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Asarum Europaeum

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General

General Characteristics.-- For chilly persons who are always shrinking from the cold; for example, literary men who are addicted to a sedentary life, and are sick and chilly. After operations on the eye, for a darting pain which remains. Mucous stool. Sensation as though all the body, or a part of the body, were being pressed together. Symptoms are generally on the left side. Vexatious dreams.

Mental.-- Great nervous irritation . Feels as if just falling off to sleep, a gradual vanishing of ideas--and so all through.

Head

Dull and stupid; feels the pulsation of arteries in occiput.

Eyes

Inflamed, with burning in the lids, especially the canthi.

Sunshine and wind are intolerable.

Cold ameliorates all sufferings.

Ears

Dulness of hearing, as if the meatus were partially closed; a sort of tensive pain in the ears continually.

Face

Warm feeling in face; all symptoms disappear on applying cold water, but return soon after.

Taste

Smoking tobacco tastes bitter.

Worse.-- In cold dry weather; in clear, fine, weather.

Better.-- From washing; in damp and wet weather; on wetting the affected parts.

Remedies following:-- Caustic., Silic., Pulsat .

Antidote

Camphor .