Asafoetida
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General EN
Asafoetida.
Narthex asafoetida. N. O. Umbelliferae. Tincture of the gum resin (obtained by incision from the living root).
Clinical EN
Asthma. Bone, disease of. Chorea. Diarrhoea. Dyspepsia. Flatulence. Headache. Heart, affections of. Hypersensitiveness. Hysteria Iritis. Lactation, disorders of. Mercury, effects of. Neuralgia. Obesity. Orbital neuralgia. Ozaena. Syphilis. Tympanitis. Ulcers. Whitlow.
Characteristics EN
The symptoms of Asafoetida 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. Diarrhoea 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 EN
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 EN
Checked skin affections.
Mind EN
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 EN
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 EN
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 EN
Hardness of hearing, with discharge of offensive, thin pus from the ears.
Nose EN
Ozaena; discharge of very offensive greenish matter from the nose; bones swollen and inflamed after Mercury or in scrofula.
Face EN
Sensation of numbness in the bones of the face; painless tension in various places
Swelling of the lower lip
Numbing pressure on chin.
Teeth EN
Grinding of teeth.—Bluntness of teeth.
Mouth EN
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 EN
Sensation of dryness in the mouth and throat
Dryness of mouth, throat, and oesophagus
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 oesophagus as if the peristaltic motions were from below upward.
Stomach EN
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 EN
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 EN
Pain in perineum, as from something dull pressing out
Stool profuse, watery, or thick, papescent, brown, and exceedingly offensive
Diarrhoea, very offensive, with pain in the abdomen and discharge of fetid flatus
Stool stinking; slow; difficult; hard.
Urinary Organs EN
Urine brown, and of pungent smell
Urine smells like ammonia
Spasm in the bladder during and after urination.
Male Sexual Organs EN
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 EN
Labour-like pains in uterine region, with cutting and bearing-down
Excited sexual desire
Leucorrhoea profuse, greenish, thin, and offensive
Swelling and inflammation of the genitals
Mammae turgid with milk; when not pregnant
Deficient milk with over-sensitiveness
Milk increased; or diminished.
Respiratory Organs EN
Spasmodic dyspnoea, 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 EN
Oppressive pressing, aching pains in the chest.—Stitches in chest (r. side), from within outward.
Heart And Pulse EN
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 EN
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 EN
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 EN
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 EN
Asthma of different kinds.—Sense of rigor.—Body heavy and bloated.—Hysterical attacks.—Hysteria, with much trouble about throat or oesophagus.—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 EN
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 EN
Much against his habit, he is much inclined to sleep.
Fever EN
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.