ASPARAGUS.
A. officinalis, L. Nat. order,
Liliaceæ. Common names, Asparagus; (Germ.) Spargel;
(Fr.) Asperge. Preparation, Tincture of the young
sprouts.
Authorities.
1, Buchner’s
provings, Hygea, 12, 426 (translated by Shipman in Journ. of M. M.), proving by N. (30 to
250 drops of the tincture); 2, Proving by St., with
tincture, ibid.; 3, Buchner, effects on a girl, ibid.; 4, Additional proving by M. with the tincture, A. H. Z., 20, 265.
MIND.
► Serenity of mind
the whole day (first day), [1]. ►
A peculiar anxiety, with palpitation of the heart, and ill-humor, [2].
HEAD.
► Confusion of the
head, and a vertiginous staggering, [2]. ► Slight vertigo, [1]. ► Confusion of forehead, [4].
► Vertigo in the forehead, [1].
► Dizziness in the forehead, afterwards aching in the
temples, especially the left (soon after taking the drug), [1].
► Heaviness of the forehead, [1]. ► Aching in the forehead,
with confusion, [1]. [10.]
► Aching of the brain near the eyes, [1]. ► Slight pressure in the
forehead, [4]. ►
Pressing pains in both temples, increased by pressure upon them, [1].
EYES.
► Stitches and
tickling in the eyes, [1]. ►
Increased acuteness of vision, [1].
NOSE.
► Frequent irritation
to sneeze, and even frequent sneezing, [4]. ► Violent sneezing, [4]. ► Frequent sneezing (from smelling tincture), [1], [2]. ►
Severe coryza and catarrh, with pressive pain from the root of the nose, extending over the
forehead to the forepart of the head, [4]. ► Severe coryza and nasal catarrh, with profuse secretion of thin,
whitish fluid from the left nostril, afterwards from the right nostril, [4]. [20.] ► Coryza, with commencing dryness and slight swelling of the
internal nostrils, followed by impeded entrance of air, [4].
► Loss of smell, [4].
FACE.
► Face pale, [2]. ► Increased heat of
the face, [1]. ►
Burning of the cheeks, [1].
MOUTH.
► Painless cavity
and exfoliation of a carious molar tooth, [1]. ► Increased secretion of saliva, [1].
► The saliva was so sweetish that he thought it was mixed
with blood, [2]. ►
Diminished saliva, [4]. ►
Sweetish, insipid taste in the mouth, [1]. [30.] ► Coppery taste in the
mouth, [1].
THROAT.
► Inclination to
hawk and cough, rising from deep in the throat, [1]. ► Hawking up of mucus, [1].
► Almost constant hawking, with rough feeling in the
throat, [1]. ►
Hawking, and inclination to cough; the mucus is not readily loosened, but is brought up by
paroxysms of cough, [1]. ►
Copious discharge of tenacious mucus from the throat, [2].
STOMACH.
► Wind in the
stomach, [1]. ►
Increased thirst, [1]. ►
Eructations, [1]. ►
Retching, when attempting to cough, that brought water into the eyes, [1]. [40.] ►
Retching while coughing, [1]. ►
He awake with nausea before 5 A.M., and vomited four times of the food taken in the evening,
with bile and much mucus; then fecal, bilious diarrhœa; one-half hour later, frequent
repeated vomiting, with increased effort, [1].
ABDOMEN.
► Griping in the
region of the navel, which is painful when touched, [1].
► Pinching in the belly below the navel, in the evening, [1]. ► Abdomen distended,
[1]. ► Discharge of
much wind, [1]. ►
Sense of fulness in the abdomen, [1]. ► Colic, with bilious diarrhœa, [2].
► Drawing pains in both groins, [2].
STOOL AND ANUS.
► Burning
and soreness at the anus, [2]. [50.] ► (Itching in the anus),
[4]. ► Peculiar
desire for stool, and somewhat difficult passage of hardish fæces, [4]. ► In the afternoon an
insufficient stool; the usual stool in the morning, however, occurred, [1].
URINARY ORGANS.
► Burning
in the urethra, [1]. ►
Cutting and burning in the urethra, which also occurred after eating boiled Asparagus, [2]. ► After urinating,
burning in the urethra, with sensation as if there was some urine yet to pass, [1]. ► Urging to urinate,
[1], [2]. ► Increased secretion of urine, [1].
► Increased flow of urine, beer-brown, without sediment, [1]. ► Frequent urinating,
with fine stitches in the orifice of the urethra, [4].
[60.] ► Frequent
scanty discharge of urine, preceded by a sensation as if something were stitching in the
urethra, with slight burning, [1]. ► Urine of a tolerable strong odor, [2]. ► Urine scanty and cloudy, [1]. ► A little
straw-colored urine is passed, which becomes turbid immediately after being passed, and is
full of motes, [1]. ►
Urine clear, but of unpleasant odor, [1]. ► Urine of peculiar odor, [1].
► At 4 P.M. the urine contained motes, as was usual at
this time, [1]. ►
An hour and a half after dinner, the urine is turbid again, without being dark, with fine
motes, which first became very manifest on reducing the urine with distilled water, [1]. ► White, flocky
sediments deposited, and the urine becomes clear, but on being shaken the sediment,
disappears, and the motes present themselves to view again (after four hours), [1]. ► The urine passed
was turbid, but subsequently became clear, and formed a white, flocky sediment (after an
hour and a half), [1]. [70.]
► After the urine was shaken out, and the glass well
washed with water, a fatty coating was manifest on the sides of the glass, [1]. ► The urine, which was kept
over night, formed on the sides of the vessel a reddish deposit, [1].
SEXUAL ORGANS.
► Swelling
of penis, with erections and urging to urinate, [4]. ► Stitching on the right side of glans, [1]. ► Excitement of the sexual
passions, [1]. ►
Menses continued one day longer than usual, [3].
RESPIRATORY APPARATUS.
►
Tickling and inclination to cough, [2]. ► Cough again, towards evening, [1].
► Straining cough, with inclination to vomit, [1]. ► Distressing cough,
with fulness of the chest, and copious mucous expectoration, [1].
[80.] ► The cough
remitted, after taking his breakfast (after one hour), [1].
► Difficult expectoration, [2].
► The mucus is more readily loosened upon each turn of
coughing, without producing any retching, [1]. ► Difficulty of breathing when moving or going upstairs, [2]. ► He was obliged to
sit up in bed to relieve his breathing, at night, [2].
CHEST.
► Pain in the chest
after breakfast, [1]. ►
Pain in the breast, with tension, when inspiring. ►
Sensation as if the chest were hollow, with external heaviness of the same, [1]. ► Tension of the chest
increased when taking a deep breath, [1]. ► Constriction of the chest, [1].
[90.] ► Constriction
of the chest, chiefly while writing, [1]. ► When inspiring, stitches in various parts of the chest,
especially about the left shoulder-blade, [2]. ► Pains relieved by throwing the chest forward and the head
backward, [1]. ►
Sudden darting pains through the right side of the chest that made him start up, at 10 A.M.,
[1]. ► Stitching in
the left side of the breast on inspiration, but of short duration, [1].
HEART AND PULSE.
►
Irregular, quickened, twofold stroke of the heart, [1].
► Pulsation of the heart perceptible to the feel and
hearing; also upon moderate motion, [1]. ► Palpitation of the heart, while sitting, so that the
leaves of the book which he held in his hand trembled, [1].
► Palpitation of the heart, especially after motion, [1]. ► Palpitation of the
heart, with anxious restlessness, increased by motion and going upstairs, [1]. [100.] ► *Palpitation of the heart frequently occurred, with oppression of
the chest, [1]. ►
The beat of the heart hardly perceptible, [1]. ► Slight sensation of stitching in the region of the heart,
after eating, [1]. ►
Pulse slightly accelerated, [1]. ►
Pulse accelerated, when sitting, [1]. ► Pulse small, compressible, [1].
NECK AND BACK.
► Rheumatic
pain between the shoulder-blades, [1]. ► Shooting pains, while sitting, through the loins, in the
region of the lumbar vertebræ, [1]. ► Pain in the loins, at the beginning of the sacrum (after two
hours), [1].
UPPER EXTREMITIES.
► Pain
in the region of the shoulder, on touching it, [1]. [110.] ► Rheumatic pains in
the region of the right axilla, [1].
LOWER EXTREMITIES.
► The
right leg is weaker than the left, [1]. ► Pain, as from dislocation, in the neck of the right
thigh-bone, while walking, [1]. ►
Pains, as from dislocation, while walking (four times in the forenoon, second day), in the
neck of the right thigh-bone, which prevents rapid motion, and now and then compels him to
limp, [1]. ► Pain
in the muscles, in the middle of the thigh, as if bruised, making it difficult to walk,
especially when going up an ascent; on touching this parts, a sore pain, [1]. ► Sore pain in the upper
surface of the thigh, and, when bending the leg, at the hip and knee joints, continuing for
three days, which made it very difficult to walk, [1].
► Stitching pains, first? the right, then below the left
side of the left knee, when sitting, late in the evening, [1].
► Slight indications of cramps in the calves, [1]. ► On awaking, as he
stretched himself, there was a cramplike pain in the calf of the left leg, which compelled
him to cry out, but was relieved by rubbing (after one day), [1].
► The right foot was weaker all day than the left (second
day), [1]. [120.] ► The right foot much more painful than the left, [1]. ► Drawing in the
left toe, which he had cut with an axe when a boy, at 10 P.M., before falling asleep, [1].
SLEEP AND DREAMS.
►
Yawning, drowsiness, in the morning, [1]. ► Drowsiness and yawning, [1].
FEVER.
► Slight chilliness,
with some sleepiness, [4]. ►
Increased warmth, [1]. ►
Slight febrile excitement and some sleepiness, at 3 P.M., [4].
CONDITIONS.
► Aggravation.
► (Afternoon),
Insufficient stool. ► (Towards
evening), Cough again. ► (Evening), Pinching in belly. ►
(Before 5 A.M.), Awake with nausea, etc. ► (10 A.M.), Pain through
right side of chest. ► (3 P.M.),
Slight febrile excitement, etc. ► (10 P.M.), Before falling asleep, drawing in left toe. ► (Bending leg at hip and knee),
Sore pain in upper surface of thigh. ► (After breakfast), Pain in chest. ►
(Deep breathing), Tension of chest. ► (While coughing),
Retching. ► (After eating),
Stitching sensation in region of heart. ► (When inspiring), Pain in breast, etc.; stitches in various parts
of chest; stitches in left side of chest. ► (Motion), Most of the pains; difficulty of breathing; perceptible
pulsation of heart. ► (After
motion), Palpitation of heart. ► (Pressure), Pressive pains in temples. ►
(Sitting), Palpitation of heart; accelerated pulse;
pains through loins; late in evening, stitching pain above right knee, etc. ► (Touch), Pain in region
of shoulder; sore pain in muscles of thigh. ► (After urinating), Burning in urethra, etc. ►
(While walking), Pain in neck
of right thigh-bone. ► (Walking upstairs), Difficulty of breathing; palpitation of heart,
etc. ► (While writing),
Constriction of chest. ► Amelioration. ► (After breakfast), Cough
remitted. ► (Throwing chest
backward and head forward), Pains relieved. ►
(Rubbing), Cramplike pain in left calf.
SUPPLEMENT: ASPARAGUS.
Authorities.
5, M. Gendrin
(gaz. Méd. de Paris, June, 1833), Am. Journ. of Med. Sci. vol. xiii, 1833, p. 241, effects
of the syrup on several persons; 6, E. W. Berridge,
M.D., Am. Hom. Obs., 1875, p. 101, effects on Mr. —, after eating Asparagus.All without exception had the quantity of their urine increased, and this
commenced when the syrup was given in the doses of an ounce to an ounce and a half, but was
not marked until two ounces of the medicine was taken at a dose. When taken in this dose the
urine tripled, quadrupled, and even quintupled the quantity of drink in all the individuals.
When this abundant diureris was established, the greater number of these persons experienced
thirst, and all had an increase of appetite. M. G. repeated these experiments upon three
series of persons, consisting of three, of five of four. The day after the Asparagus was
suspended, the diuresis ceased, [5]. ► After eating Asparagus his urine smells like cat’s urine, [6].® 2000
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