Asafoetida asaf

J T Kent

This remedy in olden times was frequently abused for man and beast. Our
grandfathers supposed it was a protection against disease, and hence they used it
in the stables. Lumps of "foety," as they called it, were put in the corn for the
horse, to keep off distemper. What it has accomplished I am unable to say, but it
is certain that these farmers looked upon Asafoetida as a great protective against
disease. It has been used also by the laity as a medicine for fainting, for hysteria,
and all sorts of nervous symptoms and complaints. The use is justified by the
proving. These things are scarcely worthy of note, but it shows the general use
among the people, as a domestic medicine, in crude form. It has been used more
extensively in this form than in professional practice in a legitimate way.

There is one class of patients you will find who will trouble you. Those cases that
come into your office with puffed, venous, purple faces; they have an appearance
of plethora; the face looks puffed, bloated and dropsical at times; it is a dark
red, dusky face; such a face we shall cure sometimes with Asafoetida. CARBO AN.,
AURUM, CARBO VEG. and PULSATILLA are also related to this kind of face, but it
is a very troublesome face, it shows more or less cardiac disturbance and venous
stasis. The venous side of the heart will often be involved, or be about to be
involved, when you have this kind of face. I never like to see them come into my
office, for they are hard cases to manage. They have deep-seated troubles, with
bleeding, they are subject to sudden inflammations, and they do not rally quickly.
In this constitution we have ulcerations; a little place will ulcerate and suppurate,
and the ulceration will burrow; this is just what this remedy does. Another thing
this kind of constitution will do is to set up an inflammatory condition of the
periosteum with swelling, periostitis of the tibia for instance, where the circulation
is not very active; inflammation of cartilages with tumefaction and purple skin,
stitching pains and dropsy, ulcerations and fistulous openings. This medicine is
good for just such states. "Ulcers with extreme sensitiveness."

Patients often say, "I get no sympathy when I am sick because I look so well;" fat,
flabby and purple. This remedy will seldom be thought of in lean persons; they
seem to be free from complaints like those of Asafoetida, but in fat, flabby
persons, extremely nervous, extremely sensitive to pain, full of hysteria. Purple
when out in the cold, purple when excited. In other words, you see before you the
venous constitution, and these people get the worst kind of hysteria; they go off
almost from no cause into fainting; from a close room, from excitement, from any
disturbance; sometimes cramps come on, but more especially fainting. They are
subject to stitching pains from the bone to the surface; that is, from within
out. The periosteum becomes irritated, and glands become swollen. Syphilis
sometimes produces this kind of condition. Vascular disturbances in the body;
periostitis, necrosis, induration of glands, nerve syphilis and head pains. In old
syphilitics with this kind of venous face, subject to bleeding, ulcers turn black or
become purple. In this there is a similarity to LACHESIS. Old scars turn purple,
threaten to suppurate, take on a venous aspect, become painful and turn black.
Ulcers form at the site of old scars in old syphilitic patients and sometimes in
psoric patients. Most complaints come on during rest and are better by slow
motion (PULS).

There is another grand feature running through this remedy; it is full of

discharges, catarrhal discharges, discharges from ulcers, watery discharges from
different places, and even watery stool; and all these discharges are horribly
offensive and ichorous. Deep, flat ulcers from bone and periosteal affections give
out a watery, bloody discharge that is horribly offensive, with pains shooting
outwards. Get the idea of the venous stasis well fixed in your mind and with this
syphilitic state added to it.

There are many pains running through the remedy and they are night pains like
those of syphilis, nightly bone pains, and pains in the periosteum. The ulcers are
deep, with bluish edges. Varicose veins surround the ulcers. Inflammation of the
bone and periosteum, with blueness all around the ulcers. When there has been an
inflammatory condition of the periosteum, somewhat passive in character, the skin
adheres to the bone, glues down to it by adhesion. It is too feeble to ulcerate, it
does not get up a likely inflammation, but only a passive state. The glands all over
the body are hot and throbbing, with shooting, jerking pains, in syphilis or old
psoric and scrofulous complaints.

The bone pains that are felt in the head are sometimes very distressing. Old
syphilitic bone pains in the head, stitching, penetrating. It seems where there
are lumps and nodules, about the head, this medicine seems to hurry things.
Shooting, stitching, tearing pains under left frontal eminence. This stitching pain is
sometimes described as if a nail or plug were driven into the head. These nervous
headaches are syphilitic, hysterical or scrofulous; hysterical pains described as
rending, tearing, stitching. All over the head there is stitching pain, but in the
frontal eminence, in the temples, there is a sensation as if a nail or plug were
driven in, and most of the pains seem to bore, as if they extended from the bone
to the surface, and hence are said to be from within out.

It is useful in old syphilitics who are subject to eye complaints, ulcers on the
eyeball, ulcers on the cornea, ameliorated in the open air, with a sensation of
numbness in the eyes; inflammation of the iris, with ragged appearance of the iris;
they are subject also to severe, sharp stitching pains that come from within out.
The remedy is full of burning, and so the eyeballs burn, better in the open air.
Iritis, but the inflammation sometimes involves the choroid, the retina, and
mucous membrane, making a general inflammatory condition of syphilitic
character. There are tearing pains in various places around the eyes; sticking,
stitching pains, worse at night. Ulcers, with stitching pains, worse at night.
Burning, stitching in the eyes with dryness, so that the lids stick to the balls of the
eyes, pain worse at night. There is a misty appearance before the eyes, dullness
as if looking through a fog. It also seems as if the atmosphere were filled with little
floating black flies. "Muscae voliantes." You have looked into the air and seen little
gnats and mosquitoes; well it appears to these patients as if these were there
when they are not there. The discharge from the eyes is ichorous, bloody and
often offensive.
This same syphilitic miasm may attack the ear and the bones of the ear. These
bones may decay and the hearing be lost. "Burning in the ear with discharge of
foetid pus." Stitching pains in the EARS FROM WITHIN OUT.

A horribly offensive discharge comes from the nose; ulcers high up in the nose;
caries of the bones of the nose; syphilitic ozaena. Putrid old catarrhs. "Feeling as if
the nose stopped high up, as if he could not breathe through it, with fulness of the
head, when riding in a carriage." (AURUM, AURUM MUR.)

Numbness is a great feature of this remedy, numbness of the scalp, or deep in the
head; numbness here and there; numb, dead feeling associated with the pain;
numbness after pain; often numbness after sleep. Other nervous manifestations
occur besides those that are hysterical. It has choreic motions. You would expect
such a peculiar nervous constitution to have almost everything among its nervous
symptoms. "Constantly chewing and working frothy slime out of mouth, with
swollen tongue." "Speech unintelligible." "Grinding of teeth; starting at night."
Swelling of the lips, and of the whole buccal mucous membrane, especially the
lower lip, with burning in the mouth.

There are syphilitic symptoms in the throat, attended with the usual burning,
darting, stitching in ulcers; pain when swallowing; a sensation of a ball rising in
the throat, such as occurs in globus hystericus; choking, must constantly
swallow. Hysterical and choreic affections of the oesophagus and trachea. Spasms
of the oesophagus. This lump in the throat, or suffocation, is a sort of
hysterical spasm of the oesophagus. "Dryness and burning in the oesophagus."

In the stomach troubles, if you have ever seen a typical case of Asafoetida, you
will wonder where all the air comes from; it comes up in volumes. "Hiccough-
like contractions of the diaphragm." Choreic jerkings of the diaphragm, with
expulsion of wind like the sound of a pop-gun going off almost every second. It is
a condition that the patient has no control over. It is like the shooting off of little
guns forcing loud belching, loud eructations of wind from the stomach. There are a
few symptoms mentioned in the text just here that are worthy of note. "Pulsation
in pit of stomach; perceptible to sight and touch." "Pressing, cutting, stitching
pains." A queer observation has been made that flatus was not passed downward,
but all upwards. "Eructations; smelling like garlic; tasting rancid, sharp or putrid."
Always horribly offensive. Offensiveness is a characteristic of the remedy. And
then there is a "gone empty feeling in the pit of the stomach," not a pain.
"Pulsations after eating." "Meteorism of the stomach." The remedy has many
gastric and abdominal complaints; full of bellyache; stitching pains, colic. The
diarrhoea is more or less troublesome. These patients are afflicted with diarrhoea
from the slightest indigestion, after any indiscretion in diet, a painful, watery
diarrhoea. "Liquid stools of most disgusting smell." "Blackish-brown papescent
offensive stools, which relieve."

"Bearing down in genitals, worse when riding in a carriage." "Uterine ulcer

sensitive and painful." This medicine has been very useful in palliating uterine
cancer in such constitutions as described; those with purple faces, never the very
pallid ones. Women of feeble, flabby, venous constitutions are subject to
haemorrhages and miscarriages. Women who are not pregnant sometimes have
the breasts fill up with milk, a wonderfully annoying thing, and but few remedies
have it; this is one of the few. It has also deficiency of milk. "Ten days after
delivery milk diminished."

These patients sometimes get hysterical asthma; all sorts of disturbance in

breathing, dyspnoea. "Asthmatic feeling in trachea." "Asthmatic attacks at least
once a day all her life, brought on by every bodily exertion, coition, especially by
every satisfying meal." Attacks of dyspnoea after coition, like AMBRA. "Obstinate
titillating cough < at night." Many of these complaints are worse at night; nightly
aggravations. Syphilitic complaints are commonly worse at night and such
antisyphilitic remedies as MERCURIUS, STAPHISAGRIA, HEPAR, NITRIC ACID, etc.,
are all worse at night. Among the other chest complaints, I will read a few of those
that are marked here prominently and are striking ones. "Pressure and burning of
the sternum." "Compression of chest as from a heavy weight." "Stitches in chest."
"Single, violent stitches from within outward, at short intervals."

This remedy is full of rheumatism and gouty symptoms; gouty affections in

general, in nervous constitutions. When such a nervous constitution finally
produces gouty formations, the nervousness often disappears; for it has been
relieved by the deposit in the joints; a transformation scene has taken place.

ASA FOETIDA
Gum of the Stinkasand
(ASAFOETIDA) W. Boericke

The flatulence and spasmodic contraction of stomach and oesophagus with

reverse peristalsis are the most marked symptoms. In its selection, its relation to
the hysterical and hypochondriacal patients, must be borne in mind. Besides
these superficial symptoms, it has been found to affect favorably deep
ulcerations, caries of bones, especially in the syphilitic organism; here
the extreme sensitiveness and terrible throbbing, nightly pains, guiding to its
use.

Head.--Irritable;complains of her troubles;sensitive.

Boring above eyebrows. Pressive pain from within outward.

Eyes.--Orbital neuralgia; better, pressure and rest. Iritis and intraocular

inflammations, with boring, throbbing pains at night. Stitches under left frontal
eminences. Boring pains in and around eyes. Syphilitic iritis. Superficial corneal
ulcer with digging pains; worse at night.

Ears.--Offensive otorrhea, with boring pains in mastoid bone. Mastoid disease

with pain in temporal region with pushing out sensation. Offensive, purulent
discharge.

Nose.--Syphilitic ozena, with very offensive purulent discharge. Caries of nasal

bones (Aurum).

Throat.--Globus hystericus. Ball rises in throat. Sensation as if peristaltic

motion were reversed, and esophagus were driven from stomach to throat.
Stomach.--Great difficulty in bringing up wind. Flatulence and regurgitation of
liquid. Hysterical flatulence. Great distention. Sensation of emptiness and
weakness, with distention and beating in stomach and abdomen. Forcible
eructation of gas. Pulsation in pit of stomach. Violent gastralgia; cutting and
burning in stomach and region of diaphragm. Gurgling and rolling of wind,
which escapes afterwards with loud and difficult eructation.

Female.--Mamme turgid with milk in the unimpregnated. Deficient milk, with

oversensitiveness.

Rectum.--Distended, griping, with hunger. Obstinate constipation. Pain in

perineum, as if something dull pressed out. diarrhea, extremely offensive, with
meteorism, and regurgitation of food.

Chest.-- , as if lungs could not be fully expanded. Palpitation

more like a tremor.

Bones.--Darting pain and caries in bones. Periosteum painful, swollen, enlarged.

Ulcers affecting bones; thin, ichorous pus.

Skin.--Itching, better scratching; ulcers painful on edges. Suppressed skin

symptoms produce nervous disorders.

Modalities.--Worse, at night; from tough; left side, during rest, warm

applications. Better, open air; from motion, pressure.

Relationship.--Antidotes: China; Mercur.

Compare: Moschus; China; Mercur; Aurum.

Dose.--Second to sixth potency.

Asafoetida
C Hering
Homeopathic remedy asafoetida from Guiding Symptoms of our
Materia Medica by C. Hering
 Assafoetida. Umbellifera.
Introduced and proved by Franz, in 1822. See Stapf’s Archives, vol. i,
No. 3, p. 187 ; 326 symptoms from Hahnemann, Stapf, Gross and
Gutmann. In 1829, Jörg’s were added by Hartlaub (1833). In 1839 one
symptom of Jahn, not of Trinks, who never has proved. In 1868, a full
proving of Lembke, with the substance. Translated by Lilienthal, and
published in the New York Quarterly, page 475, 1869, with remarks. The
last proving of E. W. Berridge, Organon, vol. ii, is of great importance.

MIND.

Consciousness unaffected. θ Chorea.

Fits of joy with bursts of laughter. θ Hysteria.
Excitement of mind.
Unsteady and fickle, cannot persevere in anything; wants now one thing,
then another ; walks hither and thither.
Anxious sadness and apprehensions of dying.
Apprehension seemingly arising from abdomen.
Apprehension.
With heart symptoms, fear of death.
Fears paralysis or softening of brain.
Dislike for solitude.
Constant change of mind ; fits of grief, of joy ; laughter or anxious
sadness.
Depression.
Fits of low spirits with heart symptoms; low-spirited between heart
attacks.
Ill humor, irritable mood, and yet indifferent to everything.
Ill humor, irritable mood, dislike to work. θ Caries.
Hypochondriac and hysteric restlessness and anxiety.
If he thinks of having taken drug, it brings on faintness.

SENSORIUM.

Very sensitive and excitable ; all perception of senses lessened, but not
consciousness.
Oversensitiveness, either physical or mental.
Fainting during height of paroxysm of colic.
Stupefying tension in head, mostly left side ; < afternoon or evening,
sitting bent forward, after going to bed ; > sitting up.
Vertigo with violent pressing in head, vanishing of sight in evening and
afterwards cold sweat on forehead and limbs; colic; flatulence; portal
congestion.
Unconsciousness ; with bellyache.

INNER HEAD.
Pain in left side of head extending to eyes, changing into intermitting,
severe pain and slight fulness of brain.
A sudden pain in left temple, like an inward-pressing pointed plug.
Inner semilateral headache, oftener on left side.
Pressive pain in forehead and left side of head from within outward.
Dull pain and fulness in left side of head, with bleeding from left nostril,
heart beating slowly.
Fulness and throbbing in head, heart beats feebly, with apprehension.
Fulness of head when riding in a carriage.
Pressure in sides of head or temples, like from a dull stick, better from
touch.
Fulness of head, changing gradually into aching and pressing pain, as if
whole brain was compressed; with dizziness, increased heat of skin and
some quickness of pulse.
Awoke with fulness of head, which gradually changed to periodically
recurring pains, lasting, more or less, into next night.
Drawing, wavelike pressure through left half of forehead, ending in dull
pressure on frontal eminence.
Flying stitch from within outward, in forehead, temples and sides of
head.
Jerking through head.
Single, sudden, and deep penetrating stitches under left frontal
eminence, like shocks followed by some sensitiveness.
Pain as if a nail or plug was driven into brain.
Crampy pain in forehead above eyebrows.
The brain seems tense.
Rush of blood to head, and warmth of face.
Congestive headache.
Sensation of swashing in head as of water, and gurgling behind upper
part of frontal bone.
All headaches < towards evening, in room, while at rest, sitting or
lying ; > when rising or moving about in open air.
Reading and writing make her worse.
The pains in the head cease, or change from touch.
Nervous headache of hysterical or scrofulous people.
Cold sensation in head.

OUTER HEAD.

Pain in right parietal, as from a deeply penetrating plug.

The pains in head cease or are changed from external touch.
Cold sweat on forehead.

SIGHT AND EYES.

Dimness of sight;letters become darker on writing; disappear after
blinking.
Mist before eyes.
Musca volitantes.
Sight worn from reading or writing.
Boring pain above eyebrows; burning, especially at night. θ Iritis,
kerato-iritis, retinitis, of syphilitic origin.
Dull pressure at external border of left orbit.
Troublesome dryness of eyes.
Burning in eyes; stitches; dryness.
Periodic burning in eyes and pressing together of lids as if overcome
with sleep.
Burning in eyeballs; in left as from within outward.
Sharp pain extending through eye into head, upon touching.
Nocturnal, throbbing pains in and around eye and head. θ Syphilitic
iritis, abuse of mercury.
Deep-seated inflammation of eyeball, attended by ciliary
pains. θ Iritis, kerato-iritis, irido-choroiditis and retinitis, especially
if of syphilitic origin.
Extensive superficial ulceration of cornea, with burning, sticking or
pressing pains, from within outward; rest and pressure relieve; also
> in open air; numbness around eye.
Itching in right eye.
Periodic burning in eyes and pressing together of lids; as if overcome
with sleep.

HEARING AND EARS.

The faintness is brought on by noise, or being in crowded streets.

Hardness of hearing, with discharge of pus from ears.
Hardness of hearing, with thin, purulent discharge of an extremely
offensive odor. θ After scarlatina, or abuse of mercury.
Otorrhoea with offensive discharge and diseased bones.

SMELL AND NOSE.

Offensive discharge from nose; stench from nose. θ After mercury or in

scrofula.
Unpainful tension over bones of nose, with feeling of numbness.
Swelling and inflammation affecting bones, with a feeling as if nose
would burst.
Pressure in nose, especially right wing, as if it would burst.
Feeling as if nose stopped up high up, so that he cannot breathe through
it, with fulness of head, when riding in a carriage.
Fluent coryza.
Discharge of very offensive matter from nose; with caries of
bones. θ Ozana.
A little pimple on tip of nose.
Flushes and heat of face, of one cheek after eating.
Small tubercules in cheeks.
Numbness of bones of face; painless tension in various places.

LOWER FACE.

Drawing pains in caries of lower maxilla, with salivation; after abuse of

mercury.
Swelling of lower lip.
Lips puffed up, lower lip and left corner of mouth most.
Numb pressure on chin.

TEETH AND GUMS.

Grinding of teeth; starting at night; transient griping pains in region of

navel. θ Chorea.
Bluntness of teeth.
Severe drawing in lower incisors.
Soreness of gums.

TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE.

Greasy, rancid taste in mouth and of phlegm hawked up.

Speech unintelligible; tongue white, swollen. θ Chorea.

INNER MOUTH.

Sensation of dryness in mouth and throat, even when moist, without

thirst.
Saliva predominantly decreased, except in mercurial caries, when acrid
salivation exists.
Burning in mouth.
Constantly chewing and working frothy slime out of mouth, with
swollen tongue. θ Chorea.

PALATE AND THROAT.

Sensation as if peristaltic motion was reversed and oesophagus being

drawn from stomach up towards throat.
Sensation of pressure, as if a body or lump was ascending in throat, has
to swallow frequently.
Burning, followed by soreness, in fauces and pharynx.
Darting stitches, from chest upward towards oesophagus.
Tender feeling in throat, < when swallowing.
Sensation of a ball rising in throat, causes difficulty in
breathing. θ Hysteria.
Hysterical spasms affecting oesophagus.
In evening a hysterical rising in throat, as if a ball or large body
ascended from stomach to oesophagus, or even pharynx, obliging
him repeatedly to attempt to swallow it. θ Globus hystericus.
Dryness and burning in oesophagus.

APPETITE, THIRST, DESIRES, AVERSIONS.

Ravenous hunger, with pain in upper abdomen, as from a cold, and as if

diarrhoea would set in.
Hunger with desire for strong, cooling food.
Desire for wine.
Great disgust for all food. θ Chorea.
Beer tastes slimy, aversion to it.

EATING AND DRINKING.

Great dejection, with epigastric pressure after eating : hypochondriacal.
After eating : heat in face, with anguish ; pressure in stomach ; stitches
about lower ribs ; tension in abdomen ; winding and twisting in bowels ;
great difficulty in breathing ; febrile state.
After drinking : diarrhoea ; heaviness and cold feeling in intestines.
After meals flatulent distension of abdomen.
After eating anything sour griping pains in region of
navel. θ Chorea.

HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING.

Eructations : smelling like garlic ; tasting rancid, sharp, or putrid ;

smelling like feces ; tasting like carrion.
Flatus passing upward, none down.
Hiccough-like contractions of diaphragm. θ Chorea.

SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH.

Pressing, cutting, stitching pains in spells, not regular ; full of wind ;

pressing upward (never down) ; gulping up rancid fluid ;
constipation. θ Gastralgia.
Dyspepsia, with much pulsation in pit of stomach.
Pulsation in pit of stomach, perceptible to sight and touch.
Sensation of fulness in stomach.
“Gone,” empty feeling in pit of stomach, not a pain, but “it hurts
there ;” pulsations after eating ; < about 11 o’clock A. M. ; faint
feeling. θ Hysteria.
Cardialgia.
Meteorism of stomach when feeling of tension is great and eructating
is difficult.
Increased warmth and aching in stomach, towards left side, not all on
right, but more up into oesophagus, like globus hystericus.

HYPOCHONDRIA.

In morning sensation in epigastric region and in whole abdomen, as if it

were beaten, with sense of fulness in former, and eructations.
Stitches in right hypochondrium, towards diaphragm.
Pressure from interior of liver, to chest, after dinner, with labored
breathing and violent pulsations.
Violent pressure in scrobiculum, towards liver, while sitting.
Stitches as if in diaphragm, right side.
Heat in spleen and abdomen.
ABDOMEN AND LOINS.

Gastric and abdominal sufferings, accompanied by pulsations in

epigastrium.
Heat in abdomen.
Pressure in abdomen.
Griping (into a ball) pain below navel when standing.
Intermittent griping in upper abdomen.
Pain in upper abdomen, as from taking cold, and as if diarrhoea would
ensue, with a kind of ravenous hunger.
Bellyache, as if intestines were torn or cut ; places in side sore, as if raw,
with it feeling as of something rising from chest to throat ; pressure
relieves.
Gripings, with flatulence.
Wind colic, with abdominal pulsations ; very painful distension of
abdomen, rumbling ; relieved by passing wind.
Pinching colic and escape of wind.
Flatulent colic and diarrhoea ; distension of abdomen.
Colic, with distension and a “rising up feeling,” as if peristaltic action
was reversed ; > from external pressure ; causes fainting.
Abdomen soft, distended. θ Chorea.
In flanks a pressive pain or drawing in abdominal muscles.
Sensation in epigastric region and abdomen in morning, as if beaten.

STOOLS AND RECTUM.

Painful diarrhoea.
Watery, liquid stools of most disgusting smell ; pains in abdomen
and discharge of fetid flatus.
Watery stools of disgusting odor ; discharge profuse and greenish.
Blackish-brown, papescent, offensive stools, which relieve.
Stool profuse, thick, papescent, brown, and very offensive.
Only slime passes, no feces.
Obstinate constipation, with abdominal and hemorrhoidal cramps,
tenesmus and distended abdomen.
Pain in perineum, as from something dull pressing out.

URINARY ORGANS.

Soreness in kidneys.
Urine warm and of a pungent, ammoniacal smell.
Spasm in bladder during and after urination.

MALE SEXUAL ORGANS.

Genitals irritated.
Faintness is < after seminal emissions.
Urging towards genitals ; aching of testicles, < from touch and after
motion.
Needle-like stitches in penis.
Drawing in glans, more during afternoon.
Outward pressure in perineum.

FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS.

Excited sexual desire. θ Nymphomania in a plethoric woman.

Bearing down in genitals, < when riding in a carriage.
Uterine ulcer, sensitive and painful, with offensive discharge.
Menses too early, too scanty, and last but a short time.
Labor-like pains in uterine region, with cutting and bearing down.
Leucorrhoea profuse, greenish, thin and offensive.
Swelling and inflammation of genitals.

PREGNANCY, PARTURITION, LACTATION.

Miscarriages.
Is said to kill fetus and dries up milk.
Mamma turgid with milk, like in ninth month ; without being
pregnant.
Deficient of milk, with oversensitiveness.
^^ Labor-like pains ; cutting, bearing down, intermitting.
Milk increased or diminished.
Restores wasted and drying up “breast of milk.”
Ten days after delivery milk diminished ; 14th day only a few drops
could be squeezed out with difficulty ; after 5 drops of tincture,
copious milk, but offensive to child ; 3d centesimal answered as well.
Milk had disappeared within three weeks of her delivery ; six
confinements.

VOICE AND LARYNX, TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA.

Voice weaker, hoarse, changed, sometimes cough.

Spasm of glottis, alternating with contraction of fingers and
toes. θ Hysteria.

RESPIRATION.
Difficult breathing.
Difficult breathing, from abdominal disease.
Feeling of suffocation in throat on taking a full inspiration.
Constriction of chest, extending to throat, with hurried breathing.
Asthmatic complaints of scrofulous persons.
Asthmatic feeling in trachea, dry cough ; spasmodic dyspnoea as if
lungs could not be sufficiently expanded.
Oppression of chest increasing to agony, cannot breathe, restless
moving about.
Oppression of chest, with hurried breathing ; contracted, small
pulse, or, frequent pulse ; asthma after too hearty a meal ; too great
exertion.
Oppression of breathing ; pain temporarily relieved by eructations.
When faint, if he breathes deeper, heart beats fuller, and faintness
decreases ; if he holds breath heart becomes very feeble.
Asthmatic attacks at least one a day all her life, brought on by every
bodily exertion, coition, especially by every satisfying meal.
Frequent breathing, rattling ; restless tossing before attack, anxious with
it.
Sitting up relieves suffocative feeling.

COUGH.
Obstinate titillating cough, < at night, with grown persons.
Cough predominantly dry ; expectoration infrequent, during day.
Irritation to dry cough ; attacks at night.
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 trachea, with asthmatic
feeling therein ; spasmodic contraction of thorax and accumulation of
stringy mucus.
Cough in afternoon.
Cough, with cessation of sputa.
Sputa have a greasy taste.
Cough, with accumulation of stringy mucus in trachea.

INNER CHEST AND LUNGS.

Pressure on sternum, when stooping, writing ; going off by deep

breathing.
Pressure and burning under sternum ; frequent disposition to cough.
Compression of chest, as from a heavy weight.
Pressing stitches in chest.
Pressure on chest, with a constriction in throat.
Oppressive aching feeling in chest ; > from expectorating mucus.
Pressive pain in right side of chest, from within outward.
Pressure in left intercostal muscles, from within outward, < during
inspiration and expectoration.
Stitches in chest from within outward. θ Whooping cough.
Burning in chest, runs through both arms and through lower limbs
down into toes.
Single violent stitches from within outward, at short intervals ;
renewed when chest is touched. θ Pleuro-pneumonia.
Shooting from just below left nipple through to back on walking.
Spasmodic constriction of thorax with cough.
Spasmodic constriction, as if lungs could not properly expand,
respiration normal.
Spasmodic contractions of chest, with slow, small contracted, irregular
pulse.
Throbbing in chest.
Dropsy of chest ; relieved the oppression in 6, 12, or 36 hours ; 3d
every 2 or 4 hours.
Discomfort of thorax from want of distension of lungs.

HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION.

Increased action of heart on slightest excitement.

Palpitation, with faintness, rush of blood to head, flushing of face,
anxiety and slow breathing, from excitement. θ Irritable heart.
Violent palpitation of heart and excitement of mind.
Acute rheumatic heart disease, with tightness across
chest. θ Hydrothorax.
Continual pain about region of heart.
At times heart feels bound together tightly, as if it could not beat ;
afterwards only on exertion or walking.
Congestion towards heart ; feeling of fulness ; small pulse ; followed by
loose stool.
Slight palpitation of heart, more like a tremor, several times when
sitting.
Nervous palpitation, with small pulse ; from overexertion or
suppression of discharges (in women).
Pressure in region of heart, as if heart was too full and expanded ;
pulse small.
Feeling as if heart would burst ; quick breathing and apprehension ; has
to walk in open air.
Feeling as if heart was swollen, preventing a deep inspiration.
Palpitation like a tremor while sitting.
Beating of heart small, quick, irregular.
Heart sometimes beats very feebly.
Sometimes heart beats short and quick, at other times he feels as if there
was no action of it.
Heart’s action is quickened by a deep inspiration.
At night, when lying on back, palpitation and suffocative feeling, as if
heart would burst, he must sit up, which relieves him.
Heart symptoms and faintness < after seminal emission.
Pulse small, spasmodically contracted, rather quick. θ Chorea.
Small, infrequent pulse, with violent action of heart and no disturbance
of respiration indicating nervous weakness of organ.
Pulse small, rapid, irregular.
Pulse accelerated, but unequal, small. θ Asthma, congestion to heart,
etc.

OUTER CHEST.

Sensation as if one pressed very sharply with point of finger on xiphoid

cartilage ; also when swallowing.

NECK AND BACK.

Fine, burning stitches in and behind r. scapula, extending towards ribs.

Drawing downward, in left side of neck, on motion.
Stitches in muscles of back.
Dull pains, or drawing and cutting below scapula.
Burning along vertebra, to left.
Aching inwardly, along last dorsal and first lumbar vertebra.
Boring sticking in left loin, from within outward, going off during an
inspiration.
Lancinations from right loin towards ribs.
Sticking, with pressure in region of right ribs towards spine.
Cannot work on account of backache.
Stitches along sacrum down to anus.
Pain in sacrum while sitting.
Crawls run over back, in afternoon.

UPPER LIMBS.

Twitching in left upper arm joint, extending inward.

Fine stitch in elbows.
Quivering in shoulder joint ; in deltoid muscle.
Stitches and jerking in upper arm.
Drawing pain along upper arm down to elbow, a fine stitch in elbow.
Child always missed laying hold of anything she wished. θ Chorea.
Frequent muscular jactitation in arms and hands.
Tearing in forearm down to tips of fingers.
When moving fingers, pain in forearm.
Tearing stitches followed by burning in right forearm.
Scraping sensation on styloid process of ulna.
Cramplike, sensitive twitching in metacarpal bone of left thumb.
Whitlow, violent nightly pains, threatened necrosis.
Pain as if beaten in bones of wrist.
Aching, drawing in wrist joints. θ Syphilis.

LOWER LIMBS.

Carious ulcer on tibia, extremely sore around, discharge offensive ; skin

adheres to bone.
Muscular twitching in legs and feet.
Child, at. 9, could not walk. θ Chorea.
Caries of tibia.
The apparently healthy portion of tibia lying beneath peculiar carious
ulcer became again sensitive and painful to slightest touch, or even
approach of finger, so also to removal of charpie, and at night almost
unendurable.
Swelling around ankle joint, cannot use foot.
Burning in roots of toe nails, prevents sleep.
Psoitis if suppuration seems impending ; also if pelvic bones are
involved.
Lassitude of lower limbs.
Quivering of portions of muscles on thighs.
Occasional tingling in legs after much walking.
Twitching on inner side of right knee joint.
Swelling and caries of bones of feet.
Sticking sensation on ball of great toe when putting foot to ground.
Pain as if a splinter of bone was sticking in right fibula, just above
outer malleolus. θ After a sprain.
Cold swelling around ankles.
A sensitive throbbing in left great toe from time to time.
Stitches and pulsation in big toe.
Painful throbbing in tip of great toe.
Heat in toes.

LIMBS IN GENERAL.

Constant convulsive tremor of limbs, could be > by hands of another

person. θ Chorea.
Twitching of muscles of arms and legs.
Pains mostly on flexor sides of limbs.
Pains in inside of joints and limbs.

REST, POSITION, MOTION.

Rest : headache < ; eyes > ; < in bed.
Sitting up : headache < ; tension in head > ; pressure in scrobiculum < ;
suffocative feeling > ; palpitation < ; pains in sacrum <.
Standing : griping below navel ; weakness.
Stooping : pressure on sternum.
Lying : weakness ; headache <.
Putting foot to ground : sticking in great toe.
Moving fingers : pain in forearm <.
Motion : headache > ; asthma <.
Overexertion : palpitation <.
Swallowing : tenderness in throat <.
After motion : aching in testicles.
Gaping ; cough <.
Deep breathing : pressure in sternum >.
Inspiration : pain in intercostal muscles <.
Walking : shooting from nipple to back.
Excitement : palpitation <.

NERVES.

Nervousness.
Hypersensitiveness ; when nervous system predominates over the
arterial.
Hysteria, with much trouble about throat or oesophagus ; well-
marked globus hystericus ; spasms of lungs, etc.
Hysteria, hysteralgia ; hypersensitiveness ; every excitement that brings
on an attack causes globus hystericus.
Twitching and jerking of muscles.
Nervous affections after suppressed discharges.
Epileptiform convulsions caused by worms.
Chorea.
Fainting with colic.
Clumsiness of body ; feeling of rigor.
Feeling of general heaviness ; weak when standing or lying ; dry mouth.
At times slight inclination to faint, accompanied by great apprehension.
Faintness, with quick pulse.
Attacks of faintness, followed by fluttering of heart.
Attacks of faintness, with anxiety, as if he would die, and with one attack
desire for suicide.
With one attack of faintness there was shaking of limbs and as if bowels
shook.
With faintness, shivering and very feeble action of heart.
Faintness on beginning to eat, especially at dinner, with full and frequent
beating of heart.
With faintness, alternate heat and chill ; sweat on small of back and
trembling.
Faintness worse day after a seminal emission.

SLEEP.

Inclined to sleep, much against his habit.

Drowsy with sweat.
Sleepy in evening ; weariness.
Sleeplessness after midnight. (Conium before midnight).
About midnight violent pains through left half of body, from top to toe.
Pain in ulcer at night, almost unendurable.
Woke in night with distension of stomach, pain across chest and feeble
heart.
Worse in bed and after sleep ; > after getting out of bed.

TIME.

Morning : abdomen feels beaten ; fulness and eructations ; tearings in

joints ; chest oppressed.
At 8.30 to 9 A. M. : chills, with heat of face.
At 11 A. M. : faint feeling < ; goneness in stomach.
During day : expectoration worse.
Afternoon : tension in head < ; drawing in glans penis ; cough ; shivering
over back ; heat in toes.
Between 3 and 4 P. M. : coldness and trembling, with stitches in head.
Evening : vanishing of sight ; headache < ; hysteria ; pains often better ;
sleepy.
Evening till 2 A. M. : neuralgia.
Night : pain in eyes < ; cough < ; palpitation ; ulcer < ; pain across chest ;
bone pains ; pain in ulcer unbearable.
Midnight : pain left half of body.
After midnight : sleeplessness.

TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER.

In room : all headaches worse.

Open air : headache > ; eye > ; heart > ; desires to be in open air.
Could not remain in-doors, must walk about in open air.
In warm feather beds : lower limbs ache more.

FEVER.
Chills run over body from time to time.
Sense of rigor.
Crawls run over back, in afternoon.
Chill, coldness and dryness of skin.
Every day, between 3 and 4 P. M., coldness and trembling, with
unbearable stitches in head.
One-sided heat.
Heat in toes ; afternoon.
With heat of face ; cold hands and feet, and chills of back from 8.30 to 9
A. M.
With faintness sweat on small of back, hot and cold alternately and
trembling.
Want of thirst, particularly heat without thirst.
Heat in face, after dinner, with anxiety and sleepiness ; without thirst.
Sweat wanting ; only occasionally cold, moist skin ; cold sweat on
limbs ; vertigo.
Sweat with drowsiness.
Shiverings, most over back, afternoon ; heat in face, with anxiety and
sleepiness, but without thirst.

ATTACKS, PERIODICITY.
Pains intermit at regular intervals.
Intermitting pinching pains in ulcers.
Crushing pain regularly < from evening till 2 A. M. θ Neuralgia after
amputation.
Every day between 3 and 4 P. M. : coldness and trembling, with
unbearable stitches in head.

LOCALITY AND DIRECTION.

Right : pain in parietal ; itching in eye ; pressure in wing of nose ;

stitches in hypochondrium ; stitches in diaphragm ; pain side of chest ;
stitches behind scapula ; pain in fibula.
Left : pain and tension in head ; sudden pain in temple ; bleeding from
nostril ; pressure in orbit ; corner of mouth puffed ; pressure in
intercostal muscles ; shooting below nipple ; drawing side of neck ;
burning along vertebra ; twitching upper arm joint ; cramplike twitching
in thumb ; throbbing in great toe ; pain in half of body.
Above downward : burning in chest ; tearing in forearm.
Within outward : burning in eyeballs ; pain in chest ; pressure in
intercostal muscles.
Below upward : oesophagus seeming drawn upward ; darting stitches in
chest ; globus hystericus ; flatus passes ; pressure in liver.
Before backward : shooting from nipple.
Reverse action of involuntary muscles ; a sort of antiperistaltic motion.

SENSATIONS.

As if a nail or plug were driven into brain ; as if nose would burst ; as if a

ball or lump were ascending in throat ; as if beaten in epigastric region
and abdomen ; as if whole brain was compressed ; as if intestines were
torn out ; as if lungs could not be expanded ; heart feels bound tightly
together as if it could not beat ; as if heart was swollen ; as if one pressed
very sharply with point of finger on xiphoid cartilage ; as if splinter of
bone was sticking in the right fibula ; as if peristaltic motion were
reversed ; as if heart would burst.
Like from a dull stick, pressure in temples.
Sharp pain through eye into head.
Sudden pain, inward pressing, like pointed plug in left temple.
Sudden deep penetrating stitches like shocks under left frontal eminence.
Drawing wavelike pressure through left forehead.
Gurgling sensation in head.
Sensation of water swashing in head.
Tender feeling in throat.
“Gone feeling” in epigastrium.
Pain as from a cold in upper abdomen.
Lancinating : from right loin towards ribs.
Winding and twisting in bowels.
Griping : in region of navel.
Labor-like pain : in uterus.
Flying stitches : in forehead, temples and sides of head.
Stitches : under left frontal eminence ; in eyes ; darting from chest to
oesophagus ; about lower ribs ; in stomach ; in right hypochondrium ; in
diaphragm ; on penis ; in chest ; in big toe ; in and behind right scapula ;
in muscles of back ; along sacrum down to anus ; in elbow ; in upper
arm.
Tearing stitches : in right forearm.
Tearing : in forearm down to tips of fingers.
Cutting : in stomach ; in uterus ; below scapula.
Jerking : through head ; in upper arm.
Boring : above eyebrows ; left loin.
Shooting : below left nipple through to back ; around arm.
Sticking ; in eyes ; in left loin ; from right ribs to spine ; on ball of great
toe.
Burning : above eyebrows ; in eyes ; in mouth ; in fauces and pharynx ;
in oesophagus ; under sternum ; in chest ; along vertebra ; in roots of toe
nails ; of skin.
Drawing : in caries of lower maxilla ; in lower incisors ; in abdominal
muscles ; in glans penis ; below scapula ; along upper arm to elbow ; in
wrist joints.
Pressing : in head ; in forehead and left head ; in temples ; on frontal
eminence ; external border of left orbit ; in eyes ; in nose ; on chin ; in
epigastrium ; in stomach ; from liver to chest ; in abdomen ; in
perineum ; in sternum ; in region of heart.
Pressing together of lids as if overcome with sleep.
Bearing down : in genitals.
Constriction : of chest ; of throat ; about heart.
Cramp : in forehead.
Cramp-like sensitive twitching : metacarpal bone of left thumb.
Scraping sensation : on styloid process of ulna.
Soreness : in kidneys ; of gums.
Aching : of testicles ; along vertebra ; in wrist joints.
Dull pain : in left side of head.
Undefined pain : in left side of head to eyes ; about heart ; in joints and
limbs ; in ulcers ; in perineum ; in sacrum ; in forearm.
Tension : in head ; of brain ; over nasal bones ; in various places in face ;
in abdomen.
Throbbing : in head ; in and around eye ; in pit of stomach ; in chest ; in
big toe.
Fulness : in head ; in stomach ; about heart.
Heaviness : in intestines.
Numbness : over nasal bones ; of bones of face ; on chin.
Heat : of face ; increased warmth in stomach ; in spleen ; in abdomen ; in
toes.
Dryness : of eyes ; in mouth and throat ; in oesophagus.
Coldness : in head ; in intestines (See 15) ; crawls over back ; of skin.
Tickling : in trachea.
Itching : in right eye ; of skin.

TISSUES.

Dark red, hot swellings.

Arthritic and cold swellings.
Venous pulsations ; congestion of portal vein ; congestive fulness
about heart and chest, with asthma ; heat of face and ears, after
eating ; pressure on chest, etc. ; copious discharges ; all signs of
fulness of venous system.
Dropsy, ascites, from abdominal venous stasis.
Obesity ; seldom of use in bone diseases unless body is heavy,
bloated.
Scraping sensation on bones ; whole body puffed.
Caries in scrofulous, and after abuse of mercury.
Glands hard, swollen, hot and throbbing, with shooting, jerking
pains ; scrofulous complaints.
Neuralgia of stump after amputation of thigh.
Osteitis, caries, bluish redness and swelling of parts.
Ulcers, with bluish edges, hard, painful to slightest touch ; thin, very
offensive pus.
Interstitial distension of bones.
Soft enlargement of bones, also curvature.
Softening of bones.
Nightly bone pains in syphilis.
Painful osteitis.
Bones threatened by syphilis. θ Iritis.
Caries of bones ; adhesion of skin in caries.
Scrofulous caries of bones, even necrosis.
Ulcers with fetid, ichorous, bloody, serous pus ; with bluish, partly
raised edges, painful to slightest touch.
Ulcers deep, flat, fistulous, affecting bone.

TOUCH, PASSIVE MOTION, INJURIES.

Touch : pain in head > ; pains extend through eye into head ; aching of
testicle ; ulcers extremely sensitive ; pains cease or change place.
Pressure : eye > ; colic improved.
Most extreme sensitiveness in vicinity of carious ulcer of tibia, of
superficial skin-sores, and also of ulcer itself ; patient cries out if finger
touched a place distant from ulcer ; removal of charpie causes most
severe pain.
Better from rubbing.
Scratching : itching better.
Riding in carriage : fulness in head < ; drawing side of neck < ; bearing
down in genitals <.
Injuries suppurate.
Cold gangrene.
Wounds appear bright red, raw, covered with crust of tenacious lymph.
After amputation : neuralgia of stump.
Ulceration from burns or scalds or other causes, with great sensitiveness
to suffering ; child screams on seeing dressings prepared, dreads and
shrinks from the approach of any one likely to touch sore.

SKIN.

Dark red, hot swellings.

Itching, pricking, burning of skin ; itching > by scratching.
Skin puffed up, inflamed.
Sphacelus.
Flat eruptions, painful.
Ulcers with extreme sensitiveness ; patient flinches from even the
softest dressing ; or from near approach of any one.
Ulcers with high, hard, bluish edges, sensitive to touch, easily
bleeding ; pus profuse, greenish, thin, offensive, even ichorous.
Shooting pain around ulcer.
Ulcers grow black.
Old scars break open and turn black.
Ulcers penetrating to bones, discharging thin, fetid ichor.
Ulcers or sores looking raw, bloody or dark ; or discharge copiously.
Quivering in skin.

STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION.

Nervous women, subject to hysteria.

Phlegmatic temperament.
Scrofulous, bloated, clumsy children.
Venous, hemorrhoidal constitutions.
Nervous people.
Very weak or delicate persons suffering from very great sensitiveness.
Syphilitic patients who have taken much mercury.
Girl, at. 9, chorea.
Woman, at. 21, in sixth week after first confinement not milk
enough, after third could nurse full nine months.
A multipara, at. 34 ; milk had disappeared tenth day in seven
confinements.

RELATIONS.

Antidotes
to Asaf : Pulsat., Caustic., Camphor., Cinchon., Mercur., Valer.
Useful in ailments from Pulsat., or from abuse of Mercur. in syphilis,
and from effects of alcoholism.
Similar to : Argentum nitr. (better open air) ; Aurum met. (bone diseases,
iritis, etc.) ; Castor., Cinchon., Caustic., Crot. tig.
(pertussis) ; Hepar(sensitiveness around ulcers ; faints from
pains) ; Ignat. (hysteria) ; Mercur. (syphilis) ; Mosch. (hysteria, spasms
of lungs, fainting, etc.) ; Phosphor. (pertussis) ; Pulsat., Thuya, Valer.
Family relations : Ammonium, Cicut., Conium, etc.
Frequently indicated after Pulsat. and Thuya.

“NOTE:
PLAIN TEXT : LOWEST & DESIGNATES AN OCCASIONALLY
CONFIRMED SYMPTOMS;
Plain blue: MORE FREQUENTLY CONFIRMED;
BOLD BLUE : SYMPTOMS VERIFIED BY CURES;
BOLD RED : REPEATEDLY VERIFIED;
$BOLD ITALIC RED$ : AN APPROVED CHARACTERISTIC;
θ : STANDS BETWEEN CURED SYMPTOM &
PATHOLOGICAL CONDITION;
** : OBSERVED FROM OLD SCHOOL OR NEW SCHOOL;
toxic : Toxicology;
r : Right;
l : Left;
< : Increased or aggravation;
> : Decrease or amelioration;
^^ : Symptoms observed only on the sick “

ASA FOETIDA

ASA FOETIDA (Resina de Ferula Seoroclosma - Heces del Diablo). B. Vijnovsky

SINTOMAS MENTALES O PATOGENESIA DE ASA FOETIDA

1 - (+++) Los síntomas conforman un casi perfecto cuadro de histeria de tipo

flatulento (ver 3 -5 -6 -11 -22 -23 -29 y 30). Histeria por descargas bruscamente
suprimidas. Inquietud histérica con ansiedad. Histeria en la que predominan los
síntomas faríngeos, con toda clase de espasmos e irritabilidad, tales como
ataques de gran alegría y risa o tristeza ansiosa, constantes cambios de
posición, oleadas de calor a la cara, etcétera.

2 - (+) Miedo de morir; miedo a la parálisis; aprensiva.

3 - (+) Irritable; humor muy cambiante, es voluble e inestable; descontenta de

sí misma, se queja de sus trastornos.

4 - Desea compañía.

SINTOMAS GENERALES O PATOGENESIA DE ASA FOETIDA

5 - (+++) Desmayos. Se desmaya con gran facilidad: si piensa que tomó el

medicamento o en el remedio que tomó; en una calle con mucha gente; en una
habitación cerrada; por ruidos; después de leer; acostado sobre el lado
izquierdo; antes de comer o durante el almuerzo; por excitaciones; por dolores;
después del coito o de una eyaculación; mejor por respirar hondo.

6 - (+++) "Gente extremadamente nerviosa, muy sensible a los dolores, llena

de histeria; gorda, fláccida y púrpura, con cara abotagada, venosa, purpúrea y
apariencia- pletórica" (Kent). La cara parece hinchada, a veces edematosa, de
un color rojizo oscuro. Gente con extrema sensibilidad a las menores
impresiones, con consecutivos trastornos nerviosos espasmódicos.
Hipocondríacos.

7 - (+++) Antiguos sifilíticos con afecciones óseas (caries) y periósticas con

dolores óseos nocturnos (especialmente naríz, mastoides y tibia). Caries
óseas: en huesos nasales, oído, cara, tibia y huesos del piel.

8 - (++) Lateralidad izquierda de los síntomas.

9 - (++) La dirección de los síntomas es de dentro afuera, tanto en los dolores

como en las sensaciones de estallido producidas por gases ó sin ninguna
razón (nariz, corazón, abdomen, etc.).

10 - (++) Repleto de descargas horriblemente fétidas, acuosas, catarrales ó

sanguinolentas, de nariz, ojos, oídos, diarrea, expectoración, fístulas, úlceras,
etcétera.

11 - (++) Sensación de adormecimiento (cabeza, nariz, etc.) a veces asociada

a los dolores.

12 - (++) Dolores punzantes o presivos, periódicos, de dentro afuera, se alivian

o cambian de lugar al tocar el sitio; peor en la habitación, mejor al aire libre;
peor de noche.

13 - (+) Peor después de comer o beber, por el menor contacto, de noche, en

reposo, sentado, por aplicaciones calientes; mejor al aire libre, por el
movimiento, por la presión.

14 - Corea; con habla ininteligible.

DESEOS Y AVERSIONES DE ASA FOETIDA

15 - Deseo de cerveza y de vino.

PARTICULARES DE ASA FOETIDA

16 - (+) Cefaleas frontales presiva, de dentro afuera, con vértigo y
oscurecimiento de la vista, y con latidos, peor de noche y del lado izquierdo.
Cefaleas bruscas en el parietal izquierdo. Todas las cefaleas están peor al
anochecer, en la habitación descansando acostado o sentado; mejor al
levantarse o moviéndose al aire libre; cesan o cambian de lugar al tocarlo.
Siente como un clavo en el cerebro.

17 - (++) Neuralgia orbital, con dolores ardientes y latidos, peor de noche y del
lado izquierdo, mejor al aire libre y mejor por la presión. Afecciones sifilíticas de
los oios, sobre todo iritis. Ulcera superficial de la córnea, con dolores peor de
noche, ardientes, punzantes o presivos de dentro afuera, mejor por el reposo y
la presión. Sensación de sequedad y ardor en los ojos. Dolor terebrante sobre
las cejas, dentro y alrededor de los ojos. Iritis y otras afecciones intraoculares,
con dolores nocturnos.

18 - (+) Otorrea purulento fétida, con lesiones óseas (caries) y dolores

terebrantes o ardientes en mastoides y oídos. Mastoiditis con dolor en el
temporal como de presión hacía afuera o estallido.

19 - (+++) Ozena, con secreción nasal purulenta y muy fétida, ofensiva, con
caries de los huesos nasales (Aur.); ozena sifilítico. Obstrucción nasal con
sensación de plenitud en la cabeza. Sensición cae estallido en la nariz.

20 - (+) Sensación de adormecimiento en los huesos de la cara (Plat.); en el

mentón, con sensación de presión. Labio inferior hinchado. Caries del maxilar
inferior. Calor en la cara después de comer.

21 - (+) Gusto rancio, grasoso, en la boca, después de eructar. Lengua

hinchada, blanca. Mastica constantemente, con espuma que sale de la boca.
Rechina los dientes durmiendo; dientes ásperos. Sensación de sequedad.
Nódulos múltiples, decolorados, en el paladar, en el hueso.

22 - (+++) Sensación de cuerpo o bola que sube, en el esófago, y que la

ahoga, obligándola constantemente a tragar, lo que la alivia (Ign.); es el globo
histérico clásico. Tiene la sensación de una inversión de los movimientos
peristálticos normales del esófago, que van ahora de abajo arriba. Sensación
de sequedad en garganta y esófago.

23 - (+++) Eructos rancios o pútridos o con olor a ajo, muy ruidosos,

especialmente fétidos después de comer grasas. Los eructos son difíciles, con
ruidos en el estómago, y los gases solo salen por arriba, por inversión del
peristaltismo. Flatulencia excesiva, el estómago está lleno de aire. Sensación
de vacío gástrico a las 11 horas (Sulphur). Pulsaciones en el epigastrio, a
menudo perceptibles, peor después de comer o coincidiendo con trastornos
gastrointestinales. Regurgitaciones de liquido. Gastralgias violentas, cortantes
y ardientes, en el estómago y diafragma. Contracciones del diafragma, como
hipo.

24 - (+) Excesiva distensión abdominal, con la sensación de que todo el

contenido del abdomen va a reventar por la boca. Pulsaciones, latidos. Calor
en el abdomen, especialmente en el bazo. Cólico debajo del ombligo estando
parado.

25 - (+) Diarrea por la menor transgresión al régimen, aún por beber agua, con
pesadez en el vientre, cólicos y meteorismo; heces muy ofensivas, acuosas,
verdosas o marrones, irritantes, de olor pútrido. Constipación obstinada. Dolor
presivo de dentro afuera en el periné, como por un objeto pesado.

26 - (+) Olor amoniacal de la orina. Espasmos en la vejiga durante y después

de la micción.

27 - (+) Se desmaya después de la eyaculación. Dolor en los testículos, peor

por el movimiento o tocalos. Puntadas como agujas en el pene. Tironeo en el
glande, peor de tarde.

28 - (+) Dolor de tironeo del útero hacia abajo, peor viajando en un vehículo.
Dolores cortantes, como de trabajo de parto. Menstruaciones cortas, escasas y
frecuentes. Deseos sexuales aumentados. Flujo abundante, verdoso, acuoso,
ofensivo. Tendencia a hemorragias y abortos en mujeres débiles, flojas, con
cara roja, congestionada. Secreción láctea fuera del embarazo (Puls., Tub.) o
escasa o nula en el puerperio; o aumentada, con senos túrgidos.

29 - (+) Constricción espasmódica (Ign.), convulsiva, alrededor del tórax, que le

impide respirar. Disnea espasmódico, como si los pulmones no pudieran
expandirse lo suficiente. Crisis de opresión o asma durante o después del coito
o después de comer. Opresión en el pecho que mejora expectorando;
expectoración con gusto a grasa. Tos obstinada, por cosquilleo en la tráquea,
peor de noche. Laringitis estridulosa. Coqueluche en bebés (Hering).
Hidrotórax (alivia la opresión, a la 3ªC., cada 2 horas [Hering]). Puntadas en el
tórax, de dentro afuera, del lado derecho.

30 - (+) Palpitaciones nerviosas, con pulso pequeño e irregular, peor por

excitación, por esfuerzos, después de eyacular, sentado o acostado. Siente el
corazón hinchado como si fuera a estallar, o como atado fuertemente. Dolores
precordiales continuos.
31 - (+) Dolores óseos y periósticos en las extremidades, peor de noche;
dolores osteócopos sífilíticos, especialmente en la tibia. Caries óseas en la tibia
y huesos del pie. Periostitis que se ulceran. Puntadas y latidos en los dedos
gordos. Sacudidas musculares en brazos y piernas.

32 - Contra su hábito, gran tendencia a dormir; o insomnio después de

medianoche.

33 - (+) Ulceras muy dolorosas, peor de noche; no tolera el menor contacto,

sobre todo en los bordes, que son indurados y engrosados; negras, azuladas o
de bordes azulados; profundas o chatas, induradas; con ardores alrededor;
gangrenosas o fistulosas; sangrantes o con secreción copiosa, verdosa,
acuosa, fétida o pútrida. Prurito mejor rascándose. La supresión de erupciones
produce perturbaciones nerviosas. Viejas cicatrices que se tornan púrpuras y
amenazan supurar, o se ponen dolorosas y negras.

34 - Calor en la cara, orejas y manos, con escalofríos que bajan por la espalda.

(+++) Muy eficaz. (++) Eficaz. (+) Util

Fuente: "Materia Médica homeopática de Vijnovsky"