "signatures." Fetid discharge from nose; bones affected. The following is a strong characteristic: Bones of orbits bruised, sore, and sensitive (iritis; after abuse of Mercury . Merc . has less of the sensitiveness). Caries of bones. Multiple nodes on roof of mouth, discoloured, bone deeply involved. Deficient milk with over-sensitiveness after confinement. Periosteal affections ending in ulcers which are so sensitive that no dressing is tolerated. Pressing pains in various parts, especially pressure from within outwards, < in room, > in open air. Many symptoms come on or are < after eating or drinking. Heat in face after eating. Diarrhœa after eating. Suited to: nervous and hysterical people; phlegmatic, scrofulous, and syphilitic who have taken much Mercury . Sensitiveness to contact is a leading characteristic. Most pains are accompanied by numbness in the affected parts. Many symptoms appear while sitting and are > in open air. Touch > pain in head; on touch pains cease or change place. Scratching > itching.

Relations

Antidoted by: Puls., Caust., Camph., Chi., Merc., Val. Useful in ailments from: Puls., Merc., Alcohol. Similar to: Arg. n. > open air); Aur. (bone diseases, iritis); Castor., Chi., Caust., Crot. t. (whooping-cough); Hep. (sensitiveness round ulcers; faints from pains), Mang. acet., and Kali iod. (nodes: Mang., bluish; K. iod., pink; pain unbearable. Asaf. the nodes are multiple and discoloured); Ign., Merc., Mosch., Phos., Puls., Thuj., Val. Compare family relations: Ammoniac., Cicut., Con.

Causation

Checked skin affections.

Mind

Dissatisfied with one's self; complaints about one's troubles. ─ Hysterical restlessness and anxiety. ─ Unsteady and fickle. ─ Ill-humour; irritable; apprehensive. ─ Over-sensitive, excitable. ─ If he thinks of having taken the drug, it causes faintness.

Head

Pressive pain in forehead from within outward; with it vertigo and vanishing of sight. ─ Single deep-penetrating stitches in left frontal eminence. ─ Heaviness and pressure in forehead and r. half of the head. ─ Drawing, pressive pains like a plug, in sides of head or temples; most on l. side. ─ The pains in the head cease, or change from touch. ─ Rush of blood to head and warmth of face. ─ All headaches < towards evening; in room while at rest, sitting or lying; > when rising or moving about in the open air.

Eyes

Nocturnal throbbing pains in and around the head; syphilitic iritis. ─ Extensive superficial ulceration of the cornea, with burning, sticking, or pressive pains, from within outward; rest and pressure relieve. ─ Sharp pain extending through eye into head on touching. ─ Sensation of dryness in the eyes. ─ Dryness and burning in, the eyes. ─ Severe boring pains over the eyebrows.

Ears

Hardness of hearing, with discharge of offensive, thin pus from the ears.

Nose

Ozæna; discharge of very offensive greenish matter from the nose; bones swollen and inflamed after Mercury or in scrofula.

Face

Sensation of numbness in the bones of the face; painless tension in various places. ─ Swelling of the lower lip. ─ Numbing pressure on chin.

Teeth

Grinding of teeth. ─ Bluntness of teeth.

Mouth

Greasy, rancid taste in mouth; and of phlegm hawked up. ─ Speech unintelligible; tongue white, swollen (chorea). ─ Constantly chewing, and working frothy slime out of mouth.

Throat

Sensation of dryness in the mouth and throat. ─ Dryness of mouth, throat, and œsophagus. ─ Sensation of a ball rising in the throat, obliging frequent swallowing to keep it down, and causing at times difficult breathing; globus hystericus. ─ Sensation in the œsophagus as if the peristaltic motions were from below upward.

Stomach

Ravenous hunger. ─ Desire for wine. ─ Disgust for all food. ─ Pulsation in the pit of the stomach, perceptible to the hand and eye even. ─ Rising in throat. ─ Loathing; inclination to vomit. ─ Sensation of fulness and distension in stomach. ─ Eructations; smelling like garlic; tasting rancid, sharp, or putrid. ─ Flatus passing upward, none down.

Abdomen

Great distension of the abdomen. ─ Pulsations in abdomen. ─ Heat in spleen and abdomen. ─ Colic with distension and a "rising-up" feeling; > by external pressure; at height of pain, fainting. ─ Sense of fulness, and as if beaten, in epigastrium and whole abdomen. ─ Pressive pain on drawing in abdominal muscles. Lancinations; dartings in abdominal-muscles.

Stool and Anus

Pain in perineum, as from something dull pressing out. ─ Stool profuse, watery, or thick, papescent, brown, and exceedingly offensive. ─ Diarrhœa, very offensive, with pain in the abdomen and discharge of fetid flatus. ─ Stool stinking; slow; difficult; hard.

Urinary Organs

Urine brown, and of pungent smell. ─ Urine smells like ammonia. ─ Spasm in the bladder during and after urination.

Male Sexual Organs

Faintness is worse after seminal emissions. ─ Urging towards genitals; aching in testes; < from touch or motion. ─ Needle-like stitches in penis. ─ Drawing in glans; < afternoon.

Female Sexual Organs

Labour-like pains in uterine region, with cutting and bearing-down. ─ Excited sexual desire. ─ Leucorrhœa profuse, greenish, thin, and offensive. ─ Swelling and inflammation of the genitals. ─ Mammæ turgid with milk; when not pregnant. ─ Deficient milk with over-sensitiveness. ─ Milk increased; or diminished.

Respiratory Organs

Spasmodic dyspnœa, as if the lungs could not be sufficiently expanded. ─ Asthmatic attacks. ─ Obstinate titillating cough., < night. ─ Hoarse, ringing, short cough, excited by tickling in trachea, with asthmatic feeling therein; spasmodic contraction of thorax and accumulation of stringy mucus. ─ Cough on gaping. ─ Greasy-tasting sputa.

Chest

Oppressive pressing, aching pains in the chest. ─ Stitches in chest (r. side), from within outward.

Heart and Pulse

Nervous palpitation, with small, quick, irregular pulse. ─ Continual pain about heart region. ─ At times heart feels bound tightly, as if it could not beat; afterwards only on exertion or walking. ─ Heart feels swollen to bursting.

Neck and Back

Fine burning stitches in and behind r. scapula, extending to ribs. ─ Very violent sacral pains. ─ Cannot work on account of the backache. ─ Crawls run over back in afternoon.

Upper Limbs

Sensation as if bones of the arm were bending. ─ Darting pains in the bones; caries in; caries of the periosteum. ─ Tearing stitches in upper arm and forearm down to tips of fingers. ─ Painfulness of the periosteum, accompanied with great sensitiveness; nodes. ─ Twitching in the muscles of the arms. ─ Aching, drawing, beaten pain in wrist joints. ─ Whitlow, pains < night.

Lower Limbs

Psoas abscess and disease of pelvic bones. ─ Twitching of the muscles of the legs. ─ Carious ulcer on the tibia. ─ Pain as of a splinter sticking in r. fibula. ─ Swelling and caries of the tibia, and bones of the feet. ─ Stitches and pulsation in the big toe.

Generalities

Asthma of different kinds. ─ Sense of rigor. ─ Body heavy and bloated. ─ Hysterical attacks. ─ Hysteria, with much trouble about throat or œsophagus. ─ Twitching and jerking in the muscles. ─ Dull stitches (periodically) from within outwards, changed or relieved by touch. ─ Pains mostly in the inside (flexor side) of the joints and limbs. ─ St. Vitus' dance.

Skin

Itching, better by scratching; pricking, burning skin. ─ Ulcers with high, hard edges, sensitive to touch, easily bleeding; old ulcers on forearm, wrist, hand; ulcers, esp. when affecting the bones; pus profuse, greenish, thin, offensive, even ichorous. ─ Ulcers, very painful to contact, esp. in the circumference, gangrenous.

Sleep

Much against his habit, he is much inclined to sleep.

Fever

Pulse small, rapid, and unequal. ─ Heat in the face after dinner, with anxiety or drowsiness, without thirst. ─ Chills run over body from time to time.

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General

Asafœtida.

Mind

Consciousness unaffected. θ Chorea.
Fits of joy with bursts of laughter. θ Hysteria.
Excitement of mind. See 29 .
Unsteady and fickle, cannot persevere in anything ; wants now one thing, then another ; walks hither and thither.
Anxious sadness and apprehensions of dying.
Apprehension seemingly arising from abdomen.
Apprehension. See 29 .
With heart symptoms, fear of death.
Fears paralysis or softening of brain.
Dislike for solitude.
Constant change of mind ; fits of grief, of joy ; laughter or anxious sadness.
Depression.
Fits of low spirits with heart symptoms ; low-spirited between heart attacks.
Ill humor, irritable mood, and yet indifferent to everything.
Ill humor, irritable mood, dislike to work. θ Caries.
Hypochondriac and hysteric restlessness and anxiety.
If he thinks of having taken drug, it brings on faintness.

Sensorium

Very sensitive and excitable ; all perception of senses lessened, but not consciousness.
Oversensitiveness, either physical or mental.
Fainting during height of paroxysm of colic.
Stupefying tension in head, mostly left side ; < afternoon or evening, sitting bent forward, after going to bed ; > sitting up.
Vertigo with violent pressing in head, vanishing of sight in evening and afterwards cold sweat on forehead and limbs ; colic ; flatulence ; portal congestion.
Unconsciousness ; with bellyache. See 19 .

Inner head

Pain in left side of head extending to eyes, changing into intermitting, severe pain and slight fulness of brain.
A sudden pain in left temple, like an inward-pressing pointed plug.
Inner semilateral headache, oftener on left side.
Pressive pain in forehead and left side of head from within outward.
Dull pain and fulness in left side of head, with bleeding from left nostril, heart beating slowly.
Fulness and throbbing in head, heart beats feebly, with apprehension.
Fulness of head when riding in a carriage.
Pressure in sides of head or temples, like from a dull stick, better from touch.
Fulness of head, changing gradually into aching and pressing pain, as if whole brain was compressed ; with dizziness, increased heat of skin and some quickness of pulse.
Awoke with fulness of head, which gradually changed to periodically recurring pains, lasting, more or less, into next night.
Drawing, wavelike pressure through left half of forehead, ending in dull pressure on frontal eminence.
Flying stitch from within outward, in forehead, temples and sides of head.
Jerking through head.
Single, sudden, and deep penetrating stitches under left frontal eminence, like shocks followed by some sensitiveness.
Pain as if a nail or plug was driven into brain.
Crampy pain in forehead above eyebrows.
The brain seems tense.
Rush of blood to head, and warmth of face.
Congestive headache.
Sensation of swashing in head as of water, and gurgling behind upper part of frontal bone.
All headaches < towards evening, in room, while at rest, sitting or lying ; > when rising or moving about in open air.
Reading and writing make her worse.
The pains in the head cease, or change from touch.
Nervous headache of hysterical or scrofulous people.
Cold sensation in head.

Outer head

Pain in right parietal, as from a deeply penetrating plug.
The pains in head cease or are changed from external touch.
Cold sweat on forehead.

Sight and eyes

Dimness of sight ; letters become darker on writing ; disappear after blinking.
Mist before eyes.
Muscæ volitantes.
Sight worn from reading or writing.
Boring pain above eyebrows ; burning, especially at night. θ Iritis, kerato-iritis, retinitis, of syphilitic origin.
Dull pressure at external border of left orbit.
Troublesome dryness of eyes.
Burning in eyes ; stitches ; dryness.
Periodic burning in eyes and pressing together of lids as if overcome with sleep.
Burning in eyeballs ; in left as from within outward.
Sharp pain extending through eye into head, upon touching.
Nocturnal, throbbing pains in and around eye and head. θ Syphilitic iritis, abuse of mercury.
Deep-seated inflammation of eyeball, attended by ciliary pains. θ Iritis, kerato-iritis, irido-choroiditis and retinitis, especially if of syphilitic origin.
Extensive superficial ulceration of cornea, with burning, sticking or pressing pains, from within outward ; rest and pressure relieve ; also > in open air ; numbness around eye.
Itching in right eye.
Periodic burning in eyes and pressing together of lids ; as if overcome with sleep.

Hearing and ears

The faintness is brought on by noise, or being in crowded streets.
Hardness of hearing, with discharge of pus from ears.
Hardness of hearing, with thin, purulent discharge of an extremely offensive odor. θ After scarlatina, or abuse of mercury.
Otorrhœa with offensive discharge and diseased bones.

Smell and nose

Offensive discharge from nose ; stench from nose. θ After mercury or in scrofula.
Unpainful tension over bones of nose, with feeling of numbness.
Swelling and inflammation affecting bones, with a feeling as if nose would burst.
Pressure in nose, especially right wing, as if it would burst.
Feeling as if nose stopped up high up, so that he cannot breathe through it, with fulness of head, when riding in a carriage.
Fluent coryza.
Discharge of very offensive matter from nose ; with caries of bones. θ Ozæna.
A little pimple on tip of nose.
Flushes and heat of face, of one cheek after eating.
Small tubercules in cheeks.
Numbness of bones of face ; painless tension in various places.

Lower face

Drawing pains in caries of lower maxilla, with salivation ; after abuse of mercury.
Swelling of lower lip.
Lips puffed up, lower lip and left corner of mouth most.
Numb pressure on chin.

Teeth and gums

Grinding of teeth ; starting at night ; transient griping pains in region of navel. θ Chorea.
Bluntness of teeth.
Severe drawing in lower incisors.
Soreness of gums.

Taste, speech, tongue

Greasy, rancid taste in mouth and of phlegm hawked up.
Speech unintelligible ; tongue white, swollen. θ Chorea.

Inner mouth

Sensation of dryness in mouth and throat, even when moist, without thirst.
Saliva predominantly decreased, except in mercurial caries, when acrid salivation exists.
Burning in mouth.
Constantly chewing and working frothy slime out of mouth, with swollen tongue. θ Chorea.

Palate and throat

Sensation as if peristaltic motion was reversed and œsophagus being drawn from stomach up towards throat.
Sensation of pressure, as if a body or lump was ascending in throat, has to swallow frequently.
Burning, followed by soreness, in fauces and pharynx.
Darting stitches, from chest upward towards œsophagus.
Tender feeling in throat, < when swallowing.
Sensation of a ball rising in throat, causes difficulty in breathing. θ Hysteria.
Hysterical spasms affecting œsophagus.
In evening a hysterical rising in throat, as if a ball or large body ascended from stomach to œsophagus, or even pharynx, obliging him repeatedly to attempt to swallow it. θ Globus
hystericus.
Dryness and burning in œsophagus.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Ravenous hunger, with pain in upper abdomen, as from a cold, and as if diarrhœa would set in.
Hunger with desire for strong, cooling food.
Desire for wine.
Great disgust for all food. θ Chorea.
Beer tastes slimy, aversion to it.

Eating and drinking

Great dejection, with epigastric pressure after eating : hypochondriacal.
After eating : heat in face, with anguish ; pressure in stomach ; stitches about lower ribs ; tension in abdomen ; winding and twisting in bowels ; great difficulty in breathing ; febrile state.
After drinking : diarrhœa ; heaviness and cold feeling in intestines.
After meals flatulent distension of abdomen.
After eating anything sour griping pains in region of navel. θ Chorea.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Eructations : smelling like garlic ; tasting rancid, sharp, or putrid ; smelling like feces ; tasting like carrion.
Flatus passing upward, none down.
Hiccough-like contractions of diaphragm. θ Chorea.
Asafœtida.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Pressing, cutting, stitching pains in spells, not regular ; full of wind ; pressing upward (never down) ; gulping up rancid fluid ; constipation. θ Gastralgia.
Dyspepsia, with much pulsation in pit of stomach.
Pulsation in pit of stomach, perceptible to sight and touch.
Sensation of fulness in stomach.
"Gone," empty feeling in pit of stomach, not a pain, but "it hurts there ;" pulsations after eating ; < about 11 o'clock A. M. ; faint feeling. θ Hysteria.
Cardialgia.
Meteorism of stomach when feeling of tension is great and eructating is difficult.
Increased warmth and aching in stomach, towards left side, not all on right, but more up into œsophagus, like globus hystericus.

Hypochondria

In morning sensation in epigastric region and in whole abdomen, as if it were beaten, with sense of fulness in former, and eructations.
Stitches in right hypochondrium, towards diaphragm.
Pressure from interior of liver, to chest, after dinner, with labored breathing and violent pulsations.
Violent pressure in scrobiculum, towards liver, while sitting.
Stitches as if in diaphragm, right side.
Heat in spleen and abdomen.

Abdomen and loins

Gastric and abdominal sufferings, accompanied by pulsations in epigastrium.
Heat in abdomen.
Pressure in abdomen.
Griping (into a ball) pain below navel when standing.
Intermittent griping in upper abdomen.
Pain in upper abdomen, as from taking cold, and as if diarrhœa would ensue, with a kind of ravenous hunger.
Bellyache, as if intestines were torn or cut ; places in side sore, as if raw, with it feeling as of something rising from chest to throat ; pressure relieves.
Gripings, with flatulence.
Wind colic, with abdominal pulsations ; very painful distension of abdomen, rumbling ; relieved by passing wind.
Pinching colic and escape of wind.
Flatulent colic and diarrhœa ; distension of abdomen.
Colic, with distension and a "rising up feeling," as if peristaltic action was reversed ; > from external pressure ; causes fainting. See 13 .
Abdomen soft, distended. θ Chorea.
In flanks a pressive pain or drawing in abdominal muscles.
Sensation in epigastric region and abdomen in morning, as if beaten.

Stools and rectum

Painful diarrhœa.
Watery, liquid stools of most disgusting smell ; pains in abdomen and discharge of fetid flatus.
Watery stools of disgusting odor ; discharge profuse and greenish.
Blackish-brown, papescent, offensive stools, which relieve.
Stool profuse, thick, papescent, brown, and very offensive.
Only slime passes, no feces.
Obstinate constipation, with abdominal and hemorrhoidal cramps, tenesmus and distended abdomen.
Pain in perineum, as from something dull pressing out.

Urinary organs

Soreness in kidneys.
Urine warm and of a pungent, ammoniacal smell.
Spasm in bladder during and after urination.

Male sexual organs

Genitals irritated.
Faintness is < after seminal emissions.
Urging towards genitals ; aching of testicles, < from touch and after motion.
Needle-like stitches in penis.
Drawing in glans, more during afternoon.
Outward pressure in perineum.

Female sexual organs

Excited sexual desire. θ Nymphomania in a plethoric woman.
Bearing down in genitals, < when riding in a carriage.
Uterine ulcer, sensitive and painful, with offensive discharge.
Menses too early, too scanty, and last but a short time.
Labor-like pains in uterine region, with cutting and bearing down.
Leucorrhœa profuse, greenish, thin and offensive.
Swelling and inflammation of genitals.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

Miscarriages.
Is said to kill fetus and dries up milk.
Mamma turgid with milk, like in ninth month ; without being pregnant.
Deficient of milk, with oversensitiveness.
(In sick :) Labor-like pains ; cutting, bearing down, intermitting.
Milk increased or diminished.
Restores wasted and drying up "breast of milk."
Ten days after delivery milk diminished ; 14th day only a few drops could be squeezed out with difficulty ; after 5 drops of tincture, copious milk, but offensive to child ; 3d centesimal answered as well.
Milk had disappeared within three weeks of her delivery ; six confinements.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Voice weaker, hoarse, changed, sometimes cough.
Spasm of glottis, alternating with contraction of fingers and toes. θ Hysteria.

Respiration

Difficult breathing. See 13 .
Difficult breathing, from abdominal disease.
Feeling of suffocation in throat on taking a full inspiration.
Constriction of chest, extending to throat, with hurried breathing.
Asthmatic complaints of scrofulous persons.
Asthmatic feeling in trachea, dry cough ; spasmodic dyspnœa as if lungs could not be sufficiently expanded.
Oppression of chest increasing to agony, cannot breathe, restless moving about.
Oppression of chest, with hurried breathing ; contracted, small pulse, or, frequent pulse ; asthma after too hearty a meal ; too great exertion.
Oppression of breathing ; pain temporarily relieved by eructations.
When faint, if he breathes deeper, heart beats fuller, and faintness decreases ; if he holds breath heart becomes very feeble.
Asthmatic attacks at least one a day all her life, brought on by every bodily exertion, coition, especially by every satisfying meal.
Frequent breathing, rattling ; restless tossing before attack, anxious with it.
Sitting up relieves suffocative feeling.

Cough

Obstinate titillating cough, < at night, with grown persons.
Cough predominantly dry ; expectoration infrequent, during day.
Irritation to dry cough ; attacks at night.
Cough on gaping.
Whooping cough, even of sucklings, sounding like croup ; rattling breathing, anxious and restless, chest and abdomen hot, urine pale.
Hoarse ringing short cough, excited by tickling in trachea, with asthmatic feeling therein ; spasmodic contraction of thorax and accumulation of stringy mucus.
Cough in afternoon.
Cough, with cessation of sputa.
Sputa have a greasy taste.
Cough, with accumulation of stringy mucus in trachea.

Inner chest and lungs

Pressure on sternum, when stooping, writing ; going off by deep breathing.
Pressure and burning under sternum ; frequent disposition to cough.
Compression of chest, as from a heavy weight. See 26 .
Pressing stitches in chest.
Pressure on chest, with a constriction in throat.
Oppressive aching feeling in chest ; > from expectorating mucus.
Pressive pain in right side of chest, from within outward.
Pressure in left intercostal muscles, from within outward, < during inspiration and expectoration.
Stitches in chest from within outward. θ Whooping cough.
Burning in chest, runs through both arms and through lower limbs down into toes.
Single violent stitches from within outward, at short intervals ; renewed when chest is touched. θ Pleuro-pneumonia.
Shooting from just below left nipple through to back on walking.
Spasmodic constriction of thorax with cough.
Spasmodic constriction, as if lungs could not properly expand, respiration normal.
Spasmodic contractions of chest, with slow, small contracted, irregular pulse.
Throbbing in chest.
Dropsy of chest ; relieved the oppression in 6, 12, or 36 hours ; 3d every 2 or 4 hours.
Discomfort of thorax from want of distension of lungs.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Increased action of heart on slightest excitement.
Palpitation, with faintness, rush of blood to head, flushing of face, anxiety and slow breathing, from excitement. θ Irritable heart.
Violent palpitation of heart and excitement of mind.
Acute rheumatic heart disease, with tightness across chest. θ Hydrothorax.
Continual pain about region of heart.
At times heart feels bound together tightly, as if it could not beat ; afterwards only on exertion or walking.
Congestion towards heart ; feeling of fulness ; small pulse ; followed by loose stool.
Slight palpitation of heart, more like a tremor, several times when sitting.
Nervous palpitation, with small pulse ; from overexertion or suppression of discharges (in women).
Pressure in region of heart, as if heart was too full and expanded ; pulse small.
Feeling as if heart would burst ; quick breathing and apprehension ; has to walk in open air.
Feeling as if heart was swollen, preventing a deep inspiration.
Palpitation like a tremor while sitting.
Beating of heart small, quick, irregular.
Heart sometimes beats very feebly.
Sometimes heart beats short and quick, at other times he feels as if there was no action of it.
Heart's action is quickened by a deep inspiration.
At night, when lying on back, palpitation and suffocative feeling, as if heart would burst, he must sit up, which relieves him.
Heart symptoms and faintness < after seminal emission.
Pulse small, spasmodically contracted, rather quick. θ Chorea.
Small, infrequent pulse, with violent action of heart and no disturbance of respiration indicating nervous weakness of organ.
Pulse small, rapid, irregular. See 28 .
Pulse accelerated, but unequal, small. θ Asthma, congestion to heart, etc.

Outer chest

Sensation as if one pressed very sharply with point of finger on xiphoid cartilage ; also when swallowing.

Neck and back

Fine, burning stitches in and behind r. scapula, extending towards ribs.
Drawing downward, in left side of neck, on motion.
Stitches in muscles of back.
Dull pains, or drawing and cutting below scapulæ.
Burning along vertebræ, to left.
Aching inwardly, along last dorsal and first lumbar vertebræ.
Boring sticking in left loin, from within outward, going off during an inspiration.
Lancinations from right loin towards ribs.
Sticking, with pressure in region of right ribs towards spine.
Cannot work on account of backache.
Stitches along sacrum down to anus.
Pain in sacrum while sitting.
Crawls run over back, in afternoon.

Upper limbs

Twitching in left upper arm joint, extending inward.
Fine stitch in elbows.
Quivering in shoulder joint ; in deltoid muscle.
Stitches and jerking in upper arm.
Drawing pain along upper arm down to elbow, a fine stitch in elbow.
Child always missed laying hold of anything she wished. θ Chorea.
Frequent muscular jactitation in arms and hands.
Tearing in forearm down to tips of fingers.
When moving fingers, pain in forearm.
Tearing stitches followed by burning in right forearm.
Scraping sensation on styloid process of ulna.
Cramplike, sensitive twitching in metacarpal bone of left thumb.
Whitlow, violent nightly pains, threatened necrosis.
Pain as if beaten in bones of wrist.
Aching, drawing in wrist joints. θ Syphilis.
Asafœtida.

Lower limbs

Carious ulcer on tibia, extremely sore around, discharge offensive ; skin adheres to bone.
Muscular twitching in legs and feet.
Child, æt. 9, could not walk. θ Chorea.
Caries of tibia.
The apparently healthy portion of tibia lying beneath peculiar carious ulcer became again sensitive and painful to slightest touch, or even approach of finger, so also to removal of charpie, and at night almost unendurable.
Swelling around ankle joint, cannot use foot.
Burning in roots of toe nails, prevents sleep.
Psoitis if suppuration seems impending ; also if pelvic bones are involved.
Lassitude of lower limbs.
Quivering of portions of muscles on thighs.
Occasional tingling in legs after much walking.
Twitching on inner side of right knee joint.
Swelling and caries of bones of feet.
Sticking sensation on ball of great toe when putting foot to ground.
Pain as if a splinter of bone was sticking in right fibula, just above outer malleolus. θ After a sprain.
Cold swelling around ankles.
A sensitive throbbing in left great toe from time to time.
Stitches and pulsation in big toe.
Painful throbbing in tip of great toe.
Heat in toes.

Limbs in general

Constant convulsive tremor of limbs, could be > by hands of another person. θ Chorea.
Twitching of muscles of arms and legs.
Pains mostly on flexor sides of limbs.
Pains in inside of joints and limbs.

Rest. position. motion

Rest : headache < ; eyes > ; < in bed.
Sitting up : headache < ; tension in head > ; pressure in scrobiculum < ; suffocative feeling > ; palpitation < ; pains in sacrum <.
Standing : griping below navel ; weakness.
Stooping : pressure on sternum.
Lying : weakness ; headache <.
Putting foot to ground : sticking in great toe.
Moving fingers : pain in forearm <.
Motion : headache > ; asthma <.
Overexertion : palpitation <.
Swallowing : tenderness in throat <.
After motion : aching in testicles.
Gaping ; cough <.
Deep breathing : pressure in sternum >.
Inspiration : pain in intercostal muscles <.
Walking : shooting from nipple to back.
Excitement : palpitation <.

Nerves

Nervousness.
Hypersensitiveness ; when nervous system predominates over the arterial.
Hysteria, with much trouble about throat or œsophagus ; well-marked globus hystericus ; spasms of lungs, etc.
Hysteria, hysteralgia ; hypersensitiveness ; every excitement that brings on an attack causes globus hystericus.
Twitching and jerking of muscles.
Nervous affections after suppressed discharges.
Epileptiform convulsions caused by worms.
Chorea.
Fainting with colic.
Clumsiness of body ; feeling of rigor.
Feeling of general heaviness ; weak when standing or lying ; dry mouth.
At times slight inclination to faint, accompanied by great apprehension.
Faintness, with quick pulse.
Attacks of faintness, followed by fluttering of heart.
Attacks of faintness, with anxiety, as if he would die, and with one attack desire for suicide.
With one attack of faintness there was shaking of limbs and as if bowels shook.
With faintness, shivering and very feeble action of heart.
Faintness on beginning to eat, especially at dinner, with full and frequent beating of heart.
With faintness, alternate heat and chill ; sweat on small of back and trembling.
Faintness worse day after a seminal emission.

Sleep

Inclined to sleep, much against his habit.
Drowsy with sweat.
Sleepy in evening ; weariness.
Sleeplessness after midnight. (Conium before midnight).
About midnight violent pains through left half of body, from top to toe.
Pain in ulcer at night, almost unendurable.
Woke in night with distension of stomach, pain across chest and feeble heart.
Worse in bed and after sleep ; > after getting out of bed.

Time

Morning : abdomen feels beaten ; fulness and eructations ; tearings in joints ; chest oppressed.
At 8.30 to 9 A. M. : chills, with heat of face.
At 11 A. M. : faint feeling < ; goneness in stomach.
During day : expectoration worse.
Afternoon : tension in head < ; drawing in glans penis ; cough ; shivering over back ; heat in toes.
Between 3 and 4 P. M. : coldness and trembling, with stitches in head.
Evening : vanishing of sight ; headache < ; hysteria ; pains often better ; sleepy.
Evening till 2 A. M. : neuralgia.
Night : pain in eyes < ; cough < ; palpitation ; ulcer < ; pain across chest ; bone pains ; pain in ulcer unbearable.
Midnight : pain left half of body.
After midnight : sleeplessness.

Temperature and weather

In room : all headaches worse.
Open air : headache > ; eye > ; heart > ; desires to be in open air.
Could not remain in-doors, must walk about in open air.
In warm feather beds : lower limbs ache more.

Fever

Chills run over body from time to time.
Sense of rigor.
Crawls run over back, in afternoon.
Chill, coldness and dryness of skin.
Every day, between 3 and 4 P. M., coldness and trembling, with unbearable stitches in head.
One-sided heat.
Heat in toes ; afternoon.
With heat of face ; cold hands and feet, and chills of back from 8.30 to 9 A. M.
With faintness sweat on small of back, hot and cold alternately and trembling.
Want of thirst, particularly heat without thirst.
Heat in face, after dinner, with anxiety and sleepiness ; without thirst.
Sweat wanting ; only occasionally cold, moist skin ; cold sweat on limbs ; vertigo.
Sweat with drowsiness.
Shiverings, most over back, afternoon ; heat in face, with anxiety and sleepiness, but without thirst.

Attacks, periodicity

Pains intermit at regular intervals.
Intermitting pinching pains in ulcers.
Crushing pain regularly < from evening till 2 A. M. θ Neuralgia after amputation.
Every day between 3 and 4 P. M. : coldness and trembling, with unbearable stitches in head.

Locality and direction

Right : pain in parietal ; itching in eye ; pressure in wing of nose ; stitches in hypochondrium ; stitches in diaphragm ; pain side of chest ; stitches behind scapula ; pain in fibula.
Left : pain and tension in head ; sudden pain in temple ; bleeding from nostril ; pressure in orbit ; corner of mouth puffed ; pressure in intercostal muscles ; shooting below nipple ; drawing side of neck ; burning along vertebræ ;
twitching upper arm joint ; cramplike twitching in thumb ; throbbing in great toe ; pain in half of body.
Above downward : burning in chest ; tearing in forearm.
Within outward : burning in eyeballs ; pain in chest ; pressure in intercostal muscles.
Below upward : œsophagus seeming drawn upward ; darting stitches in chest ; globus hystericus ; flatus passes ; pressure in liver.
Before backward : shooting from nipple.
Reverse action of involuntary muscles ; a sort of antiperistaltic motion.

Sensations

As if a nail or plug were driven into brain ; as if nose would burst ; as if a ball or lump were ascending in throat ; as if beaten in epigastric region and abdomen ; as if whole brain was compressed ; as if intestines were torn out ; as if lungs
could not be expanded ; heart feels bound tightly together as if it could not beat ; as if heart was swollen ; as if one pressed very sharply with point of finger on xiphoid cartilage ; as if splinter of bone was sticking in the right fibula ; as if peristaltic
motion were reversed ; as if heart would burst.
Like from a dull stick, pressure in temples.
Sharp pain through eye into head.
Sudden pain, inward pressing, like pointed plug in left temple.
Sudden deep penetrating stitches like shocks under left frontal eminence.
Drawing wavelike pressure through left forehead.
Gurgling sensation in head.
Sensation of water swashing in head.
Tender feeling in throat.
"Gone feeling" in epigastrium.
Pain as from a cold in upper abdomen.
Lancinating : from right loin towards ribs.
Winding and twisting in bowels.
Griping : in region of navel.
Labor-like pain : in uterus.
Flying stitches : in forehead, temples and sides of head.
Stitches : under left frontal eminence ; in eyes ; darting from chest to œsophagus ; about lower ribs ; in stomach ; in right hypochondrium ; in diaphragm ; on penis ; in chest ; in big toe ; in and behind right scapula ; in
muscles of back ; along sacrum down to anus ; in elbow ; in upper arm.
Tearing stitches : in right forearm.
Tearing : in forearm down to tips of fingers.
Cutting : in stomach ; in uterus ; below scapula.
Jerking : through head ; in upper arm.
Boring : above eyebrows ; left loin.
Shooting : below left nipple through to back ; around arm.
Sticking ; in eyes ; in left loin ; from right ribs to spine ; on ball of great toe.
Burning : above eyebrows ; in eyes ; in mouth ; in fauces and pharynx ; in œsophagus ; under sternum ; in chest ; along vertebræ ; in roots of toe nails ; of skin.
Drawing : in caries of lower maxilla ; in lower incisors ; in abdominal muscles ; in glans penis ; below scapula ; along upper arm to elbow ; in wrist joints.
Pressing : in head ; in forehead and left head ; in temples ; on frontal eminence ; external border of left orbit ; in eyes ; in nose ; on chin ; in epigastrium ; in stomach ; from liver to chest ; in abdomen ; in
perineum ; in sternum ; in region of heart.
Pressing together of lids as if overcome with sleep.
Bearing down : in genitals.
Constriction : of chest ; of throat ; about heart.
Cramp : in forehead.
Cramp-like sensitive twitching : metacarpal bone of left thumb.
Scraping sensation : on styloid process of ulna.
Soreness : in kidneys ; of gums.
Aching : of testicles ; along vertebræ ; in wrist joints.
Dull pain : in left side of head.
Undefined pain : in left side of head to eyes ; about heart ; in joints and limbs ; in ulcers ; in perineum ; in sacrum ; in forearm.
Tension : in head ; of brain ; over nasal bones ; in various places in face ; in abdomen.
Throbbing : in head ; in and around eye ; in pit of stomach ; in chest ; in big toe.
Fulness : in head ; in stomach ; about heart.
Heaviness : in intestines.
Numbness : over nasal bones ; of bones of face ; on chin.
Heat : of face ; increased warmth in stomach ; in spleen ; in abdomen ; in toes.
Dryness : of eyes ; in mouth and throat ; in œsophagus.
Coldness : in head ; in intestines ( See 15 ) ; crawls over back ; of skin.
Tickling : in trachea.
Itching : in right eye ; of skin.

Tissues

Dark red, hot swellings.
Arthritic and cold swellings.
Venous pulsations ; congestion of portal vein ; congestive fulness about heart and chest, with asthma ; heat of face and ears, after eating ; pressure on chest, etc. ; copious discharges ; all signs of fulness of venous system.
Dropsy, ascites, from abdominal venous stasis.
Obesity ; seldom of use in bone diseases unless body is heavy, bloated.
Scraping sensation on bones ; whole body puffed.
Caries in scrofulous, and after abuse of mercury.
Glands hard, swollen, hot and throbbing, with shooting, jerking pains ; scrofulous complaints.
Neuralgia of stump after amputation of thigh.
Osteitis, caries, bluish redness and swelling of parts.
Ulcers, with bluish edges, hard, painful to slightest touch ; thin, very offensive pus.
Interstitial distension of bones.
Soft enlargement of bones, also curvature.
Softening of bones.
Nightly bone pains in syphilis.
Painful osteitis.
Bones threatened by syphilis. θ Iritis.
Caries of bones ; adhesion of skin in caries.
Scrofulous caries of bones, even necrosis.
Ulcers with fetid, ichorous, bloody, serous pus ; with bluish, partly raised edges, painful to slightest touch.
Ulcers deep, flat, fistulous, affecting bone.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Touch : pain in head > ; pains extend through eye into head ; aching of testicle ; ulcers extremely sensitive ; pains cease or change place.
Pressure : eye > ; colic improved.
Most extreme sensitiveness in vicinity of carious ulcer of tibia, of superficial skin-sores, and also of ulcer itself ; patient cries out if finger touched a place distant from ulcer ; removal of charpie causes most severe pain.
Better from rubbing.
Scratching : itching better.
Riding in carriage : fulness in head < ; drawing side of neck < ; bearing down in genitals <.
Injuries suppurate.
Cold gangrene.
Wounds appear bright red, raw, covered with crust of tenacious lymph.
After amputation : neuralgia of stump.
Ulceration from burns or scalds or other causes, with great sensitiveness to suffering ; child screams on seeing dressings prepared, dreads and shrinks from the approach of any one likely to touch sore.

Skin

Dark red, hot swellings.
Itching, pricking, burning of skin ; itching > by scratching.
Skin puffed up, inflamed.
Sphacelus.
Flat eruptions, painful.
Ulcers with extreme sensitiveness ; patient flinches from even the softest dressing ; or from near approach of any one.
Ulcers with high, hard, bluish edges, sensitive to touch, easily bleeding ; pus profuse, greenish, thin, offensive, even ichorous. See 44 .
Shooting pain around ulcer.
Ulcers grow black.
Old scars break open and turn black.
Ulcers penetrating to bones, discharging thin, fetid ichor.
Ulcers or sores looking raw, bloody or dark ; or discharge copiously.
Quivering in skin.

Stage of life, constitution

Nervous women, subject to hysteria.
Phlegmatic temperament.
Scrofulous, bloated, clumsy children.
Venous, hemorrhoidal constitutions.
Nervous people.
Very weak or delicate persons suffering from very great sensitiveness.
Syphilitic patients who have taken much mercury.
Girl, æt. 9, chorea.
Woman, æt. 21, in sixth week after first confinement not milk enough, after third could nurse full nine months.
A multipara, æt. 34 ; milk had disappeared tenth day in seven confinements.

Relations

Antidotes to Asaf : Pulsat ., Caustic ., Camphor ., Cinchon ., Mercur .,
Valer .
Useful in ailments from Pulsat ., or from abuse of Mercur . in syphilis, and from effects of alcoholism.
Similar to : Arg. nitr . (better open air) ; Aurum met . (bone diseases, iritis, etc.) ; Castor., Cinchon., Caustic., Crot. tig . (pertussis) ; Hepar
(sensitiveness around ulcers ; faints from pains) ; Ignat . (hysteria) ; Mercur . (syphilis) ; Mosch . (hysteria, spasms of lungs, fainting, etc.) ; Phosphor .
(pertussis) ; Pulsat., Thuya, Valer .
Family relations : Ammon., Cicut., Conium , etc.
Frequently indicated after Pulsat . and Thuya .

Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

James Tyler Kent · Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Séror HTML text (Kent d. 1916; public domain)

Introduction

This remedy in olden times was frequently abused for man and beast. Our grandfathers supposed it was a protection against disease and hence they used it in the stables.

Lumps of "foetty," as they called it, where put in the corn for the horse, to keep off distempter.

What it has accomplished I am unable to say, but it is certain that these farmers looked upon Asa foetida as a great protective against disease.

It has been used also by the laity as a medicine for fainting, for hysteria, and all sorts of nervous symptoms and complaints.

The use is justified by the proving. These things are scarcely worthy of note, but it shows the general use among the people, as a domestic medicine, in crude form. It has been used more extensively in this form than in professional practice in a legitimate way.

Aspect

There is one class of patients you will find who will trouble you. Those cases that come into your office with puffed, venous, purple faces; they have an appearance of plethora; the face looks puffed, bloated and dropsical at times; it is a dark red, dusky face; such a face we shall cure sometimes with Asa foetida. Carbo an., Aurum, Carbo veg. and Pulsatilla are also related to this kind of face, but it is a very troublesome face, it shows more or less cardiac disturbance and venous stasis.

The venous side of the heart will often be involved, or be about to be involved, when you have this kind of face.

I never like to see them come into my office, for they are hard cases to manage. They have deep-seated troubles, with bleeding, they are subject to sudden inflammations, and they do not rally quickly.

Constitution

In this constitution we have ulcerations; a little place will ulcerate and suppurate, and the ulceration will burrow; this is just what this remedy does.

Another thing this kind of constitution will do is to set up an inflammatory condition of the periosteum with swelling, periostitis of the tibia for instance, where the circulation is not very active; inflammation of cartilages with tumefaction and purple skin, stitching pains and dropsy, ulcerations and fistulous openings. This medicine is good for just such states.

"Ulcers with extreme sensitiveness."

Patients often say,

"I get no sympathy when I am sick because I look so well;" fat, flabby and purple.

This remedy will seldom be thought of in lean persons; they seem to be free from complaints like those of Asa foetida, but in fat, flabby persons, extremely nervous, extremely sensitive to pain, full of hysteria.

Purple when out in the cold, purple when excited. In other words, you see before you the venous constitution, and these people get the worst kind of hysteria; they go off almost from no cause into fainting; from a close room, from excitement, from any disturbance; sometimes cramps come on, but more especially fainting.

They are subject to stitching pains from the bone to the surface; that is, from within out. The periosteum, becomes irritated, and glands become swollen.

Syphilis sometimes produces this kind of condition. Vascular disturbances in the body; periostitis, necrosis, induration of glands, nerve syphilis and head pains. in old syphilitics with this kind of venous face, subject to bleeding, ulcers turn black or become purple. In this there is a similarity to Lachesis.

Old scars turn purple, threaten to suppurate, take! on a venous aspect, become painful and turn black. Ulcers form at the site of old scars in old syphilitic patients and sometimes in psoric patients. Most complaints come on during rest and are better by slow motion.

There is another grand feature running through this remedy; it is full of discharges, catarrhal discharges, discharges from ulcers, watery discharges from different places and even watery stool; and all these discharges are horribly offensive and ichorous.

Deep, flat ulcers from bone and periosteal affections give out a watery, bloody discharge that is horribly offensive, with pains shooting outwards. Get the idea of the venous stasis well fixed in your mind and with this syphilitic state added to it.

There are many pains running through the remedy and they are night pains like those of syphilis, nightly bone pains, and pains in the periosteum.

The ulcers are deep, with bluish edges. Varicose veins surround the ulcers. Inflammation of the bone and periosteum, with blueness all around the ulcers.

When there has been an inflammatory condition of the periosteum, somewhat passive in character, the skin adheres to the bone, glues down to it by adhesion. It is too feeble to ulcerate, it does not get up a likely inflammation, but only a passive state, The glands all over the body are hot and throbbing, with shooting, jerking pains, in syphilis or old psoric and scrofulous complaints.

The bone pains that are felt in the head are sometimes very distressing. Old syphilitic bone pains in the head, stitching, penetrating. It seems where there are lumps and nodules, about the head, this medicine seems to burry things. Shooting, stitching, tearing pains, under left frontal eminence.

This stitching pain is sometimes described as if a nail or plug were driven into the head. These nervous headaches are syphilitic hysterical or scrofulous; hysterical pains described as rending, tearing, stitching.

Head

All over the head there is stitching pain, but in the frontal eminence, in the temples, there is a sensation as if a nail or plug were driven in, and most of the pains seem to bore, as if they extended from the bone to the surface, and hence are said to be from within out.

Eyes

It is useful in old syphilitics who are subject to eye complaints, ulcers on the eyeball, ulcers on the cornea, ameliorated in the open air, with a sensation of numbness in the eyes; inflammation of the iris, with ragged appearance of the iris; they are subject also to severe, sharp stitching pains that come from within out.

The remedy is full of burning, and so the eyeballs burn, better in the open air. Iritis, but the inflammation sometimes involves the choroid, the retina, and mucous membrane, making a general inflammatory condition of syphilitic character.

There are tearing pains in various places around the eyes; sticking, stitching pains, worse at night. Ulcers, with stitching pains, worse at night. Burning. stitching in the eyes with dryness, so that the lids stick to the balls of the eyes, pain worse at night.

There is a misty appearance before the eyes, dullness as if looking through a fog. It also seems as if the atmosphere were filled with little floating black flies.

"Muscae volantes."

You have looked into the air and seen little gnats and mosquitoes; well it appears to these patients as if these were there when they are not there. The discharge from the eyes is ichorous, bloody and often offensive.

This same syphilitic miasm may attack the car and the bones of the car. These bones may decay and the hearing be lost.

"Burning in the ear with discharge of foetid pus."

Stitching pains in the ears from within out.

Nose

A horribly offensive discharge comes from the nose; ulcers high up in the nose; caries of the bones of the nose; syphilitic ozoena. Putrid old catarrhs.

"Feeling as if the nose stopped high up, as if he could not breathe through it, with fullness of the head, when riding in a carriage." (Aurum, Aurum mur.)

Numbness is a great feature of this remedy, numbness of the scalp, or deep in the head; numbness here and there; numb, dead feeling associated with the pain; numbness after pain; often numbness after sleep.

Other nervous manifestations occur besides those that are hysterical. It has choreic motions. You would expect such a peculiar nervous constitution to have almost everything among its nervous symptoms.

"Constantly chewing and working frothy slime out of mouth, with swollen tongue."

"Speech unintelligible."

"Grinding of teeth; starting at night."

Swelling of the lips, and of the whole buccal mucous membrane, especially the lower lip, with burning in the mouth.

There are syphilitic symptoms in the throat, attended with the usual burning, darting, stitching in ulcers; pain when swallowing; a sensation of a ball rising in the throat, such as occurs in globus hystericus; choking, must constantly swallow.

Hysterical and choreic affections of the oesophagus and trachea. Spasms of the oesophagus. This lump in the throat, or suffocation, is a sort of hysterical spasm of the oesophagus.

"Dryness and burning in the oesophagus."

Stomach

In the stomach troubles, if you have ever seen a typical case of Asa foetida, you will wonder where all the air comes from; it comes up in volumes.

"Hiccough-like contractions of the diaphragm."

Choreic jerkings of the diaphragm, with expulsion of wind like the sound of a pop-gun going off almost every second. It is a condition that the patient has no control over; It is like the shooting off of little, guns forcing loud belching, loud eructations of wind from the stomach.

There are a few symptoms mentioned in the text just here that are worthy of note.

"Pulsation in pit of stomach; perceptible to sight and touch."

"Pressing, cutting, stitching pains."

A queer observation has been made that flatus was not passed downward, but all upwards.

"Eructations; smelling like garlic; tasting rancid, sharp or putrid."

Always horribly offensive. Offensiveness is a characteristic of the remedy. And then there is a

"gone empty feeling in the pit of the stomach," not a pain.

"Pulsations after eating."

"Meteorism of the stomach."

Abdomen

The remedy has many gastric and abdominal complaints; full of bellyache; stitching pains, colic. The diarrhoea is more or less troublesome.

These patients are afflicted with diarrhoea from the slightest indigestion, after any indiscretion in diet, a painful watery diarrhoea.

"Liquid stools of most disgusting smell."

"Blackish-brown papescent offensive stools, which relieve."

Genitals

"Bearing down in genitals, worse when riding in a carriage."

"Uterine ulcer sensitive and painful."

This medicine has been very useful in palliating uterine cancer in such constitutions as described those with purple faces, never the very pallid ones.

Women of feeble, flabby, venous constitutions are subject to hemorrhages and miscarriages. Women who are not pregnant sometimes have the breasts fill up with milk, wonderfully annoying thing, and but few remedies have it; this is one of the few.

It has also deficiency of milk.

"Ten days after delivery milk diminished."

These patients sometimes get hysterical asthma; all sorts of disturbance in breathing, dyspnoea.

"Asthmatic feeling in trachea."

"Asthmatic attacks at least once a day all her life, brought on by every bodily exertion, coition, especially by every satisfying meal."

Attacks of dyspnoea after coition, like Ambra.

"Obstinate titillating cough < at night."

Many of these complaints are worse at night; nightly aggravations. Syphilitic complaints are commonly worse at night and such anti syphilitic remedies as Mercurius, Staphysagria, Hepar, Nitric acid, etc. are all worse at night.

Among the other chest complaints, I will read a few of those that are marked here prominently and are striking ones.

"Pressure and burning of the sternum."

"Compression of chest as from a heavy weight."

"Stitches in chest."

"Single, violent stitches from within outward, at short intervals."

This remedy is full of rheumatism and gouty symptoms; gouty affections in general, in nervous constitutions.

When such a nervous constitution finally produces gouty formations, the nervousness often disappears; for it has been relieved by the deposit in the joints; a transformation scene has taken place.