ASARUM EUROPAEUM
European Snake-root
(ASARUM EUROPUM)
A remedy for nervous affections, loss of energy, with excessive erethism. Scratching on silk or linen or paper unbearable. Pains
and spasmodic muscular actions. Nervous deafness and asthenopia. Cold shivers from any
emotion. Feels as if parts were pressed together. Tension and contractive sensations. Always feels cold.
Mind.–
Thoughts vanish, with drawing pressure in forehead. Sensibility increased, even from mere imagination.
Head.–
Compressive pain. Tension of scalp; hair painful (China). Coryza, with sneezing.
Eyes.–
Feel stiff; burn; feel cold. Better, in cold air or
water; worse, sunlight and wind. Darting pains in eyes after operations. Asthenopia.
Ears.–
Sensation as if plugged up. Catarrh with deafness. Heat
of external ear. Noises.
Stomach.–
Loss of appetite, flatulence, eructation, and
vomiting. Desire for alcoholic drinks. Smoking tobacco
tastes bitter. Nausea; worse after eating. Clean tongue. Great faintness. Accumulation of
cold, watery saliva.
Rectum.–
Strings of
odorless, yellow mucus pass from bowels. Diarrhśa of tough mucus. Undigested
stools. Prolapse.
Female.–
Menses too early, long lasting, black. Violent pain in
small of back. Tenacious, yellow leucorrhśa.
Respiratory.–
Nervous, hacking cough. Short respiration.
Back.–
Paralytic pain in muscles of nape of neck. Weakness, with
staggering.
Fever.–
Chilliness, single parts get icy cold. Easily excited
perspiration.
Modalities.–
Worse, in cold
dry weather; penetrating sounds. Better, from washing; in
damp and wet weather.
Relationship.–
Asarum Canadensa-Wild
Ginger (Colds, followed by amenorrhśa and gastro-enteritis. Suppressed colds). Compare: Ipecac, especially in diarrhśa; Silica;
Nux; China.
Dose.–
Third to sixth potency.