Asarum Europæum asar.

NERVES. Mucous membranes. Female organs.

PENETRATING SOUNDS. Dry. Cold. Emotions.

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

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

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: Arg-n. Castor. Ther.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Smoking tobacco tastes bitter.

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

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

Caustic., Silic., Pulsat.

Camphor.

European Snake-root (ASARUM EUROPUM)

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Nervous, hacking cough. Short respiration.

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

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

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

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

Third to sixth potency.

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

Nervous irritability and exaltation.

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.

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

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

Accumulation of cold, watery saliva in the mouth.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Asarum Europœum.

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

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

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 > .

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Tough phlegm in throat; can't raise it.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Gradual vanishing of thought, like when falling asleep.
Imagines he in hovering in the air like a spirit, when walking in the open air.
Stupid feeling in the head, has no desire to do anything.
Great merriness, alternating with occasional momentary quiet or gloominess.
Tearful sadness and anxiety.
Melancholic irritability.

Dull headache in the left temple, afterwards below the parietal bones, lastly in occiput.
Pressive headache above the root of the nose; in the temples, particularly the left.
Pressure over greater part of brain from without inwards.
Drawing headache as if the temple would be drawn in (at noon), ameliorated in the open air and when lying down.
Very sensitive compressive headache in the left temple and behind the ears, more violent when walking or shaking the head, better when sitting.
Tearing, pulsating pain in forehead, excited by stooping.

Itching, beginning with fine stitches, below the left temple.
Sensation of coldness at a small spot on the left side of head, above the ear.
Tension of the scalp; the hair feels painful.

Left upper eyelid is somewhat swollen, the eye can not endure much reading.
Sensation in each eye as if it would be pressed asunder, when reading.
Painful dryness of the eyes.
Watering and burning of the eyes.

Right auricle hot to the touch.
Oversensitiveness of the nerves, the scratching of linen or silk is insupportable.
Dull roaring of the left ear, like a distant wind-storm; in the right distinct singing.
Diminished hearing of the left ear.
Sensation as if the skin were stretched over the right external ear, with tensive pressure within; worse in cold.

Discharge of bloody mucus from the nose.
Dry coryza; the left nostril is stopped up.
Tickling in the nose, causing, after unsuccessful efforts, a sneeze, and discharges of clear fluid.
Violent sneezing.

Warmth of the cheeks.
Fine stinging on the right cheek.
Burning-stinging pain on the left cheek.

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

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

Bread tastes bitter.
Tobacco tastes bitter when smoking.
Burning sensation across the tongue.

Mucus in the mouth, of a sweetish, insipid taste.
Accumulation of much water in the mouth, with nausea.

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

Loathing of food without any gastric derangement.
Unconquerable longing for alcohol.

Early morning hunger.

Hiccough.
Frequent empty eructations.
Imperfect eructations reaching only to upper part of chest.
Continuous nausea and inclination to vomit (in fauces).
Empty retching; during retchings all symptoms are aggravated, except stupid feeling of head, which decreases.
Vomiting of only a small quantity of greenish, somewhat sour fluid; with great straining, and sensation about the ears as if the head would split.
After vomiting, relief of the head symptoms.

Pressure in stomach, scrobiculum and abdomen.
Sensation of constriction in the region of the diaphragm.

Cutting pain in the upper abdomen, better by passing flatus.
Violent colic and vomiting.
Rumbling and gurgling in the abdomen.

Before stool, cutting in the abdomen and sharp stitches in the rectum, from above downwards.
Stool: whitish-grey, or ash-colored, on the top like bloody mucus; shaggy masses of mucus full of oxyuria.

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

At the appearance of the menses violent pain in small of the back, which scarcely permits her to breathe.
Vaginal fistula.

Threatened abortion from excessive sensibility of the nerves.

Stitches and constriction in the larynx.

Breath very short (night).
Whistling breathing at the beginning of coughing.
Short, jerking breathing on account of stitches and constriction of larynx.

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

Stitches in right or both lungs during inhalation.
Sharp pressure in the region of the last ribs.
Pain around both lungs, as if constricted by a thin wire.

Pulse quick and strong.

Burning sensation, right chest, more external than internal.

Sensation in the muscles of the neck like from a tight cravat, or as if pressed upon by a dull edge.
Burning pain, with stitches in small of back, while sitting.
Tearing pain from crest of one ilium to the other.
Bruised pain in the back.
Dull stitches under the scapulæ.
Laming pains as if bruised in one of the cervical muscles, when moving the head.

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

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

Lightness of all the limbs; he does not perceive that he has a body.
Occasional darting and tearing pains in limbs.

Rest or motion: 32, 33. Moving head: 31. Shaking head: 3. Rising: 2. Stepping: 33. Walking: 2, 3. Stooping: 3. Sitting: 3, 31. Lying down: 3. After lying down: 40. Lying in bed: 33. Must lie down: 36. Rising to sitting posture: 36. Standing: 33.

Great lassitude.
Great faintness and constant yawning.
General weary feeling.
So weak and nauseated toward evening, that when he rises to sitting posture he feels as if he would instantly sink down and die; he must lie in bed.

Frequent yawning.
Great drowsiness by day.
Restless sleep.
Nightly vexatious dreams about humiliations.

Early morning: 15. Forenoon: 40. Noon: 3. Evening: 33, 36, 40. Night: 26, 37, 40. Day: 37, 40.

Warmth or covering 40. ▶ Open air: 40. Walking in open air: 2. Cold: 6.
Dry, cold weather aggravates rheumatism.

Chill and cold feeling in the forenoon, after eating or drinking, and in the open air, generally with heat of the head.
Great want of vital heat; feels cold continually. θ With vaginal fistula.
Cold feeling, not relieved by covering, or warmth of room.
Heat in the evening, after lying down, particularly in the face and palms of hands.
Alternate flushes of burning heat and coldness.
Sweat increased at night, sour smell; moist, profuse in axilla.
Sweats easily, particularly on the upper body.

Right: 6, 8, 28, 30, 33. Left: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 22, 32, 33. Above downwards: 20. Below upwards: 27. Without inwards: 3.

Excessive sensibility of all the nerves; when merely thinking (and this he must do continually) that some one might, with 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.

Touch: 6.

Nervous temperament, excitable, or melancholic mood.

Compare Cuprum, Nux vom., Phosphor.
Antidotes to Asar.: Camphor., vinegar, vegetable acids.

The Asarabacca (Asarum Europæum, L.) is a native of Europe and closely allied to the American wild ginger, Asarum Canadense. It grows close to the ground and has a creeping, knotty root; the whole plant is used for a tincture.

Its chief action seems to be upon the nervous system; general and excessive erethism, neuralgic pains and spasmodic muscular actions predominate. ▶ Great loss of energy accompanies the general symptoms.

(Group for study). ▶ Piper methysticum and ingrum, Nux moschata, Moschus.

▶ Sensibility of all nerves, when merely imagining (which he is constantly obliged to do) that some one is scratching even slightly on linen, or some similar substance, with finger-tips or nails, a disagreeable sensation thrills through him, arresting thoughts and functions. ▶ Ebullitions of blood evening in bed, preventing sleep. ▶ General discomfort, with nausea. ▶ Laziness, with slowness. ▶ Weakness every afternoon, with constant yawning; such weakness in evening as soon as he rises from a seat, with nausea, that he felt as if he would die; weakness after dinner; weariness, sometimes as if bruised all over (Arnica).

Very valuable in certain forms of irritable nerves (anæmia) with the above peculiar sensitiveness, associated with asthenopia, nervous deafness, loss of appetite, flatulence and nervous hacking cough.

Nausea, eructations and vomiting, especially during pregnancy, with the peculiar and excessive sensitiveness of the drug. ▶ Desire for alcoholic drinks is said to be controlled by Asarum. ▶ "Strings of odorless mucus pass from the bowels; whether this drug will prove curative in catarrh of the bowels remains to be proven, many of the symptoms point to its homœopathicity to that condition.

Imagines that he is hovering in air when walking, like a spirit. ▶ Thoughts so overstrained that they vanish. ▶ Mental faculties fail, amel. vomiting. ▶ Thoughts vanish when attempting to reflect, with drawing pressure in forehead. ▶ Ideas gradually vanish, as when falling asleep. ▶ Stupidity, with increase of headache and nausea when trying to reflect. ▶ Gayety alternating with calmness or even sadness. ▶ Angry and cross before the cough. ▶ Weeping, sadness and anxiety. ▶ Melancholy, fretful.

Aching (amel. vomiting); with heat of cheeks, both amel. walking in open air; in different places in brain, mingled with various sensation when bending head to left, pain as if a bundle of muscular fibres had been displaced by violent exertion, the pain extending over left temple and behind ear towards left shoulder, increasing and decreasing synchronously with the pulse; drawing, as if it would extend into temples, at noon, amel. open air and lying down. ▶ Pressure inward over a greater part of the brain; pressure in brain, mostly forward.

Drawing (stupefying) here and there in brain, in ear and in nape of neck. ▶ Stupid feeling, with indisposition to do anything. ▶ Weight as if some wabbling body were in it, which lets its weight be felt when head is turned forward or backward; weight and confusion, with pressure on sagittal suture, as if intoxicated. ▶ Confusion and stupidity, with tension in region of ears; confusion amel. walking, with pressure outward as with a dull point in eyes, especially below right lid; painful tensive confusion. ▶ Vertigo morning on rising, with aching in left forehead; amel. washing face with cold water, with headache, both returning on drying face; in evening, as if not standing securely; as from intoxication, when rising from a seat and walking.

Tearing after stooping and raising head again; pulsative tearing. ▶ Aching above root of nose. ▶ A. causing a stupid feeling, as after being waked too early; drawing, in brain below forehead, agg. when retching; pressing upon eyes, which then water; throbbing, morning on rising; throbbing from stooping. ▶ Pressure downward; as from a stone in brain.

Tearing in left. ▶ Aching, agg. left, in left, with confusion, then below parietal, bones, then on occiput; compressive, in left and behind ears, agg. walking or shaking head, amel. sitting.

Headache along coronal suture in attacks, with qualmishness in abdomen. ▶ Pressure outward in sides of head. ▶ Pressure in left occiput, extending to side of head. ▶ Feels pulsations in arteries of occiput, then in whole body. ▶ Tension of scalp, making hair painful.

Tearing in interior of left synchronous with pulse. ▶ Pressure in left ; as soon as he reads sensation as if pressed asunder. ▶ Warmth and pressure in, with diminished lustre. ▶ Painful feeling of dryness interiorly. ▶ Feeling of dryness and drawing. ▶ Lids, swelling of left upper, with inability to endure much reading; twitching of right lower; paroxysmal twitching sensation in left upper, when holding lid still, amel. raising lid; crawling under upper, agg. left ; dry burning in lids and inner canthi (Sulph.), agg. left, feeling in right outer canthus as from a cold breath. ▶ Vision obscured. ▶ Does not perceive objects around him.

Pinching like earache in external and middle. ▶ Pain in meatus auditorius owing to pressive tension. ▶ Pressure behind and below left. ▶ Tension and pressure on right meatus auditorius, afterwards extending to right lower jaw, when violent, with cold salivation on right side. ▶ Feeling in outer and inner side of left as if cartilages were contracted. ▶ Stopped feeling in front; as if pasted up. ▶ Imagines a membrane stretched across right meatus auditorius, also with warmth in that region, also agg. during the chill, with tensive pressure in it; imagines a membrane stretches across meatus auditorius, with a compressed sensation. ▶ Hearing worse in right than left. ▶ Diminished hearing in left as if closed by the hand, with feeling as if the walls of the meatus drew nearer one another, or as if ears were stopped with cotton. ▶ Distant roaring as of a wind in left, with shrill singing in right.

Tickling, as from the copper pole of a galvanic battery, causing sneezing, after many unsuccessful attempts, and discharge of clear fluid. ▶ (Violent sneezing.). ▶ Discharge of bloody mucus. ▶ (Dry coryza, with stoppage of left nostril.).

Burning stinging in left cheek. ▶ Fine stinging in right cheek. ▶ Contractive pain in left cheek, with thrusts, and with drawing pain in third molar. ▶ Dryness of inner side of lower lip. ▶ Cutting cramp-pain in articulation of jaw.

Feeling in upper incisors as from a cool breath; left teeth feel as if hollow. ▶ Tongue coated white. ▶ Smarting of tongue and gums. ▶ Burning across middle of tongue, then burning and dryness in whole mouth, the burning amel. by washing face in cold water, but returning on drying face. ▶ Sweetish, insipid mucus. ▶ Contractive sensation, causing watery salivation. ▶ Saliva hot when discharged; saliva and breath feel hot, without dry feeling in mouth. ▶ Saliva tenacious. ▶ Cool salivation. ▶ Taste as from a foul stomach. ▶ Bitter taste to bread; to dry bread in evening; to tobacco when smoking. ▶ Smoking tobacco gives no pleasure.

Scraping. ▶ Nausea in fauces. ▶ Tough mucus, which he cannot hawk up. ▶ Dryness, with stinging. ▶ Swallowing difficult, as if cervical glands were swollen.

Hunger in morning. ▶ Eructations frequent, empty; reaching only upper part of chest. ▶ Rising of air from stomach when walking in open air, with yawning twice, then eructations and emission of flatus. ▶ Hiccough. ▶ Nausea; with loathing and shuddering; with pressure in forehead and salivation; with disinclination to attend to business, laziness and want of thinking power. ▶ Retching increases in violence in proportion as it becomes more frequent, with lachrymation; empty R., with water collecting in mouth. ▶ During the retching all symptoms increase, only the stupid feeling in head decreases.

Vomiting, with anguish; V., with diarrhœa; with exertion of stomach and compression in epigastrium and head; sourish water, with great exertion, pressure on stomach and arrest of breath; scanty, greenish, sourish juice in paroxysms, with great exertion, and with every paroxysm a sensation as if head in region of ears would burst. ▶ Cutting in epigastric region, also in places, amel. emission of flatus. ▶ Pinching; in or above it. ▶ Pressure in region and pit; in region during inspiration; as from a dull point; in pit, so that he cannot decide whether he is hungry or not. ▶ Fulness, with hunger.

Painless movement of flatus. ▶ Breaking of the flatus not emitted. ▶ Cutting in morning before stool, with stitches downward in rectum. ▶ Pain; left during motion, with painful pressing; with vomiting; single painful sensations in left side, in an oblique direction below umbilicus; raging, in left groin, darting through urethra into glands and causing sore smarting, contractive pain in the same. ▶ Constrictive sensation in region of diaphragm. ▶ Fulness, with hunger. ▶ Qualmishness, with attacks of headache along coronal suture.

Urging to, an hour and a half after a stool, with cutting in abdomen and rectum before and during the stool, which is softer than the former. ▶ Diarrhœa; like resin and consisting of tough mucus, for six days shaggy masses of mucus, with ascarides. ▶ Whitish-gray and ash-colored, with bloody mucus on top. ▶ In small hard pieces. ▶ Morning stool delayed, scanty, yellow like an egg (Mucous) and in a thin string.

Pressure upon bladder during and after micturition. ▶ (Drawing in urethra.). ▶ Constant desire to urinate.

Stitches and constriction in larynx, making respiration short and jerking, the constriction amel. by hacking cough. ▶ Cough from irritation in throat caused by inspiration. ▶ Cough from mucus chest, which rises into throat and causes difficult breathing, then cough with expectoration. ▶ Expectoration by hawking and cough. ▶ Respiration, short at night; short, with constricted feeling in throat and hacking cough. ▶ (Whistling when beginning to cough.).

Twitchings in region of clavicle. ▶ Stitches during respiration; stitch on left side near pit of stomach. ▶ Pressure on; in right side, at regular intervals; in region of last ribs, as with the back of a knife. ▶ Painful stretchings in left side. ▶ Burning in right half, more external than internal. ▶ Lungs, stitches during inspiration; on deep inspiration; in right during inspiration deep-seated in left, at every inspiration, arresting breathing; pain as if constricted with a sharp wire; left, or as if cut into by the wire.

Spasmodic contractions of left cervical muscles, with bending of head towards left side, the contractions amel. by washing face with cold water, but returning on drying face. ▶ Pain in left side of nape as if a bundle of muscular fibres had been displaced by violent exertion, afterwards extending over head and shoulders. ▶ Paralytic pain as if bruised in muscles of nape when moving them. ▶ Sensation in muscles of nape as if the cravat were too tight, or as if parts were pressed by a blunt edge. ▶ Weight about neck and sensation as if muscles were compressed by a cravat.

Stitches below scapulæ. ▶ Pain across the spinal column from one crista ilii to the other as if the flesh were torn or pulled towards the outer side, in tearing jerks, when walking. ▶ Bruised pain; along inner border of right scapula on touching or moving it inward. ▶ Paralytic pain as if bruised when standing or sitting, amel. lying. ▶ Burning pain in small of back while sitting, with stitches.

▶ Lightness, he is not aware of having a body. ▶ Occasional twitching and tearing pains. ▶ Bruised feeling.

Axilla, pressure in left, as with a rough piece of board; sudden aching in axillary glands. ▶ Shoulders, tearing stitches; sprained pain when moving arm. ▶ Arm, tearing in left ; contractive tensive pain in deltoid when laying and on table, on when it lies there; discomfort and exhaustion of arm when lying on table; paralytic weakness. ▶ Wrist, drawing paralytic pain in left ; sudden drawing and burning pain extending from wrist through thumb and index. ▶ Fingers, drawing, evening in bed.

Weakness when ascending stairs; weakness as if not rested by sleep.

Spasmodic contractions near right knee, amel. extending limb. ▶ Lancinating tearing in left. ▶ Sudden digging in upper muscles of left. ▶ Pain in hip; right hip; in hip-joint and middle of thigh on touching or walking; in hip-joint and middle of thigh when stepping, with paralyzed feeling in the limb; drawing, in hips when walking; drawing and tensive, in head of left and further on, agg. walking. ▶ Pressure above bend of right knee as from something hard and blunt. ▶ Sensation from right hip-joint to knee as if it would go to sleep. ▶ Weariness and bruised feeling in thighs and knees as in a fit of ague.

Tearing stitches. ▶ Drawing; in tendons of hollows, evenings in bed. ▶ (Clucking in hollow.). ▶ Uneasiness in left, causing one to move about. ▶ Weakness, with staggering if not very careful, amel. washing face with cold water, but returning after drying face. ▶ Twitching in calf. ▶ Bruised feeling in left tibia. ▶ Left leg feels asleep and foot is insensible as when very cold, and as if dead. ▶ Sudden stitches in sole. ▶ (Toes painful as if frozen.). ▶ Drawings in toes, evening in bed.

Itching below left temple, beginning with fine stinging. ▶ Itching as from a flea-bite in front, below right axilla.

Frequent yawning. ▶ Drowsiness by day; drowsy and out of humor, amel. walking in open air. ▶ Sleep restless every other night, cannot easily fall asleep. ▶ Nightly vexing dreams about insults received.

Chilliness when drinking. ▶ Shaking over whole body. ▶ Chilliness and shivering, without thirst. ▶ C., with gooseskin, cold hands, cold and blue face. ▶ Shaking chills in evening, with faintness, especially in knees and small of back, without thirst, with cold hands and hot forehead. ▶ Shuddering, with disgust and nausea. ▶ Shivering, with heat in face. ▶ C. after the hot feeling, the heat in head and face remaining with shivering on slightest motion. ▶ C. when seated and not well covered, or when moving, but heat as soon as he covers himself, sometimes with rigors. ▶ C. all day, when sitting or lying still and keeping covered he feels only pain in eyes and forehead and pressure on pit of stomach, and sometimes external heat, but during exercise in room or exposure to open air he feels chilly, with scarcely any thirst, but when walking fast or entering warm room from open air, or when becoming heated by animated talking in room, or after dinner, or when in warm bed he feels better. ▶ Fever all day, chilliness in forenoon, then after midday nap hot feeling externally, with internal rigor and thirst. ▶ Feeling as if a cold wind blew on him, with coldness to touch, gooseskin, then heat (in afternoon), with slimy mouth, dryness in throat and thirst, then coldness as before, then in evening heat, continuing in bed, with necessity to uncover his hands and with dryness of palate. ▶ Cold feeling above left ear. ▶ Rigor in back (suddenly, from biting on a hard crust). ▶ Coldness of hands, with warmth of arms and rest of body, still they are covered with gooseflesh, and he has violent chills.

Heat; as if sweat would break out. ▶ Heat after chills, especially in face and palm, with return of the symptoms in ears. ▶ Heat of forehead and scalp, with shivering and chilliness, no thirst, pulse strong and quick. ▶ Right external ear hot to touch; warmth in region of right external meatus auditorius, with sensation as it a membrane were stretched across it. ▶ Warm feeling in cheeks; left cheek.

Sweat in evening immediately after lying down; at night; when sitting still; easily; on upper part of body and upper extremities.

Nervous erethism; pains, muscular spasms; prostration.

Extreme sensitiveness of all the nerves.
Scratching on linen, or even thinking about it (he feels himself constantly obliged to).
Causes disagreeable thrills and seems to be intolerable.
A general feeling of lightness of the limbs; when walking one seems to be floating in the air.
(Many troubles seem to be relieved by washing the face in cold water.)

Inability to think; thoughts vanish as though one were going to sleep.
Ill humor.
Sadness, with weeping.

Pressing outward, pain in the forehead, with nausea, excited by every effort of the mind.
Attacks of one-sided pain at 5 every afternoon.

Painful dryness and burning of the inner surface of the lids.
A feeling of coldness in the eyes.

Clinical:
Conjunctivitis, with stitches in the corners of the eyes.
Inflamed, watery eyes.
Burning as if from brandy in the eyes in the evening in the house, with constant lachrymation.
The inflammation of the eyes feels better in cold air, but sunlight and wind cannot be tolerated.
The eyes feel stiff.

Pressive tension at the opening of the auditory canal.
Hearing diminished.

Eructations, disagreeable.
Heartburn, with sour eructations; seem to set the teeth on edge.
Violent, empty retchings, which < all troubles.
Vomiting, with anxiety, and great nervous tension.

Griping pain in the left side, extending to the back.
Sore pain over the region of the spleen.
Violent colic, with vomiting.

Soft evacuations, with strings of reddish mucus.
Slimy diarrhœa, tenacious, with blood.

Clinical:
Evacuations thick; black blood during stool.
Diarrhœa of undigested food, especially of potatoes.
Cutting colic precedes the stool.
Prolapsus of the rectum during stool.
Stool followed by pressure, with discharge of white, tenacious, bloody mucus.

Clinical:
Menstruation too early and lasting too long, consisting of black blood.
Menses ushered in by violent pain in the lumbar vertebræ, so that she can scarcely breathe.

Difficult breathing, with stitches in the lungs, or with a feeling as if one were breathing in a sack.
(Cough from irritation in the trachea, with free expectoration of mucus. A sensation of constriction of the trachea, with short breathing.)

Cramp in the neck.
A feeling as though the neckband were too tight.
The muscles of the nape of the neck feel bruised.
Bruised pain along the back when standing or sitting, > by lying.

Drawing pain in the joints, wrists and fingers.
Persistent pressing down in the hip < by stepping.
Cramps in the thighs.
Weakness in the knees.

Falls asleep late in the evening on account of surging of blood.

Chilliness and shivering, without thirst.
Alternations of flushes of burning heat and cold.
Sweat of sour odor, especially in the axillæ.

Asar. / Asher.

Asarum- We may call on thee,
When all the nerves are on a spree.
When every slightest scratching noise,
Disturbs all mental equipoise,
Or when there comes the feeling rare,
As that of floating in the air,
Or vomiting and colic, seek
A rampage in a bilious freak.
Or when from pains, that bring to grief,
Cold water bathing gives relief.

Asher,- Has Relief by cold water applied.

Asher Clay, the black bishop, is buying Aloes, from the Caucasian lady, in the Cafe.

This Asher,- Who is subject to a sensation of Lightness, Is at Pat-Mos Vale in India, with the yellow Nun Sticta.

Relief by Cold Water Applied: Asar., Alu., Sep., Bis., Bry., Apis, Alo., Caust., Pul., Coff. (Especially in case of toothache, Bis., Bry., Pul., Caust., Coff., Sep.)

Senstation of Lightness-Floating: Asar., Pul., Thuj., Mos., Val., Can. I., Gel., Nux m., Stict. (Legs seem to have no weight, Pul.- when lying down, feet seem to float, Stict.)

Pressive confusion in head. Vanishing of thought. Melancholy peevishness. Tearful sadness. Nervous excitement with liveliness.

Pressive pain in forehead with qualmishness, worse by every mental exertion. Attacks of unilateral arthritic headache every afternoon at five o'clock. Compressive pain in forehead, temples and behind ears, with lachrymation and burning in eyes. Worse: Afternoon, walking, Better: Sitting, washing.

Entire scalp so tense that the hair feels painful, and the nerves are affected. Worse: Warm dry air. Better: Bathing in cold water.

Burning and sense of dryness within. Red conjunctiva with sticking in canthi. Sense of coldness in. Bleared, inflamed. In evening when in room, burning as from brandy in, with constant lachrymation. Cold air feels agreeable, but sunshine, light and wind are unendurable. Staring. Dim vision.

Pressure and tension on orifice of auditory canal. Diminished hearing

Much, cool, watery saliva in.

Taste: Bread and tobacco taste bitter.

Eructations: Foul. Heartburn with sour eructations which dull the teeth.

Nausea: Violent, empty retching which, worse all symptoms. Vomiting in violent efforts, with anxiety and chilliness.

Hypochondria: Smarting excoriating pain in spleen.

Pinching pain in left, extending into back. Intense colic with vomiting. Inguinal hernia.

Cutting in abdomen before. Prolapsus recti during. Discharge of black, thick blood during. After stool, pressing, with discharge of white, tenacious bloody mucus. Diarrhoea: Of tenacious, mucus, with blood, of undigested food, especially potatoes. Soft, with ascarides and reddish mucus.

Suppressed sexual desire. Menses. - Of black blood, too early and too prolonged. Violent pain in small of back, so that she can hardly breathe, at start of.

Short, as though' one were breathing in a sack.

From irritation in larynx, with copious expectoration of mucus.

Constriction of, with shortness of breath.

Contractive squeezing in lungs. Stitches in lungs during inspiration.

Bruised feeling in.

Neck: Sensation as if cravat were too tight. Contractive cramp in neck, nape and limbs.

Chronic pressive pain in hips, which impedes stepping. Cramp in thighs. Weariness in knees. Stitches in ankles.

Excessively sensitive nerves, scratching on linen, silk, etc. is unendurable. Sense of lightness of limbs, when walking he imagines himself floating in air. Symptoms from worms. Many symptoms disappear upon washing (the face) with cold water. Evening aggravation.

Late falling to sleep on account of ebullition of blood.

Pulse: Quick and strong. Chill.: Sensation of coldness in forenoon, after eating, drinking and in open air, mostly with heat of head. Much shivering during day. Coldness and chilliness without thirst. Coldness alternating with flushes of burning heat. Heat, In evening after lying down, especially on face and palms of hands. Sweat: Sour smelling, increased at night, and otherwise when sitting still, most profuse in axillae. Generally very easy, especially on upper part of body.

Allied Remedies: Cupr., Nux-v., Phos.

Oversensitiveness of the nerves; the scratching on linen or silk is unsupportable.

Sensation of lightness in the limbs; when she walks, she thinks she is gliding through the air.

Vomiting with violent retching and anxiety.

Many symptoms disappear from washing the face in cold water, from wetting the affected part.

Aggravation - evening - in cold and dry weather.