Asarum Europśum.
Asarabacca. Hazelwort. Wild Nard. (Mountainous woods in Europe.) N. O.
Aristolochiaceć. Tinctures of root and whole fresh plant.Clinical.─
Alcoholism. Anus, prolapse of.
Catarrhs. Cholerine. Diarrhśa. Dysmenorrhśa. Eyes, affections of; operations on. Fidgets.
Headache. Hysteria. Levitation, sensation of. Typhus.
Characteristics.─
Before Hahnemann’s time Asar. was little known except as an emetic. His proving brought
to light some unique characteristics. Most remarkable is a state of over-sensitiveness of
the nerves, the scratching of linen or silk, or even the thought of it, is insufferable.
Sensation of lightness of the limbs, thinks she is gliding through the air when she walks.
Nervous irritability and exaltation. Sensation as though whole body or single parts were
being pressed together. Pain as from contraction in forehead, temples, and behind ear, with
watering and burning of the eyes; < afternoon, > when sitting, and by washing. Eyes inflamed, bleared,
staring. Weak sight, < bright light. When reading
sensation as if eyes would be pressed asunder. Cold air and cold washing >. With a single dose of Asar.
200 I cured a case of subacute inflammation of eyes and lids which had lasted some months
after an attack of influenza, the indications being “>
in open air, and by washing in cold water.” On the other hand, it is suited, according
to Guernsey, to chilly persons who are always shrinking from the cold; e.g., literary, sedentary men who are sick and chilly. It is
useful for the darting pains remaining after operations on the eyes. Several symptoms are < in cold, dry weather; in clear, fine weather; in dry
weather. > In damp, wet weather; on wetting affected
parts. Sensation of skin stretched over right external ear. Deafness. Plugged sensation.
Pressure, tension, and contractive sensations are leading features of Asar. Accumulation of cold watery saliva in mouth. Hunger in
early morning. Constant nausea. Vomiting, with diarrhśa and violent colic. Stool of
jelly-like mucus. Menstrual colic. Headache before and after menses. Violent pain in small
of back, which scarcely permits her to breathe, at beginning of menses. Deschere reports a
case of dysmenorrhśa in a nervous, fidgety woman of twenty-seven, who had intense backache
during first two days, so severe that she could not move It often rose to the dorsal region,
when it would take away her breath. Cured with Asar. 50,
one dose every evening. Heat especially of face, and in palms of hands. When retching all
symptoms < except stupidity of the head, which is >.
Relations.─
Antidotes:
Camph., vinegar and vegetable acids. Followed well by:
Bismuth. Compare: Acon., Alo. (stringy stools); Camph.
(cholerine); Cupr., Hep., Ipec. (cholerine); Merc. (stringy stools); Nux v., Phos., Pod.,
Puls. and Sul. ac. (stringy stools); Sep., Stram., Tabac., and Verat. (cholerine). Asaf.
(over-sensitiveness). Sticta pul., Calc., Can. ind., Gels., Thuj., Ol. jec. asel.
(levitation). Mosch., Tarent., Meph., Zinc. (fidgety feet).
SYMPTOMS.
1. Mind.─
Nervous irritability and exaltation of
the senses.─Merely thinking some one might scratch with finger-tip or
nail on linen, &c. = disagreeable thrill through
him, arresting thought and action.─Cold “shivers” from any
emotion.─Condition of mind as if just falling asleep; a gradual
vanishing of ideas.─Imagines he is hovering in the air like a spirit;
when walking in the open air.
2. Head.─
Vertigo, as if drunk, on rising from a
seat; on walking.─Giddiness, pressure or aching in head, chiefly
temples, forehead, and above root of nose.─Very sensitive, compressive
headache in forehead, temples, and behind the ears (l. side of head), with watering and
burning of the eyes, < afternoon (5 p.m.), > when sitting, and by washing, but not by wiping.─Headache
< by intellectual exertion.─Tension
of whole scalp, making hair feel painful; cannot bear combing.─Head dull
and stupid; feels the pulsation of arteries in occiput.
3. Eyes.─
Obscuration of sight.─When
reading, sensation in eyes as if they would be pressed asunder.─Inflamed
eyes, blear-eyedness.─Inflamed eyes, burning in the lids, esp. the
canthi.─The eyes stare.─The cold air is pleasant to
the eyes; sunshine, light, and wind are intolerable.─Painful dryness of
the interior of the eyes.─Asthenopia with congestive headache; eyes < morning and evening; >
middle day, and by bathing them in cold water.─Sharp pain over l. eye,
running of tears, and sensitive to light.
4. Ears.─
Over-sensitiveness of nerves; scratching
of linen or silk is insupportable.─Pressure and tension in the region of
the orifice of the meatus auditorius.─Deafness in one or both ears.─Sensation
as if ears closed or plugged with some foreign substance.
6. Face.─
Warm feeling in face; all symptoms
disappear on applying cold water, but return soon after.
8. Mouth.─
Disgusting taste in the mouth.─Accumulation
of cold, watery saliva in the mouth.─Bread tastes bitter.─Tobacco
tastes bitter when smoking.─Burning across tongue.─Biting
on tongue.─Tongue somewhat whitish and thickly furred.─Stomacace.
9. Throat.─
Tough phlegm in throat; can’t raise
it.
11. Stomach.─
Eructations putrid or sour, setting
the teeth on edge.─Frequent empty eructations.─Violent,
empty retching, which increases all the symptoms, only relieving the stupid feeling about
the head, which decreases.─Heartburn.─Attacks of
nausea; < after eating; tongue clean.─Want
of appetite, even nauseated by food.─Nausea and inclination to vomit.─Vomiting
with great anguish, under violent exertion, with chilliness.─Vomiting,
with diarrhśa and violent colic.─Pressing digging and feeling of
discomfort in pit of stomach.─Horrible sensation at epigastrium on
waking (in drunkards).─Unquenchable longing for alcohol.
12. Abdomen.─
Oppression around navel, three or
four times after each meal, lasting one hour.─Pain in region of
descending colon, with discharge of stringy mucus.
13. Stool and Anus.─
Diarrhśa, consisting of
tenacious mucus.─A long yellow twisted string of inodorous mucus, with
pain in abdomen.─Lientery.─During stool, discharge
of thick, black blood.─Prolapsus ani during stool.─After
stool, pressing and straining, and discharge of white, viscid, bloody mucus.─Before
stool, cutting in the abdomen, and sharp stitches in the rectum, from above downward.
15. Male Sexual Organs.─
Violent pains in l.
groin, darting through urethra to glans.
16. Female Sexual Organs.─
Menses too early and
long-lasting, blood black.─Headache often appears before and after
menses.─Violent pain in small of back, at the appearance of menses,
scarcely permitting her to breathe.─Tenacious yellow leucorrhśa.─Vaginal
fistula.─Nausea of pregnancy.─Threatened abortion
from excessive sensibility of nerves.
17. Respiratory Organs.─
Stitches and constriction
in larynx; > by cough.─Frequent
cough on account of mucus in chest; mucus rises into throat, causing difficult breathing,
and finally cough with expectoration.─Constant short, hacking cough of
consumptives.
18. Chest.─
Sharp pressure in region of last ribs
as with the back of a knife.─Pain round both lungs as if they were
constricted by a wire.─Frequent stitches in both lungs during
inspiration.
21. Limbs.─
Lightness of all the limbs; he does
not perceive that he has a body.
22. Upper Limbs.─
Sweat in axillć smelling sour.─Laming
pain in l. wrist.
23. Lower Limbs.─
Dull pressure in the right hip.─Chronic
sciatica.─Gurgling sensation in patella.
24. Generalities.─
Excessive 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 materials, a most
disagreeable sensation thrills through him, arresting momentarily all his thoughts and
actions.
26. Sleep.─
Great drowsiness by day.─Frequent
yawning.─Short breath by night.─Nightly vexatious
dreams, about humiliations.─Restless sleep.
27. Fever.─
Pulse full and accelerated.─Chilliness
and coldness, after eating and drinking, with heat of the head.─Nervous
chilliness; single parts get icy cold.─Cold feeling not > by covering or heat of room.─Heat esp.
in the face, and in the palms of the hands.─Perspiration smelling sour
at night in the armpits.─Easily excited perspiration, esp. on the upper
part of the body.─Slow fevers.® 2000
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