Asarum Europaeum

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A Text-Book of Materia Medica.

(Characteristic, Analytical, and Comparative.)

By Pr. Allen Corson Cowperthwaite, M. D., PH. D., LL. D.

ASARUM.

(Asarum Europoeum.)

Natural order.- Aristolochiaceae.

Common name.- Hazel Wort.

General Analysis.-

Acts upon the cerebro-spinal nervous system, and affects especially the mucous membrane of the alimentary tract.

Characteristic symptoms.

(Asarum)

Gradual vanishing of thoughts, as when falling asleep.

(Asarum)

Very sensitive, compressive headache, especially in left temple and behind the ears.

Tension of scalp (Caust.), making hair feel painful.

(Asarum)

Painful dryness of the interior of the eyes.

(Asarum)

Pressure and tension in region of meatus auditorius.

(Asarum)

Disgusting taste in the mouth.

(Asarum)

Nausea and inclination to vomit.

Frequent empty eructations.

Want of appetite, even nauseated by food.

Empty retching ; during the retchings all the symptoms are aggravated, except the stupid feeling about the head, which decreases.

Violent cutting colic, with vomiting.

Unquenchable longing for alcohol. (Carb. ac.)

(Asarum)

Before stool, cutting in the abdomen, and sharp stitches in the rectum, from above downward.

(Asarum)

Lightness of all the limbs (Mez.) ; when walking seems to be gliding through the air ; dull pressure in the right hip.

(Asarum)

Excessive sensibility of all the nerves ( Cinch ., Coff. c.) ; when merely thinking (and this he must continually) that someone might, with the finger tip or nail, scratch even lightly on linen or similar material, a most disagreeable sensation thrills through him, arresting momentarily all his thoughts and actions.

Therapeutic Range.- (Asarum)

Mostly used in gastric and bilious disorders, where there is excessive nervous sensitiveness.

(Asarum)

In nervous, excitable temperament ; in drunkards.

(Asarum)

Cupr., Nux v., Phos., Puls.

(Asarum)

Camphor, Vinegar, vegetable acids.

Copyright © Robert Séror 2003

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