Materia Medica de A a Z

ASAFOETIDA (asaf)

Region

NERVES. Mind. Gullet. Digestive tract. Periosteum (Ears. Nose. Tibia). Left side.

Worse

Night. In room. Rest. Eating. Suppression. Mercury. Noise. Sitting. Warm wraps.

Better

Motion in open air. Pressure.

General

Full, stout aspect, but intolerably nervous and OVERSENSITIVE. its of violent, hard throbbing, pressure, sharp sticking, etc. Clavus. Easy relapses. Bone aches. Pains extend outward, are associated with numbness and change place or are amel. by touch. Boring. Blueness. Foul, thin acrid secretions..................... Magnifies her symptoms. Craves sympathy. Fickleness. Fainting. Hysteria. Clutches throat. Occipital ache amel. stool. Eyelids stick to ball. Numb about eyes. Ozona. Puffy, purple face, as if heated. Greasy taste. Everything presses toward throat. Globus. Spasm of gullet and stomach. Rancid or explosive belching. Regurgitations. Flatulence; sudden; pushing upward, hysterical. Wind colic. Reverse peristalsis. Bowels seem knotted. Foul, dark watery diarrhoa. Spasmodic tightness of chest. Heart seems full, distended. Reflex heart symptoms, of nervous origin. Dark red swelling. Eruption of air vesicles. Bluish ulcers; with high sensitive edges. Foul, burrowing pus. Caries.

Related: Aur; Lach; Sumb; Val. (Valer).