ASAFOETIDA

ASAFOeTIDA. [Asaf.] Ferula Asafoetida. Umbelliferae.

► Unsteady and fickle, cannot persevere in any thing ; wants now one thing, then another, walks hither and thither. ► Fits of great joy, with occasional burst of laughter. ► Apprehension of dying. ► Anxious, sadness. ► Ill-humor, irritable mood. ► Hysterical restlessness and anxiety.

► Oversensitiveness either physical or mental. ► Fainting during the height of the paroxysm, of colic. ► Stupefying tension in the head mostly left side, worse afternoon or evening ; sitting bent forward ; after going to bed ; better sitting up.

► Pressure in sides of head or temples, like from a dull stick, better from touch. ► Flying stitch from within outward, in the forehead, temples and sides of the head. ► Sensation of swashing and gurgling behind the upper part of the frontal bone. ► All the headache are worse towards evening ; in the room, while at rest, sitting or lying. Better when rising or moving about in the open air.

► Cold sweat on the forehead.

► Mist before the eyes. ► Sensation of dryness in the eyes. ► Nocturnal throbbing pains in and around the eye and head. θ Syphilitic iritis. ► Sharp pain extending through the eye into the head, upon touching. ► Extensive superficial ulceration of the cornea, with burning, sticking or pressing pains, from within outwards ; rest and pressure relieve.

► Hardness of hearing, with thin, purulent discharge of offensive of odor.

► Offensive discharge from the nose. ► Stench from nose. ► Unpainful tension over nasal bones, with numbness. ► Swelling and inflammation affecting bones, with feeling as if nose would burst.

► Flushes in the face. ► Small tubercles in the cheeks.

► Lips puffed up, lower lip and left angle most. ► Drawing pains and caries of lower maxilla, with salivation.

► Bluntness of the teeth. ► Severe drawing in the lower incisors. ► Soreness of the gums.

► Greasy taste in the mouth and of the phlegm hawked up.

► Saliva predominantly decreased, except in mercurial caries, when acrid salivation exists. ► Burning in the mouth.

► Burning followed by soreness, in the fauces. ► Darting stitches, from chest upward towards oesophagus. ► Tender feeling in the throat. ► Sensation of a ball rising in the throat, may cause difficulty in breathing. ► Dryness and burning in the oesophagus. ► Sensation in the oesophagus as if the peristaltic motions were from below upwards ; globus hystericus.

► Desire for wine. ► Great disgust for all food. ► Bear tastes slimy, aversion to it.

► After eating : pressure in the stomach, stitches about the lower ribs, tension in the abdomen ; squirming and twisting in the bowels ; great difficulty in breathing ; febrile state. ► After drinking ; heaviness and cold feeling in the intestines ; diarrhoea.

► Eructations ; smelling like garlic ; tasting rancid, sharp or putrid. ► Flatus passing upwards, none down. ► Hiccough-like contractions of the diaphragm.

► Pulsation in pit of stomach. 11 A.M. cause faint feeling. ► Sensation of fullness in stomach. ► Empty, "gone" feeling in epigastrium. ► Pressing, cutting, stitching pain in spells, not regular.

► Heat in the spleen and belly. ► Violent pressure in scrobiculum towards liver, while sitting. ► Stitches as if in diaphragm, right side.

► Bellyache, as if the intestines were torn or out ; places in the side sore as if raw, with it a feeling as of something rising from chest to throat ; pressure relieves. ► Wind colic, with abdominal pulsations ; very painful distention of abdomen, rumbling ; relieved by passing wind.

► Watery stools of disgusting odor ; discharge profuse and greenish. ► Very offensive diarrhoea, with colic ; discharge of fetid flatus. ► Obstinate constipation, with abdominal and hemorrhoidal cramps. ► Only slime passes, no feces.

► Brown and of pungent odor. ► Spasms in the bladder, during and after urination.

► Needle-like stitches in the penis. ► Drawing in the glans, more during the afternoon.

► Excited sexual desire. ► Menses, too frequent, too scanty and last but a short time. ► Labor-like pains in uterine region, with cutting and bearing down. ► Bearing down in genitals, worse when riding in carriage. ► Uterine ulcer, sensitive and painful. ► Leucorrhoea profuse, greenish, thin and offensive. ► Swelling and inflammation of the genitals.

► Mammae turgid with milk, like in the ninth month ; without being pregnant. ► Deficiency of milk, with oversensitiveness.

► Voice weaker, hoarse. ► Spasms of glottis, alternating with contraction of fingers and toes.

► Spasmodic tightness of the chest as if the lungs could not be fully expanded. ► Constriction of chest, extending to the throat ; hurried breathing.

► Irritation to dry cough. ► 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 the trachea, with asthmatic feeling therein ; spasmodic contraction of thorax and accumulation of stringy mucus.

► Pressure and burning under sternum often with cough. ► Compression of chest, as from a heavy weight. ► Pressing stitches in the chest. ► Burning in chest, runs through both arms, through lower limbs down into toes. ► Single violent stitches from within outwards, at short intervals ; renewed when the chest is touched.

► Nervous palpitation, with small pulse ; from overexertion or suppression of discharges (in women). ► Pulse : unchanged ; unequal ; generally very much accelerated, but small. ► Pressure in region of heart as if heart was too full and expanded, pulse small.

► Drawing downwards, in the left side of neck, on motion. ► Stitches in the muscles of the back. ► Dull pains, or drawing and cutting below the scapulae. ► Burning along the vertebrae, to the left side. ► Aching inwardly, along the last dorsal and first lumbar vertebrae.

► Quivering in the shoulder-joint ; in deltoid muscle. ► Stitches and jerking in the upper arm. ► Drawing pain along the upper arm down to the elbow, a fine stitch in the elbow. ► Tearing in the forearm down to the tips of the fingers. ► When moving the fingers, pain in the forearm. ► Tearing stitches followed by burning in the right forearm. ► Scraping sensation on the styloid process of the ulna.

► Psoasitis if suppuration seems impending. ► Caries of the tibia. ► Swelling around the ankle, cannot use the foot. ► Sticking sensation on the ball of the great toe when putting the foot to the ground. ► Pain as if a splinter of bone was sticking in the right fibula just above the outer malleolus. θ After a sprain.

► Twitching of muscles of arms and legs. ► Pain mostly on the flexor sides of the limbs.

► Rest : 3, 5.

31. Sitting : 3, 18. Sitting up : 2. Sitting bent forward : 2. Lying : 3. After lying down : 2. Rising : 3. ► Constant change of position.

► Hysteria, with much trouble about throat or oesophagus. ► Twitching and jerking of the muscles. ► Chorea. ► Clumsiness of the body.

► Inclined to sleep. ► Sleeplessness at midnight. ► About midnight violent pains through left half of body.

► About 11 A.M. : 17. Afternoon : 2, 22, 40. From 3 to 4 P.M. : 40. Evening : 2, 3. Night : 43. Dark till 2 A.M. : neuralgia. Midnight and afternoon : 37.

► Worse in-doors, better out-doors. ► Desires for open air. ► Room : 3. Open air : 3.

► Crawls run over back, in afternoon. ► Chill, coldness and dryness of the skin ; also in caries, etc. ► Every day between 3 and 4 P.M., coldness and trembling, with unbearable stitches in the head. ► Heat in the face, after dinner, with anxiety and sleepiness, without thirst. ► Occasional cold, most skin.

► Intermittent pinching pain in ulcers.

► Right : 18, 32, 33. Left : 2, 31, 37. Within outward : 3, 5, 28. Below upwards : 13, 16, 19, 26, 32. Above downwards : 28, 31, 32.

► Numbness with the pains. ► Burning or pressing, piercing pain in the muscles. ► Crushing pains, worse at night. ► Great heaviness of the whole body. ► Pain like from splinters.

► Glands hard, swollen, hot and throbbing, with shooting-jerking pains. ► Neuralgia of the stump after amputation of the thigh. ► Ostitis, caries, bluish redness and swelling of the parts. ► Ulcers with bluish edges, hard, painful to the slightest touch ; transparent and thin, very offensive and ichorous pus. ► Soft enlargement of bones, also curvature. ► Body bloated.

► Touch : 3, 28, 46. Pressure : 5, 19. ► Riding in carriage : 23.

► Ulcers, with high, hard edges, bluish, etc., sensitive to touch, easily bleeding ; pus profuse, greenish, thin, offensive, over ichorous. ► Shooting pain around the ulcer. ► Ulcers grow black. ► Old scars break open and turn black.

► Phlegmatic temperament. ► Scrofulous, bloated, clumsy children. ► Venous, hemorrhoidal constitution. ► Nervous people. ► Syphilitic patients who have taken much mercury.

► Cognates : Aurum (bone diseases ; iritis, etc.) ; Arg. nitr. ; Ammoniacum (family relation) ; Castor., Cinchon., Caustic., Conium (family relation) ; Hepar (sensitive around ulcers, faint with pains) Ignat. (hysteria), Mercur. (syphilis) ; Moschus (hysteria, spasm of lungs, fainting, etc.) ; Pulsat. ; Thuja ; Valer. ► Antidotes to Asaf. : Pulsat., Caustic., Camphor, Cinchon., Mercur., Valer. ► If Asaf. has been abused in large doses electricity may be useful.