Materia Medica de A a Z

ASARUM EUROPAEUM (Asar)

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 (Chin)]. 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. Diarrhoea of tough mucus. UNDIGESTED STOOLS. Prolapse.

Female

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

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 Canadense (Asar-c) - Wild Ginger (Colds, followed by amenorrhoea and gastro-enteritis. Suppressed colds).

Compare: Ip, especially in diarrhoea; Sil; Nux-v; Chin.

Dose

Third to sixth potency.