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Asafoetida
Narthex asafoetida
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Origin Plant · Umbelliferae (Apiaceae) · Simple
Habitat obtained by incision from the living root
ClarkePreparation Tincture of the gum resin (obtained by incision from the living root).
Sources 7 entries across 6 books: Clarke, Hering, Farrington, T. F. Allen, Guernsey …

Dose
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No dose stated in the library’s books

By regionHering
Mind ► Unsteady and fickle, cannot persevere in any thing ; wants now one thing, then another, walks hither and thither. ► Fits of great joy, with occasional burst of laughter. ► Apprehension of dying. ► Anxious, sadness. ► Ill-humor, irritable mood. ► Hysterical restlessness and anxiety.
Inner Head ► Pressure in sides of head or temples, like from a dull stick, better from touch. ► Flying stitch from within outward, in the forehead, temples and sides of the head. ► Sensation of swashing and gurgling behind the upper part of the frontal bone. ► All the headache are worse towards evening ; in the room, while at rest, sitting or lying. …
Eyes ► Mist before the eyes. ► Sensation of dryness in the eyes. ► Nocturnal throbbing pains in and around the eye and head. θ Syphilitic iritis. ► Sharp pain extending through the eye into the head, upon touching. ► Extensive superficial ulceration of the cornea, with burning, sticking or pressing pains, from within outwards ; rest and pressure relieve.
Stomach ► Pulsation in pit of stomach. 11 A.M. cause faint feeling. ► Sensation of fullness in stomach. ► Empty, "gone" feeling in epigastrium. ► Pressing, cutting, stitching pain in spells, not regular.
Female Sexual Organs ► Excited sexual desire. ► Menses, too frequent, too scanty and last but a short time. ► Labor-like pains in uterine region, with cutting and bearing down. ► Bearing down in genitals, worse when riding in carriage. ► Uterine ulcer, sensitive and painful. ► Leucorrhoea profuse, greenish, thin and offensive. ► Swelling and inflammation of the genitals.
Lungs ► Pressure and burning under sternum often with cough. ► Compression of chest, as from a heavy weight. ► Pressing stitches in the chest. ► Burning in chest, runs through both arms, through lower limbs down into toes. ► Single violent stitches from within outwards, at short intervals ; renewed when the chest is touched.
Neck And Back ► Drawing downwards, in the left side of neck, on motion. ► Stitches in the muscles of the back. ► Dull pains, or drawing and cutting below the scapulae. ► Burning along the vertebrae, to the left side. ► Aching inwardly, along the last dorsal and first lumbar vertebrae.
Limbs In General ► Twitching of muscles of arms and legs. ► Pain mostly on the flexor sides of the limbs.
Sleep ► Inclined to sleep. ► Sleeplessness at midnight. ► About midnight violent pains through left half of body.
Chill, Fever And Sweat ► Crawls run over back, in afternoon. ► Chill, coldness and dryness of the skin ; also in caries, etc. ► Every day between 3 and 4 P.M., coldness and trembling, with unbearable stitches in the head. ► Heat in the face, after dinner, with anxiety and sleepiness, without thirst. ► Occasional cold, most skin.
Skin ► Ulcers, with high, hard edges, bluish, etc., sensitive to touch, easily bleeding ; pus profuse, greenish, thin, offensive, over ichorous. ► Shooting pain around the ulcer. ► Ulcers grow black. ► Old scars break open and turn black.

Books*
Antidoted by Cinchona Officinalis 3, Mercurius Solubilis 3, Camphora 2 +5
Complementary —
Follows well —
Compare Ammoniacum Gummi, Cicuta Virosa, Conium Maculatum

* Number of books that state the relation, where more than one. Historical text from the classical materia medica (1828–1950). Not medical advice, and not a claim that any remedy works.
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