Asarum Europaeum

Haselivurtz. AristolocMacece.

Introduced and proved in 1S77 b}" Hahnemann (14) and his pupils (254). The second edition appeared in 1825 (16 and 254). It was physiologically arranged by A. G. Schneider in 1853. The root alone is better than the whole plant.

^ Mind. Gradual vanishing of thought, as when falling asleep. Stupid feeling in the head, has no desire to do anything. B Imagines he is hovering in the air like a spirit, when walking

in the open air. Great merriness, alternating with occasional momentary quiet

or gloominess. Tearful sadness and anxiety. Melancholic irritability. Nervous irritability and exaltation. See 24. BCold "shivers" from any emotion. ^ Sensorium. Confusion of the head less perceptible when walk- ing than when sitting, with pressure in the eyes as with a

dull point from within outward, especially below the right

eyelid. During the retching all the symptoms increase, only the stupid

feeling in the head decreases. Sensation of lightness in the limbs; when she walks she thinks

she is gliding through the air. I Vertigo, with anxiety, d Cholerine. Early in the morning, when rising, dizziness and drowsiness of

the head, with headache in the left side of the forehead. Stupid feeling in the head, has no desire to do anything. ^ Inner Head. Aching pain in forehead, with muddled state of

the mind. Aching in the temples, especially the left. Violent pressure in the forehead, downwards upon the eyes. Frontal headache, with nausea. Tearing, pressive pain in left temple. Pain, as from contraction in forehead, temples, and behind the

ears, with watering and burning of the eyes, worse in the

afternoon (5 p.m.), relieved when sitting, and by washing,

but not by wiping. Dull headache in left temple, afterwards below the parietal

bones, lastly in the occiput.

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Pressive headache : above the root of the nose ; in the temples,

particularly the left. Pressure over greater part of brain, from without inwards. Drawing headache, as if the temple would be drawn in (at

noon) ; ameliorated in the open air and when lying down.

■ Intense, compressive headache in the left temple, and behind

the ears ; more violent when walking or shaking the head ;

better when sitting. Tearing, pulsating pain in the forehead, excited by stooping. Throbbing headache in the morning, early, when rising.

■ Headache, with pain in both eyes, and nausea.

* Outer Head. iPain externally on sides of head. ^Headache. Itching, beginning with fine stitches, below left temple.

■ Sensation of coldness at a small spot on left side of head,

above the ear. Tension of the whole scalp, making the hair feel painful,

■ Hair does not bear combing.

® Sight and Eyes. Obscuration of sight.

When reading, sensation in eyes as if they would be pressed asunder.

■ Cannot read with left eye, aggravated by bright light. Asthenopia, accompanied by congestive headaches ; eyes <

morning and evening, when out-doors in the heat and sun- light ; > in the middle of the day and by bathing them in cold water. The cold air is pleasant to the eyes ; sunshine, light and wind are intolerable.

■ Jerking pains in eyes, with vomiting and hysteria. ^ After

operation on the eye.

Pressure in 1. eye. See 2.

Staring eyes.

Painful feeling of dryness in the eye. ,

\ Thickening of the cornea.

B Sharp pain over left eye, with running of tears and sensitive- ness of sight.

Injected conjunctivae, with stinging in the canthi.

Left upper eyelid is somewhat swollen ; the eye cannot endure much reading.

Inflamed eyes, blear-eyedness.

Watering and burning of the eyes. ^ Hearing and Ears. ISOversensitiveness of nerves, scratching of linen or silk is insupportable.

Dull roaring in left ear like a distant tornado ; in right distinct singing;.

Diminished hearing of left ear.

Sensation as if a skin was stretched over right external ear, with tensive pressure within ; worse in the cold.

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I B Sensation as if the ears were closed or plugged up with some

foreign substance. IB Deafness in one or both ears, d Catarrh. B Pressure and tension in region of orifice of meatus externus

with many symptoms. " Right auricle hot to the touch. ^ Smell and Nose. Sharp aching above the roots of the nose. B Some cory za and sneezing, with sensation as if ears were closed

or plugged up with some foreign substance, with deafness. Discharge of bloody mucus from the nose ; streak of pure blood. Dry coryza ; the left nostril is stopped up. Tickling in the nose, causing, after unsuccessful efforts, a sneeze,

and discharge of clear fluid. Violent sneezing. ^ Face. Warmth of cheeks.

Fine stinging on right cheek ; burning stinging pain in the left. ^ Lower Part of Face. Dryness of inner side of lower lip.

Cutting pain, with cramp at articulation of lower jaw. ^^ Teeth and Gums. Teeth of left side feel as if hollow. Cold feeling in upper incisors as from a cold breath. Smarting sensation in the gums. " Taste, Speech, Tongue. BiMost disgusting taste in mouth, at first sour, later bitter, d Cholerine. Bread tastes bitter. Tobacco tastes bitter when smoking. Burning sensation across the tongue. Biting on the tongue.

Tongue clean, with cholera-like symptoms. B Tongue somewhat whitish and thickly furred. ^Cholerine. ^^ Inner Mouth. Mucus in mouth, of a sweetish, insipid taste. Accumulation of much water in the mouth, with nausea. Cold, watery saliva accumulates in the mouth. BStomacace. " Palate and Throat. Dryness in throat, with stitches. Scraping in throat.

Tough mucus in throat ; is unable to raise it, or hawk it loose. Swallowing difficult, as from swelling of the glands of throat. Accumulation of tough phlegm in throat. " Appetite, Thirst, Desires, Aversions. Early morning hun- ger. BBWant of appetite, even nauseated by food. 6 Cholerine. Loathing of food without any gastric derangement. 1 B Unconquerable longing for alcohol. ^^ Eating and Drinking. After dinner: great lassitude.

When drinking : chilliness. ^^ Hiccough, Belching, Wausea and Vomiting. Hiccough. Imperfect eructations reaching only to upper part of chest. BB Frequent empty eructations. ^Cholerine.

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Putrid eructations.

Heartburn, with sour belching, setting the teeth on edge.

Nausea with shuddering.

Nausea, with disinclination to attend to business ; laziness and

sensation as if without a head. 1 1 Attacks of nausea; worse after eating; tongue clean.

d Cholerine. llNausea and vomituritio. 6 Cholerine. Violent, empty retching, which increases all the symptoms,

only relieving the head. Vomiting : of only a small quantity of greenish, somewhat sour

fluid ; with great straining, and sensation about the ears as

if the head would split. iVomiting of whitish or greenish phlegm, d Cholerine. Vomiting of bile and mucus streaked with blood. ■ Vomiting, with great anguish, under violent exertion, with

chilliness. Vomiting, with diarrhoea and violent colic. After vomiting, relief of the head symptoms. " Scrobiculum and Stomach. Il Pressing, digging and feeling

of discomfort in pit of stomach. 6 Cholerine. Pressure in the stomach, scrobiculum and abdomen. Sensation of constriction in the region of the diaphragm. 1 1 Horrible sensation at the epigastrium when getting awake in

the morning. 6 With drunkards. ^^ Hypochondria. Aching in the spleen. ^^ Abdomen, Loins and Groins. > Oppression around navel,

three or four hours after each meal, lasting one hour. Cutting bellyache, with vomiting.

Pinching pain in left side of abdomen extending to back. I Pain in the region of the descending colon with discharges of

stringy mucus. Cutting pain in upper abdomen, better by passing flatus. Violent colic and vomiting. Rumbling and gurgling in the abdomen. iWorras. ^^ Rectum and Stool. Stools whitish-gray, or ash -colored, on

the top like bloody mucus. BlA long yellow twisted string of inodorous mucus in three or

four stools, with pain in abdomen. iDiarrhoea, passes shaggy masses of mucus, inodorous and full

of ascarides. Diarrhoea of tenacious mucus. An hour and a half after stool he has another pressing desire,

with cutting in the abdomen and rectum before and during

stool, which is softer than the former. lYellowish-brownish diarrhoea, d Cholerine. iLientery; watery stools after a meal, very weakening.

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B I Scanty, yellow, mucous stool.

Diarrhoea in chilly, nervous persons ; from debility ; during hectic or slow fever.

■ Before stool, cutting in the abdomen and sharp stitches in the

rectum, from above downwards.

During stool, discharge of thick, black blood.

Prolapsus ani during stool.

After stool, pressing and straining, and discharge of white, vis- cid, bloody mucus.

iCostiveness. ^Headache.

Passes thick, black, blood with the stool.

Prolapsus ani with the stool. ^^ Urinary Organs. Constant desire to urinate.

Pressure on the bladder during and after the emission of urine. ^^ Male Sexual Organs. ! Impotence.

Violent pain in left groin, darting through urethra to glans, in which a violent smarting, contracted pain remains for a long time. 2* Female Sexual Organs. Menstrual colic.

Catamenia too early and long-lasting, blood black.

■ Headache often appears before and after the catamenia.

B At the appearance of the menses violent pain in small of back, which scarcely permits her to breathe.

B Tenacious yellow leucorrhoea.

BVaginal fistula. ^* Pregnancy and Parturition. Excessive sickness during the first months of pregnancy, stomach rejecting everything.

BB Nausea and vomiting of the pregnant.

Threatened abortion from excessive sensibility of the nerves ; even imagining something unpleasant causes thrills to pass through her, momentarily arresting thought.

B BLong yellow twisted string of inodorous mucus (see 20), with pain in belly occurring from two to four months after con- finement. ^^ Larynx, Stitches and constriction in the larynx. ^^ Kespiration. Breath very short (night).

Whistling breathing at the beginning of coughing.

Short, jerking breathing on account of stitches and constriction of 'the larynx.

Dull stitches in both lungs during inspiration. ^^ Cough. Frequent cough on account of mucus in the chest; mucus rises into the throat, causing diflBcult breathing, and finally cough, with expectoration.

Inhalation causes irritation to cough, in the throat.

B Constant short, hacking cough of consumptives.

Cough relieves the constriction of larynx. 28 Inner Chest and Lungs. Stitches in right or both lungs dur- ing inhalation.

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Sharp pressure in region of last ribs, as with the back of a

knife. Pain around both lungs, as if they were constricted by a thin

wire. Pain in the sides. ^^ Heart, Pulse and Circulation. Pulse : quick and strong ;

full and accelerated. The arterial beat is felt through the whole body. ^^ Outer Chest. Burning sensation, right chest, more external

than internal. ^^ Neck and Back. Stiff neck, with thirst, early in the morning. Dull stitches under the scapulse. Laming pain as if bruised in one of the cervical muscles, when

moving the head. Sensation in the muscles of the neck as from a tight cravat, or

as if pressed upon by a dull edge. Sore pain along the inner border of the right scapula. Burning pain, with stitches in small of back, while sitting. Tearing pain from crest of one ilium to the other. Bruised pain in the back.

■ Violent pain in small of back, she can hardly breathe ; begin- ning of menses. ^^ Upper Limbs. Sweat in axillas smelling sour.

violent stitcli in both shoulders during motion or rest. Contractive tensive pain in deltoid muscle, when laying the

hand on the table, and while it lies there. Drawing laming pain in left wrist. Sudden drawing burning pain from wrist through thumb and

index finger. ^^ Lower Limbs. • Chronic sciatica. Dull pressure in right hip. Drawing tensive pain in head of left femur. Severe pain in hip-joint and middle of thigh when stepping ;

the foot feels as if paralyzed, he cannot step properly thereon. Severe rheumatic tearing stitches in the knees, during motion

and at rest. Lassitude in the knees.

Drawing in the hamstrings when lying in bed ; in the knee. Gurgling sensation in the patella. Bruised feeling in left tibia. Stitches in ankles and soles. The little toes pain as if frozen. ^* Limbs in General. ■ Lightness of all the limbs ; he does not

perceive that he has a body. Occasional darting and tearing pains in upper and lower limbs- Rheumatism worse in dry, cold weather. ^® Rest. Position. Motion. Sitting : confusion of head < ;

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pain in head >> ; pain in small of back ; headache ; nausea and weakness worse.

Lying : headache >- ; drawing in knees and ham strings ; weak- ness and nausea ^ ; heat of face and palms.

Rest : stitch in shoulders ; stitches in knees.

Motion : stitch in shoulders ; stitches in knees.

Walking : confusion of head > ; headache worse.

Shaking head : headache worse.

Moving head : pain in cervical muscles.

Stooping : pain in forehead. 36 Nerves. Excessive sensibility of all the nerves. See 24.

Great nervous irritation.

■ Hysteria.

llExcessive sensibility of all the nerves when merely thinking (and this he must continually) that some one 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.

Great lassitude.

Great faintness and constant yawning.

General weary feeling.

So weak and nauseated toward evening, that when he rises to sitting posture he feels as if he would instantly sink down and die ; he must lie in bed.

So weak he staggers, unless his mind is on his walking. ^^ Sleep. Evening in bed, agitation in the blood, prevents sleep for two hours.

After lying down in the evening, sweat.

Condition of mind as if just falling asleep; gradual vanishing of ideas.

Frequent yawning.

Great drowsiness by day.

Restless sleep.

Short breath at night.

Nightly vexatious dreams about humiliations. ^^ Time. Morning: dizziness and drowsiness; headache on rising ; eyes < ; hunger ; horrible sensation in epigastrium on awaking ; stiff neck.

Forenoon : chilly, cold feeling worse.

Mid-day : eyes better.

During day : drowsiness.

5 P.M. : pain in head worse.

Towards evening : weakness and nausea worse.

Evening : eyes < ; heat of face and palms ; cutaneous diseases worse.

Kight : shortness of breathing. ^^ Temperature and Weather. Dry, cold weather: rheuma- tism worse.

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Open air : headache > ; chilly, cold feeling worse. In heat, sunlight and wind: eyes worse. Cold water : eyes better. Cold air : eyes > ; ears worse.

Hottest weather : cold hands, feet, abdomen or knees, not better. Covering, or warm room : cold feeling no better. Washing : pain in head better. Damp weather : symptoms improve. *" Chill. Fever. Sweat. Chills during the day, without thirst. iNervous chilliness, single parts get icy cold, d Cholera season. I Cold hands, feet, knees or abdomen ; even the hottest weather

does not relieve ; timid, nervous persons. Chill and cold feeling in forenoon, after eating or drinking, and

in open air, generally with heat of head. I Great want of vital heat; feels cold continually. I Cold feeling, not relieved by covering, or warmth of room. Heat in the evening, after lying down, particularly in face and

palms of hands. Alternate flushes of burning heat and coldness. Sweat increased at night, of sour smell ; most profuse in axillae. Sweats easily, particularly on upper part of body.

I I Slow fevers, no reaction from spinal enervation. I Typhus. *^ Locality and Direction. Right : pressure below eyelid ; singing in ear; sensation of skin stretched over external ear; pressure within ear; stinging in cheek; stitches in lungs ; burning in chest ; pain border of scapula ; pressure in hip. Left : side of forehead and temple ache ; coldness side of head ; pressure in eye ; upper eyelid swollen ; roaring in ear ; ear deaf; nostril stopped; stinging pain in cheek; teeth feel hollow ; pain side of abdomen ; pain in groin ; pain head of femur ; bruised feeling in tibia.

Above downward : pressure in forehead ; cutting in abdomen. Within outward : pressure in eyes. Without inwards : pressure over brain. Before backward : pain in abdomen. ^^ Sensations.

Lightness in limbs, as if gliding through the air. As if a skin were stretched over r. ear. As if ears were plugged. As if pressed asunder : in eyes.

As if constricted by a thin wire : both lungs. Sensation as from a tight cravat in muscles of neck. Horrible sensation at epigastrium. As if frozen : in little toe.

Cutting : articulation of lower jaw ; bellyache ; in upper abdo- men ; in rectum.

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Tearing : in 1. temple ; from crest of one ilium to the other ;

in knees ; through limbs. Darting: through urethra; through limbs. Dull stitches : in lungs ; under scapulae. Fine stitches : below 1. temple. Stitches : in throat ; in rectum ; in larynx ; in small of back ;

in shoulders ; in knees ; in ankles ; in soles. Stinging : in canthi ; on r. cheek ; and burning in 1. cheek. Burning : of eyes ; across tongue ; in r. chest ; in small of

Biting : on tongue. Smarting : in gums.

Aching : in forehead ; in temples ; above root of nose. Rheumatic pain : in knees.

outward ; in forehead upon the eyes ; above root of nose ;

over brain ; in pit of stomach and abdomen ; in rectum ; on

Cramp: at articulation of lower jaw. Contractive pain : in forehead, temples, and behind ears ; in

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*" Skin. Discharge of bloody and slimy matter from ulcers.

\ Jaundice. ^^ Stages of Life, Constitution. iPlethoric young woman suffered for years from headaches.

Nervous temperament, excitable or melancholic mood.

I Nervous, anxious people. ^During cholera season.

I I Drunkards; popular in Russia.