Asarum Europæum asar.

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

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Region

NERVES. Mucous membranes. Female organs.

Worse

PENETRATING SOUNDS. Dry. Cold. Emotions.

Better

Cold bathing; of face (Flu-ac.).

General

EXCESSIVE NERVOUS SENSIBILITY; scratching on silk, rattle of paper, etc., is unbearable. Contractive sensations.

Particulars

Lightness, as if floating. Painfully sensitive hearing. Cold saliva. Violent vomiting. Gelatinous or shreddy mucus stools. Lientery. Asthmatic breathing, < odors or cold. Violent backache, takes her breath, < motion.

Related

Related: Arg-n. Castor. Ther.

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Keynote

Nervous, anxious people; excitable or melancholy. Imagines he is hovering in the air like a spirit (Lac. c.); lightness of all the limbs. Cold "shivers" from any emotion. Oversensitiveness of nerves, scratching of linen or silk, crackling of paper is unbearable (Fer. Tar.). Sensation as if ears were plugged up with some foreign substance. When reading, sensation in eyes as if thy would be pressed asunder or outward; relieved by bathing them in cold water. Cold air or cold water very pleasant to the eyes; sunshine, light, and wind are intolerable. Nausea: in attacks or constant (Ipec.); < after eating, tongue clean (Sulph.); of pregnancy. Unconquerable longing for alcohol; a popular remedy in Russia for drunkards. "Horrible sensation" of pressing, digging in the stomach when waking in the morning (after a debauch). Great faintness and constant yawning.

Relations

Similar: to, Caust. in modalities; to Aloe, Arg. n., Mer., Pod., Puls., Sulph. ac. in stringy shreddy stools. Followed: by, Bis., Caust., Puls., Sulph. ac.

Aggravation

In cold and dry, or clear, fine weather (Caust.).

Amelioration

Washing face or bathing affected parts with cold water; in damp, wet weather (Caust.).

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General Characteristics

For chilly persons who are always shrinking from the cold; for example, literary men who are addicted to a sedentary life, and are sick and chilly. After operations on the eye, for a darting pain which remains. Mucous stool. Sensation as though all the body, or a part of the body, were being pressed together. Symptoms are generally on the left side. Vexatious dreams.

Mental

Great nervous irritation. Feels as if just falling off to sleep, a gradual vanishing of ideas--and so all through.

Head

Dull and stupid; feels the pulsation of arteries in occiput.

Eyes

Inflamed, with burning in the lids, especially the canthi. Sunshine and wind are intolerable. Cold ameliorates all sufferings.

Ears

Dulness of hearing, as if the meatus were partially closed; a sort of tensive pain in the ears continually.

Face

Warm feeling in face; all symptoms disappear on applying cold water, but return soon after.

Taste

Smoking tobacco tastes bitter.

Worse

In cold dry weather; in clear, fine, weather.

Better

From washing; in damp and wet weather; on wetting the affected parts.

Remedies following

Caustic., Silic., Pulsat.

Antidote

Camphor.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

European Snake-root (ASARUM EUROPUM)

General

A remedy for nervous affections, loss of energy, with excessive erethism. Scratching on silk or linen or paper unbearable. Pains and spasmodic muscular actions. Nervous deafness and asthenopia. Cold shivers from any emotion. Feels as if parts were pressed together. Tension and contractive sensations. Always feels cold.

Mind

Thoughts vanish, with drawing pressure in forehead. Sensibility increased, even from mere imagination.

Head

Compressive pain. Tension of scalp; hair painful (China). Coryza, with sneezing.

Eyes

Feel stiff; burn; feel cold. Better, in cold air or water; worse, sunlight and wind. Darting pains in eyes after operations. Asthenopia.

Ears

Sensation as if plugged up. Catarrh with deafness. Heat of external ear. Noises.

Stomach

Loss of appetite, flatulence, eructation, and vomiting. Desire for alcoholic drinks. Smoking tobacco tastes bitter. Nausea; worse after eating. Clean tongue. Great faintness. Accumulation of cold, watery saliva.

Rectum

Strings of odorless, yellow mucus pass from bowels. Diarrhœa of tough mucus. Undigested stools. Prolapse.

Female

Menses too early, long lasting, black. Violent pain in small of back. Tenacious, yellow leucorrhœa.

Respiratory

Nervous, hacking cough. Short respiration.

Back

Paralytic pain in muscles of nape of neck. Weakness, with staggering.

Fever

Chilliness, single parts get icy cold. Easily excited perspiration.

Modalities

Worse, in cold dry weather; penetrating sounds. Better, from washing; in damp and wet weather.

Relationship

Asarum Canadensa-Wild Ginger (Colds, followed by amenorrhœa and gastro-enteritis. Suppressed colds). Compare: Ipecac, especially in diarrhœa; Silica; Nux; China.

Dose

Third to sixth potency.

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Leaders

Remarkable over-sensitiveness of the nerves; scratching linen or silk or even thinking of it is unbearable.

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Mind and Disposition

Nervous irritability and exaltation.

Head

Pain, as from contraction in the forehead, temples, and behind the cue, with watering and burning of the eyes, worse in the afternoon, (5 P.M.), relieved when sitting, and by washing.

Eyes

Inflamed eyes, blear-eyedness. The eyes stare. The cold air is pleasant to the eyes ; sunshine, light, and wind, are intolerable.

Ears

Pressure and tension in the region of the orifice of the meatus auditorius.

Mouth

Accumulation of cold, watery saliva in the mouth.

Stomach

Eructations putrid or sour, setting the teeth on edge. Violent, empty retching, which increases all the symptoms, only relieving the head. Vomiting, with great anguish, under violent exertion, with chilliness. Vomiting, with diarrhœa and violent colic.

Stool and Anus

Diarrhœa, consisting of tenacious mucus. During stool, discharge of thick, black blood. Prolapsus ani during stool. After stool, pressing and straining, and discharge of white, viscid, bloody mucus.

Generalities

Over-sensitiveness of the nerves, the scratching of linen or silk is insupportable. Sensation of lightness in the limbs, when she walks she thinks she is gliding through the air.

Fever

Pulse full and accelerated. Chilliness and coldness, after eating and drinking, with heat of the head. Heat, especially in the face, and in the palms of the hands. Perspiration smelling sour at night, in the arm-pits. Easily, excited perspiration, especially on the upper part of the body.

Conditions

Aggravation in the evening, and in cold and dry weather. Amelioration. Many symptoms disappear from washing the face in cold water, and from wetting the affected part.

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General

Asarum Europœum.

Asarabacca. Hazelwort. Wild Nard. (Mountainous woods in Europe.) N. O. Aristolochiaceæ. Tinctures of root and whole fresh plant.

Clinical

Alcoholism. Anus, prolapse of. Catarrhs. Cholerine. Diarrhœa. Dysmenorrhœa. Eyes, affections of; operations on. Fidgets. Headache. Hysteria. Levitation, sensation of. Typhus.

Characteristics

Before Hahnemann's time Asar . was little known except as an emetic. His proving brought to light some unique characteristics. Most remarkable is a state of over-sensitiveness of the nerves, the scratching of linen or silk, or even the thought of it, is insufferable. Sensation of lightness of the limbs, thinks she is gliding through the air when she walks. Nervous irritability and exaltation. Sensation as though whole body or single parts were being pressed together. Pain as from contraction in forehead, temples, and behind ear, with watering and burning of the eyes; < afternoon, > when sitting, and by washing. Eyes inflamed, bleared, staring. Weak sight, < bright light. When reading sensation as if eyes would be pressed asunder. Cold air and cold washing > . With a single dose of Asar . 200 I cured a case of subacute inflammation of eyes and lids which had lasted some months after an attack of influenza, the indications being " > in open air, and by washing in cold water." On the other hand, it is suited, according to Guernsey, to chilly persons who are always shrinking from the cold; e.g ., literary, sedentary men who are sick and chilly. It is useful for the darting pains remaining after operations on the eyes. Several symptoms are < in cold, dry weather; in clear, fine weather; in dry weather. > In damp, wet weather; on wetting affected parts. Sensation of skin stretched over right external ear. Deafness. Plugged sensation. Pressure, tension, and contractive sensations are leading features of Asar . Accumulation of cold watery saliva in mouth. Hunger in early morning. Constant nausea. Vomiting, with diarrhœa and violent colic. Stool of jelly-like mucus. Menstrual colic. Headache before and after menses. Violent pain in small of back, which scarcely permits her to breathe, at beginning of menses. Deschere reports a case of dysmenorrhœa in a nervous, fidgety woman of twenty-seven, who had intense backache during first two days, so severe that she could not move It often rose to the dorsal region, when it would take away her breath. Cured with Asar . 50, one dose every evening. Heat especially of face, and in palms of hands. When retching all symptoms < except stupidity of the head, which is > .

Relations

Antidotes: Camph., vinegar and vegetable acids. Followed well by: Bismuth. Compare: Acon., Alo. (stringy stools); Camph. (cholerine); Cupr., Hep., Ipec. (cholerine); Merc. (stringy stools); Nux v., Phos., Pod., Puls. and Sul. ac. (stringy stools); Sep., Stram., Tabac., and Verat. (cholerine). Asaf. (over-sensitiveness). Sticta pul., Calc., Can. ind., Gels., Thuj., Ol. jec. asel. (levitation). Mosch., Tarent., Meph., Zinc. (fidgety feet).

Mind

Nervous irritability and exaltation of the senses. ─ Merely thinking some one might scratch with finger-tip or nail on linen, &c. = disagreeable thrill through him, arresting thought and action. ─ Cold "shivers" from any emotion. ─ Condition of mind as if just falling asleep; a gradual vanishing of ideas. ─ Imagines he is hovering in the air like a spirit; when walking in the open air.

Head

Vertigo, as if drunk, on rising from a seat; on walking. ─ Giddiness, pressure or aching in head, chiefly temples, forehead, and above root of nose. ─ Very sensitive, compressive headache in forehead, temples, and behind the ears (l. side of head), with watering and burning of the eyes, < afternoon (5 p.m.), > when sitting, and by washing, but not by wiping. ─ Headache < by intellectual exertion. ─ Tension of whole scalp, making hair feel painful; cannot bear combing. ─ Head dull and stupid; feels the pulsation of arteries in occiput.

Eyes

Obscuration of sight. ─ When reading, sensation in eyes as if they would be pressed asunder. ─ Inflamed eyes, blear-eyedness. ─ Inflamed eyes, burning in the lids, esp. the canthi. ─ The eyes stare. ─ The cold air is pleasant to the eyes; sunshine, light, and wind are intolerable. ─ Painful dryness of the interior of the eyes. ─ Asthenopia with congestive headache; eyes < morning and evening; > middle day, and by bathing them in cold water. ─ Sharp pain over l. eye, running of tears, and sensitive to light.

Ears

Over-sensitiveness of nerves; scratching of linen or silk is insupportable. ─ Pressure and tension in the region of the orifice of the meatus auditorius. ─ Deafness in one or both ears. ─ Sensation as if ears closed or plugged with some foreign substance.

Face

Warm feeling in face; all symptoms disappear on applying cold water, but return soon after.

Mouth

Disgusting taste in the mouth. ─ Accumulation of cold, watery saliva in the mouth. ─ Bread tastes bitter. ─ Tobacco tastes bitter when smoking. ─ Burning across tongue. ─ Biting on tongue. ─ Tongue somewhat whitish and thickly furred. ─ Stomacace.

Throat

Tough phlegm in throat; can't raise it.

Stomach

Eructations putrid or sour, setting the teeth on edge. ─ Frequent empty eructations. ─ Violent, empty retching, which increases all the symptoms, only relieving the stupid feeling about the head, which decreases. ─ Heartburn. ─ Attacks of nausea; < after eating; tongue clean. ─ Want of appetite, even nauseated by food. ─ Nausea and inclination to vomit. ─ Vomiting with great anguish, under violent exertion, with chilliness. ─ Vomiting, with diarrhœa and violent colic. ─ Pressing digging and feeling of discomfort in pit of stomach. ─ Horrible sensation at epigastrium on waking (in drunkards). ─ Unquenchable longing for alcohol.

Abdomen

Oppression around navel, three or four times after each meal, lasting one hour. ─ Pain in region of descending colon, with discharge of stringy mucus.

Stool and Anus

Diarrhœa, consisting of tenacious mucus. ─ A long yellow twisted string of inodorous mucus, with pain in abdomen. ─ Lientery. ─ During stool, discharge of thick, black blood. ─ Prolapsus ani during stool. ─ After stool, pressing and straining, and discharge of white, viscid, bloody mucus. ─ Before stool, cutting in the abdomen, and sharp stitches in the rectum, from above downward.

Male Sexual Organs

Violent pains in l. groin, darting through urethra to glans.

Female Sexual Organs

Menses too early and long-lasting, blood black. ─ Headache often appears before and after menses. ─ Violent pain in small of back, at the appearance of menses, scarcely permitting her to breathe. ─ Tenacious yellow leucorrhœa. ─ Vaginal fistula. ─ Nausea of pregnancy. ─ Threatened abortion from excessive sensibility of nerves.

Respiratory Organs

Stitches and constriction in larynx; > by cough. ─ Frequent cough on account of mucus in chest; mucus rises into throat, causing difficult breathing, and finally cough with expectoration. ─ Constant short, hacking cough of consumptives.

Chest

Sharp pressure in region of last ribs as with the back of a knife. ─ Pain round both lungs as if they were constricted by a wire. ─ Frequent stitches in both lungs during inspiration.

Limbs

Lightness of all the limbs; he does not perceive that he has a body.

Upper Limbs

Sweat in axillæ smelling sour. ─ Laming pain in l. wrist.

Lower Limbs

Dull pressure in the right hip. ─ Chronic sciatica. ─ Gurgling sensation in patella.

Generalities

Excessive sensibility of all the nerves; when merely thinking (and this he must continually) that some one might, with the finger-tip or nail, scratch even lightly on linen or similar materials, a most disagreeable sensation thrills through him, arresting momentarily all his thoughts and actions.

Sleep

Great drowsiness by day. ─ Frequent yawning. ─ Short breath by night. ─ Nightly vexatious dreams, about humiliations. ─ Restless sleep.

Fever

Pulse full and accelerated. ─ Chilliness and coldness, after eating and drinking, with heat of the head. ─ Nervous chilliness; single parts get icy cold. ─ Cold feeling not > by covering or heat of room. ─ Heat esp. in the face, and in the palms of the hands. ─ Perspiration smelling sour at night in the armpits. ─ Easily excited perspiration, esp. on the upper part of the body. ─ Slow fevers.

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Mind

Gradual vanishing of thought, as when falling asleep.
Stupid feeling in head, has no desire to do anything.
Imagines he is hovering in air like a spirit, when walking in open air.
Great merriment, alternating with occasional momentary quiet or gloominess.
Tearful sadness and anxiety.
Melancholic irritability.
Nervous irritability and exaltation. See 24 .
Cold "shivers" from any emotion.

Sensorium

Confusion of head less perceptible when walking than when sitting, with pressure in eyes as with a dull point from within outward, especially below right eyelid.
During retching all symptoms increase, only stupid feeling in head decreases.
Sensation of lightness in limbs ; when she walks she thinks she is gliding through air.
Vertigo, with anxiety. θ Cholerine.
Early in morning, when rising, dizziness and drowsiness of head, with headache in left side of forehead.
Stupid feeling in head, has no desire to do anything.

Inner head

Aching pain in forehead, with muddled state of mind.
Aching in temples, especially left.
Violent pressure in forehead, downward upon eyes.
Frontal headache, with nausea.
Tearing, pressive pain in left temple.
Pain, as from contraction in forehead, temples, and behind ears, with watering and burning of eyes, < in afternoon (5 P. M.), > when sitting, and by washing, but not by wiping.
Dull headache in left temple, afterwards below parietal bones, lastly in occiput.
Pressive headache : above root of nose ; in temples, particularly left.
Pressure over greater part of brain, from without inward.
Drawing headache, as if temple would be drawn in (at noon) ; ameliorated in open air and when lying down.
Intense, compressive headache in left temple, and behind ears ; more violent when walking or shaking head ; > when sitting.
Tearing, pulsating pain in forehead, excited by stooping.
Throbbing headache in morning, early, when rising.
Headache, with pain in both eyes, and nausea.

Outer head

Pain externally on sides of head. θ Headache.
Itching, beginning with fine stitches, below left temple.
Sensation of coldness at a small spot on left side of head, above ear.
Tension of whole scalp, making hair feel painful.
Hair does not bear combing.

Sight and eyes

Obscuration of sight.
When reading, sensation in eyes as if they would be pressed asunder.
Cannot read with left eye, aggravated by bright light.
Asthenopia, accompanied by congestive headaches ; eyes < morning and evening, when out-doors in heat and sunlight ; > in middle of day and by bathing them in cold water.
The cold air is pleasant to eyes ; sunshine, light and wind are intolerable.
Jerking pains in eyes, with vomiting and hysteria. θ After operation on eye.
Pressure in left eye. See 2 .
Staring eyes.
Painful feeling of dryness in eye.
(OBS :) Thickening of cornea.
Sharp pain over left eye, with running of tears and sensitiveness of sight.
Injected conjunctivæ, with stinging in canthi.
Left upper eyelid is somewhat swollen ; eye cannot endure much reading.
Inflamed eyes, bleareyedness.
Watering and burning of eyes.

Hearing and ears

Oversensitiveness of nerves, scratching of linen or silk is insupportable.
Dull roaring in left ear like a distant tornado ; in right distinct singing.
Diminished hearing of left ear.
Sensation as if a skin was stretched over right external ear, with tensive pressure within ; < in cold.
Sensation as if ears were closed or plugged up with some foreign substance.
Deafness in one or both ears. θ Catarrh.
Pressure and tension in region of orifice of meatus externus with many symptoms.
Right auricle hard to touch.

Smell and nose

Sharp aching above roots of nose.
Some coryza and sneezing, with sensation as if ears were closed or plugged up with some foreign substance, with deafness.
Discharge of bloody mucus from nose ; streak of pure blood.
Dry coryza ; left nostril stopped up.
Tickling in nose, causing, after unsuccessful efforts, a sneeze, and discharge of clear fluid.
Violent sneezing.

Upper face

Warmth of cheeks.
Fine stinging on right cheek ; burning stinging pain in left.

Lower face

Dryness of inner side of lower lip.
Cutting pain, with cramp at articulation of lower jaw.

Teeth and gums

Teeth of left side feel as if hollow.
Cold feeling in upper incisors as from a cold breath.
Smarting sensation in gums.

Taste, speech, tongue

Most disgusting taste in mouth, at first sour, later bitter. θ Cholerine.
Bread tastes bitter.
Tobacco tastes bitter when smoking.
Burning sensation across tongue.
Biting on tongue.
Tongue clean, with choleralike symptoms.
Tongue somewhat whitish and thickly furred. θ Cholerine.

Inner mouth

Mucus in mouth, of a sweetish, insipid taste.
Accumulation of much water in mouth, with nausea.
Cold, watery saliva accumulates in mouth.
Stomacace.

Palate and throat

Dryness in throat, with stitches.
Scraping in throat.
Tough mucus in throat ; is unable to raise it, or hawk it loose.
Swallowing difficult, as from swelling of glands of throat.
Accumulation of tough phlegm in throat.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Early morning hunger.
Want of appetite, even nauseated by food. θ Cholerine.
Loathing of food without any gastric derangement.
Unconquerable longing for alcohol.

Eating and drinking

After dinner : great lassitude.
When drinking : chilliness.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Hiccough.
Imperfect eructations reaching only to upper part of chest.
Frequent empty eructations. θ Cholerine.
Putrid eructations.
Heartburn, with sour belching, setting teeth on edge.
Nausea with shuddering.
Nausea, with disinclination to attend to business ; laziness and sensation as if without a head.
Attacks of nausea ; < after eating ; tongue clean. θ Cholerine.
Nausea and vomituritio. θ Cholerine.
Violent, empty, retching, which increases all symptoms, only relieving head.
Vomiting : of only a small quantity of greenish, somewhat sour fluid ; with great straining, and sensation about ears as if head would split ; of bile and mucus streaked with blood ; with diarrhœa and violent colic.
Vomiting of whitish or greenish phlegm. θ Cholerine.
Vomiting, with great anguish, under violent exertion, with chilliness.
After vomiting, relief of head symptoms.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Pressing, digging and feeling of discomfort in pit of stomach. θ Cholerine.
Pressure in stomach, scrobiculum and abdomen.
Sensation of constriction in region of diaphragm.
Horrible sensation at epigastrium when getting awake in morning. θ With drunkards.

Hypochondria

Aching in spleen.

Abdomen and loins

Oppression around navel, three or four hours after each meal, lasting one hour.
Cutting bellyache, with vomiting.
Pinching pain in left side of abdomen extending to back.
Pain in region of descending colon with discharges of stringy mucus.
Cutting pain in upper abdomen, > by passing flatus.
Violent colic and vomiting.
Rumbling and gurgling in abdomen.
Worms.

Stools and rectum

Stools whitish-grey, or ash-colored, on the top like bloody mucus.
A long yellow twisted string of inodorous mucus in three or four stools, with pain in abdomen.
Diarrhœa, passes shaggy masses of mucus, inodorous and full of ascarides.
Diarrhœa of tenacious mucus.
An hour and a half after stool he has another pressing desire, with cutting in abdomen and rectum before and during stool, which is softer than the former.
Yellowish brownish diarrhœa. θ Cholerine.
Lientery ; watery stools after a meal, very weakening.
Scanty, yellow, mucous stool.
Diarrhœa : in chilly, nervous persons ; from debility ; during hectic or slow fever.
Before stool, cutting in abdomen and sharp stitches in rectum, from above downward.
During stool : discharge of thick, black blood ; prolapsus ani.
After stool : pressing and straining, and discharge of white, viscid, bloody mucus.
Costiveness. θ Headache.
Passes thick, black blood, with stool.

Urinary organs

Constant desire to urinate.
Pressure on bladder during and after emission of urine.

Male sexual organs

Impotence.
Violent pain in left groin, darting through urethra to glans, in which a violent smarting, contracted pain remains for a long time.

Female sexual organs

Menstrual colic.
Catamenia too early and long lasting, blood black.
Headache often appears before and after catamenia.
At appearance of menses violent pain in small of back, which scarcely permits her to breathe.
Tenacious yellow leucorrhœa.
Vaginal fistula.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

Excessive sickness during first months of pregnancy, stomach rejecting everything.
Nausea and vomiting during pregnancy.
Threatened abortion from excessive sensibility of nerves ; even imagining something unpleasant causes thrills to pass through her, momentarily arresting thought.
Long yellow twisted string of inodorous mucus ( See 20 ), with pain in belly occurring from two to four months after confinement.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Stitches and constriction in larynx.

Respiration

Breath very short (night).
Whistling breathing at beginning of coughing.
Short, jerking breathing on account of stitches and constriction of larynx.
Dull stitches in both lungs during inspiration.

Cough

Frequent cough on account of mucus in chest ; mucus rises into throat, causing difficult breathing, and finally cough, with expectoration.
Inhalation causes irritation to cough, in throat.
Constant short, hacking cough of consumptives.
Cough relieves constriction of larynx.

Inner chest and lungs

Stitches in right or both lungs during inhalation.
Sharp pressure in region of last ribs, as with back of a knife.
Pain around both lungs, as if they were constricted by a thin wire.
Pain in sides.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Pulse : quick and strong ; full and accelerated.
The arterial beat is felt through whole body.

Outer chest

Burning sensation, right chest, more external than internal.

Neck and back

Stiff neck, with thirst, early in morning.
Dull stitches under scapulæ.
Laming pain as if bruised in one of cervical muscles, when moving head.
Sensation in muscles of neck as from a tight cravat, or as if pressed upon by a dull edge.
Sore pain along inner border of right scapula.
Burning pain, with stitches in small of back, while sitting.
Tearing pain from crest of one ilium to the other.
Bruised pain in back.
Violent pain in small of back, she can hardly breathe ; beginning of menses.

Upper limbs

Sweat in axillæ smelling sour.
Violent stitch in both shoulders during motion or rest.
Contractive tensive pain in deltoid muscle, when laying hand on table, and while it lies there.
Drawing laming pain in left wrist.
Sudden drawing burning pain from wrist through thumb and index finger.

Lower limbs

(OBS :) Chronic sciatica.
Dull pressure in right hip.
Drawing tensive pain in head of left femur.
Severe pain in hip joint and middle of thigh when stepping ; the foot feels as if paralyzed, he cannot step properly thereon.
Severe rheumatic tearing stitches in knees, during motion and at rest.
Lassitude in knees.
Drawing in hamstrings when lying in bed ; in knee.
Gurgling sensation in patella.
Bruised feeling in left tibia.
Stitches in ankles and soles.
The little toes pain as if frozen.

Limbs in general

Lightness of all limbs ; he does not perceive that he has a body.
Occasional darting and tearing pains in upper and lower limbs.
Rheumatism < in dry, cold weather.

Rest. position. motion

Sitting : confusion of head < ; pain in head > ; pain in small of back ; headache ; nausea and weakness <.
Lying : headache > ; drawing in knees and hamstrings ; weakness and nausea > ; heat of face and palms.
Rest : stitch in shoulders ; stitches in knees.
Motion : stitch in shoulders ; stitches in knees.
Walking : confusion of head > ; headache <.
Shaking head ; headache <.
Moving head : pain in cervical muscles.
Stooping : pain in forehead.

Nerves

Excessive sensibility of all nerves. See 24 .
Great nervous irritation.
Hysteria.
Excessive sensibility of all the nerves when merely thinking (and this he must continually) that some one might with the finger tip or nail scratch even lightly on linen or similar material ; a most disagreeable sensation thrills through him, arresting
momentarily all his thoughts and actions.
Great lassitude.
Great faintness and constant yawning.
General weary feeling.
So weak and nauseated towards evening, that when he rises to sitting posture he feels as if he would instantly sink down and die ; he must lie in bed.
So weak he staggers, unless his mind is on his walking.

Sleep

Evening in bed, agitation in blood, prevents sleep for two hours.
After lying down in evening, sweat.
Condition of mind as if just falling asleep ; gradual vanishing of ideas.
Frequent yawning.
Great drowsiness by day.
Restless sleep.
Short breath at night.
Nightly vexatious dreams about humiliations.

Time

Morning : dizziness and drowsiness ; headache on rising ; eyes < ; hunger ; horrible sensation in epigastrium on awaking ; stiff neck.
Forenoon : chilly, cold feeling <.
Midday : eyes >.
During day : drowsiness.
At 5 P. M. : pain in head <.
Towards evening : weakness and nausea <.
Evening : eyes < ; heat of face and palms ; cutaneous diseases < ; sweat.
Night : shortness of breathing.

Temperature and weather

Dry, cold weather : rheumatism <.
Open air : headache > ; chilly, cold feeling worse.
In heat, sunlight and wind : eyes worse.
Cold water : eyes better.
Cold air : eyes > ; ears worse.
Hottest weather : cold hands, feet, abdomen or knees, not better.
Covering, or warm room : cold feeling no better.
Washing : pain in head better.
Damp weather : symptoms improve.

Fever

Chills during day, without thirst.
Nervous chilliness, single parts icy cold. θ Chorea season.
Cold hands, feet, knees or abdomen ; even hottest weather does not relieve ; timid, nervous persons.
Chill and cold feeling in forenoon, after eating or drinking, and in open air, generally with heat of head.
Great want of vital heat ; feels cold continually.
Cold feeling, not relieved by covering, or warmth of room.
Heat in evening, after lying down, particularly in face and palms of hands.
Alternate flushes of burning heat and coldness.
Sweat increased at night, of sour smell ; most profuse in axillæ.
Sweats easily, particularly on upper part of body.
Slow fevers, no reaction from spinal enervation.
Typhus.

Locality and direction

Right : pressure below eyelid ; singing in ear ; sensation of skin stretched over external ear ; pressure within ear ; stinging in cheek ; stitches in lungs ; burning in chest ; pain border of scapula ; pressure in hip.
Left : side of forehead and temple ache ; coldness side of head ; pressure in eye ; upper eyelid swollen ; roaring in ear ; ear deaf : nostril stopped ; stinging pain in cheek ; teeth feel hollow ; pain side of abdomen ; pain in
groin ; pain head of femur ; bruised feeling in tibia.
Above downward : pressure in forehead ; cutting in abdomen.
Within outward : pressure in eyes.
Without inward : pressure over brain.
Before backward : pain in abdomen.

Sensations

As if temple would be drawn in ; teeth as if loose ; as if without a head ; foot feels as if paralyzed ; as if he would sink down and die ; lightness in limbs, as if gliding through air ; as if a skin was stretched over right ear ; as if ears
were plugged ; as if pressed asunder in eyes ; as if constricted by a thin wire both lungs ; as from a tight cravat in muscles of neck ; as if frozen in little toe ; horrible sensation at epigastrium.
Cutting : articulation of lower jaw ; bellyache ; in upper abdomen ; in rectum.
Violent pain : in left groin darting through urethra to glans ; in small of back.
Tearing pulsating pain in forehead.
Tearing : in left temple ; from crest of one ilium to the other ; in knees ; through limbs.
Darting : through urethra ; through limbs.
Dull stitches : in lungs ; under scapulæ.
Fine stitches : below left temple.
Stitches : in throat ; in rectum ; in larynx ; in small of back ; in shoulders ; in knees ; in ankles ; in soles.
Stinging : in canthi ; or right cheek ; and burning in left cheek.
Burning : of eyes ; across tongue ; in right chest ; in small of back.
Biting : on tongue.
Smarting : in gums ; in glans penis.
Pinching : in left side of abdomen to back.
Compressive pain : in left temple ; behind ears.
Drawing : in temple ; in left wrist ; through thumb to index finger ; in head of left femur ; in hamstrings.
Sore pain : along inner border of right scapula.
Scraping : in throat.
Aching : in forehead ; in temples ; above root of nose ; in spleen.
Rheumatic pain : in knees.
Bruised pain : in cervical muscles ; in back ; in left tibia.
Sharp pain : over left eye.
Laming pain : in cervical muscles.
Pressure : in left eye ; in eyes as with a dull point from within outward ; in forehead upon the eyes ; above root of nose ; over brain ; in pit of stomach and abdomen ; in rectum ; on bladder ; in region of last ribs ; in right hip.
Throbbing : headache.
Jerking : in eyes.
Cramp : at articulation of lower jaw.
Contractive pain : in forehead, temples, and behind ears ; in glans penis ; in deltoid muscle.
Constriction : in region of diaphragm ; in larynx.
Tension : of scalp ; in orifice of meatus.
Tensive pressure : in ear.
Undefined pain : in eyes ; on sides of head ; in region of descending colon ; in small of back ; in sides ; in abdomen.
Gurgling : in patella.
Paralyzed feeling : in foot.
Oppression : around navel.
Coldness : above left ear ; in upper incisors.
Itching : below left temple.
Tickling : in nose.
Dryness : in eye ; in throat ; inner side of lower lip.

Tissues

Irritability of the nerves.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Touch : auricle hot.
After operation on the eye : jerking pain.

Skin

Skin
Discharge of bloody and slimy matter from ulcers.
Jaundice.

Stage of life, constitution

Plethoric young woman suffered for years from headaches.
Nervous temperament, excitable or melancholic mood.
Nervous, anxious people. θ During cholera season.
Drunkards ; popular in Russia.

Relations

Antidotes to Asar. : Camphor , vinegar, vegetable acids.
Followed by : Bismuth .
Compare : Acon., Aloes (stringy stools) ; Camphor (cholerine) ; Cuprum, Hepar, Ipec . (cholerine) ; Mercur . (stringy
stools) ; Nux vom., Phosphor., Podoph . (stringy stools) ; Pulsat . (stringy stools) ; Sepia, Stramon., Sulph. ac . (stringy stools) ; Tabac .
(cholerine) ; Veratr . (cholerine).