Asparagus Officinalis

Asparagus. Liliacecp..

Introduced and proved in 1840 by Buchner, who proved the sprouts; later others made provings. Jeanes proved the root. The strongest effect must be obtained from the berries, and still more from the seed. Many- symptoms may be added by practitioners if they meet with cases in which asparagus disagrees.

^ Mind. Cheerfulness ; serenity of mind ; the 5th day. A peculiar anxiety, with palpitation and ill humor. Fretful and peevish, disturbed by trifles ; constant anxiety and apprehension.

"^ Sensorium. Vertigo : slight in the afternoon ; in the forehead ; with staggering. Confusion of the head. Dullness of the head. ' Inner Head.

Dizziness in forehead, afterwards aching in tem- ples, especially the left. Aching in forehead, with confusion. Pressing pains in both temples, worse from pressure. Heaviness, pressure in forehead, the pain presses towards the eyes. ^ Sight and Eyes.

Increased acuteness of vision. Stitches and tickling in the eyes. Aching of the brain near the eyes. Pains in the eyeballs.

Drawing pain over eyebrows all across.

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^ Smell and Nose. I l Frequent sneezing ; after smelling the tincture.

Corjza, with slight dryness and swelling inside, then impeded entrance of air ; gets violent with frequent discharge of a thin white fluid from 1. nostril ; irritation to sneeze, and fre- quent sneezing.

Later with the catarrh a pressing pain from root of nose to fore- head; next day, at 9 a.m., dry coryza ; later running ; want of smell ; violent sneezing ; the 3d day discharge of mucus from the r. nostril. " Face. Increased heat of the face.

Burning of the cheeks.

■ Countenance pale, wax- like and hloated.

■ General expression of anxiety and distress. See 29.

^^ Teeth and Gums. Painless cavity ; exfoliation of a carious molar.

■ Relieved toothache.

*^ Taste, Tongue. Taste : sweetish, insipid ; coppery ; bitter- sweetish on the tongue. Smarting feeling on the tongue. ^^ Inner Mouth. Saliva increased ; sweetish, as if mixed with

blood; diminished; later more copious. '^ Palate and Throat. Almost constant hawking, with a rough feeling in the throat. Copious discharge of tenacious mucus from the throat.

■ Deglutition difficult. ^Hydrophobia.

■ Burning in the throat.

" Appetite, Thirst. Increased thirst.

Feeble appetite. * Eating and Drinking. After breakfast : cough remitted ; pain in chest. After eating : palpitation. See 29. Fullness and oppression after eating or drinking.

^^ Belching, Nausea and Vomiting. Belching of wind.

Nausea 5 a.m., on awaking; vomited the food taken the even- ing before, with bile and much mucus, followed by a bilious diarrhoea; after 15 minutes another attack of difficult vomit-

Retching bringing tears into the eyes, when attempting to cough.

Nausea after each exertion. ^'' Scrobiculum and Stomach. Pain in region of cardiac end of

stomach, extending thence to left shoulder. ^^ Abdomen, Loins and Groins. Sense of fullness in abdomen.

Griping in region of navel, which is painful when touched.

Drawing pains in both groins. ^^ Rectum and Stool. Discharge of much wind.

Insufficient stool in afternoon, notwithstanding a regular stool in morning.

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Feces bilious after vomiting. See 16.

Bilious diarrhoea, with colic.

A peculiar urging, with difficult, hard fecal discharge ; haemor- rhoids bleed much more.

Burning and soreness at the anus. " Urinary Organs. • Nephritis.

Nephritic colic.

Urging to urinate ; evening 1st day.

Urging to urinate ; urine of a tolerably strong odor.

Frequent scanty discharge preceded by a sensation as if something was sticking in the urethra, with slight burning.

I I Frequent urination, with fine stinging in the meatus, followed by stitches out of the urethra.

I Urine scanty, straw-colored and offensive.

Cutting and burning in urethra.

Strangury.

Burning in urethra 6 A.M. ; 8th day,

After urination burning in the urethra, with sensation as if some was still passing.

■ Increased urine, beer-brown, without sediment. • Diabetes.

I When urinating, particularly when voiding the last drops, rheumatic, constricting pain in cardiac region, forcing him to cry out ; turns blue in the face, d Dropsy of chest.

Urine : straw-colored, becoming turbid and full of motes, which settle as a whit« flocculent sediment.

Urine of a peculiar odor.

Urine of unpleasant odor ; 2d day. — N.

Urging to urinate; urine strong smelling.

Urine smells like cats' urine.

Urine bloody.

The urine deposits a greasy sediment on the sides of the vessel.

Reddish deposit on the sides of the vessel.

iLithiasis.

I Gravel passing in small quantities with urination. "^"^ Male Sexual Organs. Sexual excitement.

Stitching on the r. side of the glans penis.

Swelling of the penis, with erection and urging to urinate. ^^ Female Sexual Organs. Promotes the flow of the menses.

The flow continued a day longer than usual.

■ Relieved prurigo pudendi in women, aet. 40.

25 Voice and Larynx. Continual hawking and hemming, with sensation of roughness in throat. Talks in a nasal voice during coryza. ^® Respiration. Difficulty of breathing when moving or going up stairs. At night he was obliged to sit up in bed to relieve his breathing.

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■ Great oppression; breathing rapid, difficult, increased after being in bed some time.

Breathing: I rapid, labored, sighing ; I I difficult when moving or ascending ; difficult at night, must sit up in bed. ^"^ Cough. Hawking and inclination to cough ; mucus not readily loosened, paroxysms of cough, which brought it up.

Tickling and inclination to cough, but expectoration was diffi- cult.

Cough, with inclination to vomit.

Cough distressing, with fullness of the chest and copious mu- cous sputum.

Cough in paroxysms from mucus, which is not easily detached.

Cough remitted one hour after breakfast.

Less inclined to hawk and cough ; 5th day ; ■< rising from deep in the throat.

Spitting blood. ^^ Inner Chest and Lungs. Stitches, especially about the left scapula, when inspiring.

Pains relieved by throwing the chest forward and head back- ward.

iHydrothorax ; often with heart disease or gouty diathesis of old people.

I Unusual fullness of the chest.

Constriction of the chest ; tension, increased by a deep breath.

Chest feels as if hollow, with external heaviness.

Sudden darting through the right side of the chest.

Stitching pains in the region of chest.

^® Heart, Pulse and Circulation, Slight sensation of stitching in the region of the heart after eating.

■ Heart's throb visible, especially at night; ■very strong and

extended over an unnaturally large area ; throbbing carotids; murmurs. Palpitation : I I while sitting, the leaves of the book in his hands tremble ; I I with anxious restlessness, increased by motion or ascending; ■with oppression of the chest.

■ Heart's action weak ; pulse feeble. See 32.

I I Heart's stroke two-fold, irregular, quickened.

Pulse accelerated when sitting; ■slow, weak; ■irregular and

feeble. '^ Neck and Back. Rheumatic pains between the scapulae. Fifth and sixth vertebrae pain. Pains in loins at the beginning of the false vertebrae ; 4 p.m.,

5th day. Pain at the acromion process of the left scapula, also under the

clavicle and down the arm, with exceeding feebleness of

Sensation when sitting as if something were darting through

small of back toward sacral vertebrae.

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^^ Upper Limbs. Rheumatic pains in the region of the r. axilla.

Pain in region of the shoulder on touching it.

1 I Pains on the tip of the left shoulder. See 48.

I Pain at the acromion process of the left scapula, under the clavicle and down the left a,rm ; pulse feeble. ^^ Lower Limbs. The right leg and foot are the weakest.

On awaking and stretching cramps in the left calf, better from rubbing.

While walking, pain as from dislocation in the neck of the right thighbone. See 45.

Muscles in the middle of the thigh feel bruised, worse ascend- ing, sore pain on touching it.

Throwing chest forward and head backward : pains better.

Coughing : retching and lachrymation.

Exertion : nausea worse.

When urinating : pain in cardiac region.

Moving or ascending : difficult respiration ; palpitation in- creased ; pain in thigh muscles.

Inspiration : stitches about left scapula.

Stretching : cramp in calf.

Walking : pain neck of right femur.

■ Motion aggravates most pains.

Compelled to throw chest forward and head backward to find relief of pains in loins and elsewhere. '® Nerves. I Great languor and disinclination to physical or men- tal exertion.

Sleep uneasy and disturbed by oppressed breathing. '^ Time. 5 a.m. : nausea on awaking.

6 A.M. : burning in urethra.

9 A.M. : dry coryza.

Afternoon : slight vertigo ; insufficient stool.

3 P.M. : some fever ; weak and drowsy.

4 P.M. : pains in loins. Evening : urging to urinate.

■ Suppression of sweat.

*^ Locality and Direction. Right : mucus from nostril ; stitch- ing side of glans penis ; darting through side of chest ; pains in axilla ; leg and foot weak ; pain neck of femur.

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Left : ache in temple ; thin discharge from nostril ; pain car- diac end of stomach ; pain in shoulder ; stitches about scapula ; pain tip of shoulder (acromion process), under cla- vicle, and down arm ; cramp in calf; drawing in toe.

Symptoms go from right to left.

Below upwards : pain from root of nose ; pain cardiac end of stomach.

Above downwards : pain in left shoulder. *^ Sensations. As if something was sticking in urethra.

As if urine was still passing after urination.

Chest feels hollow.

Cutting : in urethra.

Darting : through r. side of chest ; through small of back to- ward sacrum.

Stitches : in eyes.

Stitches: out of urethra; in glans penis; about 1. scapula; through chest ; in cardiac region.

Stinging : in meatus.

Burning : of cheeks ; in throat ; at anus ; in urethra.

Smarting : on tongue.

Soreness : at anus.

Aching : in temples ; in forehead ; of brain.

Pressure : in temples ; in forehead ; towards eyes from fore- head; from root of nose to forehead.

Drawing pain : over eyebrows ; in groins ; in 1. toe.

Rheumatic pain : in cardiac region when urinating.

Rheumatic pain ; between scapulae ; in r. axilla.

Dislocating pain : in neck of r. femur.

Bruised feeling : in muscles of thigh.

Constricting pain : in cardiac region.

Constriction : of chest.

Cramps : in 1. calf.

Undefined pain : in eyeballs ; in chest ; in cardiac end of sto- mach to 1. shoulder; at acromion process of 1. scapula; un- der clavicle and down arm.

Roughness : in throat.

Fullness : in abdomen.

Heaviness : in forehead.

Heat : of face.

Tickling : in eyes. ** Tissues. ; Grout.

I Dropsies. See Hydrothorax, 28.

I Anasarca.

iNumbness of the bitten part, extending over the whole arm.

d Dropsy of chest. *^ Relationship. Antidote : Aeon, (prostration, feeble pulse,

Sarsap.

Arnic.^ Aurum mur., Oannab., Digit, (dropsy);

/Spigel.